May 2006 Awards*

Soman N. Abraham of the Graduate School has received an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled "SROP Alumni Reunion." Total funding will be $50,000 over 2 months.

Patricia J. Bauer of Psychological and Brain Sciences has received an award from the Procter & Gamble Company for a project entitled "Sleep and Cognition in Chinese Infants." Total funding will be $60,450 over 23 months.

Gregory Britz of Documentary Studies has received an award from the Bernard Van Leer Foundation for a project entitled "Lewis Hine Documentation Initiative - International Program." Total funding will be $118,323 over 12 months.

Robert L. Bryant of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "The Geometry of Partial Differential Equations." Total funding will be $559,044 over 36 months.

Leslie M. Collins of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Theme-based Redesign of the Duke ECE Undergraduate Curriculum at Duke University." Total funding will be $5,000 over 16 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Technical Support: R/V Cape Hatteras." Total funding will be $223,500 over 36 months.

Larry B. Crowder of the Marine Lab has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Testing a new technique for reducing sea turtle damage to crab pots." Total funding will be $13,509 over 11 months.

Ian G. Dobbins of Psychological and Brain Sciences has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Functional Neuroimaging of Strategic Retrieval Processes." Total funding will be $1,369,583 over 60 months.

Earl H. Dowell of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Honda R&D Americas, Inc. for a project entitled "A Proposal for a Compressible and Viscous Two-Dimensional Computational Aeroelastic Analysis of the HondaJet Horizontal Tail Including Control Surface and Trim Tab." Total funding will be $99,543 over 12 months.

Fernando R. Fernholz of the Duke Center for International Development has received an award from the Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting for a project entitled "Qatar - Project Appraisal ExecEd." Total funding will be $49,500 over 12 months.

John D. French of Latin American Studies has received an award from the Department of Education for a project entitled "National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Support for the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-CH and Duke." Total funding will be $1,288,000 over 48 months.

Haiyan Gao of Physics has received an award from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for a project entitled "Feasibility Study of a New Light Detection Technique." Total funding will be $17,000 over 14 months.

Daniel J. Gauthier of Physics has received an in-kind award from the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association for a project entitled "Equipment for Slow Light in Optical Fibers." The equipment provided has an estimated value of $95,000.

Alan Gelfand of ISDS has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "The Valencia/ISBA Eighth World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics." Total funding will be $8,000 over 12 months.

Richard M. Hain of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Integrable Systems and Calibrated Geometry." Total funding will be $16,352 over 2 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: U.S. SO GLOBEC Synthesis and Modeling - Habitat Utilization and Predator-Prey Interactions in Western Antarctic Peninsula." Total funding will be $201,105 over 36 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Nicholas School has received an award from the High Desert Ecological Research Institute for a project entitled "GIS Modeling of Fire Effects on Sagebrush-dependent Birds." Total funding will be $10,129 over 3 months.

Craig S. Henriquez of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Medical University of South Carolina for a project entitled "Heuristic Modeling of Continuous Oximetry and Capnography Data Predicts Respiratory Compromise during Patient Controlled Analgesia." Total funding will be $21,047 over 10 months.

Granger W. Hickman of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Nekton Technologies, Inc. for a project entitled "Homing Aid Signal Processing for a Reacquisition and Neutralization Unmanned Underwater Vehicle." Total funding will be $40,000 over 6 months.

Laurens E. Howle of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Bracco Diagnostics, Inc. for a project entitled "Comprehensive Evaluation of the Effect of the Sequential Power Injection of Iodinated Contrast Media and Saline on Vascular Enhancement." Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

Robert B. Jackson of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Southeastern Regional Center of the National Institute for Climate Change Research (supplement)." Total funding will be $1,063,003 over 60 months.

L. Gregory Jones of Divinity has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "Summer Assistance Pastors Program." Total funding will be $984,000 over 13 months.

L. Gregory Jones of Divinity has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "Transformative Leadership." Total funding will be $808,000 over 13 months.

James A. Joseph of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Kellogg 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 $500,000 over 13 months.

Andrei Khlystov of Civil Engineering has received an award from Aerosol Dynamics Inc. for a project entitled "Development of an Automatic Aerosol Extraction System for In-Situ Measurements of Organic Acid Aerosols." Total funding will be $70,000 over 11 months.

