Office of Sponsored Research Awards
For more information on the below awards submitted and managed by the Office of Sponsored
Research, please contact Mary Hoehn, Director of Sponsored Research.
FY24 new awards (as of 4/22/2024)
BII: Uncovering mechanisms of amphibian reslience to global change from molecules
to landscapes
National science foundation (subaward from the University of pittsburgh)
Principal Investigator Emily Le Sage (Biology)
September 1, 2023 - December 31, 2024
$46,999
Sediment dynamics for coral reef restoration site potential and resiliency
NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION
Principal Investigator Tory Chase (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
March 1, 2024 - June 30. 2024
Impact of Sex in the Effect of Dietary Capsaicin on Cardiovascular Health
American heart association
Principal Investigator Stephen Ives (Health and Human Physiological Sciences)
January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2025
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College: NYSCA
Support for Organizations
THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS
Project Director Ian Berry (The Tang)
January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
$40,000 (Year 2 of 2)
the New York State Council on the Arts
Project Director Maria McColl (Special Programs)
January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
$20,000
Building a Distributed National Soil Carbon Inventory to Quantify and Forecast Climate-Smart
Agriculture Impacts
Walton family foundation (Subaward from meridian institute)
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
May 1, 2023 - April 30, 2024
$155,627
Partnership to Define Climate-Smart Commodities Impact and Unlock Consumer Demand
(TSIP Partnership for Impact and Demand)
U.S. Department of agriculture (Subaward from meridian institute)
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
April 4, 2023 - April 30, 2028
$1,963,959
The Company of biologists
Principal Investigator Emily Le Sage (Biology)
July 11, 2023 - May 6, 2024
$3,779
Bayesian Framework for Mining of Evaluated Nuclear Mass Data
U.S. Department of Energy (Subaward from michigan state university)
Principal Investigator Vojtech Kejzlar (Mathematics and Statistics)
May 1, 2023 - April 30, 2024 (Year 1 of 3)
$38,557
RUI: Biophysical investigation of SH3 domain binding partners: How the binding motif
and surrounding disordered sequence affect the binding pathway
THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Principal Investigator K. Aurelia Ball (Chemistry)
August 1, 2023 - July 31, 2026
$449,640
2023 Summer Direct Supply Soil Sampling Campaign & Analysis to Ocean Hour Farm
MERIDIAN INSTITUTE
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
May 31, 2023 - December 31, 2023
$25,511
Music: In Support of the Skidmore Jazz Institute
THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
Project Director Maria McColl (Special Programs)
June 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
$10,000
FY23 new awards
Analysis Project for Stonyfield Farms
Meridian Institute
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
May 30, 2023 - December 31, 2023
$44,596.75
Carbon Soil Summer 2023 Field Work
CANEY FORK FARMS
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
May 31, 2023 - December 31, 2023
$29,706
Interacting interactions of Melampyrum lineare in the context of wildfire regimes
The HURON MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION
Principal Investigator Joshua Ness (Biology)
April 1, 2023 - March 31, 2024
$2,500
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College: NYSCA
Support for Organizations
THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS
Project Director Ian Berry (The Tang)
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
$40,000 (Year 1 of 2)
THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS
Project Director Maria McColl (Special Programs)
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
$20,000
Remittances to North Korea and Transborder Kinship
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Principal Investigator Joowon Park (Anthropology)
January 30, 2023 - August 31, 2024
$29,000
An Examination of New Funding and Policies on Early Care and Education Access in Post-Pandemic
New York State
the administration for children and families (subaward from cornell university)
Principal Investigator Hope Casto (Education Studies)
September 30, 2022 - March 29, 2024
$14,130
Evaluating the Effects of a Synbiotic versus Probiotic or placebo on Gut Microbiota
and Cardiometabolic Health: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Trial
Plexus Worldwide, llc
Principal Investigator Stephen Ives (Health and Human Physiological Sciences)
December 6, 2022 - October 31, 2023
$119,172
THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (SUBAWARD FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN
DIEGO)
Principal Investigator Juan Navea (Chemistry)
October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2023 (Year 5 of 5)
$41,775 (Year 5)
Firefighter Research and Education for Safety and Health (FRESH)
The Department of Homeland Security (collaboration with the Fire department safety
officers association, the first responder center for excellence, NDRI-USA, and the
Fire Protection Research Foundation)
Principal Investigator Denise Smith (Health and Human Physiological Sciences)
September 5, 2022 - September 4, 2024
$960,956
Understanding Election Administration News Coverage and its Effects on Political Attitudes
MIT Election data and science lab (Collaboration with Louisiana State University)
Principal Investigator Christopher Mann (Political Science)
September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2023
$80,982
national science foundation (Collaboration with St. Mary’s College of Maryland, The
College of New Jersey, Virginia Wesleyan University, and Centre College)
