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January 2003, Vol. 12, No.1 | Return to Table of Contents
Recent Gifts and Grants
The Pfizer Foundation renewed a grant in the amount of $44,840 in support of the Living in the Microbial World and Life and Living Space Teacher Workshops in 2003.
The Society for Neuroscience, in collaboration with the International Brain Organization, awarded a grant in the amount of $40,000 in support of foreign nationals to take part in MBL neurobiology courses.
The Sprague Foundation made a contribution in the amount of $10,000 to support the Evelyn and Melvin Spiegel Fellowship Fund and $10,000 to support summer research at the MBL.
Environmental Data Research Institute made a contribution in the amount of $10,000 in support of the Semester in Environmental Sciences.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $941,565 for the “Biocurrents Research Center.” Peter Smith is the principal investigator.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded $30,000 (Sub-awarding Institution WHOI) for “A Scanning Electron Microscopy Study of Epidemic Shell Disease of the American Lobster, Homarus Americanus.” Roxanna Smolowitz and Andrea Hsu are the principal investigators.
NASA awarded $50,000 (over 2 years, Sub-awarding Institution: University of Alaska, Fairbanks) for “The Role of Land-Cover Change in High Latitude Ecosystems: Implications for Carbon Budgets in Northern North America.” Jerry Melillo and David Kicklighter are the principal investigators.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the following grants:
• $192,105 (over 2 years) for “Molecular Genetic Studies of Bdelloid Rotifers.” Matthew Meselson and David Mark Welch are the principal investigators.
• $167,414 for “Distinguishing the Evolutionary Mechanisms Shaping Endosymbiont Genomes.” Jennifer Wernegreen is the principal investigator.
• $94,141 for the “Workshop on Molecular Evolution.” Michael Cummings is the principal investigator.
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