NSF awards 10 Cornell faculty Early Career Development grants
13 Apr '07
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Juan Hinestroza, assistant professor of fiber science, was awarded $400,000 over five years to explore ways to control the position of particles, with nanoscale precision, to enhance manufacturing and polymer processing industries and to lower costs. Expansion of the efforts could lead to development of anticounterfeiting devices to protect intellectual property and curtailing counterfeit of high-value goods.
Wilkins Aquino, assistant professor of civil engineering, won $465,000 over five years to develop an advanced simulation environment for modeling degradation of structures -- a key challenge that engineers face today. The research will focus on corrosion-induced damage processes in reinforced concrete.
David Putnam, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and chemical and biomolecular engineering, received $400,000 over five years to investigate the predictive design of functional biomaterials, with an emphasis on bioadhesion. Putnam aims to create a library of polymer-based bioadhesives to correlate how their microscale composition correlates to their macroscale bioadhesive characteristics.
Adam Siepel, assistant professor of biological statistics and computational biology, won $647,000 over five years to work on new statistical models and algorithms for detecting genes, regulatory elements and other functional sequences in the human genome. Making use of comparative data from other mammals, Siepel will model and analyze both the evolution and function of these genomic sequences. A similar analysis will be performed for the fruitfly genome.
Garnet Chan, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, received $600,000 to expand his work on electronic structure of complex systems, in particular the development of polynomial time algorithms to solve the quantum many-particle problem.
Peng Chen, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, was awarded $550,000 to develop novel single-molecule spectroscopic methods, along with theoretical calculations, to study dynamic processes and chemical and physical properties of bioinorganic systems.
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