February 2005 Awards*

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a project entitled ''The Coupled Effects of Orography and Land Cover on the Hydrometeorology of the Western Cordillera.'' Total funding will be $179,700 over 36 months.

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''Collaborative Research - Is Deforestration Changing the Hydrologic Climate and Vegetation Dynamics of the Amazon?'' Total funding will be $94,482 over 48 months.

Charles M. Becker of Economics has received an award from the American Economic Association for a project entitled ''Summer Program and Minority Scholarship Program.'' Total funding will be $111,689 over 11 months.

Robert P. Behringer of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''Support for US Participants to Attend Powders and Grains 2005.'' Total funding will be $3,150 over 12 months.

Philip N. Benfey of DCMB has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ''Molecular Genetic Analysis of Root Morphogenesis (Supplement).'' Total funding will be $102,667 over 13 months.

Emily S. Bernhardt of Biology has received an award from the Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled ''The National River Restoration Science Synthesis Project.'' Total funding will be $29,992 over 12 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled ''Fundamental Studies of GaN HFET Syntethesis on SiC.'' Total funding will be $100,000 over 24 months.

Philip R. Costanzo of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received a fellowship award from the National Institute for Child Health & Human Development for postdoc Lesley-Anne H. Killeya-Jones, for a project entitled ''Life-Paths, Substance Use, and Transition to Adulthood.'' Total funding will be $174,573 over 36 months.

Stephen L. Craig of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''SGER: Single-Molecule Studies of Hidden Reactions.'' Total funding will be $86,765 over 11 months.

Xinnian Dong of DCMB has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''Chromosome Modification and Transcription Repression in Regulation of Systemic Acquired Resistance.'' Total funding will be $480,000 over 36 months.

Silvia Ferrari of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''CAREER: Robust Adaptive Control, Demonstrated for Reconfigurable Flight Systems.'' Total funding will be $400,000 over 60 months.

Katherine J. Franz of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''Metal-Binding Studies of Phosporylated alpha-Synuclein Peptides.'' Total funding will be $555,000 over 60 months.

John D. French of Latin American Studies has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled ''Application for Tinker Field Research Grants from the Consortium in Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.'' Total funding will be $15,000 over 11 months.

Morton H. Friedman of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ''Dynamics of Flow-Dependent Arterial Permeability.'' Total funding will be $1,540,000 over 50 months.

Kenneth E. Glander of Biological Anthropology has received an award from Conservation International for a project entitled ''Marking and Translocation of Trachypithecus Delacouri in Northern Vietnam.'' Total funding will be $3,000 over 7 months.

Warren M. Grill of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ''Neural Prosthetic Control of Continence and Micturition.'' Total funding will be $70,454 over 19 months.

Amy L. Hall of Divinity has received an award from the Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative for a project entitled ''Images of Mainline Protestant Children and Families in the United States.'' Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Gabriele C. Hegerl of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a project entitled ''Statistical Assessment of Uncertainty in Present and Future North American Rainfall Extremes.'' Total funding will be $158,247 over 36 months.

Craig S. Henriquez of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ''Computational Tools for Multi-Scale Heart Modeling.'' Total funding will be $1,280,101 over 36 months.

David K. Hyrenbach of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Point Reyes Bird Observatory for a project entitled ''Oceanic Habitats and Conservation of North Pacific Seabird Populations.'' Total funding will be $17,165 over 18 months.

Sonke Johnsen of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''Collaborative Research: Transparency: Ultrastructural and biochemical specialization in muscular and ocular tissues.'' Total funding will be $209,999 over 36 months.

Wanda Krassowska of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ''Stability of Cardiac Response to Rapid Pacing (Supplement).'' Total funding will be $92,400 over 26 months.

Jeffrey L. Krolik of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Naval Research Laboratory for a project entitled ''High-Gain Spatial and Temporal Processing for Surface Detection in Nonstationary Clutter.'' Total funding will be $123,999 over 12 months.

Thomas H. Labean of Computer Science has received an award from Arizona State University for a project entitled ''Combinatorial Self-assembly of Nanocircuits on Addressable DNA Nanoscaffolds.'' Total funding will be $15,509 over 11 months.

