Jeffrey G. Catalano, Ph.D., assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $340,505 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “ETBC: Hidden Iron Oxide Redox Processes During Biogeochemical Iron Cycling: Controls on Nanscale Transformations and the Fate of Contaminants.” …
Carl F. Craver, Ph.D., associate professor, and Don Goodman-Wilson and Sarah Robins, graduate students, all in the Department of Philosophy in Arts & Sciences, have received a one-year, $25,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “The Future Directions in Genetics Studies Graduate Training Workshop.” …
Gabriel de Erausquin, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and of neurology, received the 2008 Klerman Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). The Klerman Award honors outstanding clinical psychiatric research initiated by early career scientists who have received NARSAD grants. He received the award for his development of a method aimed at improving diagnosis and genetic understanding of schizophrenia. …
Donald L. Elbert, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has received a two-year, $418,000 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for research titled “Quantitative Mass Spectrometry to Probe Fibrinogen Conformations on Biomaterials.” …
David H. Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D., the Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor of Neurology, director of the Neurofibromatosis Center and co-director of the Neuro-Oncology Program at the School of Medicine, received the Elliott Osserman Award for Distinguished Service in Support of Cancer Research from the Israel Cancer Research Fund in New York City. The award was in recognition of his three years of service on the fund’s prestigious scientific review panel. …
Bradley Jolliff, Ph.D., research professor, and Alian Wang, Ph.D., senior research scientist, both in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, have received a six-month, $255,414 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “Journey to the Land of Eternal Darkness and Ice (JEDI): A Lunar Polar Volatile Explorer.” …
Yoram Rudy, Ph.D., the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering, was awarded a four-year, $1,362,285 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for research titled “Inverse and Forward Problems in Electrocardiography.” …
Li Zou, international director at the Center for Social Development (CSD) in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, has received a one-year, $75,000 grant from the Levi Strauss Foundation to support the CSD’s Global Assets Project (GAP). GAP was launched in July 2006 to inform and promote the development of asset-building policies and programs worldwide.