Philippe Desan, Howard L. Willett Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, was awarded the activity grant to travel to France for research on a biorgaphy of Michel de Montaigne.

Stefano Guandalini, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pediatrics, was awarded the activity grant to attend and present reserach at the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology conference in Milan, Italy.

Stephen Kent, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry, was awarded the activity grant to attend the Chemical Protein Synthesis conference in Nagoya, Japan, as an invited speaker.

W. J. T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelly Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of English, was awarded the activity grant to hire a research assistant and purchase image rights for his new book, a collection of essays on the topic of madness.

Matthew Stolper, John A. Wilson Professor Emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, received the activity grant to hire student research assistants to support publication of a monograph on livestock accounts in the Persepolis Fortification Archive.

Evelyn Brodkin, Associate Professor Emerita in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice, was awarded the activity grant for travel to Denmark and Sweden for field research related to refugees and related policies.

William Darden, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Linguistics and Slavic Languages & Literatures, was awarded the activity grant for travel expenses allowing him to return to Chicago and utilize the Regenstein Library's archives for research related to Russian dialects.

Michael LaBarbera, Professor Emeritus in Organismal Biology and Anatomy, was awarded the activity grant to develop a website about the plant biodiversity of Jackson Park.

Paul Mendez-Flohr, Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History and Thought in the Divinity School,  was awarded the activity grant tfor travel to Germany for research on a biography of religious philosopher Franz Rosenzweig.

Jonathan Rosner, Profesor Emeritus in the Department of Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute, was awarded the activity grant to bring a visiting scholar and collaborator to Chicago from Tel Aviv University to give a public lecture at UChicago on their joint work.

William Sewell, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History, was awarded the activity grant to travel to the Social Science History Association Meeting in Washington, DC, where he served as co-organizer.

Richard Strier, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of English, was awarded the activity grant to attend the Shakespeare Association conference where he presented a paper.

William Veeder, Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature in the Department of English, was awarded the activity grant to hire a reserach assistant to help complete some technical work for his novel.

Victor Friedman, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and the College, was awarded the activity grant for copy-editing service for the second edition of his book The Slavonic Languages.

Elliot Gershon, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, was awarded the activity grant to attend an academic conference on psychiatric genetics and pay for computational services and supplies related to the NIH “All of Us” health database research collaboration.

Stefano Guandalini, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, was awarded the activity grant for travel to 18th Congress “Il Bambino del Mediterraneo” (“The child of the Mediterranean Sea”) in Crotone, Italy to speak as the keynote lecturer.

Takeshi Oka, Robert A, Millikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and of Astronomy and Astrophysics, was awarded the activity grant for conference travel to the International Symposium in Molecular Spectroscopy in Urbana-Champaign, IL, and the International Astronomical Union in Traverse City, MI.

James Redfield, Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literatures, Social Thought, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and the College, was awarded the activity grant for editing services on a translation and commentary on Plato’s Seventh Letter.

Theodore Steck, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics and Cell & Molecular Biology, was awarded the activity grant for publication fees related to publication of his article “Is reverse cholesterol transport regulated by active cholesterol?”

Elissa Weaver, Professor Emerita of Italian Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, was awarded the activity grant for travel to Italy to collaborate with another scholar on a translation of Frescobaldi’s 1563 History of Italy (Istoria d’Italia).

Fred Donner, Peter B. Ritzma Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern History in the Oriental Institute and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, was awarded the activity grant to attend and deliver the Presidential Address at the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) in Palermo.

Michael Fishbane, Nathan Cummings Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Studies Emeritus in Divinity School, was awarded the activity grant to support research on a new book with the working title Poetics of Tradition. Jewish Liturgical Poetry.             

Victor Friedman, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in the Department of Linguistics, was awarded the activity grant to support the final stages and manuscript preparation for The Balkan Languages (Cambridge University Press), co-authored with Brian D. Joseph (The Ohio State University).

Takeshi Oka, Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Chemistry, was awarded the activity grant for travel related to presentations at two international workshops: “Cosmic Rays: The Salt of the Star Formation Recipe” in Florence and “Galactic Center Workshop 2023” in Granada.

Marta Ptaszynska, Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor Emeritus of Composition in the Department of Music was awareded the activity grant related to work on two pieces: Imaginary Landscapes and Double Concerto for Saxophones, Piano, and large Symphonic Orchestra. Both premier Spring 2023 in Poland.

Jerrold Sadock, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics, was awarded the activity grant to carry out field work in Greenland on Inuit and Yupik languages.

Josef Stern, William H. Colvin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, was awarded the activity grant to assist with his current book project on Maimonides.

Richard Strier, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of English, was awarded the activity grant to participate in panels and roundtables at two conferences: The Sixteenth-Century Society Conference and the Shakespeare Association of America Conference.

William Veeder, Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature in the Department of English, was awarded the activity grant to support research and work on his historical novel project titled Pierce.