Principal Investigator Kimberley Frederick (Chemistry)
October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025
$298,169
Collaborative Research: A Multi-Lab Investigation of the Conceptual Foundations of
Early Number Development
national science foundation (COllaboration with University of California at san diego)
Principal Investigator Jessica Sullivan (Psychology)
July 15, 2022 - June 30, 2026
$27,703
Assessing the potential of regenerative agriculture to support soil health and carbon
sequestration
california department of food and agriculture (subaward from university of California
at davis)
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
$107,516
Assessing the potential of regenerative agriculture to support vineyard health and
carbon sequestration
foundation for food and agriculture research (subaward from university of California
at davis)
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
$113,841
THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
Project Director Maria McColl (Special Programs)
June 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
$15,000
FY22 NEW AWARDS
Evaluating the Short-Term Effects of 3 Days of Caloric Restriction/Intermittent Fasting
using the Plexus Program on Anthropometrics, Metabolism, Markers of Cardiovascular
Health and Metabolism in Overweight/Obese Men and Women
Plexus Worldwide, llc
Principal Investigator Stephen Ives (Health and Human Physiological Sciences)
May 20, 2022 - December 31, 2022
$71,064
Seeds and Climate Justice in the Northeast
University of massachusetts boston / northeast climate justice research collaborative
Principal Investigator Nurcan Atalan-Helicke (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
June 1, 2022 - May 31, 2023
$9,680
Millet Trice Family Fund
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
$31,000
Murals in Landscape: An investigation of human-nature relationships in Maya myth and
design at San Bartolo, Guatemala
THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
Principal Investigator Heather Hurst (Anthropology)
June 1, 2022 - May 31, 2025
$150,000
Carbon Soil Summer 2022 Field Work
THE SENFT FAMILY FUND
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
$25,600
Carbon Soil Summer 2022 Field Work
CANEY FORK FARMS
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
May 31, 2022 - December 31, 2022
$21,794
bedford 2030
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
$3,500
The National Institutes of Health
Principal Investigator Christopher G. Vecsey (Neuroscience)
December 1, 2021 - November 30, 2024
$427,433
The National Science Foundation (Subaward from The University of California at San
Diego)
Principal Investigator Juan Navea (Chemistry)
October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2022 (Year 4 of 5)
$35,060 (Year 4)
Pharmacogenomic Predictors of Breast Cancer Endocrine Response (Renewal)
the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (Subaward from The University of Michigan)
Principal Investigator Julie Douglas (Mathematics and Statistics)
October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2022
$10,091
the morgan stanley sustainable solutions collaborative (SUBAWARD FROM The meridian
institute, collaboration with michigan state university)
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
$70,000
Effects of Daily Protein Supplementation for 8 Weeks on Improved Glucose, Insulin,
and HbA1c Levels in Pre-Diabetics or Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
THE SCOTT CONNELLY FOUNDATION
Principal Investigator Paul Arciero (Health and Human Physiological Sciences)
January 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022
$100,663
A NICER Study of Spectral Variations in NGC 2992
THE National aeronautics and space administration (Subaward from the washington university
in st. louis)
Principal Investigator Kendrah Murphy (Physics)
August 19, 2021 - August 18, 2022
$13,898
THE National science foundation (collaboration with Syracuse university)
Principal Investigator Michael Dunn (Management and Business)
August 1, 2021 - July 31, 2024
$160,360
Continuing Fight Against COVID Together (C-FACT)
the department of homeland security (collaboration with the National Institute for
Public Safety Health and the Fire Protection Research Foundation)
Principal Investigator Denise Smith (Health and Human Physiological Sciences)
July 29, 2021 - July 28, 2023
$579,069
The national endowment for the humanities
Principal Investigator Heather Hurst (Anthropology)
October 1, 2021 - December 31, 2022
$49,990
the national science foundation
Principal Investigator David Domozych (Biology)
August 1, 2021 - July 31, 2024
$573,372
Soil Carbon Inventory Design and Assessment
florida power & light
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
June 1, 2021 - June 1, 2022
$81,037
The National Science Foundation
Principal Investigator Kelly Sheppard (Chemistry)
July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022
$52,760
FY21 NEW AWARDS
The National Science Foundation (Collaboration with auburn university)
Principal Investigators Amy Frappier and Brian Frappier (Geosciences)
June 1, 2021 - May 31, 2022
$140,004
The National Science Foundation (collaboration with Kent state university and indiana
university)
Principal Investigator Kurt Smemo (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
June 1, 2021 - May 31, 2022
$8,096
the New York State Council on the Arts
Project Director Maria McColl (Special Programs)
January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
$10,000
Inflammatory oxylipins and aromatase inhibitor toxicity in breast cancer
The national institutes of health (Subaward from the University of michigan)
Principal Investigator Julie Douglas (Mathematics and Statistics)
April 1, 2021 - March 31, 2023
$22,219
Soil Carbon Inventory at Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate & Gardens and the La Crema Estate
at Saralee’s Vineyard
Jackson Family Wines, Inc.
