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Shivnath Babu of Computer Science has received a supplement to his CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, which is for a project entitled "Querying and Controlling Systems." Total funding for the supplement will be $8,000 over 9 months.

Edward J. Balleisen of History has received an award from the American Council of Learned Societies for a project entitled "Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship." Total funding will be $75,000 over 12 months.

David L. Banks of Statistical Sciences has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled "Adversarial Risk Analysis." Total funding will be $5,500 over 2 months.

Steffen A. Bass of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "NEARLY PERFECT LIQUIDS 2009: From Quark-Gluon Plasma to Ultra-Cold Atoms." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

James O. Berger of Statistical Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Supplement to Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute." Total funding will be $1,064,250 over 39 months.

Emily S. Bernhardt of Biology has received an award from the University of Montana for a project entitled "The Salmonid Rivers Observatory Network (SaRON): Relating Habitat and Quality to Salmon Productivity for Pacific Rim Rivers." Total funding will be $33,300 over 12 months.

Patrick Charbonneau of Chemistry has received an award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities for a project entitled "Rod Microphase Self-Assembly." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Christine Drea of Evolutionary Anthropology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Olfactory Communication in Primates." Total funding will be $5,000 over 14 months.

Fernando R. Fernholz of the Duke Center for International Development has received an award from Robert Nathan Associates, Inc. for a project entitled "Guyana Tax Consulting Nathan's - Task Order No. 6." Total funding will be $21,111 over 1 month.

Margaret R. Greer of Romance Languages has received an award from the American Council of Learned Societies for a project entitled "Manos Teatrales (Theatrical Hands): Cyber-Paleography and a Virtual World of Spanish Golden Age Theater." Total funding will be $85,000 over 12 months.

Ahmad R. Hariri of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institute of Mental Health for a project entitled "Development of Amygdala-Prefrontal Interactions." Total funding will be $165,974 over 13 months.

Alexander Hartemink of Computer Science has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "New Computational Methods for Elucidating Transcriptional Regulation During the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle." Total funding will be $499,999 over 24 months.

Jiyong Hong of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "PKC zeta-Specific Inhibitors for Treatment of Methamphetamine Addiction." Total funding will be $390,000 over 23 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Richard F. Kay of Evolutionary Anthropology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Paleontological Recovery Miocene South American Fossil Monkeys And Other Mammals: Phylogeny, Adaptation And Community Structure." Total funding will be $172,470 over 36 months.

Kenneth C. Land of Sociology has received an award from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health for a project entitled "Updated and Projected Child Well-Being Indices for the San Francisco Bay Area and the State of California." Total funding will be $26,010 over 4 months.

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Increasing research opportunities for undergraduates: a program for Native Americans and Pacific Islander students." Total funding will be $1,124,321 over 36 months.

Kamesh Munagala of Computer Science has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a project entitled "Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship." Total funding will be $50,000 over 24 months.

Mohamed A. Noor of Biology has received a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Laurie S. Stevison, for a project entitled "Male-mediated effects on female germline recombination rates." Total funding will be $15,000 over 24 months.

Mark D. Rausher of Biology has received a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Robin Hopkins, for a project entitled "An investigation of pleiotropy as an adaptive constraint using flower color change in Phlox drummondii (Polemoniaceae)." Total funding will be $13,453 over 24 months.

Gregory A. Wray of Biology has received a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student David A. Garfield, for a project entitled "Selection, drift, and constraint in the evolution of a developmental regulatory gene network." Total funding will be $14,337 over 24 months.

Weitao Yang of Chemistry has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Theory and Design of Molecular Electronics for Sensor Applications." Total funding will be $100,000 over 60 months.

Divinity School

Richard Payne of the Institute on Care at the End of Life has received an award from the United States^* Cancer Pain Relief Committee for a project entitled "ICEOL Infrastructure Support." Total funding will be $41,250 over 12 months.

Fuqua School of Business

Aaron K. Chatterji has received an award from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for a project entitled "Fellowship To Support Junior Faculty With Research In Entrepreneurship." Total funding will be $50,000 over 32 months.

Aaron K. Chatterji has received an award from the Tobin Project, Inc. for a project entitled "The Effect of Import Competition on Corporate Political Activity and the Demand for Regulation." Total funding will be $5,000 over 8 months.

Christine Moorman has received an award from Pennsylvania State University for a project entitled "Managing Knowledge and Learning B2B Marketing." Total funding will be $20,000 over 2 months.

Nicholas School of the Environment

Richard M. Anderson of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the Water Resources Research Institute for a project entitled "How Explicit Identification and Valuation of Ecosystem Services can Improve Management of Oyster and Oyster Reef Restor." Total funding will be $34,862 over 12 months.

William L. Chameides of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for a project entitled "Doris Duke Conservation Fellows Program." Total funding will be $238,607 over 25 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Laboratory has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Technician." Total funding will be $192,778 over 11 months.

Richard T. Di Giulio of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a project entitled "Superfund Basic Research Center." Total funding will be $377,442 over 11 months.

