February 2006 Awards*

Ana P. Barros of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Predictability and Attribution: Metrics to Characterize Land Control in the Dynamical Evolution of Cloud and Precipitation Patterns in Models and Observation." Total funding will be $346,546 over 36 months.

Katharine Bartlett of the School of Law has received an award from the Japan Foundation for a project entitled "Japan." Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 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 $46,689 over 10 months.

Adrian Bejan of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "AFOSR: Constructal Technology of Thermal Management of Aircraft." Total funding will be $225,430 over 33 months.

Donald J. Bright Smith of Biology has received an award from the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund for a project entitled "Macaws, tapirs, parrots and peccaries: Clay licks and the conservation of large vertebrates in southeastern Peru." Total funding will be $10,000 over 12 months.

Gregory Britz of Documentary Studies has received an award from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for a project entitled "Generation in Action Documentary Project." Total funding will be $8,207 over 12 months.

Roberto E. Cabeza of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Relational Memory and Aging: Role of Prefrontal and Medial Temporal Lobe Regions." Total funding will be $1,578,500 over 57 months.

Domini R. Castellino of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from Futures for Kids for a project entitled "Contract with Futures for Kids, Inc." Total funding will be $9,996 over 5 months.

Krishnendu Chakrabarty of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Synthesis, Test, and Reconfiguration Techniques for Microfluidics-Based Biochips." Total funding will be $199,998 over 36 months.

Philip Cook of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Joyce Foundation for a project entitled "CPD Field Experiment Planning Grant." Total funding will be $20,000 over 12 months.

Kenneth A. Dodge of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "Families First: Ensuring the Healthy Development of North Carolina's Children." Total funding will be $1,653,000 over 13 months.

Warren M. Grill of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Non-Regular Stimulation Patterns for Deep Brain Stimulation." Total funding will be $346,500 over 24 months.

Guven Guzeldere of Philosophy has received an award from Simon Fraser University for a project entitled "The Philosophy of Neuroscience and Neurophilosophy Project." Total funding will be $33,988 over 12 months.

Steven L. Hensen of Perkins Library has received an award from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for a project entitled "NC Encoded Archival Context (NC_EAC) Intern." Total funding will be $6,500 over 12 months.

Deborah L. Jakubs of Perkins Library has received an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled "Articulating an Institutional Digital Asset Management Strategy: A Duke/Dartmouth Proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation." Total funding will be $41,300 over 9 months.

L. Gregory Jones of Divinity has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "Duke Endow Rural Communities Revitalize Rural UM Churches." Total funding will be $200,000 over 13 months.

L. Gregory Jones of Divinity has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "Duke Endow - Rural Communities NC Annual Conferences." Total funding will be $50,000 over 13 months.

L. Gregory Jones of Divinity has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "UM Pastoral Leave Study." Total funding will be $21,000 over 13 months.

James A. Joseph of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Annie E. Casey Foundation for a project entitled "Operating and Program Support for the Center for Leadership and Public Values at the Terry Sandford Institute of Public." Total funding will be $75,000 over 12 months.

Jungsang Kim of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CAREER: Ion Trap 'Integrated Circuit' Technology for Quantum Information Processor." Total funding will be $400,000 over 59 months.

Tod A. Laursen of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "New Numerical Methods for Transient Interaction of Structures with Fluids and Soils." Total funding will be $307,426 over 34 months.

Harold Layton of Mathematics has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Mathematical Models of Renal Dynamics." Total funding will be $1,021,826 over 48 months.

Arie Y. Lewin of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc. for a project entitled "The Duke CIBER Offshoring Initiative." Total funding will be $250,000 over 12 months.

Keith G. Meador of Divinity has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "Rural Church Community Development and Leadership Initiative." Total funding will be $75,000 over 13 months.

Richard Payne of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life has received an award from the United States Cancer Pain Relief Committee for a project entitled "A Progressive Palliative Care Educational Curriculum for African Americans (APPEAL) Proposal for US Cancer Pain Relief." Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

Timothy H. Profeta of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the Energy Foundation for a project entitled "Policy Analysis for California Climate Change Process." Total funding will be $15,000 over 7 months.

Nimmi Ramanujam of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command for a project entitled "Near Infrared Spectroscopy for Improving Breast Core Needle Biopsy." Total funding will be $78,708 over 20 months.

Andrew J. Read of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Department of Defense for a project entitled "Predictive Spatial Analysis of Marine Mammal Habitats." Total funding will be $428,293 over 16 months.

Daniel A. Reed of Computer Science has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "RENCI Research Support." Total funding will be $33,300 over 12 months.

Daniel A. Reed of Computer Science has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "RENCI Research Support." Total funding will be $21,584 over 9 months.

Daniel A. Reed of Computer Science has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "RENCI Research Support." Total funding will be $19,695 over 8 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from Interlux (Akzo Nobel) for a project entitled "Rapid Empirical Development of Novel Antifouling Technology." Total funding will be $8,828. There is no specified project period.

Chad L. Schoen of Mathematics has received an award from the National Security Agency for a project entitled "Geometry and Chow groups of projective varieties." Total funding will be $43,566 over 12 months.

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the University of California - Berkeley for a project entitled "Optical Negative Index Material for Imaging and Information Processing." Total funding will be $1,033,962 over 11 months.

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Nanoplex Technologies Inc. for a project entitled "Enhanced Assay Performance through Size, Shape and Aggregate Characteristics of SERS Nanotags." Total funding will be $39,597 over 2 months.

Deborah Smith-Lovin of Sociology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU: Supplement Collaborative Research: Examining the Relationship Between Identity, Injustice and Emotion." Total funding will be $6,000 over 39 months.

Anthony So of Public Policy Studies has received an award from Uppsala University for a project entitled "Strategic Policy Support for the REACT Secretariat." Total funding will be $9,204 over 4 months.

Donald E. Stone of Biology has received an award from the Department of Agriculture for a project entitled "Plant Exploration in Guatemala." Total funding will be $7,648 over 9 months.

Robert J. Thompson, Jr. of Trinity College has received an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled "Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program." Total funding will be $290,000 over 36 months.

Anatoli I. Yashin of Demographic Studies has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Dynamic Determinants of Exceptional Health at Late Ages." Total funding will be $1,402,062 over 46 months.

*Schools of Medicine and Nursing awards are listed separately:

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

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Last updated March 1, 2006, by Ken Macdonald