Recent Grant Awards

Congratulations to our most recently awarded grant recipients!  

  • Union College was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Davis Projects for Peace program to support a student-designed grassroots project. Three Union students from the Class of 2009 - Kaitlyn Evans, Jared Iacolucci, and Erin Shumaker - will implement their "Border Stories: a New Perspective on Mexican Immigration" project this summer.

Faculty Grants Awarded July 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008:

  • NSF–BRIDGE: Rebecca Cortez (Mechanical Engineering), “Morphological Characterization of Nanomaterials by Atomic Force Microscopy,” $175,000
  • NSF–MAA: Paul Friedman (Mathematics), “The Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference,” $5,000
  • NSF–ADVANCE: Brenda Johnson (Mathematics) and Alice Dean (Skidmore College), “Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (PAID) Award: Collaborative Research - SUN: Supporting Women Faculty in STEM at Liberal Arts Colleges,” $216,108
  • NSF: Kathryn Lesh (Mathematics), “Conference Travel Funding: Algebraic Topology, Group Theory, and Representation Theory (Isle of Skye),” $22,500
  • NSF–RUI: Kathleen LoGiudice (Biology), "RUI: Collaborative Research: The ecology of Anaplasma phagocytophilum: Reservoirs, risk, and incidence," $94,613
  • NYSS–APS Outreach Program: Michael Vineyard (Physics & Astronomy), “Physical Constants Workshop at Union College,” $810
  • Center for Hellenic Studies: Tarik Wareh (Classics), “The Lost Years: Literary Competition, Philosophy, and Politics in the Generation after Plato and Isocrates,” $26,000

Institutional Grants Awarded July 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008:

  • Bank of America Charitable Foundation: $5,000 to support activities to design and implement service learning modules in academic curricula
  • Dr. Scholl Foundation: $5,000 to support two undergraduate summer 2009 internships at community non-profit organizations
  • Keck/Project Kaleidoscope: Union was invited to participate in a project focused on facilitating interdisciplinary learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics within the undergraduate learning environment  
  • Northrop Grumman Foundation: $25,000 to support the “Educating Girls for Engineering” pre-college outreach program
  • The Teagle Foundation: $40,000 to support the collaborative planning project “Investigating the Utility of High-Performance Computing (HPC) Capabilities at Liberal Arts Colleges” involving Bard, Colgate, Hamilton, Skidmore, Union (lead), and Vassar.

Past Faculty Grant Awards:

  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Health Games Research: Cay Anderson-Hanley (Psychology) & Paul Arciero (Skidmore College), "Seniors Cyber-Cycling with a Virtual Team: Effect on Exercising Behavior, Neuropsychological Function and Physiological Outcomes," $200,000 
  • John Conley Foundation for Medical Ethics: Bob Baker (Philosophy), "National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference Support," $10,000
  • Merck/AAAS: Barbara Danowski (Biology) & Joanne Kehlbeck (Chemistry), "Enhancing Undergraduate Education at Union College," $60,000 
  • Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research: Emily Follansbee (Student) & Jeff Corbin, Advisor (Biology), "Test of a specific technique to reduce the impact of Alliaria petiolata on growth of a native tree seedling," $370
  • The Kauffman Foundation - Data Enclave: Hal Fried (Economics), "An Index of Entrepreneur Success," $15,000 
  • Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing: Michael Hagerman (Chemistry) & Wayne Jones (SUNY), "Self-Assembled Laponite/CdSe/PANI/PEDOT Nanocomposite Thin Film Photovoltaics on Flex," $70,760
  • NASA/Cornell University - New York State Space Grant: Rebecca Koopman (Physics & Astronomy), "New York State Space Grant Consortium Participation to Support Student Research," $10,000 
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): Rebecca Koopman (Physics & Astronomy), Thomas Balonek (Colgate University), and Sarah Higdon (Georgia Southern), "The Undergraduate ALFALFA Team," $172,495 to Union
  • Janelia Farm Visitors Program/HHMI: Robert Olberg (Biology), "Tethered Flight Recordings in the Dragonfly," $90,377 
  • ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows Program: Linda Patrik (Philosophy), "2008 Fellowship Grant," $15,840 
  • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS): Linda Patrik (Philosophy), "Contemplative Social Ethics," $9,580
  • Consortium on High Achievement and Success (CHAS): Stephen Schmidt (Economics), "Access to the Economic Major for Women and Students of Color"
  • Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL): Nicole Theodosiou (Biology), New Investigator Award, "Summer Research Support at MDIBL," $12,000

Past Institutional Grant Awards:

  • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: $800,000 to support several faculty bridge hires 
  • Davis United World College: $10,000 to support a student project through the "100 Projects for Peace" program 
  • George I. Alden Trust: $150,000 to support renovations and equipment for an electronic presentation classroom in the Social Sciences building 
  • The Hearst Foundation: $100,000 for an endowed scholarship 
  • Lucius N. Littauer Foundation: $10,000 to support library purchases for Jewish Studies collections
  • National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA): $32,000 to support an interdisciplinary seminar on entrepreneurship
  • New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA): $7,900 to support the Chamber Music Concert Series 
  • Jerome A. Schiff Charitable Trust: $30,000 to support an innovative, interdisciplinary faculty research project
  • The Schenectady Foundation: $100,000 for scholarship support over four years 
  • Dr. Scholl Foundation: $5,000 to support student summer internships at community non-profit organizations