Grants and Contracts 2003

December 2003

From the National Institutes of Health: $285,000 to Jeffrey Smith (Medicine) for "Role of B. Fragilis Oxygen Stress Response in Infection"; $9,000 to Tibor Hortobagyi (Exercise and Sports Science) for an International Symposium on Motor Control using TMS; and $71,250 to Sam Pennington (Medicine) for "Maternal Dietary Fat: Effects on Mother and Offspring."

From the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, $150,000 to Carmine Scavo (Political Science) for a Community Development Work Study HUD Program.

From the National Park Services, $40,000 to Stanley Riggs (Geology) for Geologic Mapping of Barrier Island Systems at Cape Hatteras National seashore and Cape Lookout National Seashore, N.C.

From the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, $55,902 to Allen Clark (Coastal and Marine Resources) for A Citizen's Water Quality Monitoring Program for the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuary.

From the N.C. Small Busines and Technology Development Center, $55,992 to Margaret Hackney (Regional Development Services) for N.C. Recovery and Redevelopment (NC READE).

From the N.C. Super Computing Center, $40,000 to Paul L. Fletcher (Medicine) for "Molecular Modeling of Bioactive Protein Toxins of New World Scorpion Venom" Material Transfer Agreement.

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, $291,028 to Edward Newton (Medicine) for the High Risk Maternity Clinic.

From the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, $4,144 to David Powers (Education) for the NCDPI Division of Exceptional Children Contract.

From the University Health Systems of Eastern North Carolina, $1,000 to Janice Neil (Nursing) for Environmental Surveillance in the Operating Room.

From the University of Virginia, $10,000 to Mark Brinson and $10,000 to Robert Christian (Biology) for contribution to long-term ecological research at the Virginia Coast Reserve.

From the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, $22,000 to Paul Gemperline (Chemistry) for experimental batch optimization.

From the University of Indiana, $500 to Paul Fletcher (Medicine) for a Medic B Program.

From the Pitt County Board of Education, $3,000 t o Robert Wendling (Recreation and Leisure Studies) for a comprehensive recreation and parks master plan for Pitt County Community Schools and Recreation.

From the Town of Erwin, $6,500 to Robert Wendling (Recreation and Leisure Studies) for a comprehensive recreation and parks master plan for the Town of Erwin, NC.

From the Southern Arts Federation, $2,500 to Jeff Woodruff (Theatre Arts) for the Southern Fast Track Grants.

From Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Diensf, German Academic Exchange Services, $4,292 to Mary Kirkpatrick (Nursing) for an information visit.

From the Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church, $6,000 to Doyle Cummings (Medicine) for Evaluation of Community Diabetes Program.

From High Performance Technologies, $31,968 to Jeff Huskamp (ITCS) for DOD High Performance Computer Modernization Program and Programming Environment and Training.

From the Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts, $2,500 to Robert Hause and Brad Foley (Music) for a music scholarship.

From Wolfram Research, $44,000 to Jeff Huskamp (ITCS) for the SC 2000/SC 2001 Computational Science Leadership Program for High School Teachers.

November 2003

From the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Projects, $18,000 to Wendy Brick (Medicine) for STAR: The Study of Tamaxifen and Raloxifene for Prevention of Breast Cancer.

From the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, $160,534 to Elizabeth Jesse (Nursing) for “Psychosocial Obstetrical Profile to Predict Preterm Birth Among African-American, Caucasian, and Hispanic American Low-Income Women.”

From the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, $988,455 to John Sutherland (Physics) for “Targeted Defense Against Asymetric Biological Attack.”

From the N.C. Scottish Rite Masonic Foundation, $75,000 to Gregg Givens (Allied Health) for the Clinic for Childhood Language Disorders and Training Program.

From the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, $4,000 to Anthony Overton (Coastal and Marine Resources) for “Health and Presence of Mycobacteriosis in Roanoke River Striped Bass – Pilot Study.”

