Cara Ocobock, graduate student in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $10,776 grant from The Leakey Foundation for research titled “Measuring and Predicting Daily Energy Expenditure of Highly Active Humans in Natural Environments.” …

Enola Proctor, PhD, the Frank J. Bruno Professor of Social Work Research at the Brown School, has received a one-year, $27,500 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for research titled “Building a Team and Agenda for Research on Sustainability of Evidence-Based Care.” …

Robert Schmidt, MD, PhD, professor of pathology and immunology and chief of the Division of Neuropathology, has received a one-year, $427,000 shared instrumentation grant from the National Center for Research Resources for the partial purchase of a transmission electron microscope. …

Jin-Yu Shao, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering, has received a two-year, $418,000 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for research titled “Biomechanics of Unfolding the A2 Domain of Von Willebrand Factor.” …

Heather True-Krob, PhD, associate professor of cell biology and physiology, has received a two-year $152,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for research titled “Characterization of Prion Strains and Invectivity.” …

Timothy J. Wolf, assistant professor of occupational therapy and of neurology, has received a two-year, $154,165 grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for research titled “Exploring the Efficacy of Combined Task Specific and Cognitive Strategy: Training in Subacute Stroke.”