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 2015
A Satellite Communication Link for Climate Change Monitoring in the Peruvian Andes, Robert Hellström
Foam and the Figure, John Hooker
An Investigation of Metacognition in Students, Tina Jameson
A Study of Cultural Factors Influencing Solar Photovoltaic Rooftop System Adoption in China, Xiangrong Liu
A Lively Experiment: The Shape and Shaping of the College and University in America, Stephen Nelson
Index for Edited Volume "Native American Nationalism and Nation Re-building: Past and Present Cases", Simone Poliandri
Perceptions of Human Sex Trafficking: Prototypes and their Effect on Juror Decisions, Nesa Wasarhaley
Perceptions of Human Sex Trafficking: Prototypes and their Effect on Juror Decisions, Nesa Wasarhaley
Funded Projects from 2014
Mirror World: Notable Psychological Studies Integrated Within a Young Adult Fiction Novel, John Calicchia
Culturally and Contextually Relevant Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (CCR-PBIS): Developing the Teacher Self-Assessment Tool, Lindsay Fallon
Artful Lives: The Francis Watts Lee Family and Their Times, Patricia Fanning
Artist Residency at Vermont Studio Center to Create Artworks on Climate and Sustainability, Ivana George
Field Trips to an Upper-Class Homestead: Martha Stewart, Cultures of Home, and the Branding of Experience, Melanie McNaughton
2014 KoSA Cuba Drum and Percussion Workshop and El Fiesta del Tambor (Havana Rhythm and Dance Festival), Salil Sachdev
Mark of the Fire - a ceramic exhibition, Preston Saunders
Constructing Russian-American Identity in the Academy: George Grebenstchikoff, Julia (Yulia) Stakhnevich
Funded Projects from 2013
Beyond the White Negro: Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading, Kimberly Davis
Frank W. Birchall and Pictorial Photography in Boston, Patricia Fanning
"’Glacial Waters’ photography presentation at the New England Portfolio Reviews", Ivana George
Digital Handheld Microscope Camera for Numismatic Research and Publication, Michael Ierardi
Do Root-Knot Nematodes Turn Up the JAZ Family During Infection?, Heather Marella
Providence True Love Always (PVD-TLA) Group Art Exhibit, Magaly Ponce
Chlorine Tolerance in Bacteria Due to Triclosan Exposure in Massachusetts Watersheds, Jonathan Roling
Satin Slippers and Minarets: An Examination of Professional Ballet in Post-War Bosnia - Herzegovina, Jennifer Sarver
Funded Projects from 2012
Millions of Lightyears Away, Collin Asmus
Professional Photography of Artwork, Leigh Craven
Cyberbullying Behaviors: Correlating Prevalence and Socioeconomic Status, Elizabeth Englander
Examining Stone Features of the Eastern Seaboard, Curtiss Hoffman
Women to Whom God Has Spoken: Gender and New Right Politics, Margaret Lowe
Prevalence of Pain and Injury Related to Conducting, Donald J. Running
Crossing Boundaries and the Creation of African Consciousness: The Continental Influence of James Aggrey, Ethan Sanders
The Effects of Ethanol Vapor on the Circadian Rhythms of Drosophila Melanogaster, Joseph Seggio
Construction of Russian-American Identity: A Case Study of George Grebenstchikoff, Yulia Stakhnevich
Funded Projects from 2011
Here Live the Stories: Working the Land through Indigenous Knowledge, Joyce Rain Anderson
Many Miles Away: Exploiting Long Distance Viewing As a Theme in Art, Collin Asmus
Heritage Imagined: Tourists’ Reckoning with the Authenticity of Carcassonne, Jodi Cohen
Luscious Pate de Verre, Leigh Craven
Photographic Print Exhibition Illustrating the Odonate Life Cycle, Frank Gorga
Middleborough Little League Archaeology Project, Curtiss Hoffman
Developing an Undergraduate Research Lab in Discursive Psychology, Michelle Mamberg
Decades of Chaos and Revolution: Showdowns for College Presidents, Stephen Nelson
World Premiere Performance of the “Mass, Ancestral Remembrances” for Chorus, Soloists, and Orchestra, Carol A. Nicholeris
InSight-s: A Multimedia Installation in Three Continents [National Natural History Museum in Lisbon, Portugal], Magaly Ponce
“Transcending Tradition”: An exhibition of ceramic work, Preston Saunders
Funded Projects from 2010
Immersion Course in Mandarin at Boston Language Institute, Benjamin Carson
Photographing God: An Examination of Sacred Sites as World Heritage in Northern Romania, Jodi H. Cohen
Staging Harold Pinter’s Old Times, Arthur Dirks