July 2007 Awards*

Susan C. Alberts of Biology has received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Jenny Tung, for a project entitled "Genetic Variation and Gene Expression in Wild Baboons." Total funding will be $14,996 over 24 months.

Owen L. Astrachan of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CPATH CDEF: Interdisciplinary Problem and Case-Based Computer Science." Total funding will be $241,366 over 24 months.

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Evaluating the Effects of Land-Surface Heterogeneity at Various Scales on Atmospheric Boundary Layer Processes." Total funding will be $24,000 over 36 months.

Ana P. Barros of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Characterization of Aerosol-Cloud Rainfall Interactions and Water Cycle Impacts in the Himalayas." Total funding will be $72,000 over 36 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Sensor Material Design by Application Driven Optimization." Total funding will be $320,000 over 6 months.

Roberto E. Cabeza of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Exploring the Extent of Unconscious Visual Cognition." Total funding will be $147,750 over 36 months.

Albert M. Chang of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Probing Fractional Statistics and Correlated States in Cleave-Edge Devices." Total funding will be $520,002 over 48 months.

Stefano Curtarolo of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Enabling Strategic Collaborations between the Naval Research Laboratory and Duke University in the Field of Titanium Alloys - Phase II." Total funding will be $13,203 over 35 months.

Richard T. DiGiulio of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a project entitled "Integrated Toxicology Program Extension (supplement)." Total funding will be $29,664 over 12 months.

Kenneth A. Dodge of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the NC Department of Health and Human Services for a project entitled "Evaluation of Implementation of the Multiple Response System (MRS)." Total funding will be $243,659 over 12 months.

Earl H. Dowell of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "An Aeroelastic Analysis Capability for the FUN3D Flow Solver." Total funding will be $30,000 over 12 months.

Earl H. Dowell of Mechanical Engineering has received a fellowship award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics for a project entitled "2007 Walter J. and Angeline H. Crichlow Trus Prize." Total funding will be $100,000 over 11 months.

Christine Drea of Biological Anthropology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Olfactory Communication in Primates." Total funding will be $582,869 over 36 months.

Peter D. Feaver of Political Science has received an award from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation for a project entitled "Bradley Fellowship Program at Duke." Total funding will be $25,000 over 12 months.

Jeffrey R. Forbes of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CPATH CB: Building Community Via the Science of Networks." Total funding will be $318,360 over 24 months.

Jeffrey R. Forbes of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "AAAI-07 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition (Conference Support)." Total funding will be $24,032 over 12 months.

Haiyan Gao of Physics has received an award from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for a project entitled "Engineering Design of Subsystems for the Neutron Electron Dipole Moment (nEDM) Project." Total funding will be $18,200 over 7 months.

Kenneth E. Glander of Biological Anthropology has received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Catherine Workman, for a project entitled "Foraging Ecology of Delacour's Langurs in a Harsh Environment." Total funding will be $4,150 over 12 months.

Erdag M. Goknar of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian & East European Studies has received an award from the National Humanities Center for a project entitled "Between Orient and Nation: Orhan Pamuk and the Turkish Novel." Total funding will be $35,000 over 9 months.

Warren M. Grill of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation for a project entitled "Restoration of Bladder Function by Pudendal Nerve Stimulation." Total funding will be $244,370 over 24 months.

Kenneth C. Hall of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from GE Global Research for a project entitled "Turbomachinery Aeroperformance, Aeroacoustics, and Aeromechanics Research." Total funding will be $75,000 over 6 months.

Calvin R. Howell of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Nuclear Data Measurements on Actinides Using the High Intensity Gamma-Ray Sources." Total funding will be $729,000 over 36 months.

Edwin S. Iversen of Statistical Science has received an award from the Mayo Clinic for a project entitled "BRCA2 Missense Mutations and Breast Cancer." Total funding will be $31,200 over 12 months.

Nan M. Jokerst of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for a project entitled "Metamaterials for High Bit-Rate Communications at THz Frequencies." Total funding will be $175,000 over 5 months.

Andrea S. Katz of the Lemur Center has received an award from the Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation for a project entitled "The Aye-Aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) of Madagascar." Total funding will be $17,000 over 12 months.

Alvin Lebeck of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Circuit and Systems Architectures for Self-Assembled Nanoscale Computers." Total funding will be $665,456 over 48 months.

Robert A. Malkin of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from The H.O.P.E Mission for a project entitled "Analysis of Installation and Safety Data from BlueRay Phototherapy Device Use." Total funding will be $26,688 over 23 months.

Piotr E. Marszalek of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Conformations of Polysaccharides and Nucleic Acids by Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy." Total funding will be $510,135 over 36 months.

Dewey G. McCafferty of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Bioorganic Mechanisms of Peptide Antibiotics." Total funding will be $1,176,827 over 32 months.

Marie Lynn Miranda of the Nicholas School has received an award from the McFeely-Rogers Foundation for a project entitled "Community Service T-Shirts for Duke Class of 2011." Total funding will be $7,500 over 4 months.

Amy Needham of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from the Blind Children's Center for a project entitled "Engaging Blind Infants in Objects." Total funding will be $15,000 over 12 months.

Lydia P. Olander of Nicholas Institute has received an award from the United Nations Foundation for a project entitled "Avoid Deforestation and Climate Change." Total funding will be $9,658 over 1 month.

David H. Schanzer of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from the National Institute of Justice for a project entitled "Anti-Terror Lessons of American Muslim Communities." Total funding will be $394,005 over 24 months.

Arthur J. Shaw of Biology has received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Ping Zhou, for a project entitled "Speciation and hybridization in the moss genus Sphagnum." Total funding will be $11,950 over 24 months.

Connie M. Shelton of the Divinity School has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "2007 Field Education Appropriation." Total funding will be $100,000 over 13 months.

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "Non-Reciprocal MetaCrystals." Total funding will be $125,000 over 6 months.

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from SensorMetrix for a project entitled "Electromagnetic Metamaterial Composite Structures." Total funding will be $33,393 over 6 months.

Joshua D. Sosin of Duke University Libraries has received an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled "Integrating Digital Papyrology." Total funding will be $500,000 over 13 months.

Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Hybrid Nanomaterials for Multi-Spectral Infrared Photodection." Total funding will be $349,200 over 48 months.

Janice A. Virtue of the Divinity School has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "2007 CTE Scholaships for United Methodists." Total funding will be $200,000 over 13 months.

Yvonne Wasilewski of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the NC Department of Public Instruction for a project entitled "Proposal to Evaluate PBS in 8 NC Elementary Schools." Total funding will be $31,192 over 6 months.

John H. Willis of Biology has received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Kevin Wright, for a project entitled "Evolution of Copper Tolerance in Mimulus guttatus." Total funding will be $12,000 over 24 months.

John H. Willis of Biology has received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student David Lowry, for a project entitled "The geographic mode, ecological mechanisms, as well as genetic basis of local adaptation and ecological reproductive isolation." Total funding will be $11,943 over 24 months.

Anne D. Yoder of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Testing the Role of Historical Geology and Rivers for Shaping the Distribution of Land Vertebrate Biodiversity in Western Madagascar (SUPPLEMENT)." Total funding will be $6,000 over 14 months.

Pei Zhong of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Siemens Medical Systems, Inc. for a project entitled "Lithotripsy: Basic Research Collaboration." Total funding will be $80,000 over 12 months.

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

Last updated August 2, 2007, by Ken Macdonald