Of note

Joshua Shimony, M.D., associate professor of radiology, has received a five-year, $607,736 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for research titled “A Bayesian Approach to MR Tractography in the Developing Brain.”…

Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D. professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $14,880 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Man the Hunted: The Origins and Nature of Human Sociality.”…

Victoria L. Brown-Kennerly, Ph.D., research instructor in genetics, has received a five-year, $495,000 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for research titled “Gut Colonization by C. albicans: Interactions with the Host and its Microbiota.”…

Jan P. Amend, Ph.D., associate professor of geochemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $1,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Microbial Ecology of Ocean Basement Aquifers: ODP Borehole Observatories.”