Richard L. Axelbaum, Ph.D., professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, has received a three-year, $300,781 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Flame-Assisted Synthesis of Li Ion Battery Materials.” This grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. …
Todd Braver, Ph.D., professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year supplemental grant of $376,812 from the National Institute of Mental Health for ongoing research titled “Dual Mechanisms of Cognitive Control.” This supplemental grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. …
Graham A. Colditz, M.D., the Niess-Gain Professor of Surgery and professor of medicine, has received a two-year, $272,163 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute. The grant will fund a collaborative project between the School of Medicine’s Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities and the Betty Jean Kerr People’s Health Centers Inc. (PHC) for breast health patient navigation and mammography services at PHC’s second-largest health center in north St. Louis County. This grant was supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. …
The Cystic Fibrosis Center at the School of Medicine and St. Louis Children’s Hospital received a 2009 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Quality Care Award at the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference in Minne-apolis Oct. 17. …
Gerald L. Early, Ph.D., the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $208,521 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the Center for the Humanities to sponsor a 2010 summer institute for school teachers titled “The New Negro Renaissance in America, 1914-1941.” Several Arts & Sciences faculty, including Rafia Zafar, Ph.D., professor of English and of African and African American studies, Joseph Thompson, Ph.D., academic coordinator in African and Afri-can American studies, Patrick Burke, Ph.D., assistant professor of music, and Sowande Musta-keem, Ph.D., Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in history, will be part of the institute. …
Tim Holy, Ph.D., associate professor of neurobiology, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award — one of only 18 given this year — to develop innovative ways to monitor the activity of many neurons simultaneously. The NIH Director’s Pioneer Award funds “individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering — and possibly transforming approaches — to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.” The award will provide Holy with $500,000 annually over five years.