July 2003 Awards*

Susan C. Alberts of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Life in a changing environment." Total funding will be $1,083,979 over 60 months.

Fred K. Boadu of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Imaging Subsurface Hydraulic Properties from Spectral Electrical Tomographic Images: Artificial Neural Network Approach (REU Supplement)." Total funding will be $20,200 over 12 months.

David J. Brady of the Fitzpatrick Center has received an award from the University of North Carolina -- Charlotte for a project entitled "Incoherent Multiplex Spectrometer Test and Management Station." Total funding will be $200,000 over 12 months.

J. Kameron Carter of Divinity has received an award from the Association of Theological Schools for a project entitled "Dramas of Suffering: Cornel West, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the Meaning of Modernity." Total funding will be $10,000 over 12 months.

William H. Chafe of Arts & Sciences has received an award from the Atlantic Philanthropic Service Company, Inc. for a project entitled "New Beginnings II." Total funding will be $500,000 over 24 months.

Robert L. Clark Jr. of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "International Collaboration Supplement to NIRT: Fabrication of Biomolecular and Polymeric Nanostructures by Proximal Probes." Total funding will be $23,852 over 12 months.

Franklin H. Cocks of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Carbon Ionic Conductors for Use in Novel Carbon-ion Fuel Cells." Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

Leslie M. Collins of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the AETC, Inc. for a project entitled "Data Collection/Signal Processing Support, Jefferson Proving Grounds, IN (Supplement)." Total funding will be $5,222 over 1 month.

Philip Cook of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a project entitled "The Health and Social Consequences of Alcohol Taxation and Control." Total funding will be $264,159 over 24 months.

Steven A. Cummer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from QUASAR, Inc. for a project entitled "Compact Man-Portable Lighting Detection System." Total funding will be $21,000 over 5 months.

Gary S. Dwyer of the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: High Northern Latitude Amplifiers of Centennial to Millennial Climate Forcing During the Holocene." Total funding will be $51,811 over 24 months.

David S. Ferriero of the Library Administration has received an award from the State Library for a project entitled "LSTA-NC ECHO: Exploring Cultural Heritage Online." Total funding will be $87,547 over 12 months.

Morton H. Friedman of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Department of Defense for a project entitled "Development and Characterization of Novel Volumetric Acquisition Orbits with an Application Specific Emission Tomography." Total funding will be $90,000 over 37 months.

Bai Gao of Sociology has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Institutional Analysis of Global Production Networks: Market Competition and Industrial Upgrading in the Chinese Automobile Industry." Total funding will be $1,500 over 12 months.

Gary S. Hartshorn of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Support to Maintain Research and Education at the La Selva Biological Station and to Enhance OTS' Database Management Program (Supplement)." Total funding will be $98,666 over 43 months.

Steven L. Hensen of the Special Collections Library has received an award from the National Film Preservation Foundation for a project entitled "H. Lee Waters Collection." Total funding will be $10,000 over 14 months.

Han Hong of Economics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: A Markov Chain Approach to Classical Estimation." Total funding will be $86,948 over 24 months.

Han Hong of Economics has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a project entitled "Sloan Foundation Research Scholar." Total funding will be $40,000 over 24 months.

Calvin R. Howell of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Support for the 17th International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Physics." Total funding will be $6,000 over 12 months.

Robert B. Jackson of Biology has received an award from the Texas A&M University for a project entitled "Ecohydrology of Semiarid Woodlands: Role of Woody Plants in the Water Cycle." Total funding will be $101,249 over 36 months.

Robert B. Jackson of Biology has received an award from the Department of Agriculture for a project entitled "Distant Hydraulic Links Between Deep Cave Roots and Aboveground Components: A Role for Root Aquaporins in Whole Tree Water Transport." Total funding will be $90,000 over 24 months.

Robert B. Jackson of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Dissertation Research: Drought Tolerance and Evolution of Hydraulic Traits in Juniperus Species." Total funding will be $9,730 over 24 months.

L. Gregory Jones of Divinity has received an award from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. for a project entitled "Pulpit & Pew Coordination Program for Sustaining Pastoral Excellence." Total funding will be $3,147,438 over 55 months.

Robert E. Kielb of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Carnegie Mellon University for a project entitled "Non-Synchronous Vibration of Turbomachinery Airfoils." Total funding will be $194,274 over 37 months.

Emily M. Klein of the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Geochemical and Geological Investigation of the 'Incipient Rift' at 2 degrees 40 N, East of the Pacific Rise (Supplement)." Total funding will be $23,100 over 8 months.

Jennifer Lansford of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Parent Behavior and Child Adjustment Across Cultures." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Nan Lin of Sociology has received an award from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Chinese Cultural Foundation for a project entitled "Social Capital: Social Networks, Civic Engagement and Trust." Total funding will be $45,000 over 24 months.

