The LU grants team is pleased to announce recent faculty and staff grant awards. If you are interested in applying for an external grant to support your research, creative activity, or program idea, please contact Amy Kester at amy.kester@lawrence.edu or x6816.
Please join me in congratulating our colleagues on their grant awards:
· Karen Bruno (academy) received a $3,000 grant for the Academy of Music Tutti Fund from the Green Bay Packers Foundation.
· Erin Buenzli (wellness) received $1,000 from Well City to support WELCOA’s On the Move Challenge for Lawrence employees again in spring 2019.
· Alyssa Hakes (biology) received two grants to support her research examining Cirsium pitcheri seed viability patterns and the impact of the invasive Larinus carlinae weevils across the dune landscape of Lake Michigan : a $650 grant from the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin and a $668 crowdfunded grant from experiment.com.
· Lori Hilt (psychology) was awarded a $368,196 grant from the National Institutes of Health for her 3-year clinical trial to test a mindfulness mobile app intervention to address adolescent rumination on negative thoughts.
· Arnold Shober (government) received $7,000 from UW Stout to support Lawrence’s second year as a Participating Institution in Stout’s Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation initiative to “promote the discussion and study of civil liberty and related institutions and innovations.”
· Katie Schweighofer (gender studies) was awarded a $4,000 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society. The grant will support expenses to visit the Kinsey Institute archives in Indiana to complete the first full analysis of the correspondence collection of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a world-famous sexologist. The project will utilize a feminist and queer historical analysis.
· Claudena Skran (government) was awarded a $6,000 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society. Funds will support expenses to utilize archives in England for her research on the role of private, voluntary organizations in relation to two early twentieth century refugee emergencies: the Russian refugee crisis of 1921-22 and the Greek refugee exodus from Turkey of 1922.
· Copeland Woodruff (opera) received three grants for the opera “Mass:” gift-in-kind advertising worth $4,200 on 91.1 The Avenue and a $2,500 Bright Idea Grant and $1,500 Jewelers Mutual Fund grant from theCommunity Foundation for the Fox Valley Region.