1977 — 1980 |
Hamilton, John Moore, Malcolm (co-PI) [⬀] |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Macrophage Differentiation and Function by Secretion Products @ Sloan Kettering Institute For Cancer Research |
0.903 |
1987 — 1988 |
Hamilton, John D |
R03Activity Code Description: To provide research support specifically limited in time and amount for studies in categorical program areas. Small grants provide flexibility for initiating studies which are generally for preliminary short-term projects and are non-renewable. |
Prenatal Lead Exposure and Skeletal Growth @ University of Cincinnati
Prenatal maternal lead exposure in experimental animals and humans produces higher incidences of fetal death and spontaneous abortion, retards fetal and postnatal growth and appears to be associated with abnormal postnatal behavioral development. However, OSHA has yet to establish a "no effect" level for occupationally or environmentally exposed pregnant women. Further, no experimental animal studies have clearly defined a clear relationship between lead exposure and retarded fetal growth. This investigation will expose 100 day old pregnant rats to lead acetate via drinking water to assess the effect of maternal lead exposure on fetal and early neonatal skeletal growth. Water and food intake of the lead-exposed animals will be matched to that of the control animals. It is hypothesized that alteration of maternal calcium metabolism during pregnancy by maternal lead exposure will result in retarded skeletal growth in the offspring. In accordance to the project hypothesis, the following aims will be addressed: (a) determine whether maternal lead exposure affects primary morphometric indices of fetal skeletal growth by measurement of birth weight, crown to rump length, femoral length and tail bone ossification; (b) to quantify the effect of maternal lead exposure on early neonatal bone remodeling by measurement by dynamic histomorphometry measurement of in vivo rates of neonatal bone formation, resorption, and mineralization; (c) to assess the effect of maternal lead exposure on fetal and early neonatal bone calcium content and serum (ionized and total) levels with the use of ion- selective electrodes (ionized calcium) and flame atomic absorption (total serum and bone calcium); and (d) to investigate the biological mechanisms of bone lead toxicity in the rat. The experiments which will be designed to investigate the mechanisms of lead toxicity on bone will depend on the results obtained in (a), (b), and (c). It is proposed that these potential experiments could include an in vivo and in vitro investigation of the effect of lead on (a) hormonal calcium regulation and (b) local and systemic bone metabolism control and (c) osteoblast and osteoclast regulation. Data obtained from this proposed study will help delineate the relationship between maternal lead exposure and offspring skeletal growth retardation, and facilitate the definition of plausible mechanisms of lead effect on growing bone and calcium metabolism.
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0.913 |
1990 — 2002 |
Hamilton, John D |
T32Activity Code Description: To enable institutions to make National Research Service Awards to individuals selected by them for predoctoral and postdoctoral research training in specified shortage areas. |
Interdisciplinary Research Training Program in Aids |
0.928 |
1995 — 1997 |
Hamilton, John D |
T37Activity Code Description: Institutional training grants awarded to domestic institutions supporting opportunities for biomedical and behavioral research training for minority students and faculty members at foreign sites. |
Minority International Research Training Grant |
0.928 |
2000 |
Hamilton, John D |
R21Activity Code Description: To encourage the development of new research activities in categorical program areas. (Support generally is restricted in level of support and in time.) |
Va Net, Coordinating and Operations Research Center
The VA-based AIDS Network (VA Net) is a multicenter clinical trials organization established to study the long-term effectiveness of HIV therapies and to develop medical management strategies to treat HIV infection, as a chronic disease. In 1999, 13 drugs are available to treat HIV infection and people with HIV are living longer. HIV can no longer be considered a uniformly rapidly fatal, acute disease. The approach to research on HIV as a chronic disease is different than previous HIV research that has predominantly been focused on development of new HIV drugs and understanding of HIV pathogenesis. VA Net will conduct research to learn how to use the drugs that are available to develop evidence-based strategies to manage HIV as a chronic disease. To do this type of research, large and long-term trials of the effectiveness of differing medical management strategies will be initiated by VA Net. This requires a research network capable of enrolling large number of patients where long-term follow-up is easy. VA Net was formed in 1998 by the partnership of major national comprehensive health systems and independent medical centers experienced in HIV care and research. Under VA Net, the single provider of HIV care in the U.S., the Department of Veterans Affairs, has joined with regional groups of the Kaiser-Permanente Healthcare system and other independent medical centers. VA Net member groups provide medical care to nearly 35,000 persons with HIV infection; over 10 percent of those in care in the U.S. VA Net has three operational components; the VA Net clinical sites, described above; the VA Net Statistical and Data Management Center (SDMC); and the VA Net Coordinating and Research Operations Center (CORC). The SDMC is co-located with the VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center in West Haven, CT. The SDMC has many years of experience in the conduct of effectiveness and long-term strategy research in other areas of medicine and will now apply that experience to HIV. The CORC is a project of the Center for Health Information Management in Bethesda, MD, and provides all organizational, operational and administrative support for VA Net activities. There are 34 VA Net clinical sites in Year 1 with a planned expansion in Year 2 to include 45 sites. VA Net expects to initiate seven studies in its inaugural year; two full protocols (total enrollment of 9000) and five laboratory based substudies (total enrollment 8,800) and plans to initiate an additional five protocols and one laboratory substudy in Year 2. VA Net is managed by a Principal Investigator and Associate PI who lead an Executive Committee and a Science Committee, the latter of which initiates and directs the research agenda of VA Net.
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0.928 |
2002 — 2006 |
Hamilton, John David |
K12Activity Code Description: For support to a newly trained clinician appointed by an institution for development of independent research skills and experience in a fundamental science within the framework of an interdisciplinary research and development program. |
Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Program
[unreadable] DESCRIPTION (Provided by the applicant): [unreadable] The Duke Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Program (MCRSP) proposes to create a structured didactic and applied research curriculum to foster the training, in patient-oriented clinical research, of physicians, who are either currently enrolled in sub-specialty or primary care post-doctoral training programs or are junior faculty members. Faculty, selected for their expertise, experience and commitment to training, will serve either in leadership roles to provide oversight of the program or as research mentors for the clinical research scholars or both. Up to three trainees will be selected from any clinical department in each of the first two years following a formal and competitive application process and in each of years 3-5, two additional trainees will be accommodated, all with support for up to five years but in no instance for less than three years. Required and elective opportunities will be provided, in an interactive and integrated manner, from the resources of the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC), the Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP) and the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). Advisory Committees will provide specific in-put into the organization, implementation and conduct of this training program and will include the Executive, Internal and External Program Advisory Committees. Trainee progress will be monitored at regular and frequent intervals through formal and informal reviews of the individual's achievements with the ultimate goal being the development of a fully independent clinical investigator. To assess the success of the program, each trainee's career path will be followed in succeeding years and their collective achievements compared to previous years and to other similar programs. Together with an able faculty, a cadre of talented and motivated trainees and the infrastructure provided by the clinical research environment at Duke University Medical Center, the applicants believe that this mentored clinical research training program is one of exceptional promise. [unreadable] [unreadable] [unreadable]
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0.928 |
2004 — 2010 |
Hamilton, John David |
D43Activity Code Description: To support research training programs for US and foreign professionals and students to strengthen global health research and international research collaboration. |
Aids International Training and Research Program
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is for renewal of the Duke AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP) from the Forgarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health of the United States for five years of support beginning in August 2007. The Duke AITRP is founded on a formal collaboration between Duke University and the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Moshi and others in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. In the next five years, the Duke AITRP will continue to 1.) focus on research issues that address the Tanzanian health priorities;2.) foster short, medium and long-term trainees contingent upon, in part, the needs of the overall program;3.) recruit new faculty to serve as research mentors with diverse areas of expertise;4.) enhance our record of scientific productivity with an emphasis on trainee productivity;5.) successfully compete for NIH and other grants so as to provide relevant research projects for scientific training. Our success in research and research training in the last cycle of support is attributed to the synergy established between an invested leadership at KCMC and Duke , the extraordinary number and diversity of research grants and research training opportunities from the NIH and elsewhere, the commitment of the Duke University's Global Health Institute and the Department of Medicine, the Hubert/Yeargan Center for Global Health at Duke, other university collaborators and industry and the exceptional talent pool of trainees available at KCMC to take advantage of the research training opportunities. It is our intention to continue our alignment with these contributors to our success and to enhance the breadth of inquiry to accomplish our overall goal to improve the health of the Tanzanian people through "Research with Service."
