John D. Albertson of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Implications of Vegetation Dynamics for Semi-Arid Hydrology: A Basis for Predicting Climate Impacts on Water Resources." Total funding will be $397,034 over 36 months.

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Supplement:The Impacts of Tropical Deforestation on Regional and Global Hydroclimate." Total funding will be $50,010 over 8 months.

Cameron Bass of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Battelle Memorial Institute for a project entitled "Blast and Blunt Test Methodologies for the Analysis of Materials." Total funding will be $675,000 over 6 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "The Summit of NAE Grand Challenges." Total funding will be $30,000 over 9 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program for a project entitled "Integration of Advanced Statistical Analysis Tools and Geophysical Modeling." Total funding will be $1,500,000 over 36 months.

Stefano Curtarolo of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Stanford University for a project entitled "Materials for Nuclear Detection." Total funding will be $99,514 over 12 months.

Christopher L. Dwyer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "CSSG Phase 1: Biometric and Novel Sensing Modes Enabled by DNA^* Self-assembled Nanostructures." Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

Craig S. Henriquez of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Modeling Cardiac Impulse Propagation at the Microscale." Total funding will be $1,937,120 over 60 months.

Brian P. Mann of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Proposal: Stability, Identification, and Stochastic Resonance in Stochastic Delay Systems." Total funding will be $248,901 over 36 months.

Brian P. Mann of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Broadband Energy Harvesting with Adaptive Piezoelectric Systems (Supplement #2)." Total funding will be $100,000 over 24 months.

Barry S. Myers of Engineering - Office of the Dean has received an award from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for a project entitled "Grand Challenge Summit." Total funding will be $25,000 over 2 months.

Gregg E. Trahey of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging of Arteries." Total funding will be $417,800 over 48 months.

George A. Truskey of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "MicroRNA Mediation of Stretch-Induced Myoblast Function for Engineered Tissues." Total funding will be $372,592 over 23 months.