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Term-long fellowship awards made by the committee on the basis of the exceptional quality of the proposals go to the following:

• Meherun Ahmed, Economics, Smith/NEH Fellowship to investigate the impact of new household bargaining measures on the schooling and long-run health status of children, as well as, on a mother’s own health outcomes and her fertility choices.
• Cindy Blaha, Physics and Astronomy, Hewlett Presidential and Eugster Fellowship to use emission line images of local galaxies to study regions of ionized gas in order to understand the impact of stellar births and deaths on their galactic environments.
• José Cerna-Bázan, Spanish, Hewlett Presidential Fellowship to support work on a book-length text in the form of a triptych called Tríptico de Lurigancho.
• Dev Gupta, Political Science, Smith and Class of ’49 Fellowships to investigate how members of ethnic minority communities participate in political and civic life in deeply divided societies.
• Pierre Hecker, English, Hewlett Mellon Fellowship to revise and complete research and scholarship in the field of Shakespearean and Marlovian drama.
• Roger Jackson, Religion, Mellon Endowed Fellowship to support a book-length survey of discourse in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism about the term mahamudra, “the great seal,” “great symbol,” or “great gesture.”
• Pavel Kapinos, Economics, Hewlett Presidential Fellowship to study the factors that affect the conduct of monetary policy in the United States and the effect of monetary policy on the U.S. macroeconomy.
• Steve Kennedy, Mathematics, Hewlett Mellon Fellowship to continue work on a book about the mathematician Robert Lee Moore (1882-1974) and his school.
• David Lefkowitz, Art and Art History, Hewlett Mellon Fellowship to develop work for and organize a scheduled museum exhibition at the Rochester Art Center, and pursue additional creative projects.
• Victoria Morse, History, Hewlett Presidential Fellowship to complete the manuscript of a book which examines a call for the reform of religious teaching penned by Opicino de Canistris in the early fourteenth century.
• Tsegaye Nega, Environmental and Technology Studies, Hewlett Presidential Fellowship to further develop and refine the approach to the road-effect zone (TEZ) resulting in journal article submissions.
• Melinda Russell, Music, Hewlett Presidential Fellowship to examine the place of “The Star-Spangled Banner” in modern American life.
• Radek Szulga, Economics, Hewlett Presidential Fellowship to study the effects of immigration on source countries in terms of wages of those who stay behind and the wage premium that returnees receive.
• Sarah Titus, Geology, Eugster and Class of ’49 Fellowships to complete a project in central California quantifying rock deformation adjacent to the San Andreas fault, and to initiate a new project examining rock deformation in a slice of an oceanic tectonic plate exposed on the island of Cyprus.
• George Vrtis, History & Environmental and Technology Studies, Hewlett Mellon Fellowship to support the completion of a book manuscript on the environmental history of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
• Jenny Wahl, Economics, Hewlett Mellon Fellowship to conduct an empirical analysis of the relationship between residential segregation and labor-market outcomes in twenty-first-century America.
• Carolyn Wong, Political Science, Hewlett Mellon Fellowship, to analyze the political experience of Hmong Americans in four cities from the 1980s to 2008.

The Faculty Grants Committee also announces these awards from the Curriculum Development Fund:

• Steve Drew, Chemistry, to develop new course materials and lab projects to further enhance the materials chemistry themed Principles of Chemistry course.
• Nidanie Henderson, Biology, to develop a methods course in Molecular Biophysics to bring together the fields of biology, chemistry, and physics.
• Raka Mitra, Biology, to develop new coursework for the Microbial Pathology seminar class.
• Harry Williams, History, to support a one-month research residency at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, London.
• Jennifer Wolff, Biology, to develop a Genetics course to begin in 2009-10.

I am also pleased to announce targeted opportunity awards to the following faculty for various projects:

• Alex Freeman, Music, support from the Elledge and Smith/NEH funds to support development of a professional recording of selected works of his chamber music by top music professionals from Finland and the U.S., as well as travel to Finland to speak at a seminar about the operas of Finnish composer Armas Launis and attend the album release of a CD containing four of his choral works.   
• Deanna Haunsperger, Mathematics, support from the Hewlett Presidential fund for editing a volume of lesson plans for challenging mathematical activities for elementary school students.
• Al Montero, Political Science, support from the Smith/NEH fund for an empirical investigation of the quality of democracy in three to four Brazilian states.
• Julie Neiworth, Psychology, support from the Dean’s Research Overhead fund for a half-time research assistant to help complete testing of autistic children at the Partners in Excellence Facility in Burnsville.

The following small grants from the Faculty Development Endowment have also been awarded (on a discretionary basis by the Dean):

• Jorge Brioso, Spanish, to support his “Contemporary Spanish Philosophy in Translation” project.
• Kelly Connole, Art and Art History, to support continuing education in metalsmithing techniques.
• Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Sociology and Anthropology, to visit and interview at selected European research institutions to explore possibilities for affiliation, and explore fieldwork sites in European cities with sizable Cameroonian immigrant populations.
• Carol Donelan, Cinema and Media Studies, support from the Hildebrandt/Higinbotham fund to support travel and research at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of National History in Purchase, New York, and the New York Public Library for research on the Audubon Screen Tours.
• Seth Greenberg, Psychology, to explore a distinction between the processing of two classes of faces.
• Annette Igra, History, for a project on the history of paternity determination in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Pierre Hecker, English, to attend productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company in England, do research at the Warburg Institute Library, and visit the newly discovered remains of the original Theatre in Shoreditch.
• Adeeb Khalid, History, support from the Hildebrandt/Higinbotham fund, for follow-up archival research for a book project tentatively titled, “Between Empire and Revolution:  The Making of Soviet Central Asia, 1917-1932.”
• Silvia López, Spanish, to explore new lines of contemporary Brazilian cultural production.
• Matt Rand and Stephan Zweifel, Biology, to complete a collaborative project aimed at measuring the genetic diversity in the eastern indigo snake.
• Asuka Sango, Religion, to conduct a research project in Japan in order to revise her dissertation for publication as a book-length manuscript.

Congratulations to all these colleagues, and best wishes for completion of these exciting projects. 
Faculty Grants Committee Members: 
President Rob Oden
Dean Scott Bierman
Professor Scott Carpenter  
Professor Bob Dobrow                                                
Professor Adriana Estill 
Professor Kathie Galotti      

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