Faculty Accomplishments

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Received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “Collaborative Research: Developing Biology Undergraduates’ Scientific Literacy and Identity Through Peer Review of Scientific Manuscripts,” under the IUSE (Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources) program. The project is for three years.


Jacquelyne Luce and colleagues Kristin Bright at Middlebury College and Sarah Willen at the University of Connecticut have been awarded a $5,000 seed grant from the New England Humanities Consortium for their project, "Feminist Health Futures: Enacting Collaborative Pedagogies in Health Humanities." The grant will support a series of online dialogues about emerging models of collaborative undergraduate research and public scholarship in the health humanities and a workshop at Middlebury College in the late spring of 2023.


Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the project 'Contested Places: Cartography, Conflict, and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe.' The project is for one year. (2020)


Received a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for their project, "Comparison of Educational Values of Irish Mothers in Ireland to Educational Values of Puerto Rican Mothers in Puerto Rico." 

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation


Received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for EAGER: Collaborative Research: Towards an Extensible Internet.


Native American and Indigenous Studies Mellon Award by Five Colleges, Incorporated (FCI) and the Gathering at the Crossroads project, for a residency project with Native composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate leading to the creation of a new course and the first ever full-length Chickasaw opera, Shellshaker. The project is for one year. This funding is made possible thanks to support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation


Kelley O'Carroll (Psychology and Education) received a $11,240 grant from George Lucas Educational Foundation through a subaward from Harvard for the project "Education for Democracy." The project is for 9 months (2020).

George Lucas Educational Foundation


Becky Wai-Ling Packard received a subaward from the National Science Foundation (NSF) via Michigan State University for Assessing Institutional Assets, Vulnerabilities, and Synergies using a STEM Mentoring Ecosystem Framework: A Multi-Institutional, Interdisciplinary Workshop. The grant runs for 15.5 months.

National Science Foundation


Audrey St. John, Heather Pon-Barry and Becky Wai-Ling Packard received a Microsoft Corporation grant for the project "Development of Core Modules as Curricular Assets for Tech Mentorship Initiative." The project is for 2.5 months. Combined award to Audrey St. John (Computer Science), Heather Pon-Barry (Computer Science) and Becky Packard (Psychology and Education).


Heather Pon-Barry (Computer Science) received a National Science Foundation grant for her project 'CAREER: Dialogue Engagement for Educational Robots.' The project is for five years. (2020)

National Science Foundation