Dartmouth researchers were awarded a combined $27.3 million in new and competing awards during August 2012 ($19.1 million) and September 2012 ($8.2 million), for projects that range from studying black holes to cancer research to examining causes of hearing loss.
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Below, view the complete list of awards as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects.
August 2012 Research AwardsAward commitment from the sponsoring agency is for a single year unless otherwise indicated.
Mary-Margaret Andrews—MedicineSponsoring agency: Health Resources and Services Administration Project: “Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D Grants for Coordinated HIV Services and Access to Research for WICY” 35-month project
Kelly Aschbrenner—PsychiatrySponsoring agency: Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Project: “Developing a Social Support Component for Healthy Lifestyle Interventions for Persons with Serious Mental Illness” 2-year project
Ian Baker—Thayer School of EngineeringSponsoring agency: Department of Energy Project: “TAOI B Laves Phase-Strengthened Austenitic Steels for Coal-Fired Power Systems” 3-year project
Giovanni Bosco—GeneticsSponsoring agency: National Institute of General Medical Sciences Project: “Chromosome Pairing and Condensins” 11-month project
Mary Brunette, R. Drake, J. Ferron and J. Gottlieb—Psychiatry and G. McHugo and H. Xie—Community and Family MedicineSponsoring agency: National Cancer Institute Project: “Decision Support for Smoking Cessation in Young Adults with Severe Mental Illness” 2-year project
Alan Budney—PsychiatrySponsoring agency: Yale University Project: “FAAH-Inhibitor for Cannabis Dependence” 10-month project
Tracie Caller and E. Stommel—NeurologySponsoring agency: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association Project: “Epidemiology of ALS in Northern New England: A Possible Relationship to Environmental Toxins”
Jay Dunlap and S. Gerber—GeneticsSponsoring agency: National Institute of General Medical Sciences Project: “Genetic and Molecular Dissection of the Neurospora Clock” 47-month project
Alan Eastman—Pharmacology and Toxicology and A. Danilov—MedicineSponsoring agency: The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Project: “Enhancing the Efficacy of BCL2 Inhibitors in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia” 3-year project
Richard Enelow—Medicine and S. Fiering—Microbiology and ImmunologySponsoring agency: University of Virginia Project: “Organ Specific Anti-Viral Immunity: Role of Innate and Adaptive Immune Effectors”
Paul Gorman—PsychiatrySponsoring agency: Vermont Department of Health Project: “Vermont State Hospital Consultation” 7-month project
Robert Gougelet—MedicineSponsoring agency: State of New Hampshire Project: “Northern New England Metropolitan Medical Response System” 23-month project
Ryan Hickox—Physics and AstronomySponsoring agency: National Science Foundation Project: “Collaborative Research: The Hidden Side of Rapidly Growing Black Holes: Host Masses and Evolution of Obscured Quasars with SDSS and WISE” 3-year project
Mary Hudson, R. Caldwell, J. LaBelle, K. Lynch and R. Millan—Physics and AstronomySponsoring agency: Department of Education Project: “Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program" 3-year project
Thomas Jack and M. Ayres—Biological SciencesSponsoring agency: Department of Education Project: “Increasing Graduate Education in the Biological Sciences” 3-year project
Songbai Ji and K. Paulsen—Thayer School of Engineering and E. Demidenko—Community and Family Medicine and D. Roberts—SurgerySponsoring agency: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Project: “Measuring Material Properties of the Human Brain in vivo” 2-year project
Paul Kispert—SurgerySponsoring agency: Vanderbilt University Project: “Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Support Center at Vanderbilt-AAMC”
F. Jon Kull, R. Cantor, D. Glueck and J. Winn—ChemistrySponsoring agency: Department of Education Project: “GAANN Project in Chemistry at Dartmouth College” 3-year project
Manabu Kurokawa—Pharmacology and ToxicologySponsoring agency: National Cancer Institute Project: “Molecular Mechanisms of Chemoresistance in Breast Cancer” 3-year project
