August 2007 Awards*

Pankaj K. Agarwal of Computer Science has received an award from Pennsylvania State University for a project entitled "Engineering of Sensor Network Structure for Dependable Fusion." Total funding will be $355,576 over 41 months.

Boris B. Akhremitchev of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Quantification of Hydrophobic Interaction Between Single Alkane Molecules." Total funding will be $251,956 over 36 months.

Peter Arcidiacono of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Applications of CCP Estimation to Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Unobserved Heterogenity." Total funding will be $305,423 over 36 months.

Richard T. Barber of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences for a project entitled "NASA - Arabian Sea Primary Productivity: Bigelow Subcontract with Duke." Total funding will be $41,861 over 36 months.

Ana P. Barros of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Measuring, Modeling and Understanding Precipitation Regimes and Hydrology in Mid-Latitude Mountain Ranges." Total funding will be $620,330 over 36 months.

Ana P. Barros of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Understanding the role of landcover and landform in the spatial organization of orographic clouds and rainfall." Total funding will be $394,890 over 36 months.

Ana P. Barros of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Linking Cumulus Formation to the Diurnal Cycle of Surface Fluxes Across Surface Wetness Contrasts." Total funding will be $46,242 over 12 months.

Ana P. Barros of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Characterization of the Physical Properties of the Snowpack at Very High-Resolution Using RF Wireless Networks and Downscaling of Satellite-based Estimates of Snow Water Equivalent." Total funding will be $24,000 over 24 months.

Philip N. Benfey of Center for Systems Biology has received a program-project grant award from the National Institutes of Health, for a program entitled "Duke Center for Systems Biology." Total funding will be $2,963,060 over 58 months. It includes the following projects:
- a project headed by Philip N. Benfey, which will receive total funding of $643,544.
- a project headed by Philip N. Benfey, which will receive total funding of $580,496.
- a project headed by Steve Haase, which will receive total funding of $302,131.
- a project headed by Paul Magwene, which will receive total funding of $388,938.
 - a project headed by David R. McClay, which will receive total funding of $372,323.
- a project headed by Gregory A. Wray, which will receive total funding of $294,851.
- a project headed by Lingchong You, which will receive total funding of $380,777.

David Beratan of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Mapping of Electron Tunneling Pathways in Proteins." Total funding will be $1,151,280 over 47 months.

David Beratan of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Infra-red Control of Inelastic Electron Transfer: Toward a Unimolecular Double-Slit Experiment." Total funding will be $389,999 over 36 months.

James O. Berger of Statistical Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute." Total funding will be $13,500,000 over 60 months.

Alan E. Boudreau of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Upgrade of the Duke University Electron Microprobe." Total funding will be $14,975 over 12 months.

David J. Brady of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Ohio State University for a project entitled "Mission Adaptable Chemical Spectrometer." Total funding will be $112,000 over 7 months.

David J. Brady of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center for a project entitled "Development of a Coded Aperture Spectrometer for Ultraviolet Raman." Total funding will be $58,504 over 12 months.

Martin A. Brooke of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Nanoscale Particle Imaging Using Near-Field Subwavelength Measurements in a 3-D Cylindrical Array of Nanometer Sized Probes." Total funding will be $299,984 over 36 months.

Nenad Bursac of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Engineered Cardiac Tissue with Controllable Architecture." Total funding will be $423,400 over 23 months.

Kurt A. Carlson of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from Cornell University for a project entitled "Validating a Method for Assessing the Activation Level of Multiple Decision Process Goals." Total funding will be $4,223 over 3 months.

Avshalom Caspi of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Uncovering and confirming gene-environment interactions in psychopathology." Total funding will be $1,660,617 over 44 months.

Jeffrey S. Chase of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CSR-VCM: Foundations for a Programmable Self-Managing Hosting Center." Total funding will be $299,999 over 23 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled "Smart Polypeptide Nanocarriers for Tumor Chemotherapy." Total funding will be $100,000 over 24 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from Phase Bioscience, Inc. for a project entitled "Smart Polypeptide Nanocarriers for Tumor Chemotherapy." Total funding will be $20,000 over 24 months.

Philip Cook of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Joyce Foundation for a project entitled "Two Interventions to Reduce Violence in Milwaukee." Total funding will be $49,395 over 13 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "OCE - Ship Operations." Total funding will be $266,420 over 31 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 CapeHatteras." Total funding will be $99,000 over 24 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Ship Operations: R/V Cape Hatteras." Total funding will be $26,429 over 31 months.