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0.928 |
2005 — 2008 |
Chang, Kai (co-PI) [⬀] Dozier, Gerry (co-PI) [⬀] Wang, Yu Hamilton, John |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Collaborative Research: Building Information Assurance Education Capacity With Alabama State University
This project is building information assurance educational capacity through a partnership between Auburn University (AU) and Alabama State University (ASU), an HBCU. Auburn is expanding its information assurance curriculum beyond the current Colleges of Engineering, and Sciences and Mathematics into the College of Business, and into multiple programs at Alabama State University.
Intellectual merit. This project has four objectives: First, the project is increasing the number of information assurance faculty at both AU and ASU through professional development activities. Second, the project is developing, improving, and revising educational materials to make the AU information assurance degree available to students in outside of computer science and engineering. Third, through on-site outreach, the project is assisting ASU in developing a multi-disciplinary information assurance educational program with the ultimate goal of qualifying ASU as a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. AU already has such a designation. Fourth, the project is adapting and implementing the US Air Force Academy's information warfare and computer security curriculum for use at both ASU and AU.
Broader impact. This project is yielding multiple and significant impacts to the national information assurance community. The course materials being developed are increasing the accessibility of information assurance education to a broader and more diverse group of students across a variety of disciplines. The partnership between AU and ASU is providing an excellent platform for a diverse group of faculty, industrial experts, and community partners to further their IA knowledge and experience in an interdisciplinary environment.
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0.961 |
2005 — 2009 |
Hamilton, John David |
P30Activity Code Description: To support shared resources and facilities for categorical research by a number of investigators from different disciplines who provide a multidisciplinary approach to a joint research effort or from the same discipline who focus on a common research problem. The core grant is integrated with the center's component projects or program projects, though funded independently from them. This support, by providing more accessible resources, is expected to assure a greater productivity than from the separate projects and program projects. |
Core--Developmental
CORE B DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the Developmental Core is to stimulate and support new investigator-initiated research breakthroughs in AIDS research through the support of CFAR faculty named in this application, those currently being actively recruited and those identified subsequently who would provide selected and high priority expertise. In order to achieve this, we have created a Developmental Core that possesses many unique characteristics. First, this Core will pursue its goal in the context of the matrix organization that exists at Duke reflecting a broad commitment to HIV/AIDS research and the opportunities to synergize across departments; second, the priorities identified reflect the overall CFAR scientific goals and complement and build on existing strengths; third, the Core will take advantage of the attractive recruitment packages for 5 high-level faculty over 5 years; fourth, the Core will provide "seed" funds for small innovative grants and special projects and in so doing, strengthen internal programs; and fifth, foster cross disciplinary training through the identification of trainees and training opportunities not traditionally engaged in the conduct of HIV research . These unique characteristics reflect the innovative approach that we believe will maximize the effectiveness of the Developmental Core.
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0.928 |
2006 — 2012 |
Qin, Xiao (co-PI) [⬀] Wang, Yu Chang, Kai (co-PI) [⬀] Imsand, Eric Ku, Wei-Shinn (co-PI) [⬀] Gu, Yan Dozier, Gerry (co-PI) [⬀] Gilbert, Juan (co-PI) [⬀] Hamilton, John |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Sfs: Scholarship Partnership With Alabama State University and Tuskegee University
Through this scholarship program Auburn University is helping to mitigate the severe shortage of information assurance personnel in the Federal Civil Service. This shortage is particularly acute in the Huntsville-Redstone Arsenal region of Alabama. There are also shortages in the Montgomery-Maxwell AFB area that is geographically close to Auburn and its two academic partners, Alabama State University and Tuskegee University.
The Auburn University SFS program is multi-disciplinary and is providing SFS scholarships to students enrolled in the College of Engineering, the College of Business, and the College of Science and Mathematics, as well as to students enrolled at partner institutions Tuskegee University and Alabama State University. Both Tuskegee and Alabama State are historically Black institutions.
