A new grant program from UVM’s Office for the Vice President for Research aimed at new tenure track faculty has announced its first round of winners.
The program, called OVPR Express, awards a $3,000 grant to new faculty to encourage them to continue their research, scholarship, or creative work during their busy first year at the university, when creating classes, mastering new administrative systems and settling in a new community often take precedence.
Grants were awarded to faculty across a wide range of academic departments and included:
- Effects of Nutritional Supplementation on Bovines, Seth Frietze, assistant professor, Medical Laboratory Science
- Multimaterial Nanolayer 3D printing, Patrick Lee, assistant professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- Race Relations in the U.S., Sylvia Perry, assistant professor, Psychological Science
- Assessing the Acute Impact of Climate Science, Meredith Niles, assistant professor, Nutrition and Food Sciences
- Social Ecology of the Kindergarten Classroom, Lori Meyer, assistant professor, Early Childhood Education
- Gender, Technology and Spirituality, Kathleen Gough, assistant professor, Theatre
- Governance of Science and Technology in Resources Extraction, Bindu Panikkar, assistant professor, Environmental Studies
“We were very happy with the response to this new program in its first year,” said Richard Galbraith, vice president for research. “The research programs of our new faculty, judging from the applications we saw, are very strong. We’re pleased to be playing a role in helping them maintain this important work during a busy time in their careers.”
Proposals for next year’s round of grants are due to the Office of the Vice President for Research in November 2016.