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Caroline Bruzelius of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies has received an award from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for a project entitled ''The Kingdom of Sicily.'' Total funding will be $4,000 over 12 months.

Gleb Finkelstein of Physics has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled ''Bioenabled Electronics: Bridging the Top-down and Bottom-up Fabrication Approaches.'' Total funding will be $588,520 over 24 months.

Haiyan Gao of Physics has received an award from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for a project entitled ''Engineering Design of Subsystems for the Neutron Electron Dipole Moment (nEDM) Mod #3.'' Total funding will be $20,000 over 9 months.

Renate M. Houts of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled ''NICHD^* Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development.'' Total funding will be $77,451 over 11 months.

Robert B. Jackson of Biology has received a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student John H. Kim, for a project entitled “Biological and economic tradeoff of carbon and water with land- use changes in grasslands.'' Total funding will be $15,000 over 24 months.

Paula McClain of Political Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''REU^* Site: Ralph Bunche Summer Institute.'' Total funding will be $404,521 over 36 months.

Anthony So of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative for a project entitled ''Conceptualizing Alternative IP^* Management Strategies for R&D for Neglected Diseases.'' Total funding will be $48,671 over 12 months.

Richard S. Surwit of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ''Prospective Effects of Pychosocial Factors on Bariatric Surgical Success.'' Total funding will be $75,701 over 24 months.

John E. Thomas of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''Trapped Fermi gases as models of strongly interacting matter.'' Total funding will be $20,000 over 1 month.

Gennifer Weisenfeld of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies has received an award from the National Humanities Center for a project entitled ''Imaging Disaster: Visual Culture in Japan after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake.'' Total funding will be $35,000 over 9 months.

Divinity School

Grant A. Wacker of Divinity Faculty has received an award from the Association of Theological Schools for a project entitled ''Billy Graham's America." Total funding will be $64,175 over 14 months.

Fuqua School of Business

No new awards for April.

Nicholas School of the Environment

Larry B. Crowder of the Marine Laboratory has received an award from the Oak Foundation for a project entitled ''Travel Support for Global Fellows to Attend the International Marine Conservation Congress.'' Total funding will be $25,000 over 11 months.

Douglas P. Nowacek of the Marine Laboratory has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled ''Prey Fields and habitats of deep diving odontocetes: 3D characterization and modeling of beaked and sperm whale foraging areas in the Tongue of the Ocean.'' Total funding will be $60,250 over 16 months.

Andrew J. Read of the Marine Laboratory has received an award from NC Sea Grant for a project entitled ''Foraging behavior of pilot whales in the Cape Hatteras Special Research Area.'' Total funding will be $46,463 over 12 months.

Daniel Rittschof of the Marine Laboratory has received an award from NC Sea Grant for a project entitled ''Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Body Size in Blue Crabs.'' Total funding will be $18,933 over 12 months.

Cindy L. Van Dover of the Marine Laboratory has received an award from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for a project entitled ''Oases for Life in Distant Oceans: Hydrothermal Exploration Using Advanced Robotic Techniques.'' Total funding will be $118,181 over 48 months.

Pratt School of Engineering

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the University of Wisconsin for a project entitled ''Revolutionary Substrate for Advanced Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices.'' Total funding will be $286,688 over 14 months.

Chuan-Hua Chen of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''Electrohydrodynamic Coulter Counting.'' Total funding will be $400,000 over 59 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 $3,418 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 $1,196,500 over 15 months.

Nan M. Jokerst of Electrical Engineering has received an award from iRobot Corporation for a project entitled ''Hydrophobic, Non-Fouling, Non-Hazardous Coatings for Periscope Head Windows (Periscope Head Window Coating).'' Total funding will be $5,225 over 2 months.

David F. Katz of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the International Partnership for Microbicides for a project entitled ''New Imaging Platform for In Vivo Pharmacokinetic Analysis of Microbicide APIs.'' Total funding will be $159,943 over 17 months.

