March 2006 Awards*

Paul A. Baker of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from Cornell University for a project entitled "The Influence of the Amazon and Orinoco Plumes on the Tropical Atlantic Climate." Total funding will be $225,296 over 36 months.

Robert P. Behringer of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Statistical Properties of Dense Granular Materials: Force Transmission, Jamming and Fluctuations." Total funding will be $295,000 over 38 months.

David J. Brady of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Computational Spectroscopy of Structured Carbon Nanotube Interfaces for Biochemical Sensing." Total funding will be $620,047 over 36 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Modeling and Signal Processing for EMI Sensing of Landmines, In Support of AMD System (Supplement)." Total funding will be $350,000 over 16 months.

Robert L. Clark, Jr. of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Biocatalytic Nanolithography." Total funding will be $260,001 over 36 months.

James E. Coleman of the School of Law has received an award from the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism for a project entitled "Professionalism Program." Total funding will be $10,000 over 10 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Ship Support on R/V Cape Hatteras CY 2004." Total funding will be $55,500 over 4 months.

Ellen F. Davis of Divinity has received an award from the Louisville Institute for a project entitled "Live Long on the Fertile Land (Deuteronomy 11:9) - Reading the Bible Through Agrarian Eyes." Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

Kenneth A. Dodge of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Fast Track Intervention." Total funding will be $136,285 over 2 months.

Gang Feng of Psychology: Social & Health Sciences has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Comprehension Monitoring in Young Readers: An Eye-Movement Study." Total funding will be $155,583 over 24 months.

Alan Gelfand of ISDS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "The Valencia/ISBA Eighth World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics." Total funding will be $10,000 over 12 months.

Paula E. Gilbert of Summer Academic Programs has received an award from the Bernard Osher Foundation for a project entitled "Osher Re-Entry Scholarship Program." Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

Kenneth E. Glander of Biological Anthropology has received a fellowship award from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Randall T. Ford, for a project entitled "Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: The Role of Female Mate Choice in Mantled Howling Monkey Reproduction." Total funding will be $8,175 over 24 months.

Henry Greenside of Physics has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Mechanism of Sparse Precise Bursting in the Songbird Nucleus HVC." Total funding will be $457,245 over 24 months.

Warren M. Grill of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Paralyzed Veterans of America for a project entitled "Restoration of Bladder Emptying in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury." Total funding will be $74,149 over 9 months.

Nancy Hill of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Family-School Relations during Adolescence: Linking Interdisciplinary Research and Practice." Total funding will be $15,000 over 12 months.

Arie Y. Lewin of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "A Conference Celebrating the Life and Scholarship of Gerry DeSanctis." Total funding will be $10,000 over 11 months.

Ralph A. Litzinger of Asian/Pacific Studies has received an award from the Japan Foundation for a project entitled "Duke University Asian/Pacific Studies Institute and Club Boulevard Humanities Magnet School Shakuhachi Residency Program." Total funding will be $5,000 over 1 month.

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Increasing Research Opportunities for Undergraduates: a Program for Native American and Pacific Islander Students." Total funding will be $836,472 over 38 months.

Robert A. Malkin of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance for a project entitled "NCIIA Stipend Funding for BMEIdea." Total funding will be $1,500 over 12 months.

Paula McClain of Political Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU Site in Political Science: Ralph Bunche Summer Institute." Total funding will be $375,928 over 36 months.

Keith G. Meador of Divinity has received an award from the General Board of Pension and Health Benefits for a project entitled "Clergy and Laity Health and Well-Being Research Project." Total funding will be $84,376 over 16 months.

Brad B. Murray of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Observation and Modeling of Inner Shelf Sediment Dynamics and Large-Scale Sorting: Cross-shelf or Alongshelf Transport?" Total funding will be $152,779 over 36 months.

Kathryn R. Nightingale of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging of Colorectal Tissues." Total funding will be $284,505 over 47 months.

Sule Ozev of Electrical Engineering has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Hierarchical Process Variability Analysis of Analog Circuits Geared for Test and Diagnosis." Total funding will be $400,000 over 59 months.

Sule Ozev of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Philips Semiconductors for a project entitled "System-level Diagnosis Approaches for SiP Designs." Total funding will be $38,810 over 5 months.

Ronald E. Parr of Computer Science has received an award from the Department of Defense for a project entitled "Computer Science Study Group (CS2G) Proposal." Total funding will be $79,620 over 12 months.

Richard Payne of the Institute on Care at the End of Life has received an award from the Milbank Foundation for Rehabilitation for a project entitled "Project 2010, Steering Committee Work." Total funding will be $35,000 over 12 months.

David L. Rabiner of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the University of New Mexico for a project entitled "The Natural History of ADHD in a Population-Based Sample." Total funding will be $12,507 over 9 months.

William H. Schlesinger of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Parks Conservation Association for a project entitled "Letter of Agreement: National Parks Conservation Association." Total funding will be $33,200 over 12 months.

William H. Schlesinger of the Nicholas School has received an award from New Mexico State University for a project entitled "Subcontract Proposal for the Project: Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research (supplement)." Total funding will be $1,939 over 7 months.

Lori A. Setton of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Mechanical Stimulation of IVD Cells." Total funding will be $304,920 over 48 months.

Arthur J. Shaw of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "ROA Supplement: Phylogeny and speciation in Sphagnum section subsecunda." Total funding will be $25,000 over 27 months.

Teh Y. Tan of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for a project entitled "Precipitate Dissolution and Gettering under Vacancy Injection." Total funding will be $30,059 over 12 months.

Werner Tornow of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Studies of Nuclear Structure Using Neutrons and Charged Particles." Total funding will be $7,732,000 over 35 months.

Werner Tornow of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Neutron Induced Reactions on Specific Nuclei." Total funding will be $1,200,000 over 36 months.

Werner Tornow of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Nuclear Physics at TUNL." Total funding will be $186,343 over 36 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 "Stimulation to Evaluate Accuracy and Patient Dose in Neutron Stimulated Emission Computed Tomography (NSECT)." Total funding will be $90,000 over 37 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 "Optimization and Compassion of Different Digital Mammographic Tomosynthesis Reconstruction Methods." Total funding will be $60,000 over 25 months.

Chandra L. Tucker of DCMB has received an award from the Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation for a project entitled "Identification and Characterization of Pharmacological Chaperones for AGT." Total funding will be $14,000 over 12 months.

Warren S. Warren of Chemistry has received an award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for a project entitled "Duke Beckman Scholar Program in Molecular Imaging and Interdisciplinary Chemical Sciences." Total funding will be $115,800 over 36 months.

Adam P. Wax of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Alexander H. Steinkoler Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research for a project entitled "Biophotonics Biomarker for Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer." Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 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." Total funding will be $229,981 over 36 months.

Stefan Zauscher of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Biomolecular and Polymeric Nanostructures and Interfaces." Total funding will be $5,000 over 9 months.

Pei Zhong of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command for a project entitled "A Novel Combination of Thermal Ablation and Heat-Induced Gene Therapy." Total funding will be $60,000 over 25 months.

*Schools of Medicine and Nursing awards are listed separately:

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

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Last updated April 4, 2006, by Ken Macdonald