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Volume 12, No. 1, Spring 02 | Return to Table of Contents
Gifts & Grants
The Ellison Medical Foundation made the following awards:
• $4,999,271 for the five-year program titled “Program in Molecular Pathogenesis and Global Infectious Diseases.” This program will be offered through The Bay Paul Center.
• $650,133 to support the Biology of Aging Course for the period 2002-2004.
• $25,712 to purchase laptop computers for use in the Biology of Parasitism course.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the following grants:
• $373,738 in support of the project titled “Coastal Wetland Indicators.” Charles Hopkinson is the principal investigator.
• $749,333 in support of the project titled “Regulation of Embryonic Neuronal Development by Chemical Mixtures from Brick, NJ.” Carol Reinisch is the principal investigator.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the following grants:
• $522,941 for “Giardia: A Model for Ancient Eukaryotic Genome Analysis.” Mitchell Sogin is the principal investigator.
• $889,680 for the project, “Biocurrents Research Center.” Peter J. S. Smith is the principal investigator.
• $52,240 for the project titled, “Short Term Training in Biology of Parasitism.” Edward Pearce is the principal investigator.
• $158,161 for the course, “Neural Systems and Behavior.” Lenny Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
• $636,195 to Rudolf Oldenbourg for his project titled “3-D Image Restoration for Polarized Light Microscopy.”
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded the following grants:
• $50,000 (first year of three-year grant) for “The Role of Land-Cover Change in High Latitude Ecosystems: Implications for Carbon Budget in Northern North America.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
• $151,394 for “Linking Soil Biogeochemistry to Surface Water Chemistry in Small Drainage Basins of the Amazon.” Linda Deegan is the principal investigator.
• $390,898 for “Biogeochemical Consequences of Agricultural Intensification in the Amazon Basin.” Jerry Melillo is the prinicipal investigator.
• $150,000 to Norman Wainwright for the project titled “Amplified Detection of Microbial Contamination for Planetary Protection at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.”
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the following grants:
• $699,999 for the project titled, “The Arctic LTER Project: The Future Characteristics of Arctic Communities, Ecosystems and Landscapes.” John Hobbie is the principal investigator.
• $1,083,333 (over five years) for the project, “BIOCOMPLEXITY: Feedbacks Between Ecosystems and the Climate System.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
• $124,900 for the project, “Harvard Forest LTER Program.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investiator.
• $74,519 for the project, “Role of CaM Kinase II in Long-Term Synaptic Modification.” Ayse Dosemeci is the principal investigator.
• $99,659 (first year of five-year grant) for “IRCEB: Nitrate Uptake and Retention in Streams: Mechanisms and Effects of Human Disturbances from Stream Reaches to Landscapes.” Bruce Peterson is the principal investigator.
• $1,088,392 for the project titled “Turnover and Retention of Nitrogen in an Artic Watershed: Links to Organic Matter Accumulation and Response to Climate.” Gaius Shaver is the principal investigator.
• $1,091,614 for the project “Physiological and Molecular Diversity of Atmospheric CH4 Oxidizers in Soil.” Paul Steudler is the principal investigator.
• $1,078,381 for the project “Microsporidia and the next generation of genome scientists.” Mitchell Sogin is the principal investigator.
• $206,879 for “Molecular Genetic Studies of Bdelloid Rotifers.” Matthew Meselson is the principal investigator.
• $391,633 for “Developing Process-Level Understanding of Controls on Belowground Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics in Tundra Ecosystems.” Knute Nadelhoffer is the principal investigator.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded the following grants:
• $50,569 for the project, “Resolving Population Structure with Molecular Genetics to Enhance Management of the Highly Exploited Squid Fishery.” Roger Hanlon is the principal investigator.
• $57,346 for the project tited, “Bacterial Assemblages Involved in the Development and Progression of Shell Disease in the American Lobster, Homarus Americanus.” Roxanna Smolowitz is the principal investigator.
The Hudson River Foundation awarded a grant to Robert Howarth in the amount of $109,999 to support the program titled “Primary Production, Respiration, and the Processing of Organic Carbon and Nutrients in the Hudson River Estuary.”
The William Randolph Hearst Foundation awarded an additional grant of $100,000 for the William Randolph Hearst Educational Endowment, which provides scholarships for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the MBL courses.
The ExxonMobil Foundation awarded a grant of $50,000 for The Ecosystems Center. This grant will support the further refinement of the Terrestrial Ecosystems Model and collaboration with the M.I.T. Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.
The Gruss Lipper Foundation awarded a grant of $150,000 over three years in support of a collaborative exchange between the Interuniversity Institute of Eliat and the MBL to offer each summer: a summer research fellowship in the broad field of neuroethology, a student scholarship to attend one of MBL’s neurobiology courses, and a fellowship for a Woods Hole researcher to study and teach in Israel.
American Heart Association awarded $49,500 in support of the project titled, “Mechanisms Underlying Zinc-Induced Neuronal Damage During Stroke: Modulation of Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels.” Stefan McDonough is the principal investigator.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Roger Hanlon $ 212,440 for the project titled “Cephalopd Perception and Behavior Analysis for Mobile Robotics and Adaptive Manipulation.”
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded the following grants:
• $232,720 for “Development of Metabolic Pathway Database for the Metal Reducing Bacterium, Shewanella oneidensis MR-1.” Monica Riley is the principal investigator.
• $173,500 (first-year of three-year grant) for “Human Influences on Forest Nitrogen Budgets and their Implications for Forest Carbon
Storage.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded $50,000 for “Microbial Diversity: A summer course at the Marine Biological Laboratory.” Caroline Harwood is the principal investigator.
The G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation renewed its grant of $350,000 in support of The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, for the program to develop marine models for biomedical research, and to support veterinary services at the MBL.
The Cox Foundation, Inc. made a contribution in the amount of $40,000 to the Facilities Improvement Fund and $3,730 in unrestricted funds.
The George Frederick Jewett Foundation awarded a grant in the amount of $40,000 to the MBL/WHOI Library. This grant will fund a new consortium that has been formed between representatives from the American Museum of Natural History, Rockefeller University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York Botanical Garden and the MBL/WHOI Library to acquire and share resources in the fields of genomics and bioinformatics.
The Grass Foundation awarded a grant of $225,000 for renewed support of the Neurobiology and Neural Systems and Behavior courses over three years. They also provided a grant of $1,500 in support of the East Coast Nerve Net meeting.
The Catherine Filene Shouse Foundation provided renewed support of $51,000 for a summer research fellowship, three scholarships for the educational program, and a scholarship for the Semester in Environmental Science.
The Irving Weinstein Foundation awarded a grant of $25,000 in support of Advances in Genome Technology and Bioinformatics, a new course that will be offered in October 2002. |
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