Chenyang Lu, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, is serving as program co-chair for next year’s International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, to be held on the Island of Rhodes in April 2006. Chris Gill, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, was general co-chair for this year’s workshop, held April 4-5 in Denver. Gill also is co-editor of an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Computer and System Sciences, which will contain selected papers from the 2005 IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium. …
Weixong Zhang, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science and engineering, has received a $300,000 grant from Monsanto for research titled “Genome-wide Identification of Stress Genes in Plants.” Zhang recently became an editorial board member of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and associate editor of AI Communications — The European Journal on Artificial Intelligence. …
Ervin Y. Rodin, Ph.D., professor of electrical and systems engineering, has received a three-year, $659,731 grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research for research titled “Simulation and Optimization Methodologies for Military Transportation Network Routing and Scheduling.” …
R. Martin Arthur, Ph.D., the Newton R. and Sarah Louisa Glasgow Wilson Professor of Engineering, has received a three-year, $818,414 grant from the National Cancer Institute for research titled “3D Noninvasive Temperature Estimation with Ultrasound.” …
Da-Ren Chen, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and systems engineering, has received a two-year, $40,000 grant from the University of Minnesota’s Center for Filtration Research. …
Amy Q. Shen, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and William F. Pickard, Ph.D., senior professor of electrical and systems engineering, have received a three-year, $190,000 National Science Foundation grant for research titled “Self-powered Sensory Nerve System for Civil Structure Using Hybrid Forisome Actuators.” …;
Bruce Fegley, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $174,890 grant from NASA for research titled “High Temperature Geochestry. “…
Stacey Freedenthal, graduate fellow in social work, has received a six-month, $25,571 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for research titled “Youth Suicidality and Mental Health Service Use. “…
Guojun Bu, Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics, has received a three-year, $239,993 grant from the Alzheimer’s Association for research titled “Role of LRP1B in APP Trafficking and Alzheimer’s Disease.” …
John C. Morris, M.D., the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Professor of Neurology, has received a one-year, $200,000 grant from an anonymous donor for research titled “Continuing Study of Antecedent Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease and PET Scanning Amyloid Imaging.” …
Yuan-Huan Tai, Ph.D., assistant professor of radiology, has received a one-year, $172,088 grant from the National Cancer Institute for research titled “A Novel Device to Allow Zoom-in Imaging for PET Scanners.” …
Leonard B. Maggi Jr., Ph.D., postdoctoral research scholar in internal medicine-medical oncology, has received a one-year, $124,416 grant from the USA Med Research ACQ Activity for research titled “Role of the ARF Tumor Suppressor in Prostate Cancer.” …
Jennifer R. Smith, Ph.D., assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $216,451 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Developing a Record of Quartenary Climactic Oscillation for the Eastern Sahara through Analysis of Fossil-Spring Tufas and Lacustrine Deposists Western Desert, Egypt.” …
Karen Wooley, Ph.D., professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $12,549,737 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for research titled “Integrated Nanosystems for Diagnosis and Therapy,” and a one-year, $34,011 grant from the National Science Foundations for research titled “U.S.-Japan Seminar: Advances in Polymer Chemistry and Their Impacts Upon Society.” …
Libby Cowgill, graduate student of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $11,542 grant from the L.S.B. Leaky Foundation for research titled “Ontogeny of Long Bone Diasphyses in Immature Late Pleistocene Postcrania.” …
Lingfei Xu, M.D., research instructor in medicine, has received a two-year, $200,000 grant from the Bayer Healthcare LLC, Biological Products Division for research titled “Developing and Producing Progressive Treatments with the Purpose of Extending and Enhancing the Lives of Persons with Hemophilia.” …
J. Dewey Holten, Ph.D., has received a three-year, $440,000 grant from the Department of Energy for research titled “Studies of Ground-state Hole/Electron Transfer in Porphyrin-based Modular Architectures.” …
Bradley Jolliff, Ph.D., research associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $120,000 grant from NASA for research titled “Integrated Remote Sensing and Sample Approaches to Understanding Planetary Surface Compositions: Moon and Mars.”