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The following grants were received by the Research Foundation in February: (Those with UConn listed as a source represent a distribution of a larger federal award to the University.)

Biobehavioral Science Holly Fitch $28,078 March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
Auditory Processing Deficits as a Model for Language Impairment: Training and Enrichment Effects on Behavior and Neurophysiology
Chemical Engineering Douglas Cooper $4,500 Laplace Engineering Inc.
Emerging Technology Program
Chemical Engineering Thomas Wood $10,000 NSF-BES-Research Experience for Undergraduates
Directed Evolution of Monooxygenases for Green Chemistry: Research Experience for Undergraduates
Chemical Engineering Thomas Wood $127,646 Electric Power Research Institute
Corrosion Control Using Protective Biofilms Which Secrete Antimicrobials and Corrosion Inhibitors
Chemistry Ashis Basu $164,156 PHS-NIH-Environmental Health Sciences
Biological Effects of DNA Adducts Formed by Nitropyrenes
Chemistry Harry Frank $102,000 NSF-Division of Molecular & Cellular Biosciences
The Role of Xanthophylls in the Mechanism of Nonradiative Energy Dissipation in Photosynthesis
Chemistry Challa Vijaya Kumar $60,000 American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund
Novel Photochemical Proteases: Reagents to Cleave Protein Backbone With a High Specificity
Civil Engineering George Hoag and Amine Dahmani $50,000 United Technologies-Corporate Headquarters
Contaminant Site Assessment at the Norden Site
Civil Engineering Ramesh Malla $5,000 Hamilton Standard
Preliminary Studies of Space Station Oxygen Generation Assembly Structural Systems
Cooperative Extension Sharon Gray $11,133 UConn-Cooperative Extension System-USDA (Redistr.)
Family Nutrition Program-Children with Special Dietary Needs Program
Cooperative Extension Wanda Little $19,667 UConn-Cooperative Extension System-USDA (Redistr.)
Family Nutrition Program-4-H Summer Nutrition Education Program
Cooperative Extension Carole Eller $9,965 United Community and Family Services
Cooperative Agreement for Children
Cooperative Extension Robert Ricard $35,000 Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection
Connecticut Urban Forestry Volunteer Coordinator
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Eldridge Adams $178,102 NSF-Integrative Biology & Neurosciences
Neighborhood Interactions and Territory Size in the Fire Ant
Electrical & Systems Engineering Peter Luh $40,000 United Tecchnologies Research Center
Distributed and Coordinated Production Scheduling
Geography Ellen Cromley $9,124 Conn. Dept. of Public Health
Geographical Analysis of Codes Crash Data
Institute of Materials Science Steven Boggs $25,000 Kerite Corp.
Promotion of EPR Cable Technology
Institute of Materials Science Steven Boggs $30,000 The Okonite Co.
Promotion of EPR Cable Technology
Institute of Materials Science Xiang-Qun Xie $92,786 PHS-SAMHSA-Drug Abuse
Integrated NMR/Computer Modeling for Cannabinoid Ligand Design
Marine Sciences Institute, Chemistry Richard Jadamed and Carol Anderson $21,500 Barringer Instruments Inc.
Evaluation of IMS Bacterial Detection Capabilities
Marine Sciences Institute Jonathan Ward $97,471 NSF-Division of Ocean Sciences-Career Development Program
Trophic Interactions Between Benthic Suspension Feeders and Marine Aggregates
Mathematics Yung Choi $50,003 UConn Health Center
National Resources for Cell Analysis and Modeling
Molecular & Cell Biology David Yphantis $182,013 NSF-Biological Instrumentation and Resources
Procedures for Analytical Ultracentrifugation
Nursing Gail Harkness $87,507 University of Leeds, England
Release Time to the University of Leeds for Research/Teaching
Nutritional Sciences Linda Drake $61,015 UConn-Dept. of Nutritional Sciences (Redistr.)
Family Nutrition Program-Food Security
Nutritional Sciences Ann Ferris $181,871 UConn-Dept. of Nutritional Sciences (Redistr.)
Family Nutrition Program-Iron-Deficiency Anemia
Nutritional Sciences Ann Ferris $165,036 UConn-Dept. of Nutritional Sciences (Redistr.)
Family Nutrition Program-Senior Nutrition Awareness Program
Nutritional Sciences Ann Ferris $93,296 UConn-Dept. of Nutritional Sciences (Redistr.)
Family Nutrition Program-Administrative Core
Nutritional Sciences Rafael Perez-Escamilla $381,129 UConn-Dept. of Nutritional Sciences (Redistr.)
Family Nutrition Program-Hartford Infant/Toddler Program
Nutritional Sciences Ellen Shanley and Colleen Thompson $43,386 Conn. Dept. of Education
Connecticut Nutritional Education and Training Program
Pharmaceutical Sciences Robin Bogner $34,868 Mixed Sources
Method to Measure the Concentration, PH, Microviscosity and Dielectric Profiles
Total $3,382,956