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David L. Banks of Statistical Sciences has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Adversarial Risk Analysis for Dynamic Network Routing." Total funding will be $125,850 over 12 months.

Robert P. Behringer of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Heterogeneity, Anisotropy, and Fluctuations in Dense Granular Materials." Total funding will be $365,000 over 36 months.

Emily S. Bernhardt of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Career: Potential for the recovery of biogeochemical function in degraded stream ecosystems." Total funding will be $12,758 over 12 months.

Staci D. Bilbo of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Early Life Infection, Neuroinflammation, and Memory." Total funding will be $889,200 over 24 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Bruce Caldwell of Economics has received an award from the Earhart Foundation for a project entitled "Fellowship Opportunities for the Center for the History of Political Economy." Total funding will be $40,000 over 12 months.

Vincent Conitzer of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "RI-Small: Computational Social Choice: Aggregating Preferences in Combinatorial Domains." Total funding will be $8,000 over 26 months.

Katherine J. Franz of Chemistry has received an award from the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation for a project entitled "Chemical Tools to Manipulate Metal-Catalyzed Oxidative Stress." Total funding will be $75,000 over 24 months.

Daniel J. Gauthier of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Low-Light-Level Nonlinear Optics via Recoil-Induced Resonance." Total funding will be $480,000 over 36 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Christina Gibson-Davis of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Brookings Institution for a project entitled "The Effects of Plant Closings on Children's Educational Achievement." Total funding will be $8,996 over 6 months.

Jiyong Hong of Chemistry has received an award from the University of Florida for a project entitled "Chemistry and Biology of Largazoles." Total funding will be $194,220 over 12 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Sonke Johnsen of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Midwater animal models: Optical measurement of metabolic transitions in transparent pelagic biota." Total funding will be $281,181 over 36 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Elizabeth C. Losos of the Organization for Tropical Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "FSML: Improving the research and education infrastructure at the Palo Verde Biological Station." Total funding will be $181,670 over 23 months.

Francois M. Lutzoni of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "A multilocus phylogenetic study of the Teloschistales (Ascomycota) and the evolution of symbiotic systems." Total funding will be $389,467 over 36 months.

Mauro Maggioni of Mathematics has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Multiscale methods for high-dimensional data, graphs and dynamical systems." Total funding will be $400,161 over 60 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Mauro Maggioni of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Mathematical Foundations of Multiscale Graph Representations and Interactive Learning." Total funding will be $8,000 over 24 months.

Jonathan Mattingly of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "FRG: Collaborative Proposal: Stochastics and Dynamics: Asymptotic Problems." Total funding will be $176,270 over 36 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Dewey G. McCafferty of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Bioorganic Mechanisms of Chromatin Modifying Enzymes." Total funding will be $643,208 over 24 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Kamesh Munagala of Computer Science has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Light-weight Near-optimal Stochastic Control Policies for Information Acquisition and Exploitation." Total funding will be $12,000 over 37 months.

Mohamed A. Noor of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Chromosomal Inversions and the Persistence of Species." Total funding will be $19,866 over 4 months.

Zhen-Ming Pei of Biology has received an award from the Monsanto Fund for a project entitled "Nitric Oxide and Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Arabidopsis." Total funding will be $227,297 over 36 months.

Kathleen Pryer of Biology has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Reconciling patterns of phylogenetic rate heterogenity in ferns with morphology, ecology and life history (Supplement)." Total funding will be $10,608 over 10 months.

Mark D. Rausher of Biology has received a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Thomas M. Chappell, for a project entitled "Genetic Architecture of Resistance in a Coevolving Plant-Fungus Pathosystem: Gene-for-Gene vs. Quantitative Resistance." Total funding will be $11,408 over 24 months.

Andrew T. Sweeting of Economics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Price Dynamics, Mechanism Choice and Mechanism Design in Markets for Perishable Goods." Total funding will be $259,216 over 36 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Christopher Walter of Physics has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Optimization of a large water Cherenkov detector for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory." Total funding will be $562,095 over 59 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Jun Yang of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "III-COR: Wide-Area Publish/Subscribe: Unifying Data Processing and Dissemination." Total funding will be $16,000 over 16 months.