William Kirby Smith of the Marine Lab has received an award from the North Carolina Coastal Federation for a project entitled "Water Quality Monitoring for NCCF Hoop Pole Creek Storm Water Runoff Project." Total funding will be $15,796 over 24 months.

Ashutosh V. Kotwal of Physics has received an award from Brookhaven National Labs for a project entitled "Hadron Collider Physics Symposium 2006 Conference." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Michael Lenox of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from the Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled "Corporate Responses to Information Disclosure." Total funding will be $284,725 over 36 months.

Kam W. Leong of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative for a project entitled "Engineering 'Microbial Swarmbots' for Medical Applications." Total funding will be $75,000 over 15 months.

Karl G. Linden of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled "Presence, Fate and Treatability of Estro and Androgenic Contaminants in Wastewater and Biosolids." Total funding will be $311,400 over 17 months.

Ralph A. Litzinger of Asian Pacific Studies has received an award from the Department of Education for a project entitled "Duke University Global East Asia Studies Center." Total funding will be $618,000 over 48 months.

Anne-Maria B. Makhulu of African and African-American Studies has received an award from Princeton University for a project entitled "The Geography of Freedom." Total funding will be $60,500 over 11 months.

Daniel W. McShea of Biology has received an award from the Cambridge Templeton Consortium for a project entitled "Universal Principles of Social and Colonian Organization." Total funding will be $205,935 over 24 months.

Gilbert W. Merkx of the Center for International Studies has received an award from the Department of Education for a project entitled "National Resource Centers & Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program." Total funding will be $644,000 over 48 months.

David R. Morrison of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Algebraic Geometry and Quantum Field Theory of D-Branes." Total funding will be $511,559 over 36 months.

Jenni W. Owen of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for a project entitled "Professional Development Initiative - Phase 4." Total funding will be $46,427 over 12 months.

Ronald E. Parr of Computer Science has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Observing to Plan - Planning to Observe." Total funding will be $439,998 over 60 months.

Kevin A. Pelphrey of Psychological and Brain Sciences has received an award from the John Merck Fund for a project entitled "Charting the Normal and Abnormal Development of the Social Brain." Total funding will be $300,000 over 48 months.

Benjamin Poulter of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Nature Conservancy for a project entitled "Applications of Network Models and Graph Theory to Hydrologic Restoration of a Modified Landscape." Total funding will be $29,025 over 6 months.

Benjamin Poulter of the Nicholas School has received an award from Environmental Defense for a project entitled "Probabilistic Habitat Modeling of River Herring Spawning Sites for the Chowan Watershed, North Carolina." Total funding will be $19,839 over 5 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Enhancing Artificial Reef Fish Populations by Providing a Nursery Refuge for Invertebrate Prey." Total funding will be $84,760 over 24 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Contamination Risk from Chicken Bait During Normal Crabbing Activities." Total funding will be $28,894 over 12 months.

Andrew J. Schuler of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Development of Distributed State Simulators." Total funding will be $210,000 over 24 months.

Andrew J. Schuler of Civil Engineering has received an award from the NC Biotechnology Center for a project entitled "Development of Integrated Fixed Film Activated Sludge (IFAS) Technologies for Biological Wastewater Treatment in North Carolina." Total funding will be $100,000 over 24 months.

Kathy A. Silbiger of Duke Performances has received an award from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation for a project entitled "Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour for Charlotte Blake Alston Performances." Total funding will be $2,213 over 1 month.

P. J. Eric Stallard of Demographic Studies has received an award from the Department of Veterans Affairs for a project entitled "Aging Veterans Health Policy Model." Total funding will be $96,100 over 11 months.

Timothy Strauman of Psychology: Social & Health Sciences has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Training in Psychological Intervention Research." Total funding will be $413,250 over 60 months.

Robert J. Thompson, Jr. of Trinity College has received an award from the Spencer Foundation for a project entitled "Pedagogies of Engagement." Total funding will be $25,000 over 36 months.

Lawrence N. Virgin of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Acoustic-Structure Interaction Phenomena (supplement)." Total funding will be $3,000 over 27 months.

Adam P. Wax of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Assessing Nuclear Morphology in Thick Tissues Using fLCI." Total funding will be $258,075 over 24 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 $150,000 over 1 month.

Ross Widenhoefer of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Catalytic Addition of Nucleophiles to Unactivated Olefins." Total funding will be $410,999 over 36 months.

*Schools of Medicine and Nursing awards are listed separately:

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

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Last updated June 1, 2006, by Ken Macdonald