Gifts & Grants Highlights

December 2011 - February 2012

Anonymous
$1,200,000 pledge to support the John J. Valois Marine Resources Center Endowment and the Stanley W. Watson Education Fund

National Institutes of Health
$1,039,523 for the Summer Program in Neuroscience, Ethics & Survival (SPINES) course. [5-year award, PI W. Reznikoff]

Dart Neuroscience LLC
$1,000,000 for lab space for visiting investigators conducting research in the area of learning and memory

National Science Foundation
$506,194 for "Collaborative Research: Microbial Interactions with Marine Plastic Debris: Diversity, Function and Fate" [3-year award, PI, L. Amaral Zettler]

National Science Foundation
$461,006 for "Effects of warming on tree species’ recruitment in deciduous forests of the eastern United States" [PI, J. Melillo]

Sloan Foundation
$441,410 for "Deep Life I: Microbial Carbon Transformations in Rock-Hosted Deep Subsurface Habitats" [2-year award, PI, J. Huber]

Shinya and Sylvia Inoué
$375,000 gift of Woods Hole real estate in support of the Shinya and Sylvia Inoué Endowment for Cellular Dynamics Imaging

The G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation
$350,000 to support the Bay Paul Center

Patricia and Charles Robertson, Jr.
$300,000 in support of MBL facilities renovations

Diane and Norman Bernstein, Joshua and Lisa Bernstein
$250,000: $175,000 to the Diane and Norman Bernstein Endowment Fund for the Marine Resources Center and a $75,000 commitment to the Annual Fund over 5 years

U.S. Department of Agriculture
$199,779 for "Developing Improved Management Practices for Mussel Farming in Southern New England." [2-year award, PI, S. Lindell]

National Science Foundation
$194,260 for "Modulatory Activities of Zinc in the Vertebrate Retina." [PI, Chappell]

National Science Foundation
$191,658 for "The Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (Arctic GRO)." [5-year award, PI, Peterson]

Arthur Vining Davis Foundation: $150,000 in support of Semerster in Environmental Science.

National Science Foundation
$149,992 for "Collaborative Research: Cyanate availability and utilization by marine microbial assemblages." [PI, A. Post]

National Counterproliferation Center
$149,500 for "Library Services for National Counterproliferation Center’s (NCPC) Life Science Journal Library." [PI, H. Miller]

Dr. Porter Anderson: $88,005 to the Anderson Institutional Fund, $10,000 to the Annual Fund, and $2,000 to the Bernard Davis Scholarship Fund.