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Paul S. Aspinwall of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Geometry and Mathematical Physics of D-Branes." Total funding will be $347,629 over 36 months.

Shivnath Babu of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Integrated Problem Diagnosis and Repair in Databases and Storage Area Networks." Total funding will be $407,865 over 36 months.

Jeffrey S. Chase of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "TC: Large: Collaborative Research: Trustworthy Virtual Cloud Computing." Total funding will be $626,638 over 48 months.

Don Coltart of Chemistry has received an award from Lifescitech, Llc for a project entitled "ACC Synthesis - A Way to Create Safer, Efficacious and Inexpensive Single Enantiomers." Total funding will be $90,000 over 12 months.

Vincent Conitzer of Computer Science has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Algorithms for Computing Stackelberg Strategies in Large, Realistic Games." Total funding will be $240,000 over 18 months.

Xinnian Dong of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Functional analyses of NPR1 in plant defense." Total funding will be $285,957 over 23 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 $30,000 over 1 month.

Gleb Finkelstein of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Symmetries, Interactions And Correlation Effects In Carbon Nanotubes." Total funding will be $450,000 over 33 months.

Calvin R. Howell of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Studies of Nuclear Structure Using Neutrons and Charged Particles." Total funding will be $10,874,000 over 29 months.

Sonke Johnsen of Biology has received an award from Florida Atlantic University for a project entitled "Bioluminescence in the deep-sea benthos." Total funding will be $10,600 over 7 months.

Daniel P. Kiehart of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Morphogenesis: Biophysics and Genetics of Dorsal Closure." Total funding will be $287,515 over 23 months.

Julian Lombardi of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Intelligent Interfaces for Managing User Experience in Hypermedia-enabled Virtual Workspaces." Total funding will be $299,998 over 18 months.

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "PASI: Expanding the Frontier in Tropical Ecology through Embedded Sensors." Total funding will be $100,000 over 24 months.

Mauro Maggioni of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Online Social Networks: Measurement and Characterization Methodologies." Total funding will be $95,000 over 36 months.

Storrs T. Mitchell-Olds of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Molecular causes and fitness consequences of complex trait variation." Total funding will be $287,693 over 23 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 $204,997 over 23 months.

Ronald E. Parr of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Computing Innovation Fellows Project." Total funding will be $140,000 over 12 months.

Michael C. Reed of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Supplemental Request: Analysis of Mechanisms of Biochemical Homeostasis." Total funding will be $41,069 over 12 months.

Barbara R. Shaw of Chemistry has received an award from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for a project entitled "The Pharmacodynamics of Genes and Oligonucleotides." Total funding will be $39,762 over 7 months.

David R. Sherwood of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Genetic Analysis of Cell Invasion Through Basement Membranes." Total funding will be $242,176 over 24 months.

Timothy Strauman of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from Columbia University for a project entitled "Approach/Avoidance Orientations and Operations." Total funding will be $75,000 over 9 months.

Carlo Tomasi of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "RI: Small: Visual Parts for Image and Video Analysis." Total funding will be $99,973 over 11 months.

Carlo Tomasi of Computer Science has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Inference for Identity Management." Total funding will be $50,000 over 9 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 $145,790 over 22 months.

Hans J. Van Miegroet of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies has received an award from the French American Cultural Exchange for a project entitled "Art-Science at the Interface of the Humanities, Social Sciences." Total funding will be $40,000 over 12 months.

Henry R. Weller of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Development of a New Method for Interrogating Special Nuclear Materials Based Upon Polarized (gamma,n) Asymmetries.." Total funding will be $2,000,000 over 60 months.

Keith E. Whitfield of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from Wayne State University for a project entitled "Epidemiology of late-life depression and ethnicity research study (ELLDERS)." Total funding will be $172,295 over 35 months.

Ross Widenhoefer of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "MRI: Acquisition of An Accu-TOF DART Mass Spectrometer." Total funding will be $187,865 over 36 months.

Jun Yang of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "III: Small: RIOT: Statistical Computing with Efficient, Transparent I/O." Total funding will be $500,000 over 36 months.

Xiaowei Yang of Computer Science has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "A Multidisciplinary Approach to Network Architecture Design." Total funding will be $400,000 over 59 months.

Xiaowei Yang of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "NETS-FIND: An Internet Architecture for User-Controlled Routes." Total funding will be $162,986 over 1 month.

Divinity School

The Divinity School has no new awards during the month of September 2009.

Fuqua School of Business

The Fuqua School of Business had no new awards for the month of September 2009.

Nicholas School of the Environment

Paul A. Baker of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Holocene Drought in the North American Interior." Total funding will be $30,116 over 22 months.

