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Research Awards

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

Borsuk, Mark, R. Howarth, A. King, and D. Ranco—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, B. Jackson, J. Kaste, and C. Renshaw—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 S. Gerber—Genetics
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Quantitative Analysis of RING E3 Ubiquitin Ligases

Ernst, Patricia—Genetics
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease
Mll Function in the Maintenance of the Blood—Forming System

Fesen, Robert—Physics and 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 J. Heaney—Environmental Sciences and Engineering
National Cancer Institute
Prostate Cancer Screening With Electrical Impedance Measurements

Kisselev, Alexei—Pharmacology and Toxicology
National Cancer Institute
Different Active Sites of the Proteasome as Drug Targets in Cancer

Llewellyn-Thomas, Hilary—Community and Family Medicine
Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
Health Decision Resource
9-year award

Lynch, Kristina and J. LaBelle—Physics and 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 A. Saykin—Psychiatry
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Effect of Biomechanical Force Exposure on Cognition and Brain Activation in TBI

O'Toole, George—Microbiology and Immunology
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 and Toxicology
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Characterization of Sonic Hedgehog Biogenesis
5-year award

Sanchez, Yolanda and M. Wood—Pharmacology and 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, A. Helisch, and A. Horowitz—Medicine
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Arteriogenesis and Arterial Branching

Stanton, Bruce—Physiology
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Translational Research in CF

Thorstensen, John—Physics and Astronomy
National Science Foundation
Fundamental Astronomy of Cataclysmic Binaries
3-year award

Wybourne, Martin, B. Chaboyer and K. Lynch—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.

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