Ellen Damschen, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, Jay R. Turner, Ph.D., associate professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, and Dirk V. Baker, Ph.D., postdoctoral research associate in biology, have received a two-year, $140,323 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “How Structural Heterogeneity and Connectivity of Landscapes Affect Wind Dispersal.” Also receiving the grant was Gil Bohrer, Ph.D., at The Ohio State University. This grant was supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. …
Sarah C.R. Elgin, Ph.D., the Viktor Hamburger Professor in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $201,488 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research titled “Formation, Structure and Function of Heterochromatin.” This grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. …
James L. Gibson, Ph.D., the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $40,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Public Support for the Supreme Court in the Obama Era: Expectancy Theory and the Replacement of Justice Souter.” …
Melissa Jonson-Reid, Ph.D., associate professor of social work, has received a three-year, $689,286 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for research titled “Early Childhood Connections.” …
Tao Ju, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received a one-year, $52,526 subcontract from the Battelle Memorial Institute for research titled “An interactive Volumetric Atlas of the Mouse Brain.” …
Kenneth F. Kelton, Ph.D., the Arthur Holly Compton Professor in Arts & Sciences and chair of the Department of Physics, has received a three-year, $405,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Relations Between Structure, Phase Formation and Phase Transitions in Supercooled Metallic Liquids and Glasses.” …
Rebecca Lester, Ph.D., assistant professor, and Anubha Sood, graduate student, both in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, have received a one-year, $7,025 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Women’s Pathways to Mental Health: Comparing Psychiatry and Mystical-Spiritual Healing in Urban North India.” …
Robert A. Pollak, Ph.D., the Robert E. Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Olin Business School and in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $335,516 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development for research titled “Time Use and Household Production.” This grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.