Four faculty members at the Elliott School of International Affairs received Carnegie Grants totaling nearly $2.5 million, according to a University release.

Charlie Glaser, Henry Hale, Marc Lynch and Janne Nolan, all professors of international affairs, earned the grants to support projects on Eurasian studies, Middle Eastern politics, bipartisan nuclear security solutions and nuclear policies toward China, respectively.

Reuben Brigety, the dean of the Elliott School who began his tenure last month, said in the release that these awards demonstrate the schools position “as the preeminent place to create policy-relevant research.”

“We look forward to continuing our joint efforts to connect the school’s research, and that of the broader academic community, to policymakers around the world,” Brigety said.

Hale, the co-director of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia, received $800,000 to develop security and policy approaches in Russia and Eurasia, and plans to use the grant to understand and come up with possible solutions to the Russia-Ukraine war, the Syrian crisis and U.S.-Russia relations.

Glaser will put $450,000 from Carnegie toward a series of articles on U.S.-China nuclear relations. Nolan received a $530,000 to also fund a group of experts on nuclear relations.

The Carnegie Corporation renewed its funding of the Institute for Middle East Studies, which Lynch runs, with a $700,000.