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05/2009

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.

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