Landon P. Cox of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CSR-VCM: Managing a Concurrent Opportunistic Sensor Environment with Pocket Hypervisors." Total funding will be $334,997 over 24 months.

Stefano Curtarolo of Mechanical Engineering has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Genetic Approaches to Quantum Mechanics Predictions of Materials Structures." Total funding will be $400,000 over 60 months.

Cathy N. Davidson of the Franklin Institute has received an award from the University of California - Irvine for a project entitled "A Competition In Digital Media and Learning." Total funding will be $166,250 over 18 months.

Ruth S. Day of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from First DataBank, Inc. for a project entitled "Understanding Prescription Drug Information: Consumer Monographs." Total funding will be $50,000 over 9 months.

Earl H. Dowell of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Advanced Dynamics Inc. for a project entitled "Physics-Based Identification, Modeling and Management Infrastructure for Aeroelastic Limit-Cycle Oscillations." Total funding will be $48,900 over 9 months.

Gary Gereffi of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for a project entitled "Globalization: The Next Wave." Total funding will be $85,000 over 13 months.

Christina Gibson-Davis of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the William T. Grant Foundation for a project entitled "Marriage and Parenthood in the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults." Total funding will be $350,000 over 60 months.

Jennifer M. Groh of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Eye Position and the Neural Basis of Sound Localization." Total funding will be $282,709 over 5 months.

Steve Haase of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Cyclin/Cdk and Kinesin-5 Control of Spindle Assembly in Budding Yeast." Total funding will be $499,500 over 36 months.

Richard M. Hain of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Topology and motives associated to moduli spaces of curves." Total funding will be $276,133 over 36 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Developing the Next Generation Marine Mammal Information Center for Integrated Ocean Observing: OBIS-SEAMAP 2.0." Total funding will be $1,476,898 over 36 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Environmental Trust for a project entitled "Antarctic Krill: Influences and Effects on Top Predators Scientific Case Statement." Total funding will be $4,620 over 1 month.

Calvin R. Howell of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "IDBR: Development of a System for Measuring Dynamic Biological Response in Plants Using Coincidence Counting." Total funding will be $297,030 over 36 months.

Calvin R. Howell of Physics has received an award from Physical Optics Corporation for a project entitled "Development of a Novel Detector for Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Below 5 MeV Using Optical Techniques." Total funding will be $139,980 over 36 months.

Robert B. Jackson of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Nutrient and Salinity Dynamics with Afforestation in Temperate South Africa." Total funding will be $415,001 over 24 months.

Jennifer A. Jenkins of the School of Law has received an award from the Ford Foundation for a project entitled "Duke Project on International Intellectual Property and the Public Domain." Total funding will be $200,000 over 24 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 $27,458 over 35 months.

Jeffrey L. Krolik of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Naval Research Laboratory for a project entitled "Space-Time Mode Separation for Over-the-Horizon Radar." Total funding will be $120,000 over 12 months.

Jeffrey L. Krolik of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Naval Research Laboratory for a project entitled "BACC Analysis for Neaf-Field Interference Suppression and WARP Development." Total funding will be $31,186 over 6 months.

Anita T. Layton of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Modeling Fluid Dynamics and Solute Transport in the Kidney." Total funding will be $274,231 over 36 months.

Qing Liu of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Intel Corporation for a project entitled "Fast Hybrid Algorithm for Large Scale System Level EM Simulations." Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Increasing Research Opportunities for Undergraduates: A Program for Native American and Pacific Islander Students (Supplement)." Total funding will be $167,294 over 31 months.

Paula McClain of Political Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: No Way Jose: American Public Opinion and the Politics of Immigration." Total funding will be $11,933 over 12 months.

Allen B. Murray of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Complexity in Geomorphology Symposium: Binghamton 2007." Total funding will be $30,644 over 12 months.

Lydia P. Olander of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from Columbia University for a project entitled "The Technical Basis for Establishing Credible Baselines: Reducing Emissions from Degradation & Deforestation." Total funding will be $10,000 over 6 months.

Michael J. Palmer of Community Affairs has received an award from the City of Durham for a project entitled "Gateway to Duke: Gateway to Durham/West Chapel Hill Street Commercial Revitalization." Total funding will be $15,107 over 2 months.

