June 2006 Awards*

Edna Andrews of Slavic and Eurasian Studies has received an award from the Department of Education for a project entitled "National Resource Center/Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships." Total funding will be $1,772,000 over 12 months.

Steffen A. Bass of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Modeling and Analysis of Ultra-Realistic Heavy-Ion Collisions." Total funding will be $184,000 over 21 months.

David J. Brady of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Rice University for a project entitled "Compressive Optical Systems- Theory, Devices, and Implementations." Total funding will be $193,625 over 12 months.

Sherryl A. Broverman of Biology has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "HIV and Obstacles to Girls' Education in Kenya." Total funding will be $4,000 over 12 months.

Vasile Buhusi of Psychological and Brain Sciences has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Representation of Temporal Information." Total funding will be $901,520 over 48 months.

John F. Burness of Public Affairs and Government has received an award from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation for a project entitled "Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

John F. Burness of Public Affairs and Government has received an award from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation for a project entitled "Chronicling the History of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Nenad Bursac of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Cellular Cardiomyoplasty in Vitro: Host-Donor Cell Interaction." Total funding will be $419,261 over 24 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "RF Time-Reversal Methods for Imaging & Detection." Total funding will be $1,125,000 over 30 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Naval Research Laboratory for a project entitled "Underwater Sensing of UXO." Total funding will be $267,585 over 36 months.

J. Kameron Carter of Divinity has received an award from the National Humanities Center for a project entitled "Du Bois, Religion and the Black Intellectual Imaginations, 1888-1935." Total funding will be $32,500 over 9 months.

James S. Clark of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Dynamic Sensor Networks-Enabling the Measurement, Modeling, and Prediction of Biophysical Change in a Landscape (Supplement)." Total funding will be $12,000 over 54 months.

Michael S. Coyne of the Nicholas School has received an award from the University of New Hampshire for a project entitled "Spatial Ecology of Marine Turtles in the Eastern Atlantic." Total funding will be $460,792 over 12 months.

Stefano Curtarolo of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Honda Motor Co. for a project entitled "Classical and Quantum Mechanical Investigation of Carbon Nanotube Growth Out of Metal-Alloys Nanoparticles." Total funding will be $160,000 over 13 months.

Richard T. Digiulio of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Superfund Chemicals Impact on Reproduction and Development - Supplement." Total funding will be $230,494 over 34 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 $199,980 over 12 months.

Christopher L. Dwyer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Microsoft Research for a project entitled "Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship Application." Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

Judson D. Edeburn of Duke Forest has received an award from Brookhaven National Labs for a project entitled "Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS-1)." Total funding will be $56,192 over 37 months.

Judson D. Edeburn of Duke Forest has received an award from the County of Durham for a project entitled "Durham County Matching Grants Program for Recreation and Open Space Projects." Total funding will be $2,183 over 18 months.

Gleb Finkelstein of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "NER: Electronic Nanostructure Based on Self-Assembled DNA Scaffolds: Toward Biochemical Sensing." Total funding will be $130,000 over 11 months.

Michael Fitzgerald of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Purchase of a High-Throughput MALDI TOF/TOF." Total funding will be $496,000 over 12 months.

Katherine J. Franz of Chemistry has received an award from the Parkinson's Disease Foundation for a project entitled "Design and Synthesis of ROS-Sensitive Iron Chelators." Total funding will be $40,000 over 12 months.

Elizabeth J. Gifford 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 School Based Child and Family Support Teams Initiative." Total funding will be $200,000 over 12 months.

Kenneth E. Glander of Biological Anthropology has received an award from the Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation for a project entitled "The Delacour's Langur of Northern Vietnam: Adaptations to a Harsh Environment." Total funding will be $18,000 over 10 months.

Jeffrey T. Glass of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Logos Technologies for a project entitled "Space Launch Study." Total funding will be $49,346 over 3 months.

Jeffrey T. Glass of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "SST: Development of a Micro Mass Spectrometer and the Design of a Spectrometer-Based Distributed Sensor Network-Supplement." Total funding will be $43,570 over 15 months.

Claudia Gunsch of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Studying Exposure to Biological Indoor Air Contaminants in North Carolina: An Interactive Research Project for Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Students." Total funding will be $12,500 over 11 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Marine Lab has received an award from the United States Navy for a project entitled "Continued Development of the SEAMAP Data Archive." Total funding will be $256,000 over 12 months.

Kerry L. Haynie of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Representation and the Intersections of Gender, Race and Ethnicity." Total funding will be $118,001 over 24 months.

Kerry L. Haynie of Political Science has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Disease and Diversity Among Civil War Veterans." Total funding will be $2,000 over 12 months.

