Elizabeth Haswell, PhD, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, received a five-year, $1,330,448 grant from the National Science Foundation for her research titled “Career: The Function, Regulation and Molecular Identity of Mechanosenstive Ion Channels in Arabidopsis."

Erik Herzog, PhD, professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, and Jeanne Nerbonne, PhD, Alumni Endowed Professor of Developmental Biology in the Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences at the School of Medicine, received a $288,800 grant from the National Institutes of Health for research titled “Neuronal Excitability in the Regulation of Circadian Rhythms.” They also could receive a renewal grant of equal amount in each of the next three years.