TIE
Grants 2003 - 2004
Tufts Institute
of the Environment is pleased to announce the 2003 – 2004
recipients of the Environmental
Education Grants, the Environmental
Planning Grants and the Environmental
Graduate Student Fellowships. To see last last
year's Planning Grant recipients, click
here.
The
Environmental Education Grants are
for the development of new environmnetal courses or to revise
existing courses. Funds are available to purchase educational
materials and to provide some stipends for course support.
The following faculty have been selected for this year’s
Environmental Education Grants:
New
Seminar: Advanced Topics in Conservation Biology
by: J. Michael Reed, Department of Biology. (pdf file)
Tropical
Ecology and Conservation by: Colin Orians,
Department of Biology. (pdf file)
The
Environmental Planning Grants promote interdisciplinary
and cross-School collaboration by encouraging faculty members
and graduate students to work together on proposal development.
The following faculty-student team projects have been selected
for this year’s Environmental Planning Grants:
The Tufts Institute of the
Environment congratulates this year’s awardees and
encourages applications to next year’s request for
proposals (to be announced late fall).
Environmental
Planning Grants 2002-2003
TIE’s objectives in soliciting
Planning Grant proposals in 2002 were to encourage interdisciplinary
and cross-School collaboration, to stimulate the production
of proposals for external funding of environmental work,
to help fund graduate students in environmental fields,
and to encourage faculty members and graduate students to
work together on proposal development. Teams of faculty
members and students from any of the Tufts departments or
schools were eligible to apply for up to $8000 per faculty/student
team. The following projects were supported:
Tools for Sustainability:
Development of the Dibangombe Ecosystem Health Monitoring
Program. Students: Brenda Heyman (Tufts University School
of Veterinary Medicine, TUSVM), Susan Neville (TUSVM), Beverly
Chua (TUSVM). Faculty: Christine Jost (TUSVM), Colin Gillin
(TUSVM), Mark Woodin (Tufts School of Engineering).
Development of an Appraisal
Method for a Livestock Health Survey of Persistently Flooded
Areas in Southern Mozambique. Student: Eric Brum (TUSVM).
Faculty: Angela-Raven Roberts (Friedman School of Nutrition
Science & Policy),George Saperstein (TUSVM).
Linking Watershed Quality
with Ecosystem Health Using Educational and Environmental
Modeling. Student: Melvin Radar (Civil & Environmental
Engineering). Faculty: Rich Vogel (Civil & Environmental
Engineering), Rhonda Ryznar (Urban & Environmental Policy
& Planning), Michael Reed (Biology), John Durant (Civil
& Environmental Engineering).
Student Participation in
the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Students:
Kate Davenport (Liberal Arts), Sara Standish (Liberal Arts).
Faculty: Sherman Teichman (Institute for Global Leadership).
Hemoglobin variation in
white-footed mice and the origins or emergent disease in
New England endemic sites. Student: Jason Campbell (TUSVM).
Faculty: Stephen Rich (TUSVM), Sara Lewis (Biology).
Possible Evolution of a
New Rabies Virus Strain in Striped Skunks in Coastal Massachusetts
and Rhode Island. Student: Brian Moore (TUSVM). Faculty:
Alison Robbins (TUSVM).
Zoonotic Cryptosporidium
and Environmental Health in Meru, Kenya. Students: Lisa
Naples (TUSVM), Kimberly Gostyla (TUSVM). Faculty: Jeffrey
Griffiths (Tufts University School of Medicine).
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