College Grants & Sponsored Programs
Anderson Matched with Fulbright Specialist Program Project
Commito Awarded Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship
Frey Secures NSF Grant to Expand Analytical Activities and Research Training in the Earth Sciences
National Science Foundation
Major Research Instrumentation
The grant from the NSF MRI program supports the acquisition of an ICP-MS for societally relevant research and undergraduate research training.
Venning Awarded 2020 Travis Bogard Fellowship
The Artist in Residence Program at Tao House provides a working retreat for developing or established playwrights, scholars, or critics of the performing arts.
Ogawa Awarded Inaugural Terra Foundation Affiliated Fellowship
Terra Foundation for American Art
American Academy in Rome
Dr. David Ogawa has been named the inaugural Terra Foundation Affiliated Fellow. The fellowship is awarded to art historians researching topics related to Italian-American exchange. To learn more about Dr. Ogawa’s project, check out the Spring 2018 American Academy in Rome Magazine.
Collaborative Research: RUI: Deep Drilling of Lake Junin, Peru: Continuous Tropical Records of Glaciation, Climate Change and Magnetic Field Variations Spanning the Late Quaternary
The National Science Foundation
Division of Earth Sciences, Research in Undergraduate Institutions
Award Date: 5/15/2014 | Award Amount: $1,293,333 | Effective Dates: 07/01/2014 – 05/31/2020 | Award ID: EAR-1402076
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Donald Rodbell (Geology)
Traver Receives Prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award
Institute of International Education (IIE)
Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)
Dr. Cherrice Traver has secured a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to collaborate with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEIE) at the University of Ruhuna in Sri Lanka to implement a new degree program in “Computer and Electrical Engineering.”
Watson Awarded NASA/New York Space Grant
NASA/New York Space Grant (NYSG) Consortium
Dr. Heather Watson has been awarded a grant from the NASA/NYSG Consortium for her project Freezing point depression at high pressure in salt-water solutions: Implications for composition of icy worlds.
Award Supplement: Collaborative Research: RUI: Deep Drilling of Lake Junin, Peru: Continuous Tropical Records of Glaciation, Climate Change and Magnetic Field Variations Spanning the Late Quaternary
The National Science Foundation
Division of Earth Sciences, Research in Undergraduate Institutions
Award Date: 08/14/2015 | Supplemental Award Amount: $146,585 | Effective Dates: 07/01/2014 – 05/31/2018 | Award ID: EAR-1402076
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Donald Rodbell with co-Investigator David Gillikin and Sr. Personnel Matthew Manon and Anouk Verheyden-Gillikin (Geology)
III: Small: RUI: Collaborative Research: ANTE – A Four-Tier Framework to Boost Visual Literacy for High Dimensional Data
The National Science Foundation
Division of Information & Intelligent Systems, Research in Undergraduate Institutions
Award Date: 08/27/2015 | Award Amount: $64,338 | Effective Dates: 09/01/2015 – 08/31/2019 | Award ID: IIS- 1527112
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Kristina Striegnitz (Computer Science)
SUCCESS: Stimulating Undergraduates: Creating Contributors in Engineering & Science for Society
The National Science Foundation
Division of Undergraduate Education, Scholarship in STEM Program
Award Date: 02/27/2014 | Award Amount: $614,749 | Effective Dates: 03/01/2014 – 02/28/2019 | Award ID: DUE-1356398
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Joanne Kehlbeck (Chemistry); co-PIs Samuel Amanuel (Physics & Astronomy); Palmyra Catravas (Electrical & Computer Engineering); Rebecca Cortez (Mechanical Engineering); Scott Kirkton (Biology); Sr. Personnel George Bizer (Psychology)
Union College Concert Series Receives $10,000 Grant from the NEA
National Endowment for the Arts
ART WORKS
Led by artistic director Derek Delaney, the Union College Concert Series has received a $10,000 grant in support of “The American Sound: Modernism and Eclecticism,” a project featuring recent works and a Union-commissioned piece by some of today’s leading American composers.
Stahl Awarded Grant for Carbon Cycling at River Confluences Project
The Bender Scientific Fund of The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region
The grant from The Bender Scientific Fund of The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region enables Dr. Mason Stahl to collect samples on the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers and conduct chemical and microbiological analyses along with laboratory experiments to characterize the influence of river mixing on the consumption of organic carbon.
