Karin Bornfeldt receives Outstanding Investigator Award from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

, a professor of medicine and pathology, has received an from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. The award will total more than $7.2 million for up to seven years, with about $1 million in the first year.

The award is under the institute’s R35 Program, which promotes scientific productivity by giving principal investigators with multiple projects the freedom to conduct research that breaks new ground or extend previous discoveries in heart, lung, blood and sleep research.

Bornfeldt’s research project is titled “Identifying New Strategies for Prevention of Cardiovascular Complications of Diabetes.”

Bornfeldt is director of the , deputy director of the and associate director for research of the . She serves as associate editor of the journals Circulation Research, Diabetes, and the Journal of Lipid Research.

Read more at the Department of Medicine .

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Guntis 艩midchens of Scandinavian studies honored by Republic of Lithuania

, 91爆料 associate professor of Scandinavian studies and Baltic studies, has received a state decoration from the Republic of Lithuania.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Naus臈da presented 艩midchens the in a celebration on Feb. 16, which since 1918 has been Lithuanian Independence Day. The award notes 艩midchens’ “active promotion of Lithuanian language, history and culture in the United States.”

艩midchens is the 91爆料’s Kazickas Family Endowed Professor of Baltic Studies. He is the author of the 2014 book “The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution,” about a nonviolent resistance movement in the Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Order for Merits to Lithuania is one of four types of orders bestowed, and the Cross of the Knight one of five of Insignia of the Orders.

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10 91爆料 engineering professors receive Google Faculty Research Awards

Ten 91爆料 College of Engineering faculty have been named recipients of . The grants, among Google recently , support world-class technical research in computer science, engineering and related fields. Each award provides funding to support one graduate student for a year.

The recipients are , , , , and of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; and of the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering; of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; and of both the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Department of Bioengineering.

The is “to identify and strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with faculty working on problems that will impact how future generations use technology,” according to Google.

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