College of the Sciences

Faculty Summer Grant for Scholarly Writing

The goal of this College of the Sciences (COTS) Faculty Summer Grant program is to provide funding to support writing related to scholarly work. Faculty members of all COTS departments are encouraged to apply.

Any COTS faculty member who is employed on a full-time, academic year appointment may apply for this summer grant. Faculty may submit one proposal per year. The COTS Faculty Summer Research Grant program supports faculty in their efforts to write funding proposals or manuscripts. (Other funding sources are available to faculty who wish to collect data or travel for research; student research funds come from the COTS Undergraduate Research Program and/or the Office of Undergraduate Research.)

The COTS Summer Research Grant Program will offer four awards annually. Awards will be in the form of a $3000 stipend and will require the faculty member to carry a teaching and/or reassigned load of no more than 6 contact hours during the summer of the award. Grants are intended to culminate in either application for external research funding or submission of a manuscript for publication in a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal or book.

Applications are due in the Dean’s office by 5:00 PM on the first Friday in February.

Faculty Summer Grant Application

2012 Faculty Summer Research Grant Recipients

Faculty Member	Project Title	Department
Mark Auslander	Race, labor, and science at the Smithsonian: the African American experience	Anthropology
Stephen Chamberland	Synthesis and testing of a new class of blood coagulation factor XIa inhibitors based on clavatadine A	Chemistry
Jennifer Dechaine	Multigenerational analysis of selection on domestication traits in sunflower crop-wild hybrids	Biology
Anne Egger	Structural evolution of the northwestern margin of the Basin and Range during the Quaternary: mapping the development of a geothermal system	Geology

2011 Faculty Summer Research Grant Recipients

Faculty Member	Project Title	Department
Gil Belofsky	Fungal ABC Transporter-Associated Activity of Isoflavonoids of the Root Extract of Dalea formosa	Chemistry
Lisa Ely	Geological Evidence of Predecessors to the 2010 Earthquake and Tsunami in South-Central Chile	Geology
Susan Kaspari	Black Carbon Concentrations in Snow and Ice in the Solu-Khumbu Region of the Himalaya	Geology
Megan Walsh	Fire Activity in the Pacific NW During the Last 3500 Years: Climate or Human-driven?	Geography

2010 Faculty Summer Research Grant Recipients

Faculty Member	Project Title	Department
Robyn Brammer	Two Gender Worlds	Psychology
Lucinda Carnell	The Serotonin Receptor, SER-4 and the CREB Homolog, CRH-1 Regulate Behavioral Adaptation in C. elegans	Biology
Mary Lee Jensvold	Publications in Sign Language Studies in Chimpanzees	Anthropology
Barb Rieffer Flanagan	Evolving Iran: The Theocracy Grapples with the 21st Century	Political Science
Mary Poulson	Photoinhibition and photoprotection of the macroalage, Nereocystis luetkeana (Bull kelp)	Biology