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Susan C. Alberts of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "LTREB: Long-term behavioral and genetic analyses in a wild primate population." Total funding will be $449,980 over 59 months.

Arie Beresteanu of Economics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Asymptotic Properties for Partially Identified Models." Total funding will be $214,275 over 36 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Mary L. Bryan of History has received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "Selected Papers of Jane Adams." Total funding will be $158,780 over 24 months.

Meng Chen of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Mechanistic links between phytochrome signaling and chloroplast differentiation." Total funding will be $150,000 over 12 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

David B. Dunson of Statistical Sciences has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Nonparametric Bayes Methods for Biomedical Studies." Total funding will be $280,800 over 59 months.

Herbert Edelsbrunner of Computer Science has received an award from Princeton University for a project entitled "Microstates to Macrodynamics: A New Mathematics of Biology." Total funding will be $45,000 over 3 months.

Michael C. Fitzgerald of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "A Chemical Modification and Mass Spectrometry-Based Method for Analysis of Protein Folding and Ligand Binding." Total funding will be $390,000 over 36 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Haiyan Gao of Physics has received an award from Los Alamos National Laboratory for a project entitled "Engineering Design of Subsystems for the Neutron Electron Dipole Moment (nEDM) Mod #5." Total funding will be $20,277 over 11 months.

Margaret R. Greer of Romance Languages has received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "Manos Teatrales: Cyber-Paleography and a Virtual World of Spanish Golden Age Theater." Total funding will be $49,992 over 12 months.

Edwin S. Iversen of Statistical Sciences has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Bayesian Modeling and Optimal Design for Studies of Gene-environment Association." Total funding will be $203,942 over 25 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

James A. Joseph of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Annie E. Casey Foundation for a project entitled "Support of The United States^*-Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University." Total funding will be $50,000 over 5 months.

Kenneth C. Land of Sociology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Social, Medical and Economic Demography of Aging." Total funding will be $321,844 over 22 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Anita T. Layton of Mathematics has received an award from Tufts University for a project entitled "Mathematical Model of Vascular and Tubular Transport in the RAt Outer Medulla." Total funding will be $76,986 over 12 months.

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Tropical Biology in Costa Rica." Total funding will be $564,636 over 59 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Effects of Species on Forest Carbon Balances in Lowland Costa Rica." Total funding will be $38,231 over 14 months.

Francois M. Lutzoni of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life: Resolving the Evolutionary History of the Fungi." Total funding will be $13,276 over 25 months.

Paul S. Manos of Biology has received a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Dylan O. Burge, for a project entitled "Edaphic factors in the diversification of Ceanothus L., subgenus Cerastes (Rhamnaceae)." Total funding will be $11,989 over 11 months.

David R. McClay of Biology has received an award from the California Institute of Technology for a project entitled "How gene regulatory networks connect to morphogenesis." Total funding will be $239,755 over 12 months.

Mohamed A. Noor of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Fine-scale recombination, variation, divergence, and codon bias in Drosophila." Total funding will be $1,172,752 over 48 months.

Seog H. Oh of Physics has received an award from Brookhaven National Labs for a project entitled "US Atlas Research Program in TRT Subsystem." Total funding will be $49,987 over 17 months.

Zhen-Ming Pei of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Functional analysis of Arabidopsis NSC1/DMI1 Ca2+ permeable channels." Total funding will be $525,000 over 36 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Karin Shapiro of History has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Fulbright Revisited- A Documentary." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Kathleen K. Smith of Biology has received an award from Google Inc. for a project entitled "Google Summer of Code 2009." Total funding will be $5,000 over 3 months.

Tai-Ping Sun of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Regulation of DELLA Activity by Post-Translational Modifications and Complex Formation in Arabidopsis." Total funding will be $600,000 over 48 months.

Xiaobai Sun of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Integral Equation-Based Fast Algorithms and Graph-Theoretic Methods for Large-Scale Simulations." Total funding will be $399,996 over 48 months.

