The following grants were received by the
Research Foundation in June: |
|
(Those with UConn listed as a
source represent a distribution of a larger federal award to the
University.) |
|
Department
|
Researcher |
Amount
|
Source |
|
Animal Science |
Nissim Yonash |
$7,834 |
UConn-Regional
Research-462 (Redistr.) |
|
Avian Diseases |
|
Anthropology |
James Boster |
$25,625 |
NSF-Office of Polar
Programs |
|
Social Structure,
Agreement, and Conflict in Groups in Extreme and Isolated
Environments: A Cross-Cultural Comparison |
| Center for Survey Research & Analysis | Christopher Barnes | $28,300 | Price Waterhouse Foundation |
| VC (Venture Capital) Best Practices Survey |
| Chemical Engineering | Robert Weiss | $96,033 | NSF-Division of Materials Research |
| Ionomer Containing Binary Polymer Blends |
| Chemical Engineering | Jeffrey Koberstein | $40,000 | Dept. of Defense-U.S. Army |
| The Molecular Design of Smart Polymer Surfaces |
| Chemical Engineering | Montgomery Shaw | $39,800 | Electric Power Research Institute |
| Long-Term Thermal Aging Study of Nuclear Plant Cables |
| Chemistry | Challa Vijaya Kumar | $34,806 | NSF-Division of Materials Research |
| Bioactive Composite Material: Proteins Immobilized Layers of Alpha-ZR IV Phosphonates |
| Chemistry | Steven Suib | $50,000 | Engelhard Corp. |
| Novel Alkylation and Oxidation Catalysts |
| Chemistry | Steven Suib | $20,000 | Witco Corp. |
| Analysis of Witco Samples |
| Civil Engineering | Michael Accorsi | $12,524 | Department of Defense-U.S. Army |
| Intergovernmental Personnel Act on Parachute Simulations |
| Civil Engineering | John Leonard | $18,769 | Department of Defense-U.S. Army |
| Intergovernmental Personnel Act on Parachute Simulations |
| Civil Engineering | Michael Accorsi & John Leonard | $46,668 | Dept. of Defense-U.S. Army |
| Advanced Structural Modeling for Fully Coupled Parachute Dynamics |
| Civil Engineering | Barth Smets Domenic Grasso | $80,393 | Conn.-DEP-Long Island Sound |
| Inhibition of Biological Nitrogen Removal: Microbiology, Physical Chemistry and Process Engineering |
| Communication Sciences | Susan Bartlett | $7,500 | Visiting Nurse & Community Health of Eastern Conn. Inc. |
| Providing Speech-Language Services to Patients of VNA East |
| Cooperative Extension | Chester Arnold | $89,664 | Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection |
| Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials Projects (NEMO): Regional and Watershed Programs and Research |
| Cooperative Extension | Mary Gaudio | $6,300 | Vermont Dept. of Health |
| Lead Poisoning Prevention Training for Daycare Providers |
| Cooperative Extension | Laurie Giannotti | $40,000 | Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection |
| NEMO Educational Programs for Quinnipiac River Watershed Towns |
| Cooperative Extension | Chester Arnold | $78,500 | USDA-Smith-Lever-430 |
| Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO) |
| Cooperative Extension | Chester Arnold | $80,000 | USDA-Smith-Lever-430 |
| Coordinating a National Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO) Network |
| Cooperative Extension | Candace Bartholomew | $18,589 | USDA-Smith-Lever-430 |
| Title: IPM/Pesticide Application Training Program Funds |
| Cooperative Extension | Nancy Bull | $95,175 | USDA-Smith-Lever-430 |
| Administration |
| Cooperative Extension | Carole Eller | $150,000 | USDA-Smith-Lever-430 |
| Connections-Linking University to Community |
| Cooperative Extension | Karen Filchak | $15,704 | USDA-Smith-Lever-430 |
| Brooklyn Extension Center |
| Cooperative Extension | Roy Jeffrey | $60,000 | USDA-Smith-Lever -430 |
| Improved Water Quality |
| Cooperative Extension | Bruce Wilbur | $89,044 | USDA-Smith-Lever-430 |
| Penalty Mail-Administration |
| Curriculum & Instruction | Mary Weinland | $61,040 | Capitol Region Education Council |
| Implementation of a Reading Recovery Program |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Robert Colwell | $22,000 | National Aeronautics & Space Administration |
| Predicting Faunal Response to Land Cover Changes: Integrating Remote Sensing Technology and Field-Based Ecological Sampling |
| Graduate Assistant: Sacha Spector |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Chris Elphick | $2,500 | Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences |
| Evaluation of Shorebird Monitoring Schemes Through Simulation Modeling |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Chris Elphick | $20,000 | Nature Conservancy |
| Bird Conservation Planning in the Great Plains |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Donald Les | $4,000 | Nature Conservancy |
| Habitat Requirements for the State-Threatened Eriocaulon parkeri (Parker's Pipewort) |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Christine Simon | $40,511 | NSF-DEB-Research Experience for Undergraduates |
