Bowdoin received a record-breaking amount of scholarship and grant support during the 2009-2010 academic year.
"A total of $7,349,699.00 in grant monies and institutional support was awarded an increase of nearly 14 percent over last year's record breaking total," the Bowdoin website reported.
Grants and scholarships support undergraduate, faculty and collaborative student-faculty research across many of the disciplines at Bowdoin.
A NASA grant will support student research in climate change and a Beckman Scholars grant will support student research under faculty guidance in bioscience.
Other awards include a three-year grant from the David Educational Fund that will "support the assessment of the general education curriculum that was instituted in 2006," a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the creation of new position of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and a grant from the Kane Lodge Foundation to the Peary-Macmillan Arctic Museum.
"It's not surprising that these grants reach across all divisions of the college and that grants to areas outside the sciences have been growing steadily at the college," wrote Dean for Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd in an e-mail to the Orient.
Judd said that a total of 26 grants were awarded during the 2009-1010 academic year. A number of the grants support a wide variety of faculty research.
"The level of research conducted by Bowdoin's faculty is exceptional, comparable in quality to that carried out by faculty at large research universities," wrote Judd.
"[Grants] are also crucially important to maintaining and enhancing the excellent teaching and research that are hallmarks of the Bowdoin education," she said.