American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Awards Received

Cumulative Dollar Total of Awards to Penn State: $71,655,535
Cumulative Number of Awards to Penn State: 166

Avery August of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Role of the Tyrosine Kinase ITK in Experimental Allergic Asthma." Total funding will be $107,122.

Theresa S Mayer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Cornell University which is for a project entitled, "NNIN National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Cap Equip Only." Total funding will be $648,000.

Anton Nekrutenko of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has received an award from the Emory University which is for a project entitled, "Dynamically scalable, acessible analysis for next generation sequence data." Total funding will be $199,800.

Harold L Paz of Other (COM) has received an award from the National Center for Research Resources which is for a project entitled, "Drug Discovery Core Facility Relocation and Expansion Project." Total funding will be $2,786,306.

Collins O Airhihenbuwa of Biobehavioral Health has received an award from the John E. Fogarty International Center which is for a project entitled, "Global Health and Georesources Management in Africa." Total funding will be $108,000.

Squire J Booker of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Mechanistic Studies of Lipoic Acid Synthase (Administrative Supplement)." Total funding will be $91,041.

Pamela M Cole of Psychology has received an award from the National Institute of Mental Health which is for a project entitled, "Training in Early Childhood Mental Health Research." Total funding will be $104,134.

John C Drake of Statewide Continuing Education has received an award from the Scranton-Lackawanna Human Development Agency, Inc. which is for a project entitled, "Training for Ruth Ghidiu, JoAnne Kuhn, Calvin Phillips and Richard Wilson." Total funding will be $16,200.

William Gerin of Biobehavioral Health has received an award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute which is for a project entitled, "Pilot Test of a Novel Behavioral Intervention on BP Control in HTN Patients." Total funding will be $754,360.

David S Gilmour of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Potentiated State of the HSP70 Heat Shock Gene (Supplement)." Total funding will be $74,037.

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Simulation of Proton and Hydride Transfer in Enzymes." Total funding will be $183,309.

Ross C Hardison of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has received an award from the National Human Genome Research Institute which is for a project entitled, "Enhance human ENCODE by functional comparisons to mouse." Total funding will be $750,003.

Eric T Harvill of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Evolution of the Bordetellae from Commensals to Pathogens." Total funding will be $384,822.

Steven F Heppelmann of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Forward Meson Production and Spin Asymmetries at RHIC." Total funding will be $495,000.

James E Howell of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Recruiting the Next Generation of Environmental Toxicologists with Hands-On and Interactive Curriculum Modules for Elementary, Middle and High School Students." Total funding will be $499,756.

Eric Kirby of Geosciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Probing the Rheology of Tibetan Lithosphere: Surface Deformation in Response to Climatically-Induced Changes in Lake Loads." Total funding will be $459,877.

Richard S Legro of Obstetrics/Gynecology has received an award from the Northwestern University which is for a project entitled, "Genome Wide Association Scan of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Phenotypes." Total funding will be $122,500.

Richard S Legro of Obstetrics/Gynecology has received an award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development which is for a project entitled, "A Randomized Trial of Letrozole vs Clomiphene in Infertile Women with PCOS (Admin Supp)." Total funding will be $274,042.

Douglas L Leslie of Public Health Sciences has received an award from the National Institute of Mental Health which is for a project entitled, "Economic Production Functions of Schizophrenia Treatment." Total funding will be $496,384.

Bernhard Luscher of Biology has received an award from the National Institute of Mental Health which is for a project entitled, "Use of a Mouse Model of Anxious Depression to Assess the Safety of Pediatric Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Drug Treatment." Total funding will be $420,839.

Nilam Ram of Human Development & Family Studies has received an award from the National Institute on Aging which is for a project entitled, "Tools for Articulating Within-Person Dynamic Models of Interpersonal Interaction." Total funding will be $499,714.

Joan M Redwing of Materials Science & Engineering has received an award from the Illuminex Corporation which is for a project entitled, "Photovoltaic Fabric -- SUBCONTRACT." Total funding will be $45,000.

