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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).


2019-2020 Edith Birnbaum Memorial Fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. (January-April, 2020)


Margaret Robinson PI with Co-PIs Giuliana Davidoff, Dylan Shepardson and Jessica Sidman (Mathematics) received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “Collaborative Proposal: Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference 2020-2022” – with Keene and Siena Colleges. The project is for three years.

National Science Foundation


Romero-Díaz, N. 2023. Grant in the amount of $2,700, to cover expenses for publication and promotion of upcoming book Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic (forthcoming).


Received a grant from the Shifting Foundation for his project to record the David Sanford Big Band.


One of four composers receiving Arts and Letters Awards in Music from the Academy of Arts and Letters, which honor outstanding artistic achievement and acknowledge composers who have arrived at their own voice. They each receive an additional award to record their work and will also have their music presented in a concert at the Academy in the spring of 2022.


Margaret Robinson PI with Co-PIs Giuliana Davidoff, Dylan Shepardson and Jessica Sidman (Mathematics) received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “Collaborative Proposal: Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference 2020-2022” – with Keene and Siena Colleges. The project is for three years.

National Science Foundation


Received a grant from the Winterthur Museum Garden and Library for a Maker-Creator Fellowship to undertake research in the American furniture collection and in the papers of Jennie Alexander, a historically important trans-identified chairmaker, as part of her ongoing project, To Understand a Tree.


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).


Received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her project CRII: RI: RUI: Generating Haptics in Telerobotics through Perception Complementarities during Physical Distancing. The project is for two years. 

Award number: 2101107