March 2004 Awards*

Anne E. Arnold of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Diversity, distribution and demographic effects of seed-associated fungi in neotropical Cecropia." Total funding will be $143,165 over 23 months.

Charles M. Becker of Economics has received an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled "American Economic Association Summer Program at Duke University." Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Quantum Magnetics, Inc. for a project entitled "Modeling and Signal Processing for SERDP Wideband Induction and Magnetometer Sensing of Unexploded Ordnance." Total funding will be $225,000 over 3 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Naval Research Laboratory for a project entitled "Wideband Time-Reversal Imaging of an Elastic Target in an Acoustic Waveguide." Total funding will be $142,000 over 60 months.

Norman L. Christensen of the Nicholas School has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Establishing long-term monitoring plots on the Albemarle Peninsula, NC." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Leslie M. Collins of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Statistical Signal Processing and Modeling for Demining." Total funding will be $282,150 over 16 months.

Harris M. Cooper of Education has received an award from the Smith Richardson Foundation for a project entitled "Center for Research Synthesis Methodology." Total funding will be $85,715 over 18 months.

Kenneth A. Dodge of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the National Institute of Mental Health for a project entitled "Development of Antisocial Behavior in Early Adulthood." Total funding will be $1,185,800 over 61 months.

Earl H. Dowell of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Theoretical Prediction of Limit Cycle Oscillations in Support of Flight Flutter Testing." Total funding will be $298,629 over 36 months.

Judson D. Edeburn of Duke Forest has received an award from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation for a project entitled "Duke Forest Butterfly Checklist." Total funding will be $2,900 over 12 months.

Glenn Edwards of Physics FELL has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Center for Biomedical Materials Research and Free Electron Lasers." Total funding will be $8,550,000 over 36 months.

Peter D. Feaver of Political Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Public Support for Military Operations and Assessing the Determinants of Success." Total funding will be $20,000 over 12 months.

Kathryn K. Fenn of Literature has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Women Film Pioneers International Tour Trailer and Premiere." Total funding will be $3,000 over 24 months.

John D. French of IS - Latin American Studies 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 $7,500 over 12 months.

Jane M. Gaines of Literature has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Women Film Pioneers International Tour Publicity and Promotion." Total funding will be $300 over 24 months.

Daniel J. Gauthier of Physics has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Ultrafast Optical Characterization of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors and Polyatomic Molecules (Supplement)." Total funding will be $9,817 over 6 months.

Jeffrey T. Glass of Electrical Engineering has received an award from The Lemelson Foundation for a project entitled "Master of Engineering Management Program, Pratt School of Engineering." Total funding will be $30,152 over 27 months.

Elizabeth Glennie of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the NC Department of Public Instruction for a project entitled "Evaluating the Math/Science/Special Education Program." Total funding will be $267,219 over 17 months.

Elizabeth Glennie of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "Evaluating the Effectiveness of the School Success Profile (SSP) Evidence-Based Practice Strategy on School and Student Level Performance." Total funding will be $22,026 over 12 months.

Richard M. Hain of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "The Third DMJ/IMRN Conference." Total funding will be $20,000 over 12 months.

Lisa G. Huettel of Electrical Engineering has received an in-kind award from Agilent Technologies for a project entitled "An Innovative, Hands-on Teaching Laboratory in Electrical and Computing Engineering." The awards consists of equipment valued at $94,463.

Jennifer A. Jenkins of the School of Law has received an award from the Rockefeller Foundation for a project entitled "Duke Project on Intellectual Property, Art and Culture." Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

L. Gregory Jones of Divinity has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "Courage to Serve." Total funding will be $100,000 over 13 months.

President Nannerl O. Keohane has received an award from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation for a project entitled "Honoring the Legacy of Duke University President William Preston Few." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Anirudh Krishna of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Ford Foundation for a project entitled "Can We Bank Upon Social Capital for Reducing Poverty & Strengthening Democratic Governance?." Total funding will be $89,176 over 24 months.

Michael Lenox of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from the Dartmouth College for a project entitled "Prospects for Industry Self-Regulation." Total funding will be $13,130 over 6 months.

Ralph A. Litzinger of Cultural Anthropology has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "The Question of Asia in the New Global Order." Total funding will be $4,000 over 12 months.

Peter E. Malin of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Duke Participation in SAFOD: Two Collaborative Seismic Profiling Studies using the Geophone Array in the SAFOD Pilot Hole." Total funding will be $276,700 over 24 months.

Paul S. Manos of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU Site: Bioinformatic and Phylogenetic approaches to the study of plant and fungal biodiversity." Total funding will be $144,951 over 35 months.

Stephen A. McAleavey of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from Army Medical Research for a project entitled "Enhanced Ultrasound Visualization of Brachytherapy Seeds by a Novel Magnetically Induced Motion Imaging Method." Total funding will be $346,150 over 37 months.

David R. Mcclay of DCMB has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Germ Layer Specification." Total funding will be $1,066,600 over 48 months.

David R. McClay of DCMB has received an award from the Army for a project entitled "Gene Networks Involved in Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transitions," on behalf of fellow Katherine D. Walton. Total funding will be $90,000 over 37 months.

Alberto Moreiras of Romance Languages has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "European Studies Working Group 'Sovereignty and Subjectivity.'" Total funding will be $3,000 over 12 months.

Madeline Morris of the School of Law has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Special Court for Sierra Leone Mid-Point Conference." Total funding will be $4,000 over 24 months.

Leela Prasad of Religion has received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "A Performed Poetic: Oral Narrative and Hindu Ethics in a South Indian Town." Total funding will be $5,000 over 2 months.

Andrew J. Read of the Marine Lab has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Wilmington for a project entitled "Investigating Seasonal Patterns in Thermoregulatory Function of Bottlenose Dolphins from Sarasota Bay, FL." Total funding will be $9,193 over 4 months.

William M. Reichert of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Endothelial Cell Adhesion to Polymers Studied by TIRF." Total funding will be $770,000 over 48 months.

William M. Reichert of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Biosensor Biocompatibility (Minority Supplement)." Total funding will be $29,583 over 52 months.

John F. Richards of History has received an award from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a project entitled "Muslim Ethics, Reconstruction and Peace-Building." Total funding will be $5,000 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." Total funding will be $46,400 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." Total funding will be $10,891 over 6 months.

Svetlana A. Roudenko of Mathematics has received an award from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for a project entitled "Image Recovery and Denoising Algorithm Design." Total funding will be $15,347 over 7 months.

Ehsan Samei of Physics has received an award from the Army Medical Research Command for a project entitled "Task-Specific Optimization of Mammographic Systems." Total funding will be $90,000 over 37 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 $80,000 over 30 months.

Frank A. Sloan of the Center for Health Policy, Law, and Management has received an award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a project entitled "Medical Malpractice in Crisis." Total funding will be $274,904 over 24 months.

Lawrence N. Virgin of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Computational Methods for Predicting the Performance of Long Flexible Booms." Total funding will be $60,000 over 9 months.

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 Structures (supplement)." Total funding will be $6,000 over 26 months.

Gregory A. Wray of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "High-throughput determination of position weight matrices." Total funding will be $65,296 over 11 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 April 2, 2004, by Ken Macdonald