Grant Success at Union College - Foundation, Corporate & Government Relations

Congratulations to all grant recipients

April 2013

Ann Anderson - National Science Foundation: I-Corps Teams Grant
Professor Ann Anderson of Mechanical Engineering has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support an Innovation Corp Teams project. More...

March 2013

Rebecca Koopmann - Cornell University - NASA NY Space Grant
Rebecca Koopmann, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, has been awarded a $10,000 grant in support of the Union College 2013-14 Space Grant Program. More...

March 2013

Holocaust Remembrance Grant - The David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation and Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Union College Hillel has been awarded a $5,450 grant from the David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation and Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. More...

February 2013

Our Shared Humanities - The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Union College has become the recipient of a $50,000 planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, entitled "Our Shared Humanities." More...

January 2013

Ashraf Ghaly - Consortium on High Achievement and Success (CHAS)
Professor of Engineering Ashraf Ghaly has been awarded a Consortium on High Achievement and Success (CHAS) Faculty Grant in the amount of $6,500 for his project "Educating the Educators on Mining Attributes of Underrepresented Groups to Spatially Introduce Knowledge Advancing Social Justice and Equality." More...

November 2012

John Garver - Keck Geology Consortium
Professor of Geology John Garver receives a $26,666 grant from the Keck Geology Consortium for continued support of his collaborative project with Carleton College's Professor Cameron Davidson entitled "Tectonic Evolution of the Flysch of the Chugach Terrane on Baranof Island, Alaska (Year Three)." More...

September 2012

David Gillikin and Donald Rodbell - NSF MRI Grant Supports Interdisciplinary Research and Research Training
A $325,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program supports the acquisition of a Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for interdisciplinary faculty research and undergraduate research training at Union College. More...

September 2012

Samuel Amanuel, Palmyra Catravas, Brian Cohen, Rebecca Cortez, and Michael Hagerman - NSF MRI Acquisition Grant to Support Interdisciplinary Research at Union
A new $308,323 grant from the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program allows Union College to acquire an inverted optical microscope and integrate the microscope with our atomic force microscope to enable new research and foster interdisciplinary research of seven faculty and their students across five departments including Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. More...

August 2012

Brad Bruno, Ann Anderson, and Mary Carroll - NSF MRI Development Grant to Support Aerogel Research
Associate Professor Brad Bruno (Mechanical Engineering), Professor Ann Anderson (Mechanical Engineering), and Professor Mary Carroll (Chemistry) have been awarded Union's first-ever NSF Major Research Instrumentation Development grant to build an instrument for testing catalytic aerogel materials. More...

August 2012

Rebecca Koopmann - NSF Grant to Support the Undergraduate ALFALA Team
Associate Professor of Physics Rebecca Koopmann has been awarded a $437,883 grant from the National Science Foundation to support the Undergraduate ALFALFA Team. More...

August 2012

Rebecca Koopmann - GE Foundation and IIE - GE STAR Award
Associate Professor of Physics Rebecca Koopmann receives a GE STAR Program teacher/mentor award, nominated by her student research assistant and fellow GE STAR Award winner, Wyatt Smith. More...

August 2012

Rebecca Koopmann - Cornell University NASA NY Space Grant
Associate Professor of Physics Rebecca Koopmann has been awarded a $10,000 grant through Cornell University NASA NY Space Grant program for the Union College 2012-13 Space Grant. More...

June 2012

Plan of Study - The Teagle Foundation
The Teagle Foundation awarded Union a two-year $230,000 grant to create an advising web site that assists students, along with their advisors, in planning their academic careers. More...

June 2012

Ann Anderson, Brad Bruno, and Mary Carroll - National Science Foundation Award
Professors Ann Anderson (Mechanical Engineering), Mary Carroll (Chemistry) and Brad Bruno (Mechanical Engineering) have been awarded a $298,677 grant from the National Science Foundation for their research project "RUI: Catalytic Aerogel Materials." More...

May 2012

Robert Olberg - Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Professor Robert Olberg (Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Life Sciences, Biology Department) has received a $21,521 award supplement for his project "The Neuronal Control of Flying Prey Interception in Dragonflies." More...

