July 2006 Awards*

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from Columbia University for a project entitled "Development and Sensitivity Analysis of High Resolution Land Surface Parameters from Satellite Data and Their Use in a Mesoscale Mode -LDEO." Total funding will be $52,230 over 12 months.

Paul A. Baker of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Reconstructing past climates of the Amazon basin from the isotopic analysis of tropical trees." Total funding will be $279,980 over 36 months.

Paul A. Baker of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Holocene Drought in the North American Interior." Total funding will be $142,446 over 36 months.

Stephen B. Baumann of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the NC Biotechnology Center for a project entitled "Development of Instructional Technology to Teach Immunology to North Carolina Middle and High School Students." Total funding will be $76,085 over 12 months.

Elizabeth Brannon of Psychology and Neuroscience has received a fellowship award from the Triangle Community Foundation for graduate student Melissa Libertus, for a project entitled "Neural Correlates of Number Representation in Developmental Dysalculia." Total funding will be $4,000 over 12 months.

Matt Cartmill of Biological Anthropology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "The Evolution of Diagonal Sequence Gaits in Primates: A New Approach to the Problem." Total funding will be $100,000 over 24 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems has received an award from the NC Biotechnology Center for a project entitled "Acquisition of Cryo Transmission Electron Micrscope for Shared Use of NC Researchers." Total funding will be $250,000 over 12 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "pH Sensitive Elastic-Like-Peptides for Tumor Targeting." Total funding will be $94,772 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 "IGERT: Graduate Training in Biologically Inspired Materials - Supplement." Total funding will be $146,880 over 28 months.

Franklin H. Cocks of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Shielding a Polar Lunar Base." Total funding will be $10,000 over 12 months.

Clifford Cunningham of Biology has received a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Kyle Dexter, for a project entitled "Novel Approaches to the Study of the Community Ecology of Tropical Trees." Total funding will be $12,000 over 24 months.

David J. Erickson III of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the University of Nebraska for a project entitled "Evaluating the Role of Global Snow Cover on Seasonal to Interannual Predictability of Temperature and Precipitation." Total funding will be $142,998 over 12 months.

John D. French of History 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 $75,000 over 6 months.

Alfred T. Goshaw 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 $50,000 over 4 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Nicholas School has received an award from Appalachian State University for a project entitled "Measuring the Impacts of Climate Change on North Carolina Coastal Resources." Total funding will be $12,500 over 7 months.

Gabriele C. Hegerl of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Reducing Uncertainties in Future Climate Projections by Quantifying Human Contributions to 20th Century Climate Change." Total funding will be $429,262 over 36 months.

Judith A. Horowitz of the School of Law has received an award from the Open Society Institute for a project entitled "Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law." Total funding will be $18,510 over 3 months.

Judith A. Horowitz of the School of Law has received an award from the Open Society Institute for a project entitled "Duke-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law." Total funding will be $17,010 over 3 months.

Jennifer A. Jenkins of the School of Law has received an award from the Rockefeller Foundation for a project entitled "Arts Project." Total funding will be $150,000 over 24 months.

Bruce W. Jentleson of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the University of California - Berkeley for a project entitled "Berkeley-Duke Center for America's Global Strategic Challenges." Total funding will be $55,997 over 18 months.

Thomas H. Labean of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "QuBic: Novel DNA Nanostructures for Targeted Molecular Scale to Micron Scale Interconnects (Supplement)." Total funding will be $12,000 over 2 months.

Kam W. Leong of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from Johns Hopkins University for a project entitled "Non-Viral Liver-Targeted Gene Delivery." Total funding will be $184,034 over 12 months.

Dewey G. McCafferty of Chemistry has received an award from the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America, Inc. for a project entitled "The Biophysical Characterization of NOD2 Interactions with Muramyl Dipeptide and Synthetic Bacterial Peptidoglycans." Total funding will be $116,500 over 24 months.

Neil F. McWilliam of Art & Art History has received an award from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "The Aesthetics of Reaction: Tradition, Identity, and the Visual Arts in France c. 1900-1914." Total funding will be $35,000 over 12 months.

Brian C. Murray of Nicholas Institute has received an award from Stratus Consulting Inc. for a project entitled "Develop Offset Methodology for an Afforestation Project." Total funding will be $30,747 over 7 months.

Uwe Ohler of the Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology has received a fellowship award from the Triangle Community Foundation for graduate student Elizabeth Rach, for a project entitled "2006 George H. Hitchings New Investigator Award in Health Research and Training." Total funding will be $4,000 over 12 months.

Andrew J. Read of the Marine Lab has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Documenting Interactions between Pilot Whales and the Pelagic Longline Fishery." Total funding will be $126,892 over 12 months.

John F. Richards of South Asian Studies has received an award from the Department of Education for a project entitled "The Public: Arenas of Transaction, Arenas of Intersection." Total funding will be $752,000 over 48 months.

Susan H. Rodger of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Increasing the Representation of Undergraduate Women and Minorities in Computer Science (Supplement)." Total funding will be $39,624 over 26 months.

Nicola Scafetta of Physics has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Modeling Complex Phenomena Using Multiscale Time Series." Total funding will be $297,890 over 36 months.

Sarah W. Schroth of the Art Museum has received an award from the University of Minnesota for a project entitled "Research for Exhibition El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Region of Phillip III." Total funding will be $2,400 over 12 months.

Lori A. Setton of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Genetically Designed Materials for Cartilage Repair." Total funding will be $117,000 over 12 months.

John D. Simon of Chemistry has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Center for Biomedical and Materials Research with Free-Electron Lasers (Supplement)." Total funding will be $251,012 over 8 months.

Deborah Smith-Lovin of Sociology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "DHB-Niches and Networks: Studying the Coevolution of Voluntary Groups and Social Networks (Supplement)." Total funding will be $89,417 over 13 months.

Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Hybrid Nanomaterials in Photonic Crystal Cavities for Multi- spectral Infrared Detector Array." Total funding will be $450,000 over 36 months.

Dean L. Urban of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Carbon Dynamics in Heterogeneous Landscapes: Fusing Remote Sensing and Spatial Ecological Models." Total funding will be $24,000 over 25 months.

Ross Widenhoefer of Chemistry has received an award from Johnson & Johnson for a project entitled "Catalytic Hydrofunctionalization of C-C Multiple Bonds as a Route to Nitrogen and Oxygen Heterocycles." Total funding will be $210,000 over 36 months.

Gregory A. Wray of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Evolutionary Genetics of a Sea Urchin Skeletogenic Gene Network." Total funding will be $500,000 over 36 months.

Gary A. Ybarra of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Track 2, GK-12 MUSIC: Math Understanding through Science Integrated with Curriculum (Supplement)." Total funding will be $25,000 over 30 months.

Benjamin B. Yellen of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "NER: Integrated Magnetic and Chemical Assembly Techniques for Building Nanoparticle Arrays." Total funding will be $129,404 over 11 months.

*Campus awards only, excluding some private-sector sponsors. Schools of Medicine and Nursing awards are listed separately:

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

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Last updated August 2, 2006, by Ken Macdonald