51·çÁ÷

Enrique Galvez (Physics), and his collaborators have received a two-year award of $82,000 for their project. The project explores the diagnosis of medical tissue using quantum entanglement.

Neil Albert, Lecturer in Psychology and Neuroscience; Krista Ingram (Biology), and Jenn Lutman, Director of the Writing and Speaking Center, have received a two-year award of $24,342 for their project.

Wan-chun Liu (Psychology), and his collaborators have received a two-year award of $155,000. Optogenetics involves genetic manipulation which provides neurons with light sensitive activity. The research will explore the influence of social interaction on learning in songbirds.

Jessica Graybill (Geography and Russian & Eurasian Studies) and her collaborators have received a one-year award of $37,430 for their project. This project will explore how carbon fluxes vary on or near tracks, how the tracks vary in density and distribution and how their presence interacts with nearby human communities.

Ahmet Ay (Biology and Mathematics) and his collaborator have been awarded $107,392 for their project. This project will combine computational methods for modeling large-scale systems with molecular perturbation techniques in the laboratory to pin down the gene regulatory circuit controlling segmentation of the vertebrae disks during embryonic development.

Michael Loranty and Heather Kropp (Geography) and their collaborators have received a two-year award of $136,545 for their project. This project will confront climate model representations with field measurements and satellite observations of boreal forest-snow energy dynamics

Tim McCay and Damhnait McHugh (Biology) and Ahmet Ay (Biology and Mathematics) have received a two-year award of $152,907 for their project. This project will integrate fieldwork, lab experiments, molecular analyses, and mathematical modeling to reveal the life history and physiological tolerances of these earthworms, reconstruct their historical invasion of North America, and make predictive statements about their spread and impact.

The institute is awarding a second year of funding to Jonathan Levine (Physics and Astronomy) and his collaborators. The funded research would allow Levine’s team to develop techniques for identifying the minerals that they are dating, so as to optimally interpret the age data they obtain.

Jonathan Levine (Physics and Astronomy) and his collaborators received a one-year award for their project. Their research goal is to increase understanding of the timing and timescales of Mars’s global climate change by estimating the ages of Martian rocks using a novel mass spectrometer.

Krista Ingram (Biology) and her colleagues received a two-year award for their project. The research team will integrate genetic analyses with psychological measures and behavioral tasks to investigate how an individual’s cognitive performance (e.g., standardized exams) and risk preferences (e.g., decision-making tasks) are related to the time the task is performed, an individual’s genotype, and gene expression profiles.