May 2012

Ronald Bucinell - National Science Foundation
Ronald Bucinell, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, will lead Union College's subaward with Ecovative Designs LLC as part of a National Science Foundation grant through the Small Business Innovation Research program. More...

April 2012

Union College Concert Series - Schenectady County Initiative Program
Union was awarded a $1,000 grant from the Schenectady County Initiative Program to support the International Festival of Chamber Music. More...

April 2012

Cheikh Ndiaye and Zhen Zhang - Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant
Cheikh Ndiaye (Associate Professor French\Chair of Modern Languages ) with Zhen Zhang (Assistant Professor of Chinese) have successfully secured a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) in Chinese for the 2012-13 academic year. More...

March 2012

Samuel Amanuel - NYSG Research Initiation Award
Assistant Professor Samuel Amanuel (Physics & Astronomy) was awarded a $12,753 Research Initiation grant through Cornell University's New York Space Grant program. More...

January 2012

Nicholas Webb - Microsoft Reasearch - NCWIT Academic Alliance
Nicholas Webb, Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has been awarded a $10,000 grant through the Microsoft Research -- National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Academic Alliance Seed Fund Award program. More...

January 2012

Takashi Buma - National Science Foundation Award
Assistant Professor Takashi Buma brings his National Science Foundation CAREER grant to Union. More...

January 2012

Brenda Johnson - National Science Foundation Award
Professor of Mathematics Brenda Johnson receives a $30,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support the Fourth Arolla Conference on Algebraic Topology. More...

October 2011

David Gillikin - Keck Geology Consortium
Assistant Professor David Gillikin is awarded a $40,000 grant through the Keck Geology Consortium to support his project "Biogeochemical carbon cycling in fluvial systems from bivalve shell geochemistry -- using the modern to understand the past." More...

September 2011

Takashi Buma - National Science Foundation
Assistant Professor Takashi Buma joins Union College, bringing a $240,000 National Science Foundation grant that will advance his research and give new opportunties to undergraduate researchers. More...

September 2011

Donald Rodbell - National Science Foundation Award
Professor of Geology Donald Rodbell was awarded a $44,294 grant through the NSF EAGER Program More...

August 2011

The Kenney Community Center - The Science and Technology Entry Program
Union College's Kenney Community Center has been awarded a $445,000 grant from the NYS Department of Education to support STEP, a program designed to prepare historically underrepresented students in the sciences or economically disadvantaged students in grades 7-12 for entry into postsecondary degree programs More...

August 2011

Ronald Bucinell - The Kern Family Foundation
Union College has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the Kern Family Foundation to strengthen an initiative to foster an entrepreneurial mindset in undergraduate engineering students, as part of the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN). More...

July 2011

Union College 2011-12 Concert Series - New York State Council on the Arts
Union College receives $5,640 from the New York State Council on the Arts to support the Chamber Concert Series More...

July 2011

Ashok Ramasubramanian - NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Ashok Ramasubramanian was awarded a $300,000 grant through the NIH AREA program for her research project "Artifact-Free Reconstruction of Medical Imaging Information" More...

June 2011

Louisa Matthew - Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
Professor of art history Louisa Matthew has been awarded visiting professorship appointment at the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts More...

June 2011

Christina Tonnesen-Friedman - Simons Foundation
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Christina Tonnesen-Friedman was awarded a $35,000 grant from the Simons Foundation Collaborative Grants for Mathematicians program More...

June 2011

John Garver - National Science Foundation Award
Professor of Geology John Garver was awarded a $231,779 grant through the NSF Division of Earth Sciences Tectonics Program More...

June 2011

Jue Wang - NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Jue Wang was awarded a $250,000 grant through the NIH AREA program for her research project "Artifact-Free Reconstruction of Medical Imaging Information" More...

May 2011

Engaging Evidence: Plans to Improve Student Learning - The Teagle Foundation
Union College has been awarded a grant from the Teagle Foundation to support a collaborative grant to develop plans for improving learning outcomes. More...

