April 2004 Awards*

Susan C. Alberts of Biology has received a fellowship award from the National Science Foundation for student Julie A. Hollister-Smith, for a project entitled "DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Behavioral responses of male African elephants (Loxodonta africana) to musth urine." Total funding will be $10,000 over 12 months.

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a project entitled "Interactions Between Agricultural Development in Southwestern US/Northwestern Mexico and the North American Monsoon with a Focus on Water Resources." Total funding will be $330,000 over 12 months.

Steffen A. Bass of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Hot Quarks 2004 - A Workshop on the Physics of Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions for Young Scientists." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Charles M. Becker of Economics has received an award from the American Economic Association for a project entitled "American Economic Association Summer Program and Minority Scholarship Program." Total funding will be $65,000 over 5 months.

Robert P. Behringer of Physics has received an award from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for a project entitled "Nature of Particle Collisions and Interactions." Total funding will be $100,000 over 6 months.

David J. Brady of the Fitzpatrick Center has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Stereolithography for Rapid Prototyping of 3D Optical Systems." Total funding will be $228,800 over 12 months.

Gregory Britz of Documentary Studies has received an award from the Reva and David Logan Foundation for a project entitled "Jazz Loft Tape Preservation and Public Presentation." Total funding will be $330,000 over 36 months.

Gregory Britz of Documentary Studies has received an award from the Recording Academy for a project entitled "Jazz Loft Audio Tape & Oral History Preservation Project." Total funding will be $49,880 over 24 months.

John F. Burness of Public Affairs and Government has received an award from the North Carolina State Board of Education for a project entitled "21st Century Community Learning Centers." Total funding will be $88,455 over 12 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Engineering Technology Inc. for a project entitled "Electromagnetic Modeling of the HSTAMIDS Radar System for Development of a Virtual Minefield." Total funding will be $100,000 over 11 months.

J. Kameron Carter of Divinity has received an award from the Louisville Institute for a project entitled "Singing in a Strange Land: Religion & Black Intellectual Imagination, 1896-1940." Total funding will be $45,000 over 13 months.

J. Kameron Carter of Divinity has received an award from the Wabash Center for a project entitled "Dramas of Suffering: Cornell West, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the Meaning of Modernity." Total funding will be $7,000 over 3 months.

Albert Chang of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Novel Spin Physics in Parallel Coupled Double Quantum Dots." Total funding will be $169,232 over 9 months.

Jeffrey S. Chase of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Student Stipends to Attend USENIX NSDI and FAST Conferences." Total funding will be $8,400 over 6 months.

Norman L. Christensen of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Department of Agriculture for a project entitled "Fire History in Among Southern Appalachian Forest Types." Total funding will be $63,500 over 25 months.

Leslie M. Collins of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Science Applications International Corporation for a project entitled "Analysis Algorithms for the Spectral Analysis and Decision-Making Process of SAIC's PELAN System." Total funding will be $100,000 over 10 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Ship Operations - RV Cape Hatteras, Year 3 of 5." Total funding will be $929,484 over 34 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the University of South Carolina for a project entitled "Subcontract between the University of South Carolina and Duke University." Total funding will be $86,800 over 3 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Ship Support on R/V Cape Hatteras CY 2004." Total funding will be $85,700 over 9 months.

Steven A. Cummer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Quantum Applied Research, Inc. for a project entitled "Compact Man-Portable Lightning Detection System." Total funding will be $124,961 over 24 months.

Steven A. Cummer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Quantitative Measurements of Lightning-Mesosphere Interactions from Remote Electromagnetic Fields." Total funding will be $40,986 over 12 months.

Kenneth A. Dodge of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the University of Illinois at Chicago for a project entitled "Community Variation in Preventive Intervention Impact." Total funding will be $40,250 over 3 months.

Earl H. Dowell of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Clear Science Corporation for a project entitled "Computational Models for Nonlinear Aeroelastic Systems." Total funding will be $49,883 over 12 months.

