|
The following grants were received by the Research
Foundation in November: |
| Those
with UConn listed under "source" represent a redistribution
of a larger federal award to the University: |
| Department |
Researcher |
Project |
Total & Source |
| Agricultural economics |
Boris Bravo-Ureta |
Socioeconomic impacts of alternative peanut
production-marketing systems in Senegal |
$70,681 Agency for International
Development |
| Animal sciences |
Robert Milvae |
Endothelin-1 and bovine luteolysis |
$140,000 USDA-National Research
Initiative |
| Ecology and evolutionary
biology |
Robert Colwell |
Arthropod biodiversity in a lowland tropical forest
III |
$14,939 Duke University |
| Marine sciences |
Edward Monahan |
Degradation and restoration of Lake Michigan: past
and future of species |
$23,897 UConn-Sea Grant program
(redist.) |
| Marine Sciences & Technology
Center |
Ivar Babb |
Advanced technologies for education |
$8,000 Dreyfus Foundation |
| Pathobiology |
Mazhar Khan |
Development of CDNA probes for the detection of
reovirus in chickens |
$2,500 Spafas Inc. |
| Pathobiology |
Herbert Whiteley |
Research support agreement |
$9,887 USDA-Agricultural
Research Service |
| Pharmaceutical sciences |
Robin Bogner |
Exploring careers in pharmaceutics |
$4,000 Pfizer Inc. |
| Pharmaceutical sciences |
Edward Kelly |
Pharmacist's role in HIV prevention and public
health |
$5,000 Conn. Dept. of Public
Health |
| Pharmaceutical sciences |
Alexandros Makriyannis |
Probes for cannabinoid receptors (Post-doctoral
fellow: Atmaram Khanolkar) |
$32,500 PHS-SAMHSA-Drug
Abuse |
|
Total life sciences this listing: $311,404 |
|
| Chemical engineering |
Jeffrey Koberstein |
Molecular engineering of smart polymer surfaces |
$70,000 U.S. Dept. of
Defense-U.S. Army |
| Chemistry |
Harry Frank |
The structure and photochemistry of carotenoids in
photosynthetic systems |
$5,621 North Atlantic Treaty
Organization |
| Chemistry |
Michael B. Smith |
The synthesis of pancratistatin |
$3,360 Egyptian Cultural &
Educational Bureau |
| Electrical and systems
engineering |
Lang Tong |
Multiuser blind equalization for wireless
communication |
$32,000 Univ. of Southern
California-Los Angeles |
| Electrical and systems
engineering |
Peter Willett |
Hybrid Bayes/GLRT signal detection |
$96,775 U.S. Dept. of
Defense-Office of Naval Research |
| Geology |
Gary Robbins |
An evaluation of vertical contaminant spreading in
ground water at underground storage tank sites |
$38,913 Conn. Dept. of Public
Works |
| Institute of Materials Science |
Steven Boggs |
Development of electronics to measure ac
capacitive, ac resistive and dc ground current during
water needle treeing tests |
$25,000 Union Carbide Corp. |
| Institute of Materials Science |
Steven Boggs, Thomas
Seery and Montgomery
Shaw |
Development of improved extrudable dielectrics |
$60,000 Electric Power Research
Institute |
| Mechanical engineering |
Amir Faghri and Eric
Jordan |
Senior design projects |
$5,000 United Technologies
Research Center |
| Mechanical engineering |
Amir Faghri and Eric
Jordan |
Senior design projects |
$4,000 Structural Integrity
Monitoring Systems |
| Mechanical engineering |
Amir Faghri and Eric
Jordan |
Senior design projects |
$223 Olin Corporation |
| Mechanical engineering |
Amir Faghri and Eric
Jordan |
Senior design projects |
$8,000 DBS Bank |
| Mechanical engineering |
Amir Faghri and Eric
Jordan |
Senior design projects |
$5,000 U.S. Surgical Corp. |
| Metallurgy |
Nitin Padture |
Fundamental studies of novel contact-damage
resistant ceramics |
$102,000 U.S. Dept. of
Defense-U.S. Air Force |
| Physics |
Virginia R. Brown |
Appointment of Virginia R. Brown as research
professor |
$128,235 NSF-Division of Physics |
| Physics |
William Stwalley |
Perturbation studies in diatomic alkali molecules by
optical multiple spectroscopy |
$14,000 National Research Council |
| Statistics |
Dipak Dey |
Editorial assignment for the IMS Bulletin |
$77,900 Institute of Mathematical
Statistics |
| Total physical sciences this listing:
$676,027 |
|
| Anthropology |
Robert Dewar |
Late woodland subsistence and the transition to
agriculture in the Northeastern United States |
$8,329 NSF-Small Business
Research |
| Communication sciences |
Antonia Maxon and
Marion Cohen |
An improvement in the childhood hearing
impairment program: an M.A. training program for
audiologists |
$146,760 U.S. Dept. of Ed.-Spec.
Ed. and Rehab. Svs. |
| Educational psychology |
Kay Norlander and
Pamela Campbell |
The Center of Pedagogy: interdisciplinary
curriculum at Quirk Middle School |
$16,978 Hartford Public Schools |
| Geography |
Ellen Cromley |
Expanded GIS for water supplies implementation
project |
$36,486 Conn. Dept. of Public
Health |
| Psychology |
Susan Essock |
Mental health services research project |
$1,106,454 Conn. Dept. of Mental
Health and Addiction Services |
|
Total social sciences this listing: $1,315,007 |
