Recent External Funding Awards

Research Awards

Duke Engineering faculty members received nearly $94 million in new external research awards in fiscal 2023.
  • September

    Gaurav Arya of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: DMREF: Architecting DNA nanodevices into metamaterials, transducing materials, and assembling materials.” Total funding will be $550,000 over 48 months.

    Volker Blum of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “DMREF: Collaborative Research: Hybrid Materials for Superfluorescent Quantum Emitters.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 48 months.

    Michael Boyarsky of ECE has received an award from Resolv Technology, Inc. for a project entitled “Binary and Grayscale Metasurface Antennas for Through-Wall Imaging.” Total funding will be $62,742 over 6 months.

    Leila J. Bridgeman of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Direct Data-Driven Positive, Control, and Contractive Invariant Sets.” Total funding will be $360,937 over 36 months.

    Lynda Catherine Brinson of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: DMREF: Accelerated Discovery of Sustainable Bioplastics: Automated, Tunable, Integrated Design, Processing and Modeling.” Total funding will be $790,000 over 48 months.

    Nenad Bursac of BME has received an award from the Jain Foundation for a project entitled “Development of 3-dimensional human skeletal muscle tissue models of MD Type 2B.” Total funding will be $253,474 over 12 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: FuSe: Efficient Situation-Aware AI Processing in Advanced 2- Terminal SOT-MRAM.” Total funding will be $600,000 over 36 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Conference: 2023 CISE Computer System Research PI Meeting.” Total funding will be $150,000 over 12 months.

    Jeseth Delgado Vela of CEE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: URoL:ASC: Determining the relationship between genes and ecosystem processes to improve biogeochemical models for nutrient management.” Total funding will be $163,362 over 36 months.

    John E. Dolbow of MEMS has received an award from the Idaho National Laboratory under a prime award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Plate Fuel Analysis.” Total funding will be $11,481 over 3 months.

    Leanne M. Gilbertson of CEE has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Combining Materials Science and System-Level Analysis to Sustainably Supply Safe Drinking Water.” Total funding will be $409,317 over 34 months.

    Leanne M. Gilbertson of CEE has received an award from the University of Pittsburgh under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “ECO-CBET: Sustainability from the Bottom Up: A Holistic Solution to Balancing the N-Cycle.” Total funding will be $134,633 over 14 months.

    Yiyang Gong of BME has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Development of large-scale sequence-function relationship using in situ optical sequencing.” Total funding will be $419,144 over 24 months.

    Maria Gorlatova of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Robust Object Detection for Mobile Augmented Reality in the Wild.” Total funding will be $599,817 over 36 months.

    Jeffrey L. Krolik of ECE has received an award from Toyon Research Corporation under a prime award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “UAS Detection, Classification and Tracking with Millimeter-Wave MIMO Radar.” Total funding will be $503,044 over 12 months.

    Norbert M. Linke of the Duke Quantum Center has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Analog-Digital Hybrid Simulation of Quantum Field Theories with Advanced Ion Traps.” Total funding will be $875,010 over 60 months.

    Paolo Maccarini of ECE has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Development of AI/ML-ready shared repository for parametric multiphysics modeling datasets: standardization for predictive modeling of selective brain cooling after traumatic injury.” Total funding will be $303,419 over 12 months.

    David Mitzi of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: DMREF: Data-Driven Prediction of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Structures.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 48 months.

    Christopher R. Monroe of the Duke Quantum Center has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “PIF: Software-Tailored Architecture for Quantum Co- Design (STAQ II).” Total funding will be $17,000,000 over 60 months.

    Samira Musah of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a project entitled “Harnessing stem cells and synthetic gene circuits to repair glomerular injury .” Total funding will be $1,425,761 over 36 months.

    Xiaoyue Ni of MEMS has received an award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a project entitled “Wearable elastography for ambulant monitoring of tissue mechanics.” Total funding will be $594,505 over 36 months.

    Mikhail A. Nikiforov of BME has received an award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “The role of regulation and subcellular localization of GTP biosynthesis in melanoma invasion and metastasis.” Total funding will be $2,532,185 over 59 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE has received an award from Apple Corporation for a project entitled “Apple Research Projects.” Total funding will be $262,173 over 12 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a project entitled “ RFI_SSN(InVitro)-541715 Support for the Conduct of In Vitro Cardiovascular Toxicity Assays for the Division of Translational Toxicology.” Total funding will be $220,108 over 15 months.

    Emmanouil Veveakis of CEE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: CLIMA: Landslide Triggering of Thermally Sensitive Slopes due to Climate Change.” Total funding will be $349,428 over 36 months.

    Jonathan Viventi of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Neuro-CROWN:Optimized Ultra-Flexible CMOS Electrode Arrays for 3D, Low-Noise Neural Interfaces.” Total funding will be $82,045 over 24 months.

    Tuan Vo-Dinh of BME has received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “Nanoplasmonic Biosensor Using Olfactory Receptor System: Phase 2.” Total funding will be $442,286 over 18 months.

    August

    Nenad Bursac of BME received an award from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for a project entitled “Engineering a Human Skeletal Muscle Tissue Model of LGMD2B.” Total funding will be $2,629,482 over 60 months.

    Pranam D. Chatterjee of BME received awards from the:

    • National Cancer Institute (NCI) for a project entitled “Programmable peptide-guided protein degradation.” Total funding will be $387,702 over 24 months
    • Oracle Corporation for a project entitled “PepMLM: Masked Language Model for Peptide Binder Design.”

    Boyuan Chen of MEMS received awards from the:

    • Civil-Military Innovation Institute under a prime award from the Army Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Acoustic Signature Detection using Helmet-Mounted Microphone Array.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 24 months
    • Army Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Population-Based Training for Multi-Human Multi-Machine Teaming.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

    Tingjun Chen of ECE  received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “EAGER: An Integrated Fiber Sensing and Communication Living Lab in the Research Triangle.” Total funding will be $300,000 over 24 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “IUCRC Proposal Phase 1 Duke: Center for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC) Membership Fees.” Total funding will be $99,914 over 13 months.

    Olivier Delaire of MEMS received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Neutron scattering studies of phonon anharmonicity and coupling with spin, charge and disorder.” Total funding will be $48,177 over 11 months.

    Jessilyn Dunn of BME received an award from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority for a project entitled “Digital Health Technologies for Infectious Disease Monitoring.” Total funding will be $748,964 over 18 months.

    Lee Ferguson of CEE received an award from Vanderbilt University under a prime award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation.” Total funding will be $128,950 over nine months.

    Aaron Franklin of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “LEAP-HI: All-Carbon Recyclable Electronics (ACRE): Realizing a Sustainable Electronics Lifecycle.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 12 months.

    Maria Gorlatova of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: CSR: Medium: Adaptive Environmental Awareness for Collaborative Augmented Reality.” Total funding will be $400,000 over 48 months.

    Tony Jun Huang of MEMS received awards from the:

    • National Institute on Aging for a project entitled “Automated High-purity Exosome isolation-based AD diagnostics system (AHEADx).” Total funding will be $3,869,885 over 57 months
    • National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Development of a digital acoustofluidic system for automating liquid handling in biomedical research.” Total funding will be $249,250 over 12 months

    Akhenaton D. Jones of CEE received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “A Mechanical Testing Machine for Characterizing Biofilms on Experimental Tools.” Total funding will be $59,740 over 35 months.

    Hai (Helen) Li of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Conference: NSF Workshop on Hardware-Software Co-design for Neuro-Symbolic Computation.” Total funding will be $49,848 over 12 months.

    Norbert M. Linke of the Duke Quantum Center received an award from Rice University under a prime award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Holographic Analog Simulations and Multi-qubit Gates with Trapped-Ion Quantum Processors.” Total funding will be $65,000 over 36 months.

    Natalia Litchinitser of ECE received awards from the National Science Foundation for projects entitled:

    • “MRI: Track 2 Acquisition of the Thermo Fischer Cryogenic Helios 5 CX DualBeam for Materials Science.” Total funding will be $1,530,757 over 36 months
    • “Magnetic Resonances in Nonlinear Dielectric Nanostructures: New Light-Matter Interactions and Machine Learning Enhanced Design.” Total funding will be $450,000 over 36 months.

    Nimmi Ramanujam of BME received an award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “Understanding metabolic and vascular vulnerabilities of residual disease in triple-negative breast cancer to inform on treatment strategies.” Total funding will be $40,503 over 25 months.

    Amanda Randles of BME received an award from the University of California-Berkeley under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “Detection of Emergent Mechanical Properties of Biologically Complex Cellular States.” Total funding will be $122,579 over 48 months.

    Tania Roy of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “FuSe: Codesigning devices in neural network for computer vision.” Total funding will be $1,376,180 over 36 months.

    David R. Smith of ECE received an award from MetaCept, Inc. under a prime award from NASA for a project entitled “Metasurface Antenna for Cloud-Targeting Radar (MACTRad): W-Band Metasurface Cloud Sensor.” Total funding will be $209,600 over 36 months.

    Vahid Tarokh of ECE received an award from Raytheon Technologies Research Center under a prime award from the Air Force Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Scalable Predictions and Analytics of Rare Events in Titanium Alloys (SPARTA).” Total funding will be $136,569 over 28 months.

    Lawrence N. Virgin of MEMS received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Interrogation (probing) of Configuration Space in Buckled Structures.” Total funding will be $527,333 over 36 months.

    Tuan Vo-Dinh of BME received an award from the VA San Diego Healthcare System for a project entitled “Molecular Biomarker Study: Duke Pilot Project — Phase 1.” Total funding will be $34,999 over two months.

    July

    Pranam D. Chatterjee of BME  received an award from the CHDI Foundation for a project entitled “Design of mHTT and MSH3 Degraders with Language Model-Derived Peptide Guides.” Total funding will be $687,740 over 24 months.

    Tingjun Chen of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Softwarizing Millimeter-wave Radio Access Networks (RANs) at the Edge.” Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

    Jerome P. Lynch of CEE received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Automated Shipboard Sailors and Environmental Sensing System (ASSESS) for Damage Response.” Total funding will be $599,174 over 24 months.

    Mikhail A. Nikiforov of BME received an award from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for a project entitled “Bidirectional control of keratinocyte differentiation and proliferation by transcription factor FOXQ1.” Total funding will be $513,064 over 59 months.

    Willie Padilla of ECE received awards from Srico, Inc.:

    • Under a prime award from the Department of Defense for a project entitled “Phase Sensitive Millimeter Wave Imaging with Metamaterials.” Total funding will be $275,000 over 23 months
    • Under a prime award from the United States Air Force for a project entitled “MWIR/LWIR Detector Standards for Low- Radiometric-Power Calibration in Space Environments.” Total funding will be $45,000 over nine months.

    Christine Payne of MEMS received awards from the:

    • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project entitled “Engineered DNA-particles to model immune events in systemic lupus erythematosus.” Total funding will be $434,743 over 24 months
    • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a project entitled “Research Project.” Total funding will be $85,983 over 23 months.

    Daniel Reker of BME received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Designing Personalized Formulations with Machine Learning.” Total funding will be $1,851,500 over 58 months.

    David R. Smith of ECE received an award from Kymeta Corporation for a project entitled “Active Metasurface Antennas.” Total funding will be $120,000 over 12 months.

    Michael Tadross of BME received an award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a project entitled “Interrogating the cholinergic basis of opioid reinforcement with subcellular precision.” Total funding will be $171,344 over 24 months.

    Vahid Tarokh of ECE received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Data-Driven Improved Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) Radar.” Total funding will be $81,780 over 13 months.

    Adam P. Wax of BME received an award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a project entitled “Point of care diagnostic for sickle cell disease.” Total funding will be $1,222,122 over 36 months.

    Lingchong You of BME received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Administrative Supplement to Purchase Sequencing Equipment.” Total funding will be $78,383 over 36 months.

    June

    Wilkins Aquino of MEMS received an award from the Mayo Clinic-Rochester under a prime award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled “Measuring arterial material properties using wave-based approaches with ultrasound and computational models.” Total funding will be $467,806 over 46 months.

    Marc Deshusses of CEE received an award from the Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program for a project entitled “Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO) for Complete PFAS Destruction-Supplement.” Total funding will be $75,635 over 11 months.

    Timothy W. Dunn of BME received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “I-Corps: Diagnostic and patient management tool for physicians treating movement disorders.” Total funding will be $50,000 over six months.

    Maria Gorlatova of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CAREER: Foundations of IoT-supported mobile augmented reality REU.” Total funding will be $24,000 over 36 months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME received an award from Coloplast Corp. for a project entitled “Modeling of Electrical Stimulation of the Human Tibial Nerve.” Total funding will be $191,144 over 14 months.

    Megan Madonna of BME received an award from the Calla Health Foundation under a prime award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for a project entitled “Innovations in cervical cancer diagnosis for low resource settings using advanced optical imaging and machine learning diagnostic algorithms.” Total funding will be $300,000 over 14 months.

    Nicole Pelot of BME received an award from Case Western Reserve University under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “Mapping the Autonomic Pathways across 100 Human Vagus Nerves within a Demographically Representative Sample (MAP-100VN).” Total funding will be $82,759 over 31 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE received an award from Massachusetts General Hospital under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “A computational approach for quantifying motor behaviors in spinocerebellar ataxias to improve early detection of motor signs and precisely estimate disease severity and disease change.” Total funding will be $63,425 over 34 months.

    Michael Tadross of BME received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled “GRIP Display NCBioTech.” Total funding will be $109,858 over 12 months.

    Mark R. Wiesner of CEE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “AccelNet Implementation: International Network For Researching, Advancing and Assessing Materials for Environmental Sustainability (INFRAMES).” Total funding will be $75,000 over 42 months.

    Junjie Yao of BME received an award from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “High-Throughput Imaging-integrated Vascular Model for Understanding Thromboembolism and Therapeutics Screening.” Total funding will be $1,047,033 over 47 months.

    May

    L. Cate Brinson of MEMS received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “DMREF/Collaborative Research: A Data- Centric Approach for Accelerating the Design of Future Nanostructured Polymers and Composites Systems.” Total funding will be $100,000 over four months.

    Stefano Curtarolo of the Center for Autonomous Materials Design received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Hyberbolic Plasmonic High-Entropy Carbo-nitrides.” Total funding will be $1,098,973 over 36 months.

    Jessilyn Dunn of BME received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a project entitled “Mobile technologies to screen for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in asymptomatic adults.” Total funding will be $3,150,533 over 60 months.

    P. Lee Ferguson of CEE received an award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under a prime award from the NC Policy Collaboratory for a project entitled “Collection of Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF) samples from North Carolina Fire Stations to Create a PFAS Source Material Archive.” Total funding will be $48,590 over 24 months.

    Jeffrey L. Krolik of ECE received an award from MIT Lincoln Laboratory under a prime award from the Department of Defense for a project entitled “HF Towed-Array Calibration and Beamforming.” Total funding will be $103,281 over 12 months.

    Norbert M. Linke of the Duke Quantum Center received an award from the University of Maryland, College Park under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “NSF Convergence Accelerator Phase II.” Total funding will be $230,401 over 3 months.

    Natalia Litchinitser of ECE received an award from the University of Brescia under a prime award from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for a project entitled ” metasuRfacE baSed Platforms fOr devices aND pErsonnel pRotection (RESPONDER).” Total funding will be $110,814 over 36 months.

    Willie Padilla of ECE received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Metamaterials as a platform for the development of novel materials for energy applications.” Total funding will be $150,000 over 10 months.

    Henry Pfister of ECE received awards from the National Science Foundation for projects entitled:

    • “Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF CIF: Small: Neural Estimation of Statistical Divergences: Theoretical Foundations and Applications to Communication Systems.” Total funding will be $399,957 over 36 months
    • “Collaborative Research: CIF: Medium: QODED: Quantum codes Optimized for the Dynamics between Encoded Computation and Decoding using Classical Coding Techniques.” Total funding will be $8,000 over five months

    Tania Roy of ECE received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Scalable monolithic integration of Graphene/MoS2/Graphene artificial neurons and synapses for accelerated machine learning.” Total funding will be $131,739 over 22 months.

    April

    L. Cate Brinson of MEMS received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “Local Polymer Interfacial Mechanics: Effect of Topological and Chemical NanoPatterning.” Total funding will be $8,000 over 16 months.

    Johann Guilleminot of CEE received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Stochastic Modeling and Multiscale Propagation of Model-Form Uncertainties Arising in Molecular Dynamics Simulations.” Total funding will be $300,960 over 36 months.

    Brian T. Hawkins of WaSH-AID received an award from Triangle Environmental under a prime award from the Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled “A compact, modular wastewater treatment system for non-potable re-use of household greywater Phase II.” Total funding will be $44,000 over 8 months.

    Tony Jun Huang of MEMS received an award from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University under a prime award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Development of an acoustofluidic bioprinter for the fabrication of 3D tissue constructs with single-cell resolution.” Total funding will be $938,495 over 45 months.

    Aaron M. Kyle of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “Hk Maker Lab 2.0: Inspiring Engineering Design Thinking in Grades 6-12 Students and Teacher.” Total funding will be $1,024,301 over 38 months.

    Hai (Helen) Li of ECE received an award from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: ASCENT: 3D memristor convolutional kernels with diffusive memristor based reservoir for real-time machine learning.” Total funding will be $16,000 over 16 months.

    Kathryn R. Nightingale of BME received an award from Acoustiic Inc for a project entitled “Matrix Transducer for 3D-SWEI Hepatic Imaging.” Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

    Lisa L. Satterwhite of CEE received an award through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) RADx® Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) Rapid Research Pilot Program entitled “An Infrastructure of Trust for Equitable Access to COVID-19 Tests and Vaccines in Rural Agricultural Communities of Eastern North Carolina.” Total funding is $304,280 over 12 months.

    Mark R. Wiesner of CEE received an award from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology under a prime award from the European Chemical Industry Council for a project entitled “Emission factors for microplastics to support environmental exposure modeling.” Total funding will be $71,155 over 24 months.

    March

    Tingjun Chen of ECE received an award from the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation for a project entitled “Joint Experiment Agreement On Autonomous WDM optical link control.” Total funding will be $20,000 over six months.

    Leslie M. Collins of ECE received an award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for a project entitled “Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Reverberant Speech Enhancement in Cochlear Implants.” Total funding will be $173,782 over 12 months.

    Jessilyn Dunn of BME received an award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center under a prime award from the NIH Office of the Director for a project entitled “All of Us: Data and Research Support Center.” Total funding will be $231,896 over 12 months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME received an award from Boston Scientific Corporation for a project entitled “Quantifying SCS Responses in Diabetic Peropheral Neuropathy.” Total funding will be $242,270 over 13 months.

    Roarke W. Horstmeyer of BME received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “Multi-aperture 3D microscopy for cellular-scale measurement over macroscopic volumes.” Total funding will be $521,012 over 60 months.

    Jeffrey L. Krolik of ECE received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Integrating Adaptive Beamforming and Classification for Passive Sonar Detection in Complex Environments.” Total funding will be $538,085 over 36 months.

    Daniel Reker of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a project entitled “Computational Design of Antibody-Drug-Excipient Nanoparticles.” Total funding will be $193,347 over 36 months.

    Adam P. Wax of BME has received an award from KovaDx for a project entitled “Using AI to develop a red blood cell health index for the monitoring of sickle cell disease.” Total funding will be $15,000 over a month.

    February

    P. Lee Ferguson of CEE received an award from the University of Florida under a prime award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a project entitled “Assessing the Pulmonary Toxicity of Microfibers Complexed with Azo Dyes.” Total funding will be $95,497 over 24 months.

    Norbert M. Linke of the Duke Quantum Center received an award from the University of Maryland, College Park under a prime award from the Army Research Laboratory for a project entitled “A Medium-Distance Quantum Network with Fiber-Ready Trapped Atomic Ions.” Total funding will be $22,947 over 16 months.

    Natalia Litchinitser of ECE  received an award from MetaCept, Inc. for a project entitled “Optical Approaches to Computing Convolutions.” Total funding will be $40,000 over six months.

    Miroslav Pajic of ECE has received an award from Arizona State University under a prime award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “Adaptive Protocol Synthesis and Error Recovery in Micro-Electrode-Dot-Array (MEDA) Microfluidic Biochips.” Total funding will be $50,103 over five months.

    January

    Warren M. Grill of BME received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Optimized Electrical Block of Peripheral Nerves.” Total funding will be $2,584,558 over 59 months.

    Natalia Litchinitser of ECE received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Topological states of light and darkness.” Total funding will be $149,602 over 12 months.

    Miroslav Pajic of ECE received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “General Framework for Vulnerability Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems.” Total funding will be $426,555 over 36 months.

    Michael Tadross of BME received an award from the American Heart Association for a project entitled “Combating obesity via cell-specific pharmacology of dopamine neurons.” Total funding will be $65,106 over 24 months.

    Lingchong You of BME received an award from Clemson University under a prime award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a project entitled “ECO-COATING—Engineering Control of Organic Coatings on Autonomous Navy Gliders.” Total funding will be $250,000 over 24 months.

  • January

    Nenad Bursac of BME received awards from the American Heart Association for projects entitled:

    • “Investigating Mitogenic Mechanism and Therapeutic Efficacy of Adenosine Deaminase Knockout in Human and Murine Cardiomyocytes.” Total funding will be $64,072 over 24 months
    • “Mechanical regulation of maturation and pathology of engineered human heart tissues.” Total funding will be $64,072 over 24 months
    • “Engineered Prokaryotic Ion Channel Gene Therapy for Brugada Syndrome.” Total funding will be $64,072 over 24 months.

    Kenneth Gall of MEMS received an award from Ascent Bio-Nano Technologies, Inc. under a prime award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled “An Acoustofluidic Device for Biocompatible Platelet Separation.” Total funding will be $630,000 over 16 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME received an award from the Gilbert Family Foundation for a project entitled “Genome Editing for the Treatment of Neurofibromatosis Type I.” Total funding will be $1,200,000 over 36 months.

    Heileen Hsu-Kim of CEE received an award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for a project entitled “Customized Approaches for Evaluating and Reducing Chemical Exposures from Home Building Materials.” Total funding will be $1,000,000 over 36 months.

    Cameron C. McIntyre of BME received an award from Emory University under a prime award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Cortical Electrophysiology of Response Inhibition and Implications for DBS Therapy in Patients.” Total funding will be $63,345 over 58 months.

    Tatiana Segura of BME received an award from the Centre for Effective Altruism for a project entitled “Brain repair after stroke.” Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

    Marc A. Sommer of BME received awards from the:

    • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Enhancement, mapping, and validation of viral vectors for primate optogenetics.” Total funding will be $3,179,771 over 59 months
    • National Eye Institute for a project entitled “Theoretical and Physiological Basis of Priority Maps in the Frontal Eye Field.” Total funding will be $76,694 over 24 months

    Lena E. Trotochaud of the Duke Center for Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Infectious Disease (WaSH-AID) received an award from Oldcastle Infrastructure, Inc. for a project entitled “Organic/inorganic composites for passive nitrogen and phosphorus filtration.” Total funding will be $74,945 over eight months.

    George A. Truskey of BME received awards from the:

    • American Heart Association for a project entitled “Human Microphysiological System to Study LINC Complex Mediated Force Imbalance in Progeria and Cardiovascular Diseases.” Total funding will be $145,020 over 24 months
    • Novo Nordisk A/S for a project entitled “Human Skeletal Muscle Model for Drug Discovery/Validation .” Total funding will be $4,188 over 12 months

    Tuan Vo-Dinh of BME received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “Nanoplasmonic Biosensor Using Olfactory Receptor System.” Total funding will be $372,691 over 18 months.

    Junjie Yao of BME received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CAREER: Mapping deep brain functions with super-resolution photoacoustic imaging.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 60 months.

    February

    Michael Bergin of CEE received an award from Underwriters Laboratories Inc. for a project entitled “Global Air Pollution and Health.” Total funding will be $3,598,208 over 36 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME received an award from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center under a prime award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “An organotypic model recapitulating colon cancer microenvironment and metastasis.” Funding will be over six months.

