May 2005 Awards*

John D. Albertson of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Department of Agriculture for a project entitled "Accounting for Effects of Subpixel Surface Variability on Regional Flux Estimation Using Large Eddy Simulation with Terra and Aqua Sensors." Total funding will be $101,791 over 56 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 Scholarship Program (Supplement)." Total funding will be $39,922 over 36 months.

Norman L. Christensen of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Monitoring and modeling the response of coastal ecosystems and carbon storage to rising sea level." Total funding will be $24,000 over 4 months.

Robert L. Clark, Jr. of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "International Symposium of Biointerface Science." Total funding will be $14,558 over 8 months.

Franklin H. Cocks of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Purchase of an EDAX Detector for Undergraduate Scanning Electron Microscope." Total funding will be $8,000 over 11 months.

John E. Dolbow of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Computational Strategies for Phase Transitions Driven by Coupled Stress and Diffusion: Application to the Kinetics of Synthetic Hydrogels." Total funding will be $209,324 over 36 months.

Daniel J. Gauthier of Physics has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Complexity-Enabled Sensor Networks and Photonic Switching Devices." Total funding will be $150,000 over 18 months.

Daniel J. Gauthier of Physics has received an REU Supplement award from the National Science Foundation for student Allen Lee, for his work on a project entitled "Applications of Super-enhanced Two-photon Simulated Emissions Processes." Total funding will be $4,950 over 14 months.

Linda K. George of Demographic Studies has received an award from the Institute for Medical Technology Innovation for a project entitled "Assessing the Impact of Medical Technology on Selected Diseases." Total funding will be $299,701 over 36 months.

Elizabeth Glennie of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the Educational Testing Service for a project entitled "Match Data on NC Teachers with Praxis Dataset." Total funding will be $17,325 over 5 months.

Kenneth C. Hall of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Vehicle Dynamics: A New Undergraduate Course Offering." Total funding will be $5,000 over 11 months.

Alexander Hartemink of Computer Science has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a project entitled "Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship." Total funding will be $45,000 over 24 months.

David K. Hyrenbach of the Marine Lab has received an award from the University of Washington for a project entitled "Bering Sea Ecosystem Study." Total funding will be $118,362 over 36 months.

Joseph A. Izatt of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the University of Southern California for a project entitled "Advanced Imaging for Glaucoma (supplement)." Total funding will be $69,615 over 4 months.

James A. Joseph of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Ford Foundation for a project entitled "Operating and Program Support for the Center for Leadership and Public Values at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Values." Total funding will be $225,000 over 36 months.

Thomas B. Kepler of the Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Training Program." Total funding will be $1,573,556 over 60 months.

Robert E. Kielb of Mechanical 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 $15,000 over 11 months.

Jungsang Kim of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Hardware System Architecture for Quantum Information Processor in Quantum Communication Networks." Total funding will be $200,000 over 12 months.

Kevin S. Labar of Cognitive Neuroscience has received a fellowship award from the National Institutes of Health for graduate student Harlan Fichtenholtz, for a project entitled "Neural Basis of Interactions between Attention & Emotion." Total funding will be $107,990 over 32 months.

Thomas H. Labean of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "QuBic: Novel DNA Nanostructures for Targeted Molecular Scale to Micron Scale Interconnects (Supplement)." Total funding will be $12,000 over 4 months.

Tod A. Laursen of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. for a project entitled "Clare Booth Luce Fellowships at Duke University." Total funding will be $205,509 over 26 months.

Francois M. Lutzoni of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "ROA Supplement: ATOL: Collaborative Research: Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life (for Co-PI Rytas Vilgalys)." Total funding will be $24,620 over 7 months.

Robert A. Malkin of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Whitaker Foundation for a project entitled "Preparation for Resubmission of Ventricular Fibrillation Threshold for AC Stimulation." Total funding will be $60,560 over 12 months.