As a National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security designated Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, Auburn University is committed to developing outstanding IA graduates and motivating them for careers in the Federal IA workforce. Auburn's long-term research and education relationship with the Huntsville and Montgomery areas enable Auburn to make special contributions to the success of the SFS program by aligning scholarship recipients with Federal agencies early in their academic careers.
Auburn University has large, diverse, multidisciplinary faculty involvement in information assurance research and education. Faculty diversity is also reflected in the student diversity, and Auburn has a strong SFS student recruitment and retention plan in place that has a strong mentoring component. SFS students also are participating in faculty research.
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0.961 |
2008 — 2012 |
Qin, Xiao Ku, Wei-Shinn [⬀] Wang, Haixun (co-PI) [⬀] Hamilton, John |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Ct-Isg: Spear: Space Encryption Based Query Processing For Privacy-Aware Location-Based Services
As a result of recent wireless technology advances, mobile devices with significant computational abilities, gigabytes of storage capacities, and wireless communication capabilities have increasingly become popular. In addition, positioning techniques like GPS are incorporated into an increasing number of mobile devices. Emerging mobile applications allow users to issue location-dependent queries in a ubiquitous manner. It is believed that location privacy preservation represents important security and privacy problems in mobile computing environments. For instance, when a mobile user launches a series of queries to a location-based service (LBS) provider, that user?s trajectory can be tracked through the service logs. Although it is true that not all location-dependent queries are privacy-sensitive, it is of growing importance to offer users the choice of protecting their location privacy when it is necessary. The technical objectives of the project are to (1) develop space encryption and space decryption mechanisms, (2) design privacy-protected query processing algorithms to answer spatial queries based on encrypted search space, and (3) develop a sophisticated SPEAR system architecture for supporting real-world applications. This project also promotes education by exposing students to mathematical and technological underpinnings in the fields of security and data management. The success of this project will lead to another wave of increased usage for LBS and benefit the economy of our country. Research results will be disseminated through publications at conferences, journals, and the website at http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~weishinn/SPEAR.html
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0.961 |
2008 — 2011 |
Qin, Xiao Chang, Kai (co-PI) [⬀] Imsand, Eric Ku, Wei-Shinn (co-PI) [⬀] Hamilton, John |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Collaborative Research: Building Information Assurance Education Capacity
Computer Science (31)
This collaborative project builds and develops information assurance education capacity. Critical to the success of this partnership is extensive classroom teaching by the PI and the co-PIs at the partner university as well as a hands-on personal mentoring of potential and awarded SFS students at both schools. This project consists of four distinct objectives: (1) Increasing the number and improve the skills of information assurance (IA) faculty at both schools through professional development and team-taught courses at the partner university campuses; (2) developing a multi-disciplinary information assurance educational program with the ultimate goal of qualifying the non-CAEIAE university as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance NSA (CAEIAE); (3) providing quality IA education to Scholarship for Service students; and (4) facilitating joint faculty development activities via joint workshops, joint publication and conference attendance.
The key elements of this proposal are extensive personal contact between the faculty and students at both schools, and team teaching and joint publication efforts between the universities. This proposal is all about developing and expanding information assurance capacity at both schools.
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0.961 |
2008 — 2013 |
Qin, Xiao Chang, Kai (co-PI) [⬀] Ku, Wei-Shinn (co-PI) [⬀] Imsand, Eric Hamilton, John |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Collaborative Project: Ci-Team Implementation Project: a Digital Forensics Cyberinfrastructure Workforce Training Initiative For America's Veterans
This proposal offers to teams Mississippi State University?s (MSU) Southeast Region Regional Forensics Training Center and its Center for Critical Infrastructure Protection with collaborators at Auburn University and Tuskegee University to provide tactical level occupational training to America?s veterans by collaborating with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and offering no-cost training at or near VA hospitals. The proposal requests funding to support the enhancement of an existing digital forensics curriculum and then eventually installing it within the Veterans Administration system nation-wide. The proposal addresses a recognized and documented workforce need for skilled cyber infrastructure employees and offers to address this need by training a diverse community. The proposal builds on the combined capabilities of MSU, Auburn, and Tuskegee. MSU and Auburn are both National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE/IAE) and Tuskegee is currently pursuing that certification. The proposal integrates research into its training offering and strongly leverages an existing successful training initiative.
