Year in Review: Noteworthy Grants and Awards
In 2024, Muhlenberg and its faculty received funding to support courses, research, special projects and campus programming.By: Meghan Kita Tuesday, December 17, 2024 08:46 AM
Photo by Katie QuinnThis year, Muhlenberg College and its faculty received a number of noteworthy grants and awards. Among them:
Approximately $1 Million to the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program
A portion of a $20 million federal grant awarded to the city of Allentown will support the expansion and diversification of this program, an ongoing collaboration between Muhlenberg and the Lehigh County Department of Corrections.
$292,118 in NSF Funding to Professor of Neuroscience Jordanna Sprayberry
This incredibly competitive mid-career advancement award from the National Science Foundation is allowing Sprayberry and her undergraduate research students to open up a new line of inquiry in her lab, which explores how the sensory processing of pollinators drives behavior.
$250,000 From ATI to Expand the Emerging Leaders Program
This grant from the American Talent Initiative is aimed at improving college access and success for students eligible for federal Pell grants.
A Sundance Grant of $50,000 to Assistant Professor of Film Studies David Romberg
This award from the Sundance Documentary Fund will allow Romberg to complete Art After-Life, in which he employs generative AI technology to allow him to converse with his father, Latin American artist Osvaldo Romberg, posthumously.
$39,974 from CIC to Explore the College’s Lutheran Roots
The grant from the Council of Independent Colleges/Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education is supporting Red Door Roots, a public conversation about the College’s Lutheran affiliation and the values that have underpinned its development over the last 50 years.
