Research Wire: June 2016

6.24.16
James Buckley, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for the development of high-QE GaN photodetectors for liquid noble particle detectors.


6.24.16
Ryan Ogliore, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $295,601 grant from NASA to continue his research on isotopic analyses of stardust and hayabusa samples by secondary ion mass spectrometry, which involves analyzing return samples from comets, solar wind, interplanetary dust particles and meteorites.


6.24.16
Richard A. Loomis, associate professor and director of graduate studies in chemistry in Arts & Sciences and associate director for the Center of Materials Innovation, has been awarded a three-year, $416,798 grant from the National Science Foundation for support of his project titled “Investigating the Competition Between Exciton Delocalization and Radiative Recombination in 1D Semiconductor Quantum Wires.”


6.14.16
Benjamin J. Moseley, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has been awarded a three year, $252,767 grant from the National Science Foundation for support of his project titled “AF: Small: Collaborative Research: Algorithmic and Computational Frontiers of MapReduce for Big Data Analysis.”


6.14.16
Yasutaka Furukawa, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has received a three-year, $440,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled: “RI: Small: Functional Object Modeling.”


6.14.16
Barry P. Sleckman, MD, the Conan Professor of Pathology and Immunology and director of the Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine at the School of Medicine, has received a three-year, $1.36 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Novel DNA Double Strand Break Repair Targeting Therapeutics for Cancer Treatment.”


6.9.16
Viktor Gruev, associate professor of computer science and engineering and electrical and systems engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science,  received $499,000 from the National Science Foundation to continue his research on bioinspired imaging techniques for image-guided surgery. Gruev will mimic the visual system of the mantis shrimp, which is capable of sensing multispectral information. Read more about his shrimp research.

Gruev aims to create a new generation of multispectral imaging sensors to assist in identifying cancerous and healthy tissue during surgery. They could surpass current federally approved technology for cancer imaging in terms of size, cost and accuracy.


6.7.16
Odis Johnson, associate professor of education and of sociology in Arts & Sciences, has received a four-year, $617,202 grant from the National Science Foundation for a research project titled “Race-gender trajectories in engineering: The role of social control across neighborhood and school contexts.” Johnson, who serves as associate chair of education, will direct the study, which explores school and neighborhood influences that encourage or deter young minority students from considering a career in engineering and related science disciplines. Read more about the project at the NSF grants website.


6.7.16
Jung-Tsung Shen, Das Family Distinguished Career Development Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has received a three-year, $269,003 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “OP: A High-Throughput Quantum Photonic Source.” The grant will support Shen’s work in the School of Engineering, where he runs the Laboratory of Quantum Optics Research Group.


6.6.16
Zhude Tu, associate professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, has received a $625,000 grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Researchfor research titled “Alpha-synuclein Imaging Consortium.”


6.3.16
Alexander Barnes, assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $690,578 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to continue his research on applying improvements in magnetic resonance spectroscopy to biomolecular structure determination. Barnes’ project is titled “Structural Biology in a Cellular Context with High Sensitivity NMR.” Read more about Barnes’ work in The Source.


6.3.16
David G. DeNardo, an assistant professor of medicine and of pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine, has received a five-year, $1.58 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Reprogramming the Metastatic Microenvironment of Pancreatic Cancer Through CSF1R.”


6.2.16
Parag Banerjee, assistant professor of materials science in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has received a three-year, $300,000 Grant Opportunity for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) from the National Science Foundation to work with SunEdison Inc., a Maryland Heights, Mo.-based renewable energy development company, to find a more efficient way to cut silicon into wafers using carbon fiber and diamonds. Read more on the School of Engineering site.


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