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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)