April 2007 Awards*

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Measurement of ABL Turbulent Fluxes with the Duke University HOP." Total funding will be $50,000 over 9 months.

Robert P. Behringer of Physics has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Multiscale Phenomena in the Solid-Liquid Transition State of a Granular Material." Total funding will be $240,617 over 24 months.

Alma G. Blount of Public Policy Studies has received an award from Middlebury College for student Priscilla Baek, for a project entitled "Beyond the Border: Reconciling Relations Among College-aged South Korean and North Korean Refugees." Total funding will be $10,000 over 5 months.

Sherryl A. Broverman of Biology has received an award from Middlebury College for student Chetan Jhaveri, for a project entitled "Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER) in Kenya." Total funding will be $10,000 over 5 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Innovation Core SEI, Inc. for a project entitled "Development of p-type GaN by Plasma Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE)." Total funding will be $38,400 over 6 months.

Linda M. Burton of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from the University of North Carolina for a project entitled "Family Life Project: Children in Rural Poverty - Risk and Protective Mechanisms." Total funding will be $181,765 over 2 months.

Krishnendu Chakrabarty of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Semiconductor Research Corp. for a project entitled "Test-Pattern Modeling with Application to Test-Set Selection, Test Generation, and Logic BIST." Total funding will be $292,381 over 36 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials & Material Systems has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Thermally Triggered Multivalent Targeting of Tumors." Total funding will be $1,403,719 over 46 months.

Norman L. Christensen of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled "Defense Coastal/Estuarine Research Program." Total funding will be $69,138 over 60 months.

Wesley M. Cohen of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for a project entitled "Conference on the 'Business' of Intellectual Property." Total funding will be $15,041 over 6 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 2007." Total funding will be $462,450 over 8 months.

Earl H. Dowell of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Improved Physical Understanding of Limit Cycle Oscillations in Support of Flight Flutter Testing." Total funding will be $299,783 over 32 months.

Glenn Edwards of Physics has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Biomedical and Biological Research Applications of a Storage-Ring Free-Electron Laser." Total funding will be $2,000,000 over 9 months.

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Business Cycle Model without Commitment." Total funding will be $44,847 over 13 months.

Henri P. Gavin of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "SGER NEESR Payload Project to NEESR II Earthquake Hazard Reduction for Critical Facilities." Total funding will be $69,712 over 24 months.

Gary Gereffi of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from ACDI/VOCA for a project entitled "The Post-MFA Global Value Chain in Apparel - Employment, Upgrading, and Poverty Reduction: Winners and Losers." Total funding will be $15,923 over 8 months.

Jeffrey T. Glass of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "SST: Development of a Micro Mass Spectrometer and the Design of a Spectrometer-Based Distributed Sensor Network-Supplement." Total funding will be $6,000 over 5 months.

Alfred T. Goshaw of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Travel Grants for Graduate Students to Attend the April 2007 APS Meeting." Total funding will be $7,000 over 12 months.

Warren M. Grill of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Academy of Sciences for a project entitled "In Situ Polymerized Interfaces for Peripheral Nerve Recording and Stiumlation." Total funding will be $75,000 over 14 months.

John Harer of Mathematics has received an award from Phenotype Screening Corporation for a project entitled "Representation and Visualization of Plant Genotypic, Phenotypic and Environmental Relationships." Total funding will be $45,000 over 12 months.

David K. Hyrenbach of the Marine Lab has received an award from the University of Miami for a project entitled "Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation." Total funding will be $150,000 over 36 months.

James A. Joseph of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Annie E. Casey Foundation for a project entitled "Operating and Program Support for the Center for Leadership and Public Values at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Values." Total funding will be $100,000 over 9 months.

Jeffrey L. Krolik of Electrical Engineering has received an award from MIT Lincoln Laboratory for a project entitled "MIMO Space-Time Adaptive Processing for Next-Generation Over-the-Horizon HF Radar." Total funding will be $75,000 over 12 months.

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from Michigan State University for a project entitled "LTREB: Long-term Woody Seedling Dynamics in a Wet Tropical Forest: Mechanisms of Species Co-Existence." Total funding will be $26,304 over 12 months.