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0.961 |
2008 |
Hamilton, John David |
U54Activity Code Description: To support any part of the full range of research and development from very basic to clinical; may involve ancillary supportive activities such as protracted patient care necessary to the primary research or R&D effort. The spectrum of activities comprises a multidisciplinary attack on a specific disease entity or biomedical problem area. These differ from program project in that they are usually developed in response to an announcement of the programmatic needs of an Institute or Division and subsequently receive continuous attention from its staff. Centers may also serve as regional or national resources for special research purposes, with funding component staff helping to identify appropriate priority needs. |
Mentored Career Development Program in Biodefense &Emerging Infectious Disease @ University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Affect; Clinical; Clinical Sciences; Communicable Diseases, Emerging; Communities; Complement; Complement Proteins; Curriculum; Disasters; Educational Curriculum; Emergencies; Emergency Situation; Emerging Communicable Diseases; Goals; Infection; Infectious Diseases, Emerging; Institution; Knowledge; Mentors; Preparedness; Program Development; Programs (PT); Programs [Publication Type]; Readiness; Scientist; Training; abstracting; biodefense; career; experience; interest; programs; skills
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0.908 |
2009 — 2013 |
Qin, Xiao Chang, Kai (co-PI) [⬀] Ku, Wei-Shinn (co-PI) [⬀] Hamilton, John |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Qosec: a Novel Middleware-Based Approach to Teaching Computer Security Courses
Computer Science (31)
This project develops QoSec, an extensible middleware framework for computer security course projects. The QoSec framework provides learning materials for undergraduate students related to the design of large-scale trustworthy computer systems. Course projects in QoSec are implemented as plug-in modules of a middleware-based framework. The QoSec framework is the first educational material of its kind designed specifically to teach undergraduate students how to make real-world computing systems more accountable and less vulnerable to attacks.
The project creates a novel middleware-based approach to teaching undergraduate students how to develop large-scale secure software. QoSec addresses several challenges of contemporary computer security education including the lack of novel approaches to study real-world secure computer systems; the need of a holistic platform for constructing computer security projects; and the challenge of using commercial middleware-based frameworks to teach introductory computer security classes. QoSec has an easy interface which allows teaching students the rapid development of security-critical software.
The project has a potential to advance the education of modern university computer security course curricula. Anticipated outcomes include addressing the problem of information assurance skill shortage and preparation of future computer security engineers. Through collaboration with Tuskegee University and Alabama State University, QoSec is used to prepare future minority engineers and scientists with expertise in computer security. The extensible nature of QoSec allows instructors to easily share, expand, and modify their computer security course projects.
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0.961 |
2009 — 2014 |
Merget, Astrid Pang, Su-Seng (co-PI) [⬀] Warner, Isiah (co-PI) [⬀] Neubrander, Frank (co-PI) [⬀] Li, Guoqiang (co-PI) [⬀] Nixon, Brenda (co-PI) [⬀] Hamilton, John Bell, Stuart |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Integration of Education and Mentoring Programs At Louisiana State Univeristy @ Louisiana State University & Agricultural and Mechanical College
The ?Integration of Education and Mentoring Programs at Louisiana State University? is an institutional effort designed to integrate a large number of on-going programs at LSU, especially those led by the newly established Louisiana State University (LSU) Office of Strategic Initiatives and LSU?s Gordon A. Cain Center for Scientific, Technological, Engineering and Mathematical Literacy. The PI/Co-PIs have altogether 50 on-going education/mentoring/research grants; the majority of those are funded by NSF. These projects are currently supporting over 50 Ph.D. students, 300 undergraduate students, hundreds of high school teachers, and thousands of K-12 students. Therefore, an integration of those programs under the umbrella of NSF/Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) is appropriate. While all other projects on campus will be invited to participate, we will ensure that, under the overall leadership of OSI, the integration and coordination of a critical pool of core projects will be made through their PI/Co-PIs.
