Current News
Connecticut College receives $800,000 grant to establish postdoctoral fellowship program
January 10, 2008
NEW LONDON, Conn. - Connecticut College has received an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a postdoctoral fellowship program at the college. The new program brings five post-doctoral fellows to campus, each of whom will complete a two-year fellowship in one of the college´s academic interdisciplinary centers.
"With its generous support, the Mellon Foundation continues to be an important partner in fostering an increasingly vibrant intellectual life at Connecticut College," said President Leo I. Higdon Jr.
Through the postdoctoral fellowship program, the college will introduce young scholars to the dynamic and stimulating work of an interdisciplinary community of faculty, as well as expose the college´s faculty and students to important trends in the fellows´ fields of research. This exposure to emerging fields and areas of research will put Connecticut College students at the cutting edge of undergraduate education.
"Our students will benefit from access to the latest developments in interdisciplinary fields of study and enhancements to the curriculum made possible through this program. At the same time, the fellows will have an opportunity to develop as teachers and researchers under the guidance of the college´s outstanding faculty," said Dean of the Faculty Roger Brooks.
The fellows will be based in the college´s academic centers of excellence for interdisciplinary research and teaching. The Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, the Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts, the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies and the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity connect students and faculty to work on projects that intersect disciplines and involve Connecticut College students in issues of national and international significance.
In addition to working with students and faculty in the interdisciplinary centers, the fellows will manage a small group of student advisees who have an active interest in the field of specialization of each fellow.
The fellows also will participate in the teaching seminar offered to incoming faculty by the college´s Center for Teaching and Learning and the Tempel Summer Institute, a two-week workshop for faculty on designing courses that incorporate Web-based technologies to enhance student learning.
Additionally, the fellows will organize a year-long colloquium, during which each fellow will make one public presentation per year that will serve as a bridge between the curriculum and the college community.
About Connecticut College
Among the most selective private liberal arts colleges in the nation, Connecticut College enrolls 1,900 men and women from 41 states, the District of Columbia and 42 countries. The college is known for putting the liberal arts into action through interdisciplinary studies, international programs, funded internships, student-faculty research and service learning. Founded in 1911, the college operates under an 86-year-old honor code. The college is located at 270 Mohegan Ave, New London, about two hours by car from Boston and New York. The 750-acre campus is an arboretum overlooking Long Island Sound. For more information, visit www.connecticutcollege.edu.
-CC-
For more information contact: Amy Sullivan (860) 439-2526; amy.sullivan@conncoll.edu