A political scientist who moves from B to C because C has a large foundation grant to explore the comparative origins of state failure is being loyal to his discipline.
Professors Behrokh Khoshnevis (Engineering), Anders Carlson (Architecture), Neil Leach (Architecture) and Madhu Thangavelu (Astronautics) from the University of Southern California (USC) have won a prestigious Nasa grant to explore the potential use of the robotic fabrication technology, Contour Crafting, for building structures on the moon.
Glazer, who most recently directed Under The Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson as an alien prowling the streets of Glasgow preying on male victims, is only the second recipient of the fellowship, which awards screenwriters a £30,000 grant to explore the world of science at the fingertips of the Wellcome Trust and use it to inform their creative practice.
R21 Exploratory or Developmental Grant--Small, time-limited grant to explore new ideas in targeted areas.
He has a $325,000 NSF grant to explore U.S.-Chinese roles in a "borderless, knowledge-based 21st century economy".
Pankhurst's team and colleagues at University College London recently won a £1.6 million grant to explore how magnetic nanoparticles can treat cancer.
Prior to this, she worked with Prof. Maggie Cusack on a Medical Research Council grant to explore the characteristics of invertebrate biomineralized tissues, specifically mollusk shells, and how these can be adapted for engineering bone tissue.
His colleague in Africa, Patrick Duffy, won a $19 million award to pin down which forms of malaria are most deadly to children, and Dominic Kwiatkowski at Oxford University got a $16.4 million grant to explore which variations in the human genome protect some people from ever contracting malaria.
When a physics colleague won a NASA grant to explore how database technology could be used in astronomy, she collaborated with him and with faculty from the computer science department, to see what could be done with her unwieldy data sets.
Also this year, the materials science division plans to give a dozen or so young scientists who show exceptional promise a 2-year "creativity extension" of their current grant to explore new directions, offsetting some of the conservatism that comes with a stagnant budget.