James S. Clark of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the Forest Service for a project entitled "Effects of drought on competition for water in southeastern Forests." Total funding will be $55,000 over 36 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Ship's Scientific Support Equipment: R/V Cape Hatteras 2009." Total funding will be $113,200 over 23 months.

Richard T. Di Giulio of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a project entitled "Superfund Research Center Bioassay Network - Collaboration with US EPA^*.." Total funding will be $75,272 over 6 months.

Richard T. Di Giulio of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, for a project entitled "Administrative Supplement to the Center for Comparative Biology of Vulnerable Populations." Total funding will be $309,808 over 11 months.

Richard T. Di Giulio of the Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, for a project entitled "SBRP Recovery Supplement - Superfund Chemical Impacts on Development." Total funding will be $193,935 over 24 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Developing the Next Generation Marine Mammal Information Center for Integrated Ocean Observing: OBIS-SEAMAP 2.0." Total funding will be $213,360 over 10 months.

David W. Johnston of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a project entitled "Quantifying the effects of human interactions on spinner dolphins in resting bays in Hawaii." Total funding will be $203,733 over 36 months.

M. Susan Lozier of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Continuation and enhancement of the MPOWIR program." Total funding will be $397,534 over 48 months.

Jeffrey E. Moore of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Pew Charitable Trusts for a project entitled "A Model-based Decision Tool for Setting Incidental Take Limits for Marine Turtles in U.S. Fisheries." Total funding will be $54,000 over 12 months.

Douglas P. Nowacek of the Marine Lab has received an award from Florida State University for a project entitled "A review of literature to estimate PCAD related transfer functions." Total funding will be $40,460 over 9 months.

Dean L. Urban of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Reconciling human and natural systems for the equitable provision of ecosystem services in the Triangle of North Carolina." Total funding will be $80,669 over 30 months.

Cindy L. Van Dover of the Marine Lab has received an award from the International Seabed Authority for a project entitled "Developing Conservation Strategies for Seafloor Massive Sulvide (SMS) Ecosystems." Total funding will be $41,456 over 9 months.

Pratt School of Engineering

Roger C. Barr of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the University of Alabama at Birmingham for a project entitled "Novel Methods for Cardiac Microimpedance Measurement." Total funding will be $79,203 over 9 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Pilot Study Graduate Student Career Perceptions and Decisions." Total funding will be $62,948 over 12 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Advanced Wavelet-Based Analysis of Hyper-Spectral Imagery - Follow-On Supplement." Total funding will be $525,000 over 24 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Metron, Inc. for a project entitled "Compressive Sensing in the Tactical Underwater Environment." Total funding will be $35,000 over 7 months.

Leslie M. Collins of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Statistical Signal Processing for Remote Sensing of Targets: Proposal for Terrestrial Science Program." Total funding will be $2,970,991 over 36 months.

Leslie M. Collins of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Towards Clinical Acceptability: Enhancing Performance of the P300-based Brain-Computer Interface via Improved Stimulus Selection and Signal Processing." Total funding will be $424,897 over 23 months.

Steven A. Cummer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Boeing Company for a project entitled "Negative Index Materials - Supplement." Total funding will be $3,000 over 5 months.

Christopher L. Dwyer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Self-assembled Nanomaterials for Hybrid Electronic and Photonic Systems." Total funding will be $1,000,000 over 60 months.

Nan M. Jokerst of the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics has received an award from SensorMetrix for a project entitled "Large Area IR Metamaterial Films." Total funding will be $16,500 over 8 months.

Thomas C. Katsouleas of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative: Student Training through Research on Plasma-Based Research." Total funding will be $399,999 over 59 months.

Robert E. Kielb of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Research Laboratory for a project entitled "Collaborative Research in Turbomachinery Aeromechanics: Duke Guide 4." Total funding will be $1,442,322 over 48 months.

Alexis M. Kuncel of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Time Course of Parkinson's Symptoms in Response to Deep Brain Stimulation." Total funding will be $156,000 over 23 months.

Peter Lange has received an award, on behalf of the Pratt Dean's Office, from the National Institutes of Health, for a project entitled "Extramural Research Facilities Improvement Program." Total funding will be $4,213,882 over 57 months.

Kam W. Leong of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Development of Electroactive PVDF Membrane for Wound Healing." Total funding will be $125,000 over 6 months.

Brian P. Mann of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CAREER Travel Supplement: Measurement and Predictive Dynamics of Meso-scale Milling." Total funding will be $3,000 over 8 months.

