January 2008 Awards*

Rachel A. Adcock of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & Depression for a project entitled "Correlated Activation in Midbrain and Hippocampus as a Predictor of Memory: FMRI in Schizophrenic and Control Subjects." Total funding will be $30,000 over 5 months.

Srinivas Aravamudan of the Franklin Institute has received an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled "A.W. Mellon Foundation 2008-2011." Total funding will be $469,658 over 44 months.

Philip N. Benfey of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Vision 2020 for Biology Workshop." Total funding will be $36,322 over 12 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Enhancing Underwater Target Classification via Semi-Supervised Multitask Learning." Total funding will be $180,000 over 33 months.

Philip Cook of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Inc. for a project entitled "The Costs of Capital Punishment in North Carolina: An Update." Total funding will be $30,000 over 7 months.

Landon P. Cox of Computer Science has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Tolerating Access Control Misconfigurations." Total funding will be $90,000 over 60 months.

Andrew H. Foster of the School of Law has received an award from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for a project entitled "ZSR Community Enterprise Clinic Proposal." Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

Robert B. Jackson of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Southeastern Regional Center of the National Institute for Climate Change Research (Supplement)." Total funding will be $88,755 over 34 months.

Kenneth C. Land of Sociology has received an award from the Connecticut Commission on Children for a project entitled "2007 Social Health Index." Total funding will be $30,000 over 9 months.

Carolyn McAllaster of the School of Law has received an award from the Crape Myrtle Festival for a project entitled "AIDS Legal Assistance Project at Duke Law School." Total funding will be $1,500 over 12 months.

Warren H. Meck of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from the Medical University of South Carolina for a project entitled "Neural Representation of Temporal Information." Total funding will be $92,795 over 27 months.

H. Frederik Nijhout of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Control of Size and Allometry: A Top-Down Approach." Total funding will be $119,499 over 36 months.

Lincoln F. Pratson of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the University of Minnesota for a project entitled "Cooperation with St. Anthony Falls Laboratory." Total funding will be $15,000 over 12 months.

Nirmala Ramanujam of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from Western Carolina University for a project entitled "Illuminus." Total funding will be $10,000 over 7 months.

David H. Schanzer of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the IBM Center for the Business of Government for a project entitled "Improving Policy Development in the Department of Homeland Security." Total funding will be $20,000 over 4 months.

Jeffrey T. Scruggs of Civil Engineering has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Control of Vibratory Energy Harvesting and Energy Constrained Systems." Total funding will be $400,000 over 60 months.

Martin D. Smith of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis for a project entitled "A Pilot Analysis of Size-based High-grading and the Potential for Individualized Landings Taxes to Embed Size-based Incentives: A Case Study of the U.S. West Coast Sablefish Fishery." Total funding will be $15,000 over 11 months.

Anthony So of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Sall Family Foundation for a project entitled "Establishment of New Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society." Total funding will be $611,352 over 60 months.

Carol Spruill of the School of Law has received an award from the NC State Bar Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts for a project entitled "IOLTA Public Service Internship Program." Total funding will be $15,000 over 12 months.

Robert J. Thompson, Jr. of Trinity College has received an award from the Spencer Foundation for a project entitled "Culture of Experimentation and Evidence." Total funding will be $246,960 over 60 months.

Robert J. Thompson, Jr. of Dean of Trinity College has received an award from the Teagle Foundation for a project entitled "Culture of Experimentation and Evidence." Total funding will be $246,959 over 54 months.

Grant A. Wacker of the Divinity School has received an award from the Louisville Institute for a project entitled "Billy Graham and Modern America." Total funding will be $5,974 over 12 months.

Kathryn Whetten of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management has received an award from the Children's Investment Fund Foundation for a project entitled "FCFC Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy for Malawi." Total funding will be $52,578 over 60 months.

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

Last updated February 4, 2008, by Ken Macdonald