Grantees 2010 – 2013
Université Paris X - Nanterre
The members of the PUF Grant Review Committee met on Tuesday March 29th, 2010 from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm under the co-presidency of Dr. Allan E. Goodman, President and CEO of the Institute of International Education (IIE) and Dr. Christophe Laux, Professor of Engineering, Ecole Centrale Paris (ECP), in order to choose the laureates of the third PUF Call for projects.
78 grant applications were examined.
12 laureates were selected, and subsequently approved by the steering committee of PUF and the board of FACE.
The laureates are listed hereinafter (without merit order):
PARTNERSHIP: Georgia Institute of Technology / Institut Langevin
SUBJECT: Improving the diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders and assessment of physical therapy treatments with ultrafast ultrasound elastography
PARTNERSHIP: Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC), Cornell University / Centre Microélectronique de Provence (CMP), Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint
Etienne (ENSM-SE)
SUBJECT: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Collaboration on Bioelectronics
PARTNERSHIP: University of California, Irvine / Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics, and Nanotechnology, University of Lille
SUBJECT: High Frequency Nanotube Printed Circuits
PARTNERSHIP: New York University, Institute for the study of the ancient world / Université de Limoges
SUBJECT: Oasis major
PARTNERSHIP: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) / Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA)
SUBJECT: Spin-Polarized Tunneling across Ferrite-based Spin Filters
PARTNERSHIP: New York University School of Medicine / Université Paris-Sud 11 Orsay
SUBJECT: Emotion & Time Developmental study of temporal memory and its modification by emotion
PARTNERSHIP: Princeton University, Department of Chemical Engineering / Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
SUBJECT: Electrically Conducting Polymer-Graphene Nanocomposites
PARTNERSHIP: Northwestern University / Ecole Normale Supérieure
SUBJECT: Ecole Normale Supérieure / Northwestern University PhD exchange program
PARTNERSHIP: University of Southern California / Institut de biologie structurale Jean Pierre Ebel
SUBJECT: Joint Research at the Chemistry-Biology Interface
PARTNERSHIP: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York / Université Paris Sud 11 Orsay & Université Montpellier 2
SUBJECT: French – American Cooperative Graduate Education in Physical Science and Technology
PARTNERSHIP: The University of Chicago / Maison René Ginouvès (Archéologie et Ethnologie), Université Paris X, Nanterre
SUBJECT: Migration, Material Culture, and Memory: Constructing Community in Mobile Worlds
PARTNERSHIP: Argonne National Laboratory / Université de Technologie de Troyes
SUBJECT: Development of hybrid plasmonic nanosystems