Piotr E. Marszalek of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Nanomechanics of Spiral Proteins." Total funding will be $238,150 over 23 months.

Matthew S. Reynolds of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Assistive Object Manipulation via RFID Guided Robots." Total funding will be $234,612 over 36 months.

Lisa L. Satterwhite of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Novel Zebrafish Models to Study Toxicity of PCBs and Pesticides During Pregnancy." Total funding will be $39,000 over 12 months.

Sanford School of Public Policy

School of Law

Gaurang M. Gulati has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Workshop: Evaluating Judges, Judging and Judicial Institutions." Total funding will be $30,000 over 12 months.

Univ Administration & Centers

Katherine Ewing of South Asian Studies has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled "Variations on Definitions of Terrorism in South Asia." Total funding will be $5,500 over 5 months.

Deborah L. Jakubs of Perkins Libraries has received an award from the Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies Incorporated for a project entitled "TUCASI Data Infrastructure Project (TIP)." Total funding will be $725,000 over 24 months.

Rochelle D. Schwartz-Bloom of the Master of Arts in Teaching program has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "The Robert Noyce Fellows at Duke University." Total funding will be $23,200 over 44 months.

University Interdisciplinary Centers

Elizabeth Brannon of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from Yale University for a project entitled "Neuroimaging of the Development of Neural Mechanisms for Number Processing." Total funding will be $325,189 over 41 months.

Elizabeth Brannon of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "The Spatial Foundations of Time and Number Representation." Total funding will be $109,300 over 24 months.

Nicolas Buchler of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy has received an award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for a project entitled "Career Award at the Scientific Interface." Total funding will be $288,000 over 47 months.

Mark A. Chaves of Sociology has received an award from the Lilly Endowment for a project entitled "Planning a Research Project on Congregational Boards." Total funding will be $49,999 over 16 months.

William A. Darity, Jr. of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics 2." Total funding will be $150,683 over 36 months.

Gary Gereffi of the Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness has received an award from the Chilean Economic Development Agency for a project entitled "CORFO - The Chilean Economic Development Agency." Total funding will be $50,000 over 10 months.

Gary Gereffi of the Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness has received an award from the Environmental Defense Fund for a project entitled "China Environmental 'Hot Spots.'" Total funding will be $35,000 over 20 months.

Gary Gereffi of the Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness has received an award from the Environmental Defense Fund for a project entitled "Manufacturing Climate Solutions: The U.S. Insulation Industry." Total funding will be $25,000 over 16 months.

Gary Gereffi of the Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness has received an award from the Inter-American Development Bank for a project entitled "Engineering Services in Latin America." Total funding will be $30,000 over 8 months.

Michael A. Gillespie of Political Science has received an award from the Jack Miller Center for a project entitled "Jack Miller Center Post-Doctoral Fellowship." Total funding will be $50,000 over 11 months.

Jennifer M. Groh of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Neural Basis of the Perception of Sound Location." Total funding will be $659,405 over 48 months.

Robin Kirk of the Franklin Humanities Institute has received an award from the Andrus Family Fund for a project entitled "Pauli Murray Project - Transition Coach." Total funding will be $3,500 over 12 months.

Lydia P. Olander of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the Environmental Defense Fund for a project entitled "25,000 Ton Project." Total funding will be $11,000 over 1 month.

Jennifer W. Owen of Child & Family Policy has received an award from Georgetown University for a project entitled "Consortium of University-Based Child & Family Policy Programs." Total funding will be $4,109 over 10 months.

David H. Schanzer of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled "Community Acceptance Panel on Perceptions of Emerging National Security Technologies and Processes." Total funding will be $119,493 over 12 months.

David H. Schanzer of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled "Survey Methodologies for Studying Radicalization Workshop." Total funding will be $25,081 over 12 months.

James W. Vaupel of Population, Policy and Aging Research has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Exceptional Survival in Danish and Italian Families." Total funding will be $731,139 over 8 months.

James W. Vaupel of Population, Policy and Aging Research has received a program-project grant award from the National Institutes of Health, for a program entitled "Demography of Sex Differences in Health and Survival." Total funding will be $849,791 over 59 months. It includes the following projects:
- a project headed by Susan C. Alberts, which will receive total funding of $241,886.
- a project headed by James W. Vaupel, which will receive total funding of $204,239.
- a project headed by James W. Vaupel, which will receive total funding of $229,787.
- An additional $173,879 is attributed to the program. This includes funds awarded for projects outside of Duke, as well as funds not yet assigned to projects.

Marty G. Woldorff of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Attentional Mechanisms in Multisensory Environments." Total funding will be $96,500 over 4 months.

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