New grants to Mount Holyoke and its faculty.

Mount Holyoke College and its professors received the following grants and fellowships between November 2015 and March 2016:

• Five College Consortium has awarded Ombretta Frau, Erica Moretti, and Morena Svaldi, all in the Department of Classics and Italian, a Five College Innovative Language Teaching Fellowship. This fellowship will enable the three faculty members to develop and teach Elementary Italian Bridge courses in spring, summer, and fall 2016. Start date: December 7, 2015, for one year.

• Five College Consortium has awarded Morena Svaldi, Department of Classics and Italian Studies, a Five College Innovative Language Teaching Fellowship for her collaboration with Smith College faculty members Bruno Grazioli and Maria Succi-Hempstead. This fellowship will support the development of an Intermediate Italian Bridge course to be taught on both campuses. Start date: December 7, 2015, for one year.

• The Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University (supported with funds from the John Templeton Foundation) has awarded James Hartley, Department of Economics, a grant to support his “Constitution of Liberty Student Reading Group.” Start date: December 23, 2015, for six months.

• Google has awarded a grant to Lisa Ballesteros, Department of Computer Science, to support two student research assistants for a course on coding. The course, with curriculum provided by the company, was taught during January Intersession by a Google guest instructor. Start date: January 4, 2016, for one month.

• Google has awarded Heather Pon-Barry and Audrey St. John, both in the Department of Computer Science, and Becky Wai-Ling Packard, Department of Psychology and Education, a supplemental grant for the ongoing Megas and Gigas Educate (MaGE) training course. This additional funding will help to create a website with curricular materials and lesson guidelines from the MaGE project, providing a vehicle to share materials with educators and students at other institutions. Start date: January 20, 2016.

• The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has invited Ajay Sinha, Department of Art History, to be in residence at the Institute as a Clark Fellow. Sinha has been researching the story of a transcultural exchange that revolves around a group of 100 unpublished photographs of an Indian dancer, Ram Gopal, taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten in 1938. Sinha plans to write a book titled An Indian Dancer in American Photographs. Start date: July 6, 2016, for four months.