From the N.C. Department of Agriculture, $20,000 to Albert Delia (Regional Development Services) for the Farmstead Cheese Research Project.

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, $10,000 to Shelia Bunch (Social Work) for “Addressign Family Violence During and Around the Time of Pregnancy.”

From the UNC General Administration, $75,000 to Edmund Stellwag (Biology) for Collaborate Genomics Research for Community Colleges.

From Florida Atlantic University, $67,107 to Michael Vitale (Education) for “Validation of a Multi-Phase Design for Scaling Up a Knowledge-Based Intervention.”

From Martin County Schools, $7,478 to Betty Beacham (Education) for a consultant contract for Project Success.

From the Pitt County Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, $22,067 and from the Pitt County Health Education Foundation, $5,000 to Judy Baker and Toni Hale (Cooperative Education) for the Power of One Mentoring Program.

From the Rural Economic Development Center, $10,500 to Al Delia (Regional Development Services) for Phase 1: Hispanic Economic Impact Study.

From the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology, $1,024 to Thomas Raedeke (Health and Human Performance) for “Does Enjoyment Mediate the Relationship Between Exercise Class Environment and Affective Responses for Socially Physique Anxious Individuals.”

From Brookhaven National Laboratory, $69,578 to Joseph Chalovich (Medicine) for “Quantifying Ionizing Radiation Induced DNA Damage.”

From High Performance Technologies, $265,963 to Jeff Huskamp (ITCS) for High Performance Computing Modernization Program and Programming Environment and Training.

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October 2003

From the U.S. Department of Education, $250,000 to Sandra Warren (Education) for “ECU Gateways: Opening Doors for Special Educators and Students with Low-Incidence Disabilities.”

> From the National Institutes of Health: $236,906 to Jian Ding (Medicine) for “Dysregulation of Circadian Rhythm by HIV Protein Tat”; $95,155 to Ruth Schwable (Medicine) for “Biochemically-Determined Topology of a Renal K + Channel”; and $139,500 to Ronald Cortright (Health and Human Performance) for “Dysregulated Muscle Lipid Metabolism in African-Americans.”

From the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, $6,000 to Eric Diaddorio (Diving Safety) for the Dive Boat Operation to Collect Flounder for Aging.

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, $35,700 to Nancy Leggett-Frazier (Medicine) for a clinical fellowship for diabetes education.

From the N.C. Arts Council, $2,500 to Resa Bizzaro and Sharon Raynor (English) for the Writers Reading Series of Eastern North Carolina.

From the N.C. Foundation for Public School Children, $1,800 to Tarrick Cox (Education) for the N.C. Teacher Cadet Program.

From the UNC General Administration: $6,000 to Marti Van Scott (Technology Transfer) for the N.C. Technology Development Initiative; $11,981 to Al Delia (Regional Development Services) for a bioterrorism survey; and for the Coastal Studies Institute: $186,000 to Nancy White (Research, Econ. Development), and $314,000 to Thomas Feldbush.

From N.C. State University, $126,923 to D. Reide Corbett (Geology) for “Quantifying Nitrogen Transport from Groundwater to a River in a Large Agricultural Watershed in N.C.”

From Weill Medical College of Cornwell University, $1,395 to Jen Jar Lin (Medicine) for “TGF Beta and the Progression of Renal Disease.”

From the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, $30,795 to Christyn Dolbier (Psychology) for “Preterm Birth: Psychoneuroimmunology in Hispanics.”

From the Pennsylvania Council on Arts, $2,540 to Edward Jacobs (Music) for the 2004 NewMusic@ECU Festival.

From the Pitt County Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Center, $13,313 to David Dosser (Human Ecology) for family preservation services; and $23,896 to Thomas Skalko (Health and Human Performance) for Horizons Program: A Day Treatment Program for Youth.

From Hyde County Transit, $20,000 to Malcolm Simpson (Regional Development Institute) for the Hyde County Community Transportation Improvement Plan.

