May
Arts and Sciences
Olumayowa T. Adegboyega of Evolutionary Anthropology has received an award from the American Association of Biological Anthropologists for a project entitled “AABA Cobb Professional Development Grant.” Total funding will be $7,500 over 24 months.
David Beratan of Chemistry has received an award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for a project entitled “Using Multidimensional Spectroscopy and Machine Learning to Map Electronic Coupling Pathways.” Total funding will be $180,000 over 24 months.
Emily Derbyshire of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project entitled “Chemical Biology Strategies to Resolve Plasmodium Heat Shock Protein Function.” Total funding will be $2,613,900 over 60 months.
Emily Derbyshire of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project entitled “Understanding and Targeting Host Processes Essential to Plasmodium Infection.” Total funding will be $2,570,648 over 60 months.
Thavolia Glymph of History has received an award from The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens for a project entitled “The Rogers Distinguished Fellowship in Nineteenth-Century American History at The Huntington.” Total funding will be $75,000 over 12 months.
Alexander A. Kiselev Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Small Scale and Singularity Formation in Fluids.” Total funding will be $450,000 over 36 months.
Tamar Kushnir of Psychology and Neuroscience has received an award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for a project entitled “The Impact of Gossip on Children's Feelings of Belongingness.” Total funding will be $210,372 over 36 months.
Sarah E. Little of Evolutionary Anthropology has received an award from the American College of Sports Medicine Foundation for a project entitled “A Novel Translational Model to Investigate Exercise and Osteoimmune Regulation of Bone Biology .” Total funding will be $10,000 over 12 months.
Kartik Nayak of Computer Science has received a Career award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Scalable Consensus Protocol Design with Accountability and Privacy under Practical Failure Models.” Total funding be $603,720 over 60 months.
Herman Pontzer of Evolutionary Anthropology has received an award from the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation for a project entitled “Maternal energetic strategies during human pregnancy.” Total funding will be $19,980 over 23 months.
Jerome P. Reiter of Statistical Science has received an award from the Georgia Institute of Technology under a prime award from the US Army Medical Research and Development Command for a project entitled “Synthetic Data for the National Center for Health Statistics.” Total funding will be $62,463 over 8 months.
David R. Sherwood of Biology has received an award from the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research for a project entitled “Determining how basement membranes stretch and recover to support tissues.” Total funding will be $223,800 over 36 months.
Anselm G. Vossen of Physics has received an award from Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under a prime award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “dRICH R&D FY23.” Total funding will be $45,000 over 12 months.
Mike West of Statistical Science has received an award from Systems & Technology Research LLC under a prime award from the Department of Interior for a project entitled “Multi- Scale Bayesian Dynamic Flow Models for Network Behaviour Monitoring.” Total funding will be $110,000 over 48 months.
Hongkai Zhao of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Learning Partial Differential Equation (PDE) and Beyond.” Total funding will be $249,959 over 36 months.
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In addition Tasseli E. McKay of Sociology has a new award that may be found under the listings for University Interdisciplinary Centers.
Divinity School
The Divinity School had no new awards to report for the month of May 2023.
Fuqua School of Business
The Fuqua School pf Business had no new awards to report for the month of May 2023. However, Mark B. McClellan has an award that may be found under the listings for University Interdisciplinary Centers.
Nicholas School of the Environment
Shineng Hu of ECS Division has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “North Pacific Marine Heatwave-Atmospheric River Interactions: Physical Mechanisms and Downstream Climate Impacts.” Total funding will be $478,888 over 36 months.
John R. Poulsen of ESP Division has received an award from Primate Conservation, Inc. for a project entitled “Consequences of disturbance on plant-lemur ecological networks in northeast Madagascar.” Total funding will be $1,800 over 14 months.
Andrew J. Read of MSC Division has received an award from HDR, Inc. under a prime award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Atlantic Behavioral Response Study II - Continuously Active Sonar.” Total funding will be $599,863 over 15 months.
Pratt School of Engineering
Lynda Catherine Brinson of MEMS a has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “DMREF/Collaborative Research: A Data- Centric Approach for Accelerating the Design of Future Nanostructured Polymers and Composites Systems.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 4 months.
