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Successful Proposals
Physical & Mathematical Sciences
- Science &Technology of Nanotube-based Materials & Devices
- $5.5 million for 5 yrs from the Office of Naval Research
- Sean Washburn, Physics & Astronomy
- Otto Zhou, Physics & Astronomy
- Researchers manipulate and study the properties of nanotubes and explore their potential as an energy storage medium.
- Acquisition & Development of a Unique SEM/AFM Analytical System
- $330,000 from the Research & Instrumentation Program
- Department of Defense
- Richard Superfine, Physics & Astronomy
- Russell Taylor, Computer Science
- This instrumentation is part of a large multidisciplinary effort to study the science of carbon nanotubes, expected to be of interest to the international microscopic community.
Biological & Health Sciences
- Choline Cancer Prevention
- $798,187 from the National Cancer Institute, NIH
- Steven Zeisel, SPH-Nutrition
- New approaches are being used to explore the relationship between dietary choline and the development and prevention of cancers.
- Comprehensive Center for Inflammatory Disorders
- $145,000 Planning Grant from the National Institutes of Health
- Pat Flood, School of Dentistry
- Researchers study the association between inflammations resulting from oral infection and systemic conditions like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and arthritis.
Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Gender Equity Values In Education Policy: Cross-National Comparisons
- $15,000 from the Pacific Basin Research Center
- Catherine Marshall, Education
- This cross-national study explores the various factors (social, political, cultural and historical) that have facilitated and constrained the development of gender equity policies in Education.
- Knitting The Social Fabric: NC Hosiery Industry
- $307,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation
- Rachel Willis, American Studies
- A study of the various methods whereby firms in the hosiery industry have adapted to increased competition and how changes in their policies have affected the lives of their manufacturing workers.
Arts & Humanities
- Master's Degree in Russian/East European Studies
- $448,000 for 4 years from the National Security Education Program
- Department of Defense
- Laura Janda, Ctr for Slavic Studies
- Creation of an interdisciplinary Master's Degree Program combining specialization in one Slavic language, one region, and one academic concentration (Business, Computer Science, History, Linguistics, Sociology, etc.)