From the Rural Economic Development Center, $30,000 to Kenneth Wilson (Sociology) for “Changing Levels of Internet Access in North Carolina.”

From Tideland Mental Health Center, $4,000 to James Cox (Social Work) for a social work internship.

From the Center for Disease Control, $61,171 to Daniel Sprau (Health and Human Performance) for a TPG training grant.

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September 2003

From the U.S. Department of Energy, $156,336 to Larry Toburen (Physics) for "Modeling the Physics of Damage Cluster Formation in a Cellular Environment."

From the U.S. Department of Education, $199,999 to Sandra Warren (Education) for "Improving the Preparation of Personnel to Service Children with High Incidence Disabilities, ECU Partnership East."

From the National Institutes of Health: $104,625 to Ronald Cortright (Health and Human Performance) for "Mitochondria-Peroxisome Fatty Acid Oxidation in Obesity"; and $30,724 to Michael Hoane (Psychology) for "Vitamin B3 and Traumatic Brain Injury."

From the Health Resources and Services Administration, $237,364 to Charlene Dienes (Medicine) for Faculty Development in Primary Care.

From the N.C. Division of Archives and History, $10,000 to Randolph Daniel Jr. (Anthropology) for an Archeological Investigation at the Barber Creek Site.

From the N.C. Small Business and Technology Development Center, $16,922 to Margaret Hackney (Regional Development Services) for the N.C. Small Busines and Technology Development Center at ECU.

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, $76,062 to Debra Tristram (Medicine) for an HIV pediatric social worker ­ case management services in eastern North Carolina.

From the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, $1,000 to Karen Dawkins (Education) for the ECU-SE-PORT Ocean Awareness Workshop.

From the City of Rocky Mount, $50,000 to Albert Delia (Regional Development Services) for a Lead Based Paint Program Evaluation.

From N.C. State University: $35,266 each to William Sugar and to Diane Kester (Education) for evaluation of IMPACT grant programs; and $216,262 to Susan Gustke (Agro-Medicine) for "Farm Injury and Illness: An Approach to Heat-Related Illness (furthering Agricultural Health and Safety Through Clinical Surveillance Information, Dissemination and Disaster Monitoring)."

From the UNC General Administration: $199,627 to Sidney Rachlin (Education) for the Mathematics Professional Development Component of the N.C. Partnership for Improving Mathematics and Science; and $839,813 to Karen Dawkins (Education) for the N.C. Partnership for Improving Mathematics and Science Education.

From UNC Chapel Hill, $169,278 to Sidney Rachlin (Education) for The N.C. Middle Math Project: A Professional Development Project to Improve Grade 6 ­ 8 Mathematics Education; and $15,000 to Elaine Cabinum-Foeller (Medicine) for the TEDI BEAR Regional Center for Child Maltreatment.

From UNC ­ Greensboro, $202,180 to Cynthia Johnson (Human Ecoloty) for a management plan for the implementation of the state's assessment of the rated license.

From the Pitt County Health Education Foundation, $7,500 to Eric Anderson (Medicine) for Health Care Education for Life.

From the Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation, $30,000 to Terri Edwards (Regioanl Development Services) for the Adapted Recreation Program.

From the Spencer Foundation, $111,778 to Charles Thompson (Education) for Building Capacity for Policy-Oriented Research in North Carolina.

From High Performance Technologies, $260,085 to Jeffrey Huskamp (Information Technology and Computer Systems) for the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program and Programming Enviornment and Training.

From PCS Phospate, $95,000 to Donald Stanley (Biology) for "PCS Phosphate Effluent Monitoring and Water Quality in the Pamlico River Estuary, N.C."

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August 2003

From the National Science Foundation: $200,029 to Jason Bond (Biology) for "REVSYS: Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Trapdoor Spider Subfamily Euctenizinae (Araneae: Cyrtauchenildae"; and $24,585 to Paul Gemperline (Chemistry) for "Chemometric Tools for Characterization of Evolving Chemical Processes."

