GRANTS ............. September 29, 1997
| The following grants
were received by the
Research
Foundation in July: |
| Department |
Researcher |
Project |
Total & source |
| Art |
Deborah Muirhead |
Guggenheim fellowship |
$30,000, J.S.
Guggenheim
Foundation |
| English |
Gary Storhoff |
Connecticut Writing Project
-- Stamford |
$850, National
Writing Project |
| Modern & Classical
Languages |
David Herzberger |
Agreement between the
Goethe Institute and the
University of Connecticut |
$12,000,
Goethe Institute |
|
Total for humanities
and fine arts - this
listing $42,850 |
|
| The following grants
were received by the
Research
Foundation in
August: |
| Department |
Researcher |
Project |
Total & source |
| Agricultural
Economics |
Linda Lee |
Forest land use projections |
$8,000, USDA |
| Animal science |
J. Yang Xiangzhong |
Developing effective
protocols for collecting
competent oocytes from
juvenile and prepubertal
heifers for producing viable
embryos and progeny |
$346,080,
Genzyme Inc. |
| Ecology &
evolutionary biology |
Janine Caira |
Molecular phylogenetic
analysis of the major
lineages of tapeworms |
$10,000,
National
Science
Foundation |
| Ecology and
evolutionary biology |
Zoe Cardon |
Analytical and quantitative
understanding of integrative
plant biology through
coursework and
independent student
research |
$17,520,
National
Science
Foundation |
| Ecology and
evolutionary biology |
John Silander |
Dispersal as a mechanistic
basis for landscape ecology:
the role of scale and
heterogeneity |
$7,500,
National
Science
Foundation |
| Ecology and
evolutionary biology
|
Peter Turchin |
Testing reaction-diffusion
theory: spatial dynamics in a
bark beetle-predator system |
$90,000,
National
Science
Foundation |
| Molecular and cell
biology |
Thomas Chen |
Regulation of expression of
fish insulin-like growth
factors |
$50,000,
National
Science
Foundation |
| Molecular and cell
biology |
Carolyn Teschke |
The effect of mutations on
protein folding and structure |
$59,990,
Donaghue
Foundation |
| Physiology and
neurobiology |
Joseph Lo Turco |
Neurophysiology: synaptic
physiology of neocortical
ectopias |
$71,400, Beth
Israel Hospital |
| Physiology and
neurobiology |
Pei-San Tsai |
Dynamics of the
hypothalamo-pituitary
system in the ranid frogs |
$17,754,
National
Science
Foundation |
| Psychology |
Ross MacKinnon |
Haskins Laboratories
affiliation with Departments
of Linguistics and
Psychology |
$66,812,
Haskins Labs. |
| Marine Sciences |
Philip Bogden |
Collaborative research:
generalized inverse analysis
and array design applied to
coastal current
measurements from a
moving ship |
$102,912,
National
Science
Foundation |
| Marine Sciences |
Peter Auster |
A review of the effect of
fishing gear on marine &
estuarine ecosystems |
$16,478,
American Fish
Society |
| Natural resources
mgmt. &
engineering |
David Miller |
Drift and deposition of
aerially applied gipchek at a
deciduous forest edge |
$20,000 USDA |
| Natural resources
mgmt. &
engineering |
Robert Neumann |
Distribution and habitat
characteristics of banded
sunfish in Connecticut |
$14,461 Conn.
Dept. of
Environmental
Protection |
| Pathobiology |
Herbert Whiteley |
Molecular vaccine research
and development facility |
$542,365,
Pfizer Inc. |
| Pharmaceutical
sciences |
Michael Pikal |
Planning grant for
Purdue/UConn
industry-university/cooperative research center in
pharmaceutical processing |
$10,000,
National
Science
Foundation |
| Pharmaceutical
sciences |
Zbigniew Witczak |
Editorial services in
carbohydrate chemistry |
$1,525,
American
Chemical
Society |
| Plant science |
Mark Brand |
Virtual campus plant walks
and multimedia WWW
landscape plant database |
$79,067, USDA |
Total life sciences
this listing:
$1,531,864 |
