|
The following grants were received by
the Research Foundation in May: |
|
Department
|
Researcher
|
Amount
|
Source
|
|
Allied Health |
Linda Pescatello |
$15,000 |
New Britain Hospital |
|
Cardiometabolic
Health Benefits of Physical Activity on Special Populations
|
|
Chemical Engineering |
James Bell |
$70,549 |
Dacco Sci. Inc. |
|
Corrosion Protection Using Surface Polymerized
Coatings |
|
Chemical Engineering |
Douglas Cooper |
$795 |
National Starch and Chemical
|
|
Emerging
Technologies |
|
Chemical Engineering |
Douglas Cooper |
$795 |
Owens Corning Corp. |
|
Emerging
Technologies |
|
Civil Engineering |
Christian Davis
|
$98,066 |
Conn. Dept. of Transportation |
|
Management
of the New England Transportation Consortium
|
|
Chemical Engineering |
Gerald McCarthy |
$216,925 |
Conn. Dept. of Transportation |
|
Continuing
Cooperative Highway Research Program
|
|
Computer Science |
Eugene Santos |
$269,813 |
Dept. of Defense-U.S. Air Force
|
|
Large-Scale,
Multiagent, Distributed Mission Planning and
Execution in Complex Dynamic Environment
|
|
Cooperative Extension |
Luane Lange |
$4,988 |
Conn. Humanities Council |
|
20th-Century
Connecticut Agriculture: The Untold Story
|
|
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
|
Janine Caira Charles
Henry |
$6,000 |
NSF-DEB-Research Experience for
Undergraduates |
|
REU: Monography of the Diphyllidea, Lecanicephalida,
and Tetraphyllidea: a Program to Train the
Cestodologists of the Future |
|
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
|
Eric Schultz |
$52,000 |
Foster-Davis Foundation |
|
Fall Fattening in the Fathead Minnow
|
|
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
|
David Wagner |
$5,160 |
Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection
|
|
The Imperiled
Dragonfly and Damselfly Fauna of Connecticut
|
|
Educational Psychology |
Lee McLean |
$122,243 |
Conn. State Board of Ed., Div. of Rehab.
Services |
|
Tech Act Training |
|
Educational Psychology
|
Stanley Shaw |
$162,474 |
U.S. Dept. of Ed.-Special Education and Rehab.
Services |
|
University/School Partnerships: Leadership Preparation
Dedicated to Collaboration, Urban Education, and
Inclusion |
|
Electrical & Systems Engineering
|
Douglas Abraham |
$27,998 |
San Diego State University Foundation
|
|
Multipath Estimation
Using Electromagnetic Matched Field Processing for
DS-CDMA Communication Systems
|
|
Electrical & Systems Engineering
|
John Enderle |
$10,000 |
NSF-BES-Research Experience for
Undergraduates |
|
REU: Supplement
to Engineering Design Projects for the Disabled
|
|
Environmental
Research Institute |
Robert Carley |
$100,000 |
Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection
|
|
Status Update of
the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Sites II
|
|
Geography |
Thomas Cooke |
$30,000 |
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
|
Place, Migration,
and the Career Paths of Women in Dual-Career Families
|
|
Geology |
Lanbo Liu |
$30,000 |
Interior-U.S. Geological Survey |
|
Using Gound Penetrating
Radar to Study Prehistoric Earthquakes in the New
Madrid Seismic Zone |
|
Health Systems Management
|
Patricia Born |
$4,686 |
Illinois State University |
|
Who Decides
What's Necessary? Medical Necessity and the Ethics
of Managed Care |
|
Marine Sciences |
Peter Auster |
$40,000 |
Boston University |
|
Modeling and
Monitoring Habitat Recovery and Fish Population
Dynamics |
|
Marine Sciences |
Robert Whitlatch |
$120,330 |
NSF-Div. of Ocean Sciences |
|
Physical
and Biological Processes Linking the Sources of Larval
Production to Subsequent Recruitment into Subtidal Benthic
Communities |
|
Materials Sciences |
Steven Boggs |
$25,000 |
Exxon Chemical Co. |
|
Promotion of
EPR Cable Technology |
|
Mechanical Engineering |
Amir Faghri Eric Jordan |
$100 |
Compaq |
|
Senior
Design Projects |
|
Metallurgy |
Maurice Gell |
$10,000 |
General Electric Co. |
|
Bond Strength
and Stress Measurements in Thermal Barrier Coatings
|
|
Molecular & Cell Biology
|
Thomas Chen |
$131,736 |
Kent Seafarms Corp. |
|
Production of
Transgenic White Bass by Introducing a Fish Growth
Hormone Gene |
|
Molecular & Cell Biology
|
Michael Lynes |
$152,390 |
PHS-NIH-Environmental Health Sciences
|
|
Mechanism of
Metal Mediated Immunosuppression
|
|
Nursing |
Deborah McDonald |
$106,184 |
PHS-NIH-National Center for Nursing
Research |
|
Postoperative Pain
Communication Skills for Older Adults Area Grant
|
|
Nursing |
Helen Shah |
$49,005 |
PHS-HRSA-Nursing |
|
Professional
Nurse Traineeship |
|
Pathobiology |
Sylvain Deguise
|
$15,000 |
Morris Animal Foundation
|
|
The Immune
Response of Cetacean-Reconstituted SCiD Mice to
Morbillivirus Infection |
|
Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Alexandros Makriyannis |
$293,548 |
PHS-SAMHSA-Drug Abuse
|
|
Dopamine
Transporter Ligands as Cocaine Medications
|
|
Physics |
Joseph Budnick |
$80,000 |
NSF-Div. of Materials Research |
|
Structural,
Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Interstitially
Modified Magnetic Systems |
|
Plant
Science |
Karl Guillard |
$5,000 |
Potash & Phosphate Institute of Canada |
|
Potassium
Fertilization of Kentucky Bluegrass in Increase
Summer-Stress Tolerance |
|
Political Science |
Everett C. Ladd |
$2,000 |
University of New Mexico |
|
Roper Center
Membership |
|
Psychology Janet |
Barnes-Farrell |
$4,000 |
Manchester Public Schools
|
|
Industrial Psychology Applications Center
Project |
|
Psychology |
Etan Markus |
$97,549 |
PHS-NIH-Aging |
|
Aging Changes in
Behavior and Hippocampal Unit Activity
|
|
Psychology |
Benjamin Sachs |
$95,481 |
NSF-Integrative Biology & Neurosciences
|
|
Psychobiology of the
Autonomic Arousal Process |
|
Public Service International |
Elizabeth Mahan |
$24,984 |
Dept. of Higher Education |
|
A Summer
Institute: Mesolore and Indigenous Issues: Using
Technology to Bridge Past and Present Mesoamerican
Cultures |
