Gifts & Grants Highlights

January - May, 2011

National Science Foundation
$5.9 million for the “Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project” [ Year 1 of 6-year award, PI, G. Shaver].

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
$3.2 million to support the MBL Advanced Education Program [4-year award, PI, W. Reznikoff].

NOAA
$2.9 million for a Training Facility/Center for “Recurring Training of Fisheries Observers” [Year 1 of 10-year award, PI, R. Cutler].

National Science Foundation awarded $2 million for a project titled "Fire in Northern Alaska: Effect of a Changing Disturbance Regime on a Regional Macrosystem." [Year 1 of 4-year award, PI, Gaius Shaver].

Office of Naval Research awarded $1.4 million for a project titled "Biologically-Inspired Routes to Sense-and-Response in Adaptive, Intelligent Metamaterials." [Year 1 of 4-year award, PI, Roger Hanlon].

Anonymous Trustee
$1 million pledge to establish an Endowed Biodiversity Informatics Fund.

National Institutes of Health
$795,575 for a project titled "Monogonont Rotifers as a Model to Investigate the Biology of Aging." [Year 1 of 5-year award, PI, D. Mark Welch].

National Institutes of Health
$770,610 for a project titled “The Role of the Gut Microbiota in Ulcerative Colitis” [1-year award, PI, M. Sogin].

The Simons Foundation pledged $250,000 to create "The Fischbach Fellowship" in honor of Gerry Fischbach.