Michael J. Therien of Chemistry has received an award from AT&T Government Solutions, Inc. for a project entitled "High Performance Optical Limiting Materials for the NIR." Total funding will be $24,998 over 3 months.

Susan Thorne of History has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Duke-Durham Exchange Workshop: International Approaches to Historical Studies." Total funding will be $1,500 over 12 months.

Guillermo Trejo Osorio of Political Science has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Organized Crime in New Democracies: The Political Orgins of Narco-Related Assassinations in Mexico." Total funding will be $1,250 over 12 months.

Chandra L. Tucker of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Analysis of PH1-associated alanine:glyoxylate aminotranferase (AGT) using yeast." Total funding will be $11,761 over 24 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Divinity School

Jeremy S. Begbie has received an award from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation for a project entitled "Arts & Theology: Duke-Cambridge Partnership." Total funding will be $20,000 over 24 months.

Emmanuel Katongole has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Teaching Communities Week 2009 with Angelina Atyam." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

David L. Odom has received an award from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship for a project entitled "Pastor Scholar Studio." Total funding will be $396,640 over 36 months.

Laceye Warner has received an award from Luther Seminary for a project entitled "Christians' Callings in the World." Total funding will be $199,000 over 53 months.

Fuqua School of Business

Joel C. Huber has received an award from Vanderbilt University for a project entitled "The Appropriateness of Panel Based Findings for Environmental Valuation." Total funding will be $104,730 over 24 months.

Nicholas School of the Environment

Bruce H. Corliss of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V CAPE HATTERAS June 2009." Total funding will be $9,071 over 12 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

David W. Johnston of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a project entitled "Using marine mammal strandings and observer data to estimate life history parameters and assess demographic impacts of marine fisheries on odontocete populations in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean." Total funding will be $96,172 over 24 months.

Randall Kramer of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Biodiversity Conservation, Food Production and Poverty Alleviation in Post-Conflict Uganda: Developing a Policy Relevant Research Agenda." Total funding will be $3,600 over 12 months.

Richard G. Newell of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from Resources for the Future for a project entitled "Market Impacts and Distributional Consequences of Market Mechanisms for Pollution Control in the Context of Multiple Interacting Policies." Total funding will be $29,357 over 3 months.

Heather M. Stapleton of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from Boston University for a project entitled "Measuring Human Exposures to PBDEs." Total funding will be $65,987 over 35 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Pratt School of Engineering

Ana P. Barros of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Using Satellite Data to Characterize the Role of Tropical Cyclones in the Ecohydrology of the Southeast US." Total funding will be $30,000 over 12 months.

Cameron R. Bass of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the University of Virginia - Charlottesville for a project entitled "Characterization of Brain Shear Properties for Blast Modeling." Total funding will be $19,999 over 5 months.

Nenad Bursac of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Engineered Cardiac Tissue with Controllable Architecture." Total funding will be $133,600 over 11 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Non-Parametric Bayesian Analysis of Heterogeneous Data." Total funding will be $125,000 over 29 months.

Krishnendu Chakrabarty of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Optimization of Test and Diagnosis Infrastructure for Multicore Chips." Total funding will be $197,326 over 36 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Supplement: Elastin Fusion Proteins." Total funding will be $134,951 over 8 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Elastin Fusion Proteins." Total funding will be $1,298,000 over 48 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Plasmonic assay for detection of biomarkers at the single-molecule level." Total funding will be $101,764 over 24 months.

Nicolas Christoforou of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute for a project entitled "Engineered Cardiac Patch With Cardiac Progenitors." Total funding will be $81,375 over 24 months.

Franklin H. Cocks of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Space Grant for a project entitled "Phase 1: Space Solar Thermal Power." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Morton H. Friedman of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the American Heart Association for a project entitled "The Adaptive Response of Endothelial Cells to Shear Stress Alteration." Total funding will be $23,000 over 12 months.