Arlie O. Petters of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Geometric Analysis, Wave Optics, and Geometric Gravity Models." Total funding will be $353,000 over 36 months.

Stuart L. Pimm of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Park Service for a project entitled "Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow Project." Total funding will be $114,701 over 14 months.

Timothy H. Profeta of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation for a project entitled "Creating a Pathway to Ecosystem-Based Management and other Commission Recommendations in the Legislative Process." Total funding will be $235,741 over 12 months.

Martha Putallaz of the Talent Identification Program has received an award from the Goldman Sachs Foundation for a project entitled "Sponsorship Support for Duke University Talent Identification Program's Partnership in the Next Generation Venture Fund." Total funding will be $700,000 over 36 months.

Andrew J. Read of the Marine Lab has received an award from the New England Aquarium for a project entitled "Reducing Conflicts Between Fisheries & Protected Species in North Carolina - Year 3." Total funding will be $74,405 over 8 months.

William M. Reichert of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Biosensor Biocompatibility - Supplement for Heather Prichard." Total funding will be $65,064 over 12 months.

Karen Remmer of Political Science has received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Sinziana P. Popa, for a project entitled "Political Competition and the Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment." Total funding will be $11,786 over 12 months.

Daniel Richter, Jr. of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: New Analyses of Belowground Carbon Accretion in Secondary Forests." Total funding will be $275,990 over 36 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from NC Sea Grant for a project entitled "Effects of pot stress on mortality and viability of multiple clutches in the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus." Total funding will be $53,325 over 18 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from 3M Corporation for a project entitled "Novel Antifouling Testing and Development." Total funding will be $12,049 over 12 months.

David R. Sherwood of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "NRSA: Analysis of SPARC in Cell Invasion in C. Elegans." Total funding will be $104,176 over 24 months.

Tianjian Shi of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from the Ford Foundation for a project entitled "Promoting Better Elections of Chinese Urban Community Residential Committees - An Approach for Election Training." Total funding will be $248,200 over 36 months.

Elwyn L. Simons of Biological Anthropology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Paleoanthropological Research at the Fossil Primate Sites of the Fayum, Egypt (Supplement)." Total funding will be $5,544 over 11 months.

Anthony So of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the American Medical Student Association for a project entitled "Pharmaceutical Policy Leaders in Medicine Program." Total funding will be $6,000 over 7 months.

Tai-Ping Sun of Biology has received an award from the US-Israel Binational Agricultural R&D Fund for a project entitled "Genomic Dissection of Molecular Mechanisms of GA Responses in Seedless Grapes." Total funding will be $154,000 over 36 months.

Cindy L. Van Dover of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Beyond the Edge of the Sea: Diversity of Life in the Ocean Wilderness." Total funding will be $75,000 over 12 months.

James W. Vaupel of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Oldest-Old Mortality-Demographic Models and Analysis (Supplement to Prj. 2)." Total funding will be $426,061 over 21 months.

Stephanos Venakides of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Wave-breaking and Resonant Phenomena." Total funding will be $480,000 over 60 months.

Tuan Vo-Dinh of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Nanobiosensors for Probing Chemical Exposure and Metabolism Pathways of Individual Living Cells." Total funding will be $1,014,497 over 34 months.

Tuan Vo-Dinh of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Advanced Multispectral Imaging (MSI) for Medical Diagnostics." Total funding will be $183,463 over 12 months.

Tuan Vo-Dinh of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Fiber Optics and III-Nitride Materials based Chemical and biological Sensing." Total funding will be $40,000 over 10 months.

Ronald G. Witt of History has received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "Petrarch and Provence: Between Seclusion and the World." Total funding will be $123,043 over 12 months.

Patrick D. Wolf of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Ultrasound Based Multimodal Imaging System for Guiding Cardiac Ablation Therapy." Total funding will be $1,128,000 over 36 months.

Gary A. Ybarra of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "TechXcite." Total funding will be $2,424,099 over 60 months.

Gary A. Ybarra of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Teachers And Scientists Collaborating (Supplement)." Total funding will be $200,000 over 24 months.

Tomoyuki Yoshie of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Innovation Core SEI, Inc. for a project entitled "Silicon Nanophotonics: Lasers, LEDs and Optical Isolators." Total funding will be $6,000 over 5 months.

*Campus awards only, excluding some private-sector sponsors.

Last updated September 5, 2007, by Ken Macdonald