2007-2008
Recipient                                                 Agency                                                     Award

Banu Gökariksel, Assistant Professor of Geography
Sarah Shields, Associate Professor of History

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Sawyer Seminars

$148,000

John Rawls, Assistant Professor of Cell & Molecular Physiology, School of Medicine

Pew Scholars Foundation

$240,000 over 4 years

Alan Jones et al, Department of Biology, A&S-instrument acquisition

NSF – Major Research Instrumentation program

$482,781
1 year

Arjun Deb, Assistant Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine

Ellison New Scholars in Aging

$400,000 over 4 years

Garegin Papoian, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, A&S

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars

$75,000 unrestricted

Sarah Gasda, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, School of Public Health

KAUST Research Fellowship

$300,000 over 3 years

Alex Duncan, Instructor of Medicine, School of Medicine

BWF Career Awards for Medical Scientists

$510,000 over 3 years

Miriam Braunstein, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine

BWF Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease

$500,000
over 5 years

Richard Luettich, Professor and Director, Institute for Marine Sciences
     and co-Investigators

Department of Homeland Security, Center of Excellence for Natural Hazards and Disasters

$15,000,000 over 6 years

Ian Davis, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Lineberger Cancer Center

2008 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar

$150,000 over 3 years

John McGee, Grid Research Software Developer, Renaissance Computing Institute

NSF Grant, CI-Team Implementation Project: Embedded Immersive Engagement for Cyberinfrastructure

$995,796

Bruce Carney, Senior Associate Dean for the Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences

2008 Beckman Scholar Program, Recognizing Outstanding Undergraduate Students in Chemistry and Biological Sciences Research

$115,800

Stephen Rogers, Assistant Professor of Biology
Zefeng Wang, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

2008 Beckman Young Investigators Award

$300,000 over 3 years

Gregory Characklis, Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences & Engineering
     and co-Investigators

UNC Research Competitiveness Fund

~$200,000

Keith Kocis, Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
     and co-Investigators

UNC Research Competitiveness Fund

~$189,000

2006-2007
Recipient                                         Agency                                      Award

Michael Lee, Professor & Chair of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

2007-08 American Council on Education Fellow

Fellow

Garegin Papoian, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

2007 Beckman Young Investigators Award

$300,000 over 3 years

Jeffrey Peppercorn, Assistant Professor of Medicine

2007 Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics

~$300,000 over 3 years

Omid Safi, Associate Professor of Religious Studies

2007 Carnegie Scholar

$100,000 over 1 year

Ned Sharpless, Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Genetics and Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

2007 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research

$750,000 over 5 years

Eleni Tzima, Assistant Professor of Cell & Molecular Physiology, Member, Carolina Cardiovascular Biology Center

2007 Ellison New Scholar in Aging

$200,000 over 4 years

Wei You, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

National Science Foundation (NSF), Nanoscale Exploratory Research (NER) grant

$130,000

Mark Zylka, Assistant Professor of Cell & Molecular Physiology and Member, UNC Neuroscience Center

2007 Searle Scholar

$240,000 over 3 years

Mark Zylka, Assistant Professor of Cell & Molecular Physiology and Member, UNC Neuroscience Center

2007 Milton E. Cassel Scholar for the Rita Allen Scholars

$165,000 over 3 years

2005-2006
Recipient                                    Agency                                            Award

James Anderson, Chair of Cell & Molecular Physiology

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) for an HHMI Med into Grad Program in Translational Medicine

$800,000

William Andrews, Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
Judith Wegner, Chair, Faculty Council

Ford Foundation for the UNC Difficult Dialogues program

$100,000

Roberto Camassa, George Kane Professor of Mathematics and co-investigators

National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant

$619,607

Blossom Damania, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease

$400,000 over 5 years

Ajit Joglekar, Postdoctoral Research  Associate, Department of Biology

2007 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface

$500,000 over 5 years

Jeffrey Johnson, Associate Professor of Chemistry

2006 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

$75,000

William Marzluff, Executive Associate Dean, School of Medicine Director, Program in Molecular Biology & Biotechnology Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and co-investigators

National Institutes of Health to conduct a UNC-Chapel Hill Integrated Biomedical Research Training Program

~$1,301,512

Karen Mohlke, Assistant Professor of Genetics

2006 Pew Scholar

$240,000 over 4 years

Richard Pfaff, Emeritus Professor of History

Mellon Emeritus Fellow

$55,000

Sergei Sheiko, Associate Professor of Chemistry and co-investigators

National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) grant

$1,160,000

Wendy Wolford, Assistant Professor of Geography and Meenu Tewari, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to conduct a Sawyer Seminar “The Changing Nature(s) of Land:  Property, Peasants and Agricultural Production in a Global World”

$120,000

2004-2005
Recipient                                        Agency                                           Award

Peggy Bentley, Associate Dean, School of Public Health

National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a Framework Program in Global Public Health

$401,987

Giselle Corbie-Smith, Associate Professor of Social Medicine

National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a Minority Health and Health Disparities grant

$1,415,397

Mike Falvo, Research Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy

National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Nanoscale Exploratory Research (NER) grant

$100,000

Myoseon Jang, Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences & Engineering and
Ilona Jaspers, Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Nanoscale Exploratory Research (NER) grant

$101,190

Brian Kuhlman, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics

2005 Keck Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research

$1,000,000 over 5 years

Sharon Milgram, Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology and co-investigators

National Institutes of Health (NIH) for The Initiative for Minority Student Development at UNC Chapel Hill (awarded in 2005-06)

