September 2007 Awards*

Lisa M. Campbell of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Citizen Science and Sea Turtle Conservation: Critical and Pragmatic Perspectives." Total funding will be $223,476 over 36 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Thermally Targeted Drug Delivery by Elastin Biopolymers." Total funding will be $1,396,440 over 46 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems has received an award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a project entitled "Nanophotonics for Select Agent Detection." Total funding will be $470,850 over 12 months.

James S. Clark of the Nicholas School has received an award from Northern Arizona University for a project entitled "NAU IGERT Program - Integrative Bioscience: Genes to Environment." Total funding will be $83,154 over 12 months.

Matt Cohen of English has received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "Interface Development for Static Multimedia Documents." Total funding will be $29,857 over 13 months.

Don Coltart of Chemistry has received an award from the Department of Defense for a project entitled "Inhibitors of Cdc25 Phosphatases." Total funding will be $768,637 over 25 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "OCE - Ship Operations (supplement)." Total funding will be $653,460 over 29 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 Shipboard Scientific Equipment - 2007." Total funding will be $24,694 over 24 months.

Larry B. Crowder of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Oak Foundation for a project entitled "Duke Global Fellows in Marine Conservation and Graduate Student Support." Total funding will be $106,107 over 12 months.

Earl H. Dowell of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Space Grant for a project entitled "Aeroelastic Studies on Folding Wing Structures." Total funding will be $25,000 over 24 months.

Carla Ellis of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Student Travel Support for a Discipline Specific Workshop for Women at 21st SOSP." Total funding will be $18,200 over 12 months.

Richard B. Fair of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Continuous Sequencing-By-Synthesis Based on a Digital Microfluidic Platform." Total funding will be $3,686,200 over 36 months.

Jeffrey R. Forbes of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: BPC-A: ARTSI: Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact." Total funding will be $94,085 over 36 months.

Kenneth E. Glander of Biological Anthropology has received an award from Conservation International for a project entitled "The Effect of Habitat Quality on the Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation of the Udzungwa Red Colobus Monkeys (Procolobus gordonorum) in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania           ." Total funding will be $3,000 over 12 months.

Jeffrey T. Glass of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the University of Illinois for a project entitled "WATERS (Water and Environmental Research Systems) Network Project." Total funding will be $37,025 over 11 months.

Alfred T. Goshaw of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Research in High Energy Physics at Duke University (Supplement)." Total funding will be $40,000 over 27 months.

Alfred T. Goshaw of Physics has received an award from Fermilab for a project entitled "Salary support for Douglas Benjamin, Ph.D, during 2007." Total funding will be $17,761 over 3 months.

James A. Joseph of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Ford Foundation for a project entitled "A Proposal to the Ford Foundation for Partial Support of 'Effective Leadership.'" Total funding will be $260,000 over 12 months.

Gabriel Katul of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Multiscale Statistical Methodologies to Unravel Complexities in Atmospheric Turbulence Data." Total funding will be $80,426 over 36 months.

Roy B. Kelly of the Duke Center for International Development has received an award from the Government of Tanzania for a project entitled "Tanzania: Provision of Consultancy Services for Support to the Transformation of the Local Government Structure." Total funding will be $550,000 over 24 months.

Randall Kramer of the Nicholas School has received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Katherine Dickinson, for a project entitled "Risk, Health, and Economic Development: Examining Households' Malaria Control Decisions in Tanzania." Total funding will be $10,160 over 12 months.

Kenneth C. Land of Sociology has received an award from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation for a project entitled "The Construction of Composite Indices of Child and Youth Well-Being for Kidsdata.org." Total funding will be $44,388 over 12 months.

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Effects of Species on Forest Carbon Balances in Lowland Costa Rica." Total funding will be $308,858 over 36 months.

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Developing the Las Cruces Biological Station as a Center for Research on Tropical Forest Conservation and Restoration in Multi-use Landscapes." Total funding will be $48,099 over 12 months.

Francois M. Lutzoni of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life: Resolving the Evolutionary History of the Fungi." Total funding will be $950,520 over 48 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 (supplement)." Total funding will be $2,339 over 1 month.

