August 2004 Awards*

Ana P. Barros of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Understanding and Quantifying the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Precipitation in Tropical Mountainous Regions." Total funding will be $374,366 over 36 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "NIRT: Highly Integrated Optical Nanoparticle-Based Sensing Systems." Total funding will be $1,400,000 over 48 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Central Intelligence Agency for a project entitled "Metamaterial Lenses for High Gain Antenna Applications: Topic #13." Total funding will be $360,000 over 36 months.

Mary L. Bryan of History has received an award from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for a project entitled "Preparation for Publication of the Selected Papers of Jane Adams." Total funding will be $80,320 over 12 months.

J. Kameron Carter of Divinity has received an award from the Association of Theological Schools for a project entitled "Singing in a Strange Land: Religion & Black Intellectual Imagination: 1869-1940." Total funding will be $25,000 over 12 months.

Merlise A. Clyde of ISDS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Large Scale Model Averaging and Model Selection." Total funding will be $144,000 over 36 months.

Merlise A. Clyde of ISDS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "SCREMS: Distributed Environments for Stochastic Computation." Total funding will be $128,200 over 24 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: Cape Hatteras 2004." Total funding will be $16,531 over 24 months.

Larry B. Crowder of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Marine Fisheries Service for a project entitled "Quantifying seabird bycatch: A global perspective." Total funding will be $20,000 over 9 months.

Steven A. Cummer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Scientific Services and Computer Modeling for Tribocharging of Martian Dust Project." Total funding will be $24,999 over 12 months.

Richard G. Fehon of DCMB has received an award from the National Neurofibromatosis Foundation for a project entitled "Tumor Suppressor Functions of the Drosphila ERM Protein Moesin." Total funding will be $70,000 over 24 months.

Fernando R. Fernholz of the Duke Center for International Development has received an award from the World Food Programme for a project entitled "School Feeding Programs in Latin America: A Review of WFP Interventions in Ecuador, Honduras and Bolivia." Total funding will be $194,000 over 10 months.

David S. Ferriero of Perkins Library has received an award from the State Library for a project entitled "LSTA - NC ECHO: Exploring Cultural Heritage Online." Total funding will be $67,725 over 12 months.

Jonathan H. Freedman of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Alliance for Autism Research for a project entitled "Double Hit Hypothesis of Autism: Genetic Susceptability and Environmental Exposure to Metals." Total funding will be $60,000 over 24 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." Total funding will be $649,999 over 36 months.

Jeffrey T. Glass of Electrical Engineering has received an award from MCNC for a project entitled "A Proposal to MCNC: Substrate Engineering and Encapsulation Technology for Flexible and Organic Electronics." Total funding will be $27,463 over 2 months.

Kristina M. Johnson of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Acquisition of a Visroom for Cognitive Studies, Visualization, and Education." Total funding will be $583,000 over 36 months.

Prasad S. Kasibhatla of the Nicholas School has received an award from the University of California - Irvine for a project entitled "Using Satellite and Inverse Techniques to Constrain Regional and Global Fire Emissions from 1997 to 2005: An Approach Based on the Carbon Isotope Ratio on Fire Emission." Total funding will be $80,922 over 12 months.

Daniel P. Kiehart of DCMB has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Morphogenesis: Biophysics and Genetics of Dorsal Closure." Total funding will be $1,803,604 over 48 months.

Robert E. Kielb of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Pratt and Whitney for a project entitled "Aeromechanics Effort for Prognosis Project." Total funding will be $114,431 over 18 months.

Robert E. Kielb of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Probabilistic Analysis of Mistuned Bladed Disks and Blisks with Aerodynamic and Structural Coupling." Total funding will be $35,000 over 7 months.

Wanda Krassowska of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Modeling Electroporation-Mediated DNA Delivery." Total funding will be $303,137 over 36 months.

Seth W. Kullman of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "In vivo Transgenic Reporter for Hepatobiliary Toxicity." Total funding will be $277,200 over 24 months.

Karl G. Linden of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled "Pulsed UV Verses Low to Medium Pressure UV: Evaluation of Drinking Water Treatment Efficiency." Total funding will be $200,000 over 24 months.

Qing Liu of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "3-D Microwave Imaging System for Breast Cancer Detection." Total funding will be $757,680 over 36 months.

M. Susan Lozier of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Workshop for the Design of a Mentoring Program for Junior Women in Physical Oceanography." Total funding will be $79,201 over 24 months.

Joel Marcus of Divinity has received an award from the National Humanities Center for a project entitled "The Passion Narrative in the Gospel of Mark." Total funding will be $50,000 over 9 months.

Ellen Mickiewicz of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Library of Congress for a project entitled "Open World 2004 Russia Civic Hosting Program." Total funding will be $94,059 over 12 months.

Ebrahim Moosa of the Center for International Studies has received an award from the Ford Foundation for a project entitled "Mapping Knowledge, Shaping Muslim Ethics: Seeking a Paradigm Shift." Total funding will be $151,700 over 12 months.

Seog H. Oh of Physics has received an award from Brookhaven National Labs for a project entitled " Research in High Energy Physics at Duke University (Supplement)." Total funding will be $9,930 over 7 months.

Ram Oren of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage." Total funding will be $1,190,533 over 35 months.

Ram Oren of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Forest Service for a project entitled "Reducing Uncertainty in Current and Projeted Carbon Sequestration in Southeastern U.S.: Phase VI." Total funding will be $32,896 over 12 months.

Arlie O. Petters of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: The Mathematics of Stochastic Gravitational Lensing: Applications to Flux Ratio Anomalies and Dark Matter." Total funding will be $400,000 over 36 months.

William M. Reichert of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Endothelial Cell Adhesion to Polymers Studied by TIRF (SUPPLEMENT)." Total funding will be $121,917 over 44 months.

John Reif of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "EMT: Error-Resilient DNA Tiling Assemblies." Total funding will be $294,000 over 36 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Ontogenic changes in attraction of blue crab megalopae and juveniles to chemical cues associated with hatitat." Total funding will be $27,062 over 12 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Multiple Clutch Production by Female Blue Crabs." Total funding will be $13,349 over 12 months.

Susan H. Rodger of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Increasing the Representation of Undergraduate Women and Minorities in Computer Science." Total funding will be $60,000 over 48 months.

Joshua E. Socolar of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Boolean Networks and Gene Expression." Total funding will be $300,000 over 36 months.

Donald H. Taylor, Jr. of the Center for Health Policy, Law, and Management has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Until Death Do Us Part: Careers of Caregiving Wives." Total funding will be $914,760 over 36 months.

Carlo Tomasi of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Tracking Level Sets." Total funding will be $99,969 over 12 months.

Gregg E. Trahey of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from Biosense Webster, Inc. for a project entitled "ARFI Imaging Technique." Total funding will be $5,500 over 6 months.

Dean L. Urban of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Department of Interior for a project entitled "A model- based approach to monitoring in the Southwest Alaska Network." Total funding will be $32,002 over 60 months.

James W. Vaupel of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Mortality Surface Analysis of U.S. and German Survival." Total funding will be $1,412,238 over 58 months.

Adam P. Wax of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "In Vivo Detection of Pre-Cancerous Lesions Using a/LCI." Total funding will be $91,031 over 12 months.

*School of Medicine awards are listed separately:

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

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Last updated September 1, 2004, by Ken Macdonald