Jun Chen of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Developing Immature Nucleus Pulposus Cells for Regenerative Therapy." Total funding will be $1,005,300 over 59 months.

Silvia Ferrari of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Analysis and Design of Cultured Neuronal Networks for Adaptive and Reconfigurable Control." Total funding will be $349,789 over 36 months.

Linda P. Franzoni of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Travel Supplement - Energy-Based Boundary Elements for Structural Acoustics." Total funding will be $3,000 over 11 months.

Joseph A. Izatt of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Three Dimensional Visual Tracking and High-Precision Positioning for Robotic Guided Vitreoretinal Surgery." Total funding will be $240,000 over 36 months.

David F. Katz of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Contraceptive Research & Development Program for a project entitled "Optimizing Properties of New Microbicide Gels." Total funding will be $70,803 over 12 months.

Jungsang Kim of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the University of Maryland for a project entitled "Photonic Networks for Atomic and Solid-State Quantum Memories and Processors." Total funding will be $347,000 over 16 months.

Kathryn R. Nightingale of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Quantifying Liver Fibrosis with Acoustic Radiation Force." Total funding will be $47,935 over 18 months.

Jonathan Protz of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled "First-Principle Modeling and Prediction of Urban Social Networks Using Persistent Surveillance." Total funding will be $5,497 over 3 months.

Melissa C. Skala of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Functional Optical Coherence Tomography for Monitoring Drug Resistance in Cancer." Total funding will be $178,878 over 23 months.

David R. Smith of the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Transformation Optical Materials." Total funding will be $1,770,833 over 16 months.

David R. Smith of the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics has received an award from Northrop Grumman Corporation for a project entitled "Metamaterial Radome for Anti-Jam GPS Radar." Total funding will be $364,999 over 34 months.

David R. Smith of the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics has received an award from SensorMetrix for a project entitled "Robust Metamaterials for Electromagnetically Versatile Structures." Total funding will be $213,362 over 15 months.

Benjamin B. Yellen of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Convergent Solutions, LLC for a project entitled "Nanoparticle Design Characterization and Fabrication." Total funding will be $15,000 over 3 months.