Integration of the various projects will be a challenging bureaucratic, cultural and programmatic enterprise. It will be necessary to cross department and college boundaries, address different academic cultures and norms, and ensure the integrity of the programs, especially with regard to adding to and not diluting their impact. To accomplish this, the integration efforts will be coordinated by OSI and led by the PIs/Co-PIs of the various projects. The I3 project will focus on the following: (1) Consolidation of Summer Workshops and Camps for Students, Teachers and Faculty Members; (2) Leadership Training in Academics through a Student-Governing Organization; (3) High School Math Tutoring Program by College Students; (4) Mentoring High School Louisiana Science and Engineering Fair Projects by College Students; and (5) Integration of Research into Education in Materials Engineering and Science.
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0.918 |
2010 — 2014 |
Hamilton, John David |
P30Activity Code Description: To support shared resources and facilities for categorical research by a number of investigators from different disciplines who provide a multidisciplinary approach to a joint research effort or from the same discipline who focus on a common research problem. The core grant is integrated with the center's component projects or program projects, though funded independently from them. This support, by providing more accessible resources, is expected to assure a greater productivity than from the separate projects and program projects. |
Developmental Core
1. Core Mission The goal of the Developmental Core is to stimulate new investigator-initiated research breakthroughs in HIV/AIDS through the support of CFAR faculty utilizing three major mechanisms; direct financial support to allow recruitment of talented faculty in targeted areas who complement and enhance the CFAR HIV research agenda (Faculty Development); research support through the peer-reviewed Small Grants and Emerging Opportunities Awards; and the fostering of young investigators through a structured training and mentoring program, the Mentored Clinical Research Scientist Program (MCRSP). The MCRSP was initiated in the current cycle of funding, and it will be continued and expanded in the next funding cycle to reach a larger pool of junior trainees engaged in HIV-related research. Ultimately a more formal program in mentoring across the Cores will be developed. Much has been accomplished over the past four years due to the impact of the CFAR Developmental Core in support of HIV/AIDS research. The effectiveness of the Developmental Core is due, in part, to the fact that nearly all HIV-related research at Duke is coordinated and led by the Duke CFAR faculty, resulting in a cohesive research community that is accustomed to working together across academic departmental boundaries to form multidisciplinary and interdepartmental teams. Illustrative of this collaborative environment are the numerous publications co-authored by members of different departments (See Table I and References 1-28 for a listing of key CFAR personnel who are either first or senior authors, and their collaborators, on publications since 2004). The Developmental Core's role in this process has been in the implementation and coordination of the supportive mechanisms defined above. Final decisions concerning the establishment of priorities and allocation of resources resides with the CFAR Executive Committee and CFAR leadership, which allows flexibility in resource allocation to take advantage of opportunities and to correct weaknesses if any. Institutional support in the form of matching funds from the Dean of the School of Medicine has been made available to further enhance CFAR Developmental Core activities, providing additional leveraged resources to expand Faculty Development, and Small Grants and Emerging Opportunities Awards. Thus, as the Duke CFAR moves forward in its second funding cycle, there is a firm foundation of coordination, cooperation and communication among CFAR members, members of the Duke research community at-large who are working on HIV-related projects, and the leadership ofthe School of Medicine.
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0.928 |
2011 — 2017 |
Chang, Kai (co-PI) [⬀] Imsand, Eric Hamilton, John |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Sfs Scholarship: Auburn-Tuskegee-Albany State-Western New Mexico Scholarship Partnership
Auburn University is adding three new cohorts to its existing SFS program. The SFS scholarship program at Auburn helps mitigate the severe shortage of technically qualified information assurance personnel in the Federal Civil Service. A unique aspect of this program is its successful engagement with three minority institutions: Albany State University (an HBCU), Tuskegee University (an HBCU) and Western New Mexico University (an HSI). Auburn is a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in both Information Assurance Education and in Research and its outreach activities in Huntsville and Montgomery areas enable alignment of scholarship recipients with Federal agencies early in their academic careers. In fact, more than half of the entering SFS students already have a prior SFS-qualifying internship. SFS students are completing federally recognized certificate programs that make them more competitive for placement in the U.S. Civil Service. The program has a successful record working with high-risk under-served students and placing them in the federal government.
