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Susan C. Alberts of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Genes, environment and gene expression in a wild primate population." Total funding will be $641,635 over 36 months.

David L. Banks of Statistical Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Models for Network Evolution: A Study of Growth and Structure in the Wikipedia." Total funding will be $90,360 over 24 months.

Philip N. Benfey of Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Unraveling transcriptional subnetworks of Arabidopsis ground tissue." Total funding will be $101,764 over 24 months.

Bruce Caldwell of Economics has received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "Teaching the History of Political Economy." Total funding will be $148,416 over 15 months.

Avshalom Caspi of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Social Inequality and Children's Mental Health." Total funding will be $488,916 over 48 months.

Jeffrey S. Chase of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CSR-VCM: Foundations for a Programmable Self-Managing Hosting Center ( REU^* Supplement)." Total funding will be $8,000 over 7 months.

Landon P. Cox of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "NetSE:Small:Privacy-preserving Architectures for Social Networking Services." Total funding will be $498,176 over 36 months.

Daniel J. Gauthier of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Border-Collision Bifurcations in Cardiac Muscle." Total funding will be $25,367 over 1 month.

Jehanne Gheith of Slavic and Eurasian Studies has received an award from the National Council for Eurasian & East European Research for a project entitled "A Dog Named Stalin: Memory, Trauma, and the Gulag." Total funding will be $19,000 over 24 months.

Robert B. Jackson of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Quantifying the Importance of Deep and Shallow Roots for Plant Water Use and Redistribution Using a Novel Cave System." Total funding will be $317,000 over 36 months.

Martha Putallaz of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from the American Psychological Foundation for a project entitled "Esther Katz Rosen Fellowship." Total funding will be $25,000 over 12 months.

Arthur J. Shaw of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled " REVSYS: Systematics and evolution of the "Pacific Rim Clade" of sphagnum section subsecunda (Bryophyta)." Total funding will be $620,008 over 36 months.

Barbara R. Shaw of Chemistry has received an award from Pfizer, Inc. for a project entitled "Modified and Unmodified Oligonucleotide Sequences." Total funding will be $88,663 over 17 months.

Frank A. Sloan of Economics has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Visual Impairment, Treatment and Effects on the Elderly." Total funding will be $406,300 over 11 months.

Alessandro Tarozzi of Economics has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Fighting Malaria with Microfinance: Evidence from India." Total funding will be $156,135 over 24 months.

Duncan Thomas of Economics has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Economic Well-being in the Aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami." Total funding will be $125,116 over 23 months.

Anton Tonchev of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Precision photo-induced cross-section measurements using the monoenergetic and polarized gamma beam at HIGS." Total funding will be $900,000 over 36 months.

Werner Tornow of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Neutron Induced Reactions on Specific Nuclei." Total funding will be $150,000 over 36 months.

Rytas J. Vilgalys of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity of the central Guiana Shield." Total funding will be $260,000 over 36 months.

Ross Widenhoefer of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Synthesis and Study of Cationic Gold (I) Alkene and Allene Complexes." Total funding will be $435,000 over 36 months.

Divinity School

The Divinity School had no new awards for the month of August 2009.

Fuqua School of Business

Jonathon N. Cummings has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "A Socio-Technical Framework for Identifying Team Science Collaborations that could Benefit From Cyberinfrastructure." Total funding will be $183,778 over 24 months.

Nicholas School of the Environment

Lisa M. Campbell of the Marine Lab has received a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for graduate student Myriah L. Cornwell, for a project entitled "Citizen-Based Sea Turtle Conservation Across the First World-Third World Divide." Total funding will be $14,926 over 12 months.

Lisa M. Campbell of the Marine Lab has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Change in Coastal Communities: Perspectives from Down East." Total funding will be $4,841 over 6 months.

Lisa M. Campbell of the Marine Lab has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Change in Coastal Communities: perspectives from Down East." Total funding will be $4,454 over 6 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Navy Ship Time on R/V Cape Hatteras, CY 2009." Total funding will be $47,800 over 5 months.

