Awards – $1,111,915 (incl. $68,000 of donations/gifts)
*Note: This report includes applications for funding submitted July 1 2014-June 30 2015, irrespective of project start date or ultimate funding period.
1. Aileen Bailey
NIH R01 subward from UMD Medical School
Stress, depression and effects of novel antidepressants on excitatory synapses
$213,056
2. Betul Basaran
NEH Summer Seminar
Transcending Boundaries/Converging Communities: The Ottoman Empire, Europe and the
Mediterranean World, 16-18th centuries
$120,744
3. Adriana Brodsky
American Philosopical Society Franklin Research Grants Program
Navigating Multiple Diasporas: Argentine Sephardi Youth at home and in Israel, 1948-1976
$4,000
4. Ken Cohen
Fulbright Core Scholarship
Slave tourism at the Ivory Coast
$64,600
5. Scott Devine & Staff
NCAA
NCAA Minority Internship at SMCM
$46,200
6. Sabine Dillingham & Beth Rushing
NIH BRAD
Diversifying student-centered quality research at a public liberal arts college
$435,619
7. Lindsay & Alan Jamieson
2014 Google CS engagement Small Grants
Emerging Scholars Program II
$5,000
8. Katharina von Kellenbach
Faculty of Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Interreligious dialogue about purity, purification & hybridity as religious, philosophical and political concepts
$3,407
9. Julie King
St. Mary’s County, MD
Assessing Known Archaeological Resources in St. Mary’s County
$16,600
10. Julie King
Chesapeake Conservancy
Identifying and Representing the Nanjemoy Creek Watershed Indigenous Cultural Landscape
$25,000
11. Julie King
Preservation Maryland Heritage Fund
An Assessment of National Register Eligibility for the Thomas Gerard Site
$5,000
12. Julie King
Department of Natural Resources
Using Archaeology to Articulate History of Newtowne Neck
$35,000
13. Heather Moon
NSF IUSE
Collaborative Research: Data-driven applications inspiring upper division mathematics
$65,654
14. Chris Tanner
Cove Point Natural Heritage Trust
Bringing 3-Dimensional Reefs Back to the Chesapeake: Evaluation of an Oyser Restoration Project in the St. Mary’s River
$4,035
Donations/Gifts – $68,000
15. Chuck Adler & Josh Grossman
Advanced Physics Laboratory Association (ALPhA)
Advanced Lab Experiments
$1,000
16. Anne Marie Brady
Pfizer Corporation
Donation of drug for Lab Work
$2,000
17. Julie King
Private Donor
In Search of Josiah Henson’s Birthplace and Childhood Home
$40,000
18. Julie King
Private Donor
Finding the MD Piscataway Settlements
$25,000
GRANTS PENDING – $36,000
19. Billy Friebele
Smithsonian Institute
Tracing our Digital Roots, Exposing our Cyborg Ancestry: Time Machines Robot Monks, and
Artworks in the Fourth Dimension
$36,000 (estimated)
Additional 22 requests for over $3 million worth of funding were made between July 1 2014 – June 30 2015 to numerous federal, state and private funding sources, including AsiaNetworka, Fulbright, MAA PIC, MBL, MIPS, National Geographic, NEH, NIH, NIST, NSF, the Research Coperation, the SeaWorld Busch Gardens Conservation Fund, the Simons Foundation, the Templeton Foundation and the Whitney Humanities Center.