Kathy R. Hollingsworth of Counseling and Psychological Services has received an award from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation for a project entitled "Mentality." Total funding will be $4,000 over 12 months.

Lisa G. Huettel of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "An Enhanced Design Project Laboratory for Electrical and Computer Engineering." Total funding will be $15,000 over 11 months.

David K. Hyrenbach of the Marine Lab has received an award from Oikonos for a project entitled "Satellite Tracking of Post-breeding Black-footed Albatross." Total funding will be $10,720 over 8 months.

Joseph A. Izatt of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Enabling Technologies for Next-Generation Ophthalmic OCT." Total funding will be $422,479 over 24 months.

Robert B. Jackson of Biology has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "The interaction of carbon sequestration and water availability along a subambient to elevated CO2 gradient." Total funding will be $430,699 over 36 months.

Jason A. Janet of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Duke Robotics Multi-DOF Holonomic Autonomous Underwater Vehicle." Total funding will be $15,000 over 11 months.

Jason A. Janet of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Duke Robotics Wall Climbing Robot, Phase III." Total funding will be $15,000 over 11 months.

Robert E. Kielb of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Annual MEMS Engineering Design Contest." Total funding will be $6,000 over 11 months.

Herbert P. Kitschelt of Political Science has received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for student Daniel Kselman, for a project entitled "Political Parties, Economic Policy, and Democratic Consolidation." Total funding will be $12,000 over 12 months.

Arie Y. Lewin of Fuqua School of Business has received an award from the Department of Education for a project entitled "Application for New Awards under the Centers for International Business Education & Research (CIBER)." Total funding will be $1,324,000 over 48 months.

Jie Liu of Chemistry has received an award from Xintek, Inc. for a project entitled "Synthesis and Functionalization of Small Diameter Few-Walled Carbon Nanotubes." Total funding will be $100,000 over 24 months.

Robert A. Malkin of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Duke-Engineering World Health Summer Institute." Total funding will be $15,000 over 11 months.

Paul S. Manos of Biology has received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for student Yi-Hsin E. Tsai, for a project entitled "Invasion dynamics of the parasitic plant, Epifagus Virginiana." Total funding will be $12,000 over 24 months.

Paul S. Manos of Biology has received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for Student Erin A. Tripp, for a project entitled " Systematics and Pollinator Transitions in the Species-rich Genus Ruellia (Acanthaceae)." Total funding will be $11,910 over 24 months.

Piotr E. Marszalek of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Construction of a High-Precision, Low Cost Atomic Force Microscope by Undergraduate Students for Undergraduate Research." Total funding will be $15,000 over 11 months.

Sucheta Mazumdar of History has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Chinese and American Merchants from the Slave Trade to the Opium Rush." Total funding will be $3,000 over 12 months.

Miguel A. Medina of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Continuing Excellence in the Pratt School of Engineering International Honors Program." Total funding will be $5,000 over 11 months.

Martin A. Miller of History has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Traumas of Terrorism in Historical Perspective." Total funding will be $2,500 over 12 months.

Marie L. Miranda of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Wallace Genetic Foundation for a project entitled "A Pilot Project on Lead and Genetics." Total funding will be $65,000 over 12 months.

William G. Mitchener of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamics for Language Learning and Change." Total funding will be $92,459 over 36 months.

Stephen R. Mitroff of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from Sigma Xi for a project entitled "Attentional effects of video game playing: Purely visual or multisensory causes and effects?" Total funding will be $600 over 12 months.

William F. Morris of Biology has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "Mapping Habitat Connectivity For Multiple Rare, Threatened And Endangered Species On And Around Military Installations." Total funding will be $135,683 over 60 months.

Brad B. Murray of Earth and Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Productivity, Stability, and Geomorphological Evolution of New England Salt Marshes: Plum Island Case Study." Total funding will be $120,685 over 18 months.

Joseph C. Nadeau of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Practical Learning Instruction and Support of Student Project Capabilities." Total funding will be $15,000 over 11 months.

Emerson Niou of Political Science has received an award from the Ford Foundation for a project entitled "Workshop on Research Methods for Chinese Political Scientists." Total funding will be $50,900 over 8 months.

Emerson Niou of Political Science has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Taiwanese Public Opinion and Security Stability in the Taiwan Strait." Total funding will be $1,500 over 12 months.

Richard Payne of the Institute on Care at the End of Life has received an award from St. John Health for a project entitled "St. John Palliative Care Agreement." Total funding will be $513,468 over 36 months.

Kevin A. Pelphrey of Psychological and Brain Sciences has received an award from the National Alliance for Autism Research for a project entitled "Functional Neuroimaging of the Developing Social Brain in Children with Autism." Total funding will be $112,200 over 24 months.