May 2011

Cheikh Ndiaye and Kristin Bidoshi - Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant
Associate Professor Cheikh Ndiaye (French/ Chair of Modern Languages ) with Dean Kristin Bidoshi (Dean of Studies/Associate Professor of Russian) have successfully secured a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) in Russian for the 2011-12 academic year. More...

May 2011

Margot Paulick - Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Margot Paulick, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, receives a $35,000 grant from the Research Corporation's Single Investigator Cottrell College Science Award program for her research project "Synthesis and evaluation of cell-permeable variants of trehalose to improve the viability of preserved mammalian cells." More...

May 2011

David Gillikin - Research Corp Cottrell College Science Award
David Gillikin, Assistant Professor of Geology, receives a $35,000 grant from the Research Corporation's Single Investigator Cottrell College Science Award program for his research project "Developing archives of aquatic chemistry from freshwater mussel shell geochemistry: Stable isotopes, trace elements, and biomineralization More...

April 2011

February 2011

Louisa Matthew - American Council of Learned Societies
Professor of art history Louisa Matthew has been awarded a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for her book project "The Material Renaissance: a history of colorants in Renaissance Venice." More...

February 2011

Leo Fleishman - National Science Foundation
Leo Fleishman, Professor of Biology, receives a $220,000 grant from the NSF Division of Integrative Organismal Systems Animal Behavior Program for his research project "Collaborative Research: Elucidating the interactive effects of sensory response and signal function on the evolution of signal diversity." More...

December 2010

Wold Center - The George I. Alden Trust
Union College has been awarded a $175,000 grant to support the new Peter Irving Wold Center for Science and Engineering. More...

November 2010

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program - Bank of America Foundation
The Union College VITA program has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the Bank of America Foundation. More...

September 2010

Rebecca Surman - Department of Energy
Rebecca Surman, Associate Professor of Physics, has been awarded a $99,000 grant for renewed support from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Physics. More...

September 2010

Donald Rodbell - National Science Foundation
Donald Rodbell (Professor and Chair of Geology, Director of Environmental Studies) has been awarded $302,272 through the Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) mechanism to support his project entitled “Collaborative Research: RUI: Tropical Holocene Climatic Insights from Andean Paleoglacier Dynamics.” More...

September 2010

Karen Brison - National Science Foundation
Karen Brison, Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department, has been awarded a $74,992 grant through the NSF Cultural Anthropology program for her project "A Multi-Sited Ethnography of Global Pentecostal Networks: The View From Fiji." More...

September 2010

Holli Frey - National Science Foundation
Holli Frey, Assistant Professor of Geology, has been awarded a $95,850 grant through the NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program to acquire a laser ablation system for ICP-MS. More...

September 2010

Stephen Romero - The Center for Neuroscience - National Science Foundation
Stephen Romero, Associate Professor of Psychology, was awarded a $900,000 grant through the Academic Research Infrastructure - Recovery and Reinvestment (ARI-R2) program to support the renovations to Butterfield Hall 3rd floor to establish the home of the Center for Neuroscience. More...

July 2010

Daniel Berkenblit - New York State Council on the Arts
Union was awarded a grant for $6,231 to support the International Festival of Chamber Music. More...

June 2010

Donald Rodbell - International Continental Scientific Drilling Program
Professor Donald Rodbell (Chair of Geology, Director of Environmental Studies) has been awarded a $40,000 grant to support a 2010 Workshop Program. More...

June 2010

Robert Olberg - Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Professor Robert Olberg (Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Life Sciences, Biology Department) has been awarded a $317,344 grant to support his research project "The Neuronal Control of Flying Prey Interception in Dragonflies." More...

May 2010

Holli Frey - Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Research Corporation has awarded Assistant Professor Holli Frey (Geology) a Single Investigator Cottrell College Science Award in the amount of $35,000 to support her research and the involvement of undergraduate students in meaningful ways. More...

May 2010

Charles Batson, Kristin Bidoshi, Megan Ferry - IIE - Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants
Associate Professor Charles Batson (French), with Dean Kristin Bidoshi (Dean of Studies/Associate Professor of Russian) and Associate Professor Megan Ferry (Chinese & Asian Studies) have successfully secured a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) in Chinese and Russian for the 2010-11 academic year. More...

