Recent Faculty Awards

• A team of Joint Science faculty comprising Professors Copp, Edwalds-Gilbert, Purvis-Roberts, Gould, and Black received a five-year $498,711 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled, Increasing Science Graduates Through Interdisciplinary Teaching and Research. Among other initiatives, the grant will assist the Department in the creation of a new interdisciplinary course linking Chemistry, Physics, and Biology.



• Psychology Professor Dan Krauss along with a colleague, Joel Liberman, at the University of Nevada Las Vegas has been awarded a two-year $179,669 Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) grant from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled: Can Jurors Think Rationally About Expert Testimony Concerning Dangerousness in Sexually Violent Predator Hearings?



• Chemistry Professor Katie Purvis-Roberts has been awarded a one year $5,655 Special American Business Internship Training (SABIT) grant from the Department of Commerce to bring a colleague, Yuri Stritchuk, from Kazakistan to collaborate in laboratory experiments.



• Assistant Professor of Economics Marc Weidenmier, in collaboration with Kris Mitchener of Santa Clara University, received a NSF grant of $344, 790 for his project entitled “Sovereign Debt Default, Empire, and Trade During the Gold Standard,” over three years.



• Associate Professor and Chair of History Lisa Cody has published a book entitled Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons through Oxford University Press. For more information see http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-926864-9.



• Assistant Professor of Biology Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert received a NIH grant of $174,399 for her project "Regulation of spliceosomal ATPase activity," over three years.



• Assistant Professor of Biology Zhaohua Irene Tang received a NSF grant of $340,000 for her project "RUI: Cell-cycle Regulation of LAMMER-related Kinases," over three years.



• Professor Mario Martelli, as co-P.I., along with Jim Hoste of Pitzer College as P.I., received a NSF REU grant of $243,531 for their proposal "Claremont Colleges Mathematics REU Site."



• Assistant Professor of History Diana Selig received a Spencer Postdoctoral fellowship of $50,000 from the National Academy of Education for her project "Cultural Gifts: American Liberals and the Origins of Multiculturalism, 1924-1945."

Pending Faculty Grants:

• Assistant Professor of Chemistry Amy Hurshman has submitted a faculty start-up proposal to the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation entitled “Characterization, Reactivity, and Function of Novel Bacterial Hemoproteins Homologous to Mammalian Nitric Oxide Synthases” that is pending review.



• Assistant Professor of Chemistry Katie Purvis-Roberts, in collaboration with Evans Kituyi of the University of Nairobi, has submitted a small research grant proposal to the National Institutes of Health entitled "Urban Agriculture as a Primary Source for Childhood Lead Exposure in Kenya" that is pending review.



• Assistant Professor of Biology Cheryl Baduini, in collaboration with David Hyrenbach of Duke University and Michelle Hester of Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge, has submitted a proposal to California Sea Grant entitled “Quantifying Black-footed Albatross habitats and overlap with logline fisheries: reducing bycatch off California and across the North Pacific” that is pending review.



• Assistant Professor of Chemistry Mary Hatcher-Skeers has submitted a proposal to NIH entitled "Dynamic 31P NMR of Backbone Dynamics in DNA" that is pending review.