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Carleton College Dean Elizabeth McKinsey has announced the recipients of major faculty development fellowship awards. Recipients will use their grants to complete various projects and research in the coming school year.

Bush Fellowships were awarded to four professors. Clinton Cowan, assistant professor of geology, received a fellowship to write several articles on the Belize Barrier Reef and to pursue research on possible relationships between biomere extinction and sea level change in North America. Roger Jackson, professor of religion, will use his grant to edit a translation of the Tibetan Buddhist classic "The Crystal Mirror of Tenet Systems." Susannah Ottaway, assistant professor of history, will complete her book "The 'Decline of Life': Old Age in Eighteenth Century England." Steven Schier, the Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, will complete a book about participatory and representative democracy. Cowan and Ottaway also received Class of '49 Fellowships, which are awarded to junior faculty who receive a Bush Fellowship.

Ronald Rodman, assistant professor of music, received the Sit Fellowship to write a book on music in American television. The Sit Fellowship is made possible by a gift from the Sit Investment Associates, Inc.

Silvia López, assistant professor of Spanish, received the Mellon Faculty Fellowship, which is funded by a Mellon Foundation grant. López will use her grant to write several articles on the impact of Frankfurt school aesthetic theory on Latin American literary criticism.

The Curriculum Development Fund also announced various awards. Marion Cass, professor of chemistry, and Will Hollingsworth, assistant professor of chemistry, received an award to develop innovations in teaching molecular orbitals. Laura Goering, assistant professor of Russian, and Anna Dotlibova, adjunct lecturer in Russian, received a grant to revise and edit text for the Russian 101 curriculum. Deborah Gross, assistant professor of chemistry, will use her award to learn about and teach colleagues how to use the department's new mass spectrometry system.

Term-long targeted opportunity faculty development awards were also announced. David MacCallum, assistant professor of philosophy, received the Sit Fellowship to write a book titled "Entangled Qubits: Philosophical Issues in Quantum Information Theory." Mary Easter, professor of dance, received the Mellon Faculty Fellowship for support in writing her memoir "How I Became a Dancer."

Two professors received Wallin Fellowships, which are supported by a gift from Carleton trustee Winston Wallin and his wife Maxine, the parents of three Carleton graduates. Deanna Haunsperger, associate professor of mathematics, will work on a biography of mathematician Grace Chisholm Young. Cindy Blaha, professor of physics and astronomy, will prepare a research paper on hot spot galaxies and support new observation research with her grant.

Stephen Kennedy, associate professor of mathematics, received the Bardwell Smith Fellowship, which was funded by a gift from Leo Lum, a 1969 Carleton graduate. Kennedy will write about the work and impact of mathematician Robert Lee Moore.