Each academic year, Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center (Rocky) furthers its mission to support public policy and social science research through its competitive Faculty Research Grants Program. Since 2008, Rocky Faculty Research Grants have helped fund over 100 research projects across the Social Sciences at Dartmouth.

What started as a casual conversation in 2004 between Dartmouth Class of 1925 Sociology Professor John Campbell and McGill University Sociology Professor John Hall turned into a compelling new publication on states’ responses to crisis....

Supported by Rockefeller Center Faculty Research Funding, Professor of Education Donna Coch and undergraduate lab assistants are learning about how the brain processes rhymes.

Professor Sneddon and his colleagues, with the Rockefeller Center’s support, investigated rationale behind the removal of old and decrepit dams in New England. “The Rockefeller Center’s Faculty Research Grant served as seed money that led to our successful proposal,” said Sneddon....

Supported by Rockefeller Center funding, Professor Brendan Nyhan has conducted detailed research within the Government Department focused on two subject areas: political scandal and public misinformation.

As a cultural anthropologist, Professor Craig’s research often takes her to the Nepal Himalaya and Tibetan regions of China where she recently put to use a Rockefeller Faculty Research Grant....

Extending beyond the walls of the Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth Professor Michele Tine of the Education Department has seen her research...

A Rockefeller Center grant proved to be a vital source of funding when Professor Nichols sought to explore an Aztec farming settlement...