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The members of the PUF Grant Review Committee, met on Monday March 31st, 2008, at the Embassy of France, Washington D.C, from 8.30am to 6pm, examined 67 grant applications.
The Committee, 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), selected 16 laureates, subsequently approved by the steering committee of PUF and the board of FACE.
The laureates are listed hereinafter
(without merit order):
PARTNERSHIP: The Salk Institute / INSERM, Strasbourg
SUBJECT: Eph/ephrin signaling in development and physiopathology of the CNS
This partnership will be in the specific issue of developmental and molecular neurobiology, neuronal regeneration and drug addiction at the postdoc and research level. The objectives of the collaboration are the development of complementary methodologies, the creation of scientific interaction between basic and biomedical research and interdisciplinary interaction among mathematics, biology and biomedicine. The major outcomes of this partnership will be joint publications on three prominent issues defined by the partners. On the basis of these research collaborations, joint symposia INSERM/Salk Institute will be held every two years.
Contacts:
INSERM Strasbourg
Dominique Aunis, Directeur de recherche
Tel: 03 88 45 66 00
Fax : 03 88 45 66 08
dominique.aunis@inserm.u-strasbg.fr
www.neuroregeneration.u-strasbg.fr
The Salk Institute
Greg Lemke, Full Professor
Tel: 858 453 4100 (1542)
Fax: 858 453 6138
lemke@salk.eduz
www.salk.edu
PARTNERSHIP: Pennsylvania State University / AgroParisTech
SUBJECT: Aligning French and U.S. Educational Systems to address the global Nature of Agriculture and Food Systems
The primary focus of this partnership will be the exchange of faculty and students in order to develop a shared graduate program as well as research collaboration on Agriculture and Food systems leading to the award of masters and PhD degrees by Penn State and AgroParisTech. This project will be built on a previous relation started in 2003 to move towards integration of international curricula, language training, research and internship experience. The program will exchange an increasing number of students: from 2 to 5 students from each side through the 3 years with a complete credit transfer. In addition to students, 5 exchanged faculty will build joint research collaboration and provide academic advising. For those who will not be part of the mobility, monthly seminars will be provided via distance education technologies.
A summer university will be held to recruit and prepare the venue of the students. Thus, the partnership is a true cost-sharing arrangement: the universities will actively recruit students from this program and cover costs related with tuition, credits and stipends.
Full Summary :
Contacts:
AgroParisTech
Vincent Brenier, International Coordinator at the Office of International and Corporate Relations
Tel: 01 44 08 16 18
vincent.brenier@agroparistech.fr
www.agroparistech.fr
The Pennsylvania State University
Deanna Behring, Director of International Programs
Tel: 814 863 0249
Fax: 814 865 3055
dbehring@psu.edu
www.psu.edu
PARTNERSHIP: Georgia Institute of Technology (GeorgiaTech) / CNRS, Institut NEEL
SUBJECT: Exploring Graphene for High Mobility electronics
This partnership at the research level aims at organizing and funding visits of PhD students, post-doc and faculty in the partner research centers. The core of this relation is exchange visits beyond one week for faculty and up to 4-5 months for Master’s students. Following the implementation of these steps, joint degrees may be envisioned. PhD students are to spend at least one month per year in one of the partner labs. Co-supervised PhD theses are planned for the second and third year of this partnership. The scientific objective is to gather a complementary team of 7 CNRS researchers and professors in physics on the French side and 4 faculties on the American side to study grapheme as a new platform for electronics. The principal outcomes of this project will be the publication of joint articles, training of students. An international workshop is planned to be organized in the fall of 2008 opened to any interested scientific contributor.
Contacts:
CNRS, Institut Néel
Laurent P. Levy
Tel: 04 76 88 11 22
Fax: 04 76 85 56 10
laurent.levy@grenoble.cnrs.fr
www.neel.cnrs.fr
Georgia Institute of Technology
Walt A. De Heer, Professor
Tel: 404 894 78 80
Fax: 404 894 99 58
walt.deheer@physics.gatech.edu
www.gatech.edu
PARTNERSHIP: School of Art Institute of Chicago / Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence (ENSA)
SUBJECT: TransAtLab Research: Actual/Virtual sound, space and object
Based on the deepening of a former FACE partnership, both partners have launched a new concept in artistic creation: the Transatlab. This work will include multiple domains such as live networked sound streams, 3D virtual reality immersive environments, and robotics. Students and teaching staff will be involved in two annual joint workshops on both sides of the Atlantic which could also be broadcast online in real time. A group of 4 to 6 top level graduate students will be invited to participate in trans-disciplinary trans-atlantic research projects initiated by the departments with the two schools. This will allow graduate students the time and resources to develop this work into a platform for artistic creation. It also intends to create a pedagogical platform taking place both on site as well as on line using network tools to coordinate the two sites and encourage further exchange of expertise. Regular online publications will be issued, research and teaching being regularly updated via the Transatlab website. Conferences, real and virtual, will be organized to better communicate Transatlab’s research activities to a wider public.