Weitao Yang of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Development and Applications of Density Functional Methods for Large Systems." Total funding will be $580,000 over 48 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Divinity School

David C. Toole has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "Provide scholarships for the 2009 Summer Assistant Pastors Program.." Total funding will be $984,000 over 12 months.

David C. Toole has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "Rural United Methodists Continuing Education Events at Duke University Divinity School in 2009.." Total funding will be $250,000 over 12 months.

David C. Toole has received an award from the Duke Endowment for a project entitled "Field Education Operations Support." Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

Fuqua School of Business

Leslie Marx has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Applied Mechanism Design." Total funding will be $111,239 over 23 months.

Daniel Vermeer has received an award from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation for a project entitled "Duke Corporate Sustainability Initiative." Total funding will be $200,000 over 19 months.

Nicholas School of the Environment

Richard M. Anderson of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Method vs. Preference Learning in Decision Analytic Preference Assessment." Total funding will be $114,741 over 24 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

David W. Johnston of the Marine Laboratory has received an award from the International Fund for Animal Welfare for a project entitled "Assessing the Effects of Climate Variability and Global Change on Ice-Associated Seals in the North Atlantic." Total funding will be $29,983 over 12 months.

Gabriel Katul of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the Department of Agriculture for a project entitled "Linking Above-Canopy CO2 and Water Vapor Fluxes to Within Canopy Sources and Sinks in Complex Terrain." Total funding will be $75,000 over 6 months.

Randall Kramer of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Doctoral Dissertation Research:"Estimating the Costs of an Epidemiological Externality: Malaria Control in Uganda"." Total funding will be $14,980 over 12 months.

Michael K. Orbach of the Marine Laboratory has received an award from Conservation International for a project entitled "Synthesis of Results from the Marine Managed Areas Science Program." Total funding will be $51,958 over 14 months.

Stuart L. Pimm of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from Microsoft Research for a project entitled "Network Connectivity of Yosemite National Park's Meadow Habitats." Total funding will be $43,953 over 5 months.

Daniel Richter, Jr. of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the Department of Agriculture for a project entitled "Wood Energy's Missing Link: Architects and Energy Professionals." Total funding will be $56,027 over 12 months.

Avner Vengosh of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Environmental effects of the coal ash spill and remediation at Kingston TN." Total funding will be $105,393 over 11 months.

Pratt School of Engineering

Ana P. Barros of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "2009 JAMEX-RAJO-MEGHA Field Campaign in the Himalayas -Central Nepal Transects-." Total funding will be $59,979 over 12 months.

Susan L. Bonifield of the Office of Dean has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Duke Smart Home Program." Total funding will be $45,000 over 12 months.

Marc Deshusses of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Integrated Stream Restoration on Central Campus." Total funding will be $5,000 over 10 months.

Earl H. Dowell of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "NASA^* Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) Bloomhardt, Elizabeth." Total funding will be $30,000 over 12 months.

Linda P. Franzoni of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Natural Catastrophes: Rebuilding from Ruins." Total funding will be $15,000 over 10 months.

Devendra P. Garg of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Modular Testbed for Integrated Situational Awareness via a Heterogeneous Network in Complex Battlefield Environments." Total funding will be $69,980 over 12 months.

Henri P. Gavin of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Risk-Based Design of Seismic Isolation for Critical Facilities." Total funding will be $236,759 over 36 months.

Jeffrey T. Glass of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Distributed Learning: Professional Masters Program." Total funding will be $69,600 over 10 months.

Jeffrey T. Glass of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Development of a Micro Mass Spectromater and the Design of a Spectrometer-Based Distributed Sensor Network (REU^* Supplement)." Total funding will be $6,000 over 3 months.

Jeffrey T. Glass of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Development of a Microfabricated, Coded Aperture Mass Spectrometer (REU^* Supplement)." Total funding will be $6,000 over 23 months.

Craig S. Henriquez of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Laboratory Exercises in Quantitative Physiology." Total funding will be $9,400 over 10 months.

David F. Katz of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Methods to determine HIV Transport and Inactivation by Microbicide coating Layers." Total funding will be $429,000 over 24 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Robert E. Kielb of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Energy Engineering - Laboratory Innovations and Improvements." Total funding will be $9,000 over 10 months.

Tod A. Laursen of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Sandia National Laboratories for a project entitled "Local Smoothing Techniques and Consistent Sliding Formulation for Contact Analysis." Total funding will be $30,000 over 3 months.

