March 2007 Awards*

Pankaj K. Agarwal of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Large-Scale Analysis of Sensor-Based Geometric Data." Total funding will be $250,000 over 36 months.

Emily S. Bernhardt of Biology has received an award from the NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources for a project entitled "The Biogeochemical Consequences of Large-Scale Wetlands Mitigation." Total funding will be $25,640 over 12 months.

Linda M. Burton of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Family Resource Allocation in Urban and Rural Communities." Total funding will be $206,136 over 17 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials & Material Systems has received an award from Phase Bioscience, Inc. for a project entitled "The Architecture of Elastin Biopolymers: Preclinical Biodistribution, Pharmacokinetics, and Anti-tumor Activity." Total funding will be $161,430 over 12 months.

Robert L. Clark, Jr. of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials & Material Systems has received an award from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for a project entitled "Grasp Control for Advanced Upper- Extremity Prosthetics." Total funding will be $85,758 over 8 months.

Stephen L. Craig of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Mechanism and Mechanics in Supramolecular Polymer." Total funding will be $380,000 over 36 months.

Steven A. Cummer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Magnetospheric Remote Sensing Through IMAGE, WIND, and CLUSTER Radio Tomography Experiments." Total funding will be $251,126 over 36 months.

Clifford Cunningham of Biology has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a project entitled "A DIVERSITAS BioGENESIS Workshop: Roots, Branches, and Leaves: Integrating the Tree and Barcodes of Life." Total funding will be $43,000 over 11 months.

Richard B. Fair of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research on Electrowetting Microarray Printing System for Bioactive Tissue Construct Manufacturing." Total funding will be $216,005 over 36 months.

Richard B. Forward Jr. of the Marine Lab has received an award from NC Sea Grant for a project entitled "Distribution and transport of Blue crab megalopae." Total funding will be $30,410 over 12 months.

Kenneth E. Glander of Biological Anthropology has received an award from the National Geographic Society for a project entitled "The Delacour's langur of northern Vietnam: adaptations to a harsh environment." Total funding will be $8,878 over 24 months.

Kenneth C. Hall of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from AeroVironment, Inc. for a project entitled "Nano Air Vehicle." Total funding will be $45,000 over 2 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Marine Lab has received an award from the International Fund for Animal Welfare for a project entitled "Research on Climate Change and Ice-formation off Atlantic Canada: Implications for Harp and Hooded Seals." Total funding will be $5,068 over 12 months.

David K. Hyrenbach of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Oikonos for a project entitled "Satellite Tracking of Post-breeding Black-footed Albatross (supplement)." Total funding will be $9,932 over 12 months.

Gabriel Katul of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Ecohydrologic Controls on Convective Rainfall Triggering and Space-Time Development." Total funding will be $338,664 over 36 months.

M. Susan Lozier of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Leadership of a Mentoring Program fro Junior Women in Physical Oceanography." Total funding will be $151,530 over 36 months.

Mauro Maggioni of Mathematics has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Geometric Modeling OF and Function Approximation ON High Dimensional, Multi-Modal Data Sets." Total funding will be $254,943 over 38 months.

David M. Malone of Education has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "Learning to Teach, Learning to Serve-The Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education's SCALE Student Teacher Netw." Total funding will be $21,043 over 29 months.

Marie L. Miranda of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources for a project entitled "Using GIS Analysis in Support of Childhood Lead Exposure Prevention Programs." Total funding will be $266,891 over 54 months.

Mohamed A. Noor of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Genetics of mate discrimination in Drosophila pseudoobscura." Total funding will be $1,142,843 over 48 months.

Andrew J. Read of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Marine Fisheries Service for a project entitled "Monitoring By-catch in the North Carolina Stop Net Fishery." Total funding will be $40,357 over 2 months.

Kimerly R. Rorschach of the Art Museum has received an award from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation for a project entitled "El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III." Total funding will be $200,000 over 18 months.

Barbara Rossi of Economics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Forecast Evaluation and Model Selection in the Presence of Structural Instability." Total funding will be $195,077 over 36 months.

William H. Schlesinger of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for a project entitled "Doris Duke Conservation Fellows Program." Total funding will be $192,540 over 19 months.

Connie M. Shelton of the Divinity School has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "2007 Summer Assistant Pastors Program." Total funding will be $984,000 over 13 months.

David R. Sherwood of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Genetic Analysis of Cell Invasion Through Basement Membranes." Total funding will be $1,374,817 over 60 months.

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for a project entitled "Metamaterials for Threat Reduction Applications: Imaging, Signal Processing, and Cloaking." Total funding will be $217,499 over 31 months.

Anthony So of Public Policy Studies has received an award from Uppsala University for a project entitled "Combating Antibiotic Resistance: Strategic Policy and Innovation." Total funding will be $81,781 over 9 months.

P. J. Eric Stallard of Sociology has received an award from the Department of Veterans Affairs for a project entitled "Aging Veterans Health Policy Model." Total funding will be $24,229 over 18 months.

Warren S. Warren of Chemistry has received an award from the NC Biotechnology Center for a project entitled "Acquisition of a Spin Hyperpolarizer for Advanced Molecular Imaging." Total funding will be $220,500 over 12 months.

Adam P. Wax of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Molecular Imaging Using Hyperspectral Darkfield Microscope of Nanoparticles." Total funding will be $600,000 over 36 months.

Alan I. Weinberg of the School of Law has received an award from the Internal Revenue Service for a project entitled "Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic." Total funding will be $51,000 over 9 months.

*Campus awards only, excluding some private-sector sponsors. Schools of Medicine and Nursing awards are listed separately:

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

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Last updated April 5, 2007, by Ken Macdonald