David Needham of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials has received an award from Molecular Express, Inc. for a project entitled ''Digit Regeneration in Mammals.'' Total funding will be $50,000 over 7 months.

Jingdong Tian of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ''A Novel Computational Package for DNA^* Enzyme Design.'' Total funding will be $429,000 over 24 months.

Lawrence N. Virgin of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled ''Snap-Through And Continuation.'' Total funding will be $530,814 over 33 months.

Olaf T. Von Ramm of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled ''pMUT Applications and Testing.'' Total funding will be $53,604 over 12 months.

Olaf T. Von Ramm of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled ''Technical Support for RTI^* pMUT Development, Part II.'' Total funding will be $30,000 over 12 months.

Benjamin B. Yellen of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''REU^* Supplement - Non-linear Dynamics of Traveling Wave Magnetophoresis for Applications in Colloidal Separation.'' Total funding will be $6,000 over 26 months.

Tomoyuki Yoshie of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ''Three-dimensional photonic crystal microlasers.'' Total funding will be $330,000 over 36 months.

School of Law

Judith A. Horowitz has received an award from the Japan Foundation for a project entitled ''The Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu Program for Japanese Law and Culture at Duke Law School.'' Total funding will be $54,250 over 12 months.

University Administration & Centers

Jill Katte of Perkins Libraries has received an award from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for a project entitled ''NHPRC Digitizing Historical Records.'' Total funding will be $59,947 over 24 months.

University Interdisciplinary Centers

Elizabeth Brannon of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from Carnegie Mellon University for a project entitled ''Neuroimaging of the Development of Neural Mechanisms for Number Processing.'' Total funding will be $44,832 over 5 months.

Christina Christopoulos of Child & Family Policy has received an award from the Alamance County Department of Social Services for a project entitled ''Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and their Families Program.'' Total funding will be $125,148 over 2 months.

Alexander B. Downes of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from Pennsylvania State University for a project entitled ''Mapping the Trajectories of Military Intervention and Occupation: Towards an Empirical Model.'' Total funding will be $32,033 over 15 months.

Scott A. Huettel of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ''Neural mechanisms for the construction of subjective value and preferences.'' Total funding will be $85,487 over 32 months.

Herbert P. Kitschelt of Political Science has received an award from the World Bank for a project entitled ''Accountability, Public Policy, and Economic Performance.'' Total funding will be $18,500 over 3 months.

Frank M. Lombard of the Center for Health Policy has received an award from the National AIDS Fund for a project entitled ''North Carolina Community AIDS Fund.'' Total funding will be $25,000 over 12 months.

Frank M. Lombard of the Center for Health Policy has received an award from the Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation for a project entitled ''White Paper on the HIV/STD Landscape in Guilford County.'' Total funding will be $10,000 over 3 months.

Lynne Messer of Center for the Center for Health Policy has received an award from the Cabarrus Health Alliance for a project entitled ''TRAIL (Taking Responsible Actions in Life).'' Total funding will be $20,000 over 6 months.

Stephen R. Mitroff of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled ''Identifying and enhancing superior searching abilities.'' Total funding will be $397,281 over 48 months.

Brian C. Murray of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the World Wildlife Fund for a project entitled ''Forest Carbon Finance Summit.'' Total funding will be $34,227 over 4 months.

Timothy H. Profeta of Nicholas Institute has received an award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for a project entitled ''The Carbon Market Initiative at Duke University.'' Total funding will be $301,727 over 12 months.

Clara G. Muschkin of Child & Family Policy has received an award from the Educational Testing Service for a project entitled ''Data Use Application and Agreement.'' Total funding will be $9,000 over 1 month.

Timothy H. Profeta of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from Environmental Defense for a project entitled ''Fisheries Leadership & Sustainability Forum -- 2009.'' Total funding will be $263,499 over 9 months.

David H. Schanzer of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled ''Institute of Homeland Security Solutions.'' Total funding will be $ 463,563 over 27 months.

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