This project is contributing to the safeguarding of critical U.S. network and system infrastructure by renewing and expanding a successful SFS Scholarship Program at Auburn and Tuskegee University, and by establishing strong partnerships and recruiting pipelines with programs at Albany State University and Western New Mexico University. This project is developing unique recruiting and retention techniques for community college engagement. Auburn has a strong record of graduating engineers from under-represented groups and by working with its Minority Engineering Program (MEP), it is awarding at least half of the scholarships to students from under-represented groups.
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0.961 |
2012 — 2018 |
Vaughn, Rayford (co-PI) [⬀] Dampier, David [⬀] Dandass, Yoginder (co-PI) [⬀] Hamilton, John |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Growth and Enhancement of the Scholarship For Service Program At Mississippi State University @ Mississippi State University
Mississippi State University (MSU), a 2001/2004/2007/2012 Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE) recipient and a CyberCorps(R): Scholarship for Service (SFS) participating university since 2002 continues to produce SFS students for the government at a rate of approximately 10 new SFS students a year. This project supports approximately 39 students in one of six technical disciplines over a five year period (17 undergraduates, 20 M.S. students, and 2 PhD students). This program continues to be professionally organized and administered by those most closely associated with the Information Assurance program at MSU. The program continues to benefit from over $19M research funding from DOJ, DOD and NSF as each student funded under this initiative is required to participate in a research experience. MSU continues a strong working relationship with other CAEs, other universities, community colleges, and the law enforcement community. MSU graduates are successful in government service and new scholarship recipients are sought after by additional government employers.
MSU has a strong track record of building strong relationships with schools aspiring to be capable of running a scholarship program. They have partnered with several HBCUs including Jackson State University, Mississippi Valley State University, and Tuskegee University, as well as other schools, such as the University of South Alabama, the University of Texas at Tyler, and Saint Cloud State University. This project continues that work to ensure that more schools build IA programs that can provide graduates to help fill the cybersecurity workforce.
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0.93 |
2013 — 2016 |
Mao, Shiwen (co-PI) [⬀] Niu, Guofu (co-PI) [⬀] Dai, Fa Tugnait, Jitendra (co-PI) [⬀] Agrawal, Prathima (co-PI) [⬀] Hamilton, John |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
I/Ucrc: Collaborative Research: Broadband Wireless Access & Applications Center (Bwac)
The proposed center seeks to establish a new Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) addressing broadband wireless access and applications. The center will focus on four areas: 1) enabling sharing up to many GHz of spectrum using technological advances and enabling platforms such as spectrum trading and auctions, and millimeter wave communications; 2) co-existence of heterogeneous devices (e.g. radar and communication systems); 3) providing connectivity for new applications such as wireless devices in the hospitals of the future, bringing wireless into the hospital in novel ways; and (d) improving electronic warfare technologies that address national-security issues.
The new center addresses an area of critical economic and has the potential to support development of broadband wireless as a platform for innovation as addressed in the White House PCAST Report. The proposed center has the potential to link a diverse set of member companies across the broadband industry sector with university discovery in this area. Moreover, the center participants have a history of start-up initiation, and the opportunity from new starts to leverage the ecosystem created by the center is significant. The center plans to impact students via their conduct of center research, curriculum development and REU site development.
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0.961 |
2013 — 2017 |
Chang, Kai (co-PI) [⬀] Hamilton, John |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Collaborative Project - Sfs Cb: Establishing the New Mexico Digital Forensics Academy
This project is establishing a permanent digital forensics program at Western New Mexico University (WNMU) in collaboration with Auburn University. It is providing a statewide digital forensics resource that currently does not exist in New Mexico. WNMU?s unique combined mission of regional community college as well as regional university provides unique opportunities to explore program integration with New Mexico 2-year law enforcement programs. Deliverables from this project include:
1. Establish an 18-hour minor in digital forensics as part of the WNMU undergraduate and graduate Criminal Justice programs. 2. Establish an 18-hour graduate certificate program in digital forensics as part of the WNMU Criminal Justice program. 3. Establish an advanced digital forensics training program for New Mexico law enforcement. 4. Conduct Regional workshops for diverse audiences drawn from New Mexico state and local law enforcement agencies as well as students from other campuses.
