===== Grants =====

  * NSF INSPIRE Grant. Award Date: Sep. 18, 2013. Award No: DEB-1344227. Award Amount: **$**999,314. Effective Jan. 1, 2014. Expires Dec. 31, 2017. INSPIRE Track 1: Is Evolvability Driven By Emergent Modularity? Biomimetic robots, gene inspired information structures, and the evolvability of intelligent agents. PI Kenneth R. Livingston, Co-PI Jodi Schwarz, Co-PI John H. Long, Co-PI **Marc L. Smith**, Co-PI Joshua Bongard. [[https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1344227]]\\ \\ 

  * NSF Grant, Division of Information & Intelligent Systems. Award Date: Sep. 1, 2010. Award No: IIS-1018311. Award Amount: **$**102,997.00. Duration: 36 months. **Co-PI.** //III:Small:Collaborative: Novel Techniques for Understanding Convergence in Large-Scale Markov Chain Monte Carlo Phylogenetic Analyses.// Co-PI with Tiffani Williams, Texas A&M University. [[https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1018311]] \\ \\ 

  * Research Corporation Multi-investigator Cottrell College Science Award. Notification Date: Nov. 23, 2009. Co-PIs: Eric Eberhardt (Associate Professor of Chemistry) and Jodi Schwarz (Assistant Professor of Biology). Participants: Teresa Garrett (Assistant Professor of Chemistry) and **Marc Smith** (Assistant Professor of Computer Science). Project title: “Understanding Coral Bleaching: Effects of Thermal Stress on the Proteome and Lipidome of Symbiotic Cnidarians.”\\ \\  

  * NSF Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Grant. Award Date: Sep. 9, 2008. Award No: DUE-0837375. Award Amount: $149,976. Co-PI. "Scaffolding Conceptually Driven Genomics Education," is under the direction of Susan R. Singer (Carleton College), Cathryn A. Manduca (Carleton College), Jodi Schwarz (Vassar College), **Marc L. Smith**, Sean P. Fox (Carleton College). 
    * Related URL: http://serc.carleton.edu/dev/exploring_genomics/aiptasia/index.html