Stefano Curtarolo of the Center for Autonomous Materials Design has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Hyberbolic Plasmonic High-Entropy Carbo-nitrides.” Total funding will be $1,098,973 over 36 months.
Jessilyn Dunn of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a project entitled “Mobile technologies to screen for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in asymptomatic adults.” Total funding will be $3,150,533 over 60 months.
Patrick L. Ferguson of CEE has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill under a prime award from the NC Policy Collaboratory for a project entitled “Collection of Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF) samples from North Carolina Fire Stations to Create a PFAS Source Material Archive.” Total funding will be $48,590 over 24 months.
Jeffrey L. Krolik of ECE has received an award from MIT Lincoln Laboratory under a prime award from the Department of Defense for a project entitled “HF Towed-Array Calibration and Beamforming.” Total funding will be $103,281 over 12 months.
Norbert M. Linke of the Duke Quantum Center has received an award from the University of Maryland, College Park under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “NSF Convergence Accelerator Phase II.” Total funding will be $230,401 over 3 months.
Natalia Litchinitser of ECE has received an award from the University of Brescia under a prime award from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for a project entitled “ metasuRfacE baSed Platforms fOr devices aND pErsonnel pRotection (RESPONDER).” Total funding will be $110,814 over 36 months.
Willie Padilla of ECE has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Metamaterials as a platform for the development of novel materials for energy applications.” Total funding will be $150,000 over 10 months.
Henry Pfister of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF CIF: Small: Neural Estimation of Statistical Divergences: Theoretical Foundations and Applications to Communication Systems.” Total funding will be $399,957 over 36 months.
Henry Pfister of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: CIF: Medium: QODED: Quantum codes Optimized for the Dynamics between Encoded Computation and Decoding using Classical Coding Techniques.” Total funding will be $8,000 over 5 months.
Tania Roy of ECE has received a Career award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Scalable monolithic integration of Graphene/MoS2/Graphene artificial neurons and synapses for accelerated machine learning.” Total funding will be $131,739 over 22 months.
Sanford School of Public Policy
John J. Ewing has received an award from NORC at the University of Chicago under a prime award from the US Agency for International Development for a project entitled “The People's Republic of China's Economic Slowdown Trajectory: What are the development assistance and humanitarian implications for USAID partner countries.” Total funding will be $154,995 over 7 months.
Rachel A. George has received an award from NORC at the University of Chicago under a prime award from the US Agency for International Development for a project entitled “USAID Fellowships Program Assessment.” Total funding will be $88,886 over 6 months.
Andrew C. Nurkin has received an award from the North Carolina Humanities Council for a project entitled “1986 Durham Anti-Discrimination Proclamation Oral History Interviews.” Total funding will be $2,000 over 2 months.
School of Law
The School of Law had no new awards to report for the month of May 2023. However, Lee J. Tiedrich has an award that may be found under the listings for University Interdisciplinary Centers.
University Administration & Centers
University Administration & Centers had no new awards to report for the month of May 2023.
University Interdisciplinary Centers
Marianne E. Hamilton Lopez of the Margolis Center has received an award from the Food and Drug Administration for a project entitled “Cooperative Agreement to Support Regulatory Research Related to the 2022 Prescription Drug User Fee Act and Biosimilar User Fee Act (U19).” Total funding will be $950,781 over 64 months.
Mark B. McClellan of the Margolis Center has received an award from the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. for a project entitled “COVID Collab 2023 Testing Work.” Total funding will be $10,000 over 1 month.
Tasseli E. McKay of DUPRI has received an award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for a project entitled “Institutional Contact and Family Violence in an Era of Mass Incarceration.” Total funding will be $247,002 over 24 months.
Lydia P. Olander of the Nicholas Institute has received an award from North Carolina State University under a prime award from the U.S. Geological Survey for a project entitled “Department of the Interior Nature-Based Solutions Roadmap.” Total funding will be $81,827 over 12 months.
Lee J. Tiedrich of Science & Society has received an award from the Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numerique for a project entitled “Innovation and Commercialization.” Total funding will be $31,967 over 8 months