April 2006 Awards*

Susan C. Alberts of Biology has received an award from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation for a project entitled "Elephant Behavior, Socio-ecology and Crop Raiding in the Amboseli Ecosystem." Total funding will be $28,476 over 19 months.

Rebecca B. Bach Hedlund of Sociology has received an award from the American Sociological Association for a project entitled "The Experience of Motherhood among Battered Women: Developing Appropriate Intervention Programming." Total funding will be $2,500 over 12 months.

Emily S. Bernhardt of Biology has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Restoring biogeochemical functions in degraded urban stream ecosystems." Total funding will be $49,479 over 12 months.

Fred K. Boadu of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists for a project entitled "The Processing and Interpretation of Data for Oil and Gas Exploration." Total funding will be $10,000 over 12 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Navy Ship Time on R/V Cape Hatteras, CY 2006." Total funding will be $448,721 over 8 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment." Total funding will be $8,246 over 24 months.

Larry B. Crowder of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute for a project entitled "A Decision Support System for Identifying and Ranking Critical Habitat Parcels." Total funding will be $20,792 over 9 months.

Jonathon N. Cummings of Fuqua School of Business has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU Supplement: Fostering Innovation in Organization through Geographically Dispersed Teams & Networks." Total funding will be $9,750 over 9 months.

Richard B. Forward Jr. of the Marine Lab has received an award from NC Sea Grant for a project entitled "Blue crab post-larval immigration into an estuary." Total funding will be $36,415 over 12 months.

John D. French of History has received an award from the University of Notre Dame for a project entitled "Kellogg Institute Fellowship." Total funding will be $30,000 over 4 months.

Devendra P. Garg of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Department of Defense for a project entitled "Integrated Sensor Fusion Platform: Engineering Science Directorate." Total funding will be $60,000 over 12 months.

Alan Gelfand of ISDS has received an award from the University of Minnesota for a project entitled "Hierarchical Modeling Approaches for Geographical Boundary Analysis in Cancer Studies." Total funding will be $71,434 over 11 months.

Gary Gereffi of Sociology has received an award from the University of California - Santa Barbara for a project entitled "NSEC: Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS)." Total funding will be $70,224 over 48 months.

Elizabeth J. Gifford of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Multilevel Modeling of Inpatient Care: Comorbid Youth." Total funding will be $155,626 over 23 months.

Michael A. Gillespie of Political Science has received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "The Duke Program in American Values and Institutions." Total funding will be $30,088 over 36 months.

Kenneth C. Hall of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from GE Global Research for a project entitled "Turbomachinery Aeroperformance, Aeroacoustics, and Aeromechanics Research." Total funding will be $75,000 over 9 months.

Joseph A. Izatt of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy of Cellular Dynamics." Total funding will be $567,433 over 36 months.

Jennifer A. Jenkins of the School of Law has received an award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for a project entitled "Center for the Study of the Public Domain: Arts Project." Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

William Kirby Smith of the Marine Lab has received an award from the North Carolina Coastal Federation for a project entitled "Water Quality Monitoring of Wetlands Restoration at North River Farms (supplement)." Total funding will be $14,974 over 14 months.

William Kirby Smith of the Marine Lab has received an award from Agropecuaroa y Comercial del Parana, SA for a project entitled "Development of a Plan for Non-Destructive Uses of the Atlantic Forest Owned by Agropeco, SA in Paraguay." Total funding will be $14,453 over 11 months.

Tod A. Laursen of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the Medtronic Foundation for a project entitled "Medtronic Undergarduate and Graduate Scholars in Engineering." Total funding will be $234,000 over 36 months.

Timothy W. Lenoir of University Professors in Arts has received an award from the University of California - Santa Barbara for a project entitled "The Center for Nanotechnology and Society." Total funding will be $74,589 over 60 months.

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "International Research Experiences for Graduate Students in Tropical Ecology." Total funding will be $150,000 over 36 months.

Miguel A. Medina of Civil Engineering has received an award from Luna Innovations Inc. for a project entitled "High Resolution Acoustic Groundwater Flow Monitor (suuplement)." Total funding will be $8,000 over 17 months.

Sarah L. Minnis of Duke University Police Department has received an award from the City of Durham for a project entitled "Durham Information Integration Project." Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

Angela M. O'Rand of Sociology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Childhood Exposures and Adulthood Cardiovascular Disease." Total funding will be $49,714 over 12 months.

Ram Oren of the Nicholas School has received an award from the University of Alabama for a project entitled "Amendment; Measurements and Modeling of Net Carbon Exchange over a Southeastern Loblolly Pine Plantation at the Duke Forest Ameriflux." Total funding will be $21,883 over 4 months.

Sule Ozev of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Hierarchical Testing and Yield Enhancements of High End Integrated RF Systems." Total funding will be $44,999 over 36 months.

Nimmi Ramanujam of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Fiber Probe Design for Epithelial Precancer Detection." Total funding will be $274,740 over 24 months.

Andrew J. Read of the Marine Lab has received an award from NC Sea Grant for a project entitled "Estimating abundance of bottlenose dolphins in North Carolina." Total funding will be $49,290 over 12 months.

Daniel A. Reed of Computer Science has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "RENCI Research Support." Total funding will be $10,792 over 5 months.

Daniel Richter Jr. of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Geoinformatics Research: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Critical Zone Exploration Network." Total funding will be $49,804 over 24 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from NC Sea Grant for a project entitled "Informing Blue Crab Managers: Activity and Fecundity of Crabs from Terminal Molt to Death." Total funding will be $33,543 over 12 months.

William H. Schlesinger of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for a project entitled "Doris Duke Conservation Fellows Program." Total funding will be $126,050 over 20 months.

Andrew J. Schuler of Civil Engineering has received an award from Entex Technologies Inc. for a project entitled "Development of Integrated Fixed Film Activated Sludge (IFAS) Technologies for Biological Wastewater Treatment in North Carolina." Total funding will be $20,000 over 24 months.

Jessica O. Thomas of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance for a project entitled "Duke-EWH CUREs Final Competition." Total funding will be $4,858 over 7 months.

Jingdong Tian of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for a project entitled "A New Platform for Synthetic Biology." Total funding will be $264,000 over 36 months.

Stephanos Venakides of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Conference on Recent Advances in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations." Total funding will be $25,000 over 12 months.

Rebecca M. Willett of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "Computer Science Study Group Participation." Total funding will be $74,697 over 12 months.

Jun Yang of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CAREER: Techniques and Applications of Derived Data Maintenance (Supplement)." Total funding will be $12,000 over 28 months.

Anne D. Yoder of the Lemur Center has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Continued Support of the Duke University Primate Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History." Total funding will be $1,921,810 over 60 months.

Xin Zhou of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Riemann-Hilbert Problem and Integrable Systems." Total funding will be $125,364 over 36 months.

*Schools of Medicine and Nursing awards are listed separately:

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

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Last updated July 18, 2006, by Ken Macdonald