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09/2009

Paul S. Aspinwall of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Geometry and Mathematical Physics of D-Branes." Total funding will be $347,629 over 36 months.

Shivnath Babu of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Integrated Problem Diagnosis and Repair in Databases and Storage Area Networks." Total funding will be $407,865 over 36 months.

Jeffrey S. Chase of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "TC: Large: Collaborative Research: Trustworthy Virtual Cloud Computing." Total funding will be $626,638 over 48 months.

Don Coltart of Chemistry has received an award from Lifescitech, Llc for a project entitled "ACC Synthesis - A Way to Create Safer, Efficacious and Inexpensive Single Enantiomers." Total funding will be $90,000 over 12 months.

Vincent Conitzer of Computer Science has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Algorithms for Computing Stackelberg Strategies in Large, Realistic Games." Total funding will be $240,000 over 18 months.

Xinnian Dong of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Functional analyses of NPR1 in plant defense." Total funding will be $285,957 over 23 months.

Herbert Edelsbrunner of Computer Science has received an award from Princeton University for a project entitled "Microstates to Macrodynamics: A New Mathematics of Biology." Total funding will be $30,000 over 1 month.

Gleb Finkelstein of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Symmetries, Interactions And Correlation Effects In Carbon Nanotubes." Total funding will be $450,000 over 33 months.

Calvin R. Howell of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Studies of Nuclear Structure Using Neutrons and Charged Particles." Total funding will be $10,874,000 over 29 months.

Sonke Johnsen of Biology has received an award from Florida Atlantic University for a project entitled "Bioluminescence in the deep-sea benthos." Total funding will be $10,600 over 7 months.

Daniel P. Kiehart of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Morphogenesis: Biophysics and Genetics of Dorsal Closure." Total funding will be $287,515 over 23 months.

Julian Lombardi of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Intelligent Interfaces for Managing User Experience in Hypermedia-enabled Virtual Workspaces." Total funding will be $299,998 over 18 months.

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "PASI: Expanding the Frontier in Tropical Ecology through Embedded Sensors." Total funding will be $100,000 over 24 months.

Mauro Maggioni of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Online Social Networks: Measurement and Characterization Methodologies." Total funding will be $95,000 over 36 months.

Storrs T. Mitchell-Olds of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Molecular causes and fitness consequences of complex trait variation." Total funding will be $287,693 over 23 months.

Mohamed A. Noor of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Fine-scale recombination, variation, divergence, and codon bias in Drosophila." Total funding will be $204,997 over 23 months.

Ronald E. Parr of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Computing Innovation Fellows Project." Total funding will be $140,000 over 12 months.

Michael C. Reed of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Supplemental Request: Analysis of Mechanisms of Biochemical Homeostasis." Total funding will be $41,069 over 12 months.

Barbara R. Shaw of Chemistry has received an award from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for a project entitled "The Pharmacodynamics of Genes and Oligonucleotides." Total funding will be $39,762 over 7 months.

David R. Sherwood of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Genetic Analysis of Cell Invasion Through Basement Membranes." Total funding will be $242,176 over 24 months.

Timothy Strauman of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from Columbia University for a project entitled "Approach/Avoidance Orientations and Operations." Total funding will be $75,000 over 9 months.

Carlo Tomasi of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "RI: Small: Visual Parts for Image and Video Analysis." Total funding will be $99,973 over 11 months.

Carlo Tomasi of Computer Science has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Inference for Identity Management." Total funding will be $50,000 over 9 months.

Chandra L. Tucker of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Analysis of PH1-associated alanine: glyoxylate aminotranferase (AGT) using yeast." Total funding will be $145,790 over 22 months.

Hans J. Van Miegroet of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies has received an award from the French American Cultural Exchange for a project entitled "Art-Science at the Interface of the Humanities, Social Sciences." Total funding will be $40,000 over 12 months.

Henry R. Weller of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Development of a New Method for Interrogating Special Nuclear Materials Based Upon Polarized (gamma,n) Asymmetries.." Total funding will be $2,000,000 over 60 months.

Keith E. Whitfield of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from Wayne State University for a project entitled "Epidemiology of late-life depression and ethnicity research study (ELLDERS)." Total funding will be $172,295 over 35 months.

Ross Widenhoefer of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "MRI: Acquisition of An Accu-TOF DART Mass Spectrometer." Total funding will be $187,865 over 36 months.

Jun Yang of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "III: Small: RIOT: Statistical Computing with Efficient, Transparent I/O." Total funding will be $500,000 over 36 months.

Xiaowei Yang of Computer Science has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "A Multidisciplinary Approach to Network Architecture Design." Total funding will be $400,000 over 59 months.

Xiaowei Yang of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "NETS-FIND: An Internet Architecture for User-Controlled Routes." Total funding will be $162,986 over 1 month.

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