|
The following grants were received by the Research
Foundation in August:
(Those with UConn listed as a source
represent a distribution of a larger federal award to the University.)
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| |
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Chemical Engineering |
Luke Achenie |
$10,000 |
NSF-CTS-Research Experience for
Undergraduates |
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Optimization of Chemical Processes Under Uncertainty
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Chemical Engineering |
Can Erkey |
$1,500
|
Hamilton Standard |
|
Solid Waste Processing for Long-Term Human
Space Exploration Mission |
|
Chemical Engineering |
Jeffrey Koberstein |
$300,000 |
NSF-Division of Materials Research
|
|
The Molecular Design of Surface Active Polymers
that Create Functional Surfaces |
|
Chemistry |
Ashis Basu |
$134,660 |
PHS-NIH-Environmental Health
Sciences |
|
Biological Effects of Mitomycin D DNA Adducts
|
|
Chemistry |
Ashis Basu |
$77,164 |
PHS-NIH-Environmental Health
Sciences |
|
Independent Scientist Award (Career Award)
|
|
Chemistry |
ChallaVijaya Kumar |
$206,173 |
NSF-Division of Materials Research
|
|
New Bioactive Composite Materials: Proteins
Immobilized in the Layers of Alpha-Zirconium
Phosphonates |
|
Civil Engineering |
John Dewolf |
$34,603 |
Conn. Dept. of Transportation |
|
Evaluation of Sign Support Structures Joint Highway
Research Advisory Council |
|
Civil Engineering |
Howard Epstein |
$60,162 |
NSF-Division of Civil and Mechanical
Systems |
|
Block Shear Investigation of Structural Tees and Other
Tension Connections |
|
Civil Engineering |
Nikolaos Nikolaidis |
$3,245 |
United Technologies Research Center
|
|
Environmental Sampling and Analysis at
Sikorsky/Stratford, Conn. |
|
Civil Engineering |
Barth Smets |
$24,989 |
DOD-Army-Construction Engineering
Research Lab |
|
Fundamental Study for Biodegradation of Nitroglycerin
in Biofilter |
|
Civil Engineering |
Barth Smets |
$6,250 |
NSF-Bioengineering and
Environmental Systems-Career
Award |
|
Quantification of Horizontal Gene Transfer as
Adaptive Response to Contaminant Stress in
Subsurface Microbial
Communities |
|
Electrical & Systems
Engineering |
John Enderle |
$91,320 |
NSF-Bioengineering and
Environmental Systems |
|
An Annual Review of Engineering Senior Design
Projects to Aid Persons With Disabilities
|
|
Electrical & Systems
Engineering |
Faquir Jain |
$200,000 |
DED-Connecticut Innovations Inc.
Cooperative Grants |
|
Development of
Low voltage, High Brightness, Flexible
Electroluminescent Lamps for
Display Application/Corps: E-Lite Technologies, I
nc., Nanocrystal
Technology |
|
Math |
Xue-Mei Li |
$48,023 |
NSF-Division of Mathematical
Sciences |
|
Stochastic Analysis on Manifolds
|
|
Math |
William Wickless |
$20,000 |
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
|
|
Scholarship Grant (Talitha M. Wangern)
|
|
Mechanical Engineering |
John Bennett |
$35,000 |
Spalding Sports Worldwide
|
|
On the Aerodynamics of Golf Balls
|
|
Mechanical Engineering |
Amir Faghri |
$40,000 |
Dept. of Defense-U.S. Air Force
|
|
Micro/Miniature Heat Pipe Science and Technology
for Electronic Cooling |
|
Metallurgy |
Maurice Gell |
$10,000 |
ABB Power Plant Laboratories
|
|
Bond Strength and Stress Measurements in Thermal
Barrier Coatings |
|
Physics |
Niloy Dutta |
$32,060 |
Multiplex, Inc. |
|
Advanced Laser Modeling and Analysis
|
|
Physics |
Moshe Gai |
$175,000 |
U.S. Dept. of Energy |
|
Studies In Low Energy Nuclear Physics (Second
Year Continuation) |
|
Physics |
Phillip Gould |
$122,400 |
NSF-Division of Physics |
|
Ultracold Atoms Near the Ionization Threshold
|
|
Physics |
William Stwalley |
$106,000 |
DOE-Brookhaven National
Laboratory |
|
UConn-Brookhaven Partnership in Condensed Matter
Physics for Barrett Wells |
|
Statistics |
Lynn Kuo |
$675,710 |
NSF-Division of Mathematical
Sciences |
|
Scientific Computing Research Environments for the
Mathematical Sciences |
Total physical sciences
this listing
|
$2,414,259 |
