Faculty Grant Highlights

Feb, 2005
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded assistant professor of engineering Donna Riley its most prestigious award for new faculty. The grant, a five-year $4004,813 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, will fund her project to assist faculty seeking to adapt their classrooms and curricula to diverse learners.

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Associate professor of biological sciences Laura Katz has been awarded a multi-institutional award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Reconstructing Eukaryotic Phylogeny through Multigene Analyses of Microbial Eukaryotes.”

Professor Katz, in conjunction with the University of Iowa and the American Type Culture Collection, will manage a $3 million grant in an effort to elucidate the diversity of microorganisms using molecular tools. See press release for more information (www.smith.edu/news/2004-05/KatzGrant2.html).

Associate professor of engineering Borjana Mikic has received a 5-year $1,245,884 grant from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “GDF Modulation of Tendon Maintenance and Repair.”

James Hicks, co-director of the American studies diploma program, has been awarded a new State Department grant for helping the University of Sarajevo establish an American studies Program.

Scott Bradbury of the department of classics was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Award for “The Social World of Libanius.”

Professor Ileana Streinu of the computer science department has received a $180,000 National Science Foundation grant for her research on "Oriented Matroids and Rigidity Theory in Computational Geometry."

Kate Schneider received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to assist her research and artistic creation.