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Ford/Knight Projects

Collaboration is the key to much of the research and scholarly activity at Earlham. Each year members of the Earlham teaching faculty apply for Ford/Knight (F/K) grants to support student/faculty collaborative research teams. Students earn up to four semester-hour credits for this collaborative work.

Recent examples of Ford/Knight Projects have included:

• Exploring and Surveying the Microbial Diversity in Yellowstone National Park (biology)

• In the Spirit with Toni Morrison (humanities)

• Levi Coffin Considered (social sciences and Quakerism)

• Tropical Spider Diversity (biology)

• Emerging Indigenous Movements and their Quest for Democratic Recognition and Autonomy in Mexico (humanities and social sciences)

• Inorganic Synthesis Research Studies: Preparation of Unsaturated Constrained Geometry Bisimido Transition Metal Complexes (chemistry)

• The Diasporic Imaginary: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (humanities)

• Altered Spaces: Quaker Architecture, Ideology and Change (fine arts)

• Early Quaker Letters of Spiritual Counsel (humanities and Quakerism)

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