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Susan C. Alberts of Biology has received an award from the
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research for a project entitled "Demographic
analysis of a wild primate population." Total funding will be $86,532 over
4 months.

Amy Bejsovec of Biology has received an award from the
National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Genetic modulation
of Wingless/Wnt signaling." Total funding will be $1,154,400 over 48
months.

Philip N. Benfey of Biology has received an award from
GrassRoots Biotechnology for a project entitled "STTR^* Phase I:
Constitutive promoters for crop improvement." Total funding will be
$59,487 over 6 months.

Emily S. Bernhardt of Biology has received an award from the
Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled "Quantifying the
Impact of Floodplain Trees on River-Borne Nitrogen Removal." Total funding
will be $37,000 over 36 months.

Clifford Cunningham of Biology has received an award from
the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research for a project entitled "Flexible
models to estimate demographic parameters from incomplete data in the
invertebrate literature." Total funding will be $25,100 over 7 months.

Fernando R. Fernholz of the Duke
Center for International Development
has received an award from World Vision Canada
for a project entitled "World Vision East Sumba Revenue Mobilization
Assessment." Total funding will be $15,120 over 2 months.

Kenneth E. Glander of Evolutionary Anthropology has received
an award from Conservation International for a project entitled "Survey of
San San Pond Sak reserve, Panama,
to determine resident primate species presence and relative abundance."
Total funding will be $3,000 over 14 months.

Calvin R. Howell of Physics has received an award from
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for a project entitled "Nuclear
Resonance Fluorescence Transmission Measurements." Total funding will be
$126,000 over 3 months.

Robert B. Jackson of Biology has received an award from the
Department of Energy for a project entitled "Linking carbon uptake in
terrestrial ecosystems with other climate forcing factors." Total funding
will be $199,918 over 23 months.

Kenneth C. Land of Sociology has received an award from the
Foundation for Child Development for a project entitled "Developing A
Child-Well Being Index." Total funding will be $13,479 over 10 months.

Joshua M. Linder of Evolutionary Anthropology has received
an award from Conservation International for a project entitled "Reconnaissance
Trip to Establish a Survey and Monitoring Program for the Nigeria Cameroon
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes vellerosus) in Korup National
Park, Cameroon."
Total funding will be $2,000 over 12 months.

Mauro Maggioni of Mathematics has received an award from the
Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Towards multiscale
geometric processing for data sets in high-dimensions." Total funding will
be $150,000 over 12 months.

Mark D. Rausher of Biology has received an award from the
National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Genetics and Evolution
of Reproductive Character Displacement in Phlox drumondii." Total funding will
be $999,999 over 60 months.

Michael J. Therien of Chemistry has received an award from
the University of Pennsylvania
for a project entitled "NSEC on Molecular Function at the Nano/Bio
Interface." Total funding will be $49,249 over 12 months.

Duncan Thomas of Economics has received an award from the
National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Longitudinal Study
of Older Adults and their Families in Mexico."
Total funding will be $2,371,553 over 59 months.

Weitao Yang of Chemistry has received an award from Cornell
University for a project entitled "Bridging
the Molecular to the Macro: Graphene and Nanotube-Based Platforms for
Atomically-Precise Connections to the Molecular World." Total funding will
be $120,000 over 36 months.

Anne D. Yoder of Biology has received an award from the
National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Baker's Rule and
Mating System Evolution in Madagascan Coffea (Rubiaceae)." Total funding
will be $15,000 over 24 months.

Divinity School

Emmanuel Katongole of the Center for
Reconciliation has received an award from DePaul University for a project entitled "World Catholicism and
Intercultural Theology." Total funding will be $50,000 over 4 months.

Fuqua School of Business

Wesley M. Cohen of the Fuqua School of Business
has received an award from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for a project
entitled "The Division of Innovative Labor." Total funding will be
$29,137 over 25 months.

Nicholas School

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award
from the National Marine Fisheries Service for a project entitled "A
Proposal to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission for the 2009
Cooperative Winter Tagging Cruise." Total funding will be $120,890 over 3
months.

