Associate Professor Don Cheney was awarded a grant in October from the United States Department of Agriculture  (USDA) for the development of new ways to prevent toxic pollutants like PCBs from getting into our seafood by using seaweeds to detoxify them. The grant is for $180,000 over two years.

Assistant Professor Rebeca Rosengaus was recently selected as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Grant recipient.  Career grants are the most prestigious awards for new faculty members, awarded by the NSF. “The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century.” (www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/career/start.htm) CAREER awardees are selected on the basis of creative, career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution.

Professor William Detrich was awarded a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study "Genomic Instability and the Evolution of the Antarctic Notothenioid Fishes.”  The grant provides $440,000 in total costs for two years, October 1, 2004 – September 30, 2006. 

Associate Professor Slava Epstein has been awarded a $1.5 M grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a Microbial Observatory in the Caribbean.  NU will lead this multi-institutional effort, with participation of several co-PIs from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook.

Professor Fred Davis received notification of a four-year grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health to study the regulation of circadian rhythms.  The goal of the project is to understand how a circadian clock in the hypothalamus communicates with other parts of the brain to regulate activity/rest cycles.