    John E. Dolbow of MEMS received an award from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro under a prime award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for a project entitled “Design, Prototyping and Evaluation of Next Generation Public Safety User Interfaces.” Total funding will be $5,147 over three months.

    Ken Gall of MEMS received awards from:

    • Ascent Bio-Nano Technologies, Inc. under a prime award from the National Institute on Aging for a project entitled “An acoustofluidic device for diagnosing preclinical Alzheimer’s disease.” Total funding will be $900,000 over 19 months
    • North Carolina State University under a prime award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “PFI-TT: 3D Printing and Magnetic Assembly for Cardiac Surgery.” Total funding will be $60,000 over 24 months

    Warren M. Grill of BME received an award from the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for a project entitled “Computational Modeling of Vagus Nerve Stimulation.” Total funding will be $154,016 over 12 months.

    Hai “Helen” Li of ECE received an award from Georgia State University under a prime award from the U.S. Army Materiel Command for a project entitled “Multi-Agent Collaborative Learning and Inference at the Edge.” Total funding will be $74,250 over 12 months.

    Michael D. Lynch of BME received an award from the National Human Genome Research Institute for a project entitled “Automated CRISPR Enabled DNA Synthesis (CEDS).” Total funding will be $265,522 over 24 months.

    Cameron C. McIntyre of BME received awards from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for projects entitled:

    • “Application of Advanced Imaging and Visualization to Clinical Deep Brain Stimulation.” Total funding will be $1,002,026 over 36 months
    • “Biophysical Characterization of Subthalamic Local Field Potentials in Parkinson’s Disease.” Total funding will be $458,080 over 36 months

    Amanda Randles of BME received an award from Microsoft Corporation for a project entitled “Large-Scale Azure Workloads and GPU Acceleration in Computational Hemodynamics Research.” Total funding will be $180,002 over four months.

    Tuan Vo-Dinh of BME received an award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research for a project entitled “RAPID System for Early Detection of Head and Neck Cancer in Low-Resource Settings.” Total funding will be $2,740,685 over 59 months.

    March

    Aaron T. Blanchard of BME has received an award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “The mechanical role of the glycocalyx in cancer cell adhesion.” Total funding will be $87,577 over 33 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “Collaborative Workshop Proposal: Redefining the Future of Computer Architecture from First Principles.” Total funding will be $39,960 over 11 months.

    John E. Dolbow of MEMS has received an award from Sandia National Laboratories for a project entitled “ACRR Fuel Performance Modeling.” Total funding will be $190,000 over 19 months.

    Sharon Gerecht of BME has received an award from Baylor College of Medicine under a prime award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “NASA Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN)-Translational Research Institute Using Human Stem-Cell Derived Vascular, Neural and Cardiac 3D Tissues to Determine Countermeasures for Radiation/RAD0102.” Total funding will be $300,807 over 21 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received an award from the Medical College of Wisconsin under a prime award from the National Human Genome Research Institute for a project entitled “Editing the Kidney Epigenome.” Total funding will be $150,000 over 12 months.

    Cameron C. McIntyre of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Augmented Reality Platform for Deep Brain Stimulation.” Total funding will be $381,261 over 13 months.

    Christopher R. Monroe of ECE has received an award from the University of Chicago under a prime award from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “(MURI) Dissipatively Stabilized Qubits and Materials.” Total funding will be $334,128 over six months.

    Willie Padilla of ECE has received an award from Srico, Inc. under a prime award from the US Department of Defense for a project entitled “Millimeter Wave Imaging with Metamaterials.” Total funding will be $50,249 over five months.

    Michael Tadross of BME has received an award from Washington University in St. Louis under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “Neuroactive steroids as novel psychiatric treatments: mechanistic studies.” Total funding will be $805,000 over 50 months.

    Gregg E. Trahey of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a project entitled “Coherence-Based Fetal Ultrasonic Imaging.” Total funding will be $421,531 over 47 months.

    April

    Nitish Chandra of ECE has received an award from Sandia National Laboratories under a prime award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a project entitled “Design a Space-time Modulated Metamaterial Antenna.” Total funding will be $23,683 over six months.

    Steven A. Cummer of ECE has received an award from InstaJam, LLC under a prime award from the United States Air Force for a project entitled “Every Airman a Sensor (Providing Joint Operation Capability with Jamming Detection and Mesh Networking).” Total funding will be $216,000 over 12 months.

    Sharon Gerecht of BME has received an award from Johns Hopkins University under a prime award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Oxygen controlled hydrogel to uncover cellular responses to rapid hypoxiaoxygen controlled hydrogel to uncover cellular responses to rapid hypoxia.” Total funding will be $52,727 over nine months.

    Zhenqiang Gong of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Towards Secure Federated Learning.” Total funding will be $599,999 over 48 months.

    Brian T. Hawkins of WaSH-AID has received an award from Coprata Inc. under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “Smart Toilet with Artificial Intelligence for Remote Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.” Total funding will be $138,230 over 12 months.

    Hai “Helen” Li of ECE has received an award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Track D: The Community Resource for Innovation in Polymer Technology (CRIPT).” Total funding will be $73,952 over five months.

    Cameron C. McIntyre of BME has received an award from Emory University under a prime award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Optimizing Patient-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Models Using Electrophysiology.” Total funding will be $115,543 over 12 months.

    Maiken Mikkelsen of ECE has received an award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for a project entitled “Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences.” Total funding will be $180,000 over 24 months.

    Kathryn R. Nightingale of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a project entitled “3D Shearwave Elasticity Biomarker Development for Neuromuscular Disease.” Total funding will be $1,888,132 over 45 months.

    Charles B. Parker of ECE has received an award from Faraday Technology Corporation under a prime award from the United States Army for a project entitled “Miniature Electrochemically Actuated Li-ion Reserve Batteries.” Total funding will be $65,000 over six months.

    Christine Payne of MEMS has received an award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for a project entitled “Engineering at the interface: Training interdisciplinary engineers at the PhD level.” Total funding will be $34,900 over 24 months.

    Lawrence N. Virgin of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “REU Supplement/Probing and Disturbance Sensitivity: A New Approach to Imperfection-Sensitive Buckling.” Total funding will be $6,000 over 16 months.

    Lingchong You of BME has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Enhancing computational capability for quantitative and synthetic biology.” Total funding will be $346,928 over 12 months.

    May

    Nenad Bursac of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “Engineering Human Heart Tissues with Polyploid Cardiomyocytes.” Total funding will be $2,182,696 over 48 months.

    David Carlson of CEE has received an award from the Georgia Institute of Technology under a prime award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled “From Deep Neural Networks to Kernel Machines: Advanced Data Science for Verification and Forensics.” Total funding will be $23,871 over 29 months.

    Nathaniel W. Chaney of CEE has received an award from the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under a prime award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled “Watershed zonation across scales.” Total funding will be $26,745 over 3 months.

    P. Lee Ferguson of CEE has received an award from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill under a prime award from the State of North Carolina for a project entitled “Assessment of parking garage washdown as a method for mitigating urban runoff of vehicle-derived contaminants to stormwater.” Total funding will be $54,405 over 19 months.

    Jeffrey L. Krolik of ECE has received an award from Toyon Research Corporation under a prime award from the U.S. Army Research Office for a project entitled “UAS Detection, Classification and Tracking with Millimeter-Wave MIMO Radar.” Total funding will be $68,193 over six months.

    Nimmi Ramanujam of BME has received an award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “Technology-Enabled Single-Visit Model for Cervical Cancer Prevention at the Community Level.” Total funding will be $2,879,009 over 59 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled “In Vitro Human Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel Disease Model of Progeria.” Total funding will be $2,734,288 over 47 months.

    June

    Mark Borsuk of CEE has received an award from the Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program for a project entitled “Model-based Tracking and Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services (MoTIVES) for Military Base Land-Use and Land-Management Decisions.” Total funding will be $1,999,772 over 60 months.

    Joel Collier of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project entitled “Supramolecular biomaterials for tuning the inflammatory properties of the complement system.” Total funding will be $2,759,425 over 60 months.

    P. Lee Ferguson of CEE has received an award from NuGlobal Solutions under a prime award from the Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program for a project entitled “Establishing an Approach to Pfas Forensics and a Pfas Source Materials Forensic Library.” Total funding will be $103,775 over 24 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering.” Total funding will be $2,601,810 over 60 months.

    Jeffrey L. Krolik of ECE has received an award from RDR Tec under a prime award from the U.S. Department of the Navy for a project entitled “Enhanced Long-Range Maritime Vessel Classification.” Total funding will be $72,000 over six months.

    Hai “Helen” Li of ECE has received an award from the Ohio State University under a prime award from the National Science Foundation (NFS) for a project entitled “RINGS: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Enabled Large-scale UAV Network with Distributed Navigation, Mobility Control, and Resilience.” Total funding will be $240,000 over 36 months.

    Jerome P. Lynch of CEE has received an award from the University of Michigan under a prime award from the Great Lakes Water Authority for a project entitled “Data-Driven Decision-Making Framework for Risk Management of the GLWA Water Transmission System.” Total funding will be $23,330 over 24 months.

    Tatiana Segura of BME has received an award from North Carolina State University under a prime award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Development and Application of New Ionization Methods for Biological Mass Spectrometry.” Total funding will be $164,143 over 48 months.

    Adam P. Wax of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “Retinal Light Scattering Measurements as a Clinical Biomarker of Alzheimer’s Disease.” Total funding will be $2,439,396 over 56 months.

    July

    Nenad Bursac of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for a project entitled “Engineering Highly Functional Pre-Vascularized Human Skeletal Muscle for In Vitro and In Vivo Applications.” Total funding will be $39,508 over 24 months.

    Boyuan Chen of MEMS has received an award from Columbia University under a prime award from the Army Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Using the dLPFC-ACC sub-architecture to enable meta-learning and theory of mind for agents playing hide and seek.” Total funding will be $47,569 over 12 months.

    Yiran Chen of the AI Institute has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “AI Institute: Athena: AI-Driven Next-Generation Networks at the Edge.” Total funding will be $300,000 over 50 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled “Acquisition of a Biacore T200 Surface Plasmon Resonance Instrument for Shared Use.” Total funding will be $150,000 over nine months.

    P. Lee Ferguson of CEE has received an award from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill under a prime award from the State of North Carolina for a project entitled “PFAS Testing Network Team 1: Sample Acquisition and PFAS Sample Analysis.” Total funding will be $525,000 over 24 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “Exploring the Use of Gene Therapies to Treat Neurofibromatosis Type I.” Total funding will be $67,996 over 24 months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from the Terasaki Institute under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Developing a comprehensive model for peripheral nerve stimulation of gastrointestinal function .” Total funding will be $109,282 over 12 months.

    Christopher R. Monroe of ECE has received an award from the California Institute of Technology under a prime award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “MURI: Scalable Certification of Quantum Computing Devices and Networks.” Total funding will be $521,860 over seven months.

    Michael Tadross of BME has received an award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center under a prime award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a project entitled “Parvalbumin interneurons regulate nucleus accumbens synapses and behavior.” Total funding will be $28,130 over eight months.

    Jonathan Viventi of BME has received an award from the NYU Langone Medical Center under a prime award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Advancing Epilepsy Diagnosis with Flexible, High-Resolution Thin-Film Electrodes.” Total funding will be $260,081 over 12 months.

    August

    Michael Bergin of CEE has received an award from the U.S. Department of State for a project entitled “Implementation of a low-cost air quality sensor network in Central Asia to improve air quality through capacity building and increased public awareness.” Total funding will be $732,000 over 37 months.

    Volker Blum of MEMS has received awards from:

    • The National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “DMREF: Collaborative Research: HybriD3: Discovery, Design, Dissemination of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Semiconductor Materials for Optoelectronic Applications.” Total funding will be $100,000 over seven months
    • Molecular Simulations from First Principles for a project entitled “Support for Scientific Software Development for Electronic Structure Theory.” Total funding will be $8,043 over five months

    L. Cate Brinson of MEMS has received awards from the National Science Foundation for projects entitled:

    • “Collaborative Research: Disciplinary Improvements: Creating a FAIROS Materials Research Coordination Network (MaRCN) in the Materials Research Data Alliance.” Total funding will be $99,312 over 36 months
    • “NRT-HDR: Harnessing AI for Autonomous Material Design.” Total funding will be $16,678 over 37 months

    Nenad Bursac of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Investigating Mitogenic Mechanism and Therapeutic Efficacy of Adenosine Deaminase Knockout in Human and Murine Cardiomyocytes .” Total funding will be $83,018 over 23 months.

    Tingjun Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Softwarizing Millimeter-wave Radio Access Networks (RANs) at the Edge.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 36 months.

    Joel Collier of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a project entitled “Engineered immunotherapies neutralizing interleukin-22 binding protein.” Total funding will be $434,847 over 22 months.

    Steven A. Cummer of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CEDAR: Large-scale detection of cloud-to-ionosphere electrical discharges and quantifying their effect on the ionosphere.” Total funding will be $120,000 over 36 months.

    Olivier Delaire of MEMS has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Neutron scattering studies of phonon anharmonicity and coupling with spin, charge and disorder.” Total funding will be $818,986 over 36 months.

    Ken Gall of MEMS has received an award from Ascent Bio- Nano Technologies, Inc. under a prime award from the Office of the Director for a project entitled “An acoustofluidic device for high-resolution 3D imaging and sorting of C. elegans without anesthetics.” Total funding will be $630,000 over 20 months.

    Maria Gorlatova of ECE has received an award from Nanohmics Inc. under a prime award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “Demonstration of Space-Qualified Environmental Evaluation Drones with Wireless Intelligent Networked Data Processing (SPEEDWINDs).” Total funding will be $50,000 over 13 months.

    Warren Grill of BME has received an award from the University of Florida under a prime award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Engineering the neuronal response to electrical microstimulation.” Total funding will be $210,467 over 12 months.

    Claudia Gunsch of the Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr).” Total funding will be $3,500,000 over 60 months.

    Kenneth C. Hall of MEMS has received an award from the GUIde Consortium for a project entitled “Analysis of Non-Synchronous Vibrations and Other Aeromechanical Flow Instabilities Using Novel Frequency-Domain Techniques.” Total funding will be $468,941 over 48 months.

    Hai “Helen” Li of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CCF Core: Small: Hardware/Software Co-Design for Sustainability at the Edge.” Total funding will be $600,000 over 36 months.

    Paolo Maccarini of ECE has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “BREEZE: New Ventricular Direct Cooling Stylet to Mitigate Secondary Brain Injury.” Total funding will be $442,750 over 24 months.

    Mikhail A. Nikiforov of BME has received awards from the:

    • National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “Regulation and Function of Very Long Chain Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in Multiple Myeloma.” Total funding will be $1,560,056 over 48 months
    • National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “GMPS-GMPR Axis Melanoma Progression and Therapy.” Total funding will be $392,357 over 12 months

    Mark L. Palmeri of BME has received an award from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences under a prime award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for a project entitled “mHealth Tympanometer: A Digital Innovation to Address Preventable Childhood Hearing Loss in Low- and Middle -Income Countries.” Total funding will be $70,906 over 15 months.

    Amanda Randles of BME has received an award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled “Data-Driven Approaches to Identify Biomarkers for Guiding Coronary Artery Bifurcation Lesion Interventions from Patient-Specific Hemodynamic Models.” Total funding will be $445,438 over 24 months.

    Ann Saterbak of BME has received an award from VentureWell for a project entitled “LowCostomy: A low-cost colostomy appliance for sub-Saharan Africa ostomy patients.” Total funding will be $13,000 over 14 months.

    Guglielmo Scovazzi of CEE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “High-order finite element methods for simulations of complex geometries without boundary fitted grids.” Total funding will be $382,101 over 36 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled “Atherosclerotic Risk of Branched Chain Amino Acids in a Tissue Engineered Blood Vessel Model.” Total funding will be $79,279 over 24 months.

    September

    Nenad Bursac of BME has received an award from the Jain Foundation for a project entitled “Development of 3-dimensional human skeletal muscle tissue models of MD Type 2B.” Total funding will be $237,148 over 12 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Acquisition of a Confocal Fluorescence Microscope to Image Synthetic Biomolecular Condensates.” Total funding will be $197,907 over 12 months.

    Olivier Delaire of MEMS has received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled “Dynamic atomistic processes of sodium-ion conduction in solid-state electrolytes.” Total funding will be $850,000 over 36 months.

    Al-Hafeez Z. Dhalla of BME has received an award from the National Eye Institute for a project entitled “Widefield Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope Optimized for Pediatric and Neonatal Imaging.” Total funding will be $442,750 over 23 months.

    Mark T. Draelos of BME has received an award from the National Eye Institute for a project entitled “Robotic Point-of-Care OCT.” Total funding will be $195,250 over 23 months.

    Tyler N. Felgenhauer of CEE has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: GCR: Generating Actionable Research to Investigate Combined Climate Intervention Strategies for Stakeholder Use.” Total funding will be $193,877 over 60 months.

    Aaron Franklin of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Exploring the Limits of Scaling and 3D-integration for Edge-contacted Nanomaterial-based Transistors.” Total funding will be $398,671 over 36 months.

    Jeffrey L. Krolik of ECE has received an award from the University of California-Davis under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “NSF AI Institutes Leadership Summit and Virtual Organization Support.” Total funding will be $212,573 over 24 months.

    David Mitzi of MEMS has received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled “Design and Validation of Defect-Resistant Multinary Chalcogenide Semiconductors for Energy Conversion.” Total funding will be $640,914 over 35 months.

    Amanda Randles of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “Dynamic models of the cardiovascular system capturing years, rather than heartbeats.” Total funding will be $5,635,000 over 58 months.

    Michael Rubinstein of MEMS has received an award from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill under a prime award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled “Development of Novel Mycolytic Therapies for Lung Disease, Project 1: Mechanism of action of mucolytics in improving mucus clearance in lung disease.” Total funding will be $80,799 over 12 months.

    Marc A. Sommer of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Mental Health for a project entitled “Circuit-Specific Interrogation of the Primate Claustrum.” Total funding will be $117,642 over 36 months.

    Vahid Tarokh of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: SWIFT: Dynamic Spectrum Sharing via Stochastic Optimization.” Total funding will be $117,825 over 36 months.

    Tuan Vo-Dinh of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Integrated Acoustofluidic Plasmonic Molecular Diagnostic System for Detecting MicroRNA Biomarkers .” Total funding will be $34,437 over 16 months.

    David W. Wolff of BME has received an award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “Interrogating the role of GTP metabolism in Rac1-driven phenotypes in melanoma.” Total funding will be $225,160 over 23 months.

    Lingchong You of BME has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Evolutionary dynamics of combinational antimicrobial treatments.” Total funding will be $1,210,764 over 47 months.

    Fan Yuan of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Chemically Assisted Electrotransfer of DNA.” Total funding will be $2,012,500 over 59 months.

    Pei Zhong of MEMS has received a program-project grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, for a program entitled “Enhancing Laser Lithotripsy via Nanoparticle Fine-Tuned NIR absorption.” Total funding will be $1,191,917 over 32 months. It includes projects headed by:

    • Christine Payne, which will receive total funding of $1,071,167
    • Pei Zhong, which will receive total funding of $120,750

    October

    Andrew D. Bragg of CEE has received an award from the University of Notre Dame under a prime award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Development and application of a wall model for the dust-laden atmospheric boundary layer.” Total funding will be $200,960 over 36 months.

    Nathaniel W. Chaney of CEE has received an award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for a project entitled “Implications of heterogeneity-aware land-atmosphere coupling in the predictability of precipitation extremes.” Total funding will be $176,730 over 12 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “IUCRC Proposal Phase 1 Duke: Center for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC) Membership Fees.” Total funding will be $99,603 over 12 months.

    John E. Dolbow of MEMS has received an award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a prime award from the US Department of Energy for a project entitled “Cohesive Phase Field Modeling of Fractures in Wellbore Cement.” Total funding will be $121,184 over 12 months.

    P. Lee Ferguson of CEE has received an award from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill under a prime award from the NC Department of Environmental Quality for a project entitled “Collaboratory Applied Research Fellowship – DEQ.” Total funding will be $31,512 over five months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “Neuromod Prize.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

    Nahid Iglesias of BME has received an award from the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research for a project entitled “Engineering epigenome editing tools for sustained reactivation of maternal PWS genes.” Total funding will be $162,000 over 18 months.

    Aaron M. Kyle of BME has received an award from the University of Connecticut under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Fostering Computational Thinking Through Neural Engineering Activities in High School Biology Classes.” Total funding will be $142,586 over 36 months.

    Jerome P. Lynch of CEE has received an award from the University of Michigan under a prime award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Intelligent Operating Environments for Enhancing Warfighter Performance and Health.” Total funding will be $326,000 over 18 months.

    Brian Stoner of ECE has received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “iFAST Phase 2.” Total funding will be $2,187,858 over 24 months.

    Vahid Tarokh of ECE has received an award from Georgia Tech Research Corporation under a prime award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “FLAP: Fast, Lexicographic Agile Perception Integrates Decision and Control in a Spike-Resolved, Sensorimotor Program.” Total funding will be $955,197 over 60 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from Altos Labs, Inc. for a project entitled “Fabrication of Engineered Blood Vessel Perfusion Chambers.” Total funding will be $5,851 over 36 months.

    Lingchong You of BME has received an award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation for a project entitled “Bacterial antibiotic response and population dynamics in microscopic surface wetness.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 48 months.

    November

    Leila J. Bridgeman of MEMS has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Robust, Distributed Control for Coordinating Aerial Vehicles.” Total funding will be $389,807 over 36 months.

    Robert Calderbank of the Duke Quantum Center has received an award from Virginia Tech under a prime award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “RINGS: Learning-Enabled Ground and Air Integrated Networks (GAINs).” Total funding will be $238,200 over 34 months.

    Sonia Grego of ECE has received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “Compendium on Lessons from RT Engineering Field Testing.” Total funding will be $99,812 over eight months.

    Tony Jun Huang of MEMS has received an award from Brigham and Women’s Hospital under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “Harmonic Acoustics for Neighboring cell Dynamic studies (HANDs).” Total funding will be $682,433 over 48 months.

    Jerome P. Lynch, the Vinik Dean of Engineering, has received an award from the University of Michigan under a prime award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Validation of Computer Vision and Environmental Sensing for Total Awareness of Personnel and Environments in Spaces (TAPES).” Total funding will be $48,000 over 12 months.

    Nicole Pelot of BME has received an award from Case Western Reserve University under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Mapping the Autonomic Pathways across 100 Human Vagus Nerves within a Demographically Representative Sample (MAP-100VN).” Total funding will be $1,807,805 over 36 months.

    Michael Rubinstein of MEMS has received an award from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Multi-Scale Investigations of Respiratory Mucus/Mucin Structure and Function in Health and Disease.” Total funding will be $1,564,590 over 59 months.

    Jonathan Viventi of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Neuro-CROWN: Optimized Ultra-Flexible CMOS Electrode Arrays for 3D, Low-Noise Neural Interfaces.” Total funding will be $164,090 over 24 months.

    December

    April Brown of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “Eager: Quantum Manufacturing: Demonstration of a New Scalable Process for NV Center Formation in Diamond.” Total funding will be $299,668 over 24 months.

    Tingjun Chen of ECE received awards from:

    • Columbia University, under a prime award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, for a project entitled “Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUbiC).” Total funding will be $1,233,227 over 60 months
    • The National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research:SII-NRDZ:Spectrum Sharing via Consumption Models and Telemetry – Prototyping and Field Testing in an Urban FCC Innovation Zone.” Total funding will be $190,000 over 36 months

    Jessilyn Dunn of BME received an award from the American Heart Association for a project entitled “Wearable Biosensors to Monitor Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Patients with Heart Failure.” Total funding will be $143,177 over 24 months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME received awards from the:

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison under a prime award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a project entitled “A Rational Engineering Design Approach to Minimizing the Off-Target Effects of Baroreceptor Activation Therapy.” Total funding will be $239,812 over nine months
    • National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “Characterizing Evoked Potentials of Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease.” Total funding will be $182,962 over 48 months.