The intellectual challenge for this project is to determine how a small university in a remote corner of a large state can develop, deliver and sustain a technically challenging digital forensics program across a large state. The project is assessing courses learning outcomes as well as elements such as the practicality of course contents, the way the contents is delivered, the lab environment and setup, the effectiveness of projects and assignments, lab assistance quality and inclusion/exclusion suggestions for course contents and projects.
This first of its kind program in New Mexico enjoys broad support from the state government. This ensures a broad impact across the state. This program could serve as a model for other underserved states, particularly large, rural states.
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0.961 |
2014 — 2017 |
Savin, Daniel Morgan, Sarah Patton, Derek Rai, Neeraj (co-PI) [⬀] Hamilton, John Kundu, Santanu (co-PI) [⬀] Walters, Keisha (co-PI) [⬀] |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Track-2: the Smart Material Design, Analysis, and Processing (Smatdap) Consortium: Building Next-Generation Polymers and the Tools to Accelerate Cost-Effective Commercial Productio @ Mississippi State University
Non-technical Description
The goals of the project are strongly aligned with the statewide plans for development in science and technology for both Louisiana and Mississippi. Both states have significant research talent in chemistry, materials, and computations which are synergistic with the significant economic impact of the polymer industry of the region. The development of computer software to monitor and control polymer synthesis has the potential to impact the Gulf region and national polymer industry by advancing the capabilities for materials synthesis. Software development will be used to offer polymer characterization workshops and catalyze the development of new patents in materials synthesis. Regional manufacturers will play a role in using the results from computational and materials research and will participate by providing internships for participating graduate students. Advancing polymer manufacture and control will increase efficiency in the use of energy, non-renewable feedstocks, and plant and labor time, while reducing emissions and increasing safety.
Technical Description
The research is aligned with the Materials Genome Initiative?s goals of accelerating advanced materials development, with computational research serving as a key component for discovery and processing guidance. With its scientific focus on developing and proving the next-generation polymerization monitoring platform, the research promises to overcome barriers in bringing stimuli responsive polymers (SRPs) to market and strengthen regional economic competitiveness. Research activities are aligned along the materials design and process design paths to develop new experimental and computational tools for accelerating materials development and bridging polymer synthesis to manufacture. New SRP materials will be designed using polymer synthesis, molecular modeling, and computational control. Outcomes will include: self-assembled polymers for drug delivery and environmental remediation, self-healing polymer networks, and smart nano-composites using SRP-modified nanoparticles as building blocks. The results have the potential to transform medical and sustainable materials applications.
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2018 — 2021 |
Pape, Patrick Thomas, Demarcus Hamilton, John |
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Engaging the Mississippi Delta in Cybercorps @ Mississippi State University
Mississippi State University (MSU) proposes to build cyber security education capacity with Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU). MVSU is an HBCU in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. In this effort, MSU will conduct faculty development summer workshops on the MSU campus for MVSU faculty. Together, MSU and MVSU will develop curricula that support Security+ certification of MVSU students. MSU will also work with MVSU to enhance MVSU's high school computer science summer camp program.
MSU's Center for Cyber Innovation proposes to work with MVSU's Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences Department and MVSU's Center for Cyber Security. This partnership will provide commercial cyber certification opportunities for MVSU faculty and staff. MSU will facilitate this goal by developing and delivering a review course for the certification exam. By making the certification review material publicly available, MSU and MVSU seek to promote cyber security education capacity and economic development in the Mississippi Delta and beyond. A key early outcome of this effort is to establish a pipeline for MVSU students to be awarded scholarships through the CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at MSU to pursue graduate studies. Longer term, MSU will assist MVSU in becoming certified through the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) jointly sponsored National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) program. The strategic goals are to position MVSU as an CAE-CD and ultimately establish an SFS program at MVSU to serve the Mississippi Delta region.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
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