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TEACHING AND RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED
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Five members of the Trinity faculty have been awarded prestigious national grants in support of their teaching and research. John Gettier, associate professor of religion, was selected for a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Semin ar for College Teachers. This program is designed to provide teachers of undergraduates an opportunity for advanced study with distinguished scholars and for research in their own or an allied field. Gettier will participate in a seminar on "Religion and Society in Ancient Greece" at Stanford University from June 22 to August 15. He also will do research on the concept of land in the Book of Genesis, using narrative analysis and traditional criticism. Gettier, a member of the Trinity faculty since 1966 and chairman of the religion department, is a specialist in the O ld T estament and Near Eastern studies. Two faculty members received matching grants through the College Science Instrumentation Program of the National Science Foundation. Holly L. Gorton, assistant professor of biology, was awarded $21,000 to set up a new laboratory in plant physiology. Gorton, a member of the faculty since last fall, is a specialist in cell biology and plant physiology. Priscilla Kehoe, assistant professor of psychology, received a $15,000 grant from NSF to create a psychobiology laboratory, where students will explore the biological basis of behavior in rodents. Kehoe, who also joined the faculty last fall, is a specialist in psychobiology, physiology and psychopharmacology. T wo members ofTrinity's English department are the recipients of grants-
in-aid from the American Council of Learned Societies. Milla Riggio, associate professor of English, will continue work on her forthcoming edition of the fifteenth century morality play, Wisdom. A medievalist and chairman of the English department, Riggio came to Trinity in 1973. The other ACLS grant recipient is Paul Smith, Goodwin professor of English. Smith, a founder and the first president of the Hemingway Society, will continue research on the short stories of Ernest Hemingway. He joined the Trinity faculty in 1959 and was named Goodwin professor of English in 1984.
$32.5 MILLION BUDGET APPROVED At its March meeting, Trinity's board of trustees approved a $32.5 million budget for 1986- 1987, including an increase in student fees of $1180. For the seventeenth consecutive year, the adopted budget is in balance. Next year's tuition will be $10,355; room rent will be $1990, and board will remain at $1530. The general fee will be set at $405. The total bill will be $14,280, a 9 percent increase over this year's charges. Robert A. Pedemonti, vice president for finance and treasurer, said that the budget reflects "a careful balancing of priorities and initiatives to allow the faculty and administration the greatest opportunity to provide Trinity students the finest liberal arts education possible." He cited four major areas which required special attention in the budget allocations: financial aid, faculty and staff compensation, pressing building maintenance and renovation needs, and new academic initiatives, including library automation and costs associated with changes in the curriculum. Pedemonti also noted that Trinity's total charges are still somewhat below the average of those for similar Northeastern colleges. The fastest growing part of the T rinity budget continues to be financial aid. Aid from the operating budget will rise almost 21 percent. Trinity will provide a total of $2,800,000 in institutional funds for financial aid next year, including $1,980,000 from the operating budget. Total financial aid, includ-
ing federal and state grants and special scholarship gifts, will be $4,072,000. Salary increases for faculty and staff will rise an average of 63/ 4 percent. Faculty at the assistant professor rank will receive additional upward adjustments to their base salaries to improve T rinity's overall compensation level for that rank. The College will also increase its contribution to the employee retirement program by one percent, to a total of ten percent.
FACULTY RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED Nine members of the T rinity faculty have been awarded research leaves for 1986- 1987. Sabbatical extension grants were awarded to Noreen L. Channels, associate professor of sociology; Diana Evans, assistant professor of political science; James A. Miller, associate professor of English and intercultural studies; and Paul Smith, Goodwin professor of English. C h annels will do research on the topic, "Criminal Courts as Formal Bureaucratic Organizations," while Evans will examine "Interest Group Influence in Congressional Committees." Miller will continue work on "Afro-American 'Little' Magazines, 1961-1976," and Smith will prepare "A Reader's Guide to the Short .Stories of Ernest Hem. " mgway. Supplemental leaves, wh ich provide full or partial course relief for the fall or spring semester, have been granted to William N. Butos, assistant professor of economics; Samuel D. Kassow, associate professor of history; Ronald Kiener, assistant professor of religion; Kenneth Lloyd-Jones, professor of modern languages; and Susan D. Pennybacker, assistant professor of history. Butos will explore "Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of Monetary Theory," while Kassow will continue research on "Jewish Warsaw, 1915-1939." Kiener will work on "The Hebrew Paraphrase of Saadia Gaon's Kitab al-Alanat wa'l-K'tigadat," and Lloyd-Jones will prepare a "Critical Edition of Etienne Do let's Orationes Duae in Tho los am." "The Labour Question and the London County Council, 1889-1919" will be researched by Pennybacker.