Notables

Week of Dec. 20, 2010

Vladimir B. Birman, PhD, associate professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $324,815 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Bronsted Acid Catalysis in Enantioselective Acyl Substitution.” …

Ian MacMullen, PhD, assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $55,000 Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Education for research titled “Compliance, Conservation, and Community: Civic Education and the Limits of Autonomy.” …

Matthew Schuler, graduate student in biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $111,000 Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. …

Bill Shannon, PhD, associate professor of biostatistics in medicine, has received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine for research titled “New Observational Data Analysis Methods for Comparative Effectiveness Research.” This grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. …

Jonathan S. Turner, PhD, the Barbara J. and Jerome R. Cox Jr. Professor of Computer Science, has received a three-year, $449,999 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Performance-Engineered Overlay Networks for Real-Time Distributed Applications.” …

Erin K. Willert, PhD, a postdoctoral research scholar in pathology and immunology, has received a three-year, $150,000 American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship for research titled “Interferon-Gamma Regulation of Gammaherpesvirus Gene Expression.”


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