Congratulations to our Campus investigators on their recent awards!

Arts and Sciences

  • Pankaj K. Agarwal of Computer Science has received an award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation for a project entitled “Efficient Algorithms for Geometric Searching.” Total funding will be $61,950 over 36 months.
  • Amy Anderson of Education has received an award from the University of Pennsylvania for a project entitled “Southeast Regional Coalition for University-Assisted Community Schools.” Total funding will be $150,000 over 36 months.
  • Bocar A. Ba of Economics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Social Movements and Corporate Opportunities.” Total funding will be $261,234 over 36 months.
  • Larry R. Baugh of Biology has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a project entitled “Natural variation in C. elegans responses to environmental pollution.” Total funding will be $212,019 over 36 months.
  • David Beratan of Chemistry has received an award from North Carolina State University under a prime award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Elucidating Interplays of Chirality and Spin in Chiral Assemblies.” Total funding will be $900,000 over 60 months.
  • David Beratan of Chemistry has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Nanocrystal-Based Diodes for Solar to Electric Energy Conversion.” Total funding will be $269,504 over 35 months.
  • Douglas Boyer of Evolutionary Anthropology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Building Capacity in MorphoSource through state-of-art, flexible data storage protocols for broader and more sustainable adoption by museums and other mass-data producers.” Total funding will be $1,071,404 over 48 months.
  • Tracie J. Canada of Cultural Anthropology has received an award from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for a project entitled “Black in Blue: An Oral History.” Total funding will be $27,427 over 17 months.
  • Bruce R. Donald of Computer Science has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Computational and Experimental Studies of Protein Structure and Design.” Total funding will be $179,940 over 42 months.
  • David B. Dunson of Statistical Science has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a project entitled “Improving inferences on health effects of chemical exposures.” Total funding will be $2,057,410 over 58 months.
  • Robert Garlick of Economics has received an award from The London School of Economics and Political Science under a prime award from the US Agency for International Development for a project entitled “Matching Digital Service Export Jobs In Kenya.” Total funding will be $54,993 over 20 months.
  • Michael A. Gillespie of Political Science has received an award from the Jack Miller Center for a project entitled “Constitution Day 2023.” Total funding will be $2,500 over 12 months.
  • Sara E. Lipshutz of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “IntBIO: Collaborative Research: Phenotypes of the Anthropocene: integrating the consequences of sensory stressors across biological scales .” Total funding will be $792,127 over 60 months.
  • Simon TSZ Fung Mak of Statistical Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Cost-Efficient and Confident Sampling for Modern Scientific Discovery.” Total funding will be $150,000 over 36 months.
  • Simon TSZ Fung Mak of Statistical Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: ATD: a-DMIT: a novel distributed, multi-resolution, topology aware online monitorng framework of massive spatiotemporal data.” Total funding will be $99,772 over 36 months.
  • Michael Munger of Political Science has received an award from the Institute for Humane Studies for a project entitled “A Proposal for Financial Support of a Conference for Graduate Students in Economics, Philosophy and Political Science.” Total funding will be $62,166 over 12 months.
  • Debmalya Panigrahi of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “AF: Small: Algorithms for Graph Cuts.” Total funding will be $299,990 over 36 months.
  • Daniel M. Scolnic of Physics has received an award from the Space Telescope Science Institute for a project entitled “SN cosmology with the next generation of experiments.” Total funding will be $130,959 over 36 months.
  • Kathy L. Sikes of Education has received an award from the NC Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service under a prime award from the Corporation for National and Community Service for a project entitled “NC LiteracyCorps.” Total funding will be $551,867 over 12 months.
  • Mark A. Stern of Mathematics has received an award from the Simons Foundation for a project entitled “The Geometry and Analysis of Yang-Mills Instantons.” Total funding will be $42,000 over 60 months.
  • Michael J. Therien of Chemistry has received an award from the University of Pittsburgh under a prime award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Electron Spin Selectivity of Chiral Matter, from Molecules and Supramolecular Assemblies to Life.” Total funding will be $985,250 over 36 months.
  • Warren S. Warren of Chemistry has received an award from the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for a project entitled “Detecting missed metastases from nominally early-stage melanomas with pump-probe microscopy.” Total funding will be $804,999 over 36 months.
  • Kevin Welsher of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Unraveling the Viral Infection Pathway with Virus-locked Observation.” Total funding will be $40,000 over 46 months.
  • Christopher J. Wildeman of Sociology has received an award from the FWD.us for a project entitled “How Much Does Having a Family Member Incarcerated Cost.” Total funding will be $175,000 over 7 months.
  • *** In addition, Christopher Bail of Sociology has an award that may be found under the listings for University Interdisciplinary Centers.

