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Tim McCay and Damhnait McHugh (Biology) and Ahmet Ay (Biology and Mathematics) have received a two-year award of $152,907 for their project. This project will integrate fieldwork, lab experiments, molecular analyses, and mathematical modeling to reveal the life history and physiological tolerances of these earthworms, reconstruct their historical invasion of North America, and make predictive statements about their spread and impact.

The institute is awarding a second year of funding to Jonathan Levine (Physics and Astronomy) and his collaborators. The funded research would allow Levine’s team to develop techniques for identifying the minerals that they are dating, so as to optimally interpret the age data they obtain.

Jonathan Levine (Physics and Astronomy) and his collaborators received a one-year award for their project. Their research goal is to increase understanding of the timing and timescales of Mars’s global climate change by estimating the ages of Martian rocks using a novel mass spectrometer.

Krista Ingram (Biology) and her colleagues received a two-year award for their project. The research team will integrate genetic analyses with psychological measures and behavioral tasks to investigate how an individual’s cognitive performance (e.g., standardized exams) and risk preferences (e.g., decision-making tasks) are related to the time the task is performed, an individual’s genotype, and gene expression profiles.

Catherine Cardelús (Biology), Eliza Kent (Religion), Peter Klepeis and Peter Scull (Geography), and their collaborators have been awarded a one-year, $90,000 grant for their project.

Rebecca Metzler and Kiko Galvez (Physics & Astronomy) received a two-year, $57,000 grant for their project. In an innovative combination of different approaches, Metzler, Galvez, and their students will study the polarization of the iridescent light reflected by the shells to obtain information about the composition and structures that give them their remarkable physical properties

Randy Fuller (Biology), and his collaborators were awarded $70,000 for one year to study the levels of acidity of five tributary streams to Honnedaga Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, and the effects on the reproduction of a heritage strain of brook trout in New York.

Rebecca Miller Ammerman (Classics), and Randy Fuller (Biology) — along with seven collaborative partners across the globe, were awarded $125,000 for two years for this project.

DeWitt Godfrey (Art), and Tom Tucker (Mathematics), have teamed up with Tomaž Pisanski, a mathematician at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and architect and engineer Daniel Bosia of London-based Expedition Engineering, to apply mathematical methodologies to art and design.

Janel Benson (Sociology and Anthropology) was awarded $70,000 for two years.