Union College Concert Series Receives $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
Art Works
The grant from the NEA will support a series of events highlighting Austrian composer Franz Schubert’s work during the Union College Concert Series‘ 45th season.
Gazzarri is Awarded Prestigious Fellowship from Loeb Classical Library Foundation
Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship
Tommaso Gazzarri, assistant professor of classics, was awarded a prestigious fellowship from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation at Harvard University. The fellowship will support his monograph titled The Stylus and the Scalpel: A Theory and Practice of Metaphors in Seneca’s Prose.
Professor Andrew Morris wins prestigious NEH fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowship for University Teachers
Andrew Morris, associate professor of history, was awarded a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. The fellowship will be used to support his project titled, “Race, Rights, and Disaster Relief: Hurricane Camille, Mississippi, and the Transformation of American Disaster Policy.”
Encounters with Circus and Its Others
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Connections Grant Program
Project Personnel: Principal Organizer Charles Batson (Modern Languages and Literatures)
Our Shared Humanities
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Award Date: 06/12/2015 | Award Amount: $800,000 | Effective Dates: 07/01/2015 – 06/30/2018 | Award ID: 21500602
MRI: Acquisition of a High-Resolution Micro-Computed Tomography System for Multidisciplinary STEM Research and Undergraduate Training
The National Science Foundation
Division of Biological Infrastructure, Major Research Instrumentation Program
Award Date: 08/20/2015 | Award Amount: $379,130 | Effective Dates: 09/01/2015 – 08/31/2018 | Award ID: DBI-1531850
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Scott Kirkton (Biology) with co-PIs John Rieffel (Computer Science); Leo Fleishman (Biology); Robert Olberg (Biology); Jennifer Currey (Bioengineering); and Sr. Personnel David Hodgson (Mechanical Engineering); Steven Rice (Biology); and Nicole Theodosiou (Biology)
Cognitive Benefits of Interactive Mental and Physical Exercise for MCI
The National Institutes of Health
Academic Research Enhancing Award (AREA) Program
National Institute on Aging
Award Date: 05/28/2013 | Award Amount: $329,593 | Effective Dates: 06/01/2013 – 05/31/2016 | Award ID: 1R15AG042109-01A1
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Cay Anderson-Hanley (Psychology); Sr. Personnel Kristina Striegnitz (Computer Science)
Collaborative Research: Understanding the Provenance and Thermal Evolution of the Chugach Prince William Terrane in Southern Alaska
The National Science Foundation
Division of Earth Sciences, Tectonics Program
Award Date: 06/15/2011 | Award Amount: $231,779 | Effective Dates: 06/15/2011 – 05/31/2016 | Award ID: EAR-1116554
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator John Garver (Geology)
AT&T supports the 2016 STEP Scholars Bowl
AT&T Aspire
The $5,000 award will support this year’s STEP Scholars Bowl. The Scholars Bowl will be held on Saturday, October 29th at Fulton Montgomery Community College.
