August 2008
Dartmouth researchers were awarded $18.6 million during August, including $11.4 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:
Ahmed, Yasmath - Genetics
- Milheim Foundation for Cancer Research
- Regulation of Axin by Adenomatous Polyposis Coli
Baker, Ian and Albert, M. - Thayer School of Engineering
- National Science Foundation
- Collaborative Research: The NEEM Deep Ice Core
Baron, John - Medicine
Cole, B. - Community & Family Medicine
- National Cancer Institute
- Colorectal Chemoprevention with Calcium and Vitamin D
Brenner, Charles - Genetics
- National Science Foundation
- New Steps in NAD+ Metabolism
Calsbeek, Ryan - Biological Sciences
- National Science Foundation
- Adaptive Mate Choice Driven by Sexual Conflict in the Brown Anole, Anolis Sagrei
- 3-Year Award
Carr, Charles - Orthopaedics
Koenig, K. - Medicine
- Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation
- Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Resident Journal Club Program
Dade, William - Earth Sciences
Roisin, B. - Thayer School of Engineering
- University of Maryland
- Rotorcraft Brownout: Revolutionary Concepts in Understanding, Control, and Mitigation
- 5-Month Award
Demars, Leslie - Obstetrics and Gynecology
- GlaxoSmithKline
- A Phase III, Double-Blind, Randomized Controlled, Multicenter Study to Evaluate the Efficacy of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals. HPV-16/18 VLP/AS04 Vaccine
- 3-Year Award
Denton, Richard - Physics & Astronomy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Investigation of Magnetic Reconnection Geometry and Other Applications Involving Multiple Spacecraft
Dmitrovsky, Ethan - Pharmacology & Toxicology
- Merck & Company
- Vorinostat for Lung Cancer
- 2-Year Award
Frank, Elaine - Pediatrics
- Harvard University
- An Online Version of CALM
Friedland, Andrew - Environmental Studies
- University of New Hampshire
- Carbon Benefits of Fuel Switching from Oil to Wood Across the Northern Forest
- 2-Year Award
Gougelet, Robert - Medicine
- State of Vermont
- Vermont Public Health Bioterrorism Preparedness Program
- 6-Month Award
Korc, Murray - Medicine
- National Cancer Institute
- Dysregulation of TGF Beta Action in Pancreatic Cancer
Korc, Murray - Medicine
- Wayne State University
- A Novel and Targeted Approach to Inhibit Invasion and Angiogenesis
Kotz, David - Computer Science
- National Science Foundation
- CT-ISG: Dartmouth Trace Sanitization Framework
- 2-Year Award
Lusardi, Annamaria - Economics
- FINRA Investor Education Foundation
- The Importance of Being Financially Literate: Evidence and Implications for Financial Education Programs
- 2-Year Award
Millan, Robyn and Hudson, M. - Physics & Astronomy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Balloon Array for Monitoring Relativistic Electron Losses during the RBSP Mission
- 5-Month Award
Millan, Robyn - Physics & Astronomy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Investigating EMIC Waves as a Precipitation Mechanism for Relativistic Electrons
Nattie, Eugene, Bartlett, D., Daubenspeck, J., Leiter, J., and Li, A. - Physiology
Darnall,R. - Pediatrics
- Children's Hospital Boston
- Ventral Medulla and SIDS
Norris, L Frances - Psychiatry
- University of Maryland
- Quantitative Index of the Public Health Impacts of Terrorism
Phan, Minh - Thayer School of Engineering
- Dept. of Defense, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
- Looking For Spatial Anomalies from Acoustic and Seismic Data
Sargent, James - Pediatrics
Berke, E. - Community & Family Medicine
Gerrard, M. - Psychiatry
Gibbons,F. - Psychological and Brain Sciences
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- Media Influences on Early Onset Alcohol Use
Slone, Laurie and Friedman, M. - Psychiatry
- Dept of Defense, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Com
- Military, Family and Community Networks Helping with Reintegration
- 2-Year Award
Sneddon, Christopher - Geography
- National Science Foundation
- The Globalization of Dams: The United States, the Third World, and the Geopolitics of Development, 1935-1975
- 2-Year Award
St. Germain, Donald, Hernandez, A. and deMuinck,E. - Medicine
Galton, V. - Physiology
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease
- Impact of Nutrition and Illness on Thyroid Homeostasis
Stanton, Bruce - Physiology
- National Center for Research Resources
- Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Lung Disease
Swartz, Harold - Radiology
- National Institutes of Health
- BioDose-08 Conference
Taylor, Ronald - Microbiology & Immunology
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Host-Microbe Interactions
Vlahovska, Petia - Thayer School of Engineering
- American Chemical Society
- Effect of Surfactants on Drop Electrohydrodynamics
- 2-Year Award
Zubkoff, Michael, Eubank, D., and Kazal, L. - Community & Family Medicine
Brooks, W. B. - Medicine
- Bureau of Health Professions
- Academic Administrative Units in Primary Care
Award commitment from the sponsoring agency is for a single year unless otherwise indicated