May 2010

Karen Brison - University of Southern California - Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative
Karen Brison, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, has been awarded a Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative (PCRI) grant for $96,983. The award, sponsored by USC through funding from the John Templeton Foundation, will support her research project entitled "A Cosmopilitan Ethnography of Global Pentecostal Networks: The View from Fiji." More...

May 2010

Kathryn Lesh - FRG in Mathematics Grant
Professor Kathryn Lesh (Mathematics) has been awarded a $141,896 grant through the NSF Focused Research Group (FRG) in Mathematics program. More...

May 2010

Valerie Barr - National Science Foundation - RET Supplement
Professor Valerie Barr (Chair, Computer Science) has been awarded a $27,000 Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Supplement to her existing "New Model for Computing Education" NSF grant. More...

May 2010

Bioengineering - The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Union College receives a $250,000 grant to support curricular, research, and programmatic activities to further develop and integrate Bioengineering into the liberal arts. More...

April 2010

Rebecca Koopmann - New York Space Grant Consortium
Associate Professor Rebecca Koopmann (Physics & Astronomy) was awarded a $10,000 grant through Cornell University enabling Union College to further its collaborations and activities within the New York Space Grant Consortium. More...

April 2010

Rebecca Koopmann - National Science Foundation
Rebecca Koopmann, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has received a $3,230 sub-award from Georgia Southern University's NSF grant for research activities conducted as part of the collaborative "Undergraduate ALFALFA Team" project. More...

April 2010

Joanne Kehlbeck, Susan Kohler - MRI-R2 Grant
Associate Professor of Chemistry Joanne Kehlbeck with Lecturer Susan Kohler (Chemistry) have been awarded a grant for $309,950 through NSF's Major Research Instrumentation - Recovery and Reinvestment (MRI-R2) program. More...

March 2010

Joanne Kehlbeck - Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Associate Professor Joanne Kehlbeck (Chemistry) has been awarded a $26,000 grant from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation's Special Program in the Chemical Sciences. More...

