Grants and Contracts
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."
March 2003
From the National Kidney Foundation of North Carolina, $10,000 to Melanie Hames (Medicine) for "The Effect of ACE-Inhibition on Urinary C5b-9 Measurements."
From the National Science Foundation: $18,440 to Carol Goodwillie (Biology) for "RUI: Mating System Evolution at the Interface of Populations and Species in Linanthus."
From the National Institutes of Health: $209,250 to Ted Ross (Medicine) for "Using DNA Vaccines Expressing Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Like Particles to Enhance Immune Responses"; and $131,600 to Kenneth Soderstrom (Medicine) for "Cannabinoid Effects on Development of Learned Behavior."
From the U.S. Army, $22,500 to Donald Fletcher (Medicine) for "Anatomy Prosections/Dissections for Army Personnel Medical Training."
From the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, $230,250 to Yoshimi Shibata (Medicine) for "Oral Administration of N-Acetyl-D-Glucosamine Polymer Particles Down-Regulates Airway Allergic Responses."
From the U.S. Department of Educaiton to Melissa Engelman, David Powers and Sandra Warren (Education), $299,050 for "Preparation of Special Education, Related Services, and Early Intervention Personnel to Serve Infants, Toddlers and Children with Low Incidence Disabilities."
From the N.C. Biotechnology Center, $57,531 to John Sutherland (Physics) for ECU's first Circular Dichroism Spectrometer.
From the Health Resources and Services Administration, $360,438 to Richard Bamberg (Allied Health) for Preparation for Allied Health Careers.
From the N.C. Biotechnology, $14,950 to Edmund Stellwag (Biology) for the Introductory Biotechnology Workshop for Teachers 2003.
From Currituck County, $1,200 to Doyle Cummings and Susan Morrissey (Medicine) for Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
From Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation, $7,000 to William Meadows (Medicine) for continuing craniofacial medical education.
From UNC Chapel Hill, $5,000 to Christopher Mansfield and Rita Manfredi (Medicine) for the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry Subcontract.
From the Mathematics and Science Education Network, $25,124 to Karen Dawkins (Education) for the Riverside Project.
From the UNC Sea Grant Program, $18,077 to Karen Dawkins (Education) for "Sea-View: Introducing Coastal Processes and Conflicts to North Carolina Students."
From Penn State University, $156,744 to Mark Brinson and Richard Rheinhardt (Biology) for "Indicators for Assessing Aquatic Ecosystems: Albemarle Pamlico Sound."
From the University of Virginia, $10,000 each to Mark Brinson and Robert Christian (Biology) for contribution to long-term ecological research at the Virginia Coast Reserve.
From the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, $10,000 to Charles Daeschner III (Medicine) for Region IV North Comprehensive Hemophilia Treatment.
From the Town of Surf City, $20,000 to Richard Brockett (Regional Development Services) for an economic development strategy.
From Experimental and Applied Sciences, $128,724 to Robert Hickner (Health and Human Performance) for an EAS postdoctoral research fellowship.
From IviGene Corporation, $6,975 to Roy Martin Roop (Medicine) for "Early Diagnosis of Brucellosis."
From the Mildred Sheffield Wells Charitable Trust, $7,650 to Edward Jacobs (Music) for the 2003 NewMusic@ECU Festival.
From the Golden Leaf Foundation, $250,000 to Joy Stapleton and Robin Ventura (Education) for "The Three R's in Improving Teacher Shortages: Recruitment, Retention, and Resilience."
February 2003
From the National Science Foundation, $125,555 to Catherine Rigsby (Geology) for "Collaborative Research in Holocene Geology and Anthropology: Paleoclimate, Landscape Evolution, and Human Occupation of the Western Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru."
From the National Institutes of Health: $201,529 to Ann Sperry (Medicine) for "Isoforms of a Mitotic Kinesin in Mammalian Spermatogenesis"; and $209,250 to Jeffrey Smith (Medicine) for "B. Fragillis Multiple Drug Resistance-Origin and Control."
From the U.S. Department of State, $16,178 to Nancy Zeller (Education) for Muskie Fellows.
From the National Children's Alliance, $10,000 to Dale Newton and Elaine Cabinum-Foeller (Medicine) for TEDI BEAR.
From the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Center for Disease Control, $1,010,972 to Susan Gustke (Agro-Medicine) for the NIOSH Agricultural Center grant application.
From the Children's Miracle Network, $50,000 to Ronald Perkin (Medicine) for expanding services at the Children's Hospital.
From the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, $399,950 to Al Delia (Regional Development Services) for the ECU Central Rocky Mount Partnership.
From the N.C. Biotechnology Center, $27,000 to Robert Lust and Alexander Murashov (Medicine) for development of a graduate course in physiological proteogenomics.
From the N.C. Small Business and Technology Development Center: $8,000 and $155,153 to Margaret Hackney (Regional Development Services) for the N.C. Small Business and Technology Development Center.
From the UNC Institute of Nutrition, $10,500 to David Rowe and Matthew Mahar (Health and Human Performance) for "Investigation of a Novel Method to Measure Body Image in African-American and Caucasian Children."
From N.C. State University, $30,000 to David Batts (Regional Development Services) for purchases and services, Center for Applied Technology.
From the Pitt County Department of Social Services, $24,926 to Gail Kenyon for Adoption Services Enhancement.
From University Health Systems of Eastern North Carolina, $500,000 to Judy Bernhardt (Nursing) for the Nurse Anesthesia Program contract.
From Pitt County Memorial Hospital, $77,562 to Thomas Irons and Lars Larsen (Medicine) for a Generalist Physician Program; and $16,000 to Dale Newton and Elaine Cabinum-Foeller (Medicine) for BEAR PATCH.
From the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, $4,900 to Susan Williams (Nursing) for the AANC Pioneer Resource Award.
From the Neuse Center, $2,000 to Lloyd Goodwin (Allied Health) for an internship.
From the James J. and Mamie Richardson Perkins Trust, $2,400 and from the Mildred Sheffield Wells Charitable Trust, $2,400 to George Broussard (Music) for Trombone de Costa Rica.
From DSM Pharmaceuticals, $10,345 to Chia-yu Li (Chemistry) for a chemistry internship program.
From High Performance Technologies, $73,504 to Jeffrey Huskamp (ITCS) for the High Performance Computing Modernization Program and Programming Environment and Training.
From the IEEE Computer Society, $49,400 to Jeff Huskamp and Ernest Marshburn (ITCS) and Helen Parke (Education) for the SC2000/SC2001 Computational Science Leadership Program for High School Teachers.