M. Susan Lozier of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Implementation of a Mentoring Program for Junior Women in Physical Oceanography." Total funding will be $184,019 over 36 months.

M. Susan Lozier of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Export Pathways from the Subpolar North Atlantic; with A. Bower, WHOI (supplement)." Total funding will be $54,344 over 11 months.

M. Susan Lozier of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the University of Maine for a project entitled "Subaward from NASA via University of Maine." Total funding will be $2,022 over 5 months.

David R. McClay of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Embryonic Cell Recognition: Specificity Determinants." Total funding will be $1,473,964 over 60 months.

Kathryn R. Nightingale of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Quantifying Liver Fibrosis with Acoustic Radiation Force." Total funding will be $456,313 over 48 months.

H. Frederik Nijhout of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Causes and consequences of intraspecific variation in developmental plasticity: growth, size and instar number in Manduca sexta." Total funding will be $160,000 over 36 months.

Stephen Nowicki of Biology has received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for student Kimberly Rosvall, for a project entitled "Selective pressures shaping aggressive behavoir in females: an experimental approach." Total funding will be $11,988 over 24 months.

Michael K. Orbach of the Marine Lab has received an award from Conservation International for a project entitled "Cultural Roles Related to Marine Management Areas in Belize." Total funding will be $40,248 over 18 months.

Jenni W. Owen of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the JEHT Foundation for a project entitled "March 2007 North Carolina Family Impact Seminar." Total funding will be $29,000 over 4 months.

Mark D. Rausher of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Evolutionary genetics of flower color in lochroma (Solanaceae)." Total funding will be $141,318 over 36 months.

John Reif of Computer Science has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices (FNAN007)." Total funding will be $7,000 over 7 months.

John Reif of Computer Science has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices (FNAN007)." Total funding will be $5,000 over 5 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from NC Sea Grant for a project entitled "Distribution and movements of spawning blue crabs in non-tidal estuaries." Total funding will be $40,930 over 12 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from NC Sea Grant for a project entitled "Effects of Cotton Production of blue crab populations in nearby saltwater creeks." Total funding will be $32,801 over 12 months.

Barbara R. Shaw of Chemistry has received an award from Rhode Island Hospital for a project entitled "SiRNA Microbicides." Total funding will be $97,420 over 4 months.

Barbara R. Shaw of Chemistry has received an award from the University of Chicago for a project entitled "Modified SiRNA's for HPV Disease." Total funding will be $82,887 over 3 months.

Tianjian Shi of Political Science has received an award from the Department of State for a project entitled "Promoting Better Elections of Chinese Urban Community Residential Committees." Total funding will be $550,999 over 36 months.

Carol Spruill of the School of Law has received an award from the NC State Bar Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts for a project entitled "IOLTA Public Service Internship Program." Total funding will be $15,000 over 12 months.

Orin Starn of Cultural Anthropology has received an award from the Open Society Institute for a project entitled "Survey of Human Rights Groups in Turkey." Total funding will be $5,000 over 2 months.

Tai-Ping Sun of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Molecular Mechanism of Giberellin Signalling Repression by the DELLA protein RGA in Arabidopsis." Total funding will be $650,000 over 48 months.

John W. Terborgh of the Nicholas School has received an award from the NC Wildlife Resources Commission for a project entitled "Habitat Requirements of Rare Snake Species in the Sandhills Region of North Carolina." Total funding will be $6,500 over 9 months.

R. Larry Todd of Music has received an award from the National Humanities Center for a project entitled "Becoming Fanny Hensel: The Life and Music of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel." Total funding will be $45,000 over 12 months.

Rytas J. Vilgalys of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REVSYS: Phylogenetic and revisionary systematics of North America truffles (Tuber, Ascomycota)." Total funding will be $184,998 over 36 months.

Tuan Vo-Dinh of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the City College of New York for a project entitled "Advance Raman Spectroscopy." Total funding will be $90,544 over 12 months.

*Campus awards only, excluding some private-sector sponsors. Schools of Medicine and Nursing awards are listed separately:

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Last updated May 1, 2007, by Ken Macdonald