Katherine M. Grillo, graduate student in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $14,990 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Pottery and Pastoralism in East Africa.” …
Kenneth Harrington, managing director of the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies; Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D., vice chancellor for research; Samuel A. Wickline, M.D., professor of medicine; and William A. Peck, M.D., the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor in Medicine, have received a two-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “PFI: Innovation Acceleration Partnerships.” Other co-investigators are Marcia B. Mellitz of the Center for Emerging Technologies and Michael F. Nichols, Ph.D., vice president for research and economic development at the University of Missouri. …
Anne M. Hofmeister, Ph.D., research professor in Earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, and Robert E. Criss, Ph.D., professor of Earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, have received a two-year, $199,201 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Probing the Effect of Volatiles and Temperature on Thermal Diffusivity: Implications for Upper Mantle and Lithospheric Processes.” …
Megan M. Kaneda, graduate student in biomedical engineering, has received a two-year, $50,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “Synthetic Nanoparticle Vectors for Intravenous Delivery of Therapeutic siRNA.” …
Jr-Shin Li, Ph.D., assistant professor in electrical and systems engineering, has received the National Science Foundation Career Award, one of the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards and one that supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education. Li has received a five-year, $400,000 award to study a new class of control problems that involves simultaneous control of a large number of dynamical systems with applications to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and imaging (MRI).