May 2007 Awards*

Stanley Abe of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies has received an award from the American Philosophical Society for a project entitled "Moving Buddha." Total funding will be $5,000 over 1 month.

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Measurement of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Turbulent Fluxes with the Duke University Helicopter Observation Platform (HOP)." Total funding will be $209,572 over 12 months.

Richard T. Barber of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute for a project entitled "Interannual and decadal climate variabioity effects on primary productivity, food web structure and anchovy abundance in the coastal upwelling ecosystem or Peru." Total funding will be $21,007 over 12 months.

Lori S. Bennear of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: The Impacts of the 'Right to Know': Information Disclosure and Drinking Water Quality." Total funding will be $86,943 over 24 months.

Emily S. Bernhardt of Biology has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Water quality impacts of NC's largest wetlands mitigation bank." Total funding will be $40,000 over 12 months.

Emily S. Bernhardt of Biology has received a CAREER award supplement from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Potential for the recovery of biogeochemical function in degraded stream ecosystems." Total funding will be $12,000 over 49 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "In Vacuo X-Ray and Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy Analytical System." Total funding will be $82,750 over 12 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Adaptive Multi-Sensor Interrogation of Targets Embedded in Complex Environments." Total funding will be $450,000 over 30 months.

Jackson W. Carroll of the Divinity School has received an award from the Louisville Institute for a project entitled "Proposal for Revising the Book, As One With Authority." Total funding will be $18,125 over 12 months.

Robert L. Clark, Jr. of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for a project entitled "SURF NIST (Boulder)." Total funding will be $6,863 over 4 months.

Robert L. Clark, Jr. of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for a project entitled "SURF NIST (Gaitherburg)." Total funding will be $6,862 over 4 months.

Stephen A. Cohn of Duke University Press has received an award from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for a project entitled "The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle - Online Version." Total funding will be $20,000 over 27 months.

Don Coltart of Chemistry has received an award from the American Chemical Society for a project entitled "ACS PRF Type G Research Grant - The Development of Mild and Operationally-Simple Direct Methods for the Synthesis of B-Dicarbonyl Compounds." Total funding will be $40,000 over 28 months.

Steven A. Cummer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Large Scale Lower Ionosphere Remote Sensing." Total funding will be $298,442 over 36 months.

Stefano Curtarolo of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "High-Throughput Combinatorial Materials Characterization of Oxiation Resistant Titanium Alloys and Novel Boride Superconductors." Total funding will be $368,452 over 36 months.

Glenn Edwards of Physics has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Complex Networks Response to Excitations." Total funding will be $287,926 over 36 months.

Daniel J. Gauthier of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Border-Collision Bifurcations in Cardiac Muscle (Supplement)." Total funding will be $5,625 over 28 months.

Jeffrey T. Glass of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the University of Illinois for a project entitled "Coalition for Creation of CLEANER Project Office." Total funding will be $25,202 over 2 months.

Warren M. Grill of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Neural Prosthetic Control of Continence and Micturition (supplement)." Total funding will be $176,905 over 32 months.

Craig S. Henriquez of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from Ethicon, Inc. for a project entitled "Computational Analysis of Optimal Waveform for Transdermal Stimulation." Total funding will be $40,000 over 6 months.

Calvin R. Howell of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Equipping the HIGS Target Room for the Experimental Program with the Upgraded HIGS Facility." Total funding will be $150,000 over 21 months.

Calvin R. Howell of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "High Voltage System for Scintillation Detectors at HIGS." Total funding will be $25,000 over 21 months.

Joel C. Huber of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from Vanderbilt University for a project entitled "The Appropriateness of Panel Based Findings for Environmental Valuation." Total funding will be $261,786 over 24 months.

Tomasz A. Hueckel of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Chemo-mechanical Nano-scale Mechanisms of Aging." Total funding will be $334,700 over 36 months.

Robert B. Jackson of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "International: Afforestation Induced Shifts in Soil Microbial Community Composition and Function in Southern South America." Total funding will be $15,000 over 24 months.