Bruce H. Corliss of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V Cape Hatteras." Total funding will be $17,000 over 12 months.

Ari S. Friedlaender of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a project entitled "North Pacific beaked whale habitat analysis using Platforms of Opportunity (POP) data." Total funding will be $2,400 over 13 months.

Randall Kramer of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received a fellowship award from the Department of Transportation for graduate student Joseph M. Jakuta, for a project entitled "Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship - Career in Transportation." Total funding will be $1,500 over 12 months.

Joel N. Meyer of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco International, Inc. for a project entitled "Do TSNAs and PAHs interact synergistically to cause DNA^* damage and promote carcinogenesis?" Total funding will be $25,000 over 12 months.

Joel N. Meyer of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the American Federation for Aging Research for a project entitled "Mitochondrial DNA^* damage in Aging: Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Neurodegeneration, & Damage Removal in the whole organism model Caenorhabditis elegans." Total funding will be $2,000 over 6 months.

Andrew J. Read of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Marine Fisheries Service for a project entitled "Foraging behavior of pilot whales in the Cape Hatteras Special Research Area." Total funding will be $20,000 over 14 months.

Curtis J. Richardson of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from Fish and Wildlife for a project entitled "Carbon Sequstration Benefits of Peatland Restoration." Total funding will be $395,542 over 39 months.

Martin D. Smith of Environmental Sciences & Policy has received an award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a project entitled "Measuring the Effects of Hypoxia on the Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Fishery." Total funding will be $117,256 over 48 months.

Pratt School of Engineering

John D. Albertson of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled "Identifying Controls and Predictability of Extreme Drought Persistence from Remote Sensing Data." Total funding will be $397,534 over 36 months.

Cameron R. Bass of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the United States^* Army for a project entitled "Assessment of helmet sensor performance." Total funding will be $40,934 over 5 months.

David J. Brady of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: New Technology to Measure Oganismal Color Phenotypes: 3D, Hyperspectral, UV-Vis, Virtual Reality Models of Organismal Coloration." Total funding will be $110,821 over 36 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "The Summit of NAE Grand Challenges." Total funding will be $30,000 over 6 months.

Lawrence Carin of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Rice University for a project entitled "Opportunistic Sensing." Total funding will be $26,552 over 12 months.

Krishnendu Chakrabarty of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "SHF:Small:Design Tools and Optimization Methods for Digital Microfluidic Biochips." Total funding will be $275,000 over 36 months.

Krishnendu Chakrabarty of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Semiconductor Research Corp. for a project entitled "Optimazation of Test and Diagnosis Infrastructure for Multicore Chips." Total funding will be $120,000 over 36 months.

Ashutosh Chilkoti of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Detection of Biomolecules by Nanoscale Plasmon Ruler." Total funding will be $429,000 over 24 months.

Marc Deshusses of Civil Engineering has received an award from the University of California - Riverside for a project entitled "Wearable Nanosensor Array For Rreal-Time Monitoring of Diesel and Gasoline Exaust Exposure - Scope in Deshusses' Lab." Total funding will be $165,450 over 24 months.

Warren M. Grill of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Temporal Patterns of Deep Brain Stimulation." Total funding will be $40,834 over 5 months.

Joseph A. Izatt of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Real Time Intraoperative SDOCT for Vitreoretinal Surgery." Total funding will be $419,368 over 24 months.

Joseph A. Izatt of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Advanced Biophotonic Structured Illumination Imaging System Design." Total funding will be $316,497 over 36 months.

Tod A. Laursen of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the Sandia National Laboratories for a project entitled "Local Smoothing Techniques and Consistent Sliding Formulation for Contact Analysis." Total funding will be $45,000 over 14 months.

Barry S. Myers of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the University of Virginia - Charlottesville for a project entitled "Assessment of High Rate and Military Biomechanics." Total funding will be $385,971 over 8 months.

