June 2004 Awards*

Pankaj K. Agarwal of Computer Science has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Modeling and Analyzing Terrain Data Acquired by Modern Mapping Techniques." Total funding will be $463,561 over 36 months.

Charles M. Becker of Economics has received an award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for a project entitled "American Economic Association Summer Program and Minority Scholarship Program." Total funding will be $46,689 over 3 months.

David Beratan of Chemistry has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "Sculpting Molecular Potentials to Design Optimized Materials: The Inverse Design of New Molecular Structures." Total funding will be $2,919,167 over 52 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "EGR 20 Engineering Innovation." Total funding will be $24,875 over 24 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Duke Robotics Autonomous Wall-Climbing Robot." Total funding will be $9,985 over 24 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Scalable Development of Advanced Frequency and Time Domain EM Modeling Software." Total funding will be $375,000 over 48 months.

J. Kameron Carter of Divinity has received an award from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for a project entitled "Singing in a Strange Land: Religion & Black Intellectual Imagination, 1896- 1940." Total funding will be $16,212 over 12 months.

Philip R. Costanzo of Psychology: Social & Health Sciences has received an award from the Spencer Foundation for a project entitled "A Discipline Based Graduate Training Program in Education Science and Policy." Total funding will be $348,480 over 48 months.

Larry B. Crowder of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Marine Conservation Biology Institute for a project entitled "Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Oral Histories, and Historical Information: Reef Fisheries in Milolii, Hawaii." Total funding will be $6,000 over 12 months.

Stefano Curtarolo of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Space Grant for a project entitled "New Lightweight Aerospace Magnesium Alloys." Total funding will be $4,000 over 8 months.

Richard T. Di Giulio of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Emerging Molecular and Computational Approaches for Cross-Species Extrapolations." Total funding will be $39,500 over 9 months.

Judson D. Edeburn of the Nicholas School has received an award from Brookhaven National Labs for a project entitled "Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS) Duke Forest Blackwood Division Site: Site Maintenance and Support (SUPPLEMENT)." Total funding will be $6,169 over 12 months.

Glenn Edwards of Physics (FELL) has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Novel Research Opportunities Using the Duke Storage-Ring FEL." Total funding will be $23,100 over 12 months.

Henry Everitt of Physics has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Ultrafast Optical Characterization of Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Heterostructures and Nanostructures." Total funding will be $60,000 over 6 months.

Richard B. Fair of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Advanced Liquid Logic for a project entitled "Microfluidic PCR Platform for Rapid Pathogen Detection." Total funding will be $27,674 over 3 months.

Andrew H. Foster of the School of Law has received an award from the Racial Justice Collaborative for a project entitled "Transactional Legal Tools to Build and Protect Wealth (Duke Law Community Economic Development Clinic)." Total funding will be $150,000 over 22 months.

Richard M. Hain of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Hodge Theory, Galois Theory and the Topology of Moduli Spaces." Total funding will be $144,000 over 36 months.

Lisa G. Huettel of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "A Vertically-Integrated Application-Driven Undergraduate Signal Processing Laboratory." Total funding will be $199,358 over 36 months.

Nan Lin of Sociology has received an award from Academia Sinica for a project entitled "Social Capital in Three Societies." Total funding will be $75,000 over 8 months.

Karl G. Linden of Civil Engineering has received an award from the University of Toronto for a project entitled "Impact of Chlorine Dioxide on Transmisison, Treatment, and Distribution System Performance." Total funding will be $30,000 over 9 months.

Ralph A. Litzinger of Asian Pacific Studies has received an award from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Chinese Cultural Foundation for a project entitled "The Question of Asia in the New Global Order." Total funding will be $12,510 over 8 months.

Peter E. Malin of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from Stanford University for a project entitled "An Easily Removable Instrumentation System for SAFOD Pilot Hole Geophysical Monitoring and Sensor Evaluation (Supplement)." Total funding will be $64,984 over 23 months.

Kenneth G. Manton of Demographic Studies has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Functional and Health Changes of the Elderly (Supplement)." Total funding will be $154,000 over 16 months.

Patricia Mcclellan-Green of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a project entitled "Impact of Non-Point Source Contaminants on Reproductive Development and Capacity of Invertebrates in North Carolina Estuarine Research Reserve." Total funding will be $20,000 over 12 months.

Joseph McPherson of Sociology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Self and Interaction in an Ecology of Identities." Total funding will be $112,723 over 3 months.

William F. Morris of Biology has received a fellowship award from the National Science Foundation for student Ryan Bartlett, for a project entitled "DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Predicting the combined effects of plant resistance and natural enemies on plant fitness." Total funding will be $7,875 over 23 months.

Brad B. Murray of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Temporal Evolution of Ripple-Field Characteristics: A Defect-Dynamic Approach." Total funding will be $109,801 over 24 months.

H. Frederik Nijhout of Biology has received an award from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for a project entitled "Modeling of folate one-carbon metabolism and DNA methylation." Total funding will be $92,960 over 12 months.

Stephen Nowicki of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Supplement: Collaborative Research: Developmental and receiver-dependent costs of avian signals." Total funding will be $9,600 over 27 months.

Mark D. Rausher of Biology has received a fellowship award from the National Science Foundation for student David Des Marais, for a project entitled "DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Evolutionary Fate of Gene Duplications in Morning Glories." Total funding will be $12,000 over 23 months.

Kenneth H. Reckhow of the Nicholas School has received an award from the University of Texas - Austin for a project entitled "Pilot HydroInformatics System for the Neuse River." Total funding will be $81,479 over 12 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Adhesion and growth of barnacles on test coating: Phase III (Supplement)." Total funding will be $3,500 over 12 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from Arch Chemicals for a project entitled "Mixture interactions of broad spectrum biocides: Assays testing release from a simple antifouling coating matrix (Supplement)." Total funding will be $1,000 over 6 months.

Svetlana A. Roudenko of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Methods of Harmonic Analysis in Partial Differential Equations and Integrable Systems." Total funding will be $35,000 over 24 months.

William H. Schlesinger of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium for a project entitled "Health Evaluation of Free-Ranging Endemic Malagasy Carnivores and Survey of Infectious Diseases among Domestic Carnivores." Total funding will be $2,200 over 4 months.

A. Jonathan Shaw of Biology has received a fellowship award from the National Science Foundation for student Ellen Davis, for a project entitled "DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Phylogeny, specificity, and biogeography of endophytic Xylariaceae in liverworts." Total funding will be $12,000 over 24 months.

Gangadlar Shukla of the Duke Center for International Development has received an award from BearingPoint, Inc. for a project entitled "India State Fiscal Managment Reform." Total funding will be $528,786 over 30 months.

Stacy L. Tantum of Electrical Engineering has received an award from AETC, Inc. for a project entitled "Signal Processing for Handheld UXO Sensor Improvements." Total funding will be $303,148 over 36 months.

Joseph Tham of the Duke Center for International Development has received an award from Harvard University for a project entitled "Fulbright Economics Teaching Program." Total funding will be $18,063 over 2 months.

John H. Willis of Biology has received a fellowship award from the National Science Foundation for student Andrea Sweigart, for a project entitled "DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Identification and characterization of incompatibility genes that contribute to postzygotic reproductive isolation between species of Mimulus." Total funding will be $12,000 over 24 months.

*School of Medicine awards are listed separately:

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

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Last updated July 2, 2004, by Ken Macdonald