background image
Katharina Lodders, $92,000 grant
from NASA for "Bright Earths: Models
of the Post Giant Impact Atmospheres
of Young Terrestrial Planets"
William McKinnon, $264,622
from NASA for "Numerical Studies
of Convection and Tectonics in Icy
Satellites"
Frederic Moynier, $171,153 from
NASA for "The Isotopic Composition
of Transition Metals in Lunar Materials:
Solar Wind Implantation and Stable
Isotopic Fractionations"
Jill Pasteris, $376,200 from the NIH
for "Structure function Relationships
at the Tendon-to-Bone Insertion Site,"
with P.I. Steve Thomopoulos of the
medical school
Philip Skemer, $285,000 grant from
the NSF for "Deformation and Micro-
structural Evolution of Harz-burgite"
Douglas A. Wiens
$413,112 grant from the NSF for
"Mantle Serpentinization and Water
Cycling Through the Mariana Trench
and Forearc"
$249,999 grant from the NSF for
"Polenet East: An International
Seismological Network for East
Antarctica"
$193,416 grant from the NSF for
"Extending the Lau Imaging Experiment
to Study the Deep Tonga Seismic Zone"
Douglas A. Wiens, Michael E.
Wysession
, and Viatcheslav Solomatov,
$74,881 grant from the NSF for
"Acquisition of a New Linux-Based
Computer System for Geophysical
Research"
Michael Wysession and Douglas A.
Wiens
, $725,417 grant from the NSF for
"Investigation of Sources of Intraplate
Volcanism Using PASSCAL Broadband
Instruments in Madagascar, The
Comores, and Mozambique (MACOMO)"
$389,949 from the NSF for
"Development of New Rotational
Seismometers of High Sensitivity"
(with Ram Cowsik, physics)
Economics
Haluk Ergin, $201,644 grant from
the NSF for "A Subjective Model of
Temporal Preferences"
David K. Levine, $212,040 grant from
the NSF for "Applications of the Self
Control/Dual Self Model in Economics"
Robert A. Pollak, $335,516 grant
from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver
National Institute of Child Health
& Human Development for "Time
Use and Household Production"
Education
Anne Newman, $55,000 grant from
the National Academy of Education
for "Collaborating to Realize Rights:
Lawyers, Community Groups, and
Education Reform"
English
J. Dillon Brown
British Studies Fellowship Award at
Harry S. Ransom Center, University
of Texas
Sarah Rivett (and Stephanie Kirk,
Spanish), $5,000 grant from the
Program for Cultural Cooperation
Between Spain's Ministry of Culture
and United States Universities to
fund a conference titled "Religious
Transformations in the Early Modern
Americas"
Interdisciplinary Project
in the Humanities
Joe Loewenstein, $290,000 grant from
the NEH for Edmund Spenser project
Mathematics
Nan Lin, $119,934 grant from the NSF
for "Statistical Aggregation in Massive
Data Environments"
John McCarthy, co-PI, $959,477
grant to the Medical School, from
NIH for "Monitoring Disease and
Therapy in Dystrophin-Deficient
Muscle Using Ultrasound"
John Shareshian, $196,821 grant from
the NSF for "Algebraic, Topological and
Enumerative Combinatorics"
Xiang Tang, $109,088 grant from the
NSF for "Noncommutative Geometry: Its
Applications to Geometry and Analysis"
Performing Arts
Annamaria Pileggi, $487,209 from
the NSF for "A Physical Vocabulary
for Human-Robot Interaction"
Philosophy
Christopher H. Wellman, $123,371
grant from the NEH for a summer
seminar for college and university
professors titled "Philosophical
Perspectives on Liberal Democracy
and the Global Order"
Physics
W. Robert Binns, $3,225,740 grant
from NASA for "Super-TIGER:
A Very-Large-Area, High-Resolution
Trans-Iron Cosmic Ray Investigation."
Martin H. Israel is a co-investigator;
other WUSTL investigators are James
H. Buckley
and Henric S. Krawczynski
Anders E. Carlsson, $1,026,560 grant
from the NIH for "Control of Actin
Assembly and Cell Migration by
Actin-Regulating Proteins"
Ramanath Cowsik
$502,191 grant from the NSF for
"Experimental Investigation of
Forces in the Submillimeter Range"
$389,949 grant from the NSF for
"Development of New Rotational
Seismometers of High Sensitivity."