Wen Li—Microbiology and ImmunologySponsoring agency: VERANNE Project: “JPA-LI” 3-month project
Sarah Lord—PsychiatrySponsoring agency: National Institute of Mental Health Project: “Mobile Text Message Intervention to Promote HIV/STI Service Use by At-Risk” 23-month project
Carmen Marsit and J. DeLeo—Pharmacology and ToxicologySponsoring agency: Butler Hospital Project: “Childhood Maltreatment: Epigenetic Modulation of the Glucocorticoid Receptor”
Ming Meng—Psychological and Brain SciencesSponsoring agency: National Science Foundation Project: “Neural Mechanisms Underlying Categorical Perception in the Processing of Faces” 3-year project
Hans-Reinhard Mueller—Physics and AstronomySponsoring agency: Space Telescope Science Institute Project: “In Search of a Young Solar Wind” 38-month project
Randolph Noelle—Microbiology and ImmunologySponsoring agency: ImmuNext, Inc. Project: “Evaluation of VISTA as a Therapeutic Target” 3-year project
Randolph Noelle, D. Dalton and M. Turk—Microbiology and ImmunologySponsoring agency: National Cancer Institute Project: “Synergy of the Innate and Acquired Immune Responses in Tumor Immunity” 2-year project
Gerald O’Connor—Medicine and E. Nelson—Community and Family MedicineSponsoring agency: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Project: “Cystic Fibrosis National Program”
Rosa Orellana—MathematicsSponsoring agency: National Security Agency Project: “Conference Series: Discrete Mathematics Days in the Northeast”
Deborah Ornstein—MedicineSponsoring agency: Mount Sinai School of Medicine Project: “Regional Hemophilia Network”
George O’Toole—Microbiology and ImmunologySponsoring agency: Cornell University Project: “Molecular Mechanism Regulating Periplasmic Proteolysis in Bacterial Pathogenesis”
Devon Renock—Earth SciencesSponsoring agency: National Science Foundation Project: “Collaborative Research: A Multi-Method Approach to Determine the Role of Semiconducting Oxide and Sulfide Surfaces in Catalyzing As, Cr, and Se Redox” 3-year project
Carl Renshaw and W. Dade—Earth Sciences and F. Magilligan—GeographySponsoring agency: National Science Foundation Project: “Geomorphic Response and Recovery to Hurricane Irene Floods: Characterizing Reach-Scale and Regional Controls on Fluvial Adjustments and Fine Sediment” 42-month project
James Sargent—PediatricsSponsoring agency: Fogarty International Center Project: “Cinema Smoking and Youth Smoking in Latin America” 5-year project
James Saunders—Surgery and C. Belden—RadiologySponsoring agency: Creare, Inc. Project: “Automated System for Digital Measurements of Ear Canal Geometry” 18-month project
George Schaller—Biological SciencesSponsoring agency: Department of Energy Project: “Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Ethylene Perception and Signaling in Arabidopsis”
George Schaller—Biological SciencesSponsoring agency: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Project: “MCA-PGR: Genomic Approaches to Understanding Cytokinin Signaling and Function in Rice”
Bengt Sonnerup—Thayer School of EngineeringSponsoring agency: University of Colorado Project: “Ion and Electron Velocity Signatures at Solar Wind Reconnection Exhausts” 3-year project
Michael Sporn—Pharmacology and ToxicologySponsoring agency: Johns Hopkins University Project: “Nrf2 Signaling and Oxidative Stress in Age-Related Macular Degeneration”
Tracy Stecker—Community and Family MedicineSponsoring agency: Thresholds Psychiatric Rehabilitation Centers Project: “Mobile Interventions for Veterans with Serious Mental Illness”
Harold Swartz, A. Flood and B. Williams—RadiologySponsoring agency: Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority Project: “In Vivo Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) Tooth Dosimetry for Rapid Point-of-Care Diagnostic Assessment of Absorbed Doses of Ionizing Radiation” 47-month project
Douglas Van Citters—Thayer School of EngineeringSponsoring agency: OrthoSensor, Inc. Project: “Analog Infection Detection Prototype” 3-month project
Li Wang and M. Turk—Microbiology and ImmunologySponsoring agency: National Cancer Institute Project: “VISTA, a Novel Checkpoint Pathway that Suppresses Anti-tumor T Cell Responses” 58-month project
September 2012 Research Awards
Award commitment from the sponsoring agency is for a single year unless otherwise indicated.
