David Beratan of Chemistry has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "Solar Fuels and Next Generation Photovoltaics." Total funding will be $210,000 over 12 months.

Bruce R. Donald of Computer Science has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Adm. Supp. -- Automated NMR Assignment and Protein Structure Determination." Total funding will be $262,516 over 23 months.

David B. Dunson of Statistical Sciences has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Bayesian Methods for Assessing Gene by Environment Interactions." Total funding will be $1,729,800 over 57 months.

Michael C. Fitzgerald of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Analysis of Protein-Ligand Binding on the Proteomic Scale." Total funding will be $1,310,400 over 48 months.

Elizabeth Frankenberg of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Longer Term Effects of a Natural Disaster on Health and Socio-Economic Status." Total funding will be $665,964 over 27 months.

Amy S. Joh of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from Vanderbilt University for a project entitled "Motor Transitions in Infancy." Total funding will be $69,905 over 9 months.

Berndt Mueller of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Nuclear Physics at Extreme Energy Density." Total funding will be $35,000 over 5 months.

Johan J. Norberg of Germanic Languages has received an award from the German Information Center USA for a project entitled "Freedom Without Walls Campus Week 2009." Total funding will be $5,000 over 4 months.

Michael J. Therien of Chemistry has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Organic, Nanoscale, and Self-Assembled Structures Relevant to Solar Energy Conversion." Total funding will be $460,000 over 36 months.

John E. Thomas of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Simulating Strongly Correlated Electrons with a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas." Total funding will be $149,634 over 36 months.

Warren S. Warren of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Imaging Nonlinear Absorption of Biomarkers for Improved Detection of Melanoma." Total funding will be $998,459 over 24 months.

Xiaowei Yang of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CT-ER: A DoS-Resistant Internet Architecture." Total funding will be $44,956 over 1 month.

The Divinity School had no new awards to report during the month of October 2009.

The Fuqua School of Business had no new awards to report during the month of October 2009.

Larry B. Crowder of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation for a project entitled "Building Understanding of Support for Marine Spatial Planning Among Industry Stakeholders." Total funding will be $200,000 over 12 months.

Joel N. Meyer of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the Society of Toxicology for a project entitled "Physiological and Developmental Effects of Persistent Mitochondrial DNA Damage in Caenorhabditis elegans." Total funding will be $1,700 over 6 months.

Ram Oren of of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Duke Forest FACE Experiment: Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage." Total funding will be $901,471 over 10 months.

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.

The Sanford School of Public Policy had no new awards to report during the month of October 2009.

Madeline Morris has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled "Deradicalization: A Comparative Study of Literature on Deganging, Deprogramming, and Demobilization." Total funding will be $5,500 over 4 months.

Simon C. Partner of Asian Pacific Studies has received an award from the Japan Foundation for a project entitled "Japan Foundation FY10 Speech Contest Support." Total funding will be $616 over 4 months.

Kenneth A. Dodge of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the University of Washington for a project entitled "Fast Track Data Center." Total funding will be $79,841 over 11 months.

David Fitzpatrick of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Neuroeconomics of Drug Addiction." Total funding will be $1,378,000 over 23 months.

Jennifer M. Groh of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Visual Signals in Auditory Midbrain." Total funding will be $126,958 over 12 months.

Scott A. Huettel of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "From Phenotype to Mechanism: Mapping the Pathways underlying Risky Choice." Total funding will be $996,472 over 23 months.

Kevin S. Labar of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Brain Imaging Studies of Negative Reinforcement in Humans." Total funding will be $1,941,600 over 59 months.

Peter McCornick of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled "Development of an Agricultural Water Management Strategy." Total funding will be $39,948 over 8 months.

Stephen R. Mitroff of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled "Identifying Predictive Markers of Individual Differences in Threat Sensitivity." Total funding will be $5,500 over 3 months.

Brian C. Murray of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the World Wildlife Fund for a project entitled "NI Papers on REDD for WWF." Total funding will be $50,000 over 6 months.

Brian C. Murray of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the World Wildlife Fund for a project entitled "Forest Carbon Finance Summit 2010." Total funding will be $34,227 over 7 months.

Lydia P. Olander of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation for a project entitled "Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Management Methodologies." Total funding will be $628,263 over 24 months.

Brian W. Pence of the Center for Health Policy has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "Mental illness in HIV in Cameroon: diagnosis, epidemiology and impact on treatment and outcomes." Total funding will be $66,013 over 35 months.

Charles D. Piot of the Social Science Research Institute has received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Louisa N. Lombard, for a project entitled "Raiding Sovereignty in Central Africa." Total funding will be $8,360 over 18 months.

Michael L. Platt of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "A Macaque Model of Social Behavior Heterogeneity in Autism Spectrum Disorders." Total funding will be $1,616,415 over 23 months.