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November 2003, Vol. 12, No. 6 | Return to Table of Contents


Recent Gifts and Grants

The Ellison Medical Foundation provided a grant in the amount of $300,000 in support of the Biology of Parasitism course. This amount covers funding for the years 2004 through 2007.

The Cox Foundation, Inc. made a contribution in the amount of $50,000 to the MBL Annual Fund.

The Pfizer Foundation renewed a grant in the amount of $45,195 in support of the Living in the Microbial World teacher enhancement and workshop.

USDA awarded $45,453 for “Isolation and Characterization of Factors Regulated During Larval Competence and Metamorphosis in the Bay Scallop, Argopecten irradiansi.” Steven Roberts and Rick Goetz are the principal investigators.

NSF awarded $700,000 for “The Arctic LTER Project: The Future Characteristics of Arctic Communities, Ecosystems, and Landscapes.” John Hobbie, Gaius Shaver, and Bruce Peterson are the principal investigators.

NSF awarded $186,508 for “Molecular Genetic Studies of Bdelloid Rotifers.” Matthew Meselson and David Mark Welch are the principal investigators.
NASA awarded $4,757,963 (over five years; first year, $951,590) for “From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems.”
Mitch Sogin, Jennifer Wernegreen, Linda Amaral Zettler, Hilary Morrison, Monica Riley, Norman Wainwright, and David Patterson are the principal investigators.

USDA awarded $89,968 (over two years; first year $44,319) for “The Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and Giant Danio (Danio aequipinnatus) as Models for Studying Determinant and Indeterminant Growth in Fish.” Peggy Biga and Rick Goetz are the principal investigators.