Grants, Fellowships, Awards and Student Research

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Bowdoin College has been awarded a grant of $800,000 from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to further undergraduate education and research, which includes a bioethics symposium, curriculum innovations, and outreach programs in the area of life sciences.

Spectrophotometry Outreach Program
Howard Hughes Lab Protocols [PDF]
Student Summer Research Opportunities in the Biology Department

Student Awards and Prizes
Student Honors Thesis Titles

 
Surnda Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program

Fellowships may be awarded annually to highly qualified seniors. Each Surdna Fellow parcticipates under the direction of a faculty member(s)in a research project in which the faculty member is independently interested. Applications are made to the Faculty Resources Committee.

Surdna Fellows are chosen each spring for the following summer or academic year. Awards are made on the basis of the candidate's academic record, parcticular interests and competence, the availability of an appropriate research project, and a faculty member's recommendation. Acceptance of a Surdna Fellowship does not preclude working for Honors and the financial need of a candidate does not enter into the awarding of fellowships. Surdna Fellows are, however, obligated to refrain from employment during the period of their appointment. The stipend is for part-time research during the academic year or full-time research in eight weeks of the summer.

Candidates for Surdna grants should be nominated by a member of the faculty. Proposals should include a description of the project written by the faculty, a description of the project written by the student, a title, a course transcript, the department or program in which the work will be done, and whether the request is for the summeror the academic year.

Edward E. Langbein Summer Research Fellowship

An annual gift of the Bowdoin Family Association is awarded under the direction of the President of the College to an undergraduate or graduate to enable the recipient to parcticipate in summer research or advanced study directed towards his or her major field or life work. Formerly the Bowdoin Fathers Association fund, the grant was renamed in 1970 in memory of a former president and secretary of the Association. Candidates for a Langbein Fellowship must be nominated by a faculty member, who should write a letter to the Faculty Resourses Committee in support of the nominee including a copy of the academic transcript. Candidates must write to the Committee and describe the proposed research and its relation to their major field or life work.

The American Heart Association

Fellowships are awarded each year by the Maine Affiliate of the American Heart Association with the stated purpose of encouraging science students to consider careers in cardiovascular research. Applicants should be juniors or seniors and have an interest in research. The fellowship recipient works for a 10-week period during the summer with a faculty member in his/her research lab. Applications, including project description, transcripts, and three letters of recommendation will be required.

The Moulton Fund

The Moulton Fund, established in the memory of James M. Moulton (George Lincoln Skolfield, Jr. Professor of Biology), awards up to two summer research fellowships annually. Students apply for this fellowship in March by submitting a brief outline of their proposed project. All research is to be done under the direction of a Bowdoin Faculty advisor.

Faculty

Patsy Dickinson - NFS Research grant, 2001-2004 "The Role of Multiple Modulators"

Barry Logan - NSF Research grant, 2001-2003 "Chromotography & Spectroscopy"
USDA grant, 1999-2002 - Testing Transgenic Cotton with Elevated Anti-oxidants

Bruce Kohorn - NSF Research Grant, 2001-2002 "Cell Wall Associated Protein Kinases"
NSF Research grant, 2003-2005 "RUI - Cell Wall Associated Protein Kinases and Cell Elongation"

John Lichter - NSF Research Grant, 2008-2011 "Soil carbon sequestration and turnover in a coniferous forest under elevated atmospheric CO2"

Anne McBride - NSF Research Grant 2003-2005 "RUI Protein Arginine Methylation and Nucleocytoplasmic Transport"

Carey Phillips- Paller Grant, - Creation of a Virtual Reality Coastal Studies Data Base
NSF, CCLI, - Virtual Reality Data Base units

Michael Palopoli - NSF Grant, 2001-2004 - Evolutionary Genetics

Nathaniel Wheelwright - National Science Foundation grant with Corey R. Freeman-Gallant, 2001-2004 - Inbreeding, female mating fidelity, and the major histocompatibility complex in Savannah Sparrows