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Gifts & Grants

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robertson, Jr. donated $500,000 to establish a scholarship in tribute to Lola Ellis Robertson, who studied parasitology at the MBL for over 50 years with Dr. Horace Stunkard.

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; the program to develop marine models for biomedical research in the MRC; and for unrestricted use.

A grant of $290,000 over three years was received from the Davis Educational Foundation established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis’s retirement as chairman of Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc. This grant will help to support the Semester in Environmental Science.

Harken Foundation awarded a challenge grant of $250,000 in support of the Semester in Environmental Science Endowment.

The Pfizer Foundation renewed its support in the amount of $52,000 for the Living in the Microbial World workshop.

NASA awarded:

$427,137 (current year funding) for “From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
$100,000 (current year funding) for “From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.

The National Institutes of Health awarded $434,348 (current year funding) for “Molecular Evolution of Eukaryotes: a protistan emphasis.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $360,714 (current year funding) for “Training Facility/Center for Recurring Training of Fisheries Observers.” Cathy Norton, principal investigator.

The National Science Foundation awarded:

$820,000 (current year funding) for “The Arctic LTER Project: Regional Variation in Ecosystem Processes and Landscape Linkages.” John Hobbie, principal investigator.
$222,724 (current year funding) for “Genomics of Terrestrial Microbial Communities Associated with the Production and Consumption of Greenhouse Gases.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
$153,654 (current year funding) for “The Arctic LTER Project: Regional Variation in Ecosystem Processes and Landscape Linkages.” John Hobbie, principal investigator.
$107,480 (current year funding) for “Harvard Forest LTER Program.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.
$80,000 for “Effects of and Recovery from a Major Regional Disturbance in an Arctic Landscape, The Anaktuvuk River Fire of 2007.” Gaius Shaver, principal investigator.
$50,602 for “Collaborative Research: Forum for Developing US-Swedish Research Cooperation on Oden in Antarctica.” Hugh Ducklow, principal investigator.
$39,393 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research: Microbial Observatory in the Cariaco Basin- Dynamics of protistan diversity across time, space and chemical gradients.” David Patterson, principal investigator.

The Yamada Apiculture Group awarded $10,000 for “The investigation of the therapeutic effect of the sample NF (neurofibromatosis) and its mode of action.” Shanta Messerli, principal investigator.