Michael C. Ogilvie, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $498,132 grant from the U.S. Department of Education for “Graduate Fellowships for Ph.D. Studies in Physics.” …
Richard H. Rochberg, Ph.D., professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $141,396 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Problems in Function Theory and Operator Theory.” …
Pratim Biswas, Ph.D., director of the Environmental Engineering Program and the Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor of Engineering, has received a six-month, $63,750 grant from the University of Rochester for research titled “Relationship Between Physicochemical Characteristics and Toxicological of Nanoparticles.” …
Patrick Crowley, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received a two-year, $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Architectural Support for Effective User-Level Data Transport.” …
Mark A. Franklin, Ph.D., the Hugo F. and Ina Champ Urbauer Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has received a four-year, $1,150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “ITR — ASE — (int dmc): Storage Based Super-computing for Scientific Applications.” …
Jonathan S. Turner, Ph.D., the Henry Edwin Sever Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has received a one-year, $152,597 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Collaborative Research: Virtual Networking — Enabling innovation in Networks and Services.” …
Lihao Xu, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Design and Implementation of Hydra: A Platform for Survivable and Secure Storage Systems.” …
Ramesh K. Agarwal, Ph.D., director of the Aerospace Engineering Program and the William Palm Professor of Engineering, has received a one-year, $11,397 grant from the National Science Foundation for “International Research and Education Planning Visit: Supplement to NSF Grant #0431948 to Visit Baumann Moscow State University, Russia.” …
Charles Hohenberg, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $703,400 grant from NASA for research titled “Noble Gas Measurement and Interpretation of Returned Genesis Solar Wind Collector Material.” …
Himadri B. Pakrasi, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $4,930,005 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “FIBR: A Systems Approach to Study Redox Regulation of Functions of Photosynthetic Organisms.” …
Rohit Pappu, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has received a three-year, $425,732 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Studying the Origin of Conformational Preferences in Unfolded Proteins.” …
Charles E. Robin, executive director of Edison Theatre, has received a one-month, $3,600 grant from the Heartland Arts Fund for “Les Percussions de Guinee,” and a one-month, $24,000 grant from the Heartland Arts Fund for “Bang On A Can All Stars With Glass and Riley.” …
Ayanna K. Thomas, Ph.D., research associate in psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $125,460 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research titled “Metamemory Deficits in People with Alzheimer’s Disease.” …
Milorad Dudukovic, Ph.D., chair and the Laura and William Jens Professor of Chemical Engineering, has received a two-year, $111,651 grant from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville for research titled “Development of a Predictive Model for DDGS.” …
Cindy Grimm, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received a three-year, $233,999 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Surface Construction and Comparison Using Manifolds.” …
Craig Pikaard, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $282,579 grant from the University of Missouri for research titled “Functional Genomics of Maize Chronatin.” …
Robert Pless, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Non-Parametric Representations of Motions and Actions in Video.” …
Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D., professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $419,736 grant from the Office of Naval Research for research titled “The Development of Nontoxic Anti-fouling Coatings Based Upon Nanoscopic.” …
Joseph J.H. Ackerman, Ph.D., chair and the William Greenleaf Eliot Professor of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $116,279 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “CRIF: Purchase of a Resource for Computational Chemistry.” …
Vladimir B. Birman, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a four-year, $918,000 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research titled “Study of a New Class of Chiral Nucleophilic Catalysts.” …
Sarah C. Elgin, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a four-year, $1,254,600 grant from the Na-tional Institute of General Medi-cal Sciences for research titled “RNAi-directed Assembly of Heterochromatin in Drosophila.” …
Gayle J. Fritz, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $11,971 grant from the National Science Foundation for “Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Ocampo Caves in Context: Agricultural Development in Southwestern Tamaulipas, Mexico.” …
Petra Levin, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “CAREER: Identification and Characterization of Factors Promoting Cytokinetic Ring Formation in Bacillus Subtilis.”