Richard B. Forward, Jr. of the Marine Laboratory has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU^*: Undergraduate Research in Estuarine and Coastal Marine Systems." Total funding will be $334,724 over 36 months.

Joel N. Meyer of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "NIH^* Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program." Total funding will be $225,600 over 23 months.

Sari Palmroth of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the Forest Service for a project entitled "Effect of Nitrogen Fertilization on Carbon Cycling and Sequestration Under Current and Elevated Atmospheric CO2." Total funding will be $138,996 over 36 months.

Daniel Richter, Jr. of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from Weyerhaeuser Corporation for a project entitled "Evaluating Coarse Woody Debris Levels in a Loblolly Pine Plantation Managed for Biofuel Production." Total funding will be $13,000 over 8 months.

Varun Swamy of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the Conservation, Food & Health Foundation for a project entitled "Continuation of a basin-wide study of the effects of hunting-induced mammal extinctions on forest regeneration in the Peruvian Amazon & training Peruvian students in ecological research techniques." Total funding will be $25,000 over 12 months.

Dean L. Urban of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the Water Resources Research Institute for a project entitled "Assessing the Impacts of Watershed Development History and Levels of Hydrologic Alteration on Stream Ecosystem Health in the NC Piedmont.." Total funding will be $49,891 over 12 months.

Pratt School of Engineering

Roni Avissar of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Supplement- Processing, Analysis, and Interpretation of the Observations Conducted with the Duke University Helicopter Observation Platform During CLASSIC 2007." Total funding will be $50,298 over 1 month.

April Brown of Engineering, Office of the Dean, has received an award from the Medtronic Foundation for a project entitled "Medtronic Undergraduate and Graduate Scholars in Engineering." Total funding will be $257,400 over 36 months.

Chuan-Hua Chen of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities for a project entitled "Beetle Inspired Fuel Cell Water Management." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

Stefano Curtarolo of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "PECASE: Fundamental Thermodynamic Problems at the Nanoscale, order-disorder transitions in precipitates and alloyed nano-clusters." Total funding will be $999,995 over 60 months.

John E. Dolbow of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Numerical Methods for Material Systems with Microstructure: Addressing Structural Response and Multiscale Couplings." Total funding will be $49,999 over 30 months.

Devendra P. Garg of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Optimization of Robotic Swarm Composition in Micro Unmanned Systems for Military Applications." Total funding will be $226,285 over 23 months.

Jungsang Kim of Electrical Engineering has received a supplement to his CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, which is for a project entitled "Ion-Trap "Integrated Circuit Technology for Quantum Information Processor." Total funding for the supplement will be $6,750 over 9 months.

William M. Reichert of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "EPC Adhesion to Teflon-AF and ePTFE Vascular Grafts." Total funding will be $936,000 over 48 months.

Tuan Vo-Dinh of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics has received an award from Immunolight, LLC for a project entitled "Photonic Studies of Emission, Communication, and Signal Processes in Cellular Systems." Total funding will be $762,166 over 60 months.

Rebecca M. Willett of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "Computer Science Study Group Phase III: Photon-Limited Hyperspectral Target Recognition." Total funding will be $240,000 over 12 months.

Benjamin B. Yellen of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU^* Supplement - Imaginary Magnetic Tweezers for Biophysical Force Measurements." Total funding will be $6,000 over 5 months.

School of Law

No new awards for May.

Univ Administration & Centers

Martha Putallaz of the Talent Indentification Program has received an award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation for a project entitled "Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Outreach Grant Year 5." Total funding will be $86,711 over 12 months.

David R. Sorensen of Duke Press has received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle." Total funding will be $25,000 over 2 months.

University Interdisciplinary Centers

Elizabeth Brannon of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "The Organization of Mathematical Knowledge in Early Childhood and Adulthood." Total funding will be $50,810 over 24 months.

Subhashini Chandrasekharan of the Institute for Geome Sciences & Policy has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Intellectual Property Challenges for the Development of Genomic Diagnostics." Total funding will be $156,000 over 24 months.

Gary Gereffi of the Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness has received an award from the Inter-American Development Bank for a project entitled "Institutional Strengthening and Identification of Best Practices for the Attraction of Offshoring Activities to Latin America." Total funding will be $40,000 over 8 months.

Gary Gereffi of the Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness has received an award from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for a project entitled "U.S. Competitiveness and Global Innovation." Total funding will be $30,000 over 9 months.

Gary Gereffi of the Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness has received an award from Environmental Defense for a project entitled "Hybrid Drive Trains for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Trucks." Total funding will be $20,000 over 2 months.

Rick Hoyle of Child & Family Policy has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Brain Imaging the Effects of High Sensation Value Anti-Drug PSAs." Total funding will be $722,211 over 24 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Sherman A. James of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a project entitled "After the Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Health Legacy of the 1960s Civil Rights Era in a Southern Community." Total funding will be $334,999 over 60 months.

Edward Skloot of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for a project entitled "Philanthropy and Technology Project." Total funding will be $60,000 over 11 months.

Marty G. Woldorff of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Studies of Attention Using Combined ERPs and fMRI." Total funding will be $1,941,600 over 56 months.

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