April 2005 Awards*

William K. Allard of Mathematics has received an award from Los Alamos National Laboratory for a project entitled "Geometric measure theory for the analysis of image and image-like data in collaboration with the 'metrics, regularization and geometric analysis' working group." Total funding will be $75,000 over 36 months.

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Seed Disperal by Wind and Plant Recruitment in Tropical Forests." Total funding will be $97,020 over 11 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Standoff Inverse Analysis and Manipulation of Electronics Systems (SIAMES)." Total funding will be $653,381 over 60 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Semi-Supervised, Multi-Sensor Learning for Underwater Sensing." Total funding will be $190,000 over 30 months.

Krishnendu Chakrabarty of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "ITR: Collaborative Research: Reconfigurable Architectures for Bio- Molecular Detection: Modeling, Experimentation, and Optimization (Supplement)." Total funding will be $11,250 over 4 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Elastin Fusion Proteins." Total funding will be $1,040,218 over 48 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems has received an award from the NC Biotechnology Center for a project entitled "International Symposium on Biointerface Science." Total funding will be $1,500 over 12 months.

Stephen A. Cohn of Duke University Press has received an award from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation for a project entitled "Support/Publication of Nancy Goodwin's Book Montrose: Life in a Garden." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Stephen A. Cohn of Duke University Press has received an award from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation for a project entitled "Support/Publication of James Applewhite's Selected Poems." Total funding will be $4,000 over 12 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 $80,000 over 2 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V Cape Hatteras (supplement)." Total funding will be $4,500 over 2 months.

Larry B. Crowder of the Marine Lab has received an award from Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. for a project entitled "Red-cockaded woodpecker population dynamics in and around Plum Creek Timber Company land in Southern Arkansas." Total funding will be $11,000 over 12 months.

Richard T. Di Giulio of the Nicholas School has received a program-project grant award from the National Institutes of Health, for a program entitled "Superfund Basic Research and Training Program." Total funding will be $2,356,452 over 47 months. It includes the following projects:

- a project headed by Richard T. Di Giulio, which will receive total funding of $110,136.
- a project headed by Richard T. Di Giulio, which will receive total funding of $311,129.
- a project headed by Jonathan H. Freedman, which will receive total funding of $230,908.
- a project headed by Jonathan H. Freedman, which will receive total funding of $380,377.
- a project headed by Edward D. Levin, which will receive total funding of $250,620.
- a project headed by Edward D. Levin, which will receive total funding of $131,220.
- a project headed by Elwood A. Linney, which will receive total funding of $229,611.
- a project headed by Marie L. Miranda, which will receive total funding of $93,726.
- a project headed by Marie L. Miranda, which will receive total funding of $135,836.
- a project headed by Andrew J. Schuler, which will receive total funding of $234,016.
- a project headed by Theodore A. Slotkin, which will receive total funding of $248,873.

Kenneth A. Dodge of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the NC Department of Health and Human Services for a project entitled "Evaluation of Multiple Response System." Total funding will be $396,531 over 19 months.

Earl H. Dowell of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Funding for Advanced Wind Tunnel Test Equipment to Support Current and Proposed AFOSR/Duke University Research Efforts." Total funding will be $81,000 over 12 months.

Christine Drea of Biological Anthropology has received an REU Supplement award from the National Science Foundation for student Katy Sharrock of Northwestern University, for a project entitled "Patterns of lemur reproductive and behavioral development." Total funding will be $3,500 over 26 months.

Herbert Edelsbrunner of Computer Science has received an award from Stanford University for a project entitled "Topological Methods for the Analysis of High Dimensional Data Sets and 3D Objects Recognition." Total funding will be $209,194 over 18 months.

David Erickson of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Constraining the CO2 Missing Sink." Total funding will be $87,790 over 36 months.

Kathryn K. Fenn of Film & Video has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Women Film Pioneers International Shorts Reels and Premiere." Total funding will be $1,700 over 18 months.

Brad A. Fox of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from Guidant Corporation for a project entitled "Master of Engineering Management in Biomedical Engineering." Total funding will be $37,500 over 58 months.

Alan Gelfand of ISDS has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Optimal Spatial Design for Environmental Health Research." Total funding will be $401,252 over 24 months.

Steven L. Hensen of Perkins Library has received an award from the State Library for a project entitled "Planning Project Proposal--NC ECHO Heritage Partners Program." Total funding will be $15,000 over 6 months.

Steven L. Hensen of Perkins Library has received an award from the National Film Preservation Foundation for a project entitled "H. Lee Waters Film Preservation." Total funding will be $4,360 over 14 months.

Han Hong of Economics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Semiparametric Efficient Estimation for Models of Measurement Errors and Missing Data." Total funding will be $116,301 over 23 months.

Lisa G. Huettel of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Hewlett Packard for a project entitled "Bridging the Gap: Using Mobile Technology to Integrate Classroom and Laboratory Experiences to Teach Fundamentals of Electrical and Computer Engineering." Total funding consists of $15,500 plus $58,000 in-kind support (equipment) for a project period of 9 months.

William L. Hylander of the Primate Center has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Continued Support of the Duke University Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History (Supplement)." Total funding will be $200,384 over 10 months.

