← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Amherst College
Amherst, MA
$37,139,178
Total funding
135
Grants
Funding over time
peak $4.8M · FY2005–26$5M$3.8M$2.5M$1.3M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NSF$29,581,344 · 116
NIH$7,557,834 · 18
SAMHSA$0 · 1
By mechanism
—$29,581,344 · 116
R15$5,766,437 · 13
R01$1,417,644 · 1
R03$351,433 · 3
F31$22,320 · 1
U79$0 · 1
Investigators at Amherst College
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
Rising Stars
First grant in the last 5 yrs
Not enough data
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
Largest grants
MRI: Acquisition of an integrated Zeiss 980 microscope with Airyscan 2 and FCS to advance multidisciplinary research, inclusive teaching, and outreach at Amherst College$735,648
· FY2021 · BIO
CAREER: Impact of Host Radiation on Genome Evolution in Parasites: Microbotryum Hybrids on the Caryophyllaceae$709,000
· FY2008 · BIO
RUI: Forbidden Transitions and Quantum Dynamics in Molecular Nanomagnets$687,594
· FY2017 · MPS
MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a Pulse Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectrometer for Research and Instruction in the Connecticut River Valley$677,650
· FY2025 · MPS
MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Proton Transfer Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chemistry$626,024
· FY2010 · GEO
CAREER: Fundamental Physics Through Precision Measurements of Trapped Charged Particles$600,000
· FY2013 · MPS
PM: RUI: Searching for Optical Cycling in TlF and Long-Range Spin-Spin Interactions$583,328
· FY2021 · MPS
RUI: PM: Optical Molecular Clocks for New Physics Searches$561,095
· FY2022 · MPS
RUI: Architecture and evolution of a conserved bacterial regulatory pathway that influences host and microbe carbon metabolism$513,187
· FY2017 · BIO
RUI: Topological Excitations in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates$510,000
· FY2018 · MPS
MRI: Acquisition of High Performance Computing System for Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching$500,000
· FY2021 · CSE
CAREER: Investigating reconfigurable DNA self-assembly at the molecular scale$500,000
· FY2017 · MPS
RUI: The Role of APH-1 and APH-2 in Notch-Mediated Cell Interactions in C. Elegans$491,094
· FY2002 · BIO
RUI: Chemical and photophysical interactions between colloidal quantum dots and transition metal catalysts used for photocatalytic CO2 reduction$484,969
· FY2025 · MPS
CAREER: Statistically-Sound Knowledge Discovery from Data$483,202
· FY2023 · CSE
RUI: A Search for Long-Range Spin-Spin Interactions and Thallium-Fluoride Investigations$480,607
· FY2015 · MPS
RUI: A Hg-Cs LLI Search and the Prospects for Laser Cooling TlF$480,607
· FY2012 · MPS
RUI: A Search for Long-Range Spin-Spin Interactions and Optical Forces in TlF$480,600
· FY2018 · MPS
RUI: Clock Transitions, Coherence and Quantum Dynamics in Molecular Nanomagnets$475,000
· FY2022 · MPS
RUI: Experiments with Topological Excitations in Bose-Einstein Condensates$475,000
· FY2015 · MPS