September 2005 Awards*

Susan C. Alberts of Biology has received an award, on behalf of the Master of Arts in Teaching program, from the National Science Foundation, for a project entitled "The Robert Noyce Fellows at Duke University." Total funding will be $448,484 over 44 months.

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation for a project entitled "Integrating High Resolution Telemetry and Atmospheric Model to Study Bird Migration." Total funding will be $5,750 over 12 months.

Adrian Bejan of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics." Total funding will be $79,988 over 23 months.

Sherryl A. Broverman of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Do Linked International Curricula in Biology Enhance Science Literacy and Engagement in Non- Science and Pre-major Students?" Total funding will be $90,909 over 36 months.

Harris M. Cooper of Education has received an award from the North Carolina Center for Afterschool Programs for a project entitled "Establishing Standards for After School Programs." Total funding will be $35,491 over 12 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 $117,600 over 8 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "R/V Cape Hatteras Ship Scientific Support Equipment." Total funding will be $109,095 over 23 months.

Steven A. Cummer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Quantum Applied Research, Inc. for a project entitled "Science Support for Integrated Electric and Magnetic Field Sensor Development." Total funding will be $15,000 over 3 months.

Clifford Cunningham of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Assembling the Tree of Life - An Integrative Approach to Investigating Cnidarian Phylogeny." Total funding will be $200,071 over 24 months.

Kenneth A. Dodge of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a project entitled "Summer Research with NIDA 2005 (Supplement to Program Project)." Total funding will be $26,730 over 36 months.

Xinnian Dong of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Chromosome Modification and Transcription Repression in Regulation of Systemic Acquired Resistance." Total funding will be $3,554,359 over 48 months.

Paul B. Ellickson of Economics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Sunk costs and Supermarket Competition." Total funding will be $6,160 over 11 months.

John D. French of Latin American Studies has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "FLAS/The Consortium in Latin American Studies." Total funding will be $130,000 over 12 months.

Elizabeth J. Gifford of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the County of Durham for a project entitled "Monitor Substance Abuse in Durham County." Total funding will be $12,000 over 11 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 $31,500 over 12 months.

Bobby D. Guenther of the Fitzpatrick Center has received an award from Battelle for a project entitled "Attosecond Workshop." Total funding will be $22,000 over 8 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network for a project entitled "Geospatial analysis to support the WIDECAST network." Total funding will be $24,448 over 12 months.

Elizabeth Harris of Biology has received an award from the University of Minnesota for a project entitled "Chlamydomonas Culture Collection." Total funding will be $122,453 over 6 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 $24,340 over 11 months.

William T. Joines of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Printed Circuit Construction for Compact Circuits and Antennas II." Total funding will be $215,000 over 36 months.

Jeffrey A. Karson of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the Joint Oceanographic Institute for a project entitled "Expressions of melt transport during the final phases of deformation, before exhumation of the Atlantis Massif." Total funding will be $33,703 over 36 months.

Estel C. Lamon of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled "Regional Scale Stressor-Response Models for Use in Environmental Decision Making." Total funding will be $251,842 over 18 months.

Tod A. Laursen of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Bridging Macro and Micro Ethics: Advancing Ethics Education for Nano-Scale Researchers." Total funding will be $200,001 over 36 months.

Tod A. Laursen of Civil Engineering has received an award from Sandia National Laboratories for a project entitled "Local Smoothing Techniques and Consistent Sliding Formulation for Contact Analysis." Total funding will be $79,683 over 13 months.

Arie Y. Lewin of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Unpacking the Black Box of Absorbative Capacity and Testing a Firm Level Theory of Innovation - Imitation Adaptation: A Panel of Study of Firms Offshoring White Collar Jobs." Total funding will be $109,997 over 12 months.

Anna L. Lin of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CRC: Chemical Approaches to Glial-Neuronal Networks." Total funding will be $858,955 over 59 months.

Karl G. Linden of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled "Advanced Oxidation Processess for the Treatment of Candidate Contaminant List (CCL) Chemicals (supplement)." Total funding will be $15,000 over 12 months.

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from Florida International University for a project entitled "BE/CBC: Complex Interactions Among Water, Nutrients and Carbon Stocks and Fluxes Across A Natural Fertility Gradient in Tropical Rainforest." Total funding will be $346,969 over 48 months.

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Increasing Minority Participation in Tropical Biology: Supporting Activities for the OTS Advisory Committee for Academic Diversity (ACAD)." Total funding will be $49,991 over 11 months.

M. Susan Lozier of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "The Impact of Subtropical Mode Water on the Subsurface Nutrient Reservoir: Adding Nutrient Measurements to CLIMODE." Total funding will be $216,990 over 36 months.

Kenneth G. Manton of Demographic Studies has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Functional and Health Changes of the Elderly (Supplement)." Total funding will be $1,768,781 over 12 months.

Miguel A. Medina of Civil Engineering has received an award from Luna Innovations Inc. for a project entitled "High Resolution Acoustic Groundwater Flow Monitor." Total funding will be $30,000 over 8 months.

Rob Mitchell of English has received an award from the NC Biotechnology Center for a project entitled "Reimaging Biocommerce: Owning Body Parts and Information." Total funding will be $38,370 over 12 months.