Andrei Khlystov of Civil Engineering has received an award from the State of Delaware for a project entitled "Enhanced Delaware Air Toxics Assessment Study." Total funding will be $18,000 over 14 months.

Elizabeth Kiss of the Kenan Institute for Ethics has received an award from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation for a project entitled "Support/Publication of Finding God for the Information Age by Dr. Saul Boyarsky." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Claudia Koonz of History has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Gender and Ethnic Conflict." Total funding will be $3,000 over 12 months.

Kenneth C. Land of Sociology has received an award from the Foundation for Child Development for a project entitled "Developing a Child Well-Being Index." Total funding will be $80,434 over 71 months.

Jie Liu of Chemistry has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Category 1 - Carbon-based Hydrogen Storage Center - Duke University - Growth of Uniform Carbon Nanotubes Using Molecular Cluster as Catalysts." Total funding will be $200,000 over 60 months.

Jie Liu of Chemistry has received an award from the Rice University for a project entitled "Type-Selected SWNT Growth Using Pre-Catalyzed SWNT Seeds." Total funding will be $82,116 over 12 months.

Qing Liu of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "NUFFT for Multimodality in Vivo Imaging." Total funding will be $333,623 over 24 months.

Qing Liu of Electrical Engineering has received an REU Supplement award from the National Science Foundation to support two undergraduate students for a project entitled "Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Electromagnetic and Acoustic Imaging." Total funding will be $12,000 over 4 months.

M. Susan Lozier of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: The Influence of the Mediterranean Overflow Water on the Climate Variability of the North Atlantic." Total funding will be $375,348 over 48 months.

Paul Magwene of Biology has received an award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities for a project entitled "Degenerate and Phylogenetically Structured Probe Design for Multi-Species Microarrays." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Kathryn R. Nightingale of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging of Colorectal Tissues." Total funding will be $1,467,425 over 60 months.

Stephen Nowicki of Biology has received a fellowship award from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Elizabeth Derryberry, for a project entitled "DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Sources of selection on a complex sexual signal." Total funding will be $11,769 over 24 months.

Richard A. Palmer of Chemistry has received an award from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation for a project entitled "Support/Collaborative Work with Adele DeCruz/Erbium: Yag Laser Project." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Zhen-Ming Pei of DCMB has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "External-calcium Signal Transduction in Arabidopsis Guard Cells." Total funding will be $450,000 over 36 months.

David L. Rabiner of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the Department of Education for a project entitled "A Randomized Trial of Two Promising Interventions for Students with Attention Problems." Total funding will be $1,150,719 over 36 months.

Andrew J. Read of the Marine Lab has received an award from NC Sea Grant for a project entitled "Behavior of Green Turtles in Shallow Water Gill Net Fishing Grounds." Total funding will be $94,262 over 12 months.

John Reif of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "EMT: NSF Workshop on Programmed Self-Assembly." Total funding will be $30,000 over 6 months.

Thomas Robisheaux of History has received an award from the Max Kade Foundation for a project entitled "4th FNI International Conference: Orthodoxies and Diversities in Early Modern German-Speaking Europe." Total funding will be $8,000 over 6 months.

Thomas Robisheaux of History has received an award from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a project entitled "Fruehe Neuzeit Interdisziplinaer: Orthodoxies and Diversities." Total funding will be $6,000 over 6 months.

Susan H. Rodger of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "An Interactive Approach to Formal Languages and Automata with JFLAP." Total funding will be $359,440 over 36 months.

Suzanne E. Shanahan of Sociology has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "The Great Re-Transformation." Total funding will be $2,500 over 12 months.

Karin Shapiro of History has received an award from the NC Humanities Council for a project entitled "Double Vision: A Journey into the South African Diaspora in North Carolina." Total funding will be $1,200 over 6 months.

Arthur Jonathan Shaw of Biology has received an REU Supplement award from the National Science Foundation to support two undergraduate students for a project entitled "Databasing Bryophytes from the Southeastern U.S. in the Duke University Herbarium." Total funding will be $12,000 over 10 months.

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the University of California – Berkeley for a project entitled "Scalable and Reconfigurable Electromagnetic Metamaterials and Devices." Total funding will be $103,000 over 16 months.

Kenneth J. Surin of Literature has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Political Order and Modernity." Total funding will be $4,000 over 12 months.

John W. Terborgh of the Nicholas School has received an award from Conservation International for a project entitled "Comparing Methodologies for Improved Protected Area Evaluation in the Vilcabamba- Amboro Corridor." Total funding will be $20,000 over 6 months.

John E. Thomas of Physics has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "All- Optical Production of Degnerate Fermi Gas Mixtures." Total funding will be $95,000 over 12 months.

Gregg E. Trahey of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Liver Cancer Ablation Guidance by ARFI Imaging." Total funding will be $1,480,926 over 60 months.

Gennifer Weisenfeld of Art & Art History has received an award from the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures for a project entitled "The Fine Art of Persuasion: Commercial Design in Twentieth-Century Japan." Total funding will be $42,611 over 12 months.

Pei Zhong of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Siemens Medical Systems, Inc. for a project entitled "Duke-Siemens Lithotripsy Research Collaboration." Total funding will be $80,000 over 24 months.

*School of Medicine awards are listed separately:

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

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Last updated May 3, 2005, by Ken Macdonald