Grinnell College faculty continue to be receive national recognition for their research with grants from the Federal government and private foundations.

Several partnerships with the Fulbright Program for international scholarly exchange are bearing fruit at the same time.

• Scott Cook (Chinese), who spent last year in Taiwan and mainland China as a Fulbright Research Scholar, will continue his work on the Guodian Texts of Confucian writings next year as Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. The Burkhardt Fellowship was created to support young scholars doing cutting-edge work in the humanities and social sciences, with the aim of providing potential leaders in their fields with the resources to pursue unusually ambitious long-term projects.
• Saadi Simawe (English) is spending this academic year in Senegal as a Fulbright scholar, teaching at Cheich Anta Diop University in Dakar and working on a project in African American and Arabic literature, "Archetypes of Power: Images of Blackness and Africanness in Arabic and American Literatures."
• Here on campus, the Fulbright Program is also sponsoring a South African Scholar in Residence, the Afrikaans writer and scholar Hein Willemse for 2004-2005. Dr. Willemse's participation in the life of Grinnell College builds on our existing relationships with southern African education, most directly on the Faculty Seminar to South Africa that the Center for International Studies organized in the summer of 2004.

Science faculty at Grinnell will be working together on an ambitious program of interdisciplinary work supported by a $1.4 million grant over four years from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A major focus of the grant is to prepare faculty in different departments better to help their students learn how to transfer what they learn in a mathematics course (for example) to their work in a biology course. Ultimately, the project is intended to help both faculty and students integrate material from multiple scientific perspectives.

Three Grinnell faculty members have recently been awarded grants by the National Science Foundation.

• Andrew Mobley and Leslie Lyons (Chemistry) were awarded a $209,869 Major Research Instrumentation grant for upgrades to the College's Bruke Avance nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer. Dr. Mobley will also be doing work with University of Iowa faculty on new metal halides, under another NSF grant.
• Jackie Brown received a $285,350 grant under the Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) program for his continuing project,"Generating the entangled bank: biogeography and host use in a Hawaiian herbivore radiation." RUI grants are intended to promote undergraduate participation in their professors' research projects.