August 2003 Awards*

Susan C. Alberts of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Relationship among demographic, social and genetic structure.” Total funding will be $344,575 over 36 months.

John H. Aldrich of Political Science has received an award from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Chinese Cultural Foundation for a project entitled “Support for Democratic Values with Controlled or Open Access to Media.” Total funding will be $47,499 over 35 months.

Steven W. Baldwin of Chemistry has received an award from Medtox Diagnostics, Inc. for a project entitled “Precursors to Haptens of Drugs of Abuse.” Total funding will be $89,604 over 24 months.

Fred K. Boadu of Civil Engineering has received an award from the American Chemical Society for a project entitled “Petrophysical Characterization and Hydraulic Properties of Unconsolidated Reservoir Sands from Spectral Electrical Response Measurements.” Total funding will be $80,000 over 24 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.” Total funding will be $327,974 over 36 months.

Jeffrey S. Chase of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: A Grid Service for Dynamic Virtual Clusters.” Total funding will be $558,892 over 36 months.

James S. Clark of Center for Global Change has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “A Summer School: Uncertainty and Variability in Ecologial Inference, Forecasting, and Decision -- An Introduction to Modern Statistical Computation.” Total funding will be $96,020 over 12 months.

Leslie M. Collins of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Theme-based Redesign of the Duke ECE Curriculum.” Total funding will be $99,348 over 12 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Vessel Operations, R/V Cape Hatteras.” Total funding will be $54,984 over 42 months.

Peter J. Coyle Jr. of Student Activities has received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts for a project entitled “NEA - Romeo & Juliet.” Total funding will be $7,200 over 2 months.

Richard T. Di Giulio of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Supplement: Superfund Chemicals Impact on Reproduction & Development.” Total funding will be $5,000 over 20 months.

Kenneth A. Dodge of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the William T. Grant Foundation for a project entitled “Executive Session on Deviant Social Contagion.” Total funding will be $215,959 over 12 months.

John E. Dolbow of Civil Engineering has received an award from Sandia National Laboratories for a project entitled “Computational and Modeling Strategies for Damping and Multi-Physics Coupling on Interfaces.” Total funding will be $322,086 over 36 months.

Glenn Edwards of Physics - FELL has received an award from Passat for a project entitled “Nanosecond pulsed laser for human surgery.” Total funding will be $20,000 over 4 months.

Linda P. Franzoni of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “A Revolutionary Boundary Element Approach Based on Energy Conservation for Interior Noise Predictions.” Total funding will be $262,382 over 36 months.

John D. French of Latin American Studies has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled “National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship.” Total funding will be $149,000 over 12 months.

Morton H. Friedman of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Whitaker Foundation for a project entitled “Graduate Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering,” on behalf of fellow Melissa Knight. Total funding will be $38,000 over 12 months.

Devendra P. Garg of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Intelligent Control Strategies for Coordination of Multi-Robot Systems (Supplement).” Total funding will be $20,000 over 12 months.

Daniel J. Gauthier of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Feedback Control of Bifurcations in Small Pieces of Rapidly-paced Cardiac Muscle.” Total funding will be $300,000 over 36 months.

Christina Gibson of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the Institute for Research on Poverty for a project entitled “How Hungry are our Kids? WIC, Breastfeeding, and Food Insecurity in the United States.” Total funding will be $22,557 over 18 months.

Paula E. Gilbert of Continuing Education has received an award from the Kellogg Foundation for a project entitled “Funding Request to the W. K. Kellogg Foundation from the Duke University Certificate Program in Nonprofit Management of the Office of Continuing Education.” Total funding will be $195,000 over 24 months.

David E. Hinton of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Institute on Aging for a project entitled “Enhanced Image Analysis of a Transparent Fish Model.” Total funding will be $713,601 over 46 months.

Rick Hoyle of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the University of Kentucky for a project entitled “Effective Strategies for Drug Abuse Prevention.” Total funding will be $46,893 over 10 months.

David K. Hyrenbach of the Marine Lab has received an award from the University of California - Irvine for a project entitled “Food Web Structure Across a Large-scale Ocean Productivity Gradient: Top Predator Assemblages in the Southern Indian Ocean.” Total funding will be $15,420 over 17 months.

Sonke Johnsen of Biology has received an award from Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc. for a project entitled “Modeling the Propagation and Detectability of Bioluminescent Signals from Inherent Optical Properties.” Total funding will be $12,000 over 2 months.

Robert E. Kielb of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “NESTEM Probabilistic Analysis of Mistuned Bladed Disks and Blisks with Aerodynamic and Structural Coupling.” Total funding will be $161,824 over 30 months.

Randall Kramer of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Department of Agriculture for a project entitled “Toward an Improved Understanding of Wetland Restoration Choice Behavior of Landowners.” Total funding will be $114,000 over 24 months.

Alvin Lebeck of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Architectural Support for Service Level Agreements.” Total funding will be $220,004 over 36 months.

Karl G. Linden of Civil Engineering has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled “DNA Repair of UV Irradiated Giardia Lamblia Cysts Following Low and Medium Pressure UV Disinfection.” Total funding will be $110,355 over 12 months.

M. Susan Lozier of Center for Global Change has received an award from the Oak Ridge National Labs for a project entitled “Ocean Climate Modeling -- Research Scientist Funding.” Total funding will be $29,550 over 9 months.

Kenneth G. Manton of Demographic Studies has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Functional and Health Changes of the Elderly.” Total funding will be $9,414,162 over 37 months.

Gilbert W. Merkx of the Center for International Studies has received an award from the Department of Education for a project entitled “Comprehensive International Studies National Resource Center & Foreign Languages & Area Studies Fellowships.” Total funding will be $787,949 over 36 months.

Desiree W. Murray of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the National Institute of Mental Health for a project entitled “Enhancing School-Based Services for ADHD Students.” Total funding will be $77,000 over 12 months.

Stephen Nowicki of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Developmental and receiver-dependent costs of avian signals.” Total funding will be $324,874 over 36 months.

Seog H. Oh of Physics has received an award from Columbia University for a project entitled “The Atlas Research Programs Empowering U.S. University.” Total funding will be $58,000 over 12 months.

Arlie O. Petters of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Random Gaussian Curvatures, Image Centroids and Caustic Surfaces in Gravitational Lensing.” Total funding will be $135,000 over 36 months.

Stuart L. Pimm of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Department of Interior for a project entitled “Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow Research.” Total funding will be $98,171 over 62 months.

William H. Schlesinger of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “Mechanisms Controlling the Response of Denitrification to Anthropogenic Nitrogen Deposition,” on behalf of fellow Matthew D. Wallenstein. Total funding will be $24,000 over 13 months.

Donald H. Taylor Jr. of the Center for Health Policy, Law, and Management has received an award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a project entitled “Does Hospice Save Medicare Money?” Total funding will be $288,059 over 24 months.

John E. Thomas of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (Supplement).” Total funding will be $71,400 over 15 months.

Werner Tornow of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “A Gamma-Ray Spectrometer for Nuclear Astrophysics Studies at LENA (Supplement).” Total funding will be $60,000 over 32 months.

Jacob L. Vigdor of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the University of Kentucky for a project entitled “The New Promised Land: Black-White Convergence in the American South, 1940-2000.” Total funding will be $19,394 over 3 months.

Adam P. Wax of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a project entitled “a/LCI for Neoplasia Detection in Rat Esophagus.” Total funding will be $20,000 over 5 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.” Total funding will be $400,003 over 60 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, September 3, 2003 by Ken Macdonald