�󷢲�Ʊ

Professor of Physics Rebecca Metzler, in collaboration with David Gillikin of Union College, was awarded $4,275 for work on the structure and composition of Etheria elliptica adhesive. 

Professors Bruce C. Hansen, Caroline F. Keating, and Sinhaeng Lee received $31,000 for their award to show how music creates a sense of collective identity and community.

Joe Levy (Geology) and Adam Burnett (Geography) received $30,000 to generate a long-term record of climate change in the central New York region in order to better understand the local impacts of global climate change in the form of changes to temperature, precipitation patterns, hydrological systems, and biogeochemical systems.

James “Eddie” Watkins (Biology) and Joshua Finnell (University Librarian) received an award for $25,000 to thoroughly examine, organize, and digitize the Alma Stokey personal papers collection to create a morphological trait matrix to generate a phylogeny of shifts in form gametophyte character states.