November 2003 Awards*

Pankaj K. Agarwal of Computer Science has received an award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation for a project entitled "Geometric Arrangements and their Applications." Total funding will be $8,096 over 12 months.

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Woods Hole Research Center for a project entitled "Amazon Scenarios: A Scientific Framework for Basin-wide Conservation." Total funding will be $375,980 over 36 months.

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation for a project entitled "Assessment of High Resolution Automated Tracking System and Atmospheric Models to Study European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster) Migration." Total funding will be $5,175 over 12 months.

Robert P. Behringer of Physics has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Support for the Annual International Conference on Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: Dynamics Days 2004." Total funding will be $20,000 over 12 months.

David Beratan of Chemistry has received an award from the University of Pittsburgh for a project entitled "Nanoscale Molecular Electronics Laboratory." Total funding will be $140,000 over 36 months.

Celia J. Bonaventura of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for a project entitled "Connecting Coastal Communities: A partnership between Duke Marine Lab and local middle school students." Total funding will be $140,685 over 36 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Innovation Core SEI, Inc. for a project entitled "Collaboration on the Development of AlGaN-GaN by Molecular Beam Epitaxy." Total funding will be $49,280 over 12 months.

Michael R. Byers of the School of Law has received an award from the Canadian Embassy for a project entitled "Canadian Consulate General - Canadian Studies Program Enhancement Grant." Total funding will be $9,447 over 8 months.

Steven A. Cummer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Scientific Services and Computer Model Development for ACES UAV Project." Total funding will be $24,999 over 3 months.

Steven A. Cummer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Quantum Applied Research, Inc. for a project entitled "Compact Man-Portable Lighting Detection System." Total funding will be $12,000 over 2 months.

Kenneth A. Dodge of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the National Institute of Mental Health for a project entitled "Multi-site Prevention of Adolescent Conduct Problems." Total funding will be $4,834,709 over 57 months.

John E. Dolbow of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "GOALI/Collaborative Research: Thermomechanical Investigations of High Speed Machining of Aluminum (SUPPLEMENT)." Total funding will be $5,375 over 21 months.

Richard G. Fehon of DCMB has received an award from the American Cancer Society for a project entitled "The Cellular and Developmental Role of the Septate Junction." Total funding will be $63,000 over 24 months.

Elizabeth Harris of Biology has received an award from the Carnegie Institution of Washington for a project entitled "Chlamydomonas genomics: photosynthesis and acclimation." Total funding will be $179,770 over 12 months.

Robert G. Healy of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Lazar Foundation for a project entitled "Student International Discussion Group." Total funding will be $12,000 over 11 months.

Nan M. Jokerst of Electrical Engineering has received an award from SRC/Sematech for a project entitled "Embedded Optoelectronic for 'System on a Package' Interconnects." Total funding will be $135,000 over 12 months.

William Kirby-Smith of the Marine Lab has received an award from the NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources for a project entitled "Water Quality Monitoring of Wetlands Restoration at North River Farms." Total funding will be $41,865 over 36 months.

Karl G. Linden of Civil Engineering has received an award from Phoenix Science and Technology, Inc. for a project entitled "Innovative Ultraviolet Sparker Technology for Water Remediation." Total funding will be $28,527 over 12 months.

David R. McClay of DCMB has received an award from the California Institute of Technology for a project entitled "Animal Regulatory Gene Networks: Construction of a cis-Regulatory Gene Network for the Whole Sea Urchin Embryo." Total funding will be $35,000 over 4 months.

Eric M. Meyers of Religion has received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "Aramaic in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity." Total funding will be $134,000 over 12 months.

Marie L. Miranda of the Nicholas School has received an award from the NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources for a project entitled "Using Spatial Analysis to Improve Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program." Total funding will be $97,000 over 10 months.

Michael C. Pirrung of Chemistry has received an award from NimbleGen Systems, Inc. for a project entitled "Technologies to Find Functional Elements in Genomic DNA (ENCODE)." Total funding will be $154,000 over 34 months.

Donald H. Taylor, Jr. of the Center for Health Policy, Law, and Management has received an award from GlaxoSmithKline for a project entitled "Epidemiological Analyses of Elderly Americans Health Care Use." Total funding will be $25,000 over 12 months.

Carel P. van Schaik of Biological Anthropology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Development of Efficient Foraging Behavior in Aye-ayes," on behalf of fellow Elissa B. Krakauer. Total funding will be $6,485 over 12 months.

Priscilla Wald of English has received an award from Vanderbilt University for a project entitled "Genetics in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture." Total funding will be $16,944 over 11 months.

*School of Medicine awards are listed separately:

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

(Please note this is an intranet address exclusively for the duke.edu domain.)

Last updated December 2, 2003, by Ken Macdonald