Provost

Category: Grants

  • Amanda Nienow (Chemistry)

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    Amanda Nienow received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Environmental Chemical Science program for her three-year project: Determination of the Kinetic Expressions and Mechanisms of the Photochemical Degradation and Oxidation of Dicamba. Amanda will research the processes influencing interactions of this herbicide in environmental and agricultural settings.

  • Scott Bur (Chemistry)

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    Scott Bur was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Chemistry of Life program to support his three year research project: Applications of 19F NMR to evaluate non-human bromodomain molecular recognition. Scott’s research aims to better understand genetic mechanisms in parasites that cause disease, specifically the malaria-causing P. Falciparum.

  • Jeff La Frenierre (Geography)

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    Jeff La Frenierre has received funding from the National Science Foundation Hydrologic Sciences program to continue his research in Ecuador, collaborating with his colleagues from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and The Pennsylvania State University. The three year project is entitled “Collaborative Research: Determining the eco-hydrogeologic response of tropical glacierized watersheds to climate change: An…

  • Yumiko Oshima-Ryan (Music)

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    Yumiko Oshima-Ryan was awarded the 2017 Artist Initiative for Performing Arts grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She published a new CD, Left, Alone–Piano Music for the Left Hand and performed a fundraising concert for Children’s Hospital with works from the disc. Conductor Ruth Lin, of the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra, supported the fundraising concert and…

  • Kathleen Keller (History)

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    Kathleen Keller was awarded a $6,000 grant by the American Philosophical Society for summer research in French archives on her new project, “Prince, Wizard, and Marabout: an African Life in Twentieth-Century France”

  • Melissa Rolnick (Theatre and Dance)

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    Melissa Rolnick received a Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council Mid-Artist Grant from funds provided by the McKnight Foundation.

  • Heidi Meyer (Nursing)

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    Heidi Meyer received a Bremer Trust Fund grant to purchase a high-fidelity pediatric mannequin and additional supplies to furnish a simulation suite. This grant will help furnish one of the three simulation suites that the nursing department uses for innovative and engaged teaching and learning activities.

  • Betsy Byers (Art and Art History)

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    Betsy Byers received a Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council/McKnight Professional Mid-Career Artist Grant. The grant funding awarded will be used to create work based on the melting glaciers at Glacier National Park. Paintings will be exhibited at Rosalux Gallery in a solo exhibition in February of 2018.

  • Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant

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    Gustavus was recently awarded a $300,000 grant by the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. This grant will bring a Visiting Artist position to campus for three years and support art department programming, supplies, and capacity building. Congratulations to the Department of Art.

  • Kathleen Keller (History)

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    Kathleen Keller (History) was awarded a $6,000 grant for summer research in France from the American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant.