February 2004 Awards*

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "The Impacts of Tropical Deforestation on Regional and Global Hydroclimate." Total funding will be $208,186 over 24 months.

Adrian Bejan of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Proof-of-concept: New 4th year Undergraduate Course on Constructal Design of Energy-System Configuration." Total funding will be $74,918 over 24 months.

Gregory Britz of Documentary Studies has received an award from the NC Arts Council for a project entitled "Africans Born in the Western World Project." Total funding will be $2,500 over 4 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the University of Notre Dame for a project entitled "Sb-based RITD/HEMT Deivces and Circuits." Total funding will be $30,000 over 12 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "A Study of the Science of Electromagnetic Time-Reversal Methods for Communications and Imaging." Total funding will be $112,500 over 18 months.

Robert L. Clark Jr. of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "The Impact of Model Uncertainty on Spatial Compensation in Structural Acoustic Control." Total funding will be $40,269 over 6 months.

Earl H. Dowell of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "A Study of Uncertainties in Nonlinear Aeroelastic Systems." Total funding will be $269,310 over 35 months.

Daniel J. Gauthier of Physics has received an award from Intelligent Automation, Inc. for a project entitled "Development of Ultra-High Frequency Chaotic Devices for Communication and RADAR Applications." Total funding will be $20,331 over 5 months.

Kenneth E. Glander of Biological Anthropology has received an award from Conservation International for a project entitled "Capture and recapture of Propithecus in Tsinjoarivo." Total funding will be $2,450 over 1 month.

Jonathan Hanke of Mathematics has received an award from the National Security Agency for a project entitled "Quadratic Forms, Automorphic Forms, and Hilbert's Eleventh Problem." Total funding will be $13,000 over 12 months.

L. Gregory Jones of Divinity has received an award from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. for a project entitled "Youth Academy for Christian Formation: Development." Total funding will be $150,000 over 37 months.

L. Gregory Jones of Divinity has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "Holy and Beautiful: Greening Sacred Spaces." Total funding will be $35,000 over 11 months.

Jeffrey A. Karson of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Structure and Composition of Fast Spread EPR Crust Exposed at Pito." Total funding will be $963,108 over 36 months.

Prasad S. Kasibhatla of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Quantifying Anthropogenic Sources of Trace Gases & Aerosals: An Integrated Approach." Total funding will be $225,666 over 36 months.

Anna L. Lin of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CAREER: Dynamic and Quenched Disorder in Non-Equilibrium Reaction-Diffusion Systems." Total funding will be $450,000 over 60 months.

Peter E. Malin of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from Stanford University for a project entitled "A Revised, Easily Removable Instrumentation System for SAFOD Pilot Hole Geophysical Monitoring and Sensor Evaluation." Total funding will be $249,954 over 23 months.

Peter E. Malin of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the US Geological Survey for a project entitled "Approaching Seismology in the Source: Earthquake Source Studies at LVEW and SAFOD." Total funding will be $60,000 over 12 months.

David L. Rabiner of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a project entitled "Evaluation Research Study in the Area of Aggression and Interpersonal Youth Violence." Total funding will be $1,559,795 over 19 months.

Curtis J. Richardson of the Nicholas School has received an award from Development Alternatives, Inc. for a project entitled "Phase I - Iraq Marshlands - August 12, 2003-1." Total funding will be $29,055 over 1 month.

Curtis J. Richardson of the Nicholas School has received an award from Development Alternatives, Inc. for a project entitled "Phase II - Iraq Marshlands - September 1, 2003." Total funding will be $43,174 over 3 months.

David C. Rubin of Psychological and Brain Sciences has received an award from the National Institute of Mental Health for a project entitled "A model of autobiographical memory & its changes in PTSD." Total funding will be $1,655,500 over 58 months.

Stephen W. Smith of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the University of Wisconsin for a project entitled "Piezoelectric Micromachined Transducers Using Epitaxial PMN-PT Films for Medical Ultrasound." Total funding will be $74,826 over 12 months.

Teh Y. Tan of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for a project entitled "Modeling of Metallic Precipitate Dissolution in Silicon Under Point Defect Injection." Total funding will be $60,990 over 12 months.

Robert J. Thompson Jr. of Trinity College has received an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled "The Mellon Writing Fellows Program." Total funding will be $800,000 over 48 months.

*School of Medicine awards are listed separately:

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

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Last updated March 2, 2004, by Ken Macdonald