Deanna M. Barch, Ph.D., professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $798,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for research titled “Cognitive Neuroscience Task Reliability and Clinical Applications Consortium.” …
Peter M. Burgers, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, has received a four-year, $1 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research titled “Kinase Activation in the DNA Damage Checkpoints.” …
Roger Chamberlain, D.Sc., associate professor of computer science, has received a three-year, $200,583 subaward from Oregon State University for research titled “Magnetologic Circuits and Architectures for Deeply Pipelined Algorithms.” …
Marco Colonna, M.D., professor of pathology and immunology and of medicine, has received a three-year, $675,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for research titled “The Immunoreceptor DNAM-1 in Type I Diabetes.” …
Livia Hinegardner, graduate student in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $22,160 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for research titled “Grassroots Video in Mexico City: Developing Counterpublics, Producing Citizenship.” …
Young-Shin Jun, Ph.D., assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, has received a one-year, $33,061 subaward from Shaw Environmental Inc. through a grant funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for research titled “Fate and Transport of Organic and Emerging Contaminants and Microorganisms During Wastewater Reuse Application.” …
Stephanie Kirk, Ph.D., assistant professor of Spanish in Arts & Sciences, and Sarah Rivett, Ph.D., assistant professor of English and of American culture studies, both in Arts & Sciences, have received a $5,000 grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities to fund a conference titled “Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas.” …
Robert Koff, Ph.D., director of the Cornerstone: the Center for Advanced Learning, has received a one-year, $19,200 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study student migration patterns in and out of the science, technology, engineering and math fields. …
Daniel Moran, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has received a four-year, $2,044,549 grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for research titled “Development of a Thin-Film MicroECOG Electrode for Chronic Cortical Recordings.” Also receiving the grant was Justin Williams, Ph.D., of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. …
Dipanjan Pan, Ph.D., research instructor in medicine, has received a four-year, $308,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “A Nanomedicine Approach to Coronary Ruptured Plaque With Spectral Computed Tomography.” …
Marcus Raichle, M.D., professor of neurobiology, of neurology, of radiology and of biomedical engineering, was awarded the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. He shares the $25,000 prize with Mortimer Mishkin, Ph.D., of the National Institute of Mental Health. The award recognizes Raichle for outstanding contributions to the study of human brain function through the development and use of positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging. …
Yoram Rudy, Ph.D., the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering, has received a $271,356 grant from Fondation Leducq in France as a member of the Transatlantic Alliance for Calmodulin Kinase II Signaling in Heart Disease. …
Norman J. Schofield, Litt.D., Ph.D., the Dr. William Taussig Professor of Political Economy and director of the Center in Political Economy, has been named a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Schofield will work on an original research project, “The Political Economy of Democracy and Autocracy,” during the fellowship. His residency dates are May 2009 through July 2009. …
Leonid Shmuylovich, a student in the M.D./Ph.D. program at the School of Medicine, was awarded the Nico Westerhof Award for “Striking New Concepts” by Beginning Investigators from the Cardiovascular System Dynamics Society. …
Jason C. Woods, Ph.D., senior research scientist in physics and assistant dean of Arts & Sciences, has received a four-year $1,508,000 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for research titled “Evaluation of Endobronchial Interventions for COPD via CT and 3He MRI.” …
Barbara Zehnbauer, Ph.D., professor of pathology and immunology and of pediatrics, has received a one-year, $74,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for research titled “Specimen Preparation for Construction of Well-Annotated Progression and Prognostic Tissue Microarrays (TAMs) for Invasive Breast Carcinoma for Use in Breast Cancer Research.”