Kathryn R. Nightingale of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Quantifying Liver Fibrosis with Acoustic Radiation Force." Total funding will be $51,344 over 12 months.

William M. Reichert of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Biosensor Biocompatibility." Total funding will be $2,055,462 over 58 months.

Romit Roy Choudhury of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Platys: A Journey from Position to Place." Total funding will be $357,999 over 48 months.

Romit Roy Choudhury of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Transmission Re-Ordering in Wireless Networks: Protocols and Practice." Total funding will be $249,991 over 36 months.

David R. Smith of the Center for Metamaterials & Integrated Plasmonics has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Advanced MetaCrystal Media for Aerospace Applications." Total funding will be $332,149 over 5 months.

Kishor S. Trivedi of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU^*: Empirical Study of Bug Types in Problem Reports." Total funding will be $8,046 over 13 months.

Kishor S. Trivedi of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU^*: Propagating Uncertainty through Stochastic Analytic Models." Total funding will be $8,046 over 13 months.

Lawrence N. Virgin of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "NEW FEATURES IN NON-SMOOTH DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS: EXPERIMENTS AND ANALYSIS." Total funding will be $374,516 over 36 months.

Mark R. Wiesner of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for a project entitled "Development of Nanoparticle Dispersion Measurements and Protocols for EHS." Total funding will be $194,000 over 36 months.

Mark R. Wiesner of Civil Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "French American Young Engineering Scientists Symposium 2009." Total funding will be $45,000 over 12 months.

School of Law

Carolyn McAllaster has received an award from the Mary Norris Preyer Fund for a project entitled "Legal Services Project for Indigent HIV-infected Clients in North Carolina." Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

University Administration & Centers

Betty Jones of the Graduate School has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Graduate Research Fellowship Program." Total funding will be $486,000 over 59 months.

David Sorensen of Duke University 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 $209,999 over 36 months.

University Interdisciplinary Centers

Robert M. Cook-Deegan of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy has received a program-project grant award from the National Human Genome Research Institute, for a program entitled "Center for Public Genomics." Total funding will be $517,044 over 8 months. It includes the following projects:

- a project headed by Robert M. Cook-Deegan, which will receive total funding of $19,260.

- a project headed by Robert M. Cook-Deegan, which will receive total funding of $220,862.

- a project headed by Arti K. Rai, which will receive total funding of $49,578.

- a project headed by Jerome H. Reichman, which will receive total funding of $28,941.

- a project headed by Huntington F. Willard, which will receive total funding of $129,407.

- An additional $68,996 is attributed to the program. This includes funds awarded for projects outside of Duke, as well as funds not yet assigned to projects.

Kenneth A. Dodge of Child & Family Policy has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Development and Prevention of Substance Abuse Problems." Total funding will be $3,515,031 over 58 months.

Bruce R. Donald of the Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Training Program." Total funding will be $180,716 over 12 months.

Joel L. Fleishman of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Annenberg Foundation for a project entitled "Annenberg Grant." Total funding will be $100,000 over 37 months.

Jennifer M. Groh of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Visual Responses in the Monkey Inferior Colliculus." Total funding will be $101,452 over 36 months.

Mark R. Leary of the Social Science Research Institute has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Self-compassion and Well-being in the Elderly." Total funding will be $82,352 over 24 months.

Alexander Pfaff Talikoff of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the Department of Agriculture for a project entitled "Coordination of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme special publication^* entitled Amazon and Global Change, on the results of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere (LBA) research project in the Amazon, Brazil." Total funding will be $94,650 over 13 months.

Kathryn Whetten of the Center for Health Policy has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Orphans." Total funding will be $582,004 over 24 months.

Anatoliy I. Yashin of Sociology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "New Methods of Studying Aging, Health and Longevity: Combining Longitudinal Data." Total funding will be $779,421 over 23 months.

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