Linda Van Dillen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical therapy, has received a four-year, $1,438,316 grant from the National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research for research titled “Classification-directed Treatment of Low Back Pain.” …
Michael R. DeBaun, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and of neurology; Michael S. Diamond, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, of pathology and immunology and of microbiology; and Russell Van Gelder, M.D., Ph.D. associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and of molecular biology and pharmacology, each received a five-year, $750,000 Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research from Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The awards are intended to support established, independent physician-scientists who are dedicated to translational research and mentoring physician-scientist trainees. …
Yixin Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received the Early Career Principal Investigator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy. Chen will use his three-year, $298,421 award to develop numerical computation software that can solve large-scale computational problems, such as those arising from ultra-high-speed networks and genetic regulatory networks. …
Chenyang Lu, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received a three-year, $359,426 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “NeTS-NOSS: Unified and Configurable Power Management for Wireless Sensor Networks.” …
Joy Weese Moll, reference and Web services librarian, recently presented her workshop “Social Software in Libraries” at four locations: the Lewis and Clark Library System Headquarters in Edwardsville, Ill.; Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville; the Southern Illinois Learning Resources Cooperative Retreat at Rend Lake, Ill.; and the Kirkwood (Mo.) Public Library.