| Emily
M. Klein, associate professor of geology, has a new
sea-going proposal funded by the National Science Foundation,
Ocean Sciences Division ($219,219 for two years), "Geochemical
and Geological Investigations of the Incipient Rift at 2 deg.
40 min. N, east of the East Pacific Rise." Klein, co-PI, Deborah
Smith (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), and graduate
students are scheduled to go to the eastern equatorial Pacific
in July 2002.
Seth
W. Kullman, assistant research professor, received
a $55,000 Academic Research Initiation Grant (ARIG) Program
award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for "Toxicant
Induced Differential Gene Expression and Production of an
Aquatic Gene Array," grant dates 7/2/01-12/31/02; and, the
New Investigator Award at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory,
funded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Center for Membrane Toxicity studies.
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Marie
Lynn Miranda, Dan and Bunny Gabel associate professor
of the practice of environmental ethics and sustainable development,
was awarded $60,000 from the Wallace Genetics Foundation in
July for continuing research on home environmental health;
In March,
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the
N.C. Department of Health and Human Services awarded $90,000
to Miranda in support of work to build the technical capacity
of environmental health services personnel in local health
departments in coastal North Carolina, and;
In April
she received $112,000 in continued funding from the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention to provide resources for
a project to increase North Carolina's technical capacity
to prevent childhood lead poisoning using GIS technology.
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