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processes and the evolution of con- How You Can Help Te program provides two types tinental lithosphere deformation Federal government support for of support. Te frst is for multi- through the integration of geologic research is shrinking. Contributions institution or multi-investigator mapping, structural analysis, and from private funding sources are research projects and provides geochronology. While here, he re- increasingly important. Gifts fuel ceived more than $420,000 in NSF research discoveries and help AS&E Morris Eaves, the Richard funding. make a diference across many felds L. Turner Professor in the Department of English, coedits in our communities and around the the William Blake Archive (an Social Sciences world. Please consider the following image from which is pictured John Reuter, a faculty member at funding opportunities: here), one of the frst and most complete online multimedia the University of Wisconsin, was resources designed for scholars. a Social Science Research Center– Innovative Funding Support funded Skalny Fellow at Rochester. Increased competition for a smaller He received a $410,000 NSF grant pool of extramural funding has for a project he started here to study reduced the number of funding how autocrats subvert elections in proposals granted to AS&E faculty places such as Algeria, Botswana, over the past decade. To support Cambodia, Georgia, Honduras, tenure track faculty in exploring Indonesia, Lebanon, Malaysia, innovative new research oppor- Mozambique, Russia, South Africa, tunities, AS&E recently launched and Ukraine. Rochester’s Skalny PumpPrimer. By supporting this Center for Polish and Central new intramural program, contribu- European Studies attracts high- tors play a key role in increasing the caliber graduate students from quality and stability of our research around the world who, like Reuter, infrastructure and increasing our go on to teach in the nation’s top national and international visibility. universities. AS&E Research— By the Numbers 58.6 million—AS&E research funding in dollars for fscal year 2013 24—Elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 16—Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 15—Fulbright Scholars named in 2013 13—Members of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering 12—Guggenheim scholars among AS&E faculty 10—Students per faculty member 4—Nobel Prizes Bianca Jackson, PhD [second from the left], a postdoctoral research 4—Pulitzer Prizes associate in terahertz and cultural heritage with the Zhang research group at University's Institute of Optics, is photographed in her lab with 4—Packard Foundation Fellows PhD students [left to right] Xhuan (Betty) Sun, Jing Zhang, and Fabrizio 1—MacArthur Fellow Buccheri.