Duke's FIP Faculty members are involved in a wide variety of interdisciplinary research programs.  During the last 12 months (2007-2008), FIP faculties received approximately $30M in external research funding.

* This list was compiled from the Office of Research Support database which lists campus awards only and excludes some private-sector sponsors.  (Reporting Period: April 2007-February 2008)

David Beratan of Chemistry has received an award from the University of Pittsburgh for a project entitled "Nanocrystal-Based Diodes for Solar to Electric Energy Conversion."

David Beratan of Chemistry has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Mapping of Electron Tunneling Pathways in Proteins."

David Beratan of Chemistry has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Infra-red Control of Inelastic Electron Transfer: Toward a Unimolecular Double-Slit Experiment."

David J. Brady of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Ohio State University for a project entitled "Mission Adaptable Chemical Spectrometer."

David J. Brady of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center for a project entitled "Development of a Coded Aperture Spectrometer for Ultraviolet Raman."

Martin A. Brooke of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Nanoscale Particle Imaging Using Near-Field Subwavelength Measurements in a 3-D Cylindrical Array of Nanometer Sized Probes."

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Synthesis of In-containing III-N Compounds by Molecular Beam Epitaxy."

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Fundamental Studies of GaN HFET Syntethesis on SiC." .

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Sensor Material Design by Application Driven Optimization."

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "In Vacuo X-Ray and Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy Analytical System."

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Innovation Core SEI, Inc. for a project entitled "Development of p-type GaN by Plasma Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE)."

Krishnendu Chakrabarty of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Advanced Liquid Logic for a project entitled "Nanoliter Lab-on-a-Chip for Protein Crystallization."

Krishnendu Chakrabarty of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Semiconductor Research Corp. for a project entitled "Test-Pattern Modeling with Application to Test-Set Selection, Test Generation, and Logic BIST."

Ashutosh Chilkoti of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled "Smart Polypeptide Nanocarriers for Tumor Chemotherapy."

Ashutosh Chilkoti of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Thermally Targeted Drug Delivery by Elastin Biopolymers."

Ashutosh Chilkoti of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems has received an award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a project entitled "Nanophotonics for Select Agent Detection."

Ashutosh Chilkoti of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled "Smart Polypeptide Nanocarriers for Tumor Chemotherapy."

Ashutosh Chilkoti of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from Phase Bioscience, Inc. for a project entitled "Smart Polypeptide Nanocarriers for Tumor Chemotherapy."

Ashutosh Chilkoti of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials & Material Systems has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Thermally Triggered Multivalent Targeting of Tumors."

Robert L. Clark, Jr. of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for a project entitled "SURF NIST (Boulder)."

Robert L. Clark, Jr. of the Pratt School of Engineering has received an award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for a project entitled "SURF NIST (Gaitherburg)."

Leslie M. Collins of Electrical Engineering has received an award from North Carolina State University for a project entitled "Duke University Support of Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering."

Steven A. Cummer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from QUASAR Federal Systems for a project entitled "Compact, Man-Portable Lightning Warning and Location."

Steven A. Cummer of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Large Scale Lower Ionosphere Remote Sensing."

Glenn Edwards of Physics has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Complex Networks Response to Excitations."

Glenn Edwards of Physics has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Biomedical and Biological Research Applications of a Storage-Ring Free-Electron Laser."

Richard B. Fair of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Continuous Sequencing-By-Synthesis Based on a Digital Microfluidic Platform."

Daniel J. Gauthier of Physics has received an award from the University of Maryland for a project entitled "Y07 MURI Topic #1: Exploiting Nonlinear Dynamics for Novel Devices."

Daniel J. Gauthier of Physics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Border-Collision Bifurcations in Cardiac Muscle (Supplement)."

Jeffrey T. Glass of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the University of Illinois for a project entitled "WATERS (Water and Environmental Research Systems) Network Project."

Jeffrey T. Glass of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the University of Illinois for a project entitled "Coalition for Creation of CLEANER Project Office."

Jeffrey T. Glass of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "SST: Development of a Micro Mass Spectrometer and the Design of a Spectrometer-Based Distributed Sensor Network-Supplement."

Bobby D. Guenther of the Fitzpatrick Center has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Workshop on Cloaking Technology."

Joseph A. Izatt of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute for a project entitled "Microfabricated Cantilever-based Scanner for Forward-looking 3D Endoscopic OCT."