Steven J Schiff of Neurosurgery has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke which is for a project entitled, "Innovations at the Intersections of Neural Engineering, Materials Science and Medicine." Total funding will be $499,781.

Jennifer L Van Hook of Sociology has received an award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development which is for a project entitled, "Generating Linked NCHS and OIS Data for Immigrant Health and Mortality Research." Total funding will be $707,883.

Sridhar Anandakrishnan of Geosciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: Integrative Study of Marine Ice Sheet Stability and Subglacial Life Habitats in West Antarctica--Robotic Access to Grounding-Zones for Exploratio." Total funding will be $394,000.

Sridhar Anandakrishnan of Geosciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: Glacier Seismicity and its Relationship to Basal Movement.." Total funding will be $208,003.

Sridhar Anandakrishnan of Geosciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: Integrative Study of Marine Ice Sheet Stability and Subglacial Life Habitats in West Antarctica--Lake and Ice-Stream Subglacial Access Research Dr." Total funding will be $391,000.

Avery August of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Eosinophils and Allergic Airway Responses." Total funding will be $113,250.

Stephen J Benkovic of Dean's Office in Science has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Phosphate Activation Mechanisms." Total funding will be $107,609.

Judith S Bond of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Meprins-Metalloproteinases of the Kidney and Intestine (Admin Supp)." Total funding will be $123,112.

John M Carroll of Information Sciences & Technology has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "VOSS: Designing Effective Virtual Organizations." Total funding will be $397,913.

Jane C Charlton of Astronomy & Astrophysics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Exploring Compact Groups as a Laboratory for Morphological Transformation." Total funding will be $200,000.

James R Connor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences has received an award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development which is for a project entitled, "Iron Acquisition Mechanisms in Oligodendrocytes." Total funding will be $343,365.

Claude W de Pamphilis of Biology has received an award from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center which is for a project entitled, "Evolution of Pathways to Pharmaceuticals in the Papaveraceae (Subcontract)." Total funding will be $120,596.

George C Engelmayr, Jr of Bioengineering has received an award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which is for a project entitled, "Rational Design of a Cardiac Tissue Engineering Scaffold." Total funding will be $107,936.

Mark E Feinberg of Prevention Center has received an award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism which is for a project entitled, "Examining Key Assumptions: Prevention of Alcohol Use." Total funding will be $189,000.

Ken S Feldman of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Alkynyliodonium Salts and Derived Diyls in Synthesis." Total funding will be $150,652.

F O Great Valley of Great Valley has received an award from the Montgomery County Department of Economic and Workforce Development which is for a project entitled, "Master Non-Financial Agreement (Great Valley, Berks, Abington campuses)." Total funding will be $1.

Pamela Hankey of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences has received an award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute which is for a project entitled, "Role of the STK Receptor in Erythropoiesis." Total funding will be $294,822.

Jianming Hu of Microbiology & Immunology has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Mechanisms of Hepadnavirus Assembly and Replication." Total funding will be $386,152.

Harriet C Isom of Microbiology & Immunology has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Iron-Induced Changes in Liver that Predispose to Malignancy (Admin Supp)." Total funding will be $100,000.

Kenneth C Keiler of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "The Role of tmRNA in Development of C. crescentus." Total funding will be $44,095.

Kouacou V Konan of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has received an award from the National Cancer Institute which is for a project entitled, "Year 1 Hepatitis C Virus Replication and Intracellular Membrane Rearrangement (Supplement)." Total funding will be $54,000.

Andrey S Krasilnikov of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Proteins in RNA-Based Enzymes (Supplement)." Total funding will be $199,597.

Peter C Lafemina of Geosciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: Toward an Understanding of Magmatic and Seismogenic Processes Beneath Quiescently Active Volcanoes." Total funding will be $217,500.

Charles H Lang of Cellular & Molecular Physiology has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Regulation of Muscle Protein Synthesis During Infection (Admin Supp)." Total funding will be $166,577.

Charles H Lang of Cellular & Molecular Physiology has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Antiretroviral-Induced Defects in Muscle Protein Synthesis(Comp Rev)." Total funding will be $443,515.

