Alexander Akin, East Asian Languages and Civilizations

    To explore how the expansion of publishing in 16th-century China affected cartography, including a reexamination of the place of Jesuit cartographic materials.

David Brighouse, African and African American Studies

    To write a collective biography of four scholar-activists during the modern civil rights movement

Samuel Chung, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    To apply femtosecond laser ablation to various neurons to illuminate the mechanisms of regeneration and degeneration, to improve treatment of neurotrama and neurodegenerate diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Matthew Clayton, Music

    To research the M-Base collective, a group of young African-American jazz musicians based in Brooklyn, NY, in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Allyson Field, Comparative Literature

    To consider modernist formal experimentalism, ideological commitment, and racial resistance as critically intertwined.

Melissa Frankel, Philosophy

    To evaluate the phenomenalist argument in order to understand how empiricism might lead to idealism, and how epistemological premises might lead to a metaphysical conclusion

Jean-Francois Gauvin, History of Science

    To show that early modern science was not solely and occupations of the mind: it was also, as it is today, generated by hands-on practitioners and machines.

Ryan Hickox, Astronomy

    To examine the nature of active galactic nuclei (AGN), luminous objects that lie at the centers of many galaxies.

Thomas Hunt, Physics

    To design a lab on a chip that combines a microfluidic system with a custom integrated circuit, providing a tool for biologists

Hakyung Jung, Slavic Languages and Literatures

    To investigate dialect-specific features of the given construction compared with those of the canonical passive construction in contemporary standard Russian

Hironobu Kasai, Linguistics

    To provide a unified syntactic analysis of three constructions (backward control, determiner sharing, and parasitic gaps) which have been analyzed separately in the literature.

Mana Kia, Middle Eastern Studies

    To investigate changes in the ways that 18th and 19th century Iranian migrants and travelers in the Indian Ocean understood notions of ethnic and cultural difference.

Andrew Kinney, History

    To study how the corporation - and, later, the market - came to challenge government as the "model" institution for American

Hong-Myung Lee, Chemistry

    To examine different reaction conditions and catalysts to find the optimal conditions under which aldol reactions provide desired aldol adducts with remarkable selectivities

Alexander Liebman, Government

    To study how states signal the right combination of adequate resolve against other states' threats, but also enough benign intent so as to avoid sparking a cycle of mistrust and conflict

Amanda Lobell, Anthropology - Biological

    To investigate the evolution of two genes that underlie invasive placentation, a newly evolved trait in haplorhine primates

Karola Obermueller, Music

    To complete the opera "Dunkelrot" (Dark Red), and to do research in the realms of acoustics, psycho acoustics, and live electronics

Atalia Omer, Religion

    To study why and how Israel's identity as a Jewish nation-state is pivotal to the study of the Palestinian-Israeli predicament

Xiaoli Ouyang, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

    To study the provincial economy during the Ur III dynasty (2112-2004 B.C.) in ancient Iraq

Erik Procko, Biology: Molecular and Cellular

    To study how the transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP) utilizes ATP bidning and hydrolysis to select and transport peptide substances across a cellular membrane

Lauren Rivera, Sociology

    To explore the role of status cues in hiring decisions by examining how recruiters in law, investment banking, and academia evaluate potential candidates

Yael Schacher, History of American Civilization

    To analyze the problem of refugees in American political and intellectual culture in the 20th century

Carla Serpell, English and American Language and Literature

    To investigate the ethical implications of uncertainty in narrative reading, with a focus on mutual exclusivity, multiplicity, and

Sug Woo Shin, Mathematics

    To analyze the cohomology spaces of Igusa varieties and compare with those of Shimura varieties in the cases more general than those considered in the recent proof of the Local Longlands Conjecture

Erika Sudderth, Biology: Organismic and Evolutionary

    To study the role of photosynthesis physiology in determining the response of plants and their insect herbivores to simultaneous change in multiple environmental factors

Lawrence Switzky, English and American Language and Literature

    To visit document collections in the northeast for a project on the social and aesthetic significance of the theater director as a visionary authority

Malathi Thothathiri, Psychology

    Using eye-tracking, to study facilitation from one verb to another during language comprehension in young children

Alexandre Tokovinine, Anthropology - Archaeology

    To investigate Classic Maya spatial categories and processes of making and claiming places expressed in various media

Elina Treyger, Government

    To assess contemporary conceptions of the "rule of law", and to address violence and the "rule of law" in the former Soviet republics

Diana Valencia, Earth and Planetary Sciences

    To determine the properties of extra-solar terrestrial massive planets, focusing on observables that will help detection and characterization of these objects