Joseph A. Izatt of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the University of Southern California for a project entitled "Advanced Imaging for Glaucoma."

Joseph A. Izatt of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Molecular Optical Coherence Tomography for Monitoring Cancer Therapy."

Nan M. Jokerst of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for a project entitled "Metamaterials for High Bit-Rate Communications at THz Frequencies."

Nan M. Jokerst of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "Using Sensors, Sensor Circuirts, Sensor Communications, Sensor/Analyte Interfaces."

Jungsang Kim of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "To Support Experimental Capabilities for Optical Communications."

Jeffrey L. Krolik of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina for a project entitled "To Support Distributed Microphone Array Testbed for Speaker Separation and Localization."

Jeffrey L. Krolik of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Naval Research Laboratory for a project entitled "Space-Time Mode Separation for Over-the-Horizon Radar."

Jeffrey L. Krolik of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Naval Research Laboratory for a project entitled "BACC Analysis for Neaf-Field Interference Suppression and WARP Development."

Jeffrey L. Krolik of Electrical Engineering has received an award from MIT Lincoln Laboratory for a project entitled "MIMO Space-Time Adaptive Processing for Next-Generation Over-the-Horizon HF Radar."

Thomas H. Labean of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Biomolecular Templating of Functional Inorganic Nanostructures."

Qing Liu of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Intel Corporation for a project entitled "Fast Hybrid Algorithm for Large Scale System Level EM Simulations."

Nirmala Ramanujam of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from Western Carolina University for a project entitled "Illuminus."

William M. Reichert of the Center for Biomchemical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "The University Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering."

William M. Reichert of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Biosensor Biocompatibility - Supplement for Heather Prichard." Total funding will be $65,064 over 12 months.

William M. Reichert of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Endothelial Cell Adhesion to Polymeric Grafts Studied by TIRF (Supplement)."

John Reif of Computer Science has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices (FNAN007)."

John Reif of Computer Science has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices (FNAN007)."

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from SensorMetrix for a project entitled "Healable Carbon Fiber Composites Using Reversibly Cross-linked Polymers."

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from SensorMetrix for a project entitled "Electromagnetic Signature Control Using Applied Metamaterials."

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Sony Corporation for a project entitled "Research Program."

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the University of California - Los Angeles for a project entitled "Design and Fabrication of NanoPlasmonic Devices for Computational Imaging and Sensing."

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "Non-Reciprocal MetaCrystals."

David R. Smith of Electrical Engineering has received an award from SensorMetrix for a project entitled "Electromagnetic Metamaterial Composite Structures."

Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Hybrid Nanomaterials for Multi-Spectral Infrared Photodection."

Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Development of Hybrid Nanomaterial Growth System for Multi-Functional Sensors."

Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Hybrid Nanomaterials in Photonic Crystal Cavities for Multi- Spectral Infrared Detector Arrays."

Xiaobai Sun of Computer Science has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project entitled "FANTOM: Algorithm-Architecture Codesign for High Performance Signal and Image Processing (Supplement)."

John E. Thomas of Physics has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Strongly interacting Fermi gases in reduced dimensions."

Jingdong Tian of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Hartwell Foundation for a project entitled "New Technologies for Developing Optimized Quick-Response DNA Vaccines for Infectious Diseases."

George A. Truskey of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Function of Endothelial Cell Integrins in Co-Culture."

Stephanos Venakides of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Wave-breaking and Resonant Phenomena."

Tuan Vo-Dinh of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from Immunolight, LLC for a project entitled “Photonics-based non-invasive modalities for disease treatment”. This is a campus-wide program grant led by the FIP, integrating Pratt, Arts & Sciences, and the School of Medicine at Duke.

Tuan Vo-Dinh of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Nanobiosensors for Probing Chemical Exposure and Metabolism Pathways of Individual Living Cells."

Tuan Vo-Dinh of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Advanced Multispectral Imaging (MSI) for Medical Diagnostics."

Tuan Vo-Dinh of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Fiber Optics and III-Nitride Materials based Chemical and biological Sensing."

Tuan Vo-Dinh of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the City College of New York for a project entitled "Advance Raman Spectroscopy."

Adam P. Wax of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Assessing Deployment of Microbicidal Gels With Label-Free Optical Measurement."

Tomoyuki Yoshie of Electrical Engineering has received an award from Innovation Core SEI, Inc. for a project entitled "Silicon Nanophotonics: Lasers, LEDs and Optical Isolators."