Notables

Week of Dec. 27, 2010

Cindy Grimm, PhD, and Robert Pless, PhD, associate professors of computer science and engineering, have received a three-year, $512,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “ImageQuest — Citizens Advancing Biology with Calibrated Imaging and Validated Analysis.” …

Gerald Izenberg, PhD, professor emeritus of history in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $46,000 Emeritus Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for research titled “Identity, A History: From Individual Crisis to Collective Politics.” Emeritus Fellowships are intended to support the scholarly activities of faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who, at the time of taking up the fellowships, will be officially retired but continue to be active and productive in their fields. …

Kenneth F. Kelton, PhD, the Arthur Holly Compton Professor in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $420,397 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “NASA Research Under ESA-Based Investigations THERMOLAB and ICOPROSOL.” …

D.C. Rao, PhD, director of the Division of Biostatistics, professor of biostatistics and of biostatistics in genetics and in psychiatry, has received a four-year, $1,365,773 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to continue a Program to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health Related Research (PRIDE) Summer Research Institute which trains underrepresented minority junior faculty in cardiovascular genetic epidemiology. …

Thomas L. Rodebaugh, PhD, assistant professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $418,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for research titled “Behavioral Economic Assessment of Interpersonal Impairment in Generalized Social Anxiety Disorder.” …

Helina Woldekiros, graduate student in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $14,860 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for research titled “Archaeology of the Afar Salt Caravan Route of Northeastern Ethiopia.”


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