Of note

Gautam Dantas, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology, has received a two-year, $75,000 grant from the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative for research titled “Functional Metagenomic Discovery of Novel Enzymatic Functions from Ultra Low-Volume Samples with Whole Metagenome Amplification.” …

Kavit Alan Desouza, MD, research scientist in biomedical engineering, has received a one-year, $50,048 postdoctoral fellowship grant from the American Heart Association for his research titled “Non-Invasive Characterization of the Arrhythmogenic Substrate in Post Myocardial Infarction Patients.” …

Willem H. Dickhoff, PhD, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $495,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Green’s Functions and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem.” …

David Fike, PhD, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $151,223 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “SIMS Analysis of Carbonate-Associated Sulfate: Toward Building a d34S Record of Individual Carbonate Grains and Fossils.” …

Melissa Jonson-Reid, PhD, professor of social work, has received a one-year, $11,690 subaward from the Research Foundation of the City University of New York to host the fourth annual scientific meeting on “Translational Approaches to Child Neglect Research.” …

Mitchell G. Scott, PhD, professor of pathology and immunology and clinical research assistant professor of medicine, received the Transatlantic Lectureship Award from the Association for Clinical Biochemistry (UK) May 12, 2010, in Glasgow, Scotland.

Obituary

T. Alexander Pond, PhD, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences from 1953-58 and associate professor from 1958-1962, died Aug. 29, 2010, at his home in Vermont. He was 85.