 

Divinity School

  • Edgardo A. Colon-Emeric has received an award from Wells Fargo for a project entitled “Placemaking Lab For Community and Congregational Impact.” Total funding will be $30,000 over 6 months.

 

Fuqua School Of Business

  • Ashish Arora has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a project entitled “Federal procurement and R&D policies and private innovation.” Total funding will be $236,905 over 24 months.

 

Nicholas School of the Environment

  • Shineng Hu of ECS Division has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “The effects of the tropical Indian Ocean on the Atlantic climate mean state, variability and change in E3SM and other Earth system models .” Total funding will be $649,978 over 36 months.
  • Nishad Jayasundara of ESP Division has received an award from the NC Department of Environmental Quality for a project entitled “Fish Toxicology of Environmental Exposure to per- and polyfluorinated substances in the Cape Fear River.” Total funding will be $80,000 over 24 months.
  • David W. Johnston of the Marine Lab has received an award from Spring Point Partners LLC for a project entitled “Wild 2.0: Water Innovation and Leadership Program Development.” Total funding will be $305,201 over 12 months.
  • Avner Vengosh of ECS Division has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: From Global to Local: Geochemistry of Global Phosphate Ores and Implications for Tracing the Environmental Impacts of Fertilizers Utilization.” Total funding will be $433,480 over 36 months.

 

Pratt School of Engineering

  • Nenad Bursac of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for a project entitled “Engineering a Human Skeletal Muscle Tissue Model of LGMD2B.” Total funding will be $2,629,482 over 60 months.
  • Pranam D. Chatterjee of BME has received an award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “Programmable peptide-guided protein degradation.” Total funding will be $387,702 over 24 months.
  • Pranam D. Chatterjee of BME has received an award from Oracle Corporation for a project entitled “PepMLM: Masked Language Model for Peptide Binder Design.” Total funding will be $0 over 12 months.
  • Boyuan Chen of MEMS has received an award from the Civil-Military Innovation Institute under a prime award from the Army Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Acoustic Signature Detection using Helmet-Mounted Microphone Array.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 24 months.
  • Boyuan Chen of MEMS has received an award from the Army Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Population-Based Training for Multi-Human Multi- Machine Teaming.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.
  • Tingjun Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “EAGER: An Integrated Fiber Sensing and Communication Living Lab in the Research Triangle.” Total funding will be $300,000 over 24 months.
  • Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “IUCRC Proposal Phase 1 Duke: Center for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC) Membersip Fees.” Total funding will be $99,914 over 13 months.
  • Olivier Delaire of MEMS has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Neutron scattering studies of phonon anharmonicity and coupling with spin, charge and disorder.” Total funding will be $48,177 over 11 months.
  • Jessilyn Dunn of BME has received an award from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority for a project entitled “Digital Health Technologies for Infectious Disease Monitoring.” Total funding will be $748,964 over 18 months.
  • Patrick L. Ferguson of CEE has received an award from Vanderbilt University under a prime award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation.” Total funding will be $128,950 over 9 months.
  • Aaron Franklin of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “LEAP-HI: All-Carbon Recyclable Electronics (ACRE): Realizing a Sustainable Electronics Lifecycle.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 12 months.
  • Maria Gorlatova of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: CSR: Medium: Adaptive Environmental Awareness for Collaborative Augmented Reality.” Total funding will be $400,000 over 48 months.
  • Tony Jun Huang of MEMS has received an award from the National Institute on Aging for a project entitled “Automated High-purity Exosome isolation-based AD diagnostics system (AHEADx) .” Total funding will be $3,869,885 over 57 months.
  • Tony Jun Huang of MEMS has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Development of a digital acoustofluidic system for automating liquid handling in biomedical research.” Total funding will be $249,250 over 12 months.
  • Akhenaton D. Jones of CEE has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “A Mechanical Testing Machine for Characterizing Biofilms on Experimental Tools.” Total funding will be $59,740 over 35 months.
  • Hai Li of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Conference: NSF Workshop on Hardware-Software Co-design for Neuro-Symbolic Computation.” Total funding will be $49,848 over 12 months.
  • Norbert M. Linke of the Duke Quantum Center has received an award from Rice University under a prime award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Holographic Analog Simulations and Multi-qubit Gates with Trapped-Ion Quantum Processors.” Total funding will be $65,000 over 36 months.
  • Natalia Litchinitser of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “MRI: Track 2 Acquisition of the Thermo Fischer Cryogenic Helios 5 CX DualBeam for Materials Science.” Total funding will be $1,530,757 over 36 months.
  • Natalia Litchinitser of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Magnetic Resonances in Nonlinear Dielectric Nanostructures: New Light-Matter Interactions and Machine Learning Enhanced Design.” Total funding will be $450,000 over 36 months.
  • Nirmala Ramanujam of BME has received an award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “Understanding metabolic and vascular vulnerabilities of residual disease in triple negative breast cancer to inform on treatment strategies.” Total funding will be $40,503 over 25 months.
  • Amanda Randles of BME has received an award from the University of California - Berkeley under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Detection of Emergent Mechanical Properties of Biologically Complex Cellular States.” Total funding will be $122,579 over 48 months.
  • Tania Roy of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “FuSe: Codesigning devices in neural network for computer vision.” Total funding will be $1,376,180 over 36 months.
  • David R. Smith of ECE has received an award from MetaCept, Inc. under a prime award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “Metasurface Antenna for Cloud-Targeting Radar (MACTRad): W-Band Metasurface Cloud Sensor.” Total funding will be $209,600 over 36 months.
  • Vahid Tarokh of ECE has received an award from Raytheon Technologies Research Center under a prime award from the Air Force Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Scalable Predictions and Analytics of Rare events in Titanium Alloys (SPARTA).” Total funding will be $136,569 over 28 months.
  • Lawrence N. Virgin of MEMS has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Interrogation (probing) of Configuration Space in Buckled Structures.” Total funding will be $527,333 over 36 months.
  • Tuan Vo-Dinh of BME has received an award from the VA San Diego Healthcare System for a project entitled “Molecular Biomarker Study: Duke Pilot Project - Phase 1.” Total funding will be $34,999 over 2 months.