    Kenneth C. Hall of MEMS received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “NASA Marshall GUIde 7 Membership.” Total funding will be $200,000 over 48 months.

    Barry S. Myers of BME received an award from the National Football League for a project entitled “Duke-NFL Service Agreement.” Total funding will be $885,484 over 60 months.

    Willie Padilla of ECE received awards from Srico, Inc.:

    • Under a prime award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Mapping Strain in Composite Materials using Terahertz Metamaterials.” Total funding will be $70,000 over five months
    • Under a prime award from the National Reconnaissance Office for a project entitled “Ultra-High Density Resilient Photonic Integrated Circuits.” Total funding will be $45,000 over nine months.

    Henry Pfister of ECE received an award from the University of California San Diego under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CIF: Medium: Coding Theory for DNA Storage: Synthesis, Retention, and Reconstruction.” Total funding will be $349,227 over 48 months.

    Ann Saterbak of the First-Year Design Program received an award from the Kern Family Foundation for a project entitled “Creating Value: Identifying and Specifying Student Design Projects.” Total funding will be $25,000 over 10 months.

    Marc A. Sommer of BME received an award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for a project entitled “Duke Research in Engineering Program.” Total funding will be $133,137 over 33 months.

    Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “BRITE Fellow: Hybrid Manufacturing for Hybrid Semiconductors.” Total funding will be $999,314 over 60 months.

    Lingchong You of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Tradeoffs between fitness costs and transfer rates in horizontal gene transfer.” Total funding will be $2,187,865 over 60 months.

  • January

    Gaurav Arya of MEMS has received an award from the University of California-San Diego under a prime award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “UC San Diego MRSEC: an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 67 months.

    Cameron R. Bass of BME has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Biomechanics Support for WIAMan and Additional Efforts.” Total funding will be $327,313 over 60 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from the National Science Foundation(NSF) for a project entitled “RAPID: Combined Antigen and Serology Rapid Test for COVID-19.” Total funding will be $23,867 over three months.

    Vahid Tarokh of ECE has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Robust Inter/Intra-Subject Mapping of Brain Signals.” Total funding will be $189,361 over 12 months.

    February

    April Brown of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Quantum Systems Manufacturing Workshop.” Total funding will be $92,096 over 11 months.

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: Secure and Trustworthy Cyberphysical Microfluidic Systems.” Total funding will be $657,569 over 36 months.

    Steven A. Cummer of ECE has received an award from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University under a prime award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled “AIRWaveS: Atmosphere-Ionosphere Responses to Wave Signals.” Total funding will be $895,186 over 27 months.

    Stefano Curtarolo of the Center for Autonomous Materials Design has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Targeted search for ultra-hard carbo-nitrides using the AFLOW framework and database.” Total funding will be $25,000 over 12 months.

    Michael Gehm of ECE has received an award from Princeton University under a prime award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled “Phase Adaptation for Estimating Optical Nexus (PAEON).” Total funding will be $228,375 over 18 months.

    Christopher R. Monroe of ECE has received an award from the University of California-Berkeley under a prime award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled “The Geometry and Flow of Quantum Information: From Quantum Technology to Quantum Gravity.” Total funding will be $198,000 over 36 months.

    Kathryn R. Nightingale of BME has received an award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “Development of a combined ARFI/SWEI ultrasound elasticity imaging system for targeted prostate biopsy guidance.” Total funding will be $37,867 over 12 months.

    Daniel Reker of BME has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled “Identifying the molecular mediators of microbiome-host interactions through machine learning.” Total funding will be $20,000 over 12 months.

    March

    Maria Gorlatova of ECE has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Foundations of IoT-supported mobile augmented reality.” Total funding will be $550,000 over 60 months.

    Joel A. Greenberg of ECE has received an award from the Kromek Group plc under a prime award from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for a project entitled “CAXSI Program.” Total funding will be $9,935 over two months.

    Sonia Grego of the Center for WaSH-AID has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled “COVID Sampler: A wastewater collection technology optimized for pathogen surveillance at the building scale.” Total funding will be $20,000 over 12 months.

    Brian T. Hawkins of the Center for WaSH-AID has received an award from Triangle Environmental under a prime award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled “Zero-Waste (ZeWa) water and energy recovery system.” Total funding will be $30,052 over six months.

    Fioleda P. Kesseli of Duke Engineering Entrepreneurship (EngEn) has received an award from Baylor University for a project entitled “Programmable Medical Wire System and Method (BRiDGE and Baylor Univ).” Total funding will be $6,564 over 12 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME has received an award from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine under a prime award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “Exogenous stiffness affects drug resistance in metastatic liver micro-organoids.” Total funding will be $59,625 over 5 months.

    David R. Smith of ECE has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled “Project Stratum: Enabling Rapid Revisit with Satellite Metasurface Microwave Antenna Technology.” Total funding will be $2,334,676 over 9 months.

    Junjie Yao of BME has received an award from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine under a prime award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for a project entitled “Sub-Diffraction Deep Photoacoustic Imaging with NIR photochromic Probes.” Total funding will be $200,000 over 12 months.

    April

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “IUCRC Proposal Phase 1 Duke: Center for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC).” Total funding will be $150,000 over 30 months.

    Mary “Missy” Cummings of ECE has received an award from Charles River Analytics Inc. under a prime award from the U.S. Department of Defense for a project entitled “Data Sciences for JMPS.” Total funding will be $111,750 over 16 months.

    Stefano Curtarolo of the Center for Autonomous Materials Design has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Thermodynamics of polar materials: beyond the CCE methods.” Total funding will be $285,000 over 12 months.

    Neil Gong of ECE has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Provably Secure Machine Learning.” Total funding will be $360,000 over 36 months.

    Joel A. Greenberg of ECE has received an award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “A multimodality X-ray transmission and diffraction imaging scanner for molecular analysis of biospecimens.” Total funding will be $1,071,852 over 36 months.

    Brian T. Hawkins of ECE has received an award from Triangle Environmental under a prime award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled “Electrodialytic Nutrient Recovery for traditional and advanced OWTS effluent polishing (EPA Phase II SBIR) .” Total funding will be $159,681 over 23 months.

    Roarke W. Horstmeyer of BME has received an award from the Hartwell Foundation for a project entitled “Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award.” Total funding will be $300,000 over 36 months.

    Piotr E. Marszalek of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Transition to Excellence: From Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy to Single-Particle Cryogenic Electron Microscopy.” Total funding will be $750,000 over 36 months.

    David Mitzi of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “REU SITE: Collaborative Research: Nanoscale Detectives—Elucidating the Structure and Dynamics of Hybrid Perovskite Systems.” Total funding will be $160,944 over 36 months.

    Samira Musah of BME has received an award from the Regents of the University of Michigan under a prime award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a project entitled “Tissue-Specific Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Human Kidney Disease.” Total funding will be $40,000 over 12 months.

    Willie Padilla of ECE has received an award from Srico, Inc. under a prime award from the National Reconnaissance Office for a project entitled “Ultra-Compact Resilient Photonic Integrated Circuits.” Total funding will be $149,999 over nine months.

    Henry Pfister of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: CIF: Medium: QODED: Quantum codes Optimized for the Dynamics between Encoded Computation and Decoding using Classical Coding Techniques.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 36 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME has received an award from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai under a prime award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled “COVID Survivors Long Term Follow Up Study—WMD ECHO Detector.” Total funding will be $1 million over 12 months.

    Teng Su of BME has received an award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled “Exosome-Based Pathological Microenvironment-Responsive Nanocapsules for Targeted Heart Repair.” Total funding will be $432,404 over 23 months.

    Tuan Vo-Dinh of BME has received an award from the University of Arizona under a prime award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for a project entitled “Product Development of the Vertical Integrated Flow Assay System Technology (VERIFAST) for Multiplex Pathogens Detection.” Total funding will be $45,001 over 19 months.

    Pei Zhong of MEMS has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a project entitled “Innovations in Shock Wave Lithotripsy Technology.” Total funding will be $584,864 over 59 months.

    May

    Volker Blum of MEMS has received an award from Molecular Simulations from First Principles for a project entitled “Hardware Support for Scientific Software Development for Electronic Structure Theory.” Total funding will be $11,460 over three months.

    Cate Brinson of MEMS has received awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for projects entitled:

    • “REU Supplement: Collaborative Research: Framework: Data: HDR: Nanocomposites to Metamaterials: A Knowledge Graph Framework.” Total funding will be $16,000 over 30 months
    • “REU Supplement DMREF/Collaborative Research: A Data-Centric Approach for Accelerating the Design of Future Nanostructured Polymers and Composites Systems.” Total funding will be $8,000 over four months

    Marc Deshusses of CEE has received an award from the GTI for a project entitled “A biotrickling filter to upgrade biogas with simultaneous siloxane and H2S removal.” Total funding will be $54,306 over eight months.

    Sina Farsiu of BME has received an award from the University of California-Davis under a prime award from the National Eye Institute for a project entitled “Soft drusen in rhesus macaques as a nonhuman primate model of early age-related macular degeneration.” Total funding will be $199,698 over 60 months.

    Brian P. Mann of MEMS has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Biomolecular Motor Nanomechanics and The Role of Passive Tissue in Locomotion.” Total funding will be $1,307,981 over 36 months.

    Iman Marvian Mashhad of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CAREER: Applications of Quantum Information Theory and Symmetry Principles in Quantum Physics.” Total funding will be $509,055 over 60 months.

    Willie Padilla of ECE has received awards from Srico, Inc. under prime awards from the:

    • Army Research Office for a project entitled:“W-band RF Instrumentation.” Total funding will be $330,000 over 23 months
    • Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Diffuse Screens for Dynamic Infrared Scene Projection Systems.” Total funding will be $229,598 over 24 months.

    Vahid Tarokh of ECE has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Data-Driven Improved Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) Radar.” Total funding will be $299,387 over 36 months.

    June

    Volker Blum of MEMS has received an award from Avant-Garde Materials Simulation (Deutschland) GmbH for a project entitled “Implicit solvation approach for molecular systems.” Total funding will be $59,688 over 6 months.

    Martin A. Brooke of ECE has received an award from VentureWell for a project entitled “Verizon and Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) 2021 Social Innovation Challenge proposal, Peek AR.” Total funding will be $5,000 over 6 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Revitalizing EDA from a Machine Learning Perspective.” Total funding will be $410,000 over 48 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project entitled “Multiplex point-of-care test for diagnosis, prognosis and serology of COVID19.” Total funding will be $502,734 over 36 months.

    Joel Collier of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project entitled “Supramolecular peptide immunotherapies for peanut allergy.” Total funding will be $435,093 over 24 months.

    Stefano Curtarolo of the Center for Autonomous Materials has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “SPICES: Spinodal-hardened high-entropy ceramics.” Total funding will be $3,750,000 over 36 months.

    Tony Jun Huang of MEMS a has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Surface Acoustic Wave Holography Enabled Additive Manufacturing of Multifunctional Composites.” Total funding will be $200,000 over 36 months.

    David Mitzi of MEMS a has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Amorphous-Crystalline Switching in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Semiconductors.” Total funding will be $384,672 over 36 months.

    Willie Padilla of ECE has received an award from Colorado State University under a prime award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “Miniaturized Microwave Absolute Calibration (MiniMAC) for Sounders and Imagers on SmallSat and CubeSat Platforms.” Total funding will be $274,000 over 36 months.

    Miroslav Pajic of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Next Big Research Challenges in Cyber-Physical Systems.” Total funding will be $24,783 over 12 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CIF: Small: Foundations and Applications of Blind Subgroup Robustness.” Total funding will be $451,110 over 36 months.

    Brian Stoner of ECE has received an award from the California Institute of Technology under a prime award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “COVID-19 mgLAMP for SARS-CoV-2 Phase 2 – Tansition and Field-testing.” Total funding will be $64,806 over five months.

    Emmanouil Veveakis of CEE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CAREER: An integrated dissipative modeling framework for the long-term assessment of Geohazards.” Total funding will be $580,158 over 60 months.

    Adam P. Wax of BME has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Angle resolved light scattering through a multimode fiber for measuring cell nuclei morphology.” Total funding will be $54,849 over 22 months.

    Lingchong You of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a project entitled “Targeted control of self-transmissible plasmids by using engineered interfering plasmids.” Total funding will be $428,141 over 45 months.

    July

    Kenneth R. Brown of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “PFCQC: STAQ: Software-Tailored Architecture for Quantum co-design.” Total funding will be $638,658 over 25 months.

    Marc Deshusses of CEE has received an award from Cavanaugh & Associates, P.A. for a project entitled “Assessment of air emissions from swine waste lagoons pre and post anaerobic digestion installation.” Total funding will be $28,016 over 12 months.

    Timothy W. Dunn of BME has received an award from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience for a project entitled “Multi-scale Deep Movement for Three Dimensional Behavioral Quantification in Individuals and Social Groups.” Total funding will be $200,000 over 24 months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for a project entitled “SC200190 – “Chronic Studies of Spinal Cord Stimulation for Restoration of Bladder Function”.” Total funding will be $803,991 over 36 months.

    Po-Chun Hsu of MEMS has received awards from:

    • United Berry Industry Co., Ltd. for a project entitled “Solar and Midinfrared Multispectral Thermoregulating Wearable Technology.” Total funding will be $600,000 over 36 months
    • Oak Ridge Associated Universities for a project entitled “Multimodal Adaptive Textiles (MULTA-TEX): Wearable Thermostat for Health and Energy.” Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months

    Tony Jun Huang of MEMS has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Development of a digital acoustofluidic system for automating liquid handling in biomedical research.” Total funding will be $412,551 over 48 months.

    Brian P. Mann of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CDS&E: Data-driven identification, diagnostics, and decision from machining dynamics.” Total funding will be $358,095 over 36 months.

    Piotr E. Marszalek of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Molecular Mechanisms of Spontaneous and Hsp70- assisted Renaturation of Misfolded Proteins.” Total funding will be $74,211 over 12 months.

    Maiken Mikkelsen of ECE has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Meta-imaging: Sensing, Processing and Computing with Dynamic Metasurfaces.” Total funding will be $4,500,000 over 36 months.

    Tatiana Segura of BME has received awards from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for projects entitled:

    • “Biomaterials to promote synapse formation after stroke.” Total funding will be $65,769 over 40 months
    • “VEGF ligand presentation and therapeutic angiogenesis.” Total funding will be $9,000 over 16 months

    Vahid Tarokh of ECE has received an award from the University of Minnesota under a prime award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Deans: Deep Adaptive Neural Structures.” Total funding will be $146,400 over 36 months.

    Jonathan Viventi of BME has received an award from the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for a project entitled “Next-Generation Wireless Intracranial Electrode Arrays for Post-traumatic Epilepsy.” Total funding will be $715,840 over 36 months.

    Mark R. Wiesner of CEE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “AccelNet Implementation: International Network For Researching, Advancing and Assessing Materials for Environmental Sustainability (INFRAMES).” Total funding will be $1,687,679 over 60 months.

    August

    Jason Amsden of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Underwater coded aperture miniature mass spectrometer (UW-CAMMS).” Total funding will be $1,268,754 over 36 months.

    Volker Blum of MEMS has received an award from Springer-Verlag GmbH for a project entitled “Springer Materials semiconductor data for the digital world.” Total funding will be $203,300 over 24 months.

    Cate Brinson of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Local Polymer Interfacial Mechanics: Effect of Topological and Chemical NanoPatterning.” Total funding will be $637,597 over 36 months.

    Kenneth R. Brown of ECE has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Comparing molecular ions and atomic ions for quantum information processing and quantum sensing.” Total funding will be $690,339 over 48 months.

    Tingjun Chen of ECE has received awards from the:

    • National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: SWIFT: SHIELD: A Software-Hardware Approach for Spectrum Coexistence with Rapid Interferer Learning, Detection, and Mitigation.” Total funding will be $250,000 over 36 months
    • Association for Computing Machinery for a project entitled “Facilitating Open-Access Millimeter-wave and Massive MIMO Research in the COSMOS and ORBIT Testbeds.” Total funding will be $20,000 over 22 months

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received awards from the National Science Foundation for projects entitled:

    • “AI Institute: Athena: AI-Driven Next-generation Networks at the Edge.” Total funding will be $20,000,000 over 60 months
    • “Collaborative Research: CCRI:NEW: Research Infrastructure for Real-Time Computer Vision and Decision Making via Mobile Robots.” Total funding will be $229,565 over 36 months
    • “Distributed Heterogenous Data Analytics via Federated Learning.” Total funding will be $150,000 over 24 months

    Olivier Delaire of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: DMREF: Design of Superionic Conductors by Tuning Lattice Dynamics.” Total funding will be $462,316. There is no specified project period.

    Marc Deshusses of CEE has received an award from 374Water for a project entitled “Testing concentrated PFAS treatment by supercritical water oxidation (SCWO).” Total funding will be $41,008 over four months.

    John E. Dolbow of MEMS has received an awards from the:

    • National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Investigating Crack Nucleation and Growth Under Dynamic Fatigue: Application to Nano-Pulse Lithotripsy.” Total funding will be $417,921 over 36 months
    • University of North Carolina-Greensboro under a prime award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for a project entitled “Design, Prototyping and Evaluation of Next Generation Public Safety User Interfaces.” Total funding will be $37,523 over five months

    Sina Farsiu of BME has received an award from the Foundation Fighting Blindness for a project entitled “Automated Software for Analysis of Adaptive Optics Scanning Optical Coherence Tomography Images.” Total funding will be $300,000 over 36 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received an award from the National Human Genome Research Institute for a project entitled “High-Throughput Functional Annotation of Gene Regulatory Elements and Variants Critical to Complex Cellular Phenotypes.” Total funding will be $956,415 over 57 months.

    Zhenqiang Gong of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE:Small: Securing Recommender Systems against Data Poisoning Attacks.” Total funding will be $400,000 over 36 months.

    Akhenaton-Andrew D. Jones of CEE has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Developing platforms for studying the impact of external stresses on multi-species biofilms.” Total funding will be $1.9 million over 6 years.

    Boyla O. Mainsah of ECE has received an award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for a project entitled “Closed-Loop Stimulus Optimisation to Increase Communication Efficiency in Brain-Computer Interfaces.” Total funding will be $266,638 over four months.

    Brian P. Mann of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Title: NRT-FW-HTF: NSF Traineeship in the Advancement of Surgical Technologies .” Total funding will be $2,999,967 over 60 months.

    Iman Marvian Mashhad of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: FET: Medium: Robust Quantum Networks via Efficient Entanglement Distribution.” Total funding will be $150,000 over 48 months.

    Steve McClelland of Engineering Entrepreneurship (Duke EngEn) has received an award from EZTrain LLC under a prime award from the United States Air Force for a project entitled “Algorithmic Data Organization and Integration for Training, Scheduling, and Personnel Management.” Total funding will be $13,394 over two months.

    Christopher R. Monroe of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “MRI: Development of a Next-Generation Modular Ion-Trap Quantum Computer.” Total funding will be $1,712,082 over 24 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE has received an award from Massachusetts General Hospital under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “A computational approach for quantifying motor behaviors in spinocerebellar ataxias to improve early detection of motor signs and precisely estimate disease severity and disease change.” Total funding will be $62,168 over 60 months.

    Ann Saterbak of BME via Engineering Entrepreneurship (Duke EngEn) has received an award from the HealthRoots Foundation for Global Health for a project entitled “Gastroschisis Silos for Sub-Saharan Africa.” Total funding will be $10,000 over 12 months.

    David R. Smith of ECE has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “Digital Materials with Simultaneous Electromagnetic Functionality .” Total funding will be $125,004 over 12 months.

    Daniel J. Sorin of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “SHF: Small: Transforming Computer Architecture Evaluation with Statistical Model Checking.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 36 months.

    September

    Nenad Bursac of BME has received an award from the Jain Foundation for a project entitled “Development of 3-dimensional human skeletal muscle tissue models of MD Type 2B.” Total funding will be $213,870 over 12 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the Air Force Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Operating at the intersection of Out-of-distribution detection and adversarial machine learning.” Total funding will be $170,000 over 24 months.

    Joel Collier of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project entitled “Sublingual Supramolecular Vaccines and Immunotherapies.” Total funding will be $2,286,313 over 59 months.

    Roarke W. Horstmeyer of BME has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Rapid measurement of prefrontal cortical activity using parallelized diffuse correlation spectroscopy.” Total funding will be $699,028 over 36 months.

    Tony Jun Huang of MEMS has received an award from the University of California-Los Angeles under a prime award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for a project entitled “Saliva-based AFS Separation of SARS-CoV-2 for Earliest and Concurrent Detection of Viral RNA, Viral Load and Host Antibody.” Total funding will be $283,033 over 15 months.

    Mark L. Palmeri of BME has received an award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled “Deep Learning Image Enhancement for Point of Care Ultrasound.” Total funding will be $37,439 over 48 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for a project entitled “Microphysiology Systems Database submission for Microphysiological Models of Muscle and Vascular Disease.” Total funding will be $73,266 over 10 months.

    Jonathan Viventi of BME has received an award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for a project entitled “A Wireless µECoG Prosthesis for Speech.” Total funding will be $2,957,755 over 59 months.

    October

    Gaurav Arya of the Center for Autonomous Materials Design has received an award from the University of Minnesota under a prime award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “The DNA Packaging Motor of Bacteriophage Phi29.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 11 months.

    Martin A. Brooke of ECE has received an award from the Sony Corporation for a project entitled “Research Award Program Participation Agreement.” Total funding will be $33,422 over 15 months.

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty of ECE has received an award from the Semiconductor Research Corp. for a project entitled “Exploring Hardware-Supported Patching for Resilient System on Chip Architectures.” Total funding will be $127,500 over 36 months.

    Tyler N. Felgenhauer of CEE has received an award from Resources for the Future for a project entitled “Solar Geoengineering Research Initiative at Resources for the Future.” Total funding will be $32,211 over 12 months.

    Aaron Franklin of ECE has received an award from Versametrics LLC under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Enabling study of electrically transduced information from biomolecules with a low-cost, versatile measurement (Versametrics) system.” Total funding will be $74,999 over 12 months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from Boston Scientific Corporation for a project entitled “Deep Brain Stimulation Evoked Potentials (SRA2).” Total funding will be $1,360,902 over 60 months.

    Heileen Hsu-Kim of CEE has received an award from Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a project entitled “Development of Predictive Capabilities for Mercury Bioavailability and Methylation Potential in Aquatic Ecosystems.” Total funding will be $51,665 over eight months.

    Gabriel Katul of CEE has received an award from the University of California-Los Angeles under a prime award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled “Boundary layer theory for canopies covering complex terrain: Going from eddies in motion to biosphere-atmosphere exchanges and their representation in climate models.” Total funding will be $235,152 over 36 months.

    Samira Musah of BME has received an award from the University of Michigan under a prime award from Genentech, Inc. for a project entitled “Inductive repair of human kidney tissues by cell type-specific sensing and reprogramming.” Total funding will be $50,000 over 24 months.

    Charles B. Parker of ECE has received an award from Faraday Technology Corporation under a prime award from the Department of Defense for a project entitled “Graphenated Carbon Nanotube-Based MEMS Supercapacitors.” Total funding will be $78,000 over six months.

    Michael Tadross of BME has received an award from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Cerebellar pathology in the absence of plasticity gating.” Total funding will be $26,515 over 10 months.

    Jonathan Viventi of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Neuro-CROWN: Optimized Ultra-Flexible CMOS Electrode Arrays for 3D, Low-Noise Neural Interfaces.” Total funding will be $2,752,783 over 47 months.

    November

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty of ECE has received an award from the Semiconductor Research Corp. for a project entitled “Machine Learning for Testing Machine-Learning Hardware: A Virtuous Cycle.” Total funding will be $270,000 over 36 months.

    Mary “Missy” Cummings of ECE has received an award from the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) for a project entitled “NHTSA IPA.” Total funding will be $296,880 over 22 months.