Brad B. Murray of the Center on Global Change has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Coupling Human and Natural Influences on Coastline Evolution as Climate Changes." Total funding will be $1,198,138 over 59 months.

Clara G. Muschkin of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from the NC Department of Public Instruction for a project entitled "Proposal for Mini-Training Session at SADFS Coordinators Meeting in September 2005." Total funding will be $4,424 over 6 months.

Seog H. Oh of Physics has received an award from Columbia University for a project entitled "US ATLAS." Total funding will be $85,470 over 12 months.

Seog H. Oh of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "US ATLAS Research Program in TRT Subsystem (Supplement)." Total funding will be $10,000 over 2 months.

Ram Oren of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS-I): Continuation A Request for Amendment - Modifying Infrastructure to Match Altered Experimental Design." Total funding will be $82,005 over 23 months.

Stuart L. Pimm of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Remote Sensing and African Elephant Conservation on a Sub Continental Scale: Using Satellite Telemetry and Spectral Datasets to Model Resource Selection and Movements." Total funding will be $72,000 over 36 months.

Nimmi Ramanujam of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Diagnosis of Breast Cancer using Optical Spectroscopy." Total funding will be $757,680 over 31 months.

Joseph S. Ramus of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "FSML - Technology and Teleconferencing Improvements for the Duke University Marine Laboratory." Total funding will be $159,758 over 36 months.

Daniel A. Reed of Computer Science has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "RENCI: ITR: Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery." Total funding will be $1,254 over 1 month.

William M. Reichert of Biomedical Engineering has received a fellowship award from the United Negro College Fund/Merck for graduate student Lori W. Norton, for a project entitled "UNCF-MERCK Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowships." Total funding will be $40,000 over 18 months.

Karen Remmer of Political Science has received a fellowship award from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Kevin M. Morrison, for a project entitled "Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Political Economy of Revenue and Regime Stability." Total funding will be $11,969 over 12 months.

John F. Richards of South Asian Studies has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Web-Mounted Elementary Launguage Instruction." Total funding will be $94,090 over 12 months.

Curtis J. Richardson of the Nicholas School has received an award from the NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources for a project entitled "Sandy Creek Water Quality Improvement Project." Total funding will be $192,627 over 3 months.

Laura Richman of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Discrimination & Short & Long-Term Risks for Depression." Total funding will be $655,985 over 60 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Lab has received an award from NC Sea Grant for a project entitled "Enhancement of Fish Populations on Artificial Reefs by Providing Nursery Refuge for Prey." Total funding will be $5,000 over 5 months.

Kate Scholberg of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Outer Detector Work on Super-Kameskande and K2K (Supplement)." Total funding will be $220,000 over 14 months.

Lori A. Setton of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Genetically Designed/ Tissue-Engineered Meniscal Repair (supplement)." Total funding will be $154,000 over 22 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: A window into the evolution and diversification of early land plants." Total funding will be $688,428 over 60 months.

John D. Simon of Chemistry has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Investigating of Human Pigments Using FEL-PEEM: Applications to Brain, Eye, and Biomaterials (Supplement)." Total funding will be $290,112 over 5 months.

Frank A. Sloan of the Center for Health Policy Law & Management has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Visual Impairment, Treatment and Effects on the Elderly." Total funding will be $1,219,685 over 46 months.

Theodore A. Slotkin of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Project 1 (supplement)." Total funding will be $77,000 over 43 months.

Deborah Smith-Lovin of Sociology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "DHB: Niches and Networks: Studying the Coevolution of Voluntary Groups and Social Networks." Total funding will be $746,445 over 24 months.

Deborah Smith-Lovin of Sociology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research Examining the Relationship Between Identity, Injustice and Emotion." Total funding will be $66,682 over 23 months.

Joshua E. Socolar of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Boolean Networks and Gene Expression (Supplement)." Total funding will be $60,000 over 12 months.

John J. Tepaske of History has received an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled "Mellon Foundation Emeritus Fellowships." Total funding will be $45,000 over 12 months.

John E. Thomas of Physics has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gases in Reduced Dimensions (Supplement)." Total funding will be $53,000 over 13 months.

Dean L. Urban of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Carbon dynamics in heterogeneous landscapes: fusing remote sensing and spatial ecological models." Total funding will be $72,000 over 36 months.

James W. Vaupel of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Mortality Surface Analysis of U.S. and German Survival (Supplement)." Total funding will be $93,016 over 9 months.

Claire G. Williams of Biology has received an award from the Department of Agriculture for a project entitled "Predicting gene flow from transgenic pine pollen." Total funding will be $392,000 over 36 months.

Ronald G. Witt of History has received an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled "Mellon Foundation Emeritus Fellowships." Total funding will be $45,000 over 12 months.

Marty G. Woldorff of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Multisensory Processing and Attention." Total funding will be $329,896 over 48 months.

Anatoli I. Yashin of Demographic Studies has received an award from the National Institute on Aging for a project entitled "Healthy Life at Risk: The Role of Senesence." Total funding will be $1,217,042 over 58 months.

Gary A. Ybarra of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: A Comprehensive Pathway for K-Gray Engineering Education." Total funding will be $147,168 over 48 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 October 4, 2005, by Ken Macdonald