$2,145,868

Lisa Pearce, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Fellow, Carolina Population Center

2005 William T. Grant Scholar

$300,000 over 5 years

Marc Pollefeys, Associate Professor of Computer Science

2005 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering

$625,000 over 5 years

Franck Polleux, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Member, UNC Neuroscience Center

2005 Pew Scholar

$240,000 over 4 years

Ed Samulski, Cary C Boshamer Professor of Chemistry

2005 Jefferson Science Fellow

Fellow

Ned Sharpless, Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Genetics and Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

2005 Ellison New Scholar in Aging

$200,000 over 4 years

Rich Superfine, Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Physics & Astronomy and co-investigators

National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) grant

$1,099,330

Wei Wang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

2005 Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship

$200,000 over 2 years

Yi Zhang, Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics and Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

Named an HHMI Investigator

2003-2004
Recipient                                          Agency                                      Award

Brian Kuhlman, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics

2004 Searle Scholar

$240,000 over 3 years

Ming Lin, Professor of Computer Science and co-investigators

National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Nanoscale Exploratory Research (NER) grant

$100,000

Garegin Papoian, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

2004 Dreyfus New Faculty Award

$40,000

Daniel Reichart, Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy and
Chris Clemens, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy

National Science Foundation (NSF) for  a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant

$515,198

Brian Strahl, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics

2004 Pew Scholar

$240,000 over 4 years

2002-2003
Recipient                                      Agency                                            Award

Shawn Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Biology and of Genetics

2003 Ellison New Scholar in Aging

$200,000 over 4 years

Jay Brenman, Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Member, Neuroscience Center

2003 Searle Scholar

$240,000 over 3 years

Mike Falvo, Research Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy and co-investigators

National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Nanoscale Undergraduate Education (NUE) grant

$100,000

Cam Patterson, Ernest and Hazel Craige Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine

2003 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research

$750,000 over 5 years

Franck Polleux, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Member, Neuroscience Center

John Merck Scholar Award in the Biology of Developmental Diseases in Children

$10,000

2001-2002
Recipient                                         Agency                                      Award

Stephen Crews, Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics

National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant

$159,600

Jeffrey Krise, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy

2001 George H. Hitchings New Investigator Award in Health Research & Training

$12,500

2000-2001
Recipient                                        Agency                                      Award

Roberto Camassa, George Kane Professor of Mathematics, and co-investigators

National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant

$598,200

Kathleen Caron, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

2001 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences

$508,000 over 5 years

Mohanish Deshmukh, Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology and Member, UNC Neuroscience Center

2001 Burroughs Wellcome Fund New Investigator in the Toxicological Sciences

$210,000 over 3 years

Barbara Kahn, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Visiting Professorships in the Basic Medical Sciences to give a distinguished lecture at UNC Chapel Hill

$5,000

Sergei Sheiko, Associate Professor of Chemistry & co-investigators

National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) grant

$1,200,000

David Siderovski, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Member, UNC Neuroscience Center

2001 Burroughs Wellcome Fund New Investigator in the Pharmacological Sciences

$210,000 over 3 years

1999-2000
Recipient                                       Agency                                        Award

Tamera Coyne-Beasley, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and of Internal Medicine

2000 William T. Grant Faculty Scholar

$250,000 over 5 years

Michel Gagné, Associate Professor of Chemistry

2000 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

$60,000

Bob Goldstein, Associate Professor of Biology

2000 Pew Scholar

$240,000 over 4 years

Steven Rosefielde, Professor of Economics

2000 Carnegie Scholar

$100,000

Jeff Sekelsky, Assistant Professor of Biology  and Member, Program in Molecular Biology & Biotechnology

2000 Ellison New Scholar

$200,000 over 4 years

Tamar Schlick, Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry & Computer Science at New York University

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Visiting Professorships in the Basic Medical Sciences to give a distinguished lecture at UNC Chapel Hill

$5,000

Oliver Smithies, Excellence Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

2000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Innovation Award in Functional Genomics

$300,000 over 3 years

Yanping Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Associate Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

2000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences

$445,000 over 4 years

1998-1999
Recipient                                        Agency                                        Award

Dale Ramsden, Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics and Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

1999 Searle Scholar

$180,000 over 3 years

John Sondek, Professor of Pharmacology

1999 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences

$200,000 over 4 years

William Darity, Jr., Boshamer Professor of Economics

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation  to conduct a Sawyer Seminar “The Concept and Consequences of Race” in Conjunction with UCIS

$100,000

Henry Fuchs, Federico Gil Professor of Computer Science, and co-investigators

National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant

$1,300,000

James Morken, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

1998 Packard Fellowship in Science & Engineering

$625,000 over 5 years

James Peacock, Kenan Professor of Anthropology & Director, UCIS

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to conduct a Sawyer Seminar “Reading Regions Globally” in conjunction with UCIS

$100,000

Howard Rockman, Associate Professor of Medicine

1998 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research

$750,000 over 5 years

Elaine Sia, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology

1998 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences

$470,800 over 5 years

Kevin Weeks, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

1998 Searle Scholar

$180,000 over 3 years

1997-1998
Recipient                                     Agency                                           Award

Suzanne Lee Kirby, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

1997 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences

$412,500 over 4 years

Prior to 1996
Recipient                                     Agency                                           Award

Frederick Brooks, Kenan Professor of Computer Science

1995 Bower Award and Prize in Science

    $250,000