Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Supplement- Processing, Analysis, and Interpretation of the Observations Conducted with the Duke University Helicopter Observation Platform During CLASSIC 2007." Total funding will be $50,298 over 1 month.

April Brown of Engineering, Office of the Dean, has received an award from the Medtronic Foundation for a project entitled "Medtronic Undergraduate and Graduate Scholars in Engineering." Total funding will be $257,400 over 36 months.

Chuan-Hua Chen of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities for a project entitled "Beetle Inspired Fuel Cell Water Management." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Stefano Curtarolo of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "PECASE: Fundamental Thermodynamic Problems at the Nanoscale, order-disorder transitions in precipitates and alloyed nano-clusters." Total funding will be $999,995 over 60 months.

John E. Dolbow of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Numerical Methods for Material Systems with Microstructure: Addressing Structural Response and Multiscale Couplings." Total funding will be $49,999 over 30 months.

Devendra P. Garg of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Optimization of Robotic Swarm Composition in Micro Unmanned Systems for Military Applications." Total funding will be $226,285 over 23 months.

Jungsang Kim of Electrical Engineering has received a supplement to his CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, which is for a project entitled "Ion-Trap "Integrated Circuit Technology for Quantum Information Processor." Total funding for the supplement will be $6,750 over 9 months.

William M. Reichert of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "EPC Adhesion to Teflon-AF and ePTFE Vascular Grafts." Total funding will be $936,000 over 48 months.

Tuan Vo-Dinh of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics has received an award from Immunolight, LLC for a project entitled "Photonic Studies of Emission, Communication, and Signal Processes in Cellular Systems." Total funding will be $762,166 over 60 months.

Rebecca M. Willett of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "Computer Science Study Group Phase III: Photon-Limited Hyperspectral Target Recognition." Total funding will be $240,000 over 12 months.

Benjamin B. Yellen of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU^* Supplement - Imaginary Magnetic Tweezers for Biophysical Force Measurements." Total funding will be $6,000 over 5 months.