March 2005 Awards*

John D. Albertson of Civil Engineering has received an award from the University of Alabama for a project entitled "An Optimal Merger of Data and Models for Carbon Sequestration Assessment at Ameriflux Sites." Total funding will be $161,740 over 30 months.

Elizabeth Anderson of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from the Skoll Foundation for a project entitled "Scaling Social Impact: Mental Models, Existing Alternatives, and New Opportunities." Total funding will be $148,000 over 20 months.

Elizabeth Anderson of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from the Kellogg Foundation for a project entitled "Scaling Social Impact: Mental Models, Existing Alternatives, and New Opportunities." Total funding will be $50,000 over 21 months.

Harold U. Baranger of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Electronic Properties of Nanostructures (Supplement)." Total funding will be $18,000 over 10 months.

Charles M. Becker of Economics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "American Economic Association Summer Program and Minority Scholarshiop Program." Total funding will be $360,000 over 35 months.

Emily S. Bernhardt of Biology has received an award from the University of Maryland for a project entitled "National River Restoration Science Synthesis Scientific Project, Phase II: Collaborative learning to enhance the scientific success of river restoration." Total funding will be $74,001 over 48 months.

Leslie M. Collins of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the United States Army for a project entitled "US Army Autonomous Mine Detection Sensor (AMIS) STO Program Algorithm Development Support (supplement)." Total funding will be $118,642 over 9 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Ship Operations: R/V Cape Hatteras." Total funding will be $7,429,874 over 60 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "A Request for Funds for Services on R/V Cape Hatteras CY2005 (Supplement)." Total funding will be $133,902 over 10 months.

Larry B. Crowder of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Oak Foundation for a project entitled "Global Fellows in Marine Conservation." Total funding will be $140,349 over 24 months.

Steven A. Cummer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Scientific Services and Computer Modeling for Tribocharging of Martian Dust Project." Total funding will be $24,999 over 12 months.

A. Ronald Gallant of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Computationally Intensive Strategies for Structural Modeling." Total funding will be $247,062 over 36 months.

Haiyan Gao of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Medium Energy Physics Program at Duke University." Total funding will be $344,000 over 33 months.

Kenneth C. Hall of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the University of Maryland for a project entitled "NIA Work Force Planning Team." Total funding will be $15,000 over 2 months.

Jeffrey L. Krolik of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Autonomous Wide Aperture Cluster for Surveillance (AWACS): Adaptive and Collaborative Signal Processing." Total funding will be $750,113 over 60 months.

Seth W. Kullman of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Water Resources Research Institute for a project entitled "Bioanalytical Analysis and Reproductive Effects of Environmental Endocrine Disruptors at Concentrated Animal Feed Operations Affecting North Carolina River Waters." Total funding will be $35,000 over 12 months.

Karl G. Linden of Civil Engineering has received an award from CH2M HILL for a project entitled "Greater Cincinnati Water Works Project." Total funding will be $16,532 over 5 months.

Jie Liu of Chemistry has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Creation of Metal and Semiconductor Nanostructures using DPN Nanolithography Techniques (Supplement)." Total funding will be $120,000 over 8 months.

Robert A. Malkin of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Lemelson Foundation for a project entitled "Design for the Developing World." Total funding will be $39,500 over 24 months.

George L. McLendon of Chemistry has received a fellowship award from the National Institutes of Health for postdoc Bradford Pistorio, for a project entitled "Novel Antiretroviral Agents." Total funding will be $92,272 over 24 months.

Keith G. Meador of Divinity has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "National Demonstration Program for Citizen Soldier Support - Faith Community Team (FCT) Plan." Total funding will be $337,176 over 12 months.

Berndt Mueller of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Nuclear Physics at High Energy Density." Total funding will be $576,000 over 36 months.

Mohamed A. Noor of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Genetics of hybrid sterility in Drosophila." Total funding will be $390,000 over 36 months.

Mohamed A. Noor of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Genetics of Speciation Factors in Drosophila Mojavensis." Total funding will be $119,743 over 19 months.

