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

2013 Faculty Summer Research Grant Recipients

Faculty Member	Project Title	Department
Blaise Dondji	Nitric oxide mediates experimental hookworm infection due to Ancylostoma ceylanicum	Biological Sciences
Yingbin Ge	Using a spreadsheet to solve the Schrodinger equations for small molecules: an undergraduate quantum chemistry lab	Chemistry
Anne Johansen	Decreased acidity in wet precipitation over 23 years of observations at Paradise, Mt. Rainier National Park	Chemistry
Danielle Polage	Liar, liar, memory on fire	Psychology
Bang-Soon Yoon	Sexualized racism, gender and nationalism: Japanese treatment of Korean ‘comfort women	Political Science

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	Biological Sciences
Anne Egger	Structural evolution of the northwestern margin of the Basin and Range during the Quaternary: mapping the development of a geothermal system	Geology