January 2005 Awards*

Philip N. Benfey of DCMB has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Coordination of the Multinational Arabidopsis Thaliana Functional Genomics Project." Total funding will be $133,677 over 23 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Intel Corporation for a project entitled "Growth, Design, and Scaling Performance of III-V HFET." Total funding will be $299,999 over 24 months.

Caroline Bruzelius of the Graduate School has received an award from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for a project entitled "Summer Institute in the Humanities at the Venice International University." Total funding will be $100,000 over 24 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Adaptive Statistical Methods for Detection and Classification of Targets in General Environments." Total funding will be $360,000 over 34 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Time-Reversal Imaging for Detection and Classification on MCM Targets: Gibbs Sampling and the Relevance Vector Machine." Total funding will be $150,000 over 20 months.

Qi Chen of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from TIAA-CREF for a project entitled "Corporate Governance and Mutual Fund Performance." Total funding will be $15,000 over 12 months.

Steven E. Churchill of Biological Anthropology has received an award from the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation for a project entitled "Patterns of Variation in Recent and Fossil Human Nasal Passages." Total funding will be $4,781 over 12 months.

Philip R. Costanzo of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the Spencer Foundation for a project entitled "DBSE Grantee Meeting April 20-22, 2005." Total funding will be $20,000 over 12 months.

Alvin L. Crumbliss of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Kinetic and Thermodynamic Studies Relevant to Biological Iron Transport." Total funding will be $454,000 over 35 months.

Ian H. Dinwoodie of ISDS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Computational Algebraic Methods for High-Dimensional Statistical Applications." Total funding will be $44,068 over 4 months.

Herbert Edelsbrunner of Computer Science has received an award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for a project entitled "Discrete Methods for Comparing Continuous Functions." Total funding will be $63,019 over 36 months.

Michael Fitzgerald of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Backbone H-Bonds in Protein Folding (Supplement)." Total funding will be $131,360 over 30 months.

Joel L. Fleishman of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation for a project entitled "Duke Philanthropic Foundations Research and Teaching Program." Total funding will be $250,000 over 12 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 $1,777,628 over 60 months.

Warren M. Grill of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Paralyzed Veterans of America for a project entitled "Restoration of Bladder Emptying in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury." Total funding will be $148,599 over 24 months.

Margaret Humphreys of History has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "The Civil War and American Medicine." Total funding will be $231,000 over 36 months.

James A. Joseph of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Cummins Foundation for a project entitled "Operating and Program Support for the Center for Leadership and Public Values at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Values." Total funding will be $120,000 over 36 months.

Richard F. Kay of Biological Anthropology has received an award from the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation for a project entitled "Recovery of Miocene Fossil Primates and Other Mammals from Near Rio Gallegos, Argentina." Total funding will be $2,500 over 12 months.

Paul S. Manos of Biology has received an award from the Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled "Coastal Estuaries Under Climate Change (Supplement)." Total funding will be $5,000 over 3 months.

Kenneth G. Manton of Demographic Studies has received an award from the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative for a project entitled "Review of Econometric Projects for the State of California." Total funding will be $10,000 over 12 months.

Carolyn McAllaster of the School of Law has received an award from the Crape Myrtle Festival, Inc. for a project entitled "Duke AIDS Legal Assistance Project." Total funding will be $2,000 over 14 months.

John W. Payne of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from Wachovia Corporation for a project entitled "COLE and CASE Program Support." Total funding will be $500,000 over 60 months.

David L. Rabiner of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence for a project entitled "Analyze Surveys for the NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence." Total funding will be $4,088 over 3 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.

Alex Roland of History has received an award from the United States Army War College for a project entitled "The Rise and Fall of Empires." Total funding will be $25,000 over 10 months.

Anthony So of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Open Society Institute for a project entitled "Mobilizing Civil Society Through Networks." Total funding will be $9,000 over 3 months.

John E. Thomas of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Quantum Dynamics of Optically-Trapped Fermi Gases." Total funding will be $444,000 over 33 months.

Robert J. Thompson Jr. of Trinity College has received an award from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for a project entitled "Common Ground." Total funding will be $10,000 over 5 months.

Carel P. Van Schaik of Biological Anthropology has received an award from the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation for a project entitled "Effects of a Dispersal Barrier on Orangutan Cultures in Borneo." Total funding will be $10,000 over 12 months.

*School of Medicine awards are listed separately:

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

(Please note this is an intranet address exclusively for the duke.edu domain.)

Last updated February 2, 2005, by Ken Macdonald