Robert A. Malkin of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Design for the Developing World." Total funding will be $50,000 over 11 months.

Robert A. Malkin of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Development of a New Course: Design for Developing a World with BME/ECE Design Projects." Total funding will be $20,000 over 11 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 (Supplement)." Total funding will be $35,536 over 10 months.

Warren H. Meck of Psychological and Brain Sciences has received an award from Boston University for a project entitled "Aging of Brain: Effects of Perinatal Choline Exposure (Supplement)." Total funding will be $30,800 over 72 months.

Miguel A. Medina of Civil 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.

Brad B. Murray of Earth and Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Coasts in Motion: Quantifying the Patterns of Coastal Change Using LIDAR." Total funding will be $107,062 over 36 months.

Richard Payne of Divinity has received an award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a project entitled "Training Health Care Providers in End-of-Life for Minority Populations." Total funding will be $267,873 over 18 months.

Arlie O. Petters of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Random Gaussian Curvatures, Image Centroids and Caustic Surfaces in Gravitational Lensing (Supplement)." Total funding will be $6,500 over 15 months.

Stuart L. Pimm of the Nicholas School has received an award from Fish and Wildlife for a project entitled "Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow Project." Total funding will be $51,099 over 23 months.

John Reif of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "EMT: Error-Resilient DNA Tiling Assemblies (Supplement)." Total funding will be $12,000 over 28 months.

Curtis J. Richardson of the Nicholas School has received a fellowship award from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Arianna E. Sutton-Grier, for a project entitled "Dissertation Research: The role of plant functional diversity in regulating nitrogen removal in restored riparian wetlands." Total funding will be $11,000 over 24 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from Interlux (Akzo Nobel) for a project entitled "Rapid Empirical Development of Novel Antifouling Technology." Total funding will be $8,629. There is no specified project period.

Joel B. Rosch of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for a project entitled "Women's Initiative - Medicaid Funding Project." Total funding will be $17,665 over 5 months.

Andrew J. Schuler of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Engineers without Borders - Tsunami Recovery Projects: Interdisciplinary Design and Implementation for Sustainable Development." Total funding will be $25,000 over 11 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 (Supplement)." Total funding will be $41,046 over 11 months.

Xiaobai Sun of Computer Science has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "FANTOM: Algorithm-Architecture Codesign for High Performance Signal and Image Processing." Total funding will be $443,134 over 17 months.

John E. Thomas of Physics has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Strongly-Interacting Fermic Gases in Reduced Dimensions." Total funding will be $448,637 over 36 months.

Gregg E. Trahey of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Liver Cancer Ablation Guidance by ARFI Imaging." Total funding will be $1,480,926 over 60 months.

Kathryn Whetten of the Center for Health Policy, Law & Management has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Secondary Analysis of Existing Alcohol & HIV/AIDs Data." Total funding will be $385,700 over 24 months.

Christina Williams of Psychological and Brain Sciences has received an award from Boston University for a project entitled "Aging of the Brain: Effects of Perinatal Choline Exposure Project 4: Mechanisms of Choline Enhancement of Memory(Supplement)." Total funding will be $30,800 over 72 months.

John H. Willis of Biology has received a fellowship award from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Arielle M. Cooley, for a project entitled "DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Genetics and evolutionary ecology of a flower color diversification in Chilean Mimulus." Total funding will be $12,000 over 24 months.

Marty G. Woldorff of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the University of California - Davis for a project entitled "The effects of context on lexical processing as revealed by eye-tracking and ERPs." Total funding will be $7,587 over 1 month.

Stefan Zauscher of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems has received an award from GlaxoSmithKline for a project entitled "Adhesion Between Carrier and Active Ingredients in Dry-Powder Inhaler Formulations Measured by Force Spectroscopy." Total funding will be $63,131 over 12 months.

*School of Medicine awards are listed separately:

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

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Last updated June 1, 2005, by Ken Macdonald