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
May 15, 2021 - May 14, 2022
$41,832
Mapping Ecosystem Dynamics on Dome Island, Lake George, NY
the nature conservancy
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
May 15, 2021 - May 14, 2022
$13,291
GIS Strategic Conservation Plan
the lake george land conservancy
Principal Investigator Charlie Bettigole (Scribner Library)
June 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021
$5,517
the Senft family fund
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
$50,000
Carbon Soil Summer 2021 Field Work
Caney fork farms
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
June 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021
$22,241
The national endowment for the arts
Project Director Maria McColl (Special Programs)
January 4, 2021 - September 30, 2021
$20,000
THE new york state council on the arts
Project Director Ian Berry (The Tang)
January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
$20,000 (Year 2 of 2)
Pharmacogenomic Predictors of Breast Cancer Endocrine Response
the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (Subaward from The University of Michigan)
Principal Investigator Julie Douglas (Mathematics and Statistics)
October 1, 2020 - September 30, 2021
$12,336
the camille and henry dreyfus foundation (2020 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award)
Principal Investigator Juan Navea (Chemistry)
November 1, 2020 - October 31, 2025
$75,000
MySOC Carbon Inventory Research
the Tomkat ranch educational foundation
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
March 1, 2021 - October 31, 2022
$100,000
MySOC Carbon Inventory Research
the globetrotter foundation #no regrets initiative
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
January 1, 2021 - October 31, 2022
$50,000
MySOC Carbon Inventory Research
the walton family foundation
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
February 1, 2021 - October 31, 2022
$262,139
the national science foundation
Principal Investigator Juan Navea (Chemistry)
June 1, 2020 - May 31, 2023
$243,984
the national science foundation
Principal Investigators Sarita Lagalwar (Neuroscience); Jason Breves (Biology); Jennifer Bonner (Biology); Sylvia Franke McDevitt (Biology); and Stephen Ives (Health and Human Physiological Sciences)
August 1, 2020 - July 31, 2023
$266,517
the national science foundation
Principal Investigators Steven Frey (Chemistry); K. Aurelia Ball (Chemistry); Raymond Giguere (Chemistry); and Anna Brezny (Chemistry)
August 1, 2020 - July 31, 2023
$326,712
the administration for children and families (subaward from cornell university)
Principal Investigator Hope Casto (Education Studies)
September 30, 2020 - March 30, 2022
$14,064
Spatial Analysis of Tree Species Distributions and Plant-Soil Relationships on Dome
Island
the nature conservancy
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
June 1, 2020 - August 31, 2020
$10,623
Making Introductory Courses Real while Online (MICRO): Development and deployment
of millifluidic based labs in chemistry
the howard hughes medical institute (Collaboration with Oregon state university and
university of notre dame)
Principal Investigator Kimberley Frederick (Chemistry)
June 1, 2020 - August 31, 2021
$75,000
Wildland Firefighter Exposure and Health Effects Study
centers for disease control / National institute for occupational safety and health
Principal Investigator Denise Smith (Health and Human Physiological Sciences)
September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2021
$38,769
Militarization, Education, and Attitudes toward Violence among Youth in Kashmir
The american political science association
Principal Investigator Yelena Biberman-Ocakli (Political Science)
October 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021
$1,200
The National Science Foundation (Subaward from The University of California at San
Diego)
Principal Investigator Juan Navea (Chemistry)
October 1, 2020 - September 30, 2021 (Year 3 of 5)
$32,750 (Year 3)
The National Science Foundation (Subaward from The University of NORTHERN COLORADO)
Principal Investigator Nurcan Atalan-Helicke (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
August 1, 2020 - July 31, 2023
$27,585
FY20 NEW AWARDS
Summer 2020 Carbon Inventory at Oak Spring Garden
CANEY FORK FARMS
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
June 1, 2020 - August 31, 2020
$27,421
Caney Fork Field Work Summer 2020
CANEY FORK FARMS
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
June 1, 2020 - August 31, 2020
$18,585
Stratifi Project - Soil Carbon Summer 2020
CANEY FORK FARMS
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
June 1, 2020 - August 31, 2020
$15,998
Comparison of a Low Sugar PP-IF Diet vs HH Diet
ISagenix international, llc
Principal Investigator Paul Arciero (Health and Human Physiological Sciences)
April 1, 2020 - August 31, 2022
$231,797
Stratifi Project - Soil Carbon Summer 2020
The Noble research institute
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
June 1, 2020 - August 31, 2020
$7,346
Advice and Counseling Pertaining to Voter Communications 2020-2021
The north carolina league of conservation voters foundation
Principal Investigator Christopher Mann (Political Science)