Elizabeth Marsh of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from the Spencer Foundation for a project entitled "Training Students to Read Fiction Critically: Implications for Memory." Total funding will be $39,325 over 12 months.

Storrs T. Mitchell-Olds of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Ecological Genomics of Local Adaptation and Trait Variation in an Arbidopsis Relative." Total funding will be $848,880 over 36 months.

Stephen R. Mitroff of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "The nature of persisting object representations." Total funding will be $156,000 over 22 months.

William F. Morris of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative LTREB Research: Population-and Community-Level Mechanisms of Range Limitation in a Variable and Changing Environment." Total funding will be $224,627 over 48 months.

Mohamed A. Noor of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Chromosomal Inversions and the Persistence of Species." Total funding will be $146,841 over 24 months.

Ram Oren of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Duke Forest FACE--Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS-I)." Total funding will be $1,559,016 over 23 months.

Ronald E. Parr of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "RI: Feature Discovery and Benchmarks for Exportable Reinforcement Learning." Total funding will be $225,000 over 36 months.

Amilcare M. Porporato of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Department of Agriculture for a project entitled "Joint Effects of Climate Change on Grasslands." Total funding will be $45,000 over 60 months.

Timothy H. Profeta of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the National Religious Partnership for the Environment for a project entitled "Climate & Poverty Project." Total funding will be $55,011 over 8 months.

Kathleen Pryer of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: The Roles of Polyploidy and Apomixis in Shaping the Diversity and Distribution of Cheilanthoid Ferns." Total funding will be $319,780 over 36 months.

Kenneth H. Reckhow of the Nicholas School has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Using Bayesian Networks & Satellite Imagery to Implement Transparant Decision- making and Adaptive Management." Total funding will be $128,349 over 18 months.

Karen Remmer of Political Science has received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Lorena Becerra Mizuno, for a project entitled " Political Competition and Public Good Provision in Multi-Tier Systems of Governance: Social Policy and Poverty Reduction in Mexico." Total funding will be $11,960 over 12 months.

Lori A. Setton of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Genetically Designed Materials for Cartilage Repair." Total funding will be $1,426,239 over 46 months.

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Sony Corporation for a project entitled "Research Program." Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the University of California - Los Angeles for a project entitled "Design and Fabrication of NanoPlasmonic Devices for Computational Imaging and Sensing." Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

Anthony So of Public Policy Studies has received an award from Uppsala University for a project entitled "Combating Antibiotic Resistance: Strategic Policy and Innovation." Total funding will be $109,396 over 9 months.

Jennifer J. Swenson of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Department of Agriculture for a project entitled "Recent Trends in large-parcel forest ownership in the southern US." Total funding will be $36,000 over 16 months.

Teh Y. Tan of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for a project entitled "Precipitate Dissolution and Gettering under Vacancy Injection (supplement)." Total funding will be $15,088 over 4 months.

Cindy L. Van Dover of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Marine Ecosystems." Total funding will be $284,962 over 36 months.

Hans J. Van Miegroet of Romance Languages has received an award from the French American Cultural Exchange for a project entitled "International Graduate Program in Art Markets and Visual Studies, Duke University -- Universite Lille-3." Total funding will be $40,000 over 12 months.

Yvonne Wasilewski of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received an award from Eckerd Youth Alternatives for a project entitled "Classworks, EYA's new Model Classroom." Total funding will be $20,000 over 19 months.

Ross Widenhoefer of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Catalytic Hydrofunctionallization as a Route to Heterocyclic Compounds." Total funding will be $760,500 over 36 months.

John H. Willis of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Ecological Genomics of Drought Adaptation in Mimulus." Total funding will be $866,802 over 36 months.

Jun Yang of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "III-COR: Wide-Area Publish/Subscribe: Unifying Data Processing and Dissemination." Total funding will be $449,999 over 36 months.

Anatoli I. Yashin of Sociology has received an award from the National Institute on Aging for a project entitled "Evaluating New Genetic Effects on Health and Aging from Longitudinal Data." Total funding will be $2,987,646 over 59 months.

Stefan Zauscher of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Effect of Shockwaves on the Biochemical and Biomechanical Function of Cells (supplement)." Total funding will be $70,050 over 14 months.

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

Last updated October 4, 2007, by Ken Macdonald