Michael K. Orbach of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council for a project entitled "Impacts of Fishery Mangement on the Mid-Atlantic Party/Charter Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Industry." Total funding will be $7,925 over 5 months.

Ram Oren of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Forest Service for a project entitled "Reducing Uncertainty In Current and Projected Carbon Sequestration In Southeastern US: Supplement." Total funding will be $9,166 over 14 months.

Kerry J. Poynter of the Center for LGBT Life has received an award from the David Bohnett Foundation for a project entitled "Bohnett Cybercenter and Online Peer Education Program." Total funding will be $10,000 over 12 months.

Martha Putallaz of the Talent Identification Program has received an award from the Goldman Sachs Foundation for a project entitled "Proposal to the Goldman Sachs Foundation to Increase the Impact of the Duke TIP Partnership in The Next Generation Venture Fund." Total funding will be $220,000 over 12 months.

Kenneth H. Reckhow of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled "A Workshop and Monograph on Adaptive Implementation of Water Quality Management Plans." Total funding will be $30,000 over 14 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.." Total funding will be $60,151 over 21 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Use of Genetic Lines of Barnacles and Foul Release Polymer Coatings, Components and Catalysts to Study Properties and Polymerization Chemistry of Barnacle Bioadhesive." Total funding will be $31,136 over 36 months.

William H. Schlesinger of the Nicholas School has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "National Workshop on Agricultural Air Quality." Total funding will be $25,000 over 36 months.

William H. Schlesinger of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Institute for International Education for a project entitled "Student Conference on Conservation Science." Total funding will be $15,000 over 2 months.

Kate Scholberg of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: SNEWS: The Supernova Early Warning System (transfer grant)." Total funding will be $140,159 over 2 months.

James H. Shah of Psychology: Social & Health Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Goal Systemic Effects in Self Regulation." Total funding will be $84,367 over 13 months.

Gangadhar P. Shukla of the Duke Center for International Development has received an award from Harvard University for a project entitled "Viet Nam Fulbright Economics Teaching Program." Total funding will be $20,160 over 1 month.

Frank A. Sloan of the Center for Health Policy, Law & Management has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Determinants and Consequences of Alcohol Consumption." Total funding will be $1,629,605 over 47 months.

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the California Institute of Technology for a project entitled "Metal Structures for Plasmonics and Nanophotonics." Total funding will be $46,400 over 51 months.

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from SensorMetrix for a project entitled "Metamaterial Radome Designs." Total funding will be $25,953 over 6 months.

Kathleen K. Smith of Biology has received an REU Supplement award from the National Science Foundation for student Sarah Cork, for a project entitled "The evolution of cranial neural crest in mammals." Total funding will be $5,875 over 17 months.

Roxanne Springer of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Lattice and Effective Field Theory Studies of Quantum Chromodynamics." Total funding will be $850,000 over 36 months.

Donald E. Stone of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Tropical Biology in Costa Rica." Total funding will be $430,063 over 48 months.

John E. Thomas of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Trapped Fermi Gases as Models of Strong Interacting Matter." Total funding will be $423,999 over 36 months.

Eric John Toone of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Origin and Application of the Cluster Glycoside Effect (Supplement)." Total funding will be $48,682 over 24 months.

George A. Truskey of Biomedical Engineering has received a fellowship award from the Army Medical Research Command for graduate student Swatee Singh, for a project entitled "Computer Aided Detection of Breast Masses in Digital Tomosynthesis." Total funding will be $90,000 over 37 months.

Carel P. Van Schaik of Biological Anthropology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Effects of a Dispersal Barrier on Cultural Similarity in Wild Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii)." Total funding will be $12,000 over 11 months.

Suzanne G. Voss of Theater Studies has received an award from the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation for a project entitled "Support for On the March to the Sea." Total funding will be $10,000 over 9 months.

Adam P. Wax of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Ohio State University for a project entitled "Optical Detection of Neoplasia in the Hamster Trachea." Total funding will be $21,454 over 4 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 4, 2005, by Ken Macdonald