April 15, 2020 - August 31, 2021
$24,838
THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Principal Investigator Madushi Raththagala (Chemistry)
May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2023
$448,560
Physiological Status Monitoring Technology Evaluation
MSA Innovation, llc
Principal Investigator Denise Smith (Health and Human Physiological Sciences)
February 1, 2020 - July 31, 2020
$97,500
the nature conservancy
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
November 22, 2019 - September 30, 2020
$8,850
Carbon Soil Summer 2019 Field Work
CANEY FORK FARMS
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
December 1, 2019 - August 31, 2020
$4,200
Music: In Support of the Skidmore Jazz Institute
The national endowment for the arts
Project Director Auden Thomas (Special Programs)
June 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
$20,000
THE new york state council on the arts
Project Director Auden Thomas (Special Programs)
June 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
$10,000
THE new york state council on the arts
Project Director Ian Berry (The Tang)
January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
$20,000 (Year 1 of 2)
The National Science Foundation (Subaward from The University of California at San
Diego)
Principal Investigator Juan Navea (Chemistry)
October 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020 (Year 2 of 5)
$31,404 (Year 2)
Soil Carbon Measurement in the Greater Hudson Valley
the ARMONIA foundation
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
June 1, 2019 - August 31, 2019
$5,000
Amazon Convening Summary Report
national geographic
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
June 1, 2019 - August 31, 2019
$17,794
Building a structured vocabulary: Toddlers’ integration of novel words into their
semantic network
The American psychological association
Principal Investigator Erica Wojcik (Psychology)
August 1, 2019 - July 31, 2020
$1,000
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
June 1, 2019 - August 31, 2019
$1,000
Quick Carbon Hudson Valley
the globetrotter foundation
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
June 1, 2019 - August 31, 2019
$5,000
FY19 NEW AWARDS
The National Science Foundation
Principal Investigator K. Aurelia Ball (Chemistry)
June 1, 2019 - May 31, 2022
$364,418
THE SENFT FAMILY FUND
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
$5,000
The National Science Foundation (Collaboration with University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Principal Investigator Jason Breves (Biology)
September 1, 2018 - August 31, 2022
$206,068
Quick Carbon Rapid Soil Carbon Assessment Research Program
The Noble research institute
Principal Investigator Kristofer Covey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
January 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
$2,500
The National Science Foundation
Principal Investigators David Domozych (Biology); Jason Breves (Biology); Kimberley
Frederick (Chemistry); Richard Lindemann (Geosciences); and Juan Navea (Chemistry)
October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2021
$621,026
Preparing a High-Resolution Chronology of Xultun, Guatemala
The rust family foundation
Principal Investigator Heather Hurst (Anthropology)
March 1, 2019 - July 31, 2019
$7,660
Advice and Counseling Pertaining to Voter Communications
The north carolina league of conservation voters foundation
Principal Investigator Christopher Mann (Political Science)
July 1, 2018 - August 31, 2019
$22,500
Advice and Counseling Pertaining to Voter Communications
The league of conservation voters education fund
Principal Investigator Christopher Mann (Political Science)
August 1, 2018 - August 31, 2019
$12,500
Text Out the Vote: Voter Registration and Mobilization Through SMS Text Messages
vote.org
Principal Investigator Christopher Mann (Political Science)
January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
$46,600
Media Myths and Public Perception of Polling Place Wait Times
the mit election data and science lab
Principal Investigator Christopher Mann (Political Science)
May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2020
$6,396
The National Science Foundation (Subaward from The University of California at San
Diego)
Principal Investigator Juan Navea (Chemistry)
October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2019 (Year 1 of 5)
$32,272 (Year 1)
The National Science Foundation (collaboration with Kent state university and indiana
university)
Principal Investigator Kurt Smemo (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
June 15, 2018 - May 31, 2022
$40,575
Building Evaluations That Translate Evidence and Research for Health Evaluations And
Related Training (BETTER HEART)
the department of homeland security (collaboration with the cambridge health alliance,
the national fallen firefighters foundation, the National Institute for Public Safety
Health and the Fire Protection Research Foundation)
Principal Investigator Denise Smith (Health and Human Physiological Sciences)
September 14, 2018 - September 13, 2021
$1,377,063
The National Science Foundation (collaboration with The University of California at
San Diego)
Principal Investigator Jessica Sullivan (Psychology)
August 1, 2018 - July 31, 2022
