← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Colby College
Waterville, ME
$15,592,815
Total funding
83
Grants
Funding over time
peak $1.7M · FY2005–26$2M$1.5M$1M$500K$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NSF$14,501,599 · 75
NIH$1,091,216 · 8
By mechanism
—$14,501,599 · 75
R15$902,808 · 4
G13$99,000 · 1
R03$56,906 · 1
R13$32,502 · 2
Investigators at Colby 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
Not enough data
All-Time
Most funded here, all years
Largest grants
CAREER: Development and Evolution of Wing Polyphenism in a True Bug$800,000
· FY2014 · BIO
Collaborative Research: E-RISE RII: Enhancing Maine Forest Economy, Sustainability, and Technology Ecosystem To Accelerate Innovation$737,532
· FY2024 · O/D
Collaborative Research: RUI: Comparative analysis of endocytic trafficking during cell division$700,000
· FY2021 · BIO
CAREER: (TIERRA) Tracking Island Evolution and Resilience through Remote Analyses of Atolls$498,355
· FY2025 · GEO
Collaborative Research: RUI: Evaluating the Impacts of Toxic Dust from the Great Salt Lake on Agriculture and Ecosystems$480,175
· FY2026 · GEO
RUI: Collaborative Research: The consequences of species loss for food web persistence and functioning in the Gulf of Maine rocky intertidal$459,742
· FY2021 · GEO
Undergraduate Research into the Cultural, Economic and Ecological Significance of Church Forests in South Gondar, Ethiopia$406,038
· FY2014 · SBE
CAREER: Molecular design through oxacalixarenes: synthetic methods, molecular receptors, and chemical sensors$402,600
· FY2007 · MPS
SEES Fellows: Synthesis of a New Class of Thermostable Proton Conducting Materials to Enable High Efficiency Hydrogen Fuel Cells$392,421
· FY2014 · SBE
CC* Network Design: Network Infrastructure to Support Computational Biology, Computational Science, and Computing Across the Curriculum$380,246
· FY2017 · CSE
RUI: Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules from Phenanthrene-based Precursors$380,000
· FY2024 · MPS
RUI: An Experimental and Theoretical Study of Stannylcarbenes$360,000
· FY2020 · MPS
RI: Medium: RUI: Collaborative Research: A Structure-Math-Function Approach for Designing Robustly Intelligent Synthetic Nervous Systems$324,958
· FY2017 · CSE
RUI: Developing Acetylene-Activated SNAr Reactions$312,000
· FY2012 · MPS
RUI: Gene flow, selection, and maintenance of mating system diversity on an ecological gradient$306,632
· FY2009 · BIO
Acquisition of a SEM-EDS-CL microanalytical system for research, teaching, and outreach in Geology at Colby College, a Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI)$299,500
· FY2021 · GEO
RUI: Strained Cycloalkynes$298,579
· FY2017 · MPS
A Global Nuclear Environmental History$287,589
· FY2020 · SBE
RUI: Syntheses, Structures, and Reactions of Strained Cyclic Allenes$265,000
· FY2010 · MPS
MCA: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Improve Understanding of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions and Chemistry over Heterogeneous Forest Landscapes$259,518
· FY2023 · GEO