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Gale A. Boyd of Economics has received an award from the University of California - Los Angeles for a project entitled "Hedonic Models of Location Decisions with Applications to Geospatial Micro-data." Total funding will be $165,541 over 11 months.

Bruce Caldwell of Economics has received an award from the Pierre F. and Enid Goodrich Foundation for a project entitled "The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek." Total funding will be $20,000 over 12 months.

Adele De Cruz of Biology has received an award from The Mary D. B. T. Semans Foundation for a project entitled "Investigations of interaction of Lichen and ERi YAG lasers." Total funding will be $2,000 over 4 months.

Haiyan Gao of Physics has received an award from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for a project entitled "Feasibility Study of a New Light Detection Technique." Total funding will be $22,000 over 9 months.

Graham Glenday of the Duke Center for International Development has received an award from the Government of Tanzania for a project entitled "Monitoring and Evaluation of the LGRP II, Tanzania Spring 2009." Total funding will be $52,791 over 3 months.

Calvin R. Howell of Physics has received an award from Tri Alpha Energy, Inc. for a project entitled "Measurement of the 11B(p, 4He) 8Be Reaction Below 400 keV.." Total funding will be $76,042 over 14 months.

James A. Joseph of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Ford Foundation for a project entitled "'Effective Leadership' - A Program for Rising Mid-Career Leaders in Louisiana from The United States^*-Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values." Total funding will be $200,000 over 12 months.

Warren H. Meck of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU^* Site: "Mechanisms of Behavior" Summer Research Program in Systems and Integrative Neuroscience." Total funding will be $353,636 over 48 months.

Terrie E. Moffitt of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Is mental disorder a preventable cause of age-related disease? The Dunedin Study." Total funding will be $519,551 over 60 months.

Anthony So of Public Policy Studies has received an award from Uppsala University for a project entitled "ReAct Secretariat Meeting." Total funding will be $12,800 over 4 months.

Michael J. Therien of Chemistry has received an award from the University of Pennsylvania for a project entitled "Functional Biomolecular Materials." Total funding will be $60,000 over 12 months.

Divinity School

No new awards for March.

Fuqua School of Business

No new awards for March.

Nicholas School of the Environment

Lisa M. Campbell of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Brown University for a project entitled "Evaluating Progress of Marine Ecosystem-Based Management Efforts." Total funding will be $37,553 over 24 months.

James S. Clark of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the University of Georgia for a project entitled "Southern Appalachia on the Edge: Exurbanization & Climate Interaction in the Southeast." Total funding will be $304,838 over 72 months.

M. Susan Lozier of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Export Pathways from the Subpolar North Atlantic: Phase Two." Total funding will be $11,454 over 18 months.

Andrew J. Read of the Marine Lab has received an award from Parsons Corporation for a project entitled "Technical Proposal for Monitoring of Protected Species in the Proposed Jacksonville USWTR." Total funding will be $797,983 over 14 months.

Pratt School of Engineering

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.

School of Law

James P. Longest, Jr. has received an award from Environmental Defense for a project entitled "Report Development for North Carolina Farmers." Total funding will be $14,000 over 6 months.

University Administration & Centers

No new awards for March.

University Interdisciplinary Centers

Lisa J. Berlin of Child & Family Policy has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled "Causes, Consequences, and Prevention of Child Maltreatment." Total funding will be $19,955 over 18 months.

Lisa A. Keister of Sociology - SSRI^* has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Religion and Inequality: How Religious Belief Contributes to Wealth and Poverty." Total funding will be $119,739 over 24 months.

Robin Kirk of the Franklin Humanities Institute has received an award from the Andrus Family Fund for a project entitled "Pauli Murray Project." Total funding will be $134,000 over 18 months.

Timothy H. Profeta of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the Energy Foundation for a project entitled "An Assessment of Potential Energy Efficiency Gains in the Southeast." Total funding will be $125,073 over 12 months.

Raphael D. Sagarin of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the American Philosophical Society for a project entitled "The Indelible Stain of Human Impacts on Plicopurpura Pansa Populations in Mexico as Measured in the Field and in Natural History Museums Collections." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

John Wilson of Sociology - SSRI^* has received an award from Washington State University for a project entitled "Volunteering in American States and Cities." Total funding will be $107,341 over 36 months.

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