Contacts:
Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence
Jean-Paul Ponthot, Directeur
Tel: 04 42 91 88 70
Fax: 04 42 91 88 69
jpponthot@ecole-art-aix.fr
www.ecole-art-aix.fr
School of Art, Institute of Chicago
Peter Gena, Professor
Tel: 312 345 3570
Fax: 312 345 3565
pgena@saic.edu
www.saic.edu
PARTNERSHIP: Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey / Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de Physique Théorique
SUBJECT: Materials design using strongly correlated electrons
The goal of the educational component of the proposal is to develop new pedagogical tools for visualizing unique properties of the correlated electron systems and for conceptualizing and teaching the theory behind their functionality. To reach these goals, two postdoctoral scientists, one from each side, will be responsible for the development of the research projects. They will spend half of their time in France and half in the US. One month visits of the senior scientists involved in the proposal will be organized in order to insure appropriate coordination of the project. Regarding, PhD students’ exchange, jointly supervised PhDs will be considered. As for French Master-level students, students from Ecole Polytechnique will spend a three-month research internship at their Master 1 level. Tutorial sessions and workshops will be organized: in the summer of 2008, an international workshop is already scheduled at the highly selective Aspen Center for Physics. Web-based facilities will make the jointly developed research available to a broader world-wide audience.
Full summary : Materials Design Using Strongly Correlated Electrons (PDF)
Contacts:
Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de Physique Théorique
Antoine George, Professor & President of the Department of Physics
Tel: 01 69 33 40 92
Fax: 01 69 33 30 08
georges@cpht.polytechnique.fr
www.cpht.polytechnique.fr
Rutgers University, Serin Physics Laboratory
Gabriel Kotliar, Board of Governors, Professor of Physics
Tel: 732 445 4331
Fax: 732 445 4343
kotliar@physics.rutgers.edu
www.physics.rutgers.edu/dev/directions.shtml
PARTNERSHIP: University of California, Los Angeles / Ecole Normale Supèrieure, Paris
SUBJECT: Control of gene expression at the single cell level
The project concerns the development of means to control intracellular processes at the single cell level in a live organism. The multidisciplinary, multi-departmental and cross-institutional collaboration involves on the French and US side a number of researchers from different laboratories such as physicists, chemists and biologists. This collaboration will define the systems to be studied and the means to investigate them. The two teams are ideally positioned to maximally benefit from the opportunities in terms of research and education. They possess together the required technical expertise (microscopy, chemical synthesis, learning protocols…) that will allow for a maximal impact of the proposed development. As major educational institutions in their respective countries, the ENS and UCLA will transfer the knowledge acquired in this collaboration to a new generation of researchers through exchanges of students and post-docs, via joint publications and participation in conferences and via teaching by the senior researchers.
Full Summary : Control-of-Gene-Expression-at-the-Single-Cell-Level (PDF)
Contacts:
Ecole Normale Supérieure
David Bensimon, Director of Research, CNRS
Tel: 01 44 32 34 96
Fax: 01 44 32 34 33
david@lps.ens.fr
www.lps.ens.fr
UCLA
Shimon Weiss, Professor
Tel: 310 794 0093
Fax: 310 267 4672
sweiss@chem.ucla.edu
www.chem.ucla.edu
PARTNERSHIP: Cornell University, School of Labor and Industrial Relations / ESCP-EAP, European School of Management
SUBJECT: Academic partnership to advance the world of work
Building on the successful experience of students’ exchanges at the Master’s level, both schools have endeavored to create a dual degree for master’s students. Spending one year in their home institution and then one year at the partner institution, students will earn diploma from both sides. The program includes an internship in each country. This planned dual degree already received the support of well-known companies such as IBM or American Express.
For those students who are not involved in the dual masters programs, more numerous joint courses are to be taught via videoconferencing. Regarding doctoral exchange, the visiting fellow program is also strengthened under this agreement with the definition of key areas for joint research. In the framework of an agreement between Cornell and MIT, doctoral students from each institution (ESCP, Cornell and MIT) will be able to follow the doctoral level course taught by MIT and Cornell faculty via videoconferencing.