From the National Institutes of Health: $124,665 to Ray Morrison (Medicine) for "Ischemia-Reperfusion in A2A and A2B Knockout Hearts"; $209,250 to Robert Hickner (Health and Human Performance) for "Exercise, Muscle Nutritive Blood Flow and eNOS in Aging"; and $279,000 to Joseph Houmard (Health and Human Performance) for "Lipid Metabolism in Obesity, Weight-Loss and Exercise."

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services $138,000 to Dewane Frutiger (Medicine) for assistive technology services and $1,593,940 for the Developmental Evaluation Clinic; and $7,500 to Edward Newton (Medical Faculty Practice Plan) for a Long Acting Contraceptives contract.

From the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, $11,520 to Kathi Wilhite (Education) for N.C. Department of Public Instruction Complaint Investigations.

From UNC ­ Chapel Hill: $44,126 to Stephen Engelke (Medicine) for A Nursing Support Intervention for Mothers of Premature Infants; and $535,244 to Linner Griffin (Social Work) for the North Carolina Child Welfare Education Collaborative.

From the Johnston County Mental Health Center, $3,000 to Thomas Durham (Psychology) for a psychology internship at Johnston County Mental Health Center.

From the Children's Hospital of Boston, $137,921 to Stephen Engelke (Medicine) for "Molecular Antecedents of Brain Damage in Preterm Infants."

From the American Diabetes Association, $94,084 to Sam Pennington (Medicine) for "Effect of Maternal Dietary Fat on Her Offspring's Insulin Response."

From the Coastal Wildlife Refuge Society, $73,946 to Hans Vogelsong (Health and Human Performance) for the Eastern North Carolina National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Use Study.

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July 2003

From the National Institutes of Health: $139,500 to Nancy Stephenson (Nursing) for "Partner-Delivered Reflexology: Effects on Cancer Pain"; and $60,094 to Sherri Jones (Allied Health) for "Screening Vestibular Function Using Evoked Potential."

From the National Science Foundation: $31,900 to Paul Gemperline (Chemistry) for "A Collaborate Project Between MCEC and CPACT: Experimental Batch Control and Optimization"; $125,000 to Kenneth Wilson (Sociology), Alan Schreier (Research, Economic Development and Community Engagement) and David Resnik (Medicine) for "Scientific Record Keeping and Responsible Research Conduct"; $120,253 to Yong Zhu (Biology) for "RUI: Production and Characterization of Membrane Steroid Receptors"; $12,681 and $173,178 to Jeffrey Johnson (Sociology), Lisa Clough (Biology) and David Griffith (ICMR) for "Relations Between Traditional and Scientific Knowledge of the Kotzebue Sound Ecosystem."

From the U.S. Department of Education, $100,000 to Paul Alston (Allied Health) for Long Term Training in Rehabilitative Counseling.

From the U.S. Geological Survey, $165,000 to Stanley Riggs, Stephen Culver, D. Reide Corbett, and David Mallinson (Geology) for "North Carolina Quatemary Stratigraphy and Regional Geologic Synthesis."

From the National Strength and Conditioning Foundation, $2,500 to Scott Gordon and David Thomson (Health and Human Performance) for "Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophic Signaling After Acute Heavy Resistance Exercise in Lean and Obese Individuals."

From UNC General Administration, $135,676 to Sidney Rachlin (Mathematics) for the Mathematics Professional Development Component of the N.C. Partnership for Improving Mathematics and Science.

From UNC ­ Chapel Hill, $27,186 to Christopher Mansfield (Health Services Research and Development) and Rita Manfredi (Medicine) for the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry subcontract.

From Duke Endowment, $144,000 to Elaine Cabinum-Foeller and Dale Newton (Medicine) for Project CARE.