Helen F. Ladd of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the Spencer Foundation for a project entitled ''Teacher Quality and Public Policy.'' Total funding will be $428,925 over 28 months.

Paul S. Manos of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''Macroevolutionary analysis of Fagaceae: A study of the pattern and process of woody plant diversification.'' Total funding will be $299,999 over 35 months.

Piotr E. Marszalek of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''Investigating DNA Damage and Repair by Atomic Force Microscopy.'' Total funding will be $480,029 over 36 months.

Linda B. McGown of Chemistry has received an award from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for a project entitled ''Studies of G-quartet DNA.'' Total funding will be $199,448 over 19 months.

Jenni W. Owen of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for a project entitled ''Professional Development Initiative - Phase 3.'' Total funding will be $58,003 over 12 months.

Richard Payne of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life has received an award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a project entitled ''The Last Miles Home - Critical Topics and Issues for African Americans.'' Total funding will be $84,060 over 12 months.

Ann Marie Rasmussen of Germanic Languages has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled ''Fragmentation and Difference: New Readings of Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan und Isolde.'' Total funding will be $1,200 over 12 months.

Mark D. Rausher of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''Genetic change associated with flower-color adaptation in morning glories.'' Total funding will be $666,999 over 35 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.'' Total funding will be $94,904 over 12 months.

Jerome P. Reiter of ISDS has received an award from Cornell University for a project entitled ''ITR-- (ECS+ASE)-(dmc+int): Info Tech Challenges for Secure Access to Confidential Social Science Data.'' Total funding will be $335,558 over 36 months.

Thomas Robisheaux of History has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled ''Orthodoxies and Diversities in Early Modern German-Speaking Europe.'' Total funding will be $4,000 over 12 months.

Daniel O. Schmitt of Biological Anthropology has received a fellowship award from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Jandy B. Hanna, for a project entitled ''Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Vertical Climbing Efficiency in Primates.'' Total funding will be $11,965 over 11 months.

Arthur J. Shaw of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''Databasing bryophytes from the southeastern US in the Duke University Herbarium.'' Total funding will be $400,012 over 35 months.

Kathy A. Silbiger of Duke Performances has received an award from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for a project entitled ''PennPAT Art: Mum Puppet Theatre.'' Total funding will be $5,400 over 4 months.

George A. Truskey of Biomedical Engineering has received a fellowship award from the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command for graduate student Randolph McKinley, for a project entitled ''Design, Implementation, and Characterization of a Dedicated Breast Computed MamoTomography (CmT) System for Enhanced Detection and Characterization of Lesions.'' Total funding will be $90,000 over 37 months.

George A. Truskey of Biomedical Engineering has received a fellowship award from the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command for graduate student Swatee Singh, for a project entitled "Computer-Aided Detectoin of Breast Masses in Digital Tomosynthesis.'' Total funding will be $90,000 over 37 months.

George A. Truskey of Biomedical Engineering has received a fellowship award from the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command for graduate student Jonathan Jesneck, for a project entitled ''Computer-Aided Diagnosis System for Breast Cancer Combining Digital Mammography and Genomics.'' Total funding will be $90,000 over 37 months.

George A. Truskey of Biomedical Engineering has received a fellowship award from the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command for graduate student Jessie Xia, for a project entitled ''Image Processing and Computer Aided Diagnosis in Computed Tomography of the Breast.'' Total funding will be $90,000 over 37 months.

Kathryn Whetten of the Center for Health Policy Law & Management has received an award from the NC Department of Health and Human Services for a project entitled ''HIV Counseling, Testing and Referral Training.'' Total funding will be $63,400 over 12 months.

Christina Williams of Psychological and Brain Sciences has received a fellowship award from the National Institutes of Health for postdoc Melissa Glenn, for a project entitled ''Lifespan Effects of Choline on Stress, Memory, and Brain.'' Total funding will be $149,772 over 36 months.

Yi Zeng of Sociology has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled ''Initiate Exchange/Collaboration Activities for the Proposal Duke-PKU Joint Program for Multidisciplinary Studies of Aging.'' Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

*School of Medicine awards are listed separately:

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

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Last updated March 8, 2005, by Ken Macdonald