Anna Adachi-Mejia and T. Foster—The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical PracticeSponsoring agency: University of Washington Project: “Rural Town Walkability: Measuring the Effect of the Built Environment” 4-month project
Christopher Amos—Community and Family Medicine and W. Black—RadiologySponsoring agency: National Cancer Institute Project: “Transdisciplinary Research in Cancer of the Lung” 22-month project
Denise Anthony—Institute for Security, Technology, and SocietySponsoring agency: National Security Agency Project: “Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) 2012-2013 ”
Matthew Ayres—Biological SciencesSponsoring agency: United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Project: “Assessing Southern Pine Beetle Mortality in the New Jersey Pinelands” 2-year project
Devin Balkcom—Computer ScienceSponsoring agency: National Science Foundation Project: “RI: Small: Practical techniques for robotic manipulation of string and wire” 6-year project
William Black—RadiologySponsoring agency: National Cancer Institute Project: “Using Modeling to Develop Lung Cancer Screening”
Sergey Bratus and S. Smith—Institute for Security, Technology, and SocietySponsoring agency: Intel Corporation Project: “Capturing and Enforcing Intent Semantics for Trust Evidence” 3-year project
Jay Buckey and T. MacKenzie—MedicineSponsoring agency: Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research Project: “Field Deployable Hearing Assessment System for Tracking Noise-Induced Hearing Loss”
Alan Budney—PsychiatrySponsoring agency: Johns Hopkins University Project: “The Role of Sleep in the Treatment of Cannabis Use Disorders”
Celia Chen—Biological Sciences and B. Jackson—Earth SciencesSponsoring agency: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Project: “Climate Impact on Coastal Ecosystem Methylmercury: Human Exposure Implications” 34-month project
Francesca Civano—Physics and AstronomySponsoring agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Project: “A Variable Energy, Redshifted, Iron Absorption Line in a Recoiling Black Hole”
Carrie Colla and E. Meara—The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice and J. Skinner and C. Snyder—Economics and E. Fisher—MedicineSponsoring agency: National Institute on Aging Project: “Learning from Medicare Payment Reform: Economic Effects of ACO Incentives” 15-month project
Robert Cramer—Microbiology and ImmunologySponsoring agency: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Project: “Hypoxia Adaptation and Fungal Virulence of Aspergillus fumigatus” 11-month project
Zajj Daugherty—MathematicsSponsoring agency: National Science Foundation Project: “Combinatorics and Representation Theory of Centralizer Algebras” 3-year project
Richard Denton—Physics and AstronomySponsoring agency: National Science Foundation Project: “Collaborative Research: Magnetospheric Mass Density” 4-year project
Jennifer Doherty—Community and Family MedicineSponsoring agency: Hutchinson Cancer Center Project: “Telomeres and Lung Cancer Incidence and Survival” 13-month project
Dale Eickelman—Office of the ProvostSponsoring agency: University of Kuwait Project: “American University of Kuwait-Dartmouth Advisory Project”
Elliott Fisher—The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical PracticeSponsoring agency: Dynamic Clinical Systems, Inc. Project: “Research Platform Integrating Patient Reported and Clinical Outcomes Data Source” 6-month project
Frederick Gibbons—Psychological and Brain Sciences and J. Sargent—PediatricsSponsoring agency: Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii Project: “Self-Control as a Moderator for Effects of Mass Media on Adolescent Substance Abuse”
Marjorie Godfrey—The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice and M. Splaine—MedicineSponsoring agency: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Project: “Accelerating Improvement for CF Care”