From UNC ­ Charlotte, $17,000 to John Stevens (Foreign Languages and Literatures) for the N.C. Consortium for Study Abroad in Spain Program.

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services: $131,021 to Linner Griffin (Social Work) for "Preparing Social Workers to Work with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing"; $125,000 to Carol-Ann Tucker (Health and Human Performance) for the ECU Regional Training Center; and $83,102 to James Cummings (Medicine) for a Neonatal Outreach Education Program.

From the Mental Health Association in North Carolina, $48,200 to Elizabeth Gail Sharpe (Social Work) for the Halifax County N.C. System Care Initiative Evaluation Project.

From Pitt County Memorial Hospital, $25,376 to Kathryn Kolasa and Annette Peery (Medicine) for the Food Literacy Partners Program.

From the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, $35,448 to Paul Cook (Medicine) for an HIV Pharmacist for High-Risk HIV Infected People.

From Weyerhaeuser, $122,838 to Roger Rulifson (Biology) for "Ecology of Larval Fishes in the Lower Roanoke River, N.C."

From the New York Academy of Medicine, $5,000 to Kaye McGinty and Angela Huang (Medicine) for "An Investigation of Caregiver Stress in Parents of Severely Emotionally Disturbed Children Enrolled in a Public Residential Treatment Program Using Participatory Action Research."

From Aventis Pharmaceutical Products, $80,000 to Joseph Babb (Medicine) for Protocol Extract-TIMI25.

From the Greater St. Charles Convention and Visitors Bureau, $1,000 to (History) for "St. Charles Missouri: Contributions to Missouri River Steamboating."

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June 2003

From the National Science Foundation, $256,422 to Jason Bond, Carol Goodwillie and Anthony Capehart (Biology); D. Reide Corbett and Terri Woods (Geology); and Robert McIntyre (Chemistry) for RUI/MRI: Acquisition of an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope for Research and Teaching.

From the National Science Foundation, $54,314 to Lisa Clough (Biology) for "Digestibility of Ice Algae and Phytoplankton: The Potential Impacts of Changing Food Supply in the Arctic Benthos."

From the National Institutes of Health, $228,950 to G. Lynis Dohm (Medicine) for "Muscle Glucose Metabolism in Diabetes and Exercise."

From the U.S. Department of Education: $200,000 to Sandra Warren (Education) for "GOALS AT ECU: Guaranteeing Opportunities for All Learners Through Assistive Technolgy at East Carolina University"; and $70,768 to Sylvie Henning (Foreign Langugages and Literatures) for "Expanding Horizons: Russian Studies in Eastern North Carolina."

From the American Diabetes Association, $100,000 to Phillip Pekala (Medicine) for "The Regulation of Adipose Tissue Metabolism by the RNA Binding Protein HuR."

From the American Heart Association, $66,000 to Richard Franklin (Medicine) for "Mechanisms of Oxidant-Induced Inflammation."

From the North Carolina Education Assistance Authority, $9,300 to Rose Mary Stelma (Financial Aid) for a summer internship for counselors.

From the Governor's Institute on Alcohol and Substance Abuse, $2,980 to Brian McMillen (Medicine) for !MPACT ECU.

From the Health Resources and Services Administration: $264,259 to Rebecca Benfield (Nursing) for the Nurse-Midwifery Program of North Carolina; and $210,503 to Dean Patton, Doyle Cummings, Lauren Whetstone (Medicine), and Christopher Mansfield (Health Services Research and Development) for "Health Disparities in Primary Care."

From the N.C. Department of Environmental and Natural Resources, $42,241 to Mark Brinson, Robert Christian and Richard Rheinhardt (Biology) for Development of Assessment Procedures and a Monitoring and Assessment Program for Restoration of Streams.

From the N.C. Departmtent of Public Instruction, $106,307 to David Powers (Education) for the NCDPI Division of Exceptional Children Contract.

