CARS Small Grants enable faculty and librarians to pursue creative, innovative ideas for the enhancement of research, teaching and other scholarly activities, for which they would otherwise not have the resources.
Funded Projects from 2021
American Eel Stream Substrate Preference Before and After Dam Removal, Kevin Curry
Women in Sport and the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, 1943-1954, Oversized Archival Digitization Project, Orson Kingsley
Funded Projects from 2020
Enabling international peer-to-peer student collaboration to promote climate resilient community farming through climate observations, Robert Hellström
Algorithms, Big Data, and Computations - Design of Educational Games (ABCDE), Yiheng Liang
James Brown FAQ Proposal, Arthur Lizie
Searching the Soul of the College and University in America: Religious and Democratic Covenants and Controversies, Stephen Nelson
Seeking and Evaluating Culturally and Linguistically Relevant Texts for Elementary and Middle School Levels Education and Health Sciences, Yulia Stakhnevich
Public Perceptions of Sex Trafficking and Implications for Legal Decision-Making, Nisa Wasarhaley
A Concise Handbook to Help Scientists Make Effective Use of Statistical Methods in the Field of Dental Materials, Wanchunzi Yu
Funded Projects from 2019
Expedition to Chile and Argentina to Observe the 2 July 2019 Solar Eclipse, Martina Arndt
Detecting trait narcissism on social media, Ashely Hansen-Brown
Geography Building Capacity for Collaboration and Data Sharing Through Satellite Link Upgrades of a Weather Station in the Quilcyhuanca Valley, Peru, Robert Hellström
The effect of Withaferin A on expression of heat, shock proteins and apoptosis in cisplatin-sensitive versus cisplatin-resistant ovarian cancer cells, Merideth Krevosky
Synthesis of Anti-ferromagnetic Cobalt Oxide Nanocrystals Using Bacteria, Saritha Nellutla
Sex Differences in the Neuropathology of Rats with a Developmental Disruption Model of Schizophrenia, Stephanie Penley
Confirming the Theory of Professional Readiness in Athletic Training, Philip Szlosek
Hobo Jungle: Homeless Rights to Paradise, Michele Wakin
Maxwell digital curation project, Xiaocan Wang
Funded Projects from 2018
Support for the Publication of Acts of Poetry: American Poets' Theater and the Politics of Performance, Heidi Bean
Dissemination of New artworks from the series titled "Sustain", Ivana George
Computational Methods of Data Simulation and Visualization for General Public, Yiheng Liang
Women to Whom God Has Spoken: A Memoir, Maragret Lowe
Resiliency in Rural Community Based Organizations in South Africa, Seth Meyer
John G. Kemeny and Dartmouth College: The Man, The Times and the College Presidency, Stephen Nelson
Davidson, Dreben, Føllesdal, and Quine: The Stanford Meetings, James Pearson
The Basalt Series: Sketching the Perimeter of an Unusually Blue-Color Moon, Magaly Ponce
An Exploratory Analysis of Faculty and Student use of Social Media as a Learning Tool, Thomasena Shaw
Weight speech, hate speech? Weight stigmatizing speech, harm and discrimination, Catherine Womack
Funded Projects from 2017
The "Nature Fix" and Stress Reduction, Lydia Burak
Back to the Archives: Guiney's Recusant Poets, Round Two, James Crowley
Explaining the Immigration and Crime Paradox: How Does Immigration Affect Vacancy and crime Rates at the Neighborhood Level Over Time?, Feodor Gostjev
Improved sensor platform for measuring weather patterns from a drone: Llanganuco Valley, Peru, Robert Hellström
Flight Instruction Revisited, John Kreeft
Investigation of the molecular mechanism of cleavage and export of aB-Crystallin during inflammasome activation in renal epithelial cells, Merideth Krevosky
John G. Kemeny and Dartmouth College: The Man, The Times and the College Presidency, Stephen Nelson
Content Analysis of Current History of Psychology Textbooks, Michael Root
Picturing Ujamaa: Painting in Public & Tanzania's Post-Independence Nationalist Projects, Jonathan Shirland
Book Proposal: Chinese Matters, Chinese Plays in Noh and Kyogen Theatres, Leo Shingchi Yip
Funded Projects from 2016
Non-Traditional Service Learning: Reflections from Students, Margaret Boyd
A Course in Children's Literature, Christine Brown
Application of UAV Technology for Measuring Weather Patterns in the Llanganuco Valley, Peru, Robert Hellström
Acculturation Experience of Korean Women in Manchukuo, Jonghyun Lee
Redefining Science: Scientists, National Security State, and Nuclear Weapons in Cold War America, Paul Rubinson
Awakening the Princess: Analyzing the impact of The Sleeping Beauty on the development of British Ballet in the 20th century, Jenifer Sarver
The Effects of Wheel-Running and Healthy Diet Replacement on Obesity Markers in Mice, Joseph Seggio
The Dance Core Project, Jody Weber
Funded Projects from 2015
Narratives of Cancer Caring, Barbara Bond
3D Printing for Mathematical Vase Design, Heidi Burgiel