Faculty Awards and Accomplishments

The American Society of Plant Biologists has presented the 2022 Adolph E. Gude Jr. Award to Grinnell College’s recently appointed Dean, Beronda Montgomery, for her achievements as a scholar, mentor, and communicator.

Professor of Chemistry Mark Levandoski has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Re-Entry to Active Research program grant of $123,674 (CHE-2204419) to help him reengage in his academic research after a four-year period serving as one of the College’s associate deans and interim registrar. NSF funding will help him to expand his skillset and apply new techniques to understanding the mechanism of the receptors by learning a computational research approach called molecular dynamics.

Fernanda Eliott, Grinnell College assistant professor of computer science, has been named a Scialog Fellow by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Eliott was selected for the “Molecular Basis of Cognition” group, which will bring together scientists from a wide range of fields to better understand the processes that underlie short- and long-term memory, thought, perception, and cognition.

This grant is designed to provide financial assistance to the division’s member schools and conferences that are committed to enhancing ethnic minority and gender representation in entry-level administrative positions in intercollegiate athletics.

This year, Logan Lee, Grinnell College associate professor of economics was awarded a $6,000 Franklin Research Grant.

The fellowship program advocates for empowerment of women and girls in education

Susan Ferguson receives the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award

Grinnell College faculty members have been selected for a number of prestigious awards, fellowships, and scholarly prizes over the past few months.

Susan Ferguson, professor of sociology, has been awarded the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching award from the American Sociological Association (ASA).

Shuchi Kapila, professor of English, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant, which she’ll use to travel to India to complete the research for and writing of her second book.