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, $5,400 to Charles Daeschner III (Medicine) for the Hemophilia Assistance Program/Plan.

From the N.C. State Library, $49,954 to Elizabeth Smith (Academic Library Services) for the North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library.

From Duke University, $11,726 to D. Reide Corbett (Geology) for Development of Enviornmental Proxies for Coastal Environments.

From the UNC General Administration: $10,000 to Tarrick Cox (Education) for the GEAR UP Summer Leadership Institute at ECU; and $20,000 to Parmalee Hawk and Ann Bullock (Education) for NC Teach.

From Penn State University, $80,245 to Mark Brinson and Richard Rheinhardt (Biology) for "Indicators for Assessing Aquatic Ecosystems: Albemarle-Pamlico Sound."

From Hemocellular Therapeutics, $50,000 to Arthur Bode (Medicine) for Bridging Grant for Development of Lyophillized Platelets.

From the Alice M. Ditson Fund, $500 to Edwards Jacobs (Music) for the New Music@ECU Festival.

From the Choanoke Public Transportation Authority, $30,000 to Malcolm Simpson Jr. (Regional Development Institute) for the Choanoke Community Transportation Improvement Plan.

From Coastal Community Action, $875 to Richard Brockett (Regional Development Institute) for the Coastal Community Action Service Area Assessment.

From the Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation, $53,477 to Tate Holbrook, John Olsson, and Kathryn Kolasa (Medicine) for KIDPOWER.

From the American College of Sports Medicine Foundation, $5,000 to Scott Gordon and David Thomson (Health and Human Performance) for "Muscle Overload, Bradykinin, and Glucose Uptake in Obesity."

From the Southern Arts Federation, $2,000 to Edward Jacobs (Music) for the NewMusic@ECU Festival.

From the Governor's Crime Commission, $50,000 to Elaine Cabinum-Foeller and Dale Newton (Medicine) for CARE BEAR.

From CV Therapeutics, $83,700 to Jamal Mustafa (Medicine) for "Study of the Effects of Selective A2B Antagonists and Its Comparison to Theophylline."

From the American Lung Association, $35,00 to Daniel Martin (Medicine) for "Analysis of a Novel Legionella Virulence Factor: An Inducible Peptide Synthetase Required for Growth in Ameba."

From the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, $25,000 to Rhea Miles (Education) and Cynthia Adams (University Advancement) for the East Carolina Reach Up Program.

From Tideland Mental Health Center, $9,450 and 4,725 to Thomas Durham (Psychology) for psychology internships. Also from the Neuse Center/Carteret Family Services Center, $3,000 for psychology internship.

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May 2003

From the National Institutes of Health: $88,143 to Rebecca Benfield (Nursing) for "The Effects of Hydrotherapy on Anxiety and Pain in Labor"; $209,250 to Timothy Gavin (Health and Human Performance) for "Age, VEGF, and Skeletal Muscle Capillarization in Humans"; $46,420 to Matthew Hulver (Medicine) for "Muscle Lipid Metabolism and Triacylglycerol Accumulation"; $195,479 to Larry Toburen (Physics) for "Electron Transport in 'Tissue-Like' Material"; $279,000 to Roy Martin Roop (Medicine) for "Brucella Stationary Phase Gene Expression and Virulence"; and $325,440 to Abdel Abdel-Rahman (Medicine) for "Negative Impact of Alcohol on Antihypertensive Therapy."

From the National Science Foundation: $9,000 to Robert Christian and James Dame (Biology) for "Evaluation of ecological Network Analysis Using Stable Isotopes"; $25,342 to Rose Sinicrope (Education) for "Systematic Refor of Mathematics K-5 for Virginia"; and $66,602 to Jeffrey Johnson (Sociology) for a Summer Institute for Research Design in Cultural Anthropology.

