February 2005
Dartmouth researchers were awarded $7.5 million during February, including $4.1 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:
Akay, M. - Engineering Sciences
- Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research
- "2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering"
Ayres, M. - Biological Sciences
- United States Department of Agriculture
- "Southern Pine Beetle: The Causes of Transitions between Endemic and Epidemic Conditions"
15-Month Award
and
- "Temperature-Driven Modeling for Prediction of Relative Abundance of Bark Beetle Life Stages"
Bailey-Kellogg, C. - Computer Science
- National Science Foundation
- "CAREER: Sparse Spatial Reasoning for High-Throughput Protein Structure Determination"
- 4-Year Award
Baird, A. - Psychology
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- "Cortico-Limbic Development in Adolescence"
- 2-Year Award
Baker, I. - Engineering Sciences
Bel Bruno, J. - Chemistry
- National Science Foundation
- "REU Site: Program in Molecular Materials and Nanotechnology"
- 3-Year Award
Chambers, K. A. – Community and Family Medicine
- University of Michigan
- “Comprehensive Cancer CCOPs Research Base"?
Compton, D. - Biochemistry
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- "Organization of the Mammalian Mitotic Spindle"
- 4-Year Award
Dietrich, A. - Community and Family Medicine
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- "Depression and Primary Care Initiative"
- 2-Year Award
Green, A. and Drake, R. E. - Psychiatry
- Janssen Pharmaceutical Inc.
- "Risperdal Consta in the Treatment of Comorbid Alcohol Use Disorder and Schizophrenia"
Hart, K. - Hood Museum
- National Endowment for the Arts
- "The Currency of Sculpture"
and
- LEF New England
- "Fred Wilson Installation/Residency"
Holmes, G. - Medicine
- Smithkline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
- "An Open-label Evaluation of LAMICTAL"
Jiang, S. - Engineering Sciences
- National Cancer Institute
- "Dynamic Pressure-Enhanced Near-Infrared Breast Cancer Imaging"
- 4-Year Award
Kasper, L. - Medicine
- TevaPharmaceutical Industries
- "Role of in CNS Trafficking of GA T Regulatory Cells"
Koval, K. - Orthopaedics
- Orthopaedic Research Foundation
- "Three Treatments for Unstable Distal Radium Fractures - Prospective Randomized Study"
- 3-Year Award
Lawrence, M. - Hopkins Center
- National Endowment for the Arts
- "Access to Artistic Excellence"
Lusardi, A. - Economics
- University of Michigan
- "Planning, Financial Literacy, and Retirement Wealth"
- Prime-SSA
McGrath, S. - Engineering Sciences
- United States Army Research Institute for Environmental Medicine
- "Acute Mountain Sickness Electronic Data Capture System"
Pipas, J. - Medicine
- Bristol- Myers Squibb
- "Phase II Trial of Erbitux, Radiotherapy and Twice Weekly Gemcitabine in Patients with Adencocarcinoma of the Pancreas"
Ray, L. - Engineering Sciences Sound Innovations Incorporated
- "An Active Noise Reduction Communication Earplug for Helicopter Crew"
- Prime-DOD
Samwick, A. – Economics
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- “Tiebout Conference"?
Saykin, A. - Psychiatry
- Welch-Allyn
- "Neuro-Ophthalmologic Predictors of Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease"
Sheldon, L. - Physiology
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- "Arsenic, Histone Modifications, and Transcription"
- 5-Year Award
Shworak, N. and Palac, R. - Medicine
- National Institute on Aging
- "3ost1 Deficiency and Valve Disease"
- 4-Year Award
Smith, T. - Physics and Astronomy
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
- "Support for the JLab Data Acquisition (CODA): PCI-CAMAC, PCI-VME and Linux in the Front End"
Szwergold, B. - Medicine
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- "Enzymatic Deglycation of Nonenzymatic Glycation Products"
- 2-Year Award
Welch, E. and Fisher, E. - Medicine
- National Cancer Institute
- "Assessing Treatment-Related Harms in Prostate Cancer"
- 3-Year Award
Wyman, C. - Engineering Sciences
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
-
"Supply of Pretreated Biomass for Surface Characterization and Enzymatic Digestion Studies"
-
Prime-DOE
Yeo, K. – Pathology
Foote, R. - Medicine
- Roche Laboratories, Inc.
- "Detection of Ischemia by Changes in Natriuretic Peptides"
- 2-Year Award
Award commitment from the sponsoring agency is for a single year unless otherwise indicated.