David Goodman and E. Fisher—The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical PracticeSponsoring agency: Health Resources and Services Administration Project: “Primary Care Service Area Enhancements and Studies” 5-year project
Henry Higgs—BiochemistrySponsoring agency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Project: “Biological Mechanism of INF2-Mediated FSGS”
Mark Israel—Norris Cotton Cancer Center and A. Hartov—Environmental Sciences and Engineering and D. Jewell—Genetics and A. Tosteson and K. Dragnev—MedicineSponsoring agency: National Cancer Institute Project: “Cancer Center Support Grant” 2-year project
Meredith Kelly—Earth SciencesSponsoring agency: National Science Foundation Project: “Collaborative Research: Climate Controls on the Formation of Tropical Glacier Moraines in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda-Congo” 2-year project
Jifeng Liu—Thayer School of EngineeringSponsoring agency: Solar-Tectic LLC Project: “Laser-Directed In-Plane Growth of Single Crystalline and Large-Grained Si Thin Films” 4-month project
Sarah Lord and G. Bond and J. Ferron—Psychiatry and E. Carpenter-Song and G. McHugo and D. Becker—Community and Family Medicine and S. Swanson— New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research CenterSponsoring agency: Department of Education Project: “Development Center to Enhance Evidence-Based Supportive Employment with a Technology-Based Management System” 5-year project
William Lotko—Thayer School of EngineeringSponsoring agency: Southwest Research Institute Project: “Project Scientist: OHMIC Concept Study Report” 18-month project
Carmen Marsit—Pharmacology and ToxicologySponsoring agency: Miriam Hospital Project: “Maternal Smoking: HPA and Epigenetic Pathways to Infant Neurobehavioral Deficit” 4-year projectRandolph Noelle and L. Wang—Microbiology and ImmunologySponsoring agency: ImmuNext, Inc. Project: “Validating Human VISTA and Engineering of VISTA Agonists to Treat Autoimmune Disease”
Ardis Olson—PediatricsSponsoring agency: Johns Hopkins University Project: “Using Handheld Computers for Enhanced Mental Health Care in Primary Care”
Paul Palumbo—MedicineSponsoring agency: Social & Scientific Systems, Inc. Project: “International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Group”
Shari Pfleeger—Institute for Information Infrastructure ProtectionSponsoring agency: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Project: “Improving CSIRT Skills, Dynamics and Effectiveness” 3-year project
Alexander Rimberg—Physics and AstronomySponsoring agency: Department of Defense, Air Force Research Laboratory Project: “Ultrasensitive Charge Detection Using a Cavity-Embedded Single Cooper Pair Transistor” 11-month project
James Sargent and S. Tanski—Pediatrics and T. Heatherton—Psychological and Brain SciencesSponsoring agency: Westat Project: “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Nation Longitudinal Study of Tobacco Users” 58-month project
Erland Schulson—Thayer School of Engineering and C. Renshaw—Earth SciencesSponsoring agency: United States Department of the Interior Project: “The Effect of Healing on the Resistance to Frictional Sliding of Sea Ice” 3-year project
Andreas Taenzer—AnesthesiologySponsoring agency: Children’s Hospital Boston Project: “Effects of General vs. Regional Anesthesia on Infant Neurodevelopment and Apnea”
Dennis Washburn—Asian and Middle East Languages and LiteraturesSponsoring agency: The Japan Foundation New York Project: “The Affect of Difference: A Symposium on Representations of Race and Identity Under Japanese Empire” 6-month project
Peter Wright—PediatricsSponsoring agency: Emmes Corporation Project: “Universal Influenza Vaccine Project” 40-month project