From the National Park Service, $33,500 to Claudia Jolls (Biology) for "Habitat Assessment using remote Sensing Data: Restoration methodologies for a Federally Threatened Plant of Coastal Shorelines, Seabeach Amaranth."

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services: $2,400 to Charles Daeschner III (Medicine) for a Hemophilia Assistance Program and plan; $34,754 to Jean Hood (Medicine) for a genetic services contract; and $83,102 to Doyle Cummings for a Neonatal Outreach Education Program.

From the UNC Sea Grant Program: $18,614 and $15,313 to Lauriston King (Coastal Resources Management) for "Demographic Transition in North Carolina's Coastal Communities and Related Policy Implications"; $18,614 and $27,090 to David Griffith (Coastal and Marine Resources) and Jeffrey Johnson (Sociology) for "Stakeholder Perception of Water Quality"; $217,351 to William Queen (Coastal and Marine Resources) for a Sea Grant Extension Program; $36,254 to Karen Dawkins (Education) for "Sea-View: Introducing Coastal Processes and Conflicts to North Carolina Students"; and $31,066 to Anthony Overton (Coastal and Marine Resources) for "Release Mortality of Undersized Red and Vermillion Snapper and red Porgy, Caught in the North Carolina Hook and Line Fishery."

From Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, $13,472 to Michael Van Scott (Medicine) for a Master Research Agreement.

From the Children's Miracle Network, $15,000 to Ronald Perkin (Medicine) for "Childhod Obesity - Continuation of the KIDPOWER Study."

From Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, $5,000 to Philllip Pekala and Maria Heszele (Medicine) for "Localization of HuR in the Adipocyte."

From Albermarle Regional Health services, $300 to David White and Hans Johnson (Health and Human Performance) for "Healthy Carolinians of the Albemarle Assessment Project."

From CZR Incorporated, $7,000 to Donald Stanley (Coastal and Marine Resources) for "NCPC Tract Water Quality Monitoring, 2002."

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April 2003

From the National Institutes of Health, $244,125 to Everett Pesci (Medicine) for "Role of a New Signal Molecule in P. Aeruginosa and Virulence."

From the National Science Foundation, $50,145 to Paul Gemperline (Chemistry) for "Chemometric Tools for Characterization of Evolving Chemical Processes"; and $88,415 to Tom McConnell (Biology) for "Assembly and Expression of MHC Class II Chains in the Channel Catfish."

From the Health Resources and Services Administration: $42,001 to Judy Bernhardt (Nursing) for an Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship Program; and $159,557 and $105,599 to Janice Daugherty (Medicine) for Predoctoral Training in Family Medicine.

From the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, $15,000 to David Rowe (Health and Human Performance) for "Effect of Take 10! Physical Activity Program on Total Energy Expenditure and Attitude Toward Physical Activity of Elementary School Children.

From the Children's Miracle Network, $106,254 to Ronald Perkin (Medicine) for Palliative Care for Children.

From the UNC General Administration: $33,216 to Ronald Mitchelson (Geology) and Lauriston King (Coastal Resources Management) for N.C. Institute for Disaster Studies Conference 2003; and $562,149 to Karen Dawkins (Education) for N.C. Partnership for Improving Mathematics and Science Education.

From Pitt County EMS, $7,500 to Paula Harrell (Regional Development Services) for the Emergency Medical Services of Pitt County Survey.

From Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation, $36,380 to Terri Edwards (Regional Development Services) for the Adapted Recreation Program.

From Pitt County Memorial Hospital, $8,820 to Trenton Davis (Health and Human Performance) for an internship.

From Pfizer Pharmaceuticals to Edward Treadwell (Medicine): $131,000 for "Investigation of the Association of Select Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Autoantigens"; an $138,000 for "Validation of Pain and Functional Capacity Indexes with Rheumatoid an Osteoarthritis."

From Experimental and Applied Sciences, $83,074 to Scott Gordon (Health and Human Performance) for "Role of Nitric Oxide in Overload-Induced Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy."

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