A Physicochemical Exploration of the Diffusion of Small Molecules in Glassy and Highly-Viscous Materials
The American Chemical Society
Petroleum Research Fund – Undergraduate Research Faculty Grants Program
Award Date: 06/06/2014 | Award Amount: $55,000 | Effective Dates: 07/01/2014 – 08/31/2016 | Award ID: 54592-UNI6
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Andrew Huisman (Chemistry)
Aquatic biogeochemistry: Tracking Pollution in Fluvial Systems
Keck Geological Consortium
Award Date: 04/01/2014 | Award Amount: $11,000 | Effective Dates: 04/01/2014 – 03/31/2015
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Anouk Verheyden - Gillikin (Geology)
Artifact-Free Reconstruction of Medical Imaging Information
The National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Academic Research Enhancement Award
Award Date: 05/31/2011 | Award Amount: $250,302 | Effective Dates 06/01/2011 – 05/31/2016 | Award ID: 1 R15 EB012299-01A1
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Jue Wang (Mathematics); Sr. Personnel Ronald Bucinell (Mechanical Engineering); Shane Cotter (Electrical & Computer Engineering); Scott LaBrake (Physics & Astronomy)
Brazil Faculty and Staff Development Trip
New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium
Award Date: 10/26/2015 | Award Amount: $18,000 | Effective Dates: 10/26/2015 – 01/07/2016
Care and Support in Aging Communities
New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium
NY6 Upstate-Global Collective: Faculty Fellows Working Group (2016-2017)
Collaborative Research: Elucidating the Interactive Effects of Sensory Response and Signal Function on the Evolution of Signal Diversity
The National Science Foundation
Division of Integrative Organismal Systems, Animal Behavior Program
Award Date: 03/15/2011 | Award Amount: $220,000 | Effective Dates: 03/01/11 – 02/29/2016 | Award ID: IOS-1051796
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Leo Fleishman (Biology)
Collaborative Research: Is larger smarter? Investigating the Effect of Group Size on Collective Intelligence
The National Science Foundation
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Division, Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems Program
Award Date: 08/30/2013 | Award Amount: $3,600 | Effective Dates: 10/01/2013 – 09/30/2016 | Award ID: ACI-1322214
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Christopher Chabris (Psychology)
Collaborative Research: Measuring and Modeling Collective Intelligence
The National Science Foundation
Division of Information & Intelligent Systems, Cyber-Human Systems Program
Award Date: 01/11/2010 | Award Amount: $173,908 | Effective Dates 01/01/2010 – 12/31/2015 | Award ID: IIS-0963404
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Christopher Chabris (Psychology)
Conference Travel Funding: Alpine Conference on Algebraic and Applied Topology
The National Science Foundation
Division of Mathematical Sciences, Conferences and Workshops in the Mathematical Sciences Program
Award Date: 12/21/2015 | Award Amount: $34,160 | Effective Dates: 05/01/2016 – 04/30/2017 | Award ID: DMS-1608596
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Brenda Johnson (Mathematics)
Fellowship, Academic Year 2014-15
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Science and Technology Policy Fellowships Program
Award Date: 05/01/2014 | Effective Dates: 09/01/2014 – 08/31/2015
Project Personnel: Ashok Ramasubramanian (Mechanical Engineering)
Educating Girls for Engineering (EDGE)
General Electric
Award Date: 01/01/2015 | Award Amount: $10,000 | Effective Dates: 01/01/2015 – 12/31/2015
Project Personnel: Cherrice Traver (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Grass Roots Activism and the American Wilderness: Pioneers in the Twentieth Century Adirondack Park Conservation Movement
The Council on Library and Information Resources
Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Program
Award Date: 12/05/2013 | Award Amount: $164,600 | Effective Dates: 06/01/2014 – 11/30/2015
Project Personnel: Annette LeClair and India Spartz (Schaffer Library)
Holocene Climatic Change and Active Tectonics in the Peruvian Andes: Impacts on Glaciers and Lakes
Keck Geological Consortium
Award Date: 03/26/2014 | Award Amount: $9,650 | Effective Dates: 06/15/2014 – 06/14/2015
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Donald Rodbell (Geology); co-PI David Gillikin (Geology)
Hurricane Camille: Race, Rights and Disaster Relief
The National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Stipend
Award Date: 03/23/2015 | Award Amount: $6,000 | Effective Dates: 07/01/2015 – 08/31/2015