Previous Awards

HHMI - Janelia Farm Research: Robert Olberg (Biology), "The role of target sensitive descending neurons in the Behaving Dragonfly," $16,295
NY State Innovation Economy Matching Grant: David Hayes (Chemistry), "Matching Grant for Union's NSF MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Micro Raman & Micro IR Spectometer," $27,000
Cisco Systems: Christopher Chabris (Psychology), "Measuring Collective Intelligence", $6,000
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation: Joanne Kehlbeck (Chemistry), "Culinary Chemistry: Developing Laboratory Modules for General Education and Outreach," under the Foundation's Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences, $26,000
NSF - Major Research Instrumentation: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (MRI-R2): Seyffie Maleki (Physics & Astronomy), Michael Hagerman (Chemistry), Samuel Amanuel (Physics & Astronomy), Michael Vineyard (Physics & Astronomy), John Garver (Geology) and David Hayes (Chemistry/Dean of Academic Departments), "MRI-R2: Acquisition of Micro-Raman and Micro-IR Spectrometers for a Multi-disciplinary Spectroscopy Laboratory at Union College," $270,000
NSF - Human-Centered Computing (HCC): Christopher Chabris (Psychology), "Collaborative Research: Measuring and Modeling Collective Intelligence" with Carnegie Melon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology," $173,908
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Union has been awarded a $600,000 grant to support the integration of Environmental Science, Policy and Engineering (ESPE).
The Bank of America Foundation: Union has been awarded a grant to support the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program, $5,000
The J.M. McDonald Foundation: Union recently received a grant to support construction of the new Wold Center for Science and Engineering; $5,000
NSF-NUE: Palmyra Catravas (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Rebecca Cortez (Mechanical Engineering) and Michael Hagerman (Chemistry), "Building bridges between the engineering classroom and the research laboratory: Nanoscience at Union College", $200,000
Keck Geology Consortium: Holli Frey (Geology), "Source to Sink - Weathering of volcanic rocks and their influence on soil and water chemistry in Central Oregon", $36,000
NSF-C-PATH Supplement: Valerie Barr (Computer Science), "C-PATH: Social Robotics II (SUNYA)", $25,000
Dollar General Youth Literacy Grants: Angela Tatem (Director, Kenney Center), "SAIL Youth Literacy Program", $3,000
NSF-MRI: Laura MacManus-Spencer (Chemistry), Joanne Kelbheck (Chemistry) and John Horton (Biology), "MRI: Acquisition of a Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Instrument for Research and Teaching in the Sciences at Union College", $259,992
NSF-MRI: Palmyra Catravas and Helen Hanson (Electrical & Computing Engineering), "MRI: Acquisition of Instrumentation to Support a Multi-disciplinary Acoustic Laboratory for Faculty and Student Research at Union College", $265,255
NSF-Physical Anthropology: Andrew Rapoff (Mechanical Engineering), "Collaborative Research:Functional and ecological correlates of bone material variation in cercopithecoid mandibles", $30,799
MDIBL-New Investigator Award: Nicole Theodosiou (Biology), "Water absorption in the Intestine of Leucoraja erinacea", $5,000
Marketing Science Institute-Research Program: George Bizer (Psychology), "Marketing Negativity: Negative Framing Influences Attitude Strength", $5,460
Union College-Byron A. Nichols Endowed Fellowship for Faculty Development : Shelton Schmidt (Economics), " A new course on normative economics", $10,000
Cornell University-NASA-NY Space Grant : Rebecca Koopmann (Physics & Astronomy), "Cornell NASA Space Grant consortium", $10,000
Research Corp-Single Investigator - Cottrell College Science Awards: Laura MacManus-Spencer (Chemistry), "A mechanistic investigation of the role of suspended particles on the photochemical degradation of emerging contaminants in surface waters", $43,036
NSF: Rebecca Koopmann (Physics & Astronomy), "The Undergraduate ALFALFA Team", $20,172
International and Area Studies Fellowship: Jennifer Matsue (Music), "Sounding Nippon: Identity, Meaning, and Music Scenes in Contemporary Japan", $40,000
NEH Summer Stipend: Tarik Wareh (Classics), "The Lost Years: Literary Competition, Philosophy, and Politics in the Generation after Plato and Isocrates", $6,000
NSF-RUI: Mary Caroll (Chemistry) and Ann Anderson (Mechanical Engineering), "RUI: Tailored Aerogel Materials", $310,000
NSF-CCLI: Shane Cotter (Electrical and Computer Engineering), "CSI Union: Understanding Forensic and Biometric Technologies", $150,000
NSF-S-STEM: Bradford Bruno (Mechanical Engineering), Joanne Kehlbeck (Chemistry), Cherrice Traver (Dean of Engineering), Douglass Klein (Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies), "Supporting Scholars in Science and Engineering", $600,000
New York Space Grant: Rebecca Koopmann (Physics & Astronomy), "For materials to support remote sensing course development", $5,000
New York Space: Palmyra Catravas (Electrical and Computer Engineering), "Research Grant: Developing techniques for data visualization", $ 3,000
NYSCA: "Chamber concert series 2009-2011", $7,301
DOE: Rebecca Surman (Physics & Astronomy), "Neutrinos & Neucleosynthesis in Gamma Ray Units", $33,000
HHMI-Janelia Farms Renewal: Robert Olberg (Biology), "The role target sensitive descending neurons in the behaving dragonfly", $16,295
NSF-MRI: Palmyra Catravas and Helen Hanson (Electrical and Computer Engineering), "Acquisition of instrumentation to support a multi-disciplinary acoustic laboratory", $265,255
NSF:"Collaborative Research:Functinon and ecological correlates of bone material variation in cercopil", $30,799
Harvard University: Tarik Wareh (Classics), "Classic Helllenic Studies Fellowship", $13,500
J.M. McDonald Foundation: "Wold Science and Engineering Center", $5,000
Davis Projects for Peace: Class of 2009 - Kaitlyn Evans, Jared Iacolucci, and Erin Shumaker; "Border Stories: a New Perspective on Mexican Immigration", $10,000