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Faculty Grant Highlights

Swarthmore faculty receive external grants to support their research, their teaching and other scholarly and creative projects, and their sabbatical activities.

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Associate Professor of Dance Olivia Sabee Receives Mellon New Directions Fellowship

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Faculty Members Across Several Disciplines Receive Grants, Awards

Watch: Professor Amy Graves on women in STEM. Read more about Professor Graves and other women in STEM at Swarthmore receiving major federal grants. 

Watch: A Conversation with Two Guggenheim Fellows with Professor Steven Hopkins (Religion) and Associate Professor Ron Tarver (Art) 

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Swarthmore Faculty Earn Numerous Grants and Awards During Fall Semester

Watch Professor of Religion Yvonne Chireau's SwatTalk on African American religious traditions and ancestral recovery. Professor Chireau will serve as a producer on Larisha Stone's film, Conjure: The Documentary, with support from The Crossroads Project at Princeton University. 

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Sociologist Daniel Laurison ’99 Named 2021-22 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

Watch: Linguist K. David Harrison describes his field work documenting endangered languages for the Talking Dictionary. Learn more about his grant-funded work with Tri-Co faculty.

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Swarthmore Faculty Earn Numerous Grants and Awards During 2020-21 Academic Year

Cacey Bester, Eva-Maria Collins, Dawn Carone, Amy Graves, Kathleen Howard

Five Women in the Sciences Receive Major Federal Grants

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Mathematician Victor Barranca to Explore Brain Function with NSF Grant

Performance of Chopin without Piano

Barbara Milewski and Allen Kuharski brought the North American premiere of Chopin Without Piano to Swarthmore with a grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Watch a video from the performance.

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Synthetic Chemist Chris Graves Receives NSF Research Grant. The grant was awarded as a Sustainable Chemistry, Engineering, and Materials (SusChEM) Funding Opportunity, through the NSF’s Chemical Synthesis Program.

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NSF Grant Will Measure Impact of Physics Course Built for Life Science Majors. Learn about the course taught by Catherine Crouch and Benjamin Geller.

Professor Art McGarity, Lang Center Scholar-in-Residence Arto Woodley, Jonathan Cohen ’17, and Alexandra Philyaw ’17

From Scrub, New Growth. Read about Professor Art McGarity's grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to lead water projects for Philadelphia’s storm-water runoff.

Melissa Lineburg and Hannah Joo '16 in The Kind of Thing That Would Happen, choreographed by Assistant Professor of Dance Olivia Sabee.

Assistant Professor of Dance Olivia Sabee Receives Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant

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Geneticist Dawn Carone Awarded Grant to Research Uncontrolled Growth in Cancer Cells

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Theater Professor Allen Kuharski Receives Fulbright Grant

Professor Yatsunyk and students

Chemistry Professor Liliya Yatsunyk Receives Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

Fusing Energies: Professor Mike Brown and the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment (SSX) lab receive funding from the U.S. Department of Energy ALPHA project

Associate Professor of Dance Olivia Sabee Receives Mellon New Directions Fellowship

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