Timothy H. Profeta of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from Duke Energy Corporation for a project entitled "CEO Meeting Series - Climate Policy Dialogue." Total funding will be $287,846 over 16 months.

Timothy H. Profeta of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the Robertson Foundation for a project entitled "Robertson Bus Greening." Total funding will be $250,000 over 12 months.

Timothy H. Profeta of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation for a project entitled "Creating a Pathway to Ecosystem-Based Management and other Commission Recommendations in the Legislative Process." Total funding will be $225,000 over 15 months.

Ann Marie Rasmussen of Germanic Languages has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Materiality and Visuality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde." Total funding will be $2,000 over 12 months.

Andrew J. Read of the Marine Lab has received an award from the United States Navy for a project entitled "Investigation of the impact of sonar transmission on fisheries and habitat in the U.S. Navy's USWTR." Total funding will be $163,500 over 12 months.

Jan Riggsbee of Education has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Transcultural Inquiry: Internationalizing Teacher Preparation at Duke." Total funding will be $2,450 over 12 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Barnacles for Antifouling, Foul-Release and Adhesion Research (Supplement)." Total funding will be $7,324 over 6 months.

David E. Schaad of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Duke Engineering Without Borders 2006 - 2007 International Project: Uganda." Total funding will be $25,000 over 11 months.

Kate Scholberg of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Hadron Collider Physics Conference." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Karin Shapiro of History has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "No Exit? The Politics of South African Emigration Restrictions in Early Apartheid South Africa." Total funding will be $4,000 over 12 months.

Kathy A. Silbiger of Duke Performances has received an award from the New England Foundation for the Arts for a project entitled "Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Genome Project." Total funding will be $8,490 over 12 months.

Kathy A. Silbiger of Duke Performances has received an award from the New England Foundation for the Arts for a project entitled "Vincent Mantso/Men Jaro Dance & Music." Total funding will be $2,415 over 12 months.

David Sorensen of Duke Press has received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle." Total funding will be $150,000 over 36 months.

Rebecca Stein of Cultural Anthropology has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Repossessions: The Social Life of Palestinian Things in Jewish-Israel." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Xiaobai Sun of Computer Science has received two $7,000 supplement awards from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, both of them for a project entitled "FANTOM: Algorithm-Architecture Codesign for High Performance Signal and Image Processing." The project period for these awards is 15 months.

John W. Terborgh of the Nicholas School has received an award from the NC Wildlife Resources Commission for a project entitled "Habitat requirements of rare snake species in the Sandhills region of North Carolina." Total funding will be $4,000 over 9 months.

Jingdong Tian of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Duke Undergraduate Genetically Engineered Machine (GEM) Club." Total funding will be $25,000 over 11 months.

George A. Truskey of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command for a project entitled "Early Detection of Breast Cancer via Multi-Plane Correlation Breast Imaging." Total funding will be $90,000 over 37 months.

Tomalei J. Vess of the Graduate School has received an award from the NC Biotechnology Center for a project entitled "Proposal for Biotechnology Event Sponsorship." Total funding will be $1,100 over 1 month.

Lawrence N. Virgin of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "A Novel Type of Vibration Isolator utilizing Buckled Components (REU Supplement)." Total funding will be $6,000 over 2 months.

Tuan Vo-Dinh of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Ultra-High Throughput Screening (u-HTS) Based on Surfaced Raman Scattering." Total funding will be $1,938,020 over 45 months.

Warren S. Warren of Chemistry has received an award from Pennsylvania State University for a project entitled "Two-photon Absorption Imaging of Structured Materials with Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses." Total funding will be $145,248 over 7 months.

Keith E. Whitfield of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Patterns of Cognitive Aging in African Americans." Total funding will be $1,145,524 over 50 months.

Mark R. Wiesner of Civil Engineering has received an award from Michigan State University for a project entitled "Development of Ceramic Membranes for Thermally Driven Membrane Progresses." Total funding will be $808,000 over 3 months.

John H. Willis of Biology has received an award from the University of Kansas for a project entitled "A genomic analysis of complex trait variation in Mimulus (subaward, prime is NIH)." Total funding will be $159,999 over 12 months.

Patrick D. Wolf of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Neural Signal Acquisition System." Total funding will be $17,000 over 11 months.

Gary A. Ybarra of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for a project entitled "Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (SURF Program)." Total funding will be $6,720 over 5 months.

Anne D. Yoder of Primate Center has received an award from the Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation for a project entitled "Support for the Publication and Distribution of 'LEMUR NEWS.'" Total funding will be $12,000 over 24 months.

*Schools of Medicine and Nursing awards are listed separately:

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

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Last updated July 5, 2006, by Ken Macdonald