Recent Awards
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Private Colleges Program ($200,000)
Project Director: Dr. Thomas R. Kepple, Jr.
This support will be used to construct one of the planned three student dormitories at the Raystown Field Station
Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (C2P2)
Uptown Park renovation project ($55,000)
Project Director: Dr. Thomas R. Kepple, Jr.
In collaboration with Huntingdon Borough, Juniata will invest up to $27,500 in improvements to the borough's uptown park, constructing shelters, fencing and additional drainage on the softball field used by women’s softball program. The borough will invest another $27,500 in the playground and related public restroom facilities and the C2P2 program will match the investment of each local entity.
The Coleman Foundation
Excellence in Entrepreneurship Programs for Teaching College. ($144,000)
Project Directors: Professor James Donaldson and Dr. Michael Lehman.
The project will enhance the newly approved Entrepreneurship Program of Emphasis by involving mentors, entrepreneurs and service providers from the Juniata College Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership in the curriculum; attracting non-business students, and strengthening the entrepreneurial culture at Juniata.
National Institutes of Health
Mobility control of a Yeast Transposon ($194,370)
Project Director: Dr. Jill B. Keeney.
This proposal will address the use of the Ty 1 retroelement of the budding yeast Saccaromyces cerevisiae to decipher the mechanism of retrotransposition. This student centered research project may have significant implications to understanding genomic repair pathways (missregulation of which allows cancer/HIV to spread).
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program for Science in Motion. ($47,311)
Project Director: Dr. Lorraine Mulfinger
Juniata's Science in Motion Program has been added to the list of educational improvement organizations to which businesses may make contributions and receive tax credits from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Under the program, Science in Motion received commitments from D.C. Goodman and Sons, Kish Bank and PNC Bank totaling $47,311 in each of the next three years.
Oregon Seagrant
Continuation of prior year award to study copper rockfish along the Oregon Coast. ($31,165)
Project Director: Dr. Vince Buonaccorsi
U. S. Department of Energy (Pacific Northwest National Laboratories)
Faculty and Student Team (FaST) Research Project support. ($25,750)
Project Director: Dr. James Borgardt
Dr. Borgardt and student researchers will measure radiation sources in cargo to determine the effectiveness of portal radiation monitoring systems.