    Jessilyn Dunn of BME has received an award from the Trustees of Columbia University under a prime award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “Workshop on Technology for Automated Capture of Diet, Nutrition, and Eating Behaviors in Context.” Total funding will be $10,275 over four months.

    Bryan Howell of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for a project entitled “Pathway-Specific Targeting in Subcallosal Cingulate Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression.” Total funding will be $475,667 over 48 months.

    Paolo Maccarini of ECE received awards from:

    • N.C. State University under a prime award from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a project entitled “Sustainable and eco-friendly deep soil thermal sterilization of plant-parasitic nematodes.” Total funding will be $161,149 over 12 months.
    • Symple Surgical, Inc. under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “A Novel Radiometry-Guided Ablation Catheter to Reliably Treat Barrett’s Disease.” Total funding will be $131,997 over nine months.

    Christine Payne of MEMS has received an award from North Carolina State University under a prime award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for a project entitled “Mechanisms of Nanoparticle Modulation of Allergen-Induced Lung Disease.” Total funding will be $107,686 over 58 months.

    Adam P. Wax of BME has received an award from KovaDx under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Using AI to develop a red blood cell health index for the monitoring of sickle cell disease.” Total funding will be $127,934 over nine months.

    December

    Cameron R. “Dale” Bass of BME received an award from the Medical College of Wisconsin under a prime award from the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium for a project entitled “MTEC- 21-06-MPAI-031—Behind Armor Blunt Trauma Consortium: Injuries, Mechanisms, and Biomedical Injury Criteria.” Total funding will be $704,269 over 13 months.

    John E. Dolbow of MEMS received an award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a prime award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) for a project entitled “Cohesive Phase Field Modeling of Fractures in Wellbore Cement.” Total funding will be $117,354 over nine months.

    Brian T. Hawkins of ECE received an award from Triangle Environmental under a prime award from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a project entitled “A compact, modular wastewater treatment system for nonpotable reuse of household greywater.” Total funding will be $30,735 over five months.

    Po-Chun Hsu of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “CAREER: Electrochemical Dynamic Midinfrared Metasurface for Ultra-Low Power Wearable Thermoregulation.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 60 months.

  • January

    Lawrence Carin of ECE has received awards from:

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a prime award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Machine Learning for Submesoscale Characterization, Ocean Prediction, and Exploration (ML-SCOPE).” Total funding will be $200,000 over 60 months
    • Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. for a project entitled “Deep Generative Probabilistic Models for Synthetic Data Generation.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months

    Mary “Missy” Cummings of ECE has received an award from North Carolina State University under a prime award from the North Carolina Department of Transportation for a project entitled “Developing Regional Dispatch Decision Support for Congestion Mitigation.” Total funding will be $182,000 over 30 months.

    Patrick L. Ferguson of CEE has received an award from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for a project entitled “Assessment of emerging contaminant occurrence in Coastal North Carolina waters after Hurricane Dorian.” Total funding will be $5,000 over 15 months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from the Paralyzed Veterans of America for a project entitled “Spinal Cord Stimulation for Restoration of Bladder Function.” Total funding will be $148,899 over 24 months.

    Miroslav Pajic of ECE has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Platform-Level Services for Security of Naval Cyber-Physical Systems.” Total funding will be $570,000 over 36 months.

    Nimmi Ramanujam of BME has received an award from the Prevent Cancer Foundation for a project entitled “HOPE: Women helping women fight cervical cancer through self-HPV and VIA testing.” Total funding will be $75,000 over 12 months.

    Tatiana Segura of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “VEGF ligand presentation and therapeutic angiogenesis.” Total funding will be $460,624 over 58 months.

    Lingchong You of BME has received an award from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for a project entitled “Understanding the Skin Microbiome through the Integration of Metagenomics, Bioinformatics, Spatial Ecology, and Synthetic Biology.” Total funding will be $30,000 over one month.

    February

    Steven A. Cummer of ECE has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled “Advancing Magnetization and Polarization Low-Frequency Imaging(AMPLiFI).” Total funding will be $50,000 over three months.

    Kenneth Gall of MEMS has received an award from Ascent Bio-Nano Technologies, Inc. under a prime award from the National Institute on Aging for a project entitled “An acoustofluidic device for diagnosing preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease.” Total funding will be $70,000 over 12 months.

    Johann Guilleminot of CEE has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Harnessing the Revolution in Material Processing: A Computational Stochastic Framework for Uncertainty Quantification on Optimized Geometrics.” Total funding will be $563,164 over 60 months.

    Nahid Iglesias of BME has received an award from the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research for a project entitled “Engineering epigenome editing tools for sustained reactivation of maternal PWS genes.” Total funding will be $108,000 over 12 months.

    Joseph A. Izatt of BME has received an award from KUKA AG for a project entitled “Robotically Aligned Optical Coherence Tomography for Automated Eye Examination.” Total funding will be $3,700 over nine months.

    Tatiana Segura of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Biomaterials to promote synapse formation after stroke .” Total funding will be $2,574,316 over 57 months.

    Adam P. Wax of BME has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Angle-resolved light scattering through a multimode fiber for measuring cell nuclei morphology.” Total funding will be $555,747 over 36 months.

    March

    Mark Borsuk of CEE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Implications of Solar Radiation Management for Strategic Behavior and Climate Governance.” Total funding will be $565,872 over 36 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the Air Force Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Exploring Vulnerability & Robustness of Deep Learning Systems.” Total funding will be $120,000 over 12 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from Advanced Technology International under a prime award from the U.S. Army Contracting Command-New Jersey for a project entitled “Detection of Operationally Relevant Biomarkers – preproposal.” Total funding will be $13,792,043 over 45 months.

    Steven A. Cummer of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Engineering exceptional points for sound control with non-Hermitian acoustic metasurfaces.” Total funding will be $347,748 over 36 months.

    Jeffrey L. Krolik of ECE has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled “Neural-Network Enhanced Radar Surveillance (NNERS).” Total funding will be $998,787 over 18 months.

    Miroslav Pajic of ECE has received an award from the University of Florida under a prime award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Center of Excellence: Assured Autonomy in Contested Environments.” Total funding will be $73,752 over 12 months.

    Tatiana Segura of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Engineering Adaptive Immune Responses from Hydrogel Scaffolds to Promote Tissue Regeneration.” Total funding will be $3,200,235 over 60 months.

    Manolis Veveakis of CEE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Controlling Deep-Seated Landslides by Monitoring Basal Temperature (CorDeaL).” Total funding will be $165,772 over 12 months.

    Lingchong You of BME has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Predictable Engineering of Self-organized Spatial Patterns in Bacteria.” Total funding will be $1,000,000 over 47 months.

    April

    Cate Brinson of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “REU Supplement DMREF/Collaborative Research: A Data-Centric Approach for Accelerating the Design of Future Nanostructured Polymers and Composites Systems.” Total funding will be $8,000 over 17 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “RAPID: Combined Antigen and Serology Rapid Test for COVID-19.” Total funding will be $119,337 over 12 months.

    Stefano Curtarolo of the Center for Autonomous Materials has received awards from the Office of Naval Research for projects entitled:

    • “Designing practical metallic glasses through synergic computational and experimental exploration of the processing-structure-properties space.” Total funding will be $1,600,000 over 48 months
    • “Development of Cloud-Oriented Materials Discovery Services (AFLOW-Cloud).” Total funding will be $359,994 over 12 months

    James A. Hokanson of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a project entitled “Predicting Urinary Continence Status with Sacral Neuromodulation and Botulinum Toxin Treatments.” Total funding will be $117,469 over 35 months.

    Miroslav Pajic of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CAREER: Foundations for Secure Control of Cyber-Physical Systems.” Total funding will be $88,388 over 22 months.

    Amanda Randles of BME has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Scalable Approaches for Multiphysics Fluid Simulation.” Total funding will be $499,918 over 59 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE has received awards from the Office of Naval Research for projects entitled:

    • “Learning Utility-Preserving Private, Fair, and Invariant Representations.” Total funding will be $441,941 over 36 months.
    • “Fundamentals and Applications in Learned Information Representation.” Total funding will be $398,266 over 36 months.

    Guglielmo Scovazzi of CEE has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Numerical Parallel Scalability of the Shifted Boundary Method.” Total funding will be $283,995 over 12 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled “Mapping Epigenetic Memory of Exposure New To Observe (MEMENTO) Option-COVID-19.” Total funding will be $799,477 over 14 months.

    Jonathan Viventi of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a project entitled “Analysis and Design of µECoG Array Characteristics for Optimized Signal Acquisition.” Total funding will be $75,098 over 35 months.

    Adam P. Wax of BME has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “REU Supplement: Deep skin imaging with OCT.” Total funding will be $8,000 over six months.

    Mark R. Wiesner of CEINT has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Supplement proposal for US-Africa Collaborations in the area of for Sustainable Energy, Water and Environment .” Total funding will be $29,358 over five months.

    Junjie Yao of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Head-mounted Photoacoustic Imaging of Deep-brain Neural Activities in Freely Behaving Animals .” Total funding will be $2,007,240 over 36 months.

    May

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Two-dimensional Synaptic Array for Advanced Hardware Acceleration of Deep Neural Networks.” Total funding will be $200,000 over 36 months.

    Stefano Curtarolo of the Center for Autonomous Materials and MEMS has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Autonomous materials discovery models and algorithms for the AFLOW framework and database.” Total funding will be $1,199,999 over 48 months.

    Marc Deshusses of CEE has received an award from the Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program for a project entitled “Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO) for Complete PFAS Destruction.” Total funding will be $646,335 over 24 months.

    Sina Farsiu of BME has received an award from the University of Michigan under a prime award from the National Eye Institute for a project entitled “Quantifying Microbial Keratitis Features to Predict Outcomes.” Total funding will be $104,438 over 48 months.

    Brian P. Mann of MEMS has received an award from the Los Alamos National Laboratory under a prime award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Multi Axis Vibration Testing: A Comparison of Sequential and Synchronous Application of Environments.” Total funding will be $439,222 over 36 months.

    David Mitzi of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “GOALI: Additive and Stoichiometry Engineering in Perovskites: Building Deeper Understanding of the Impact on Optoelectronic Properties for Energy Applications.” Total funding will be $450,000 over 36 months.

    Willie Padilla of ECE has received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled “Metamaterials as a platform for the development of novel materials for energy applications.” Total funding will be $531,396 over 36 months.

    Guglielmo Scovazzi of CEE has received an award from Sandia National Laboratories under a prime award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled “Advanced Methods for Lagrangian Shock Hydrodynamics.” Total funding will be $134,000 over 5 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled “Progeria and Vasculature: Investigating Genetic Effects and the Potential of Genome Editing for Treatment.” Total funding will be $136,560 over 36 months.

    Junjie Yao of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled “Handheld Wound Analyzer for In Situ Healing.” Total funding will be $595,700 over 46 months.

    June

    Volker Blum of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: ELSI-Infrastructure for Scalable Electronic Structure Theory.” Total funding will be $202,857 over 11 months.

    Mark Borsuk of CEE has received an award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled “Building community resilience to natural-disaster-driven contaminant exposures through system-level risk analysis, management, and readiness.” Total funding will be $799,756 over 36 months.

    L. Catherine Brinson of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Framework: Data: HDR: Nanocomposites to Metamaterials: A Knowledge Graph Framework.” Total funding will be $329,499 over 40 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Workshop Proposal: Processing-In-Memory (PIM) Technology – Grand Challenges and Killer Applications.” Total funding will be $49,999 over 12 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled “Multivalent Immunomodulatory Proteins for Targeted Cancer Therapy.” Total funding will be $105,000 over 18 months.

    Leslie M. Collins of ECE has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Signal Processing for Magnetometer-based Deep Detection of Unexploded Ordnance.” Total funding will be $80,000 over seven months.

    Richard T. Di Giulio of CEE has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a project entitled “Superfund Research Center (P42-ES010356).” Total funding will be $9,990 over 21 months.

    Sina Farsiu of BME has received an award from the Hartwell Foundation for a project entitled “Artificial Intelligence-aided Screening of Potentially Blinding Pediatric Retinal Diseases.” Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received an award from Levo Therapeutics, Inc for a project entitled “Epigenome Editing Therapy to Treat Mouse Models of Prader-Willi Syndrome.” Total funding will be $693,501 over 24 months.

    Hai “Helen” Li of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Exploiting Synergies between Machine learning algorithms and hardware heterogeneity for high-performance and Reliable Manycore Computing Platforms.” Total funding will be $450,000 over 35 months.

    Natalia Litchinitser of ECE has received an award from Clemson University under a prime award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “High Photon Density Spatiotemporal (OAM+SAM) Vector Beams for Maritime Environments.” Total funding will be $1,000,000 over 60 months.

    James Morizio of ECE has received an award from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for a project entitled “Development of the Osseointegrated Neural Interface for prosthetic control into a pre-clinical translational sheep model.” Total funding will be $163,000 over 36 months.

    Charles B. Parker of ECE has received an award from the National Eye Institute for a project entitled “Neural Electrodes with Enhanced Charge Injection and Reduced Interfacial Impedance Using Graphenated Carbon Nanotubes Coated With Atomic Layer-Deposited Platinum Nanoparticles.” Total funding will be $461,770 over 24 months.

    Christine Payne of MEMS has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a project entitled “Pulmonary response to nanomaterial-ozone exposures.” Total funding will be $442,750 over 24 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled “Development of molecular diganostic assay for accurate detection of COVID-19 infection.” Total funding will be $20,000 over 12 months.

    Daniel J. Sorin of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “SHF:Small: Automatic Generation of Cache Coherent Memory Systems for Multicore Processors.” Total funding will be $400,000 over 36 months.

    July

    Ana P. Barros of CEE received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a project entitled ”Physically-Based Correction of Orographic Precipitation Estimates Using Inverse Modeling and Big Data Analytics.” Total funding will be $45,000 over 13 months.

    Cameron R. “Dale” Bass of BME received an award from Atrium Health under a prime award from the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for a project entitled ”Examining the Effects of Head Supported Mass on Cervical Spine Biomechanics and Injury Risk in Special Forces Operators.” Total funding will be $622,664 over 36 months.

    Mark Borsuk of CEE received an award from the U.S. Forest Service for a project entitled ”Structured Decision Analysis as a Tool for Implementing Shared Stewardship .” Total funding will be $82,600 over 12 months.

    L. Catherine Brinson of MEMS received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ”NRT-HDR: Harnessing AI for Autonomous Material Design.” Total funding will be $2,999,525 over 60 months.

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ”Adaptive Protocol Synthesis and Error Recovery in Micro-Electrode-Dot-Array (MEDA) Microfluidic Biochips-Intern.” Total funding will be $44,855 over 23 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled ”Genetically Encoded Smart Biohybrid Materials.” Total funding will be $116,150 over 37 months.

    Steven A. Cummer of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ”Continent-scale low frequency lightning remote sensing.” Total funding will be $740,316 over 36 months.

    Marc Deshusses of CEE received an award from Auburn University under a prime award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a project entitled ”Development of a bacterial-algal-zooplankton process for conversion of agricultural waste into aquaculture feed.” Total funding will be $8,000 over 48 months.

    John E. Dolbow of MEMS received an award from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro under a prime award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for a project entitled ”Design, Prototyping and Evaluation of Next Generation Public Safety User Interfaces.” Total funding will be $102,202 over 11 months.

    Jessilyn Dunn of BME received an award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for a project entitled ”Expanding the Open mHealth Platform to include a Digital Biomarker Discovery Pipeline (DBDP).” Total funding will be $190,000 over 12 months.

    Po-Chun Hsu of MEMS received an award from North Carolina State University under a prime award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled ”Bio-Inspired Vascular Structures for High-Rate Performance Batteries by Deep Learning and Additive Micro-Manufacturing.” Total funding will be $40,000 over 23 months.

    Joseph A. Izatt of BME received awards from the:

    • U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for a project entitled ”Automated OCT Technology Translation to Diagnose Traumatic Eye Injury.” Total funding will be $1,127,561 over 36 months
    • National Eye Institute for a project entitled ”Highspeed, motion-stabilized, handheld OCTA for pediatric imaging.” Total funding will be $397,000 over 20 months

    Imran Ozer of BME received an award from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for a project entitled ”CA191146: Long-acting PEG-like conjugates of an immune checkpoint inhibitor and a selective cytokine for combination immunotherapy.” Total funding will be $237,810 over 24 months.

    Ann Saterbak of the First-Year Design Program and BME has received an award from the Kern Family Foundation for a project entitled ”Creating Value: Identifying and Specifying Student Design Projects.” Total funding will be $149,887 over 24 months.

    David R. Smith of ECE has received an award from the Kymeta Corporation for a project entitled ”Extending the Coupled Dipole Model for Metasurface Antenna Design.” Total funding will be $22,990 over four months.

    Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ”Collaborative Research: Design Principles for Multi-functional Polymer Dispersion Blends.” Total funding will be $72,584 over 17 months.

    August

    Gaurav Arya of MEMS and the Center for Autonomous Materials received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Conformationally-Steered Hierarchical Self-Assembly at Solid Surfaces.” Total funding will be $325,000 over 12 months.

    Andrew D. Bragg of CEE received an award from the University of Wyoming under a prime award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a project entitled “Two-way momentum coupling between hydrometeors and small-scale air motions: Effects on precipitation and drop size distributions.” Total funding will be $138,025 over 36 months.

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty of ECE received awards from the:

    • National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “SaTC: CORE: Small: Security of FPGA-as-a-Service Reconfigurable Systems.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 36 months
    • Semiconductor Research Corp. for a project entitled “Securing 2.5D/3D ICs Against IP Theft.” Total funding will be $240,000 over 36 months

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME received an award from Gateway Bio, Inc. under a prime award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for a project entitled “Non-Immunogenic PEG-like conjugates of Uricase.” Total funding will be $119,824 over 12 months.

    Nan M. Jokerst of ECE received an award from North Carolina State University under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “NNCI: North Carolina Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN).” Total funding will be $1,374,995 over 60 months.

    Michael D. Lynch of BME received an award from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a project entitled “Biological Production of Thermal Stabilizers.” Total funding will be $317,795 over 38 months.

    Amanda Randles of BME received an award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “Technology for efficient simulation of cancer cell transport.” Total funding will be $1,112,279 over 35 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Reseach: Transferable, Hierarchical, Expressive, Optimal, Robust, Interpretable NETworks (THEORINET).” Total funding will be $400,000 over 60 months.

    Tuan Vo-Dinh of BME received an award from the University of Arizona under a prime award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for a project entitled “Product Development of the Vertical Integrated Flow Assay System Technology (VERIFAST) for Multiplex Pathogens Detection.” Total funding will be $330,000 over 36 months.

    Junjie Yao of BME received an award from SonoVol, Inc. under a prime award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “Development of a Longitudinal Molecular Imaging Platform to Support Immuno-Oncology Research .” Total funding will be $12,877 over 12 months.

    Stefan Zauscher of MEMS received an award from Qatch Technologies LLC under a prime award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Injectability analysis of high concentration protein formulations by extending shear-rate range in microfluidic quartz viscometers.” Total funding will be $50,131 over seven months.

    September

    Michael Bergin of CEE has received an award from the U.S. Department of State for a project entitled “Building Capacity to Improve Air Quality in South Asia: Reducing PM2.5 Through Low- Cost Sensor Network Driven Policy Decisions.” Total funding will be $1,975,206 over 36 months.

    Cate Brinson of MEMS has received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled “FAIR Data and Interpretable AI Framework for Architectured Metamaterials.” Total funding will be $870,580 over 36 months.

    Nenad Bursac of BME has received an award from the Jain Foundation for a project entitled “Development of 3-dimensional human skeletal muscle tissue models of MD Type 2B.” Total funding will be $180,854 over 12 months.

    Robert Calderbank of ECE has received an award from the Air Force Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Learning to Prevail: Communication in Contested and Adversarial Environments.” Total funding will be $4,999,520 over 60 months.

    Nathan Chaney of CEE has received an award from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a project entitled “The role of dust in the life cycle of snow: Coupling remote sensing with models to link land-use, climate, and water resources.” Total funding will be $324,399 over 36 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project entitled “A Fully Integrated Point-of-Care Test for Ebola.” Total funding will be $3,387,426 over 60 months.

    Olivier Delaire of MEMS has received an award from Qatch Technologies LLC under a prime award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled “High-throughput injectability screening of high concentration protein formulations by multiplexed microfluidic quartz resonators.” Total funding will be $52,404 over six months.

    Marc Deshusses of CEE has received an award from 374Water for a project entitled “Testing concentrated PFAS treatment by supercritical water oxidation (SCWO).” Total funding will be $36,062 over 12 months.

    John E. Dolbow of MEMS has received an award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a prime award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Cohesive Phase Field Modeling of Fractures in Wellbore Cement.” Total funding will be $103,503 over 12 months.

    P. Lee Ferguson of CEE has received an award from BASF Corporation for a project entitled “Fate of PU and PP microplastics and associated polymer additives in freshwater environments.” Total funding will be $39,767 over 11 months.

    Po-Chun Hsu of MEMS has received an award from Sony Corporation for a project entitled “Autonomous Energy-Efficient Wearable Personal Thermal Management and Therapy.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

    Hai “Helen” Li of ECE has received awards from the:

    • National Science Foundation for a project entitled “NSF Convergence Accelerator Track D: A Trusted Integrative Model and Data Sharing Platform for Accelerating AI-Driven Health Innovation.” Total funding will be $966,067 over 8 months
    • U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled “A Hardware and Software Co-design Framework for Energy Efficient Neuromorphic Systems.” Total funding will be $400,000 over 24 months

    Michael D. Lynch of BME has received awards from:

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a project entitled “Biological Production of Thermal Stabilizers.” Total funding will be $324,725 over 38 months
    • The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project entitled “Optimization of a Bioprocess for GRFT manufacture .” Total funding will be $287,713 over 22 months.

    Paolo Maccarini of BME has received an award from Endra Life Sciences Inc for a project entitled “Development of microwave antenna and pulsed amplifier for compact/low-cost ThermoAcoustic imaging of fatty liver.” Total funding will be $87,216 over 13 months.

    Charles B. Parker of ECE has received an award from Voxel Innovations under a prime award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Electrochemical Machining of Refractory Metals for Aerospace Applications.” Total funding will be $75,000 over 12 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE has received an award from the Simons Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Reseach: Transferable, Hierarchical, Expressive, Optimal, Robust, Interpretable NETworks (THEORINET).” Total funding will be $1,000,000 over 60 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME has received an award from the:

    • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled “Mapping Epigenetic Memory of Exposure New To Observe (MEMENTO) COVID-19 Data Analytics.” Total funding will be $212,232 over 12 months
    • National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Spatiotemporal and robustness regulation of the stem cell niche.” Total funding will be $107,810 over 19 months

    David R. Smith of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research:SWIFT: SMALL: Enabling Seamless Coexistence between Passive and Active Networks using Reconfigurable Reflecting Surfaces .” Total funding will be $149,992 over 36 months.

    Marc A. Sommer of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Rational Design of TMS for Neuromodulation.” Total funding will be $699,963 over 57 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for a project entitled “Vascular, Cardiac, and Lung Alveolar Human Microphysiological Systems for SARS COV2 Drug Screening.” Total funding will be $280,600 over 22 months.

    October

    Kenneth R. Brown of ECE has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Simplifying quantum characterization through physical symmetries, machine learning, and a top-down approach,.” Total funding will be $1,563,393 over 48 months.

    P. Lee Ferguson of CEE has received an award from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill under a prime award from the State of North Carolina for a project entitled “PFAS Testing Network Team 1: Sample Acquisition and PFAS Sample Analysis.” Total funding will be $120,000 over 10 months.

    Jungsang Kim of ECE has received an award from the University of Maryland under a prime award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Scaling Modular and Reconfigurable Quantum Systems.” Total funding will be $197,012 over two months.

    James Morizio of ECE has received an award from the University of Wisconsin – Madison under a prime award from the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for a project entitled “Multi-axis prosthesis control through an osseointegrated neural interface.” Total funding will be $40,390 over 12 months.