Project Personnel: Andrew Morris (History)
IgniteCS
Tides Foundation
Google Education and University Relations Fund
Award Date: 02/01/2015 | Award Amount: $5,000 | Effective Dates: 02/27/2015 – 02/26/2016
Project Personnel: Nicholas Webb (Computer Science)
Increasing Collaborative Contacts in the Community of Mathematicians
The Simons Foundation
Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians
Award Date: 06/08/2011 | Award Amount: $35,000 | Effective Dates: 07/01/2011 – 06/30/2016 | Award ID: 208799
Project Personnel: Primary Investigator Christina Tonnesen-Friedman (Mathematics)
Karp Hall Renovations
The George I. Alden Trust
Award Date: 12/18/2014 | Award Amount: $175,000 | Effective Dates: 12/31/2014 – 12/31/2015
Karp Hall Renovations
The J. M. McDonald Foundation
Award Date: 11/10/2014 | Award Amount: $15,000 | Effective Dates: 11/10/2014 – 11/09/2015
MRI: Acquisition of a Multi-Material 3D Printer to Enable Novel Multi-disciplinary Research and Research Training
The National Science Foundation
Office of International and Integrative Activities, Major Research Instrumentation Program
Award Date: 07/29/2013 | Award Amount: $333,531 | Effective Dates: 08/1/2013 – 07/31/2016 | Award ID: CMMI-1337768
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator John Rieffel (Computer Science); co-PIs Ann Anderson (Mechanical Engineering); Steven Rice (Biology); Sr. Personnel Takashi Buma (Electrical & Computer Engineering); Michael Hagerman (Chemistry); Robert Olberg (Biology)
MRI: Acquisition of an Inverted Optical Microscope to Enable Interdisciplinary Research That Unites Five Departments Within the Union College Nanoscience Program
The National Science Foundation
Office of International and Integrative Activities, Major Research Instrumentation Program
Award Date: 09/01/2012 | Award Amount: $308,323 | Effective Dates: 09/01/2012 – 08/31/2015 | Award ID: DMR-1229142
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Samuel Amanuel (Physics and Astronomy); co-PIs Palmyra Catravas (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Brian Cohen (Biology), Rebecca Cortez (Mechanical Engineering), Michael Hagerman (Chemistry); Sr. Personnel Joanne Kehlbeck (Chemistry), Seyfollah Maleki (Physics & Astronomy)
MRI: Acquisition of a Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Interdisciplinary Research and Undergraduate Research Training
The National Science Foundation
Office of International and Integrative Activities, Major Research Instrumentation Program
Award Date: 09/19/2012 | Award Amount: $325,000 | Effective Dates: 09/15/2015 – 08/31/2015 | Award ID: EAR-1229258
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator David Gillikin (Geology); co-PIs Donald Rodbell (Geology); Sr Personnel Jeffrey Corbin, Kathleen LoGiudice, Steven Rice (Biology), Anouk Verheyden - Gilliken (Geology)
MRI: Development of an Instrument for Testing Catalytic Aerogel
The National Science Foundation
Office of International and Integrative Activities, Major Research Instrumentation Program
Award Date: 09/01/2012 | Award Amount: $276,477 | Effective Dates: 09/01/2012 – 12/31/2015 | Award ID: CBET-1228851
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Bradford Bruno (Mechanical Engineering); co-PIs Ann Anderson (Mechanical Engineering), Mary Carroll(Chemistry)
Optical Components to Construct a Surface Plasmon Resonance Apparatus and a Self-Standing Microscope
Jonathan F. Reichert Foundation
Award Date: 10/20/2015 | Award Amount: $2,505 | Effective Dates: 10/20/2015 – 10/19/2016
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Seyfollah Maleki (Physics and Astronomy)
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Japanese Literature and Film
ASIANetwork – Luce Foundation
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Program
Award Date: 12/18/2015 | Award Amount: $41,000 | Effective Dates: 01/11/2016 – 06/30/2017
Privacy in Practice: The Role of EHRs in Pediatrician Interactions with Patients
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Small Research Grants Program
Award Date: 09/27/2013 | Award Amount: $97,592 | Effective Dates: 09/01/2013 – 02/28/2016 | Award ID: 7 R03 HS021537-02
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Timothy Stablein (Sociology)
Promoting the Entrepreneurial Mindset through a Multiphase Design Experience in Bioengineering
The Kern Family Foundation
The Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) Topical Grants Program
Award Date: 08/26/2013 | Award Amount: $40,000 | Effective Dates: 08/01/2013 – 07/31/2015
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Jennifer Currey; co-PI Sudhir Khetan (Bioengineering)
