The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has moved its deadline for fellowship applications to April 12, 2017. (Original due date was April 26, 2017.) This deadline is for projects beginning as early as January 2018. More information on the program can be found here. NEH Fellowships support faculty pursuing advanced… Continue reading »
The American Heart Association is offering a new research award that supports small-scale research projects related to cardiovascular diseases and stroke at educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees, but have not been major recipients of NIH support. The award supports any part of the full range of research… Continue reading »
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., October 11, 2016—Protik “Tiku” Majumder, professor of physics and director of the Williams Science Center, has been awarded the 2017 American Physical Society (APS) Prize for a Faculty Member for Research at an Undergraduate Institution. The prize honors a physicist whose research in an undergraduate setting has… Continue reading »
The Board of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has approved a set of changes to the Visiting Scholars Program. The most significant of these changes are that the fellowship will be a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, with four awards made each year, and that a mentorship program will pair… Continue reading »
The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation has issued its annual request for applications for the Whiting Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded to faculty with the aim to stimulate and broaden the awardees minds so as to improve and enhance the quality of their instruction. Grants are primarily for travel and… Continue reading »
Press release from the American Council of Learned Societies: The American Council of Learned Societies invites applications for Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars, made possible by the generous assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. These fellowships support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities… Continue reading »
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., May 6, 2016—The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Williams College history professor Jessica Chapman a three-year, $240,000 New Directions Fellowship to pursue substantive and methodological training in the field of anthropology. Once that training is completed, Chapman will embark on anthropological research related to the economic… Continue reading »
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., February 11, 2016—Heather Williams, William Dwight Whitney Professor of Biology and chair of the Neuroscience Program, will present the second lecture in the Williams College Faculty Lecture Series on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 4:15 p.m. in Wege Auditorium, with a reception to follow in Schow Atrium. The lecture… Continue reading »
November 10, 2015—The 12-month performance period to meet the Living Building Challenge has begun for the Class of 1966 Environmental Center at Williams College. For one year, the building, the renovation of which was supported by grants from the A.V. Davis Foundations and the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, must meet stringent… Continue reading »
Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, recently revealed the end of the foundation’s two-year transition and the changes that will be coming to the eighty-year-old charitable organization’s grant plan. These include a consolidation of Ford’s grant-making programs, a stronger focus on inequality, and a goal of issuing twenty percent fewer grants. Walker’s entire… Continue reading »