Robert Morely, D.Sc., professor of electrical and systems engineering, has received a one-year, $25,000 grant from the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board of the U.S. Government for research titled “Study of Static Electricity levels in Play Areas that Contain Plastic Play Components.” …
Carrine E. Blank, Ph.D., assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $61,902 grant from NASA for research titled “Do Bugs Survive When Worlds Collide?” and a one-year, $168,627 grant from Portland State University for research titled “Recognizing the Signatures of Thermophilic Biofilms: Cellularly Preserved Microfossils and Cellular Remnants.” …
Michael Faulkender, Ph.D., assistant professor of finance, has received a one-year, $10,000 grant from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for research titled “Why is Interest Rate Swap Usage Responding to the Yield Curve?” …
Thomas J. Kappock, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $536,327 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “CAREER: Folding and Function of Acidophile Proteins.” …
Catherine Clare Keane, Ph.D., assistant professor of classics in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $25,740 grant from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation for research titled “Anger and Poetic Evolution in the Satires of Juvenal.”