Ying Liu of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Materials World Network: Novel Physical Phenomena in Unusual Mesoscopic Superconductors." Total funding will be $450,000.

Kateryna D Makova of Biology has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Male Mutation Bias and Paternal Age Effect in Mammals." Total funding will be $87,133.

Patrick D McDaniel of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "TC: Medium: Collaborative Research: Security Services in Open Telecommunications Networks." Total funding will be $425,496.

Craig M Meyers of Microbiology & Immunology has received an award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research which is for a project entitled, "ART on Oral Tissue Growth, Function, and HPV Infections (Comp Rev.)." Total funding will be $186,025.

Kathleen M Mulder of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology has received an award from the National Cancer Institute which is for a project entitled, "Role of TGF Beta in Microtubule Dynamics(Admin Supp)." Total funding will be $349,254.

Masatoshi Nei of Biology has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Statistical Studies of Genomic Evolution." Total funding will be $98,228.

Andrew A Nyblade of Geosciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: Polenet-East: An International Seismic Network for East Antarctica." Total funding will be $155,488.

Leslie J Parent of Medicine has received an award from the National Cancer Institute which is for a project entitled, "Nuclear Trafficking of the Retroviral Gag Protein (Admin Supp)." Total funding will be $697,656.

Anthony E Pegg of Cellular & Molecular Physiology has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Investigations of Mammalian Aminopropyltransferases(Admin Supp)." Total funding will be $77,288.

Eva J Pell of Sr VP for Research & Dean of Grad Sch Admistration has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Graduate Research Fellowship Program." Total funding will be $934,750.

Gary H Perdew of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Regulation of the Ah Receptor." Total funding will be $9,173.

Timothy Reluga of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Spatial Population Games in Epidemiology and Ecology." Total funding will be $180,000.

Joan T Richtsmeier of Anthropology has received an award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research which is for a project entitled, "Phenogenetics of Skull and Brain Integration in Craniosynostosis." Total funding will be $192,578.

Stephen W Schaeffer of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: Understanding Whole-genome Evolution through Petascale Simulation." Total funding will be $275,000.

Barry E Scheetz of Civil and Environmental Engineering has received an award from the Erie County Conservation District which is for a project entitled, "Rural Road Stormwater Improvements." Total funding will be $229,163.

Barry E Scheetz of Civil and Environmental Engineering has received an award from the Shohola Township which is for a project entitled, "Rosa Road Stormwater and Landslide Corrections." Total funding will be $33,803.

Beth A Shapiro of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: Understanding the role of environmental change on the long-term population dynamics of one surviving and two extinct arctic mammals." Total funding will be $267,758.

Paul D Sommers of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Highest Energy Physics with the Auger Observatory." Total funding will be $1,020,000.

Richard A Wade of Astronomy & Astrophysics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Studies of Hot Subdwarf Stars in Binary Systems." Total funding will be $295,596.

Marian R Walters of Research and Graduate Studies has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Overcoming Cultural Chasms: Maximizing Innovations for Smaller University/Industry Partnerships.." Total funding will be $600,000.

Robin T Wilson of Public Health Sciences has received an award from the National Cancer Institute which is for a project entitled, "Functional Vitamin D Receptor Gene Variants and Racial/Ethnic Cancer Disparities." Total funding will be $50,000.

Rongling Wu of Public Health Sciences has received an award from the University of Florida which is for a project entitled, "Multiscale Network Modeling of Hemodynamically-driven Vascular Adaption (Admin Supp)." Total funding will be $157,325.

Qiming Zhang of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Eye Institute which is for a project entitled, "Supplement: Braille Display using EAP Parent Grant Number 1 R01 EY018387-01A1." Total funding will be $85,500.

Richard B Alley of Geosciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Development of a Viscoelastic Ice-flow Model for Process-based Prediction of Ice-sheet Evolution." Total funding will be $295,099.

Sandra T Azar of Psychology has received an award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development which is for a project entitled, "Maternal Intelligence, Social Information Processing, and Neglect." Total funding will be $592,744.

