September 2004 Awards*

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received a fellowship award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for student Kristen Goris, for a project entitled "The Role of Orography and Land on the Hydrometeorlogy of the Western United States." Total funding will be $72,000 over 36 months.

Patrick Bajari of Economics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Dynamic General Equilibrium Models of Community Formation: Theory and Empirical Analysis." Total funding will be $96,278 over 12 months.

Gregory Britz of Documentary Studies has received an award from the NC Arts Council for a project entitled "CDS Traveling Exhibits." Total funding will be $8,000 over 11 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Analysis and Modeling of GPR Sensors." Total funding will be $214,604 over 5 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Lockheed Martin Corporation for a project entitled "Integrated Sensing and Processing (ISP) Phase II." Total funding will be $200,000 over 24 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "The AVS2004 Biomaterials Interfaces Symposium." Total funding will be $10,000 over 5 months.

Robert L. Clark Jr. of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "IGERT: Graduate Training in Biologically Inspired Materials (Supplement)." Total funding will be $110,160 over 39 months.

James S. Clark of the Center on Global Change has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Integration of Data and Models to Assess Forest Biodiversity." Total funding will be $499,907 over 23 months.

James S. Clark of the Center on Global Change has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: SEI(BIO)--Automated Methods for Generating High Resolution GIS Databases from Remotely Sensed Data for Biodiversity Predictions." Total funding will be $317,291 over 48 months.

Stephen A. Cohn of Duke University Press has received an award from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation for a project entitled "Faith Ringgold Memoirs." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 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 $997,805 over 36 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the University of South Carolina for a project entitled "Subcontract between the University of South Carolina and Duke University." Total funding will be $149,000 over 8 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Vessel Operations, R/V Cape Hatteras (Supplement)." Total funding will be $100,513 over 30 months.

J. Kevin Craig of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a project entitled "Hypoxia, Fish & Fisheries in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico." Total funding will be $286,449 over 7 months.

Steven A. Cummer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "A Numerical Simulation Tool for Planetary Subsurface Radar." Total funding will be $272,471 over 36 months.

Xinnian Dong of DCMB has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Functional Analysis of NPR1 in Plant Defense." Total funding will be $1,108,800 over 48 months.

Devendra P. Garg of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Intelligent Multi-Sensor Identification, Modeling and Data Fusion for Automated Manufacturing." Total funding will be $80,000 over 24 months.

Devendra P. Garg of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Sensor Modeling and Multi-Sensor Data Fusion." Total funding will be $25,000 over 9 months.

Alan Gelfand of ISDS has received an award from the University of Washington for a project entitled "Understanding Variability in Community Mammography." Total funding will be $71,030 over 10 months.

Bobby D. Guenther of the Fitzpatrick Center has received an award from Battelle for a project entitled "Negative Index Materials Workshop." Total funding will be $12,996 over 4 months.

Amy L. Hall of Divinity has received an award from the Association of Theological Schools for a project entitled "Conceiving Parenthood: The Protestant Spirit of Biotechnological Reproduction." Total funding will be $39,578 over 12 months.

Gabriele C. Hegerl of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Detection of Anthropogenic Changes in Climate Extremes (Supplement)." Total funding will be $23,278 over 12 months.

Calvin R. Howell of Physics has received a fellowship award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for student Daphne Chang, for a project entitled "NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program." Total funding will be $3,250 over 3 months.

Joseph A. Izatt of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from Micron Optics Inc. for a project entitled "Swept Laser Source for Optical Coherence Tomography." Total funding will be $33,000 over 7 months.

Deborah L. Jakubs of Perkins Library has received an award from the Open Society Institute for a project entitled "History, Memory and Democracy: Collaborative Digital Access to Research Resourses on the Southern Cone." Total funding will be $20,000 over 4 months.

Nan M. Jokerst of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Georgia Tech Research Corporation for a project entitled "Biochemical Optical Sensor System Subcontract." Total funding will be $150,000 over 1 month.

Anthony M. Kelley of Music has received an award from the American Music Center for a project entitled "Pulsoptional Cowell Performance Project." Total funding will be $1,000 over 12 months.

Jeffrey L. Krolik of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Naval Research Laboratory for a project entitled "Entropy-based Adaptive Clutter Mitigation and Frequency-Hopped Altitude Estimation." Total funding will be $65,000 over 12 months.

Mark C. Kruse of Physics has received an award from Fermilab for a project entitled "Fermilab Memorandum of Understanding Between Duke University and the Run IIb CDF Detector Project at Fermilab." Total funding will be $13,605 over 1 month.