Contacts :
ESCP-EAP
Michel Drouère, Associate Provost for International Affairs
Tel: 01 49 23 26 07
Fax: 01 49 23 21 00
drouere@escp-eap.net
www.escp-eap.eu/
Cornell University
Donna Ramil, Director of International Programs
Tel: 607 254 2950
Fax: 607 255 7774
dmr47@cornell.edu
www.cornell.edu
PARTNERSHIP: University of Texas, Austin / Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I
SUBJECT: Research and educational partnership on Nanosciences and nanotechnology: towards a dual doctoral program
University of Texas, Austin and Université Joseph Fourier aim at developing relationships in research on nanosciences and nanotechnology through exchange of Masters students and a doctorate and post-doctorate shared program. The cooperative education program implies reciprocal validation of courses, internship and research projected in order to earn a dual degree at the end of the three years. Regarding the research cooperation, joint works will be held on two fields identified during a two-day workshop held in Austin in October 2007: molecular functional nanomaterials and nanoelectronics. A doctoral students’ exchange at the early stages of their doctoral studies and more advanced ones are planed, either for short (a few weeks) or longer stays (several months to one year). Two faculties from each side will visit the partner institution for one month each year. The objective is co-authored scientific publications and co-supervision of PhD thesis aiming towards dual PhD degree. Finally, several workshops bringing together experts from both universities are to take place every 18 months alternatively in each institution.
Publication : Electrochemically Driven Intramolecular Ring Closure of a Linear Hexapyrrole (PDF)
Contacts:
Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I
Pr Moutet Jean-Claude, Département de chimie moléculaire UMR UJF/CNRS 5250
Tel: 04 76 51 44 81
Fax: 04 76 51 42 67
jean-claude.moutet@ujf-grenoble.fr
www.ujf-grenoble.fr
University of Texas, Austin
Josh McGrath, Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist
Tel: 512 471 5746
Fax: 512 471 3389
joshmc@austin.utexas.edu
www.utexas.edu
PARTNERSHIP: Case Western Reserve University / Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI
SUBJECT: Magnetic levitation and fluid interface instabilities
This partnership was born on the basis of the scientific collaboration between the two project leaders, started in the summer of 2004. The issue dealing with fluid interface instabilities is essential for the understanding of fusion mechanisms, the only large scale renewable energy source of the future. Starting with the work of the two project leaders with the help of one part-time postdoc and one graduate student, the relations will extend to systematic exchange involving senior researchers, postdocs, and joint PhD and Masters students. Funding will be used to provide a fellowship to a PhD student who will work three years on the project while spending half of his time in each institution and also to finance housing and travel to ensure a regular and frequent exchange between members of the team from both institutions. In the long run, the constant flow of permanent researchers and students from one institution to the other will pave the way for a more ambitious educational aim where a joint PhD program could be established between the two institutions.
Full Summary : Magnetic Levitation and Fluid Interface Instabilities (PDF)
Contacts:
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6
Pierre Carlès, Maître de Conférence,
Institut Jean le Rond d’Alembert
Tel : 01 44 27 51 51
Fax : 01 44 27 52 59
carles@ccr.jussieu.fr
www.dalembert.upmc.fr
Case Western Reserve University
Charles Rosenblatt, Professor, Department of Physics
Tel: 216 368 4125
Fax: 216 368 4671
Rosenblatt@case.edu
www.phys.cwru.edu
PARTNERSHIP: California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories (GALCIT) / Ecole Polytechnique, Department of Mechanics
SUBJECT: Dual Master’s program in Aerospace Engineering or Aeronautics and Fluid Mechanics
The objective of the present proposal is to foster the development of a long-term cooperation on basic research topics of interest to the Aerospace and Aeronautical Sciences community between two leading academic institutions: Caltech and Ecole Polytechnique. In addition to joint supervision of PhD students, Masters’ students will follow the syllabus of the other partner during two out of four semesters and, meeting the requirements of both partners, will be awarded a Master of Science degree by the partner institutions. In order to set up a good implementation of the partnership, a two-month visit by a Caltech faculty member to Ecole Polytechnique and symmetrically by a professor from Ecole Polytechnique to Caltech has been planned in order to settle the Dual Master’s Program. This program will officially start in academic year 2008-2009: for the first year, 1 student each side will participate in the program, up to two students each side for year 2 and 3. In addition to this student exchange, two graduate students from each institution will complete each year a 3-month research internship in the partner laboratory under joint supervision.