Brian P. Mann of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU^* Supplement to GOALI: Fundamental Nonlinear Investigations of Dynamic Nanoindentation." Total funding will be $6,000 over 14 months.

Barry S. Myers of the Office of Dean has received an award from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for a project entitled "Immigration and Entreprenuerial Networks." Total funding will be $40,000 over 13 months.

Joseph C. Nadeau of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Preparations for the Hands-On Design Competitions of the 2010 ASCE Carolinas Conference Hosted by Duke." Total funding will be $5,000 over 10 months.

David Needham of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Faculty Development Workshop: "Course Enhancement Projects" Across the Pratt Curriculum." Total funding will be $5,000 over 10 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 $10,296 over 48 months.
This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Matthew S. Reynolds of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Radar and Digital Communications Laboratory for Undergraduates." Total funding will be $15,000 over 10 months.

Romit Roy Choudhury of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Student Travel Award for ACM Mobicom 2009." Total funding will be $15,000 over 6 months.

David E. Schaad of Civil Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Bridge to Market: a Sustainable Mobility Plan for Moving Agricultural Products over a Rain Swollen River in the Bolivian Highlands." Total funding will be $6,300 over 10 months.

Gregg E. Trahey of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Imaging of Cardiac Tissue." Total funding will be $2,889,907 over 59 months.

Lawrence N. Virgin of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Vibration and Buckling Characteristics of J-2X Rocket Nozzles." Total funding will be $30,000 over 12 months.

Lawrence N. Virgin of Civil Engineering has received an award from the United States^* Naval Academy for a project entitled "A New Approach to Dynamic Analysis of Slender Marine Cables." Total funding will be $28,041 over 7 months.

Mark R. Wiesner of Civil Engineering has received an award from Le Syndicat des Eaux d'Ile-de-France for a project entitled "Study and Characterization of the foulig deposit of nanofiltration membranes." Total funding will be $69,559 over 18 months.

Rebecca M. Willett of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Density Estimation and Anomaly Detection in large Social Networks." Total funding will be $299,997 over 36 months.

Lingchong You of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Coordinating Cell Killing by Communication: Biological Control and Cancer Therapy." Total funding will be $208,402 over 25 months.

Stefan Zauscher of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Design and Fabrication of Quartz Crystal Resonators for Nano-Mechano- Chemistry Research: An Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Experience for Undergraduate Students." Total funding will be $5,000 over 10 months.

School of Law

James P. Longest, Jr. has received an award from the Katoomba Group for a project entitled "Developing a Model Contract for Forest Management." Total funding will be $20,000 over 6 months.

University Administration & Centers

Hitomi Endo of Asian Pacific Studies has received an award from the Japan Foundation for a project entitled "Japan Foundation Speech Contest Support ($930.00)." Total funding will be $0 over 4 months.

James A. Kendrick of the Graduate School has received an award from the Genentech Foundation for a project entitled "Summer Research Opportunities Program." Total funding will be $13,000 over 2 months.

Gilbert W. Merkx of the Center for International Studies has received an award from the Department of Education for a project entitled "Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad." Total funding will be $73,407 over 18 months.

University Interdisciplinary Centers

Elizabeth O. Ananat of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the University of Notre Dame for a project entitled "The Impact of Early Access to Oral Contraception on the Wellbeing of Women & Children." Total funding will be $76,992 over 24 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Peter D. Feaver of Political Science has received an award from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation for a project entitled "Junior and Interdisciplinary Faces of International Security." Total funding will be $21,000 over 12 months.

Jennifer M. Groh of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "CRCNS: Integrative Information Processing." Total funding will be $341,250 over 60 months.

Timothy H. Profeta of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from the National Religious Partnership for the Environment for a project entitled "Climate & Poverty Project 2009." Total funding will be $99,891 over 12 months.

Susan S. Reif of Center for Health Policy has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Collaborative HIV/AIDS Prevention and Mental Health Treatment Project." Total funding will be $359,000 over 24 months.

David H. Schanzer of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled "Internet Radicalization Workshop." Total funding will be $21,848 over 6 months.

Anthony So of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "The Political Economy of Tobacco Control in Southeast Asia." Total funding will be $14,040 over 12 months. This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

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