Claudia Gunsch of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Fate of Biosolid Derived Organic Contaminants in Soils and Effects on Soil Microbial Communities." Total funding will be $299,775 over 36 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

William T. Joines of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Printed Circuit Construction for Compact Circuits and Antennas II." Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

Brian P. Mann of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU^* Supplement to CAREER: Measurement and Predictive Dynamics of Meso-scale Milling." Total funding will be $6,000 over 9 months.

David Needham of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "PLGA Protein Microspheres: Single Particle Engineering." Total funding will be $339,219 over 11 months.

Romit Roy Choudhury of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Spotlight-Exploiting Antenna Capabilities for Wireless Networks: Theory, Protocols, and Practice." Total funding will be $16,000 over 43 months.

David R. Smith of the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics has received an award from the Central Intelligence Agency for a project entitled "Novel Antenna Design Using Metamaterials and Transformation Optics." Total funding will be $240,000 over 24 months.

Gregg E. Trahey of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Training in Medical Imaging." Total funding will be $1,331,340 over 60 months.

Stefan Zauscher of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "GOALI: Engineering Magnetorheological Fluids by Controlling Nonmagnetic Particle Interactions." Total funding will be $200,095 over 36 months.

School of Law

James P. Longest, Jr. has received an award from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for a project entitled "Assisting Community Groups in Achieving Goals of Environmental Justice." Total funding will be $15,000 over 12 months.

Univ Administration & Centers

Catherine Admay of Administration has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Re-Presenting Justice and the Constituting of Human Culture." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Karen M. Glynn of Perkins Libraries has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Building Relationships between Duke University Libraries and the University of Cape Town." Total funding will be $3,100 over 12 months.

University Interdisciplinary Centers

Kenneth A. Dodge of Child & Family Policy has received an award from the Spencer Foundation for a project entitled "Longitudinal Data for Education Reform: A Critical Role for the NCERDC." Total funding will be $200,000 over 24 months.

Peter D. Feaver of Political Science has received an award from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation for a project entitled "Bradley Fellowship Program at Duke." Total funding will be $25,000 over 12 months.

Ruth W. Grant of Political Science has received an award from the Russell Sage Foundation for a project entitled "Strings Attached: the Ethics of Incentives." Total funding will be $64,859 over 10 months.

Scott A. Huettel of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Neurobiological underpinnings of decisions involving social rewards." Total funding will be $81,446 over 36 months.

James A. Joseph of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Kellogg Foundation for a project entitled "The Effective Leadership Program (Louisiana)." Total funding will be $192,000 over 12 months.

Stephen R. Mitroff of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled "Training that Addresses Individual Differences in Sustained Vigilance Tasks." Total funding will be $96,185 over 23 months.

Michael Munger of Political Science has received an award from the Thomas W. Smith Foundation for a project entitled "American Values and Institutions Program." Total funding will be $259,495 over 36 months.

Noah M. Pickus of the Kenan Institute for Ethics has received an award from the Annie E. Casey Foundation for a project entitled "Immigration Policy Roundtable." Total funding will be $10,000 over 12 months.

Dale Purves of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "The Biological Basis of Musical Tonality." Total funding will be $360,148 over 48 months.

Charmaine D. Royal of IGSP^* has received an award from the Greenwall Foundation for a project entitled "Ethics as a Guide for the Use of 'Race' and Ancestry in Research and Clinical Practice." Total funding will be $260,208 over 36 months.

David H. Schanzer of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled "CLIN 3 Investigator Initiated Projects Management Tasks Years 2 and 3." Total funding will be $95,193 over 24 months.

James W. Vaupel of the Social Science Research Institute has received a program-project grant award from the National Institutes of Health, for a program entitled "Duke Center on the Demography of Aging." Total funding will be $1,475,321 over 59 months. It includes the following projects:
- a project headed by James W. Vaupel, which will receive total funding of $537,055.
- a project headed by James W. Vaupel, which will receive total funding of $750,754.
- a project headed by James W. Vaupel, which will receive total funding of $187,512.

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