Dickinson College

Dickinson College is a private, non-profit educational institution located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, that has been registered to receive federal awards since April 2001. As a tax-exempt corporate entity classified as a private university, non-profit organization, and educational institution, Dickinson College primarily serves as a research and academic partner to the federal government through project grants and cooperative agreements rather than traditional procurement contracts. The college leverages its expertise in scientific research, environmental studies, and collaborative academic investigations to advance federal science priorities across multiple agencies.

Dickinson College has received one recent federal contract award in the form of a research grant from the Shared Services Center valued at $149,983, awarded on November 18, 2025, with completion targeted for November 17, 2026. This award supports the execution of a balanced science program developed in accordance with discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, aligned with administration priorities and congressional direction. The college served as a prime awardee on this contract with no set-aside designation applied. Beyond this recent award, Dickinson College does not maintain a history of federal procurement contracts, indicating that the institution's federal engagement is primarily grant-focused rather than contract-based, and the college has not served as a subcontractor to other prime federal contract recipients.

Dickinson College maintains an active and diverse portfolio of federal grant awards spanning multiple scientific disciplines and funding agencies. The institution has received project grants and cooperative agreements from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service. Current and recent prime grants include a $659,112 NSF award (June 2022 to May 2025) investigating sulforaphane as an epigenetic weapon against Lepidopteran pests; a $351,294 NIGMS award (September 2023 to August 2026) developing orthogonal split luciferases for imaging multiplexed cellular behaviors; a $149,983 NASA award (November 2025 to November 2026) supporting balanced science program execution; grants from the DOI Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 addressing pesticide hazards to pollinators in the Great Lakes Basin; an NSF award on locomotor performance in variable environments; a National Park Service cooperative agreement producing a special history of Kentucky slave stampedes at Camp Nelson National Monument; and NSF collaborative research grants on near-surface geophysics field experience and ice forcing in arc magma plumbing systems. Additionally, Dickinson College has received multiple sub-grant awards from the Pennsylvania Department of Education for child and adult nutrition programs, emergency operational funding during the public health emergency, and a sub-award from the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. for watershed monitoring protocol development and volunteer coordination services.