Nan Lin of Sociology has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Wedding Banquets: A Study of a Chinese Institution for Social Capital." Total funding will be $1,500 over 12 months.

Margaret A. McKean of Political Science has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Institutional Resilience in a Shifting Environment: Forest and Soil Conservation Cooperatives." Total funding will be $2,500 over 12 months.

Scott Morgenstern of Political Science has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Duke-Wake Forest Co-Sponsored Research Symposium on Political Recruitment and Elections in Latin America: Pathways to Power." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Negar Mottahedeh of the Art Museum has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "A Research Project to Highlight the History, the Production, as Well as the Aesthetic and Stylist Traditions of Six World Film Industries." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Seog H. Oh of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Research in High Energy Physics at Duke University (Supplement)." Total funding will be $15,000 over 5 months.

Michael K. Orbach of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Dissertation Improvement: Defining the Role of Conservation Technology for Bycatch Reduction of Marine Protected Species." Total funding will be $9,740 over 12 months.

Ram Oren of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Forest Service for a project entitled "Reducing Uncertainty in Current and Projected Carbon Sequestration in Southeastern US." Total funding will be $182,541 over 12 months.

Alyssa K. Perz-Edwards of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Molecular Updates for Chicken and Zebrafish Embryology Laboratory Exercises." Total funding will be $52,366 over 36 months.

Steven I. Pfeiffer of Talent Identification Program has received an award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation for a project entitled "Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Young Scholars Program." Total funding will be $459,013 over 12 months.

Michael C. Pirrung of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Medicinal Chemistry and Biology of Oral Insulin Mimics." Total funding will be $1,001,160 over 47 months.

Kathy Psomiades of English has received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology and the Novel." Total funding will be $20,000 over 6 months.

Ann Marie Rasmussen of Germanic Languages has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "International, Interdisciplinary Conference: Beginnings and Endings of Modernity in German-Speaking Lands." Total funding will be $2,500 over 12 months.

Michael C. Reed of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Supplement: Hyperacuity in the Auditory System." Total funding will be $106,063 over 36 months.

William M. Reichert of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Biosensor Biocompatibility." Total funding will be $1,266,650 over 60 months.

Daniel Richter Jr. of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Forest Service for a project entitled "Ice Damage to Forest Trees." Total funding will be $9,275 over 15 months.

Cynthia Riginos of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Extreme Discordance between Allozyme and Non- Allozyme Introgression in Baltic Mussels." Total funding will be $300,000 over 36 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from NC Sea Grant for a project entitled "Origin and Movement Patterns of Tar-hens and Tar-Jimmys." Total funding will be $16,250 over 12 months.

Tianjian Shi of Political Science has received an award from the Ford Foundation for a project entitled "Community Elections and Legal Reform in China." Total funding will be $33,600 over 12 months.

Elwyn L. Simons of Biological Anthropology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Anthropological and Paleontogical Research at the Fossil Primate Sites of the Fayum, Egypt (Supplement)." Total funding will be $27,150 over 12 months.

Elwyn L. Simons of Biological Anthropology has received an award from the National Geographic Society for a project entitled "Giant Lemurs and Faunal Extinction in Madagascar (Supplement)." Total funding will be $6,520 over 6 months.

Kathleen K. Smith of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "The Evolution of Cranial Neural Crest in Mammals: the Genetic Origins of Heterochronic Change." Total funding will be $330,298 over 36 months.

Joshua E. Socolar of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Dynamics of Boolean Networks and Gene Expressions." Total funding will be $55,000 over 9 months.

Daniel Sorin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "FaultFinder: Improving the Availabiltiy of Multiprocessor Servers." Total funding will be $114,422 over 24 months.

P. Eric J. Stallard of Demographic Studies has received an award from the Department of Veterans Affairs for a project entitled "Aging Veterans Health Policy Model: Pilot Project." Total funding will be $25,000 over 3 months.

Deborah A. Thomas of Cultural Anthropology has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Caribbeanist Anthropologies and Caribbean Studies." Total funding will be $4,850 over 12 months.

Carlo Tomasi of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Randomized Invariant Features for Recognition REU Supplement." Total funding will be $8,078 over 12 months.

Gregg E. Trahey of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Training in Medical Imaging." Total funding will be $1,590,507 over 60 months.

Joseph F. Ustach of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "A Proposal for Navy Ship Time on R/V Cape Hatteras, 2003." Total funding will be $245,704 over 6 months.

Amin M. Vahdat of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Evaluating Global-scale Distributed Systems Using Scalable Network Emulation." Total funding will be $260,000 over 24 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, August 6, 2003 by Ken Macdonald