Reconstructing the Biogeochemistry in Tropical Aquatic Ecosystems Using Elemental and Stable Isotope Tracers in Freshwater Bivalve Shells
The Flemish Science Foundation, Belgium
Award Date: 11/13/2013 | Effective Dates: 01/01/2014 – 12/31/2017
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator David Gillikin (Geology)
RUI: Catalytic Aerogel Materials
The National Science Foundation
Division of Materials Research, Research in Undergraduate Institutions
Award Date: 06/01/2012 | Award Amount: $298,677 | Effective Dates: 06/15/2012 – 05/31/2016 | Award ID: DMR-1206631
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Ann Anderson (Mechanical Engineering); co-PIs Bradford Bruno (Mechanical Engineering); Mary Carroll (Chemistry)
The Schrodinger Sessions: Science for Science Fiction
American Physical Society
Public Outreach and Informing the Public Grant program
Award Date: 01/01/2015 | Effective Dates: 07/30/2015 – 08/01/2015
Project Personnel: Chad Orzel (Physics & Astronomy)
STTR Phase I: Development of High Performance Windows using Monolithic Aerogels
The National Science Foundation (Award ID: STTR-1415359)
Division of Industrial Innovations and Partnerships, Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program
Award Date: 07/01/2014 | Award Amount: $134,182 | Effective Dates: 07/01/14 – 6/30/2015
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Dr. Bahram Keramati (Sunthru, LLC); co-PI Ann Anderson (Mechanical Engineering and Sunthru, LLC); Sr. Personnel Mary Carroll (Chemistry and Sunthru, LLC); Union College subaward PI Bradford Bruno (Mechanical Engineering)
Supporting Scholars in Science and Engineering
The National Science Foundation
Division of Undergraduate Education, Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) Program
Award Date: 08/15/2009 | Award Amount: $600,000 | Effective Dates: 09/01-2009 – 08/31/2016 | Award ID: DUE-0850242
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Bradford Bruno (Mechanical Engineering); co-PIs Joanne Kehlbeck (Chemistry); J. Douglass Klein(Economics); Cherrice Traver (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
SusChEM: Fungal Based Biopolymer Composites – Understanding the Fundamentals to Optimize the Products
The National Science Foundation
Division of Materials Research, Sustainable Chemistry, Engineering and Materials
Award Date: 04/01/2014 | Award Amount: $62,509 | Effective Dates: 06/01/2014 – 05/31/2017 | Award ID: CMMI-1362234
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Ronald Bucinell (Mechanical Engineering)
The Undergraduate ALFALFA Team
The National Science Foundation
Division of Astronomical Sciences, Special Programs in Astronomy
Award Date: 08/26/2012 | Award Amount: $437,883 | Effective Dates: 09/01/2012 – 08/31/2016 | Award ID: AST-1211005
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Rebecca Koopman (Physics & Astronomy)
Union College as Host Institution for Chinese and Russian FLTAs during Academic Year 2014-15
The Institute of International Education
Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants Program
Award Date: 07/01/2014 |Effective Dates: 08/31/14 – 06/14/2015
Project Personnel: Christine Henseler; Kristin Bidoshi, Zhen Zhang; Audrey Sartiaux, Megan Ferry (Modern Languages & Literature)
Union College Space Grant 2014-15
NASA New York State Grant Program at Cornell University
Award Date: 05/01/2014 | Award Amount: $10,000 |Effective Dates: 04/23/2014 – 04/22/2015
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Rebecca Koopman (Physics & Astronomy)
Virtue and Vengeance in Aristotle
The Loeb Classical Foundation Fellowship
Award Date: 04/15/2015 | Award Amount: $35,000 | Effective Dates: 07/01/15 – 06/30/2016
Project Personnel: Krisanna Scheiter (Philosophy)
The Volcanic History and Magmatic Degassing of Dominica: Implications for Future Eruptions
The National Geographic Society
Award Date: 03/16/2015 | Award Amount: $20,000 | Effective Dates: 06/01/2015 – 05/31/2016
Project Personnel: Holli Frey (Geology)
Wavelength agile photoacoustic microscopy for video-rate functional imaging
The National Science Foundation
Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
Award Date: 09/01/2011 | Award Amount: $240,000 | Effective Dates: 09/01/2011 – 08/31/2015 | Award ID: CBET-1133153
Project Personnel: Principal Investigator Takashi Buma (Electrical& Computer Engineering)
Waves of Futurity, Monstrous Attachments: American Literary Representations of Affect, Place and Otherness (1797-1901)
The Thoreau Society Short-Term Research Fellowship
Award Date: 03/06/2015 | Award Amount: $500 | Effective Dates: 07/01/2015 – 06/30/2016
Project Personnel: Jillmarie Murphy (English)