 

Sanford School of Public Policy

  • Shelley Liu has received an award from the Russell Sage Foundation under a prime award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “How Online Media Shapes Polarization Towards Policing.” Total funding will be $29,151 over 12 months.
  • Edmund J. Malesky has received an award from NORC at the University of Chicago under a prime award from the US Agency for International Development for a project entitled “NORC Master Agreement-DRG-LER II-Task Order 1_Anti-Corruption Learning Agenda Literature Review.” Total funding will be $1,960 over 15 months.
  • *** In addition, Tuncay A. Antepli has awards that may be found under the listings for University Administration & Centers.

 

School of Law

  • Keith A. Porcaro has received an award from Massachusetts General Hospital for a project entitled “Bipolar Disorder Network Governance.” Total funding will be $162,104 over 12 months.

 

University Administration & Centers

  • Tuncay A. Antepli of the Office of the Vice President, Durham and Community Affairs, has received an award from Jumpstart for Young Children for a project entitled “Jumpstart for Young Children.” Total funding will be $85,946 over 12 months.
  • Tuncay A. Antepli of the Duke/Durham Education Collaborative has received an award from the Corporation for National and Community Service for a project entitled “Duke University College Advising Corps Partner Program.” Total funding will be $506,273 over 12 months.
  • Erin E. Ehmke of the Lemur Center has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Research Infrastructure: Continued Support of the Duke Lemur Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History.” Total funding will be $1,000,000 over 48 months.
 

University Interdisciplinary Centers

  • Christopher Bail of DUPRI has received an award from the Social Science Research Council under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “SICSS Nigeria.” Total funding will be $7,394 over 2 months.
  • PJ Eric Stallard of DUPRI BARU has received an award from the National Institute on Aging for a project entitled “Migrating the National Long Term Care Survey to the MedRIC Health and Aging Data Enclave.” Total funding will be $241,469 over 18 months.