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Summer 2004, Vol. 13, No. 5 | Return to Table of Contents
Recent Gifts and Grants
The Kohlberg Foundation, Inc. gave a grant in the amount of $25,000 to The Ecosystems Center to support a conference dealing with coastal rare species issues. The conference will be titled “Scientific and Practitioner Network for Sandplain Conservation.” Christopher Neill is the principal investigator.
Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $60,000 for “Investigations into the Metabolic Diversity of Microorganisms as Part of Microbial Diversity.” Microbial Diversity course directors Thomas Schmidt and William Metcalfe are the lead investigators.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded the following grants:
- $379,084 (over three years; subawarding institution: National Marine Fisheries Service) for “Library Support Services.” Cathy Norton is the principal investigator.
- $18,121 (over two years; subawarding institution: WHOI) for “Development and application of molecular methods for detection of QPX organisms in environmental reservoirs.” Roxanna Smolowitz is the principal investigator.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the following grants:
- $715,500 (over three years) for “Potential targets for new antischistosomal agents.” Robert Greenberg is the principal investigator.
- $348,750 for “Trypanosome Lysis by Human Haptoglobin Related Protein.” Steve Hajduk is the principal investigator.
- $235,229 for “Characterization of the Giardia lamblia Transcriptome.” Andrew McArthur is the principal investigator.
- $162,000 for “Neural Systems and Behavior.” Lenny Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
- $159,078 for “Training in Professional Development for Neuroscience.” Joseph Martinez is the principal investigator.
- $155,000 for “Role of islet structure and function.” Peter J. S. Smith is the principal investigator.
- $143,778 for “Neurobiology Summer Course.” Lenny Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
- $54,363 for “Neural Development and Genetics of Zebrafish.” Lenny Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the following grants:
- $799,998 for “Aquatic Ecosystem Responses to Changes in the Environment of an Arctic Drainage Basin.” John Hobbie, Bruce Peterson, Linda Deegan, Joseph Vallino, and Anne Giblin are the lead investigators.
- $164,073 (over three years) for “Science Journalism Program for the Arctic.” John Hobbie, Pamela Clapp Hinkle, Kenneth Foreman, and Christopher Neill are the lead investigators.
- $83,034 (subawarding institution: University of Michigan) for “Developing Process-Level Understanding of Controls on Belowground Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics in Tundra Ecosystems.” Edward Rastetter is the principal investigator.
NSF and NIH jointly awarded the following grants:
- $1,043,706 (over five years; subawarding institution: WHOI) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health - Genomics Facility Core.” Mitchell Sogin and Hilary Morrison are the lead investigators.
- $567,049 (over five years; subawarding institution: WHOI) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health - Pilot Project.” Steve Hajduk is the principal investigator.
- $349,967 (over five years; subawarding institution: WHOI) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health - Parasite Project.” Linda Amaral Zettler is the principal investigator.
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