Contacts:
Ecole Polytechnique, Department of Mechanics
Patrick Huerre, Professor, Director of the Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique (LadHyx)
Tel: 01 69 33 52 52
Fax: 01 69 33 52 92
partick.huerre@ladhyx.polytechnique.fr
www.ladhyx.polytechnique.fr
California Institute of Technology, Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories (GALCIT)
G. Ravichandran, Professor, Director of GALCIT
Tel: 626 395 4523
Fax: 626 578 1848
ravi@caltech.edu
www.galcit.caltech.edu
PARTNERSHIP: University of Florida, Gainesville / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), in collaboration with Université de Perpignan
SUBJECT: Ocean bridges II: A Florida-France training and research cooperative in coral reef, health, dynamics and conservation
This new relationship benefits from the experience of the previous FACE partnership which allowed student exchange between both institutions. This new program aims at strengthening the relations between both research platforms: CRIOBE for EPHE and South Pacific Research Station. Thus the number of faculty involved will increase and the institution will focus on doctoral students (6 from each side). For the first fall term, visiting French students will be paired at UF with a graduate student and a faculty to receive training through required and elective courses. Then, visiting American students will spend the spring term at EPHE-Perpignan. Finally, students from both sides will be immersed in research in CRIOBE, Moorea. Annual meetings will be held on spot (France, Florida and French Polynesia) in order to conduct to joint publications. Six doctoral degrees are to be awarded from this proposal, all co-supervised by faculty from both French and US institutions.
Nouvelles publications : Biodiversity estimates using semi-quantitative sampling and DNA barcoding (PDF)
Charismatic microfauna alter cyanobacterial production (PDF)
Coral reef fishes use crown-of-thorns seastar as habitat (PDF)
Effects of the fish anesthetic and clove oil on coral health and growth (PDF)
Generalized linear mixed models – a practical guide for ecology and evolution (PDF)
Identification of a Ciliopagurus strigatus with description of a new species from French Polynesia (PDF)
Order of arrival affects competition in two reef fishes (PDF)
Peripatric Speciation Drives (PDF)
Priority effects and habitat complexity affect the strength of competition (PDF)
Contacts:
EPHE, Université de Perpignan
Suzanne Mills, Maître de conférence
Tel: 04 68 66 20 55
Fax: 04 68 50 36 86
suzanne.mills@univ-perp.fr
www.cbetm.univ-perp.fr
University of Florida, Gainesville
Craig Osenberg, Professor, Department of zoology
Tel: 352 392 9201
Fax: 352 392 3704
osenberg@ufl.edu
www.ufl.edu
PARTNERSHIP: University of Houston / Université de Strasbourg, Louis Pasteur
SUBJECT: Computational surgery and dual training
These two institutions intend to establish a program in computational surgery with dual training in order to set up a dual Master of Science degree. The partnership will involve the exchange of research assistants, post doctoral fellows as well as master degree students. The program will begin with three areas of work: an initial workshop in computational surgery and dual training resulting in a publication of the proceedings of that workshop (the first one being held in June 2008 in Strasbourg, the second in Houston in February 2010), the development of a dual Master of Science degree in computational surgery (videoconferencing will be used to facilitate course teaching), and research into two projects – pancreatic surgery and stress monitoring during skills training which will result in per-reviewed publications. Each project team will consist of an equal number of faculty and students from the US and France with at least one MD surgical resident, one computer scientist student at the master level and two faculty advisors.
Full Summary : Computational Surgery and Dual Training
Contacts:
Université de Strasbourg
Michel de Mathelin, Professor
Tel: 03 90 24 44 70
Fax: 03 90 24 44 80
demath@eavr.u-strasbg.fr
www.ensps.ustrasbg.fr
University of Houston
Marc Garbey, Professor and Chair, Department of computer science
Tel: 713 743 3337
Fax: 713 743 3335
Garbey@CS.UH.edu
www.cs.uh.edu
PARTNERSHIP: Northwestern University / Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
SUBJECT: Dual PhD Program in African Studies
The purpose of this partnership is to establish a collaborative interdisciplinary program in African Studies of research and doctoral training, articulated around doctoral training and the establishment of a joint supervised PhD degree. In order to achieve these objectives, the partners will create an interdisciplinary doctoral seminar in each university taught by faculty of the partner institution, will fund two years of graduate study (two students from each institution) and create an administrative mechanism that enables participating students to become eligible for the PhD degree of the partner institution, will fund participation of NU students in EHESS’s summer research program in Africa and will explore ways to integrate African universities into the program. The working program implies each year at least two one-month exchanged faculties from each side. One-month faculty visitors will offer graduate seminars, typically co-taught, in the partner institution. In the first two years, there will also be an exchange of research librarians to examine possibilities for closer library cooperation and improved access by students and researchers to the resources of the partner institution.
