Of note

William McKinnon, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $159,000 grant from NASA for research titled “Structure and Evolution of Outer Planet Satellites.” …

Bradley P. Stoner, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $24,700 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for research titled “Suicide Intervention and Gendered Subjectivity in Rural China.” …

Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-month grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for research titled “Human Paleontology and Radiocarbon Chronology of the Pestera Muierii, Romania.” …

Judith Evans-Grubbs, Ph.D., professor of classics in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for Humanities for research titled “Duty and Power: A Study of Parent-Child Relationships in the Roman Empire.” …

Gayle J. Fritz, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $11,835 grant from the National Science Foundation for “Dissertation Improvement Grant: Swahili Urbanization and Food Production: Paleoethnobotanical Perspectives From Pemba Island, Tanzania A.D. 800-1600.” …

Bradley L. Jolliff, Ph.D., research associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a six-month, $14,099 grant from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for research titled “New Frontiers, Phase A: Moonrise.” …

Julie Morris, Ph.D., research associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $118,339 grant from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Variations of Sedimentary Input to Magma genesis across the Kurile Arc.” …

Yunju Nam, Ph.D., assistant professor of social work, has received a five-month, $9,839 grant from the University of Michigan for research titled “Economic Conditions and Public Support for Social Welfare Programs.” …

Robert E. Thach, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences and dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $40,000 grant from Pfizer Inc. and the Ford Foundation as a Research Partner in the CGS Ph.D. Completion Project. …

Walter E. Binns, Ph.D. professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $395,000 grant from NASA for research titled “Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna: A Long Duration Balloon Mission to Constrain the Origin of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays.” …

Mark McDaniel, Ph.D., professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $56,971 grant from Indiana University for research titled “Comparing Models of Function Learning.” …

Arlene R. Stiffman, Ph.D., the Barbara A. Bailey Professor of Social Work, has received a three-year, $582,827 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for research titled “Intervention for Multisector Provider Enhancement.” …

Amy V. Walker, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $126,734 grant from the U.S. Army for “Acquisition of an Infrared Spectrometry System for the Study of Thin Organic Films.” …

Zhengjun Zhang, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $38,574 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “SGER: Statistics of Extremes, with Applications in Financial Time Series.” …

Ernst Zinner, Ph.D., research professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $478,000 grant from NASA for research titled “Isotopic Studies of Stardust.” …

Randy L. Buckner, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a six-year, $1,291,500 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research titled “Functional-Anatomic Exploration of Cognitive Control.” …

Lee Epstein, Ph.D., the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Political Science in Arts & Sciences and professor of law, has received a three-year, $84,956 grant from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: The Addition of the Blackmun Papers to the U.S. Supreme Court Databases.” …

Anne M. Hofmeister, Ph.D., research professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $66,737 grant from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Measurement of Transport Properties of Silicate Melts with Application to Crustal Anatexis.” …

Kevin D. Moeller, Ph.D., professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $80,000 grant from the American Chemical Society for research titled “Developing New Electroauxiliaries for the Construction of Template-Based Peptide Libraries.” …

Roger J. Phillips, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a six-year, $18,140 grant from the Carnegie Institute of Washington for “Science Team Support For The Messenger Mission.” …

Sabine Eckmann, Ph.D., director of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, has received a three-year, $125,000 grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition awards for “Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany.” …

Victoria May, outreach director in biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $72,000 grant from the Monsanto Fund for research titled “Modern Genetics for All Students.”