    Willie Padilla of ECE has received an award from Srico, Inc. under a prime award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Broadband Photoconductive Terahertz Focal Plane Arrays.” Total funding will be $50,000 over 6 months.

    Miroslav Pajic of ECE has received an award from the University of Florida under a prime award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Center of Excellence: Assured Autonomy in Contested Environments.” Total funding will be $176,007 over six months.

    November

    Andrew D. Bragg of CEE has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled ”CAREER: Sheared stratified turbulence: novel mechanisms and models of complex wave-vortex interactions that impact our environment.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 60 months.

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty of ECE has received an award from the Computing Research Association under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ”Computing Innovation Fellows 2020 Project.” Total funding will be $240,307 over 24 months.

    Nathan Chaney of CEE has received an award from the University of California-Riverside under a prime award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a project entitled ”Artificial Intelligence for Enhancing Sustainability of Water, Nutrient, Salinity, and Pest Management in the Western USA.” Total funding will be $202,443 over 60 months.

    Marc Deshusses of CEE has received an award from the Environmental Research and Education Foundation for a project entitled ”Techno-Economic Evaluation of Supercritical Water Oxidation for Landfill Leachate and Condensate Management.” Total funding will be $152,000 over 12 months.

    Earl H. Dowell of MEMS has received an award from North Carolina State University under a prime award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a project entitled ”Building the future of transportation—Hyperloop pod transit system.” Total funding will be $5,000 over eight months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from Dignify Therapeutics, LLC, under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled ”Pudendal neuromodlation for incontinence and sphincter dyssynergia after spinal injury.” Total funding will be $348,794 over 15 months.

    Tony Jun Huang of MEMS has received an award from the University of Minnesota under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ”Structural dynamics and mechanisms of photoreceptor signaling.” Total funding will be $62,216 over six months.

    Hai “Helen” Li of ECE has received an award from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ”Collaborative Research: ASCENT: 3D memristor convolutional kernels with diffusive memristor based reservoir for real-time machine learning.” Total funding will be $400,000 over 48 months.

    Guglielmo Scovazzi of CEE has received an award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a prime award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled ”Exact Representation of Curved Material Interfaces and Boundaries in High-Order Finite Element Simulations.” Total funding will be $450,000 over 34 months.

    Vahid Tarokh of ECE has received an award from Stanford University under a prime award from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled ”ANSRE: Analysis and Synthesis of Rare Events.” Total funding will be $203,000 over 36 months.

    December

    Robert Calderbank of ECE has received an award from Princeton University, under a prime award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, for a project entitled ”Algebraic and geometric methods for clustering and classification.” Total funding will be $282,529 over 36 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME received awards from:

    • Princeton University, under a prime award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, for a project entitled ”Uncovering and applying the design principles of multiphasic natural and synthetic organelles.” Total funding will be $2,021,435 over 60 months
    • The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a project entitled ”Injectable PEG-like Conjugate for Sustained Delivery of a Peptide Drug for Type 2 Diabetes Treatment.” Total funding will be $1,898,595 over 48 months

    Sina Farsiu of BME has received an award from the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, under a prime award from the Foundation Fighting Blindness, for a project entitled ”Application of deep machine learning for identifying structural and functional deficits in retinitis pigmentosa.” Total funding will be $75,000 over 19 months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation for a project entitled ”Spinal Cord Stimulation for Restoration of Bladder Function.” Total funding will be $32,506 over 20 months.

    Hai “Helen” Li of ECE has received an award from Radiance Technologies Inc., under a prime award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, for a project entitled ”Reverse Engineering of Deceptions (RED).” Total funding will be $199,815 over 12 months.

    Piotr E. Marszalek of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ”EAGER: Exploring the Quantum-Mechanical Basis of Odorant Detection by Olfactory Receptors.” Total funding will be $300,000 over 24 months.

    Samira Musah of BME has received an award from the International Foundation for Ethical Research for a project entitled ”Engineered in vitro model for blood filtration and human kidney disease modeling.” Total funding will be $12,500 over 12 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME has received an award from the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, under a prime award from the National Cancer Institute, for a project entitled ”Epigenomic Drivers of Drug Resistance in Pediatric Brain Tumors.” Total funding will be $60,296 over 51 months.

  • January

    Lawrence Carin of ECE received an award from Lockheed Martin Corporation for a project entitled “2019 LM ATL IRAD collaboration.” Total funding will be $75,000 over 12 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE received an award from The University of Texas at Dallas for a project entitled “A Collaborative Machine Learning Approach to Fast and High-Fidelity Design Prediction.” Total funding will be $172,500 over 36 months.

    Aaron Franklin of ECE  received an award from Carbon Technology, Inc. for a project entitled “High Linearity RF Amplifiers from Carbon Nanotubes.” Total funding will be $50,000 over six months.

    Sonia Grego of the Center for WaSH-AID received an award from Research Triangle Institute International for a project entitled “Sanitation Technology Platform: Accelerating momentum post-Expo (SteP – Phase 3).” Total funding will be $317,000 over 12 months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME received an award from Dignify Therapeutics, LLC for a project entitled “Nerve Stimulation for Restoration of Bladder Function.” Total funding will be $10,000 over five months.

    Heileen Hsu-Kim of CEE received an award from Carnegie Mellon University for a project entitled “AOI 1: Predicting Trace Element Partitioning and Fate for Coal-Fired Power Plants Under Steady and Non-Steady State Operations.” Total funding will be $50,988 over 12 months.

    Maiken Mikkelsen of ECE received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Plasmonically Enhanced Point-of-care Detection of Cardiac Biomarkers by a Smart Phone.” Total funding will be $3,381,615 over 60 months.

    Nimmi Ramanujam and David Katz (BME) and Guillermo Sapiro (ECE) received a multi-PI R01 award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Novel see-and-treat strategies for cervical cancer prevention in low-resource settings.” Total funding will be $3,130,754 over 60 months.

    Amanda Randles of BME received an award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for a project entitled “3D Bioprinted Aneurysm for Intervention Modeling Validation.” Total funding will be $38,000 over eight months.

    Benjamin B. Yellen of MEMS received an award from Celldom for a project entitled “Platform for genotyping and phenotyping each cell in a high throughput assay.” Total funding will be $38,000 over 12 months.

    February

    Cameron R. Bass of BME has received an award from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for a project entitled “Evaluation of Flesh Material Properties and Spinal Mechanics and Injury Thresholds at High Loading Rate for WIAMan.” Total funding will be $546,503 over 12 months.

    David J. Brady of ECE has received an award from Hitachi, Ltd., for a project entitled “Improvement of image quality on lensless camera.” Total funding will be $27,000 over two months.

    Kenneth R. Brown of ECE has received an award from the Georgia Institute of Technology for a project entitled “Precision Chemical Dynamics and Quantum Control of Ultracold Molecular Ion Reactions.” Total funding will be $204,551 over nine months.

    Lawrence Carin of ECE has received awards from:

    • Triad National Security, LLC for a project entitled “Adversarial Learning for Nonproliferation Applications.” Total funding will be $600,000 over 36 months.
    • Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Advancing Artificial Intelligence for the Naval Domain.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 48 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “A novel sustained-release immunotoxin for treatment of glioblastoma multiforme.” Total funding will be $372,404 over 24 months.

    Sina Farsiu of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Handheld Portable Adaptive Optics Optical Coherence Tomography for Imaging Young Children.” Total funding will be $230,682 over 24 months.

    Johnna Frierson of the Office of Diversity & Inclusion in Engineering has received an award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for a project entitled “The Burroughs Wellcome Fund Graduate Diversity Enrichment Networking Event.” Total funding will be $5,000 over 11 months.

    Yiyang Gong of BME has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Fast Optical Voltage Imaging for Detailing Bursts of Neural Activity.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 60 months.

    Piotr E. Marszalek of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Progress and Prospects of Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy in Biological and Chemical Sciences Conference.” Total funding will be $74,036 over 12 months.

    Galen Reeves of ECE has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled “Theory and Methods for Community Detection with Heterogeneous Networks.” Total funding will be $199,635 over 11 months.

    Ann Saterbak of BME has received an award from VentureWell for a project entitled “Containing Design: Rethinking Design Instruction to Support Biomedical Device Development for Low-Income Countries.” Total funding will be $30,000 over 43 months.

    Guglielmo Scovazzi of CEE has received an award from Sandia National Laboratories for a project entitled “Advanced Methods for Lagrangian Shock Hydrodynamics.” Total funding will be $125,844 over eight months.

    Vahid Tarokh of ECE has received an award from BAE Systems for a project entitled “Stochastic Adaptive Game Analytic Multi-Player Optical Resilient Execution (SAGAMORE).” Total funding will be $149,911 over seven months.

    March

    Wilkins Aquino of MEMS has received an award from the Mayo Clinic for a project entitled “Measuring arterial material properties using wave-based approaches with ultrasound and computational models.” Total funding will be $619,893 over 47 months.

    Michael Bergin of CEE has received awards from:

    • Underwriters Laboratories Inc. for a project entitled “The combined influence of outdoor and indoor pollutants on acute respiratory response of children in China.” Total funding will be $320,000 over 10 months.
    • Indo-US Science and Technology Forum for a project entitled “Revised – SATVAM: Streaming Analytics over Temporal Variables from Air Quality Monitoring.” Total funding will be $61,931 over 20 months.

    Kenneth R. Brown of ECE has received an award from Sandia National Laboratories for a project entitled “Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed.” Total funding will be $650,000 over 54 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Acceleration for Adversarial Machine Learning (AML).” Total funding will be $270,000 over 36 months.

    Sonia Grego of the Center for WaSH-AID has received an award from Biomass Controls LLC for a project entitled “Integrated Biogenic Processor and microCHP Utilising SatCom For A Smart, Circular Sanitation Economy.” Total funding will be $8,500 over six months.

    Joseph A. Izatt of BME has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Compressive aperture super-resolution in vivo microscopy.” Total funding will be $485,352 over 36 months.

    Jungsang Kim of ECE has received an award from Quantum Benchmark for a project entitled “Quantum Utilities for Integrated Characterization.” Total funding will be $45,000 over four months.

    David Mitzi of MEMS has received an award from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for a project entitled “Center for Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy (CHOISE).” Total funding will be $1,365,000 over 48 months.

    Nimmi Ramanujam of BME, along with James Alvarez of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, has received an award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a project entitled “A Multi-Parametric Low-Cost Pocket Scope to Image and Quantify the Major Axes of Metabolism and the Associated Vasculature in Biological Tissue.” Total funding will be $2,261,866 over 45 months.

    Junjie Yao of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “High-Throughput Volumetric Photoacoustic Imaging of Living Vascularized Organoids.” Total funding will be $2,009,985 over 45 months.

    April

    David J. Brady of ECE has received an award from Hitachi, Ltd., for a project entitled “Improvement of image quality on lensless camera.” Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.L. Catherine Brinson of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “REU Supplement: Collaborative Research: Framework: Data: HDR: Nanocomposites to Metamaterials: A Knowledge Graph Framework.” Total funding will be $8,340 over 60 months.

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Adaptive Protocol Synthesis and Error Recovery in Micro-Electrode-Dot-Array (MEDA) Microfluidic Biochips.” Total funding will be $449,927 over 36 months.

    Sina Farsiu of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Quantitative assessment of glaucomatous conventional outflow dynamics.” Total funding will be $2,057,530 over 48 months.

    Aaron Franklin of ECE has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Printed Electronic Biosensors for Point-of-Care Testing of Cardiovascular Biomarkers.” Total funding will be $2,637,177 over 60 months.

    Jeffrey T. Glass of ECE has received an award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy for a project entitled “An Autonomous Coded Aperture Mini Mass Spectrometer (AUTOCAMMS) Based Methane Sensing System.” Total funding will be $150,000 over seven months.

    Johann Guilleminot of CEE has received an award from the Naval Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Development of Software combining the Shifted Boundary Method and non-Gaussian Fractional Stochastic Modeling for the Solution of Coupled Partial Differential Equations Related to Additive Manufacturing Modeling and Simulation Applications.” Total funding will be $139,833 over 12 months.

    Joseph A. Izatt of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Intrasurgical OCT Image-Guided Robot Assist Device for Partial Thickness Corneal Transplantation.” Total funding will be $417,576 over 24 months.

    Natalia Litchinitser of ECE has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Chalcogenide Photonic Quasicrystalline Metastructures: New Approaches to Phase- matching Engineering.” Total funding will be $386,412 over 36 months.

    Miroslav Pajic of ECE has received an award from the University of Florida for a project entitled “Center of Excellence: Assured Autonomy in Contested Environments.” Total funding will be $1,140,000 over 24 months.

    Nimmi Ramanujam of BME has received an award from the US Agency for International Development for a project entitled “Closing the gap between identification and treatment of cervical abnormalities in Lima, Peru, through integration of pocket colposcopy, telemedicine and visual counseling.” Total funding will be $1,500,000 over 36 months.

    Marc A. Sommer of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Neuromuscular Control of Primate Eye Movements.” Total funding will be $429,129 over 24 months.

    Brian R. Stoner of the Center for WaSH-AID has received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “Sanitation Innovation Cluster – Add-on.” Total funding will be $694,383 over 18 months.

    Tuan Vo-Dinh of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Plasmonic nanoparticle-mediated immunotherapy to treat metastatic cancer.” Total funding will be $2,105,376 over 45 months.

    May

    Ana P. Barros of CEE has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “Microphysics, Vertical Structure, and Scaling of Orographic Precipitation Across the Global Tropics – PMM Category 1.” Total funding will be $381,709 over 36 months.

    L. Catherine Brinson of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “REU Supplement DMREF/Collaborative Research: A Data-Centric Approach for Accelerating the Design of Future Nanostructured Polymers and Composites Systems.” Total funding will be $8,000 over 28 months.

    Kenneth R. Brown of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “PFCQC: STAQ: Software-Tailored Architecture for Quantum co-design STAQ Summer School Supplement.” Total funding will be $97,150 over 50 months.

    Joel Collier of BME has received an award from the University of Illinois at Chicago for a project entitled “Supramolecular matrix materials for prostate cancer cell biology.” Total funding will be $73,406 over a month.

    John E. Dolbow of MEMS has received an award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for a project entitled “Cohesive Phase Field Modeling of Fractures in Wellbore Cement.” Total funding will be $98,209 over 16 months.

    Eric J. Gonzalez of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Underactive Bladder: Mechanisms and Recovery of Sensation and Function.” Total funding will be $399,200 over 47 months.

    Maria Gorlatova of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CSF: Small: Collaborative Research: Multi-tier Service Architecture in IoT-Edge- Cloud-Paradigms.” Total funding will be $16,000 over 29 months.

    Tony Jun Huang of MEMS has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Enabling Efficient, Fast, Biocompatible Exosome Separation via Acoustofluidics.” Total funding will be $1,718,150 over 48 months.

    Joseph A. Izatt of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Handheld Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope for Remote Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy.” Total funding will be $434,706 over 24 months.

    Robert E. Kielb of MEMS has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “NASA Marshall GUIde 6 Membership.” Total funding will be $60,000 over 39 months.

    Christine Payne of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Library of protein-nanoparticle interactions: Automated sample handling and low- cost proteomics.” Total funding will be $390,000 over 36 months.

    Tatiana Segura of BME has received an award from the University of California – Los Angeles for a project entitled “Cell and Gene Replacement Strategies for Arginase Deficiency.” Total funding will be $39,000 over 33 months.

    June

    Jason Amsden of ECE has received an award from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity for a project entitled “Portable Single Particle Analysis Machine (Portable-SPAM).” Total funding will be $852,941 over 12 months.

    Mark Borsuk of CEE has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “Mapping Spatio-Temporal Variability of Prairie Wetlands.” Total funding will be $45,000 over 14 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled “Engineering Biology for Medicine.” Total funding will be $6,000 over three months.

    Olivier Delaire of MEMS has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Neutron scattering studies of phonon anharmonicity and phonon coupling with spin and charge degrees-of-freedom.” Total funding will be $600,000 over 36 months.

    John E. Dolbow of MEMS has received awards from:

    • Sandia National Laboratories for a project entitled “Computational Algorithms for Dynamic Fracture.” Total funding will be $50,000 over 15 months.
    • The National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Computational Mechanics Vision Workshop.” Total funding will be $7,920 over 12 months.

    Aaron Franklin of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “1D Edge Contacts to 2D Devices for Scalability and 3D Integration with Via-formed Junctions.” Total funding will be $390,657 over 36 months.

    Kenneth Gall of MEMS has received an award from the Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation for a project entitled “Overcoming complications of polypropylene prolapse meshes: development of novel elastomeric auxetic devices.” Total funding will be $80,457 over 59 months.

    Brenton D. Hoffman of BME has received an award from Vanderbilt University for a project entitled “Molecular Determinants of Confined Migration.” Total funding will be $47,309 over 12 months.

    Nimmi Ramanujam of BME has received awards from the National Institutes of Health for projects entitled:

    • “Enhanced ethanol ablation as a surgical-alternative for head and neck cancer treatment in resource-limited settings.” Total funding will be $73,464 over 24 months.
    • “A novel platform to image metabolic reprogramming of residual disease and recurrence in HER2+ breast cancer.” Total funding will be $36,551 over 24 months.

    Hadrien Rattez of CEE has received an award from the University of Southern California for a project entitled “Numerical modeling of weakening and strain localization on faults experiencing multi-physical mechanisms.” Total funding will be $25,000 over 12 months.

    David R. Smith of ECE has received an award from MetaCept, Inc. for a project entitled “Metasurfaces for Industrial Imaging with Millimeter waves.” Total funding will be $30,000 over one month.

    Adam P. Wax of BME has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Analysis of mechanical induction of bioelectric activity in cells.” Total funding will be $608,627 over 36 months.

    Junjie Yao of BME has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled “Photoacoustic-Imaging-Guided Intravascular Sonothrombolysis.” Total funding will be $234,313 over 22 months.

    July

    Ana P. Barros of CEE received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “Physically-Based Correction of Orographic Precipitation Estimates Using Inverse Modeling and Big Data Analytics.” Total funding will be $45,000 over 14 months.

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “SHF: Small: Testing and Design-for-Test Techniques for Monolith 3D Integrated Circuits.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 36 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CCRI: Planning: Collaborative Research: Low-Power Computer Vision Platform.” Total funding will be $45,000 over 12 months.

    Earl H. Dowell of MEMS received awards from:

    • North Carolina State University for a project entitled “Fluid Structural Thermal Interactions (FSTI) in Hypersonic Flow.” Total funding will be $424,949 over 36 months.
    • National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Experiment, Theory, and Simulation of Aeroelastic Limit Cycle Oscillations for Energy Harvesting Applications.” Total funding will be $340,456 over 36 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME received awards from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Epigenome Editing Technologies for Treating Diverse Disease.” Total funding will be $1,582,729 over 48 months.

    Neil Gong of ECE received:

    • An award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “SaTC: Core: Medium: Collaborative: Towards Building Robust Machine Learning Systems.” Total funding will be $400,000 over 36 months.
    • A CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Graph-Based Security Analytics: New Algorithms, Robustness under Adversarial Settings, and Robustness Enhancements.” Total funding will be $371,089 over 48 months.

    Hai “Helen” Li of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “FET: Small:RESONANCE: Accelerating Speech/Language Processing through Collective Training using Commodity ReRAM Chips.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 36 months.

    Natalia Litchinitser of ECE received awards from the:

    • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled “Interaction of Time-Dependent Curl-Free Vector Potential with Materials”.” Total funding will be $200,000 over 12 months.
    • Army Research Office for a project entitled “SUSY Workshop – Supersymmetry in Linear and Nonlinear Optics.” Total funding will be $20,000 over 12 months.

    Qing Liu of ECE received an award from the University of Texas for a project entitled “Fracture Mapping with Electromagnetic Methods.” Total funding will be $50,000 over 7 months.

    Michael D. Lynch of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Rapid diagnosis and quantification of HIV by direct capture, labeling and detection of individual virions.” Total funding will be $444,310 over 36 months.

    Paolo Maccarini of BME received an award from Candela for a project entitled “Design, fabrication and phantom testing of a multiband radiometer prototype for noninvasive thermal dosimetry during subcutaneous fat ablation.” Total funding will be $92,000 over seven months.

    David Mitzi of MEMS received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Design and Validation of Defect-Resistant Multinary Chalcogenide Semiconductors for Energy Conversion.” Total funding will be $553,531 over 36 months.

    Henry Pfister of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “FET: Small: Efficient Inference Tools for Quantum Systems: Algorithms, Applications, and Analysis.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 36 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE received awards from the:

    • National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Scalable Computational Platform For Active Closed-Loop Behavioral Coding in Autism Spectrum Disorder.” Total funding will be $1,550,063 over 46 months.
    • Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative for a project entitled “Digital Behavioral Outcome Measures for Autism.” Total funding will be $898,650 over 36 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME received awards from the:

    • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for a project entitled “Human cell atlas along the gut-brain axis.” Total funding will be $400,000 over 24 months.
    • National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Spatiotemporal and robustness regulation of the stem cell niche.” Total funding will be $123,722 over 32 months.

    Lawrence N. Virgin of MEMS received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Probing and Disturbance Sensitivity: A New Approach to Imperfection-Sensitive Buckling.” Total funding will be $376,395 over 36 months.

    Mark R. Wiesner of CEE received an award from Vulpes Corp. for a project entitled “Evaluation of Surface Affinity as a Predictor of Nanomaterial Exposure and Plant Uptake.” Total funding will be $605,225 over 48 months.

    Junjie Yao of BME received an award from SonoVol, Inc. for a project entitled “Development of a Longitudinal Molecular Imaging Platform to Support Immuno-Oncology Research.” Total funding will be $71,444 over 12 months.

    August

    Jason Amsden of ECE has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “A high-resolution, large mass range cycloidal sector coded aperture miniature mass spectrometer for planetary exploration.” Total funding will be $845,463 over 36 months.

    Wilkins Aquino of MEMS has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “GuArDIAN: General Active Sensing for conDItion AssessmeNt.” Total funding will be $720,000 over 36 months.

    Gaurav Arya of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “DMREF: Collaborative Research: DNA-based sensing, communicating, and phase-separating materials.” Total funding will be $481,250 over 48 months.

    Ana P. Barros of CEE has received an award from the National Park Service for a project entitled “Ecosystem monitoring data; providing perspective to existing long-term air water-quality, soil moisture to develop climate change, response strategies .” Total funding will be $295,000 over 29 months.

    Lawrence Carin of ECE and the Office of the Vice President for Research has received an award from Microsoft Research for a project entitled “Microsoft Investigator Fellowship.” Total funding will be $825,000 over 34 months.

    Nathaniel W. Chaney of CEE has received awards from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for projects entitled:

    • “Parameterizing the effects of sub-grid land heterogeneity on the atmospheric boundary layer and convection: Implications for surface climate, variability and extremes.” Total funding will be $627,837 over 36 months
    • “Modernizing Observation Operator and Error Assessment for Assimilating In-situ and Remotely Sensed Snow/Soil Moisture Measurements into NWM.” Total funding will be $170,000 over 24 months
    • “3D-Land Energy and Moisture Exchanges: Harnessing High-Resolution Terrestrial Information to Refine Atmosphere-to-Land interactions in Climate Models.” Total funding will be $65,000 over 36 months

    Mary “Missy” Cummings of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Aerospace Autonomy Center of Excellence (AACE).” Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

    John E. Dolbow of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Wettability Control on the Mechanics of Hydrocapillary Fracture.” Total funding will be $352,676 over 36 months.

    Henri P. Gavin of CEE has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Relaxed Constraints in Gauss’s Principle for High Speed, Large Scale, Multi-Agent Network Dynamics.” Total funding will be $59,848 over nine months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received awards from the:

    • Georgia Institute of Technology for a project entitled “Thwarting Influenza with RNA-powered Modulators (ThIRM).” Total funding will be $3,073,272 over 24 months.
    • National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Microphysiological Human Tissue Systems for Monitoring of Genome Editing Outcomes.” Total funding will be $668,150 over 48 months.