Tod A. Laursen of Civil Engineering has received an award from Michelin Americas Research and Development Corporation for a project entitled "Mortar and Deformable Contact Strategies for High Fidelity Tire Rolling Simulation." Total funding will be $164,947 over 21 months.

Jie Liu of Chemistry has received an award from Oak Ridge National Labs for a project entitled "Direct Growth of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Controlled Structures on Substrates for Device and Sensor Applicatications." Total funding will be $3,500 over 12 months.

Kenneth G. Manton of Demographic Studies has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Center for Longitudinal Analysis in Medical Demography - Administrative Supplement for Close Down Funds (Supplement)." Total funding will be $140,000 over 9 months.

Piotr E. Marszalek of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Nanoscale DNA Diaganostics by Single Molecule AFM." Total funding will be $551,808 over 36 months.

Margaret A. McKean of Political Science has received a fellowship award from the National Science Foundation for student Ashwini Chhatre, for a project entitled "Doctoral Dissertation Research: Institutional Resilience and Decentralized Resource Management in a Changing World." Total funding will be $15,400 over 24 months.

S. Philip Morgan of Sociology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Low Fertility in Islamic Republic of Iran." Total funding will be $154,000 over 23 months.

Clara G. Muschkin of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a project entitled "CDC Multi-Site Violence Prevention Data Center." Total funding will be $297,999 over 12 months.

Amy Needham of Psychological and Brain Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "New Approaches to Infant Learning and Cognition." Total funding will be $15,189 over 12 months.

Ram Oren of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Controls of Net Ecosystem Exchange at an Old Field, a Pine Plantation, and a Hardwood Forest Under Identical Climatic and Edaphic Conditions." Total funding will be $493,862 over 36 months.

Richard A. Palmer of Chemistry has received an award from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for a project entitled "Rheo-Optical Studies of Polymeric Materials." Total funding will be $15,000 over 4 months.

Stuart L. Pimm of the Nicholas School has received an award from the US Geological Survey for a project entitled "Biodiversity Characterization and Dynamics of North America Using MODIS 500m Data." Total funding will be $59,920 over 12 months.

Andrew J. Read of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a project entitled "Predictive Modeling of Right Whale Distribution off New England." Total funding will be $255,500 over 36 months.

Andrew J. Read of the Marine Lab has received an award from MCAS Cherry Point Environmental Affairs for a project entitled "Acoustic Monitoring of Bottlenose Dolphin Use of the Brant Island Shoal Bombing Target (BT-9) and the Piney Island Bombing Range (BT-11)." Total funding will be $221,282 over 24 months.

John F. Richards of South Asian Studies has received an award from the Department of Education for a project entitled "Connection and Comparison Situating South Asia Regionally." Total funding will be $224,000 over 24 months.

David C. Rubin of Psychological and Brain Sciences has received an award from the National Institute of Mental Health for a project entitled "Neural Correlates of Autobiographical Memory." Total funding will be $1,247,400 over 59 months.

Kate Scholberg of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CAREER: Next Steps for Neutrino Oscillation Physics." Total funding will be $400,000 over 59 months.

Lori A. Setton of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from Spine Wave, Inc. for a project entitled "Evaluation of an in Situ Crosslinkable Biomaterial for Osteochondral Defect Repair." Total funding will be $114,585 over 12 months.

Daniel J. Sorin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Autonomic Computing via Dynamic Self-Repair of Hardware Faults." Total funding will be $394,199 over 36 months.

Carlo Tomasi of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Randomized Invariant Features for Recognition (Supplement)." Total funding will be $6,320 over 11 months.

George A. Truskey of Biomedical Engineering has received a fellowship award from the Whitaker Foundation for student Thomas Petersen, for a project entitled "Graduate Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering for Thomas Petersen." Total funding will be $39,000 over 12 months.

George A. Truskey of Biomedical Engineering has received a fellowship award from the Whitaker Foundation for student Sarah Roberts, for a project entitled "Graduate Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering for Sarah Roberts (Supplement)." Total funding will be $29,644 over 11 months.

James W. Vaupel of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Exceptional Survival in Danish and Italian Families." Total funding will be $2,664,026 over 56 months.

Fan Yuan of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Electric Field-Forced Gene Transfer in Solid Tumors (Supplement)." Total funding will be $214,586 over 35 months.

Yi Zeng of Institute of Public Policy has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Demographic Analysis of Healthy Longevity in China." Total funding will be $2,030,811 over 60 months.

*School of Medicine awards are listed separately:

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

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Last updated October 1, 2004, by Ken Macdonald