On Campus: For Granted
Leah Cox, director of UMW’s James Farmer Scholars Program, has recently won two grants: a $9,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation and a matching grant of $25,000 from the Bank of America Foundation.
Both grants will help further the mission of the James Farmer Scholars Program, a University outreach endeavor to encourage Fredericksburg-area African-American youth to attend college. The Verizon grant will partially underwrite a week-long summer Debate Workshop to be held on the Mary Washington campus in July. The Bank of America Foundation grant will pay general operating expenses.
Other recent grants won by UMW faculty members include:
- Keith Mellinger, assistant professor of mathematics, a two-year $25,576 grant from the National Security Agency for research in “Theory and Application of Incidence Structures Arising from Finite Geometries.”
- Meghan Budinger, assistant director and curator, James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library, a $5,000 Preservation Assistance Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C., for beginning the process of conserving the museum’s 55-piece costume collection.
- Medhi Aminrazavi, professor of philosophy and religion, and David Ambuel, associate professor of philosophy, a $5,000 grant from the U.S.-Japan Foundation. This grant will underwrite costs associated with a spring 2006 conference on U.S. and Japanese relations to be held at UMW.
- Deborah O’Dell, associate professor of biology, in mentorship with student Elena Quintiliani ’06, a $500 undergraduate research grant from the Virginia Academy of Sciences.
–Sara Holt Pierson, Director of Foundation and Government Grants