Contacts:
EHESS
Eloi Ficquet, Maître de Conférences
Tel: 01 53 63 56 50
Fax : 01 53 63 56 48
eloi.ficquet@ehess.fr
www.ehess.fr
Northwestern University
Michael Loriaux, Co-Director, French Interdisciplinary Group
Tel: 847 491 7500
Fax: 847 491 8985
m-loriaux@northwestern.edu
www.polisci.northwestern.edu
PARTNERSHIP: Washington University, Saint-Louis / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHP)
SUBJECT: Program in Pluralism, Politics, and Religion
This pluralism, politics and religion centered project will bring a cohort of six Masters, doctoral and postdoctoral students to Washington University for a fall seminar and to EPHE for a spring seminar. The students will attend the project leaders’ session and they will take additional courses as a function of their levels and topics. The students will benefit from the complementary strengths of the two institutions. In Paris, students will profit from France’s major concentration of researchers from politics, sociology, history and law. At Washington University, they will benefit from a collaborative teaching from anthropology, political science, philosophy and history.
Joint supervisions of doctoral students are likely to be organized for those who have completed the joint seminar and beginning in 2008-2009. Laboratory budgets have been combined to subsidize joint workshops and limited student exchange. These joint workshops will lead to volumes jointly edited by the two directors.
Contacts:
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Jean-Paul Willaime, Director of Studies
Tel: 01.53.63.61.63
Jean-paul.williame@gsrl.cnrs.fr
www.gsrl.cnrs.fr
Washington University, Saint-Louis
John Bowen Dunbar-Van Cleve, Professor
Tel: 1.314.935.5680
Fax: 1.314.935.8535
jbowen@wustl.edu
www.artsci.wustl.edu
PARTNERSHIP: University of California, Berkeley / Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
SUBJECT: Transatlantic Network Of Scholars On Muslims Religious Identity, Secularism, Democracy And Citizenship
This project aims at redefining the theory about Muslims religious identity, secularism, democracy and citizenship. The partners will intend to establish a network of junior scholars: this is a noticeable generational gap between senior researchers working within the institutionalized boundaries of disciplines and a new generation of researchers who are more aware of the transversal dimension of the recasting of religious identities. They will try to verify the hypothesis of the concept of Islam as a “Western religion” and not as an “Eastern culture”. In order to set up this network, two French faculties and four French students will spend one month at Berkley on year 1. On year 2, two US faculties and 4 US students will spend one month at EHESS. A website is to be created as a portal that provides access to current research and networking on Muslims in the West.
Full Summary : Transatlantic Network of Scholars on Muslim Religious Identity (PDF)
Contacts:
EHESS
Olivier Roy, Directeur d’Etudes
Tel: 02 37 50 19 87
olivier.roy@ehess.fr
www.ehess.fr
UC Berkeley
Tyler Stovall, Professor
Tel: 510 642 3153
Fax: 510 642 7578
tstovall@berkeley.edu
www.berkeley.edu
PARTNERSHIP: University of Florida, Gainesville / Paris Sud 11, Orsay
SUBJECT: Partnerships in Education and Research with emphasis on thermo-fluid mechanics in technology and science
In the field of thermo-fluid mechanics, the goal of this partnership is to educate masters and doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows via six one-week workshops over three years. Regarding joint research, 8 doctoral research or post doctoral fellows will participate in projects in the partner country for at least 5 months. Both institutions aim at creating a research network using the resources of electronic communications via web link and the France-America cultural centers. To achieve these goals, a series of workshops involving postdoctoral, doctoral and master students as well as industry scientists will be held alternatively in France and Florida; tutorials from these workshops will be created to train students. Regarding research programs, they will imply joint direction of doctoral theses and internships of these doctoral students in the laboratories of the collaborators overseas. The research exchange will also involve joint publications and teleconferencing.
Contacts:
Université Paris-Sud 11
Gérard Labrosse, Professeur
Tel: 01 69 85 80 72
Fax: 01 69 85 80 88
gerard.labrosse@u-psud.fr
www.ufl.edu