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Research Awards

Dartmouth researchers were awarded $6.7 million during September, including $3.5 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:

Ames, John—Thayer School of Engineering
United States Army Research Institute for Environmental Medicine
"IPA U.S. Army Research Institute Environmental Medicine"
Four-month award

Anderson, Kane—Health Services and C. Carr—Surgery
Orthopaedic Research Foundation
"Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Resident Journal Club Program"

Baron, John—Medicine
University of Southern California
"Folate, Vitamin D and Calcium in Colorectal Cancer"

Baron, John—Medicine and B. Cole—Community and Family Medicine
Bayer Pharmaceutical
"Combined Analysis of Aspirin Colorectal Chemoprevention Trials"
Two-year award

Becker, Deborah—New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center
University of Massachusetts
"Massachusetts Medicaid Infrastructure and Comprehensive Employment Opportunities (MICEO) Grant"
Eight-month award

Blencowe, Miles—Physics and Astronomy
U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation
"Displacement Detection and Damping in Nanomechanical Systems"

Bostick, Benjamin—Earth Sciences
Department of Defense, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
"ICP-OES Water Analysis for Tungsten and Other Metals"

Clemons, Julie—Outdoor Programs
United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service
"Care and Enhancement of Appalachian NST"
16-month award

Cohen, Yale—Psychological and Brain Sciences
National Institute of Mental Health
"Processing of Communication Signals in Prefrontal Cortex"

Frank, Elaine—Pediatrics
State of New Hampshire
"Buckle Up New Hampshire"
and
"Statewide Child Passenger Safety Program"
and
"Pickup Truck Seat Belt Campaign"

Gibson, Ursula—Thayer School of Engineering
Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Dartmouth Nanomagnetics Research Initiative-FY06 Appropriations"
Two-year award

Heatherton, Todd, W. Kelley, and P. Whalen—Psychological and Brain Sciences
National Institute on Drug Abuse
"Effects of Social Context on the Neural Correlates of Cue Reactivity"
Four-year award

Helfat, Constance—Tuck School
Kauffman Foundation
"FIVE PROJECT on Firm and Industry Evolution and Entrepreneurship"

Kazal, Louis—Community and Family Medicine
Endowment for Health
"New Hampshire Telehealth Program, Planning and Implementing a Statewide Program"

Magilligan, Francis—Geography
United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
"Monitoring the Effects of Large Woody Debris on the Sediment Budgets of Small Streams in the Green Mountain National Forest"

Mahler, Donald—Medicine
Psychological Applications
"Standardized Indices of Breathlessness"
Two-year award

Moor, James—Philosophy
National Science Foundation
"Collaborative Research: Nanotechnology and Human Enhancement"
Three-year award

Osterberg, Ulf and E. Garmire—Thayer School of Engineering
Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Smart Laser Beam Project-FY06 Appropriations"
Three-year award

Ray, Laura—Thayer School of Engineering
Sound Innovations Incorporated
"STTR Phase II: Modular Feedforward Adaptive Noise Control"
Two-year award

Sanchez, Yolanda—Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Cincinnati
"Chk1 and Cell Cycle Arrest in Response to DNA Damage"

Schaller, George—Biological Sciences
National Science Foundation
"SGER: Development of Tandem RNAi for Silencing of Gene Families in Rice"
Two-year award

Smith, Sean—Computer Science
Department of Defense, Army Research Office
"Workshop on Insider Attack and Cyber Security"

Snyder, Christopher—Economics
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Measuring the Impact of Digitization and Online Availability on Journal Citations"
18-Month Award

Spielberg, Stephen—Dartmouth Medical School, E. Dmitrovsky—Pharmacology and Toxicology, A. Green— Psychiatry, G. Holmes and M. Israel—Pediatrics, M. Korc and M. Simons—Medicine, R. Noelle—Microbiology, J. Weinstein—Surgery
National Center for Research Resources
"CTSA Planning at Dartmouth Medical School"

Strickler, James—Community and Family Medicine
AmeriCares Foundation
"Implementing Neonatal Surfactant Use in Kosovo"
14-month award

Sutherland, Lisa—Pediatrics and T. MacKenzie—Medicine
National Cancer Institute
"Youth Exposure to Food and Beverage Placement in Movies"

Sutherland, Lisa—Pediatrics
National Cancer Institute
"TV Watching Exposure, Eating, and Nutrition Study"
Five-year award

Yeh, Hermes—Physiology and V. Cuzon—Graduate Student in Physiology
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
"In Utero Ethanol Exposure and Development of GABAergic Cortical Interneurons"
Two-year award

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

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