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Research Awards

Dartmouth researchers were awarded $5.1 million during October, including 2.7 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:

Bartels, S.—Psychiatry
Endowment for Health
Evaluation of a Health Promotion Intervention for Persons with Severe Mental Illness
Three-year award

Bostick, B.—Earth Sciences
Columbia University
Iron and Arsenic Speciation in Arsenic-Impaired Sediments

Brakenridge, R.—Geography
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Flood Inundation Mapping Using MODIS, Radarsat, E0-1, Envisat, and Spot

Buckey, J.—Medicine
National Space Biomedical Research Institute
Pharmacotherapeutics of Intranasal Scopolamine
Three-year award

Cascio, E.—Economics
Spencer Foundation
The Federal Role in Equality of Educational Opportunity
Two-year award

Demars, L.—Obstetrics and Gynecology
Berlex Laboratories
Phase I/II Study of ZK Epothilone in Combination with Carboplatin in Patients with Platinum Sensitive Recurrent Ovarian Cancer
Two-year award

Denton, R.—Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University
Investigation of Plasma Mass Density Using Multiharmonic Toroidal Alfven Waves Observed by Spacecraft
Seven-month award

Dunbar, K.—Education
University of California, Santa Barbara
Dana Arts Consortium

Hansen, R.—Tuck School
Small Business Administration
Fourth Year of the Partnership between the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and the Minority Business Development Agency

Hoopes, J. and Bergeron, J.—Surgery
Boston Scientific
Endoluminal Pyloric Sphincter Injections in a Canine Model
Six-month award

Israel, M.—Pediatrics
American Cancer Society
Institutional Research Grant
Three-year award

Kaufman, P.—Medicine
Eisai Medical Research Incorporated
Phase II Study of E7389 in Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer
Two-year award

Millan, R. and Hudson, M.—Physics and Astronomy
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Balloon Array for Monitoring Relativistic Electron Losses during the RBSP Mission
and
Investigating EMIC Waves as a Precipitation Mechanism for Relativistic Electrons
Three-year award

Petitto, L.—Education
University of California, Santa Barbara
Dana Arts Consortium

Robb, J.—Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Coronary Revascularization in Diabetic Patients
14-month award

Rosenberg, S.—Psychiatry
Endowment for Health
The New Hampshire Child/Adolescent Trauma Telehealth Project
Six-month award

Staiger, D.—Economics
Spencer Foundation
The Impact of School Placement to Finnish Students at Age 11 on Economic and Health Outcomes later in Life

Stanton, B.—Physiology
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc.
Alnylam-CFFT Drug Discovery

Taylor, R.—Microbiology
NERCE-Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases
NERCE Project 10: Novel Anthrax Vaccine Targeted to Dendritic Cells
Six-month award

Tosteson, T.—Community and Family Medicine and Moore, J.—Genetics
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Measurement Error Methods in Cancer Epidemiology

Wennberg, J.—Community and Family Medicine
WellPoint Foundation
Dartmouth Atlas Project

Wolford, G. and Grafton, S.—Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara
Functional Substrates of Long-Term Motor Learning
Six-month award

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

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