(with Doug Wiens and Michael
Wysession
, earth and planetary
sciences)
Francesc Ferrer, $120,000 grant
from the NSF for "Research in Cosmic
Rays, Magnetic Fields and the Nature
of Dark Matter"
Christine Floss, $168,493 grant from
NASA for "Search for Impact Craters on
the Stardust Interstellar Collector Tray"
Kenneth F. Kelton, $405,000 grant
from the NSF for "Relations Between
Structure, Phase Formation and Phase
Transitions in Supercooled Metallic
Liquids and Glasses"
Henric Krawczynski
$244,472 subcontract from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign for "A CdZnTe Detector
for MRI-Compatible Spect Systems"
$921,717 grant from NASA for
"Optimization of CZT Detectors
with Sub-mm Pixel Pitches"
$98,000 grant from NASA for
"Revisiting the Blazar Sequence
Based on Contemporaneous Swift
and Fermi Blazar Observations"
$32,592 grant from NASA for "Target
of Opportunity Observations of the
Blazars MRK 421, MRK 501, and 1ES
1959 650"
Alexander Meshik, $751,834 grant
from NASA for "Analysis and
Interpretation of Genesis Mission
Noble Gases"
James G. Miller, $1,306,757 grant
from the National Institute of
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal
and Skin Diseases for "Enhancing
Bone Quality Assessment Using
Quantitative Ultrasound"
Frank J. Stadermann, $368,540
grant from NASA for "Atom-Probe
Tomographic Studies of Individual
Meteoritic Nanodiamonds"
Jason C. Woods, $1,508,000 grant
from the National Heart, Lung,
and Blood Institute for "Evaluation
of Endobronchial Interventions
for COPD via CT and 3He MRI"
Ernst Zinner, $1,921,500 grant from
NASA for "Laboratory Studies of the
Isotopic Compositions of Presolar
Dust Grains"
Psychology
Deanna M. Barch, $798,000 grant
from the National Institute of
Mental Health for "Cognitive
Neuroscience Task Reliability and
Clinical Applications Consortium"
Todd Braver
$418,000 grant from the National
Institute on Drug Abuse for "Negative
Reinforcement Effects on Neural
Mechanisms of Cognitive Control"
$376,812 supplemental grant from the
National Institute of Mental Health
for ongoing research titled "Dual
Mechanisms of Cognitive Control"
Anthropology
Rebecca Lester (and graduate student
Anubha Sood), $7,025 grant from the
NSF for "Women's Pathways to Mental
Health: Comparing Psychiatry and
Mystical-Spiritual Healing in Urban
North India"
Herman D. Pontzer
$196,972 grant from the NSF for
"Metabolic Cost of Living in Human
Foragers." (with Susan B. Racette,
physical therapy)
$23,950 grant from the Wenner-Gren
Foundation for research titled
"Metabolic Cost of Living in Bonobos"
$20,484 grant from the NSF for
"Hominin Gait Optimization and
Analysis Using Evolutionary Dynamic
Modeling" (with William D. Smart,
engineering)
Biology
Yehuda Ben-Shahar, $456,000 grant
from the National Institute on Deafness
and Other Communication Disorders
for "Chemosensory Roles for Epithelial
Sodium Channels"
Robert E. Blankenship
$20 million -- the largest grant ever
received on the Danforth Campus --
from the DOE to establish a
Photosynthetic Antenna Research
Center (PARC)
$900,000 grant from the DOE for
"SISGR: Controlling Electron Transfer
Pathways in Photosynthetic Reaction
Centers." (with Dewey Holten and
Christine Kirmaier, chemistry)
Tiffany M. Knight (with postdoctoral
research associate Laura A. Burkle)
$74,998 grant from the NSF for
"RAPID: Comparing Historic and
Contemporary Plant-Pollinator
Interaction Networks to Investigate
the Effects of Climate Change and
Invasive Species"
Jonathan M. Chase, Brian Allan,
Robert E. Thach, $237,439 grant
from the EPA for "Developing
Landscape Design Guidelines For
Mitigating Human Risk Of Lone Star
Tick-Associated Pathogens"
Ellen Damschen (with postdoctoral
research associate Dirk V. Baker), in
biology, $140,323 grant from the NSF
for "How Structural Heterogeneity
and Connectivity of Landscapes Affect
Wind Dispersal"
Sarah C.R. Elgin, $201,488 grant
from the National Institute of
General Medical Sciences for
"Formation, Structure and Function
of Heterochromatin"
Ursula W. Goodenough, $430,000
grant from the NSF for "Development
of Sexual Cycles in Marine
Picoprasinophytes Based on Molecular
Homologies with Chlamydomonas
Sexual Cycles"
Elizabeth Haswell, $408,562
subaward from the California Institute
of Technology for "Biophysical,
