Gifts & Grants Highlights

October 2009 - February 2010

Anonymous Gifts:

• $400,000 to support the Marine Resources Center General Endowment.
• $100,000 to support the Shinya and Sylvia Inoué Endowment for Cellular Dynamics Imaging.

David Bulloch contributed $101,500 to establish a Charitable Gift Annuity.

Cecily Cannan Selby pledged $250,000 in a bequest to MBL.

Dart Neuroscience LLC granted $1,000,000 for lab space for Dart Investigators studying in the area of Learning and Memory.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded:
$474,822 for “Accelerating Analysis of the Biology of Aging by the Encyclopedia of Life.” Gary Borisy, principal investigator.
$226,296 for “Ubiquitin-mediated degradation of cell cycle regulatory proteins in aging.” Avram Hershko, principal investigator.

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded $150,000 for “Dynamic Modeling of Emissions from Land-Use Activities.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.

The G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation awarded $850,000 to support the Marine Resources Center Operations and the Bay Paul Center Faculty Support.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded $141,750 for “The Pre college Science Education Initiative for Biomedical Research Institutions.” William Reznikoff, principal investigator.

William I. and Lauren Huyett pledged $315,000 to Directors Discretionary and the Annual Fund.

Kurt J. and Rhoda S. Isselbacher contributed $150,000 to support the Kurt and Rhoda Isselbacher Endowed Scholarship Fund and the Annual Fund.

The National Institutes of Health awarded:

• $980,629 for the BioCurrents Research Center. Peter Smith, principal investigator.
• $249,956 for the Human Microbiome Project UH2/UH3. Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
• $249,589 (current year funding) for “The Cell: An Image Library.” Cathy Norton, principal investigator.
• $162,537 (current year funding) for “Image as an Extensible Image Processing Framework.” Rudolf Oldenbourg, principal investigator.

The National Science Foundation awarded:

• $820,000 for “The Arctic LTER Project: Regional Variation in Ecosystem Processes and Landscape Linkages.” John Hobbie, principal investigator.
• $418,048 for “MRI-R: Acquisition of Trace Gas Analytical Instrumentation for Ecosystem Analysis.” Hugh Ducklow, principal investigator.
• $344,732 for “IPY: Collaborative Research on Carbon, Water, and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Flagship Observatories and in a PanArctic Network.” Gaius Shaver, principal investigator.
• $180,398 (current year funding) for “Validation and Development of Trypanosomal Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors for Treatment of Sleeping Sickness.” Bruce Campbell, principal investigator.
• $180,098 (current year funding) for “Time Series Particle Flux Measurements in the Sargasso Sea.” Maureen Conte, principal investigator.
• $134,597 (current year funding) for The Data Conservancy (A Digital Research and Curation Virtual Organization). David Patterson,
• $126,744 for “IPY: Improving the Public’s Understanding of Polar Research through Hands-On Fellowships for Science Journalists in the Arctic and Antarctic.” Christopher Neill, principal investigator.
• $107,480 for “Harvard Forest LTER Program.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.

Office of Naval Research awarded:

• $140,000 (current year funding) for “Reflective Light Modulation by Cephalopods in Shallow Nearshore Habitats.” Roger Hanlon, principal investigator.
• $138,717 (partial 2009 funding) for “Reflective Light Modulation by Cephalopods in Shallow Nearshore Habitats.” Roger Hanlon, principal investigator.

The Sloan Foundation awarded $450,000 for “International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM).” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.

US Department of Energy awarded:

• $139,867 for “Impacts of Climate Change on Biofuels Production.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.

Christopher M. and Susanna B. Weld pledged $145,000 to support the Semester in Environmental Sciences Endowment and the Annual Fund.

Wyeth awarded $150,000 for “Three-dimensional structure of human B-domainless Factor VIII Wyeth Research Agreement.” Bruce Furie, principal investigator.

In addition, we are grateful to the members of The Chairman’s Circle of the Annual Fund for their gifts of $25,000 or more in 2009:

Martha W. and William C. Cox
Ronald P. and Karen E. O’Hanley
Saul Pannell and Sally Currier
Jeffrey and Margaret Pierce
George and Kathy Putnam
Charles M. and Phyllis Rosenthal
John W. and Valerie Rowe