7.26.16
Jeffrey R. Jones, a postdoctoral research associate in biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $168,414 grant from the National Institutes of Health(NIH) for a project titled “Hypocretinergic Integration of Circadian Rhythms and Sleep.”
7.26.16
Willem H. Dickhoff, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $375,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Green’s Functions and the Nuclear Many-body Problem.”
7.26.16
Betsy Sinclair, associate professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, has received a $7,625 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “RAPID: Evaluating the Top-Two Primary System.”
7.21.16
Fuzhong Zhang, assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has received a $348,600 award from the U.S. Department of Defense to purchase an atomic force microscope for his lab. Zhang was one of 176 university researchers at 96 academic institutions to receive the highly competitive award. Read more on the School of Engineering site.
7.19.16
Kater Murch, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $412,228 grant from the Office of Naval Research for research titled “State and Signal Tracking with Quantum Measurement.” The Murch Research Group focuses on quantum systems. Visit The Source to read and watch a video about Murch’s recent research.
7.19.16
Kristen Kroll, associate professor of developmental biology at the School of Medicine, has received a one-year, $40,000 grant from the McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology for her project titled “Dysregulation of the Cortical Interneuron Transcriptome in Epileptic Encephalopathies.”
7.19.16
Vladimir B. Birman, associate professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Catalytic Activation of Thioesters via Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution.”
7.13.16
Yosuke Kurokawa, a graduate student in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has received a two-year, $51,900 MWA Winter 2016 Predoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association. Kurokawa, who works in the lab of Steven C. George, MD, PhD, the Elvera & William Stuckenberg Professor of Technology & Human Affairs and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, will work to develop a drug screen model to detect drug-induced cardiotoxic effects.
7.12.16
William E. Buhro, chair of the Department of Chemistry and the George E. Pake Professor in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $435,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Magic-size Nanoclusters as Low-temperature Precursors to Nanocrystal and Bulk Semiconductor Films.”
7.7.16
The National Science Foundation, along with the Water Research Foundation, has awarded a pair of university researchers, Daniel Giammar, of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Jill Pasteris, of Arts & Sciences, $229,000 in grants to study ways to best control lead pipe corrosion, which can poison drinking water. Along with Yandi Hu, of the University of Houston, they will use the funds to study the most effective ways of adding orthophosphate to reduce lead concentrations in tap water. Read more on the Source.