Paul L Babitzke of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has received an award from the University of Florida which is for a project entitled, "Mechanism of CsrA-Mediated Global Regulation (Subcontract Supplement)." Total funding will be $183,794.

Sheri A Berenbaum of Psychology has received an award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development which is for a project entitled, "Gender Development in Early Adolescence: Prenatal Hormones & Family Socialization." Total funding will be $725,382.

Philip C Bevilacqua of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "MRI: Acquisition of High-Throughput Calorimeters for Ligand-Biopolymer Discovery and Characterization." Total funding will be $459,570.

Fred S Cannon of Civil and Environmental Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "NSF-CMMI-MPM-GOALI: Novel Low-Polluting Collagen-Alkali Silicate Bindered Cores for Foundries." Total funding will be $337,673.

Guohong Cao of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "NeTS:Small: Supporting Multi-Missions in Wireless Sensor Networks." Total funding will be $450,000.

Daniel J Cosgrove of Biology has received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy which is for a project entitled, "Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation." Total funding will be $21,000,000.

Douglas F Cowen of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics with IceCube Data." Total funding will be $986,000.

Derek Elsworth of Energy and Mineral Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Acquisition of a High-Pressure High-Temperature Load and Flow-Through System for Research and Teaching." Total funding will be $207,226.

Maureen D Feineman of Geosciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Magma Residence and Recharge in Thick Continental Crust: Volcan Maipo, Andean Southern Volcanic Zone." Total funding will be $260,511.

Robert C Forrey of Dir of Academic Affairs - Berks has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "RUI: Quantum mechanical studies of hydrogen atoms and molecules in various environments." Total funding will be $199,896.

Katherine H Freeman of Geosciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "What controls the Isotopic Signature of Terrestrial Organic Carbon? A Biomarker Study of the Paleocene and Eocene Section in the Bighorn Basin (WY, USA)." Total funding will be $96,744.

Emmanouil Galenianos of Economics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: A Search - Theoretic Approach to Markets for Illicit Goods." Total funding will be $213,786.

Michael N Gooseff of Civil and Environmental Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: The Role of Snow Patches on the Spatial Distribution of Soil Microbial Communities and Biogeochemical Cycling in the Antarctic Dry Valley(s)." Total funding will be $275,306.

Craig A Grimes of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Efficient Photocatalytic Conversion of CO2 and Water Vapor to Hydrocarbon Fuels Using Sunlight." Total funding will be $300,000.

Daniel C Haworth of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: Petascale Computing, Visualization, and Science Discovery of Turbulent Soothing Flames." Total funding will be $262,438.

Jianming Hu of Microbiology & Immunology has received an award from the University of California which is for a project entitled, "Quantification of Genome Packaging in HBV Nucleocapsids." Total funding will be $73,403.

Trent R Jaeger of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "TC: Medium: Collaborative Research: Techniques to Retrofit Legacy Code with Security." Total funding will be $300,000.

Eric Kirby of Geosciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Acquisition of a Subsurface Radar Imaging Facility at Penn State." Total funding will be $164,000.

Qi Li of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Study of Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions.." Total funding will be $230,000.

Peng Liu of Information Sciences & Technology has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "TC: Medium: Collaborative Research: Towards Self-Protecting Data Centers: A Systematic Approach." Total funding will be $500,000.

Carmen E Martinez of Crop and Soil Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer." Total funding will be $69,862.

John I Messner of Architectural Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Virtual Construction Simulator 3D: A Simulation Game for Construction Engineering Education." Total funding will be $150,000.

Ralph Norgren of Neural and Behavioral Sciences has received an award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders which is for a project entitled, "Neural Systems of Ingestive Behavior (admin supp)." Total funding will be $90,749.

Andrew A Nyblade of Geosciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: Track 2: Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences through the AfricaArray Educational Alliance." Total funding will be $479,742.

Benjamin J Owen of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Gravitational Waves from Compact Objects." Total funding will be $300,000.