William T. Joines of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Microwave Laboratory Capability Enhancement." Total funding will be $103,156 over 12 months.

L. Gregory Jones of the Divinity School has received an award from the United Methodist Foundation of Western North Carolina for a project entitled "United Methodist Bishops' Episcopal Leadership Forum." Total funding will be $25,000 over 7 months.

Anita T. Layton of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "A Conference on applications of Analysis to Mathematical Biology." Total funding will be $14,000 over 12 months.

Rebecca M. Lu of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "Discrete Event Data Analysis." Total funding will be $498,928 over 12 months.

Francois M. Lutzoni of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Hyperdiverse endolichenic and endophytic fungi: A large- scale, multi-gene phylogenetic survey and estimation of trophic transition networks." Total funding will be $321,611 over 36 months.

Robert A. Malkin of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from Direct Relief International for a project entitled "Proposal for Analysis of Installation and Safety Data from BlueRay Phototherapy Use." Total funding will be $1,440 over 24 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 (SUPPLEMENT)." Total funding will be $6,000 over 13 months.

Jenni W. Owen of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "Enhanced Applied Public Policy Reseach Capacity." Total funding will be $20,000 over 5 months.

Ronald E. Parr of Computer Science has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "Computer Science Study Group (CS2G) Proposal (Year 2): Cooperating Under Uncertainty: Multi-agent Partially Observable M." Total funding will be $497,320 over 12 months.

Jonathan Protz of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "Enhancement of Oscillatory Flap Propulsors for Low-Speed Flows in Water." Total funding will be $99,999 over 12 months.

Martha Putallaz of the Talent Identification Program has received an award from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for a project entitled "Next Generation Venture Fund Pilot - Investing in Talented Youth in the Greater Kansas City Area." Total funding will be $550,000 over 70 months.

Martha Putallaz of the Talent Identification Program has received an award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation for a project entitled "Proposal to the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to Fund Outreach Activities." Total funding will be $99,607 over 13 months.

William M. Reichert of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Endothelial Cell Adhesion to Polymeric Grafts Studied by TIRF (Supplement)." Total funding will be $60,824 over 10 months.

Arthur J. Shaw of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "ATOL: Collaborative Research - Assembling the liverwort tree of life: (SUPPLEMENT)." Total funding will be $31,841 over 44 months.

David R. Sherwood of Biology has received an award from The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research for a project entitled "Understanding the Gene Regulatory Network Underlying Cell Invasion." Total funding will be $139,750 over 36 months.

Kathleen K. Smith of Biology has received an award from Google Inc. for a project entitled "Google Summer of Code - NESCent Phyloinformatics." Total funding will be $2,000 over 3 months.

Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Development of Hybrid Nanomaterial Growth System for Multi-Functional Sensors." Total funding will be $174,000 over 12 months.

Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Hybrid Nanomaterials in Photonic Crystal Cavities for Multi- Spectral Infrared Detector Arrays." Total funding will be $60,000 over 26 months.

Chandra S. Throckmorton of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Signalscape, Inc. for a project entitled "Model-based Statistical Techniques for Classifying 'Widgets' from Ultrasonic Data." Total funding will be $135,000 over 10 months.

Jingdong Tian of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Hartwell Foundation for a project entitled "New Technologies for Developing Optimized Quick-Response DNA Vaccines for Infectious Diseases." Total funding will be $300,000 over 36 months.

George A. Truskey of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Function of Endothelial Cell Integrins in Co-Culture." Total funding will be $61,431 over 24 months.

Daniel A. Vallero of Civil Engineering has received an award from General Motors Corporation and the United Negro College Fund (the GM Sullivan Fellowship Program) for a project entitled "Socially Responsible Engineering." Total funding will be $10,000 over 12 months.

Jane R. Wettach of the School of Law has received an award from the Boston University Medical Center for a project entitled "Medical-Legal Partnership for Children in Durham." Total funding will be $25,000 over 12 months.

Patrick D. Wolf of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Reduction and Telemetry of Neural Data for an Implantable Data Acquisition System." Total funding will be $65,834 over 24 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 June 1, 2007, by Ken Macdonald