    Maria Gorlatova of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CNS Core: Small: Collaborative Research: Towards Intelligent Multi-User Augmented Reality with Edge Computing.” Total funding will be $250,000 over 36 months.

    Christine O. Hendren of CEE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Convergence RAISE: Harnessing Extracellular Vesicle Mediated Interkingdom Communication.” Total funding will be $1,000,000 over 36 months.

    Heileen Hsu-Kim of CEE has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “AOI 1: Characterization of Arsenic and Selenium in Coal Fly Ash to Improve Evaluations for Disposal and Reuse Potential.” Total funding will be $400,000 over 36 months.

    Jungsang Kim of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “NSF-NTT Joint Workshop on Quantum Technologies.” Total funding will be $75,317 over 47 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME has received awards from the National Institutes of Health for projects entitled:

    • “Developing a comprehensive model for peripheral nerve stimulation of gastrointestinal function.” Total funding will be $471,929 over 46 months
    • “Epigenomic Reprogramming in Patient-Derived Models of Colorectal Cancer.” Total funding will be $68,000 over 49 months.

    Cormac H. Toher of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “DMREF: Collaborative Research: GOALI: Accelerating Discovery of High Entropy Silicates for Extreme Environments.” Total funding will be $437,500 over 48 months.

    Lingchong You of BME has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “RoL: Modulation of microbial community dynamics by spatial partitioning.” Total funding will be $824,903 over 48 months.

    September

    Gaurav Arya of MEMS has received an award from The Ohio State University under a prime award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “EFRI CEE: DNA origami tools to engineer chromatin structure and function in live cells.” Total funding will be $360,000 over 48 months.

    Kenneth R. Brown of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Workshop on Research Themes in Quantum Information in the United States and Europe.” Total funding will be $38,880 over five months.

    Robert Calderbank of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CIF: Small: Improving Quantum Computing and Classical Communication using Discrete Sets of Unitary Matrices .” Total funding will be $476,456 over 36 months.

    David Carlson of CEE has received an award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a project entitled “Uncovering Population-Level Cellular Relationships to Behavior via Mesoscale Networks.” Total funding will be $1,055,855 over 36 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “RTML: Large: Collaborative: Harmonizing Predictive Algorithms and Mixed Signal/Precision Circuits via Computation-Data Access Exchange and Adaptive Dataflows.” Total funding will be $250,000 over 36 months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a project entitled “Temporal Patterns of Spinal Cord Stimulation.” Total funding will be $1,102,801 over 36 months.

    Heileen Hsu-Kim of CEE has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a project entitled “Linking Data from Laboratory and Field Investigations of Mercury Transformation, Bioaccumulation, and Remediation.” Total funding will be $75,450 over 8 months.

    Yang Liu of BME has received an award from the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for a project entitled “CA181292 Targeted Gold Nanoparticles (AuNPs) for Potent Alpha-Particle Radiotherapy of Brain Cancer.” Total funding will be $240,041 over 18 months.

    Ryan A. Rickels of BME has received an award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “Defining Gene Regulatory Elements Essential to Cancer Cell Viability.” Total funding will be $346,866 over 48 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE has received awards from the:

    • National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for a project entitled “Learning and Explaining Information Dynamics from Overhead Imagery.” Total funding will be $989,430 over 60 months.
    • National Institute of Mental Health for a project entitled “SCH: INT: Computational Tools for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder.” Total funding will be $253,545 over 35 months.

    Junjie Yao of BME has received an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “High-resolution High-speed Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging of Small Vessels Functions in Ischemic Stroke.” Total funding will be $2,432,513 over 60 months.

    Michail Zavlanos of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CPS: Small: Distributed Learning and Control of Cyber-Physical Systems.” Total funding will be $407,522 over 36 months.

    Pei Zhong of MEMS has received a program-project grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, for a program entitled “Improving Mechanistic Understanding and Treatment Efficiency of Laser Lithotripsy.” Total funding will be $623,562 over 21 months.

    October

    Lawrence Carin of ECE has received an award from the Georgia Institute of Technology under a prime award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled ”From Deep Neural Networks to Kernel Machines: Advanced Data Science for Verification and Forensics.” Total funding will be $625,000 over 62 months.

    John E. Dolbow of MEMS has received an award from Sandia National Laboratories under a prime award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled ”Computational Algorithms for Dynamic Fracture.” Total funding will be $115,082 over 12 months.

    Sonia Grego of the Center for WaSH-AID has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute International under a prime award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled ”Sanitation Technology Platform: Accelerating momentum post-Expo (SteP – Phase 3).” Total funding will be $79,000 over four months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from Dignify Therapeutics, LLC under a prime award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ”Pudendal Neuromodulation for urinary and fecal incontinence and sphincter dyssynergia.” Total funding will be $133,397 over 10 months.

    Hai “Helen” Li of ECE has received an award from Radiance Technologies, Inc. under a prime award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled ”Quantifying Ensemble Diversity for Robust Machine Learning (QED RML).” Total funding will be $299,579 over 12 months.

    Qing Liu of ECE has received an award from the University of Texas at Austin under a prime award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled ”Demonstration of Proof of Concept Multi-Physics Approach for Near-Real-Time Remote Monitoring of Dynamic Changes in Pressure and Salinity in Hydraulically Fractured Networks.” Total funding will be $349,607 over 12 months.

    Nimmi Ramanujam of BME has received an award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for a project entitled ”Ignite: Empowering Local Students through STEM Curricula .” Total funding will be $78,385 over 43 months.

    David R. Smith of ECE has received an award from Multi3D LLC under a prime award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled ”Rapid Prototyping of Beam-Shaping Metamaterial Antennas via Additive Manufacturing of a Highly Conductive Filament.” Total funding will be $49,904 over nine months.

    Brian Stoner of ECE has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute International for a project entitled ”Duke-RTI Fellow – Brian Stoner.” Total funding will be $63,915 over 12 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for a project entitled ”Epigenome Editing of iPS Cells.” Total funding will be $250,917 over 33 months.

    November

    Ana P. Barros of CEE has received an award from the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-North Carolina under a prime award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a project entitled “Evaluation and Elucidation of SCaMPR Performance in Complex Terrain Leveraging GOES-R observations and Ground-based Precipitation Measurements.” Total funding will be $265,800 over 35 months.

    Sonia Grego of the Center for WaSH-AID has received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “Field Testing in Coimbatore.” Total funding will be $4,523,100 over 45 months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from Medtronic, Inc. for a project entitled “Sacral Nerve Stimulation to Treat Detrusor Underactivity: Parameters & Pathways.” Total funding will be $159,987 over 14 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME has received two awards from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation under a prime award from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “An organotypic model recapitulating colon cancer microenvironment and metastasis.” Total funding will be $135,134 over 12 months and $85,715 over 12 months

    Junjie Yao of BME has received two awards from SonoVol, Inc. under prime awards from:

    • The National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Whole-organ bioreactor with integrated nondestructive 3D molecular imaging.” Total funding will be $250,001 over 24 months
    • The National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “A turnkey research platform to accelerate clinical translation of focused-ultrasound (FUS) oncology therapies.” Total funding will be $11,006 over 12 months.

    Stefan Zauscher of MEMS has received an award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for a project entitled “ The Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program (GDEP).” Total funding will be $5,000 over 22 months.

    December

    Joel Collier of BME has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled “Fourth Bioengineering & Translational Medicine Conference.” Total funding will be $44,000 over two months.

    Tony Jun Huang of MEMS has received an award from the University of California-Los Angeles under a prime award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for a project entitled “Acoustofluidic Separation, Purification and Raman Spectral Fingerprinting of Single EVs: From Cell of Origin to Target Cell and Biofluids.” Total funding will be $136,121 over 11 months.

    Amanda Randles of BME has received an award from the American Heart Association for a project entitled “Novel anatomy-physiology guided diagnostic metric for complex coronary lesions.” Total funding will be $62,032 over 24 months.

    Tuan Vo-Dinh of BME has received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled “Integrated Acoustofluidic Plasmonic Molecular Diagnostic System for Detecting MicroRNA Biomarkers.” Total funding will be $476,407 for the first year, and $1.7 million over 48 months.

  • January

    Yiran Chen of ECE received an award from the Air Force Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Exploring Vulnerability & Robustness of Deep Learning Systems.” Total funding will be $5,489 over 36 months.

    Jeffrey T. Glass of ECE received an award from Research Triangle Institute International for a WaSH-AID project entitled “Field testing management – STeP.” Total funding will be $301,527 over 12 months.

    Brenton D. Hoffman of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Mechanotransduction in Multicellular Systems.” Total funding will be $1,521,043 over 60 months.

    Heileen Hsu-Kim of CEE received an award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for a project entitled “Earth Metal Extraction for Clean Technologies.” Total funding will be $14,984 over nine months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Learning and Privacy in a Closed Environment.” Total funding will be $397,547 over 36 months.

    February

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Enhancing Neuronal Reprogramming with Epigenome Editing.” Total funding will be $427,150 over 24 months.

    Michael D. Lynch of BME received an award from DMC Limited for a project entitled “Dynamic Metabolic Control for the Production of (+) Borneol in E. coli.” Total funding will be $400,000 over 11 months.

    Maiken Mikkelsen of ECE received an award from the Army Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Ultrafast Spectroscopic Investigation of Enhanced and Suppressed Fluorescence from Solid State Emitters using Plasmonic Nanostructures.” Total funding will be $291,262 over 36 months.

    Edgard Ngaboyamahina of the Center for WaSH-AID received an award from Research Triangle Institute International for a project entitled “Hybrid Electrochemical-MFC Waste Processing: Functional blocks for low energy disinfection and denitrification of human waste streams.” Total funding will be $14,000 over six months.

    Galen Reeves of ECE received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Theoretical Foundations for Probabilistic Models with Dense Random Matrices.” Total funding will be $489,825 over 60 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME received an award from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation for a project entitled “An organotypic model recapitulating colon cancer microenvironment and metastasis.” Total funding will be $185,550 over 59 months.

    April

    Andrew D. Bragg of CEE received an award from the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute for a project entitled “Collisional growth of aggregates in the turbulent protoplanetary nebula.” Total funding will be $103,257 over 34 months.

    Sina Farsiu of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Psychophysics-Guided Signal Processing for Retinal Prosthetics.” Total funding will be $434,027 over 24 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME received an award from Element Genomics, Inc. for a project entitled “Reprogrammed autologous T cells to promote transplant tolerance.” Total funding will be $73,340 over 12 months.

    David R. Smith of ECE received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Next Generation Metamaterials and Metasurfaces for Novel Radio Frequency and Optical Devices.” Total funding will be $2,000,000 over 60 months.

    Vahid Tarokh of ECE received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled “Optimal Online Data-Driven Optimization with Multiple Time- Varying Non-Convex Objectives.” Total funding will be $150,000. There is no specified project period.

    Michail Zavlanos of MEMS received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Controlling Intermittently Connected Autonomous Robot Teams in Underwater Environments.” Total funding will be $506,363 over 48 months.

    Pei Zhong of MEMS received an award from Virginia Tech for a project entitled “CAREER: Experimental validation of a new multiphase fluid computational model of cavitation bubble-bubble interaction.” Total funding will be $30,000 over 24 months.

    May

    L. Catherine Brinson of MEMS received awards from:

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for a project entitled “REU Supplement: CIF21 DIBBs: PD: Ontology-enabled Polymer Nanocomposite Open Community Data Resource.” Total funding will be $15,890 over 15 months.
    • The National Science Foundation for a project entitled “REU Supplement: DMREF/Collaborative Research: A Data-Centric Approach for Accelerating the Design of Future Nanostructured Polymers and Composites Systems.” Total funding will be $15,890 over 39 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Point of Care Testing to Improve Monitoring of LVAD Patients.” Total funding will be $420,546 over 24 months.

    Stefano Curtarolo of the Center for Materials Genomics received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Automated Characterization of Chemical Bonding in Inorganic Crystals.” Total funding will be $125,000 over 18 months.

    Jungsang Kim of ECE received an award from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity for a project entitled “Error-corrected Universal Reconfigurable Ion-trap Quantum Archetype (EURIQA).” Total funding will be $1,532,525 over 34 months.

    Regis Kopper of MEMS received an award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for a project entitled “Design, Prototyping and Evaluation of Next Generation Public Safety User Interfaces.” Total funding will be $599,632 over 36 months.

    Jason F. Luck of BME received an award from the Ohio State University for a project entitled “Characterization of the Response of the 5th Percentile Female THOR ATD Neck under Multiple Loading Conditions.” Total funding will be $8,420 over four months.

    Maiken Mikkelsen of ECE received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled “Hybrid Pyroelectric-plasmonic Photodetectors for On-chip Hyperspectral Imaging .” Total funding will be $511,141 over 36 months.

    Christopher E. Nelson of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Non-viral delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 for targeted gene replacement.” Total funding will be $172,228 over 24 months.

    Miroslav Pajic of ECE received an award from Intel Corporation for a project entitled “Synergy: Collaborative Research: Security and Privacy-Aware Cyber-Physical Systems.” Total funding will be $200,000 over 25 months.

    Amanda Randles of BME received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Student Support: IEEE Cluster 2018 Conference.” Total funding will be $20,000 over 11 months.

    David R. Smith of ECE received an award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy for a project entitled “Detecting Human Presence Using Dynamic Metasurface Antennas.” Total funding will be $404,878 over 24 months.

    Lawrence N. Virgin of MEMS received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “REU Supplement: Collaborative Research: Geometry of escape dynamics in structural mechanics.” Total funding will be $8,000 over four months.

    June

    John E. Dolbow of MEMS received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “An Integrated Experimental and Computational Investigation of Fragmentation in Transparent Polymers.” Total funding will be $83,244 over 12 months.

    Heileen Hsu-Kim of CEE received an award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for a project entitled “Application of Biosorption for REE Recovery from Coal Byproducts.” Total funding will be $180,000 over 35 months.

    Tony Huang of MEMS received an award from Northeastern University for a project entitled “Determining treatment sensitivity in B cell lymphoma by novel microfluidics- based NK cell immunogenicity platform.” Total funding will be $131,970 over 12 months.

    Hai “Helen” Li of ECE received an award from the Air Force Research Laboratory for a project entitled “The Controller Design and Integration of Memristor-based Neuromorphic System.” Total funding will be $800,000 over 36 months.

    Xin Li of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “SHF: Small: Fast Sign-Off of Machine Learning Systems: From Circuit-Level Modeling to Statistical System Validation.” Total funding will be $400,000 over 36 months.

    Jason F. Luck of BME received an award from the Ohio State University for a project entitled “Characterization of the Response of the 5th Percentile Female THOR ATD Neck under Multiple Loading Conditions.” Total funding will be $4,212 over 5 months.

    Piotr E. Marszalek of MEMS received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Molecular Mechanisms of Spontaneous and Hsp70-assisted Renaturation of Misfolded Proteins.” Total funding will be $849,999 over 36 months.

    Christine Payne of MEMS received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Conducting Polymer Nanowires for Neural Modulation.” Total funding will be $26,822 over 3 months.

    Tatiana Segura of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Engineering Injectable Microporous Hydrogels for Brain Repair.” Total funding will be $387,733 over 36 months.

    Gregg E. Trahey of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Coherence-Based Fetal Ultrasonic Imaging.” Total funding will be $1,420,175 over 45 months.

    Adam P. Wax of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “High throughput cell screening for toxic metal exposure.” Total funding will be $403,489 over 24 months.

    Chunxiu Yu of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Functional dissection of pallidal circuit in therapeutic deep brain stimulation.” Total funding will be $160,000 over 24 months.

    July

    L. Catherine Brinson of MEMS received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Supplement: DMREF/Collaborative Research: A Data-Centric Approach for Accelerating the Design of Future Nanostructured Polymers and Composites Systems.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 42 months.

    Kenneth R. Brown of ECE received awards from the Army Research Office for projects entitled:

    • “Control and Spectroscopy of Single Molecular Ions.” Total funding will be $571,064 over eight months.
    • “Quantum control based on real-time environment analysis by spectator qubits.” Total funding will be $382,673 over 36 months.

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “EAGER: Collaborative: Secure and Trustworthy Cyberphysical Microfluidic Systems.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 24 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME received an award from Cornell University for a project entitled “Combinatorial Biomimetic Systems for High-Throughput Manipulation of Genome- Edited Dystrophic Muscle Stem Cells.” Total funding will be $20,988 over 12 months.

    Jeffrey T. Glass of ECE received an award from Doosan Corporation for a project entitled “Development of Novel Carbon Nanostructure Support for Increased Lifetime of Platinum Catalysts.” Total funding will be $146,220 over 12 months.

    Josiah Knight of MEMS received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled “Supplement: Team Projects in Energy Design.” Total funding will be $10,000 over eight months.

    Piotr E. Marszalek of MEMS received an award from Sigma Xi for a project entitled “Refolding of Mechanically Perturbed Proteins via All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations- Sigma Xi award to David Wang.” Total funding will be $500 over 12 months.

    Nimmi Ramanujam of BME received an award from VentureWell for a project entitled “Development of a low-cost tool for self, speculum-free, automated cervical cancer screening.” Total funding will be $5,000 over nine months.

    Amanda Randles of BME received an award from Sigma Xi for a project entitled “Interactive virtual reality cardiovascular visualizations: User study for clinicians – Harvey Shi award.” Total funding will be $1,000 over 12 months.

    Guglielmo Scovazzi of CEE received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “The shifted interface method for solid mechanics: An embedded domain approach. Mathematical Sciences Division – Numerical Analysis Program, Dr. Joseph Myers.” Total funding will be $420,000 over five months.

    Michael Tadross of BME received an award from the Whitehall Foundation for a project entitled “Interrogating brain dynamics with cell type-specific pharmacology.” Total funding will be $75,000 over 12 months.

    Vahid Tarokh of ECE received an award from the University of Illinois for a project entitled “Adaptive Exploitation of Non-Commutative Multimodal Information Structure.” Total funding will be $368,386 over one month.

    Adam P. Wax of BME received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Deep skin imaging with OCT.” Total funding will be $200,000 over 18 months.

    August

    Ana P. Barros of CEE received awards from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for projects entitled:

    • “Physically-Based Correction of Orographic Precipitation Estimates Using Inverse Modeling and Big Data Analytics.” Total funding will be $135,000 over 12 months.
    • “Quantifying and Elucidating the Physical Basis of Uncertainty in GPM Precipitation in Mountain Regions Using Multifrequency Radar Observations and Models.” Total funding will be $45,000 over 12 months.

    Volker Blum of MEMS received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “DMREF: Collaborative Research: HybriD3: Discovery, Design, Dissemination of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Semiconductor Materials for Optoelectronic Applications.” Total funding will be $99,999 over 38 months.

    Mark Borsuk of CEE received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “Mapping Spatio-Temporal Variability of Prairie Wetlands.” Total funding will be $45,000 over 13 months.

    L. Catherine Brinson of MEMS received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Framework: Data: HDR: Nanocomposites to Metamaterials: A Knowledge Graph Framework.” Total funding will be $2,252,971 over 60 months.

    Kenneth R. Brown of ECE received awards from the:

    • National Science Foundation for a project entitled “PFCQC: STAQ: Software-Tailored Architecture for Quantum co-design.” Total funding will be $14,999,998 over 60 months.
    • National Science Foundation for a project entitled “MRI: Development of a Programmable Ion-Trap Quantum Computer.” Total funding will be $1,120,000 over 12 months.
    • U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled “Quantum-hardware focused application performance benchmarks.” Total funding will be $472,117 over 48 months.

    Lawrence Carin of ECE received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Advancing Artificial Intelligence for the Naval Domain.” Total funding will be $2,000,000 over 48 months.

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty of ECE received an award from the Georgia Institute of Technology for a project entitled “RTL-to-GDS Tools and Methodologies for Sequential Integration Monolithic 3D ICs.” Total funding will be $723,182 over 19 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Genetically Encoded Smart Biohybrid Materials.” Total funding will be $1,924,577 over 60 months.

    Olivier Delaire of MEMS received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Supplement to DE-SC0016166: DOE Early Career Award Transfer ERKCK19: Quasiparticle Couplings in Transport of Heat, Charge, and Spin for Novel Energy Materials.” Total funding will be $80,000 over 11 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “EFRI CEE : Engineering Technologies to Determine Causal Relationships Between Chromatin Structure and Gene Regulation.” Total funding will be $1,999,969 over 48 months.

    Claudia Gunsch of CEE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr).” Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

    Kris Hauser of ECE received awards from the National Science Foundation for projects entitled:

    • “NRI: INT: Customizing Semi-Autonomous Nursing Robots using Human Expertise.” Total funding will be $962,572 over 36 months.
    • “RI: Small: Exploiting the Structure of Global Optimality in Robotics.” Total funding will be $348,774 over 36 months.

    Tony Huang of MEMS received awards from the:

    • United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for a project entitled “Developing Biomarkers for Traumatic Brain Injury and Alzheimer’s Disease via Acoustic Exosome Separation Devices.” Total funding will be $781,445 over 36 months.
    • National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: High Resolution Acoustic Manipulation of Single Cells with Integrated MEMS based Phased Arrays.” Total funding will be $200,000 over 36 months.

    Natalia Litchinitser of ECE received awards from the:

    • Army Research Office for a project entitled “Supersymmetry in Linear and Nonlinear Optics.” Total funding will be $479,999 over 12 months.
    • National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Manipulating light-matter interactions in bulk anisotropic metamaterials.” Total funding will be $315,000 over 36 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Epigenomic Reprogramming in Patient Derived Models of Colorectal Cancer.” Total funding will be $3,152,853 over 60 months.

    Adrienne Stiff-Roberts of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Design Principles for Multi-functional Polymer Dispersion Blends.” Total funding will be $65,572 over 23 months.

    Michael Tadross of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Interrogating dynamics of whole-brain volumes with cell type-specific pharmacology.” Total funding will be $2,412,000 over 57 months.

    Gregg E. Trahey of BME received awards from:

    • The National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “A Patient-Adaptive, High MI Abdominal Scanner.” Total funding will be $2,341,019 over 45 months.
    • Stanford University for a project entitled “Large aperture and wideband modular ultrasound arrays for the diagnosis of liver cancer.” Total funding will be $786,819 over 8 months.
    • Stanford University for a project entitled “Clutter Suppression in Echocardiography Using Short-Lag Spatial Coherence Imaging.” Total funding will be $66,925 over 44 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Faculty Springboard to Advance Breakthrough Science by Post-Tenure Faculty.” Total funding will be $204,544 over 24 months.

    September

    Leila J. Bridgeman of MEMS received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled ”New Investigator Program for Faculty.” Total funding will be $20,000 over seven months.

    L. Catherine Brinson of MEMS received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled ”Stochastic Self-Consistent Clustering Theory for Composite Performance Prediction: From Extreme Value Microstructure Attributes to Design of Interphase for Toughness.” Total funding will be $1,400,000 over 48 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ”IUCRC Proposal Phase 1 Duke: Center for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC).” Total funding will be $750,000 over 59 months.

    Joel Collier of BME received awards from the:

    • National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ”Immunomodulatory Biomaterials via Peptide and Protein Self-Assembly.” Total funding will be $1,553,731 over 44 months.
    • University of Chicago for a project entitled ”Supramolecular matrix materials for prostate cancer cell biology.” Total funding will be $11,791 over 25 months.

    Olivier Delaire of MEMS received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled ”Tuning anisotropic bonding via chemistry and pressure in layered pnictides and chalcogenides.” Total funding will be $156,593 over 12 months.

    Michael Gehm of ECE received an award from the University of Arizona for a project entitled ”Information-theoretic informed design of advanced X-ray explosive threat detection systems.” Total funding will be $397,213 over 12 months.

    Yiyang Gong of BME received awards from the National Institutes of Health for projects entitled:

    • ”Voltage Imaging Dissection of the Mammalian Cortex.” Total funding will be $2,412,000 over 57 months.
    • ”Large-scale cellular-resolution voltage imaging of the zebrafish brain.” Total funding will be $1,244,388 over 36 months.