Glenn H Palmer of Political Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "MID4: Updating the Militarized Dispute Data Set, 2002-2010." Total funding will be $316,140.

Jeffrey M Peters of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences has received an award from the National Cancer Institute which is for a project entitled, "Modulation of AhR-dependent signaling by PPARb/d." Total funding will be $286,572.

Benjamin F Pugh of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Genome-wide Regulation of the TATA Binding Protein (Administrative Supplement)." Total funding will be $432,061.

Patrick M Reed of Civil and Environmental Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative: WATERS: Evaluating Community Watershed Models and Observation Networks under Uncertainty within the Susquehanna River Basin." Total funding will be $200,000.

Joseph C Reese of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Regulation of DNA Damage Induced Genes by Yeast TAFIIs." Total funding will be $284,673.

William B Reeves of Medicine has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Epithelial/Dendritic Cell Cross-talk in Acute Kidney Injury." Total funding will be $348,975.

Cynthia A Stifter of Human Development & Family Studies has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Temperament and Parenting: Risks for Rapid Weight Gain and Childhood Obesity." Total funding will be $538,080.

Peter D Wilf of Geosciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: Ancient Biodiversity Hotspot in Southern South America: Evolution of Speciose Floras in Patagonia from Latest Cretaceous to Middle Eocene." Total funding will be $1,081,496.

Nicholas Winograd of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Surface Chemistry Studies with Ion Beams." Total funding will be $756,000.

Yuan Xie of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "ADAMS: Architecture and Design Automation for 3D Multi-core Systems." Total funding will be $480,000.

Yue Zhang of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation has received an award from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Osteoblastic Lineage Cells Regulate Ostoclastogenesis Vie Cx43 and Gap Junctions (R03)." Total funding will be $77,550.

Lacy M Alexander Holowatz of Kinesiology has received an award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute which is for a project entitled, "Essential Hypertension and Human Skin Blood Flow." Total funding will be $381,841.

Paul L Babitzke of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences which is for a project entitled, "Mechanism of trp Gene Regulation by TRAP-RNA Recognition." Total funding will be $90,817.

Judith S Bond of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Preparing for Research Careers Relating to Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases(Admin Supp)." Total funding will be $150,120.

Cari R Bryant Arnold of School of Eng. Design, Technology & Prof. Programs has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Enhancing Creativity with a Concept Generator-Evaluation and Team Training.." Total funding will be $350,000.

Coray M Colina of Materials Science & Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Materials World Network: The Subtle Balance Between Rigidity and Swelling in Functional Nanoporous Polymers." Total funding will be $616,000.

Richard J Cyr of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "An orphaned kinesin with a leading role in plant cell morphogenesis." Total funding will be $531,228.

Henry J Donahue of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation has received an award from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Biophysical Signals, Biomaterial Surface Characteristics and hMSC Differentiation (Admin Supp-Summer)." Total funding will be $65,142.

John M Flanagan, Jr of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke which is for a project entitled, "Dietary Intervention and Mitochondrial Toxicity in Age-dependent Model of Glutaric Acidemia." Total funding will be $77,550.

Patricia S Grigson-Kennedy of Neural and Behavioral Sciences has received an award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse which is for a project entitled, "Drugs of Abuse, Reward Comparison and the Thalamus." Total funding will be $342,550.

Murat Gunaydin of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Novel Approaches to Outstanding Problems in M/Superstring Theory, Supergravity and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories." Total funding will be $450,000.

Andras Hajnal of Neural and Behavioral Sciences has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Gastric Bypass Surgery Alters the Regulation of Food Reward(Admin Supp)." Total funding will be $45,664.

Christopher R Herzog of Pharmacology has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences which is for a project entitled, "ADSS1 Inactivation as a Promoter of Tumor Metabolism and Lung Carcinogenesis." Total funding will be $230,157.

Harriet C Isom of Microbiology & Immunology has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Iron-Induced Changes in Liver that Predispose to Malignancy (Admin Supp-Summer)." Total funding will be $30,656.

