July 2007

Dartmouth researchers were awarded $14 million during July, including $5 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:

Baker, Ian - Material Science & Mechanical Engineering

Department of Energy
Structure/Property Relationships in High Strength Nanostructured Spinodal FeNiMnAl Alloys

Borsuk, Mark, Howarth, R., King, A., and Ranco, D. - Biological Sciences

Environmental Protection Agency
Promoting Sustainable Pollutant Control Policies through Consideration of Social and Biological Indicators: An Application to Mercury Policy in New England
3 – year award

Bostick, Benjamin, Jackson, B., Kaste, J., and Renshaw, C. - Earth Sciences

United States Department of Agriculture
Establishing a Quantitative Link Between Episodic Mineral Transformations, Speciation, and the Transport of Arsenical Pesticides in Soils
3 – year award

Brenner, Charles and Gerber, S. - Genetics

National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Quantitative Analysis of RING E3 Ubiquitin Ligases

Ernst, Patricia - Genetics

National Hearth, Lung and Blood Institute
Mll Function in the Maintenance of the Blood-Forming System

Fesen, Robert - Physics & Astronomy

Space Telescope Science Institute
A Study of SN Ejecta in the Core-Collapse Supernova Remnant G292.0+1.8: Cas A's Older Cousin
2 – year award

Hartov, Alexander and Heaney, J. - Environmental Sciences & Engineering

National Cancer Institute
Prostate Cancer Screening With Electrical Impedance Measurements

Kisselev, Alexei - Pharmacology & Toxicology

National Cancer Institute
Different Active Sites of the Proteasome as Drug Targets in Cancer

Llewellyn-Thomas, Hilary - Community & Family Medicine

Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
Health Decision Resource
9 – year award

Lynch, Kristina and LaBelle, J. - Physics & Astronomy

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Cascades-2: Reflight of "The Changing Aurora: in Situ and Camera Analysis of Dynamic Electron Precipitation Structures"

McAllister, Thomas and Saykin, A. - Psychiatry

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Effect of Biomechanical Force Exposure on Cognition and Brain Activation in TBI

O'Toole, George - Microbiology

National Science Foundation
Biofilm Development by Pseudomonas fluorescens

Pellacini, Fabio - Computer Science

Cornell University
A Tool for Visualizing and Analyzing Eye Tracking Data for Online Search

Robbins, David - Pharmacology & Toxicology

National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Characterization of Sonic Hedgehog Biogenesis
5 – year award

Sanchez, Yolanda and Wood, M. - Pharmacology & Toxicology

Children's Tumor Foundation
Analysis of Genomic Instability Following NF1 Loss Using S.cerevisiae as a Model System
2 – year award

Schaller, George - Biological Sciences

United States Department of Agriculture
Role of Type-B Response Regulators in Cytokinin Signal Transduction
6 – year award

Simons, Michael, Helisch, A., and Horowitz, A. - Medicine

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Arteriogenesis and Arterial Branching

Stanton, Bruce - Physiology

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Translational Research in CF

Thorstensen, John - Physics & Astronomy

National Science Foundation
Fundamental Astronomy of Cataclysmic Binaries
3 – year award

Wybourne, Martin, Chaboyer, B., and Lynch, K. - Office of the Provost

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Design Study for JPL-Dartmouth Sounding Rocket Payload
41 – month award

Award commitment from the sponsoring agency is for a single year unless otherwise indicated.