Jan P. Amend, Ph.D., associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $293,261 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Development of Numerical Models Linking Fluid Geochemistry and Biological Communities in Mid-Ocean Ridge Hydrothermal Environments.” Also receiving the grant was Thomas M. McCollom, Ph.D., of the University of Colorado. …
Shirley K. Baker, vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of University Libraries, has been named to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Corporation Visiting Committee for the Libraries. She will serve a four-year term. From 1982-89, Baker was the associate director for public services at the MIT Libraries. …
Dawn Brancati, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $119,300 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Another Great Illusion: The Advancement of Separatism through Economic Integration.” …
Todd Braver, Ph.D., professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $418,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for research titled “Negative Reinforcement Effects on Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control.” …
Marco Colonna, M.D., professor of pathology and immunology, has received a four-year, $411,897 subcontract from the University of Chicago and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for research titled “HLA-G-LILRB-SHP2 Axis in Airway Smooth Muscle.” …
Ramanath Cowsik, Ph.D., professor of physics and director of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., professor and chair of earth and planetary sciences, and Michael E. Wysession, Ph.D., associate professor of earth and planetary sciences, all in Arts & Sciences, have received a two-year, $389,949 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Development of New Rotational Seismometers of High Sensitivity.” This grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. …
David Fike, Ph.D., assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $265,247 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “Insights into the Late Archean Sulfur Cycle From a Unique Combination of SIMS Analysis of Multiple Sulfur Isotopes and Scanning SQUID Microscopy of Sedimentary Pyrite and Carbonate-Associated Sulfate.” …
Mark A. Franklin, Ph.D., the Hugo F. and Ina Champ Urbauer Professor of Engineering, James H. Buckley, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, Jeremy D. Buhler, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science and engineering, Roger D. Chamberlain, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science and engineering, and Viktor Gruev, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, have received a four-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “CSR: Medium: Architecturally Diverse Systems for Streaming Applications.” The research will focus on developing techniques for effectively designing special-purpose computers tailored to streaming applications with a focus on the areas of computational genetics and astrophysics. …
C. Charles Gu, Ph.D., associate professor of biostatistics and of genetics, and Jay F. Piccirillo, M.D., professor of otolaryngology and of medicine, have received a three-year, $778,590 T15 award from the National Institutes of Health for the Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS) concentrated in Biostatistics Research in Disease and Genetic Epidemiology (BRIDGE). The program will provide intensive summer training to quantitatively oriented undergraduate and early graduate students. …
Anne Hofmeister, Ph.D., research professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $121,646 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “An Integrated Experimental and Cbservational Study of Cosmic Silicate Astromineralogy.” This grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. …
Tao Ju, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received five-year, $476,564 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “CAREER: Reconstructing Geometrically and Topologically Correct Models.” …
Henric S. Krawczynski, Ph.D., associate professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $98,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “Revisiting the Blazar Sequence Based on Contemporaneous Swift and Fermi Blazar Observations.” …
Rebecca Lester, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received the 2009 Stirling Prize for Best Published Work in Psychological Anthropology for her essay “Brokering Authenticity: Borderline Personality Disorder and the Ethics of Care in an American Eating Disorder Clinic.” …
Andrew D. Martin, Ph.D., professor of political science in Arts & Sciences and of law, and Xun Pang, graduate student in political science, have received a one-year, $7,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Discrete Time-Series Cross-Section Models of Political Economy.” …
Kevin D. Moeller, Ph.D., professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $455,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “New Synthetic Methods for Building Chip Based Libraries.” …
Thalachallour Mohanakumar, Ph.D., the Jacqueline G. & William E. Maritz Professor of Immunology & Oncology and professor of surgery and of pathology and immunology, has received a four-year, $1,000,000 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “Alloantibodies to MHC Induces Autoimmunity and Obliterative Airway Disease (OAD).” …
Eugene M. Oltz, Ph.D., professor of pathology and immunology, has received a two-year, $418,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “Long-Range Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Igh Gene Assembly.” This grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. …
M. Alan Permutt, M.D., professor of medicine and of cell biology and physiology and director of the Diabetes Research and Training Center, received the 2009 Individual Active Living Award from Trailnet Sept. 17. An avid cyclist and bike commuter, he has managed his diabetes since age 16 with regimens of exercise and diet and espouses the benefits of exercise as a primary treatment for diabetic disease.