Leonard S Jefferson, Jr of Cellular & Molecular Physiology has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Regulation of Liver Growth and Function (Admin Supp)." Total funding will be $8,990.

Donna H Korzick of Kinesiology has received an award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute which is for a project entitled, "Mitochondrial and Nuclear Mechanisms of Estrogen Receptor-Mediated Cardioprotecti." Total funding will be $189,652.

Jianhua Li of Medicine has received an award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute which is for a project entitled, "Sympathetic Nervous System and Heart Failure-role of Primary Afferent Neurons." Total funding will be $17,750.

Clifford J Lissenden, III of Engineering Science & Mechanics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Continuous piezoelectric health monitoring systems based on ultrasonic guided waves 2008 version." Total funding will be $320,000.

Chris J Marone of Geosciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Laboratory Study of Fault Healing and Frictional Properties: Role of Fluids." Total funding will be $374,643.

Vanya I Miteva of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Microbiological and Geochemical Studies Along the New Greenland NEEM Core: From Authenticity to Microbial Diversity and Activity." Total funding will be $532,177.

Ralph Norgren of Neural and Behavioral Sciences has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Neural Mechanisms of Oil Reward (admin supp)." Total funding will be $27,855.

George Pavlov of Astronomy & Astrophysics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: Unidentified Galactic TeV Sources: Neutron Star Connection." Total funding will be $238,622.

Jamal Rostami of Energy and Mineral Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Study of Soil Abrasivity and Development of a Reliable Soil Abrasivity Index." Total funding will be $190,240.

Demian M Saffer of Energy Institute has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Mechanics and Seismogenic Potential of Low Angle Normal Faults: A Field and Laboratory Investigation." Total funding will be $186,048.

Joseph L Schafer of Statistics has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Marginal Causal Models for Observational Studies in Obesity Research." Total funding will be $176,400.

Srinivas A Tadigadapa of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Quartz Resonator Based Calorimetric Sensor for Biochemical Sensing and Clinical Diagnostic Applications." Total funding will be $350,000.

Matthew B Thomas of Entomology has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Quantifying the Influence of Environmental Temperature on Transmission of Vector-borne Diseases." Total funding will be $1,884,991.

Jennifer L Van Hook of Sociology has received an award from the Bowling Green State University which is for a project entitled, "Demographic Analysis of SES Stability and Well-being Among Children of Immigrants." Total funding will be $104,616.

Kent E Vrana of Pharmacology has received an award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism which is for a project entitled, "Serum Biomarkers of Alcohol Self-administration in Non-human Primates (Admin Supp)." Total funding will be $50,125.

Nancy C Woods of Beaver has received an award from the Job Training of Beaver County which is for a project entitled, "Job Training Work Certification." Total funding will be $7,500.

Jian Xu of Engineering Science & Mechanics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "CAREER Two-Phonton Pumped Lasing Using Semiconductor Nanostructures by Design." Total funding will be $400,000.

Richard A Yetter of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering has received an award from the Princeton University which is for a project entitled, "Multifunctional Colloidal Nanocatalysts for Liquid Fuel Combustion Fuels and Combustion Studies." Total funding will be $217,375.

Anne M Andrews of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences has received an award from the National Institute of Mental Health which is for a project entitled, "Voltammetry of 5-HT Transmission in Degenerative & Psychiatric Disease Models." Total funding will be $18,348.

William H Brune of Meteorology has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Measurement and Interpretation of OH, HO2, and OH Reactivity during BEARPEX 09." Total funding will be $457,061.

Richard J Courtney of Microbiology & Immunology has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Modification of a Tegument Protein During the Assembly of HSV-1." Total funding will be $232,526.

Dhimant H Desai of Pharmacology has received an award from the National Cancer Institute which is for a project entitled, "iNOS/Akt Inhibitor for Colon Cancer Chemoprevention." Total funding will be $77,200.

Mark E Feinberg of Prevention Center has received an award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse which is for a project entitled, "Pilot Study of Sibling Prevention Program (Stimulus)." Total funding will be $518,631.

