October 2007 Awards*

Atila Abdulkadiroglu of the Social Science Research Institute has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Theoretical and Practical Mechanism Design with an Emphasis on Public School Choice." Total funding will be $302,063 over 38 months.

Pankaj K. Agarwal of Computer Science has received an award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation for a project entitled "Arrangements in Computational Geometry and Their Applications." Total funding will be $30,000 over 48 months.

Adrian Bejan of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Constructal Technology of Thermal Management of Aircraft (supplement)." Total funding will be $23,370 over 2 months.

John A. Board, Jr. of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Infrastructure & Course Development Support for Computer Engineering Capstone Courses." Total funding will be $19,000 over 11 months.

Caroline Bruzelius of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies has received an award from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for a project entitled "Venice Program." Total funding will be $16,000 over 10 months.

Krishnendu Chakrabarty of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Advanced Liquid Logic for a project entitled "Nanoliter Lab-on-a-Chip for Protein Crystallization." Total funding will be $62,062 over 10 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled "Smart Polypeptide Nanocarriers for Tumor Chemotherapy." Total funding will be $100,000 over 24 months.

Stephen L. Craig of Chemistry has received an award from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign for a project entitled "Subcontract: Mechanochemically - Active Polymer Composites." Total funding will be $72,000 over 65 months.

Silvia Ferrari of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Parametric Control of Underwater Gliders for Acoustic Sensing." Total funding will be $19,937 over 6 months.

Joel L. Fleishman of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation for a project entitled "A Proposal for Renewal Support of the Duke Foundation Research (DFRP) in the Center for Philanthropy and Voluntarism of the Terry Sandford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University." Total funding will be $900,000 over 34 months.

Linda P. Franzoni of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Significant Undergraduate Laboratory Innovation and Improvement - MEMS." Total funding will be $37,500 over 11 months.

Jung-Hwa Aura Gimm of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Undergraduate Laboratory & Design Experience in Nanotechnology & Bionanotechnology." Total funding will be $13,500 over 11 months.

Bobby D. Guenther of the Fitzpatrick Center has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Workshop on Cloaking Technology." Total funding will be $19,230 over 9 months.

Claudia Gunsch of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "To Support the WERC Design Contest." Total funding will be $10,000 over 11 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a project entitled "Implementing consistent and effective geospatial analysis, mapping and visualization across the Census of Marine Life: Development of the CoML mapping & visualization coordination team." Total funding will be $984,000 over 27 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Marine Lab has received an award from The Ocean Foundation for a project entitled "Spatial Analysis of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna." Total funding will be $26,000 over 24 months.

Heileen Hsu-Kim of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "To Support FEMMES 2008 (Females Excelling More in Math, Engineering and Science)." Total funding will be $3,000 over 11 months.

Joseph A. Izatt of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled "Microfabricated Cantilever-based Scanner for Forward-looking 3D Endoscopic OCT." Total funding will be $140,400 over 24 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." Total funding will be $52,926 over 6 months.

Nan M. Jokerst of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Using Sensors, Sensor Circuirts, Sensor Communications, Sensor/Analyte Interfaces." Total funding will be $30,000 over 11 months.

Zbigniew J. Kabala of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Proposal for Significant Undergraduate Laboratory Innovation and Improvement of Fluid Mechanics and/or Communications Laboratories." Total funding will be $25,000 over 11 months.

Jungsang Kim of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "To Support Experimental Capabilities for Optical Communications." Total funding will be $15,000 over 11 months.

Jeffrey L. Krolik of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "To Support Distributed Microphone Array Testbed for Speaker Separation and Localization." Total funding will be $10,000 over 11 months.

Frank M. Lombard of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management has received an award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for a project entitled "Carolina Alcohol and Drug Expansion Team (CADET) for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS." Total funding will be $2,497,507 over 60 months.

Frank M. Lombard of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management has received an award from the Health Resources and Service Administration for a project entitled "SPNS Information Technology Networks of Care Initiative." Total funding will be $398,536 over 48 months.`

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the University of Connecticut for a project entitled "Collaborative Research/LTREB Successional Pathways and Rates of Change in Tropical Forests of Brazil, Costa Rica and Mex." Total funding will be $93,489 over 56 months.

Robert A. Malkin of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from Engineering World Health for a project entitled "The Engineering World Health Summer Institute." Total funding will be $178,000 over 12 months.

Louise Meintjes of Music has received an award from the American Council of Learned Societies for a project entitled "Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars." Total funding will be $75,000 over 12 months.

Joseph C. Nadeau of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Experimental Laboratory for Mechanics and Structures." Total funding will be $30,000 over 11 months.

Emilio A. Parrado of Sociology has received an award from Family Health International for a project entitled "Formative Research to Determine the Feasibility of Recruitment for True Efficacy Trials Study." Total funding will be $5,928 over 5 months.

Timothy H. Profeta of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the Meridian Institute for a project entitled "Climate Policy Development Initiative - USCAPS." Total funding will be $34,960 over 3 months.

David E. Schaad of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "To Support Duke Engineers without Borders 2007-2008 Projects (Urganda, Kenya and Durham)." Total funding will be $15,000 over 11 months.

Connie M. Shelton of the Divinity School has received an award from the United Methodist Church for a project entitled "Pastoral Leadership Grants." Total funding will be $60,000 over 36 months.

Anthony So of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "The Political Economy of Tobacco Control in Southeast Asia." Total funding will be $1,628,000 over 58 months.

Jennifer J. Swenson of the Nicholas School has received an award from Space Grant for a project entitled "Relating Vegetation Phenology to Climate Variability in the Carolinas." Total funding will be $18,926 over 24 months.

Lawrence N. Virgin of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "To Support Computational Platforms for Practical Learning Instructional & Support of Student Project Capabilities." Total funding will be $15,000 over 11 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 in Rocket Engines (supplement)." Total funding will be $5,500 over 9 months.

Erika S. Weinthal of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Lazar Foundation for a project entitled "Student International Discussion Group, Continuing Support." Total funding will be $15,000 over 12 months.

*Campus awards only, excluding some private-sector sponsors.

Last updated November 2, 2007, by Ken Macdonald