May 2008
Dartmouth researchers were awarded $21 million during May, including $2.6 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:
Ayres, Matthew and Stange, E. - Biological Sciences
- National Science Foundation
- Dissertation Research: The Nature of and Mechanisms Responsible for Northern Hardwood Forest Lepidopter Community Dynamics
Baron, John - Medicine
- University of Chicago
- Chemoprevention of Arsenic-Induced Skin Cancer
Borsuk, Mark - Thayer School of Engineering
- Duke University
- Using Bayesian Networks and Satellite Imagery for Adaptive Management
Chaboyer, Brian - Physics & Astronomy
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Stellar Astrophysics with the Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI)
Chitoran, Ioana - Linguistics and Cognitive Science
- Department of Education
- Observing Historical Sound Change in Progress: A Comparison of Two Languages of the Caucasus
- 2-year Award
Fisher, Elliott and Bynum, J. - Medicine
Goodman, D. - Pediatrics
- Brandeis University
- Development of Physician Measures
Gleiser, Marcelo - Physics & Astronomy
- National Science Foundation
- Cosmic Origin of Matter: Nonequilibrium Field Theory and Inflationary Cosmology
Goundrey, Althea - Pediatrics
- State of Vermont
- Children with Special Health Needs
- 6-month Award
Grubbs, Robert - Chemistry
- National Science Foundation
- Functional Block Copolymers as Guides for Nanoparticle Assembly: Preparation of Cobalt Nanoparticles from Alkyne-Functional Polymers
Haxby, James - Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Princeton University
- Conte Ctr Project 2: Decision Making and Control in Perception and Attention
and
- National Science Foundation
- Neural Systems for the Extraction of Socially-Relevant Information from Faces
Kelley, William - Psychological and Brain Sciences
- National Science Foundation
- Individual Differences in the Neural Basis of Self
LaBelle, James - Physics & Astronomy
- National Science Foundation
- Collaborative Research: Auroral Radio Emissions Related to Substorms and Energetic Precipitation
- 3-year Award
Lynch, Kristina - Physics & Astronomy
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Dartmouth Greencube
Pellacini, Fabio - Computer Science
- Intel Corporation
- Interactive Realistic Lighting on Many-core Architectures
Rimberg, Alexander - Physics & Astronomy
- Dept. of Defense, Army Research Office
- Acquisition of a Recondensing Cryostat for Electron Spin Resonance and Coherent Spin Control in Quantum Dots
and
- National Science Foundation
- Quantum Noise and Backaction in Semi- and Superconducting Nanostructures
Rosen, Joseph - Biomedical Engineering
- Rutgers State University
- Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine Compartment Syndrome Program
Santos, Eugene and Cybenko, G. - Thayer School of Engineering
- Securboration, Inc.
- Advanced Self-Learning Ontologies
- 2-year Award
Smolin, Jonathan - Asian & Middle East Languages and Literatures
- Department of Education
- Policing Reality: Fictions of Crime and Punishment in the New Morocco
- 2-year Award
Supattapone, Surachai - Biochemistry
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- Mechanism of Prion Neurotropism
Zomorodian, Afra - Computer Science
- Dept. of Defense, Office of Naval Research
- Efficient Structures for Topological Analysis of Massive High-Dimensional Data
Award commitment from the sponsoring agency is for a single year unless otherwise indicated.
