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Arts & Sciences

Month And Year: 
01/2009

Susan C. Alberts of Biology has received an award from the
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research for a project entitled "Demographic
analysis of a wild primate population." Total funding will be $86,532 over
4 months.

Amy Bejsovec of Biology has received an award from the
National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Genetic modulation
of Wingless/Wnt signaling." Total funding will be $1,154,400 over 48
months.

Philip N. Benfey of Biology has received an award from
GrassRoots Biotechnology for a project entitled "STTR* Phase I:
Constitutive promoters for crop improvement." Total funding will be
$59,487 over 6 months.

Emily S. Bernhardt of Biology has received an award from the
Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled "Quantifying the
Impact of Floodplain Trees on River-Borne Nitrogen Removal." Total funding
will be $37,000 over 36 months.

Clifford Cunningham of Biology has received an award from
the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research for a project entitled "Flexible
models to estimate demographic parameters from incomplete data in the
invertebrate literature." Total funding will be $25,100 over 7 months.

Fernando R. Fernholz of the Duke
Center
for International Development
has received an award from World Vision Canada
for a project entitled "World Vision East Sumba Revenue Mobilization
Assessment." Total funding will be $15,120 over 2 months.

Kenneth E. Glander of Evolutionary Anthropology has received
an award from Conservation International for a project entitled "Survey of
San San Pond Sak reserve, Panama,
to determine resident primate species presence and relative abundance."
Total funding will be $3,000 over 14 months.

Calvin R. Howell of Physics has received an award from
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for a project entitled "Nuclear
Resonance Fluorescence Transmission Measurements." Total funding will be
$126,000 over 3 months.

Robert B. Jackson of Biology has received an award from the
Department of Energy for a project entitled "Linking carbon uptake in
terrestrial ecosystems with other climate forcing factors." Total funding
will be $199,918 over 23 months.

Kenneth C. Land of Sociology has received an award from the
Foundation for Child Development for a project entitled "Developing A
Child-Well Being Index." Total funding will be $13,479 over 10 months.

Joshua M. Linder of Evolutionary Anthropology has received
an award from Conservation International for a project entitled "Reconnaissance
Trip to Establish a Survey and Monitoring Program for the Nigeria Cameroon
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes vellerosus) in Korup National
Park
, Cameroon
."
Total funding will be $2,000 over 12 months.

Mauro Maggioni of Mathematics has received an award from the
Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Towards multiscale
geometric processing for data sets in high-dimensions." Total funding will
be $150,000 over 12 months.

Mark D. Rausher of Biology has received an award from the
National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Genetics and Evolution
of Reproductive Character Displacement in Phlox drumondii." Total funding will
be $999,999 over 60 months.

Michael J. Therien of Chemistry has received an award from
the University of Pennsylvania
for a project entitled "NSEC on Molecular Function at the Nano/Bio
Interface." Total funding will be $49,249 over 12 months.

Duncan Thomas of Economics has received an award from the
National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Longitudinal Study
of Older Adults and their Families in Mexico."
Total funding will be $2,371,553 over 59 months.

Weitao Yang of Chemistry has received an award from Cornell
University
for a project entitled "Bridging
the Molecular to the Macro: Graphene and Nanotube-Based Platforms for
Atomically-Precise Connections to the Molecular World." Total funding will
be $120,000 over 36 months.

Anne D. Yoder of Biology has received an award from the
National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Baker's Rule and
Mating System Evolution in Madagascan Coffea (Rubiaceae)." Total funding
will be $15,000 over 24 months.

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