Structural and Functional Analysis
of Mechanosensitive Channels"
Allan Larson (and graduate student
Joshua Reece), $9,020 grant
from the NSF for "Phylogenetics
and Phylogeography of Moray Eels
(Muraenidae): the First Coral Reef
Fishes With Panmictic Populations
Throughout the Entire Indo-Pacific"
Victoria May, $36,878 subcontract
from Cornell University for "Microbial
Fuel Cell Technology for Large-Scale
Wastewater Treatment"
Kathryn G. Miller
$280,350 grant from the NSF for a
program titled "REU Site: Cellular
and Developmental Biology Research
Apprenticeship Program at Washington
University in St. Louis (CD-BioRAP)"
$40,000 grant from the Children's
Discovery Institute (CDI) for the CDI
Summer Undergraduate Research
Fellowship Program
Kenneth Olsen, $915,000 CAREER
award from the NSF for "Clover
Cyanogenesis: Integrating Ecological
and Molecular Genetics in the Study
of Adaptation"
Himadri B. Pakrasi, $1.8 million
grant for I-CARES, from the DOE for
"Development of Cyanathece as a
New Model Organism for Biological
Hydrogen Production"
Peter H. Raven (with graduate student
Kyra Krakos) $10,873 grant from the
NSF for "The Role of Reproductive
Trait Shifts in the Diversification of
Oenothera (Onagraceae)"
Robert Thach, $25,000 subaward from
Time for Lyme Inc. for "Vertebrate
Reservoirs for Tick-Borne Diseases in
the Central United States"
Chemistry
Dewey Holten and Christine Kirmaier,
(with Robert Blankenship in biology),
$900,000 grant from the DOE for
"SISGR: Controlling Electron Transfer
Pathways in Photosynthetic Reaction
Centers"
Michael L. Gross, $40,166 grant
from the National Center for Research
Resources for "A Resource for
Biomedical Mass Spectrometry," for
students learning under Henry Rohrs
Sophia E. Hayes, $375,539 grant from
the NSF for "MRI: Development of
Combined Optically-pumped and
Optically-detected NMR of Bulk and
Nanostructured Semiconductors"
Richard A. Loomis, $356,048 grant
from the NSF for "Experimental
Interrogation of Exciton Dynamics
Within One-Dimensional
Semiconductor Quantum Materials"
Liviu M. Mirica, $100,000 grant
from the American Chemical
Society Petroleum Research Fund for
"Renewable Energy Catalysis: The
Study of Water Oxidation by Binuclear
Metal Complexes"
Kevin D. Moeller, $455,000 grant from
the NSF for "New Synthetic Methods
for Building Chip Based Libraries"
Postdoctoral research associate Gang
Shen
, $342,000 grant from the U.S.
Army Medical Research Acquisition
Activity for "Development of Lipid and
Nanoparticle-Based Anti-sense Breast
Cancer Imaging Agents"
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Jan P. Amend
$169,975 grant from the NSF for
"RCN: A Deep-Biosphere Research
Coordination Network"
$293,261 grant from the NSF for
"Development of Numerical Models
Linking Fluid Geochemistry and
Biological Communities in Mid-Ocean
Ridge Hydrothermal Environments"
Raymond E. Arvidson
$9 million for the Earth and Planetary
Remote Sensing Laboratory from NASA
to extend and improve the Geosciences
Node of the Planetary Data System (PDS)
$30,652 subaward from the Colorado
School of Mines for research titled
"The Sedimentary Record of Arabia
Terra: Remote Sensing and Hydrologic-
Climatic Modeling"
Robert Criss
$65,863 subcontract from University
City, Missouri, Department of Public
Works, for "Geochemical Monitoring of
the River Des Peres in University City"
$35,000 subaward from the Missouri
Botanical Garden for "Missouri Botanical
Garden Deer Creek Watershed Initiative"
David Fike
$265,247 grant from NASA for "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"
$213,900 grant from The Agouron
Institute for "Constraining the
Ediacaran-Paleozoic Rise of Oxygen"
Anne Hofmeister
$121,646 grant from the NSF for
"An Integrated Experimental and
Observational Study of Cosmic
Silicate Astromineralogy"
$74,939 grant from the NSF for
"Incorporating Temperature-
dependent Physical Properties Into
Numerical Models of Magmatic and
Related Hydrothermal Systems"
Randy Korotev
$213,000 grant from NASA for
"Geochemical and Petrologic Analysis
and Modeling of Lunar Rocks and
Regoliths"
E X T E R N A L G R A N T S
January 2009 through March 2010
F
A
C
U
L
T
Y
N
E
W
S
T h e a r t o f e d u c a t i o n
33
32
T h e a r t o f e d u c a t i o n
A&S Interior-offset- WEB 5/11/10 12:01 AM Page 36