April 2008 Awards*

Rachel A. Adcock of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a project entitled "Cognitive Memory: Using Nuerla Markers of Motivation to Enhance Learning." Total funding will be $50,000 over 24 months.

Paul N. Bloom of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from the National Endowment for Financial Education for a project entitled "Helping Consumers Respond Responsibly to the Advertising and Availability of Debt Consolidation Loans." Total funding will be $175,549 over 36 months.

Fred K. Boadu of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Ground Truthing of Electromagnetic Signals from Earthquakes from Simultaneous 3 KM Deep Borehole and Surface Measurements at the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth." Total funding will be $194,771 over 12 months.

Jens A. Carlsson of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Marine Fisheries Service for a project entitled "Genetic Variability and Population Structure of Striped Bass Along the US Eastern Seaboard." Total funding will be $117,153 over 18 months.

Vincent Conitzer of Computer Science has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a porject entitled "Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship." Total funding will be $50,000 over 24 months.

Robert M. Cook-Deegan of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "Core I: Policy, Ethics and Law Core." Total funding will be $274,214 over 11 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 2008." Total funding will be $318,792 over 8 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 $6,000 over 15 months.

Bruce R. Donald of Computer Science has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Computational Active-Site Redesign and Binding Prediction via Molecular Ensembles." Total funding will be $1,257,125 over 46 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 (Supplement)." Total funding will be $150,000 over 7 months.

Silvia Ferrari of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Optimal Control of Mobile Sensor Networks." Total funding will be $119,587 over 12 months.

Katherine J. Franz of Chemistry has received an award from the University of Pennsylvania for a project entitled "Validation of Novel Iron Prochelators for Protection Against Oxidative Stress in RPE Cells." Total funding will be $117,000 over 11 months.

Katherine J. Franz of Chemistry has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a project entitled "Development of Chemical Tools to Probe and Inhibit Iron-Induced Oxidative Stress." Total funding will be $50,000 over 24 months.

Sandria B. Freitag of South Asian Studies has received an award from the Department of Education for a project entitled "Teaching South Asia Through Material Objects and Performance Events." Total funding will be $80,000 over 12 months.

Devendra P. Garg of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Swarming Agents in a Probabilistic Framework." Total funding will be $279,273 over 36 months.

Alan Gelfand of Statistical Sciences has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Multivariate space-time models and methods to combine large disparate spatial data and numerical models." Total funding will be $71,057 over 12 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Integrating Ocean Observing Data to Enhance Protected Species Spatial Decision Support Systems." Total funding will be $456,667 over 36 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Raincoast Conservation Foundation for a project entitled "Predictive Modeling of Cetacean Distribution in the Queen Charlotte Basin, British Columbia." Total funding will be $79,794 over 12 months.

Nancy E. Hill of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Multiethnic Study of Family Involvement in Middle School." Total funding will be $156,000 over 24 months.

David E. Hinton of the Nicholas School has received an award from Texas State University for a project entitled ""The Fourth Aquatic Animals Models of Human Disease Conf - Mitte Foundation support." Total funding will be $5,000 over 1 month.

Prasad S. Kasibhatla of the Nicholas School has received an award from the University of California - Irvine for a project entitled "Fire Emissions and Fire-Driven Deforestation Derived from Aqua and Terra Satellites." Total funding will be $214,251 over 36 months.

Jeffrey L. Krolik of Electrical Engineering has received an award from MIT Lincoln Laboratory for a project entitled "Multipath Spread-Doppler Clutter Mitigation For Over-The-Horizon Radar." Total funding will be $250,000 over 24 months.

Kenneth C. Land of Sociology has received an award from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund for a project entitled "2007 Social Health index." Total funding will be $30,000 over 12 months.

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from Michigan State University for a project entitled "Woody seedling dynamics in a wet tropical forest: Mechanisms of species co-existence." Total funding will be $29,306 over 12 months.

Mauro Maggioni of Mathematics has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a project entitled "Sloan Research Fellowship." Total funding will be $50,000 over 24 months.

Elizabeth Marsh of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Memorial Consequences of Testing in School-Aged Children." Total funding will be $78,000 over 23 months.

Stephen R. Mitroff of Psychology & Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "External influences on visual search." Total funding will be $34,572 over 12 months.

Robert A. Murphy of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management has received an award from Raising Malawi for a project entitled "A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Raising Malawi Spirituality for Kids Project." Total funding will be $423,650 over 24 months.

Jerome P. Reiter of Statistical Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "MMS: Methodology for Improving Public Use Data Dissemination Via Multiply-Imputer, Partially Synthetic Data." Total funding will be $180,000 over 24 months.

Kimerly R. Rorschach of the Nasher Museum has received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts for a project entitled "Birth of the Cool: the Paintings of Berkley L. Hendricks." Total funding will be $15,000 over 24 months.

Frank A. Sloan of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management has received an award from the International Health Economics Association for a project entitled "American Society of Health Economists Conference." Total funding will be $18,000 over 3 months.

P. J. Eric Stallard of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from the Department of Veterans Affairs for a project entitled "Aging Veterans Health Policy Model." Total funding will be $20,000 over 9 months.

John E. Thomas of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Trapped Fermi gases as models of strongly interacting matter." Total funding will be $491,000 over 36 months.

Robert J. Thompson, Jr. of Trinity College has received an award from the Genentech Foundation for a project entitled "Genentech Foundation Minority Scholarships." Total funding will be $12,000 over 12 months.

George A. Truskey of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command for a project entitled "Optimizing and Evaluating an Integrated SPECT-CmT System Dedicated to Improved 3-D Breast Cancer Imaging." Total funding will be $97,200 over 37 months.

Rebecca M. Willett of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Signal Innovations Group, Inc. for a project entitled "Duke University Support, Automated Target Recognition (ATR) Center." Total funding will be $130,000 over 59 months.

Robert L. Wolpert of Statistical Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "FRG: Collaborative Research: Prediction and Risk of Extreme Events Utilizing Mathematical Computer Models of Geophysical Processes." Total funding will be $479,724 over 24 months.

Tomoyuki Yoshie of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Innovation Core SEI, Inc. for a project entitled "Silcon Photonics: Lasers, LEDs and Optical Isolators." Total funding will be $88,932 over 12 months.

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

Last updated May 2, 2008, by Ken Macdonald