Steven B Feldstein of Meteorology has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: Study of the Relationship between Regionally Localized and Zonally Symmetric Anomalously Persistent Weather States." Total funding will be $91,932.

Jose D Fuentes of Meteorology has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "EAGER: Do Air Pollutants Modify the Strength and Quality of Floral Scents?." Total funding will be $161,427.

Michael N Gooseff of Civil and Environmental Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: How does changing seasonality affect the capacity of arctic stream networks to influence nutrient fluxes from the landscape to the ocean?." Total funding will be $373,268.

Michael N Gooseff of Civil and Environmental Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "What are the seasonal controls on stream-riparian groundwater exchange during baseflow recession in headwater catchments?." Total funding will be $460,692.

Pamela Hankey of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences has received an award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute which is for a project entitled, "Role of the STK Receptor in Erythropoiesis." Total funding will be $16,040.

Michael Katzman of Medicine has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Novel Stimulators of HIV-1 Integrase for Use in Combination Microbicide Regimens (Admin Supp-Summer)." Total funding will be $40,329.

Jianhua Li of Medicine has received an award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute which is for a project entitled, "Sympathetic Nervous System and Heart Failure-role of Primary Afferent Neurons." Total funding will be $370,000.

Thomas P Loughran of Medicine has received an award from the National Cancer Institute which is for a project entitled, "Targeted Therapeutics of LGL Leukemia Utilizing Ceramide Nanoliposomes (Admin Supp)." Total funding will be $17,452.

Thomas P Loughran of Medicine has received an award from the National Cancer Institute which is for a project entitled, "Survival Mechanisms in Leukemic NK Cells." Total funding will be $336,849.

Michael E Mann of Meteorology has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Collaborative Research: Toward Improved Projections of the Climate Response to Anthropogenic Forcing: Combining Proxy and Instrumental Observations with an Earth System." Total funding will be $541,184.

Prasenjit Mitra of Information Sciences & Technology has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "CAREER: An Integrated Framework for Extracting and Utilizing Information from Tables and Figures in Digital Libraries." Total funding will be $449,782.

David Mu of Pathology has received an award from the National Cancer Institute which is for a project entitled, "Identification and Characterization of the Driver Gene(s) in Recurrent Lung Cancer Amplicons (Admin Supp)." Total funding will be $38,411.

Eric S Post of Biology has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Timing is everything: seasonality and phenological dynamics linking species, communities, and trophic feedbacks in the Lox- vs. High." Total funding will be $363,137.

Mercedes T Richards of Astronomy & Astrophysics has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "The Life Cycles of Interacting Binary Stars." Total funding will be $298,522.

Jeffery T Sample of Microbiology & Immunology has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Mechanisms of Gene Regulation by EBV EBNA-1 Protein." Total funding will be $387,750.

Ian A Simpson of Neural and Behavioral Sciences has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Diabetes & Stroke: Impaired Wound Healing in the Brain (Admin Supp-Summer)." Total funding will be $42,594.

Fuqing Zhang of Meteorology has received an award from the National Science Foundation which is for a project entitled, "Doppler Radar Observations and Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation for Cloud-Resolving Hurricane Prediction." Total funding will be $550,146.

Constance A Flanagan of Agricultural & Extension Education has received an award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse which is for a project entitled, "Friends Helping Friends: Socially Responsible ATOD Prevention." Total funding will be $178,517.

Melissa Rolls of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke which is for a project entitled, "Neuronal events and molecular pathways in active dendrite degeneration." Total funding will be $214,071.

Todd D Schell of Microbiology & Immunology has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which is for a project entitled, "Neuroendocrine Modulation of T Cell Immunity to Cancer (Limited R21)." Total funding will be $232,526.

Sridhar Sunderam of Engineering Science & Mechanics has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke which is for a project entitled, "Towards a Behavioral Index of Seizure Susceptibility." Total funding will be $74,000.

Willard M Freeman of Pharmacology has received an award from the Oklahoma, University of which is for a project entitled, "Cognitive Decline & Protein Expression Profiles in Aging." Total funding will be $131,140.