    Heileen Hsu-Kim of CEE received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a project entitled ”Passive Samplers and Carbon Amendments for Monitoring and Remediation of Mercury Contaminated Wetland Sediments.” Total funding will be $107,534 over 9 months.

    Tomasz A. Hueckel of CEE received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled ”Multiphysics degradation processes, and their mitigation, in engineered and geological barriers: experiments and simulation.” Total funding will be $640,000 over 36 months.

    Joseph A. Izatt of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ”Intraoperative OCT Guidance of Intraocular Surgery.” Total funding will be $3,779,972 over 56 months.

    Jenna L. Mueller of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ”Preventing Cervical Cancer in the First Mile of the Cancer Care Continuum.” Total funding will be $191,086 over 24 months.

    Kathryn R. Nightingale of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ”Training in Medical Imaging.” Total funding will be $47,886 over 11 months.

    Michael Rubinstein of MEMS and BME received an award from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for a project entitled ”Development of Novel Mycolytic Therapies for Lung Disease, Project 1: Mechanism of action of mucolytics in improving mucus clearance in lung disease.” Total funding will be $96,229 over six months.

    Xiling Shen of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ”Spatiotemporal and robustness regulation of the stem cell niche.” Total funding will be $149,633 over 24 months.

    David R. Smith of ECE received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled ”Dynamically Reconfigurable, Conformal, Metasurface Apertures for Communications and Sensing Applications in Aerospace Platforms.” Total funding will be $1,500,000 over 24 months.

    Michael Tadross of BME received awards from the National Institutes of Health for projects entitled:

    • “DART2.0: comprehensive cell type-specific behavioral neuropharmacology.” Total funding will be $3,838,425 over 36 months.
    • “Evaluating cell type-specific non-dopaminergics as a Parkinson’s treatment paradigm.” Total funding will be $338,554 over 57 months.

    Vahid Tarokh of ECE received awards from the:

    • National Science Foundation for a project entitled ”Collaborative Research : Approaching Computing on Real World Data Using Representation and Coding.” Total funding will be $148,201 over 14 months.
    • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled ”Physics Inspired Score for Data-Driven Modeling and Prediction .” Total funding will be $107,785 over nine months.

    Benjamin B. Yellen of MEMS received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ”Image-Seq: A high-density microfluidic trap array for single cell transcriptome analysis coupled with image based phenotyping.” Total funding will be $233,755 over 23 months.

    Fan Yuan of BME received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ”Non-Canonical Pathways for Electrogene Transfer.” Total funding will be $1,247,826 over 47 months.

    Stefan Zauscher of MEMS received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ”In situ Enzymatic Synthesis of Aptamer Targeted Polynucleotide Drug Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy.” Total funding will be $620,564 over 32 months.

    Michail Zavlanos of MEMS received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ”CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Smart Ultrasound Elastography for Improved Medical Imaging.” Total funding will be $599,995 over 36 months.

    October

    L. Catherine Brinson of MEMS received an award from Texas A&M University for a project entitled “Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Advanced Materials Manufacturing and Discovery for Extreme Environments (CAMMDE2).” Total funding will be $22,000 over 12 months.

    Stefano Curtarolo of MEMS and the Center for Materials Genomics received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Materials-similarity metrics for the AFLOW data repository.” Total funding will be $450,000 over 18 months.

    Maria Gorlatova of ECE received an award from Princeton University for a project entitled “Dispersed Computing.” Total funding will be $36,373 over 12 months.

    Vahid Tarokh of ECE received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled “Optimal Online Data-Driven Optimization with Multiple Time- Varying Non-Convex Objectives.” Total funding will be $74,999 over six months.

    Tuan Vo-Dinh of BME and the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Plasmonics-Enhanced Optical Imaging Systems for Bioenergy Research.” Total funding will be $1,300,000 over 12 months.

    November and December

    Volker Blum of MEMS received an award from the Molecular Sciences Software Institute for a project entitled “Extending the ELSI infrastructure for large-scale electronic structure calculations on GPU-accelerated HPC resources.” Total funding will be $27,260 over six months.

    H. Craig Casey, Jr. of ECE received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Picosecond Demodulation and Coherent Electron Beams.” Total funding will be $115,397 over 36 months.

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty of ECE received an award from the Semiconductor Research Corp. for a project entitled “Functional Fault Modeling and Testing of Machine-Learning Hardware.” Total funding will be $225,000 over 36 months.

    Mary “Missy” Cummings of Duke Robotics received an award from Pfizer, Inc. for a project entitled “Pfizer.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

    John E. Dolbow of MEMS received an award from the Sandia National Laboratories for a project entitled “Computational Algorithms for Dynamic Fracture.” Total funding will be $109,609 over 12 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME received awards from the:

    • Open Philanthropy Project for a project entitled “To support research on the development of CRISPR-based epigenome editing tools to refine genome wide association studies.” Total funding will be $2,550,169 over 36 months.
    • Gilbert Family Foundation for a project entitled “Gilbert Family Foundation’s Gene Therapy Initiative.” Total funding will be $1,775,395 over 36 months.
    • North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled “Designing a next generation vector for CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy.” Total funding will be $190,340 over 24 months.

    Maria Gorlatova of ECE received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CSF: Small: Collaborative Research: Multi-tier Service Architecture in IoT-Edge-Cloud-Paradigms.” Total funding will be $38,872 over 36 months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME received an award from Dignify Therapeutics, LLC for a project entitled “Nerve Stimulation for Restoration of Bladder Function.” Total funding will be $10,000 over three months.

    Claudia Gunsch of CEE received an award from Tulane University for a project entitled “Chemical evolution and plant-microbe degradation of petroleum in saline marsh plants and soils.” Total funding will be $169,611 over a month.

    Heileen Hsu-Kim of CEE received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled “Net Methylation Potential of Mercury Sulfides for Different Groups of the Methylating Microbial Community.” Total funding will be $200,000 over 12 months.

    Tony Jun Huang of MEMS received awards from:

    • Northeastern University for a project entitled “An integrated acoustofluidic droplet-sorting platform for classification of lymphocyte activity and functional phenotyping at single cell level.” Total funding will be $339,917 over 45 months.
    • Stony Brook University for a project entitled “Structural dynamics and mechanisms of photoreceptor signaling.” Total funding will be $200,000 over 54 months.

    Jungsang Kim of ECE received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled “Quantum Computing in Chemical and Material Sciences.” Total funding will be $3,525,000 over 36 months.

    Hai “Helen” Li of ECE received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Systematically Studying Backdoor Attacks on DNNs and Developing a Detection Architecture.” Total funding will be $60,000 over nine months.

    Michael D. Lynch of BME received an award from BASF Corporation for a project entitled “Production of a beta-carotene derivatives using Dynamic Metabolic Control.” Total funding will be $320,000 over 12 months.

    Willie Padilla of ECE received an award from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education for a project entitled “Multifunctional 3D MetaMaterial Design with Machine Learning (Jon Suen—Fellow).” Total funding will be $25,000 over 24 months.

    Mark L. Palmeri of BME received an award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a project entitled “EASI: Elasticity Assessment for Predicting Success of Induction.” Total funding will be $33,675 over 12 months.

    David R. Smith of ECE received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled “Integration of Photovoltaic Panels with Dynamic Metasurface Antennas for Autonomous Devices.” Total funding will be $368,478 over nine months.

    Brian Stoner of ECE received an award from Research Triangle Institute International for a project entitled “Duke-RTI Fellow—Brian Stoner.” Total funding will be $62,093 over 12 months.

  • January

    Ravi Bellamkonda of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Immunoengineering Nerve Repair.” Total funding will be $329,448 over 39 months.

    Heileen Hsu-Kim of CEE has received an award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a project entitled “Biogeochemical Framework to Evaluate Mercury Methylation Potential During in-situ Remediation of Contaminated Sediments.” Total funding will be $7,440 over 17 months.

    David Mitzi of MEMS has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Melt Processing of Operationally-Stable Perovskite Photovoltaic Films and Devices.” Total funding will be $378,863 over 36 months.

    Tuan Vo-Dinh of BME has received an award from Luna Innovations Inc. for a project entitled “Special-shaped, low-cost, metal nanoparticles for advanced obscurants.” Total funding will be $120,000 over 16 months.

    Mark R. Wiesner of CEE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “International summit to integrate the scientific knowledge available about nanomaterial exposure, fate, effects and risks in the environment.” Total funding will be $41,700 over 12 months.

    Lingchong You of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ” Post-antibiotic effect and design of optimal antibiotic dosing protocols .” Total funding will be $1,169,601 over 48 months.

    February

    Mark Borsuk of CEE has received an award from Dartmouth College for a project entitled “Assessing the contribution of small streams to use and non-use water quality values using modeling, stakeholder participation, and decision theory.” Total funding will be $160,743 over 26 months.

    Nenad Bursac of BME has received an award from the University of Alabama at Birmingham for a project entitled “Integrated Cellular and Tissue Engineering for Ischemic Heart Disease .” Total funding will be $296,057 over eight months.

    Mary “Missy” Cummings of MEMS has received an award from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill for a project entitled “Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety.” Total funding will be $189,000 over 10 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received an award from the Thorek Memorial Foundation for a project entitled “Defining the Mechanisms of Gene Regulation and Drug Resistance in Cancer.” Total funding will be $500,000 over 24 months.

    Laurens E. Howle of MEMS has received an award from the Naval Sea Systems Command for a project entitled “Advances in Probabilistic Decompression Models and Real-Time Profile Optimization.” Total funding will be $523,211 over 24 months.

    Tony Huang of MEMS has received an award from Ascent Bio-Nano Technologies, Inc., for a project entitled “An Acoustofluidic Device for Point-of-Care Sputum Processing and Analysis.” Total funding will be $496,000 over 24 months.

    Barry S. Myers of BME has received an award from Immunolight, LLC, for a project entitled “Immunolight Renewal.” Total funding will be $22,758 over 11 months.

    Amanda Randles of BME has received an award from UT-Battelle, LLC, for a project entitled “Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Joint Faculty Appointment for Amanda Randles.” Total funding will be $15,000 over 8 months.

    Lawrence N. Virgin of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “REU Supplement for: Collaborative Research: Geometry of escape dynamics in structural mechanics.” Total funding will be $8,000 over 24 months.

    Benjamin B. Yellen of MEMS has received an award from Celldom for a project entitled “High-throughput screening of arrayed single cells for automated analysis of phenotypic heterogeneity .” Total funding will be $14,105 over 12 months.

    March

    Ravi Bellamkonda of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Immunomodulatory Hydrogels for Stem Cell Therapy after TBI.” Total funding will be $349,021 over five months.

    Heileen Hsu-Kim of CEE has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Workshop to Integrate of Research and Policy of Environmental Mercury Contamination in Ecosystems.” Total funding will be $7,440 over 12 months.

    Miroslav Pajic of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CAREER: Foundations for Secure Control of Cyber-Physical Systems.” Total funding will be $441,951 over 59 months.

    Lisa L. Satterwhite of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Protecting Neurodevelopment in Latino Migrant Children by Reduced Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticides.” Total funding will be $261,390 over 24 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Spatiotemporal and robustness regulation of the stem cell niche.” Total funding will be $2,423,457 over 60 months.

    Marc A. Sommer of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Rational Design of TMS for Neuromodulation.” Total funding will be $36,834 over 28 months.

    Adam P. Wax of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Coherent light scattering for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease.” Total funding will be $424,489 over 24 months.

    Mark R. Wiesner of CEE and the Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT) has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology.” Total funding will be $62,624 over 17 months.

    April

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from EMD Millipore for a project entitled “Self-assembled microporous networks for cell culture.” Total funding will be $623,019 over 24 months.

    Willie Padilla of ECE has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Metamaterials as a platform for the development of novel materials for energy applications.” Total funding will be $143,330 over 11 months.

    Miroslav Pajic of ECE has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Design of High-Assurance Cyber-Physical Systems.” Total funding will be $480,182 over 36 months.

    Brian R. Stoner of ECE has received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “Acceleration of further field deployment of the RTI-Duke Beta 2.0 system.” Total funding will be $500,000 over six months.

    Lingchong You of BME has received an award from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for a project entitled “Understanding the Skin Mircrobiome Through the Integration of Metagenomics, Bioinformatics, Spatial Ecology and Syntheti.” Total funding will be $144,000 over three months.

    May

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Smartphone Enabled Point-of-Care Detection of Serum Markers of Liver Cancer.” Total funding will be $757,300 over 23 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. for a project entitled “Delivery of Paclitaxel by Recombinant Polypeptide Nanoparticles.” Total funding will be $393,000 over 12 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. for a project entitled “Delivery of Cis-Platinate by Recombinant Polypeptide Nanoparticles.” Total funding will be $159,000 over 12 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering.” Total funding will be $357,355 over 61 months.

    Yiyang Gong of BME has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a project entitled “High Speed Optical Interrogation of Sensory Neural Activity.” Total funding will be $60,000 over 24 months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from the Urology Care Foundation for a project entitled “Targeted electrical stimulation of the urethra to treat urgency urinary incontinence.” Total funding will be $80,000 over 24 months.

    Kris Hauser of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “NRI: Collaborative Research: Versatile Locomotion: from Walking to Dexterous Climbing with a Human-Scale Robot SUPPLEMENT.” Total funding will be $5,800 over 16 months.

    Hai “Helen” Li of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “SHF: Small: Cross-Platform Solutions for Pruning and Accelerating Neural Models .” Total funding will be $424,432 over 26 months.

    Hai “Helen” Li of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “NeoNexus: The Next-generation Information Processing System across Digital and Neuromorphic Computing Domains.” Total funding will be $189,019 over four months.

    Maiken Mikkelsen of ECE has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Metasurface-Based Perfect Absorbers for Robust and Adaptable Coatings.” Total funding will be $510,000 over 36 months.

    David Mitzi of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “GOALI: Doping Control and Processes in Metal Halide Perovskites.” Total funding will be $399,926 over 36 months.

    David Mitzi of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Defect Engineering in Zinc-Blende-Type Absorbers.” Total funding will be $13,000 over 13 months.

    Carmen Rawls of the Office of the Dean has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “REU Site for Meeting the Grand Challenges in Engineering.” Total funding will be $287,478 over 36 months.

    Brian R. Stoner of ECE has received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “Sanitation Technology Accelerator Fund Proposal Development.” Total funding will be $85,000 over five months.

    Michael Tadross of BME has received an award from the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation for a project entitled “Deconstructing the Behavioral Neuropharmacology of Parkinson’s Disease.” Total funding will be $300,000 over 35 months.

    Mark R. Wiesner of CEE has received an award from Maria Curie-Sklodowska University for a project entitled “Effect of Water and wastewater treatment on the properties of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) in context of their fate, toxicity, and interaction with other contaminants.” Total funding will be $32,074 over 24 months.

    June

    Ana P. Barros of CEE has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “Mapping and Elucidating the Microwave Signatures of Transient and Heterogeneous Snowpack Structure and Their Space-Time Scaling Behavior.” Total funding will be $448,571 over 60 months.

    Ana P. Barros of CEE has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “Quantifying and Elucidating the Physical Basis of Uncertainty in GPM Precipitation in Mountain Regions Using Multifrequency Radar Observations and Models.” Total funding will be $45,000 over 15 months.

    Lawrence Carin of ECE has received an award from Research Triangle Institute International for a project entitled “RTI University Scholar Program.” Total funding will be $56,954 over 12 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Centaur: A Bio-inspired Ultra Low Power Hybrid Embedded Computing Engine Beyond One TeraFlops/Watts.” Total funding will be $146,353 over 13 months.

    Steven A. Cummer of ECE has received an award from Lockheed Martin Corporation for a project entitled “Development of a Modulating RF Reflectarray.” Total funding will be $75,000 over five months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Adapting Cas9 Protein from CRISPR as a Structural Unit for Molecular Assembly.” Total funding will be $210,000 over 36 months.

    Brian P. Mann of MEMS has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Non-smooth Dynamics of Constrained Task-oriented Dynamical Systems.” Total funding will be $63,411 over eight months.

    Henry Pfister of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CIF: Small: Capacity via Symmetry.” Total funding will be $514,176 over 36 months.

    July

    Lawrence Carin of ECE has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “GP Kernels for Cross-Spectrum Analysis of Dynamic Networks.” Total funding will be $150,000 over 36 months.

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “SHF: Medium: Microbiology on a Programmable Biochip: An Integrated Hardware/Software Digital Microfluidics Platform.” Total funding will be $900,000 over 36 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “SPX: Collaborative Research: Ula! – An Integrated DNN Acceleration Framework with Enhanced Unsupervised Learning Capability.” Total funding will be $520,000 over 48 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Planning IUCRC Duke University: Center for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing.” Total funding will be $15,000 over 12 months.

    Johann Guilleminot of CEE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Stochastic Constitutive Laws in Nonlinear Mechanics: Application to the Multiscale Modeling of Arterial Walls for Robust Vascular Grafting .” Total funding will be $297,097 over 36 months.

    Michael D. Lynch of BME has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled ” A High through-put Automated Strain Evaluation Platform for Advanced Renewable Chemicals and Materials.” Total funding will be $640,363 over 12 months.

    Michael D. Lynch of BME has received an award from DMC Limited for a project entitled “Dynamic Metabolic Control for the Production of Limonene.” Total funding will be $30,827 over eight months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “GitPaper: A Networked Model of Scientific Review and Dissemination .” Total funding will be $499,205 over 36 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CIF: AF: Small: Foundations of Multimodal Information Integration.” Total funding will be $431,728 over 36 months.

    Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Design Principles for Multi-functional Polymer Dispersion Blends.” Total funding will be $364,409 over 36 months.

    Brian R. Stoner of Gates Foundation Programs has received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “Sanitation Innovation Cluster.” Total funding will be $3,702,500 over 23 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Systemic Inflammation in Microphysiological Models of Muscle and Vascular Disease.” Total funding will be $2,139,599 over 23 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “In Vitro Human Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel Disease Model of Progeria.” Total funding will be $1,880,732 over 48 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Developing An In Vitro Human Myobundle Model Of Rheumatoid Arthritis.” Total funding will be $204,318 over 23 months.

    Jonathan Viventi of BME has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “REU Supplement-CIF:Medium:Collaborative Research:Scalable Learning of Nonlinear Models in Large Neural Populations.” Total funding will be $16,000 over 35 months.

    Stefan Zauscher of Triangle MRSEC has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Research Triangle MRSEC Supplement to NSF 1121107.” Total funding will be $250,000 over 13 months.

    August

    Volker Blum of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “DMREF: Collaborative Research: HybriD3: Discovery, Design, Dissemination of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Semiconductor Materials for Optoelectronic Applications.” Total funding will be $562,500 over 48 months.

    Nenad Bursac of BME has received an award from Pfizer, Inc. for a project entitled “Skeletal Muscle Bundle Technology to qualify Human Biomarkers for Muscle Degeneration / Necrosis.” Total funding will be $79,500 over 9 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “SMALE: Enhancing Scalability of Machine Learning Algorithms on Extreme Scale Computing Platforms.” Total funding will be $300,000 over 36 months.

    Yiran Chen of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CSR: Small: Collaborative Research: EUReCa: Enabling Untethered VR/AR System via Human-centric Graphic Computing and Distributed Data Processing.” Total funding will be $250,000 over 36 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “DMREF: Collaborative Research: High throughput Exploration of Sequence Space of Peptide Polymers that Exhibit Aqueous Demixing Phase Behavior .” Total funding will be $1,183,788 over 48 months.

    Steven A. Cummer of ECE has received an award from Multi3D LLC for a project entitled “Additive Manufacturing of Radio Frequency and Microwave Components from a Highly Conductive 3D Printing Filament.” Total funding will be $67,500 over 12 months.

    Marc Deshusses of CEE has received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “The Anaerobic Digestion Pasteurization Latrine (ADPL).” Total funding will be $230,600 over 7 months.

    Marc Deshusses of CEE has received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “Technical Evaluation and Optimization of the Mobile Septage Treatment Unit and Pit Life Extender.” Total funding will be $118,204 over 16 months.

    John E. Dolbow of CEE has received an award from Sandia National Laboratories for a project entitled “Computational Algorithms for Fragmentation.” Total funding will be $85,188 over one month.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from SPR Therapeutics, LLC for a project entitled “Computational modeling of peripheral nerve stimulation.” Total funding will be $2,499 over two months.

    Kenneth C. Hall of MEMS has received an award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for a project entitled “Editorial Work for American Society of Mechanical Engineers.” Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

    Charles R. Hallford, Jr. of BME has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled “Speculum-free gynecology with applications to primary and secondary prevention of cervical cancer.” Total funding will be $75,000 over 12 months.

    Tony Huang of MEMS has received an award from Ascent Bio-Nano Technologies, Inc. for a project entitled “STTR Phase II: Development of Bio-compatible, Bio-safe Cell Sorters.” Total funding will be $50,000 over six months.

    Hai Li of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CSR: SMALL: Collaborative Research: GAMBIT: Efficient Graph Processing on a Memristor- based Embedded Computing Platform.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 36 months.

    Hai Li of ECE has received an award from the University of Pittsburgh for a project entitled “The Design of Neuromorphic Controller System Built with Memristor Crossbars.” Total funding will be $25,000 over five months.

    Edgard Ngaboyamahina of ECE has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute International for a project entitled “Characterization of electrode aging mechanism.” Total funding will be $45,000 over 11 months.

    Kathryn R. Nightingale of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Image guided targeted biopsy of clinically significant prostate cancer with acoustic radiation force.” Total funding will be $2,529,312 over 59 months.

    Amanda Randles of BME has received an award from the Hartwell Foundation for a project entitled “Hartwell Fellowship.” Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “The Foundations of Dynamic Drone-based Threat Detection.” Total funding will be $199,851 over 36 months.

    Marc A. Sommer of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Impact of Timing, Targeting, and Brain State on rTMS of Human and Non- Human Primates.” Total funding will be $3,016,179 over 48 months.

    Cormac H. Toher of the Center for Materials Genomics has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Disorder as the discovery enabler for transition-metal mixed-anion materials.” Total funding will be $250,001 over 16 months.

    September

    Robert Calderbank of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CIF: Small: High Performance Memories that Integrate Coding and Computer Architecture.” Total funding will be $470,000 over 36 months.

    Robert Calderbank of ECE has received an award from Princeton University for a project entitled “Modern Tools for Classification and Clustering.” Total funding will be $284,500 over 36 months.

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty of ECE has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled “2.5D Extendible Processor .” Total funding will be $70,691 over 48 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command for a project entitled “A Point-of-Injury Screening Assay for Tactical Damage Control Resuscitation.” Total funding will be $1,399,701 over 36 months.

    Mary “Missy” Cummings of MEMS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “NRI: FND: COLLAB: Drones and the Design of Public Outdoor Spaces.” Total funding will be $450,045 over 36 months.

    Mary “Missy” Cummings of MEMS has received an award from Optimal Synthesis, Inc. for a project entitled “End-User Speech Recognition Support Tools for Crew Resource Management Training Systems.” Total funding will be $72,000 over 13 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Enhancing Neuronal Reprogramming with Epigenome Editing.” Total funding will be $69,970 over 24 months.

    Joel A. Greenberg of ECE has received an award from Northeastern University for a project entitled “Characterizing, modeling, and mitigating texturing in X-ray diffraction imaging.” Total funding will be $100,000 over nine months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Modeling Activation and Block of Autonomic Nerves for Analysis and Design.” Total funding will be $688,249 over 48 months.

    Nimmi Ramanujam of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “A novel strategy to see and treat breast cancer: translation to intra-operative breast margin assessment.” Total funding will be $424,268 over 22 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE has received an award from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative for a project entitled “Scalable Quantitative Video Analysis for Online Phenotyping, Early Screening, and Symptom Monitoring for Autism Spectrum Disorders.” Total funding will be $69,774 over 12 months.

