Faculty Grants | Sponsored Programs

Hobart and William Smith faculty across disciplines have had success in securing external funding to support their research, scholarship, and creative activity. While the below profiles are organized in broad disciplinary categories, many of our faculty are immersed in interdisciplinary collaboration and have one or more affiliations with interdisciplinary programs and scholarly networks.

SCIENCES

Nan Crystal Arens, Geoscience

Collaborative Research: REU Site: Microplastic Sources, Sinks, Transport and Environmental Impact across the Finger Lakes Watershed (National Science Foundation)

Meghan Brown, Biology

Support for the Evaluation and Verification of Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS) Control Technology and Other Green Shipping Initiative (U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration via University of Minnesota)

Lisa Cleckner, Finger Lakes Institute

Agreement with HWS to Continue Removal of Giant Hogweed in the NY Counties of Monroe, Wayne, Livingston, Ontario, Seneca, Yates, Schuyler, Steuben, Cayuga, Tompkins, Onondaga and Madison (U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service)

Cayuga Lake Watershed Steward (Town of Ithaca)

Eradication of High Priority Invasive Species to Protect Important Wetland Communities within the Lake Ontario Watershed (U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service)

Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation)

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Hemlock Forest Conservation in Finger Lakes State Parks (U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service)

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Managing Invasives on Private Lands Critical to Finger Lakes (U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service)

Keuka Lake Level Management Study (New York Department of State via Town of Pulteney)

Marsh Creek Floodplain Restoration Design (New York Department of State via Town of Geneva)

Reviving the Crooked Canal as a Riparian Runoff Reduction Ecosystem (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)

Seneca-Keuka Watershed (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation)

Seneca-Keuka Water Quality Protection Manual (New York Department of State via Village of Watkins Glen)

Surveying Finger Lakes National Forest Ponds for Invasive Species (U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service)

Watercraft Inspection Stewards in Monroe County (Monroe County Soil & Water Conservation District)

Water Quality Protection Manual for Municipalities (New York Department of State via Village of Watkins Glen)

Bradley Cosentino, Biology

Biggest bang for your buck: Using NASA Earth Observations to understand and maximize holistic ecosystem benefits from invasive mammal eradications on islands (National Aeronautics and Space Administration via Island Conservation)

Collaborative Research: Adaptive and nonadaptive mechanisms of phenotypic evolution in response to urbanization (National Science Foundation)

Tara Curtin, Geoscience

Collaborative Research: REU Site--Northeast Partnership for Atmospheric and Related Sciences (NEPARS) (National Science Foundation)

David Finkelstein, Geoscience

Collaborative Research: REU Site--Northeast Partnership for Atmospheric and Related Sciences (NEPARS) (National Science Foundation)

Leslie Hebb, Physics

Collaborative Research: Confirming and Characterizing Transiting Exoplanets around Bright Stars with Ultra-precise Ground-based Photometry (National Science Foundation)

Collaborative Research: EPIIC: EmpowerEd -- Building the Future Workforce Together (National Science Foundation)

LSST-DA Expansion Partnership Funding Support (LSST Discovery Alliance)

Shining a Spot-light on the Atmosphere of a Giant Planet around a Cool Star (Space Telescope Science Institute)

Sarah Kirk, Chemistry

New York Six Mellon Academic Leadership Fellows (Mellon Foundation)

The design and synthesis of tetracaine derivatives as enhanced ion channel blockers (National Institutes of Health)

Neil Laird, Geoscience

Collaborative Research: REU Site--Northeast Partnership for Atmospheric and Related Sciences (NEPARS) (National Science Foundation)

Multi-scale Interactions Influencing Lake-Effect Systems (National Science Foundation)

Nicholas Metz, Geoscience

Central New York LSAMP Alliance (CNYLA) (National Science Foundation)

Collaborative Research: EPIIC: EmpowerEd -- Building the Future Workforce Together (National Science Foundation)

Multi-scale Interactions Influencing Lake-Effect Systems (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Multi-scale Interactions Influencing Lake-Effect Systems (National Science Foundation)

Patricia Mowery, Biology

Multidisciplinary Investigation of Antitubulin Heterocycles using Synthesis, Biology, and Structural Analysis (National Institutes of Health)

Erin Pelkey, Chemistry

Multidisciplinary Investigation of Antitubulin Heterocycles using Synthesis, Biology, and Structural Analysis (National Institutes of Health)

Research Grants for Faculty at Principally Undergraduate Institutions (Organic Syntheses)

Steve Penn, Physics

Collaborative Research: Center for Coatings Research (National Science Foundation)

Collaborative Research: LSC Center for Coatings Research

Collaborative Research: Development and Characterization of AlGaAs Coatings for Gravitational-wave Detectors (National Science Foundation)

MRI: Track 1 Development of Large Optic Crystalline Coating Characterization Instrument (LOCCCI) for Gravitational Wave Detectors (National Science Foundation)

RUI: Investigations of Mirror Coatings for A+ and Third Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors (National Science Foundation)

RUI: Investigations of Mirror Thermal Noise for Gravitational Wave Detectors

Joseph Rusinko, Mathematics & Computer Science

Central New York LSAMP Alliance (CNYLA) (National Science Foundation)

Kristin Slade, Chemistry

Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) (National Science Foundation)

Shannon Straub, Biology

Collaborative Research: Can hundreds of unlinked loci really resolve recent, rapid radiations of plant species? (National Science Foundation)

Collaborative Research: Macroevolution of a group of plant secondary defense compounds (pyrrolizidine alkaloids) in the dogbane and milkweed flowering plant family (Apocynaceae) (National Science Foundation)