Deborah R. Gallagher of Environmental Sciences & Policy has
received an award from the Environmental Protection Agency for a project
entitled "2007 Ecosystem Services Valuation Workshop for Senior State
Leaders, Duke University Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions."
Total funding will be $14,906 over 14 months.

David E. Hinton of Environmental Sciences & Policy has
received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled
"Additive Effects of Mixtures of Endocrine-Active Compounds to Medaka."
Total funding will be $174,835 over 24 months.

M. Susan Lozier of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received
an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project
entitled "Support for MPOWIR activities and its direct connection to NASA^*
labs." Total funding will be $100,000 over 48 months.

Douglas P. Nowacek of the Marine Lab has received an award
from Florida State
University for a project entitled "Construction
of Deep Towed Body for Echosounder Deployment." Total funding will be $74,900
over 12 months.

Pratt School of Engineering

Robert A. Malkin of Biomedical Engineering has received an
award from Engineering World Health for a project entitled "Duke-
Engineering World Health Summer Institute." Total funding will be $27,485
over 60 months.

Marshall L. Nuckols of Mechanical Engineering has received
an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Thermal
Protection Solutions for Next Generation SDV." Total funding will be
$657,128 over 27 months.

Jonathan Protz of Mechanical Engineering has received an
award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled
"The Role of Size, Autonomy, and Other Factors in Military System Performance."
Total funding will be $129,168 over 12 months.

Daniel J. Sorin of Electrical Engineering has received an
award from the Semiconductor Research Corp. for a project entitled "Correct
and Scalable Address Translation for Multicore Processors." Total funding
will be $60,000 over 12 months.

Kishor S. Trivedi of Electrical Engineering has received an
award from NEC Corporation for a project entitled "Performability
Management in a Virtualized Data
Center via Stochastic Modeling and
Optimization." Total funding will be $25,000 over 6 months.

George A. Truskey of Biomedical Engineering has received an
award from the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command for a project
entitled "Investigation of Anti-Angiogenic Mechanisms Using Novel Imaging
Techniques." Total funding will be $97,200 over 37 months.

Adam P. Wax of Biomedical Engineering has received an award
from the University of Miami
for a project entitled "Intermediate Surrogate Biomarker Studies in the
Rat Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Model Using Optical Photospectroscopy Analysis."
Total funding will be $76,000 over 4 months.

School of Law

Andrew H. Foster of the School
of Law has received an award from the Z. Smith Reynolds
Foundation for a project entitled "ZSR Community Enterprise Clinic."
Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

University Interdisciplinary Centers

Philip R. Costanzo of the Center for Child and Family Policy has received a program-project grant award from the National Institutes of Health, for a program entitled "Duke Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center." Total funding will be $1,259,388 over 54 months. It includes the following projects:

- a project headed by Kenneth A. Dodge, which will receive total funding of $778,649.

- a project headed by Rick Hoyle, which will receive total funding of $480,739.

Peter D. Feaver of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from the United States^* Army War College for a project entitled "American Grand Strategy After War." Total funding will be $7,500 over 12 months.

Jennifer M. Groh of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Organization for Hearing Research Foundation for a project entitled "Inferior Colliculus in Auditory Perception." Total funding will be $20,000 over 12 months.

Robin Kirk of the Franklin Humanities Institute has received an award from the NC Humanities Council for a project entitled "Pauly Murray Project; History and Dialogue as a Gataway to Reckoning and Reconciliation." Total funding will be $10,000 over 7 months.

Frank M. Lombard of the Center for Health Policy has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "North Carolina Community AIDS Fund." Total funding will be $163,429 over 36 months.

Peter McCornick of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled "Supporting the Development of a Strategy for Agricultural Water Management." Total funding will be $14,145 over 4 months.

University Administration & Centers

Stephen A. Cohn of Duke University Press has received an award from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for a project entitled "Carlyle Letters Online." Total funding will be $15,000 over 10 months.

Kimerly R. Hart of the Nasher Museum of Art has received an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled "Curator and Program Coordinator for the Mellon Program at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University." Total funding will be $499,300 over 48 months.

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