Amherst College

2026–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

LEAPS-MPS: Integrable systems and Hamiltonian torus actions in symplectic geometry

Joseph Palmer · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$141.3k

2025–2029 · grant · Standard Grant

Determining the rules for designing active DNA materials with condensing agents

Ashley Carter · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$364.6kAdvanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

RUI: Creating and Studying Topological Excitations in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

David Hall · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$300k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

RUI: Chemical and photophysical interactions between colloidal quantum dots and transition metal catalysts used for photocatalytic CO2 reduction

Jacob Olshansky · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$485k

2025–2027 · research · Landmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educators

Emily Dickinson Museum, ‘Revolution is the Pod’: Emily Dickinson’s American Poetry

Brooke Steinhauser · Amherst College · funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

$190k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a Pulse Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectrometer for Research and Instruction in the Connecticut River Valley

Jacob Olshansky · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$677.7kElectron Spin Resonance Studies

2024–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

RUI: Arithmetic Dynamics: Algebraic and Analytic

Robert Benedetto · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$200kadvanced mathematical theories

2024–2025 · training · Institutes for K-12 Educators

Punishment: The American Story

Austin Sarat · Amherst College · funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

$200k

2024–2026 · grant · Continuing Grant

Rational points on modular curves, and the geometry of arithmetic statistics

David Zureick-Brown · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$178.6k

2024–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

LEAPS-MPS: Local and many particle limits of non-local microscopic car-following models

Xiaoqian Gong · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$249.4kTraffic control and management

2023–2025 · grant · Continuing Grant

Collaborative Research: Timescales and drivers of floodplain disequilibrium at climatic transitions

Michelle Fame · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$137.3kHydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

2023–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Equipment: Acquisition of a Confocal Micro-Raman Spectroscopy System at the University of Massachusetts and Amherst College

Victor Guevara · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$20.7k

2023–2025 · research · Cottrell Scholar Award

Cottrell Scholar - Christopher Durr (Chemistry, 2023)

Christopher Durr · Amherst College · funded by Research Corporation for Science Advancement

$120k

2023–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

LEAPS-MPS: Conformational Inversion in Heterotriangulenes for Ferroelectric Switching

Ren Wiscons · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$247.2k

2023 · research · Summer Stipends

Abolitionists, Anti-Abolitionists, and the Business of Manufacturing Cotton Grown by the Enslaved in Lowell, Massachusetts

Elizabeth Herbin-Triant · Amherst College · funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

$6 000

2023–2025 · research · Preservation Assistance Grants

Amherst Center for Russian Culture: Preserving for the Future

Erica Drennan · Amherst College · funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

$9 992

2023–2028 · grant · Continuing Grant

CAREER: Statistically-Sound Knowledge Discovery from Data

Matteo Riondato · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$483.2k

2023–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

Conference: On Poisson Geometry

Ivan Contreras Palacios · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$42k

2023–2025 · research · Scholarly Editions and Translations

Iapi Oaye - Unlocking a Hidden History of Dakota Language and Culture within The Word Carrier

Kiara Vigil · Amherst College · funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

$100k

2023–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

RUI: Discerning the Balance of Intermolecular Forces and the Enantiomeric Composition of Chiral Samples from the Structures of Gas-Phase Heterodimers

Helen Leung · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$377kMolecular Spectroscopy and Structure

2023–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Conference: New England Algebraic Topology and Mathematical Physics Seminar (NEAT MAPS)

Christopher Elliott · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$21.4kHomotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology

2022–2026 · grant · Continuing Grant

RUI: Clock Transitions, Coherence and Quantum Dynamics in Molecular Nanomagnets

Jonathan Friedman · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$475k

2022–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

RUI: PM: Optical Molecular Clocks for New Physics Searches

David Hanneke · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$561.1kAdvanced Frequency and Time Standards

2022–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: STEM Learning Embedded in a Machine-in-the-Loop Collaborative Story Writing Game

Mohit Iyyer · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$621.4k

2022–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

RUI: Harmonic Maass Forms and Quantum Modular Forms

Amanda Folsom · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$273.3kAdvanced Mathematical Identities

2022–2024 · research · Cottrell Scholar Award

Cottrell Scholar - Katherine Follette (Astronomy, 2022)

Katherine Follette · Amherst College · funded by Research Corporation for Science Advancement

$120k

2022–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

RUI: Topological Excitations in Spin-1 and Spin-2 Bose-Einstein Condensates

David Hall · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$426.1k

2022–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Resolving Conflicting Thermobarometry and Stratigraphy in the Tethyan Himalaya: is Non-lithostatic Pressure During Orogenesis Preserved at Crustal Scales?

Victor Guevara · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$108.2k

2022–2027 · research · Accelerating Research on Consciousness

The limits of visual awareness during active, real-world vision

Michael Cohen · Amherst College · funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation

$229.1k

2022–2025 · grant · Continuing Grant

CAREER: Investigation of the Cellular and Physiological Effects of Chloroplast/Mitochondrial Iron Export in Plants

Ethan Clotfelter · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$223.9kPlant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects

2022–2027 · research · Accelerating Research on Consciousness

Can consciousness be separated from function in the brain?

Michael Cohen · Amherst College · funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation

$230k

2022–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

RUI: Using Colloidal Nanoparticles to Host Photogenerated Spin Qubit Pairs

Jacob Olshansky · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$386.7k

2021–2025 · research · R15

Cell cycle regulation of polarity proteins in proliferating epithelia

Katerina Ragkousi · Amherst College · funded by National Institutes of Health

$456.3k

2021–2022 · grant · Standard Grant

LEAPS-MPS: Uncovering and Exploiting Multiscale Structures in Big Data Using Diffusion-Based Representation and Optimal Sampling

Karamatou Yacoubou Djima · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$150.8k

2021–2024 · grant · Standard Grant

MRI: Acquisition of an integrated Zeiss 980 microscope with Airyscan 2 and FCS to advance multidisciplinary research, inclusive teaching, and outreach at Amherst College

Sally Kim · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$735.6k

2021–2024 · grant · Standard Grant

MRI: Acquisition of High Performance Computing System for Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching

Amy Wagaman · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$500k

2021–2023 · training · Institutes for K-12 Educators

Punishment: The American Story

Austin Sarat · Amherst College · funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

$153.7k

2021 · research · Brain, Mind & Consciousness

CIFAR Brain, Mind & Consciousness — Michael Cohen

Michael Cohen · Amherst College · funded by Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

2021–2025 · research · R15

Cell cycle regulation of polarity proteins in proliferating epithelia

Katerina Ragkousi · Amherst College · funded by National Institutes of Health

$96.3k

2021–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Probing feedbacks between thermal structure, petrologic transformation, and rheologic evolution within dynamically evolving subduction zones

Victor Guevara · Amherst College · funded by National Science Foundation

$106k