    Jonathan Viventi of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Optimizing flexible, active electrode arrays for chronic, large-scale recording and stimulation on the scale of 100,000 electrodes.” Total funding will be $142,124 over 24 months.

    October

    Jason Amsden of ECE has received an award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for a project entitled “Radiation survivability of MEMS microelectronic circuits with carbon nanotube field emitters.” Total funding will be $90,676 over 11 months.

    Volker Blum of MEMS has received an award from Springer-Verlag GmbH for a project entitled “Springer Materials semiconductor data for the digital world.” Total funding will be $150,000 over 24 months.

    Leslie M. Collins of ECE has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Deep Context-aware Discriminative Learning for Buried Threat Detection: single sensor processing and multi-sensor fusion.” Total funding will be $2,027,161 over 60 months.

    Leslie M. Collins of ECE has received an award from the 8 Rivers Capital, LLC for a project entitled “Data Extraction and Reporting Tool for Aspen Simulator Data .” Total funding will be $10,000 over two months.

    Jeffrey T. Glass of ECE has received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “Improved understanding and use of generated oxidizing species in liquid waste disinfection.” Total funding will be $60,000 over 10 months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from Boston Scientific Corporation for a project entitled “Analysis and Optimization of Subperception Spinal Cord Stimulation.” Total funding will be $667,589 over 46 months.

    Marc A. Sommer of BME has received an award from the Hartwell Foundation for a project entitled “Neuronal Control of Eye Alignment.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 24 months.

    Brian Stoner of ECE has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute International for a project entitled “Duke-RTI Fellow – Brian Stoner.” Total funding will be $62,783 over 12 months.

    November

    Laurens E. Howle of MEMS has received an award from the Naval Sea Systems Command for a project entitled “Revised Budget: Transfer of Duke Dive Trial Data-JIT for SPS 233417.” Total funding will be $148,451 over 12 months.

    Michael D. Lynch of BME has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled “A Platform for Next Generation Biologics.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

    December

    Cameron R. Bass of BME has received an award from the University of Pennsylvania for a project entitled “Reconstructing Concussion.” Total funding will be $744,227 over six months.

    Lynda C. Brinson of MEMS has received an award from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for a project entitled “CIF21 DIBBs: PD: Ontology-enabled Polymer Nanocomposite Open Community Data Resource.” Total funding will be $111,814 over 24 months.

    Lawrence Carin of ECE has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Deep Learning for Sonar.” Total funding will be $50,000 over 34 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from Pfizer, Inc. for a project entitled “Exploration and Development of Glycoconjugation “Click” Cycloaddition of Azide Polysaccharide and Alkyne CRM197.” Total funding will be $2,000,000 over 24 months.

    Steven A. Cummer of ECE has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled “Advancing Magnetization and Polarization Low Frequency Imaging (AMPLiFI).” Total funding will be $148,945 over 18 months.

    Steven A. Cummer of ECE has received an award from Intellectual Ventures Management, LLC for a project entitled “Acoustic Metamaterials and Imaging.” Total funding will be $20,000 over nine months.

    Tony Huang of MEMS has received an award from Ascent Bio-Nano Technologies, Inc. for a project entitled “ExoSOUND: An Acoustic Tweezers System for Isolating Exosomes from Body Fluids.” Total funding will be $633,842 over 24 months.

    Edgard Ngaboyamahina of ECE has received an award from Research Triangle Institute International for a project entitled “Hybrid Electrochemical-MFC Waste Processing: Functional blocks for low energy disinfection and denitrification of human waste streams.” Total funding will be $44,996 over six months.

    Mark L. Palmeri of BME has received an award from MicroElastic Ultrasound Systems, Inc. for a project entitled “Ultrasonic Skin Elasticity Measurement Device.” Total funding will be $53,507 over 12 months.

    Jonathan Viventi of BME has received an award from St. Jude Medical Inc. for a project entitled “Neural Sensing from the DRG and Spinal Cord.” Total funding will be $60,636 over 24 months.

  • January

    Cameron R. Bass of BME has received an award from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for a project entitled “Evaluation of Flesh Material Properties and Spinal Mechanics and Injury Thresholds at High Loading Rate for WIAMan.” Total funding will be $674,130 over 36 months.

    Lee Ferguson of CEE has received an award from the San Francisco Estuary Institute for a project entitled “Regional Monitoring Program (RMP).” Total funding will be $22,000 over 18 months.

    Galen Reeves of ECE has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled “LAS DO6: Theory and Methods for Coarsened Decision Making; Synthetic Data Release: The Tradeoff between Privacy and Utility of Big Data.” Total funding will be $183,275 over 12 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE has received an award from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency for a project entitled “Networking Inference and Analysis of Big Dynamic Data.” Total funding will be $599,137 over 48 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Metabolic Reprogramming of Colon Cancer Liver Metastasis.” Total funding will be $437,250 over 24 months.

    February

    Joel Collier of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Supramolecular Nanofiber Vaccines.” Total funding will be $2.35 million over 48 months.

    John E. Dolbow of CEE has received an award from the Idaho National Laboratory for a project entitled “Enhanced Contact and Fracture Methodologies for Pellet-Cladding Interactions.” Total funding will be $98,225 over eight months.

    Sina Farsiu of BME has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute International and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “Smartphone Ophthalmoscope Lens Vascularity.” Total funding will be $157,500 over 12 months.

    Heileen Hsu-Kim of CEE has received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project entitled “AOI 1: Novel Membrane and Electrodeposition-Based Separation and Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Coal Combustion Residues.” Total funding will be $720,100 over 18 months.

    Maiken Mikkelsen of ECE has received an award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement for a project entitled “Exploring the Interplay Between Nanoscale Design and Optical Properties of Materials: A Research and Educational Approach.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 36 months.

    Kathryn R. Nightingale of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Improved Ultrasound Imaging Using Elevated Acoustic Output.” Total funding will be $2.54 million over 60 months.

    Amilcare M. Porporato of CEE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “A U.S.-Africa Workshop For a Science and Research Vision on the Food-Water-Energy (FEW) Nexus.” Total funding will be $99,993 over 12 months.

    Carmen Rawls of the Engineering Dean’s Office has received an award from the North Carolina State Board of Education for a project entitled “Project Lead the Way.” Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from Bioiberica, S.A., for a project entitled “Effects of Chondroitin Sulfate and Chrondroitin Sulfate/Glucosamine on Muscle Immune Signaling and Function in TNF-alpha Stimulated Three Dimensional Muscle Cultures.” Total funding will be $54,675 over 12 months.

    March

    Nenad Bursac of BME has received an award from the Fondation Leducq for a project entitled “Bursac FLQ Regeneration Research.” Total funding will be $577,774 over 60 months.

    Joel Collier of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Immunomodulatory Biomaterials via Peptide and Protein Self-Assembly.” Total funding will be $558,418 over 20 months.

    Joel Collier of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Modular Biomaterials for Targeted Anti-Cytokine Immunotherapies.” Total funding will be $90,589 over 8 months.

    Stefano Curtarolo of the Center for Materials Genomics has received an award from the University of Maryland for a project entitled “Integration of the experimental superconductor database with AFLOWLIB.” Total funding will be $90,000 over 18 months.

    Aaron Franklin of ECE has received an award from Illumnia, Inc., for a project entitled “Arrays of Nanowaire Transistors: Fabrication and Device Performance.” Total funding will be $450,000 over 36 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “CRISPR/Cas9-Based Gene Editing for the Correction of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.” Total funding will be $1.95 million over 60 months.

    Jungsang Kim of ECE has received an award from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity for a project entitled “Error-corrected Universal Reconfigurable Ion-trap Quantum Archetype (EURIQA).” Total funding will be $31,896,065 over 60 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Modeling, Computations, and Applications in Multimodal Information Integration.” Total funding will be $944,228 over 43 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE has received an award from the Army Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Multimodal Subspace Learning and Modeling of Complex Systems.” Total funding will be $586,006 over 48 months.

    April

    Volker Blum of MEMS has received an award from UT-Battelle, LLC, for a project entitled “Understanding the interface driven magnetic properties of topological insulators using a GPU accelerated first-principles all-electron code.” Total funding will be $44,795 over six months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from GlaxoSmithKline for a project entitled “Peripheral Nerve Stimulation To Treat Bladder Dysfunction.” Total funding will be $65,993 over two months.

    Brenton D. Hoffman of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “The Role of Ezrin in Membrane and Actin Interactions.” Total funding will be $56,118 over 12 months.

    Brian P. Mann of MEMS has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Dynamics of Networks with Delays.” Total funding will be $50,000 over nine months.

    Xiling Shen of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Robustness of the Intestinal Stem Cell Niche .” Total funding will be $918,225 over 34 months.

    Daniel J. Sorin of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “SHF:Small:Designing Architectures to be Formally Verifiable.” Total funding will be $8,000 over 15 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Circulatory system and integrated muscle tissue for drug and tissue toxicity.” Total funding will be $49,374 over two months.

    May

    Ana P. Barros of CEE has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a project entitled “GPM-GV Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment IPHEX2014.” Total funding will be $11,970 over a month.

    Nenad Bursac of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “In Vitro and In Situ Engineering of Fibroblasts for Cardiac Repair.” Total funding will be $2,032,894 over 45 months.

    Nenad Bursac of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Engineering of Human Excitable Tissues from Unexcitable Cells.” Total funding will be $1,899,188 over 48 months.

    Steven A. Cummer of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Observations of High-Energy Radiation Associated with Thunderstorms.” Total funding will be $74,278 over 36 months.

    Mary Cummings of MEMS has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Modeling the impact of increasing autonomy on core cognitive abilities in unmanned system operation.” Total funding will be $155,000 over 36 months.

    Stefano Curtarolo of the Center for Materials Genomics has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “High-throughput Prediction of High-pressure Materials Properties for the AFLOWLIB Database.” Total funding will be $350,000 over 27 months.

    Linda P. Franzoni of MEMS has received an award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for a project entitled “Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program.” Total funding will be $5,500 over five months.

    Yiyang Gong of BME has received an award from the Brain Research Foundation for a project entitled “Ultrafast optical recording of spiking activity in a zebrafish neural circuit.” Total funding will be $80,000 over 24 months.

    Kris Hauser of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “NRI: Collaborative Research: Versatile Locomotion: from Walking to Dexterous Climbing with a Human-Scale Robot SUPPLEMENT.” Total funding will be $8,000 over 28 months.

    Omar M. Knio of the Center for Materials Genomics has received an award from Sandia National Laboratories for a project entitled “Uncertainty Quantification in LES Computations of Turbulent Multiphase Combustion in a SCRAMJET Engine.” Total funding will be $219,911 over 12 months.

    Michael D. Lynch of BME has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Sustainable Biological Production of Energetic Materials .” Total funding will be $170,000 over 36 months.

    Amanda Randles of BME has received an award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities for a project entitled “Using GPU-Accelerated Computational Fluid Dynamics to Study In-stent Restenosis.” Total funding will be $5,000 over 12 months.

    Adam P. Wax of BME has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Visualization of mechanical stress in live cells.” Total funding will be $599,997 over 36 months.

    June

    Ana P. Barros of CEE has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “4D Integration of Satellite and IPHEx GV Observations with Physical Models to Improve the Representation of Orographic Precipitation Processes and Enhance Precipitation Measurement and Simulation.” Total funding will be $106,669 over 24 months.

    Olivier Delaire of MEMS has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “DOE Early Career Award Transfer ERKCK19: Quasiparticle Couplings in Transport of Heat, Charge, and Spin for Novel Energy Materials.” Total funding will be $450,000 over 36 months.

    Yiyang Gong of BME has received an award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for a project entitled “Optical brain machine interface for neural circuit dissection.” Total funding will be $750,000 over 48 months.

    Michael D. Lynch of BME has received an award from the Museum of Science for a project entitled “Multi-Site Public Engagement with Science-Synthetic Biology.” Total funding will be $1,200 over three months.

    Willie Padilla of ECE has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Infrared Imaging for Improved Metamaterial Characterization.” Total funding will be $158,441 over 12 months.

    Guglielmo Scovazzi of CEE has received an award from Sandia National Laboratories for a project entitled “Towards Rigorous Multiphysics Shock-Hydro Capabilities for Predictive Computational Analysis.” Total funding will be $25,000 over three months.

    Daniel J. Sorin of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “SHF:Small:Using Coding Theory to Optimize the Representation of Information in Computer Architecture.” Total funding will be $8,000 over 14 months.

    July

    Ana P. Barros of CEE has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “4D Integrated IPHEx2014 Observations in the inner Mountain Region Data Analysis and Consolidation of IPHEx Observations.” Total funding will be $62,192 over 12 months.

    Stefano Curtarolo of MEMS and the Center for Materials Genomics has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Expanding AFLOW Visualization using Jmol V2.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received an award from Locus Biosciences, Inc. for a project entitled “Engineering Novel Genome Engineering Systems.” Total funding will be $250,000 over 24 months.

    Yiyang Gong of BME has received an award from The Vallee Foundation for a project entitled “Optical brain machine interface for neural circuit dissection.” Total funding will be $250,000 over 60 months.

    Tony Huang of MEMS has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Validation of acoustic tweezers for single-cell analyses of purine metabolism.” Total funding will be $371,019 over 12 months.

    Tony Huang of MEMS has received an award from Pennsylvania State University for a project entitled “Single Cell Virology.” Total funding will be $314,193 over 23 months.

    Tony Huang of MEMS has received an award from the Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation for a project entitled “Extracellular vesicles and their ncRNAs cargo as markers of trophoblast injury.” Total funding will be $167,628 over 47 months.

    Tony Huang of MEMS has received an award from Stony Brook University for a project entitled “IDBR: Type A: Precise manipulation and patterning of protein nanocrystals using surface acoustic wave technology.” Total funding will be $40,513 over 10 months.

    Joseph A. Izatt of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Arbitrary Viewpoint Robotic Surgery.” Total funding will be $136,849 over 36 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME has received an award from Johns Hopkins University for a project entitled “Closed-loop sacral nerve stimulation for inflammation – Phase I -.” Total funding will be $716,911 over 15 months.

    Jonathan Viventi of BME has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “CIF:Medium:Collaborative Research:Scalable Learning of Nonlinear Models in Large Neural Populations.” Total funding will be $399,730 over 48 months.

    August

    Ana P. Barros of CEE has received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a project entitled “Quantifying and Elucidating the Physical Basis of Uncertainty in GPM Precipitation in Mountain Regions using Multi-frequency Radar Observations and Models.” Total funding will be $30,000 over 12 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled “Non-immunogenic PEG conjugates of Biologics.” Total funding will be $100,000 over 18 months.

    Lee Ferguson of CEE has received an award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled “Support for the NonTarget 2016 Conference.” Total funding will be $7,860 over 12 months.

    Aaron Franklin of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “EAGER: Exploring the Negative Capacitance Effect from Hf-Based Ferroelectrics and 2D Nanomaterials for Low-Voltage Transistors.” Total funding will be $150,000 over 24 months.

    Michael Gehm of ECE has received an award from the University of Arizona for a project entitled “Information-theoretic informed design of advanced X-ray explosive threat detection systems.” Total funding will be $144,042 over three months.

    Warren M. Grill of BME has received an award from Northwestern University for a project entitled “Biomimetic somatosensory feedback through intracortical microstimulation.” Total funding will be $207,924 over 60 months.

    Brenton D. Hoffman of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Elucidating the Role of Mechanosensitive Signaling in Mediating Cell-Biomaterial Interactions.” Total funding will be $412,344 over 22 months.

    Tony Huang of MEMS has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Standing Surface Acoustic Wave Based Cell Sorters for Maintaining Cell Integrity.” Total funding will be $297,776 over 23 months.

    Tony Huang of MEMS has received an award from Ascent Bio-Nano Technologies, Inc. for a project entitled “STTR Phase II: Development of Bio-compatible, Bio-safe Cell Sorters.” Total funding will be $229,912 over 12 months.

    Tony Huang of MEMS has received an award from Stony Brook University for a project entitled “IDBR: Type A: Precise manipulation and patterning of protein nanocrystals using surface acoustic wave technology_BCF.” Total funding will be $40,513 over 10 months.

    Jungsang Kim of ECE has received an award from the University of Maryland for a project entitled “Scaling Modular and Reconfigurable Quantum Systems.” Total funding will be $265,644 over 60 months.

    Maiken Mikkelsen of ECE has received an award from the Army Research Laboratory for a project entitled “Reconfigurable Optical Properties in the Near-IR Enabled Bottom-Up Assembly of Nanoengineered Materials.” Total funding will be $150,000 over 24 months.

    Willie Padilla of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Multidimensional imaging techniques using Metasurface modulators.” Total funding will be $300,837 over 36 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Glycogen Storage Disease III Engineered Human Skeletal Muscle Rare Disease Model.” Total funding will be $159,000 over 11 months.

    George A. Truskey of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Interaction of Subchondral Bone and Articular Cartilage System with Skeletal Muscle.” Total funding will be $76,895 over 11 months.

    September

    Nenad Bursac of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ”Muscle-macrophage constructs for skeletal muscle repair.” Total funding will be $1,923,900 over 60 months.

    Ashutosh Chilkoti of BME has received an award from Pfizer, Inc. for a project entitled ”One-Pot Synthesis of Multicomponent Protein-Carbohydrate Antigens.” Total funding will be $168,411 over 12 months.

    Mary Cummings of MEMS has received an award from the National Institute of Aerospace for a project entitled ”On-Demand Personal Autonomous Aircraft: Conceiving the Future through a Systems-Theoretic Approach.” Total funding will be $165,247 over 12 months.

    Aaron Franklin of ECE has received an award from the Army Research Laboratory for a project entitled ”1.2.2 Nanoelectronics and Nanosensors for Army Applications : Exploring the Vertical to Plane Electronic Properties of Layered Two Dimensional Materials.” Total funding will be $35,000 over 12 months.

    Karthikeyan Gopalakrishnan of BME has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled ”Assessing the Manufacturability of a “Next-Gen” Non-Immunogenic PEG-like Conjugate.” Total funding will be $75,000 over 12 months.

    Kenneth C. Hall of MEMS has received an award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for a project entitled ”Editorial Work for American Society of Mechanical Engineers.” Total funding will be $50,000 over 12 months.

    Joseph A. Izatt of BME has received an award from the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for a project entitled ”OCT Technology Development to Assess Ocular Integrity and Characterize Intraocular Scatterers.” Total funding will be $1,500,000 over 36 months.

    Jason F. Luck of BME has received an award from the University of Kansas for a project entitled ”Mechanics of the fetal neck during shoulder dystocia delivery.” Total funding will be $6,999 over 12 months.

    Maiken Mikkelsen of ECE has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled ”Tailoring Radiative Processes by Nanoengineering for Ultrafast Optoelectronic Devices.” Total funding will be $15,000 over 21 months.

    Kathryn R. Nightingale of BME has received an award from the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for a project entitled ”Early Detection of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer using Ultrasonic Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Imaging.” Total funding will be $577,179 over 36 months.

    Henry Pfister of ECE has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled ”Collaborative Research: Advanced Coding Techniques for Next-Generation Optical Communications.” Total funding will be $166,528 over 35 months.

    Guillermo Sapiro of ECE has received an award from the Allen Institute for Brain Science for a project entitled ”Synaptomes of Mice and Men.” Total funding will be $131,101 over 34 months.

    Marc A. Sommer of BME and the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ”Visual Continuity Across Saccades.” Total funding will be $103,695 over 36 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ”Functional mapping of efferent gut neuroepithelial circuits.” Total funding will be $986,112 over 22 months.

    Jonathan Viventi of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled ”Optimizing flexible, active electrode arrays for chronic, large-scale recording and stimulation on the scale of 100,000 electrodes.” Total funding will be $3,337,409 over 35 months.

    October

    Mark Borsuk of CEE has received an award from Harvard University for a project entitled “CNH-L: Assessing the Potential for Climate Change and Forest Insects to Drive Land-Use Regime Shifts.” Total funding will be $140,166 over 35 months.

    Joel Collier of BME has received an award from the University of Chicago for a project entitled “Supramolecular matrix materials for prostate cancer cell biology.” Total funding will be $90,150 over 36 months.

    Steven A. Cummer of ECE has received an award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a project entitled “EFRI NewLAW: Reconfigurable Nonreciprocal Acoustics and Topological Phases in Spatiotemporally Modulated Media.” Total funding will be $121,214 over 12 months.

    Marc Deshusses of CEE has received an award from Three Bird Swan Consulting Group for a project entitled “Bench-Scale Testing of a Novel Liquid and Solid Treatment System for Decentralized Sanitation.” Total funding will be $48,467 over 12 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received an award from the University of Missouri for a project entitled “Treating Duchenne Cardiomyopathy in the Mouse Model by Gene Repair.” Total funding will be $286,200 over 36 months.

    Heileen Hsu-Kim of CEE has received an award from Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a project entitled “Support to Applied Field Research Initiative at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Immobilization of Elemental Mercury in Contaminated Soils via Mercury Sulfide Formation.” Total funding will be $65,010 over 13 months.

    Jungsang Kim of ECE has received an award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a project entitled “Quantum Communication from the ISS: Phase 2.” Total funding will be $400,000 over 36 months.

    Michael D. Lynch of BME has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled “Process Intensification for Reduced Commercial CAPEX of Biofuels Production (PRICE CAP) using Dynamic Metabolic Control.” Total funding will be $1,691,595 over 24 months.

    Xiling Shen of BME has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled “Engineering signaling specificity to program intestinal organoid development.” Total funding will be $345,521 over 48 months.

    Brian R. Stoner of ECE has received an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled “Acceleration of further field deployment of the RTI-Duke Beta 2.0 system.” Total funding will be $459,724 over 13 months.

    November

    Jungsang Kim of ECE has received an award from ColdQuanta, Inc., for a project entitled ”Vacuum Integrated System for Ion Trapping.” Total funding will be $320,000 over 22 months.

    Maiken Mikkelsen of ECE has received an award from the University of Washington for a project entitled ”EFRI ACQUIRE: An Integrated Quantum Communication Transmission Node.” Total funding will be $126,375 over 12 months.

    Mark R. Wiesner of CEE and the Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT) has received an award from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a project entitled ”Forecasting the exposures and toxic effects of nanomaterials as released from real products.” Total funding will be $705,502 over 60 months.

    December

    Wilkins Aquino of CEE has received an award from the Sandia National Laboratories for a project entitled “Inverse Methods for Residual Stress Estimation.” Total funding will be $40,000 over 8 months.

    Cameron R. Bass of BME has received an award from the Battelle Memorial Institute for a project entitled “Development and Application of Novel Neurological Injury Assessment and Data Analysis Techniques.” Total funding will be $167,543 over 18 months.

    Leslie M. Collins of ECE has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled “Information Aggregation for IED Identification with GPR, Video, and Electromagnetic Induction: Within Sensor Processing, Multi Sensor Fusion, and Large-Scale Learning.” Total funding will be $43,845 over 15 months.

    Stefano Curtarolo of MEMS and the Center for Materials Genomics has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Synergetic Efforts in Automatic Accelerated Materials Design.” Total funding will be $1,000,000 over 36 months.

    Olivier Delaire of MEMS has received an award from UT-Battelle, LLC for a project entitled “Joint Pratt – ORNL Work.” Total funding will be $75,724 over 12 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received an award from Element Genomics, Inc. for a project entitled “A Platform Technology for High-Throughput Screening of Gene Regulatory Elements.” Total funding will be $83,340 over 12 months.

    Charles A. Gersbach of BME has received an award from the American Heart Association for a project entitled “Genome engineering for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.” Total funding will be $51,900 over 24 months.

    Richard D. Vann of MEMS has received an award from Divers Alert Network for a project entitled “Decompression sickness (DCS) in recreational diving, probabilistic models of mild and serious DCS, and the preservation of decompression data from experimental studies at the Duke Hyperbaric Center.” Total funding will be $20,935 over five months.

    Adam P. Wax of BME has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Advanced a/LCI systems for improved clinical utility.” Total funding will be $2,701,228 over 60 months.

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