Morton H. Friedman of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled "Coronary Artery Dynamic Geometry and Atherosclerosis." Total funding will be $2,263,432 over 47 months.

Craig S. Henriquez of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Computational Tools for Multi-Scale Heart Modeling." Total funding will be $1,716,098 over 46 months.

David K. Hyrenbach of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Point Reyes Bird Observatory for a project entitled "Oceanic Habitats and Conservation of North Pacific Seabird Populations." Total funding will be $9,759 over 1 month.

L. Gregory Jones of Divinity has received an award from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation for a project entitled "Fund Raising for a Building Addition." Total funding will be $150,000 over 12 months.

Kenneth R. Knoerr of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Department of Agriculture for a project entitled "Methods to Measure and Control Trace Gases in Chambers Using a New Computer Hardware and Software System." Total funding will be $22,000 over 8 months.

Randall Kramer of the Nicholas School has received an award from Environmental Defense for a project entitled "Economic Tools for Valuing and Managing Ecosystems: Improving Water Management in North Carolina." Total funding will be $22,000 over 4 months.

David R. Morrison of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation on behalf of incoming Assistant Research Professor Anita Layton, for a project entitled "ADVANCE Fellows Award: Mathematical Modeling of Renal Physiology." Total funding will be $435,285 over 36 months.

David R. Morrison of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation on behalf of incoming Visiting Assistant Professor Andrew Comech, for a project entitled "Harmonic Analysis and Nonlinear Hamiltonian Equations." Total funding will be $38,989 over 13 months.

Laura Niklason of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from Organ Recovery Systems for a project entitled "Vitrification for Tissue Engineered Blood Vessels (Phase II)." Total funding will be $187,800 over 24 months.

Stephen Nowicki of Biology has received a fellowship award from the National Science Foundation for student Renee A. Duckworth, for a project entitled "DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Fitness cost of nest defense: a trade-off with offspring care?" Total funding will be $10,000 over 24 months.

Kathleen Pryer of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CAREER: Reconciling patterns of phylogenetic rate heterogenity in ferns with morphology, ecology and life history." Total funding will be $678,171 over 62 months.

Dale Purves of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "The Perception of Visual Space." Total funding will be $462,000 over 35 months.

Ann Marie Rasmussen of Germanic Languages has received an award from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst for a project entitled "Beginnings and Endings of Modernity in German-Speaking Lands." Total funding will be $6,000 over 12 months.

Jing-Sheng Song of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Multi-Product Assemble-to-Order Systems: Performance Optimization and Supply Chain Applications." Total funding will be $62,134 over 5 months.

P. J. Eric Stallard of Demographic Studies has received an award from the Philadelphia Veterans Administration for a project entitled "VHA Utlization and Cost for Veterans Found in the NLTCS." Total funding will be $67,500 over 9 months.

Tai-Ping Sun of DCMB has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "The Mechanism of Gibberellin-Induced Proteolysis of RGA in Arabidopsis." Total funding will be $600,000 over 48 months.

John W. Terborgh of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Wildlife Conservation Society for a project entitled "Evaluating the Conservation Status of Amazonian Landscapes." Total funding will be $66,000 over 21 months.

Mike West of ISDS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Modeling of Graphs, Networks and Trees for Genomic Applications: High-Dimensional Model Search." Total funding will be $1,910,000 over 60 months.

Wendy Wood of Psychology: Social & Health Science has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Self-Regulation and Habitual Behaviour." Total funding will be $134,123 over 17 months.

Gary A. Ybarra of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "MUSIC: Math Understanding through Science Integrated with Curriculum (SUPPLEMENT)." Total funding will be $15,000 over 56 months.

*School of Medicine awards are listed separately:

http://meddeandirect.mc.duke.edu/awards.asp

(Please note this is an intranet address exclusively for the duke.edu domain.)

Last updated May 4, 2004, by Ken Macdonald