National Institutes of Health
Fueled by Funding
Research and Innovation in Dyson College
Mark Hussey, distinguished professor of English, received funding for work
on his upcoming book, Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism, a biography
of the British art critic Clive Bell.
Jared Manasek, assistant professor of History, received support for his book,
Humanitarianism and Refugees at the End of the Empire, 1848-1918.
Alumnus Benjamin Saltzman '07 received support for advanced research
related to secrecy and divinity in Early English Literature. Saltzman is an
instructor of Medieval British Literature at Caltech in Pasadena, California.
Nigel Yarlett, director of Pace University's Haskins
Laboratories, received two grants from the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation—$550,000 in ongoing
funding for his work on a continuous culture of the
cryptosporidium virus, and a new $100,000 grant from
the Grand Challenges Explorations / Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation for work on novel therapies targeting
the cryptosporidium virus.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Two Grants from The Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation
Aaron Steiner, assistant professor of Biology, was awarded
$378,000 from the National Institutes of Health to fund
the study of hair cell progenitors of non-mammalian
vertebrates in an effort to advance research toward
regenerative hearing loss treatments.
We're proud to announce this year's major grant recipients.
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