| The Evolution of 13- and 17-Year Periodical Cicadas |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Peter Turchin | $4,000 | Nature Conservancy |
| Population Viability Analysis for the Puritan Tiger Beetle |
| Graduate Assistant: Kristian Omland |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | David Wagner | $7,000 | Nature Conservancy |
| Great Mountain Forest Invertebrate Fauna |
| Economics | Fred Carstensen | $113,500 | Conn. Dept. of Economic & Community Development |
| Economic Analysis of the Connecticut Economy |
| Educational Leadership | Marijke Kehrhahn | $5,040 | Hartford Life Insurance Cos. |
| Learning Designs for Performance Improvement |
| Educational Psychology | Pamela Campbell | $130,085 | U.S. Dept. of Ed.-Special Education and Rehab. Services |
| Sharing Ideas about Teaching Effectively: Preparing Effective and Collaborative Teachers of Students with Disabilities |
| Educational Psychology | Lee McLean | $82,680 | HHS-HDS-Admin. Child Youth & Families |
| Training Initiative Project: Skill Development Project |
| Educational Psychology | Lee McLean | $200,000 | HHS-HDS-Admin. Child Youth & Families |
| University Affiliated Program (UAP): Core Grant |
| Electrical & Systems Engineering | John Enderle | $26,971 | United Technologies Research Center |
| UConn Biomedical Engineering Industrial Internship Program at United Technologies Research Center |
| Electrical & Systems Engineering | John Enderle | $56,000 | Bay State Medical Center |
| Clinical Engineering Internship Program at the Baystate Medical Center |
| Electrical & Systems Engineering | Chandra Roychoudhuri | $62,905 | UConn Health Center |
| Development of a Non-Linear Optical Microscope |
| Environmental Research Institute | Robert Carley | $10,000 | Conn.-DEP-Long Island Sound |
| Long Island Sound Estuarine Study |
| Environmental Research Institute | Robert Carley | $20,000 | Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection |
| Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon in Drinking Water |
| Environmental Research Institute | Robert Carley | $150,498 | Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection |
| Mobile Laboratory Technical Assistance |
| Family Studies | Stephen Anderson | $30,000 | Conn. Office of Policy and Management |
| Evaluation of Title V Delinquency Prevention Programs |
| Family Studies | Sara Harkness | $49,923 | Spencer Foundation |
| Cultural Strategies for Children's Successful Development |
| Geology | Lanbo Liu | $3,500 | Conn.-DEP-Long Island Sound |
| Publication of the Dehlinger Long Island Sound Free-Air Gravity Map |
| Geology | Lanbo Liu & Anthony Philpotts | $50,375 | NSF-Div. of Undergraduate Programs |
| Service Learning Practice in Upper Division Earth Science Courses: Bridging Undergraduate Learning, Teaching and Research |
| Geology | Anthony Philpotts | $100,791 | NSF-Division of Earth Sciences |
| Measurement of Crystal Mush Compaction in the Palisades Sill, N.J., Using Serial Sections and X-Ray Scans of Partly Melted Oriented Samples |
| Geology | Timothy Byrne | $236,949 | NSF-Division of Earth Sciences |
| Active Extension in an Arc-Continent Collision, Taiwan: A GPS, Structural and Geomorphic Investigation |
| Inst. of Public Service-International | Elizabeth Mahan | $208,000 | U.S. Dept. of Ed.-Office of International Education |
| National Resource Centers and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships; Latin American Studies Consortium of New England |
| Inst. of Public Service-International | Elizabeth Mahan | $4,494 | Brown University |
| Partial Salary and Fringe Benefits for Coordinator of the Latin American Studies Consortium of New England |
| Institute for Social Inquiry | Donald Ferree | $19,000 | Conn. Dept. of Labor |
| Displaced Homemakers |
| Marine Sciences | Richard Cooper | $150,000 | The Mohegan Tribe |
| Research & Development of Marine Plants (Nori) Aquaculture in Connecticut Waters, Selective Breeding/Transgenic Development, & Support of Commercial Aquaculture |
| Molecular & Cell Biology | Charles Giardina | $12,500 | Pharmaceutical Research & Mfg. of America Foundation |
| Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs, Short Chain Fatty Acids & TNF-Induced Apoptosis of Colerectal Cancer Cells: Synergistic Effects |
| Molecular & Cell Biology | Debra Kendall | $5,000 | Pfizer Inc. |
| Cho Cells Transfected with Cb1 |
| Molecular & Cell Biology | Debra Kendall | $22,947 | PHS-SAMHSA-Drug Abuse |
| Interhelical Interactions in the Cannabinoid Receptor |
| Graduate Fellow: Jonathan McMurry |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences | Brian Aneskievich | $116,136 | PHS-NIH-Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases |
| Peroxisome Proliferator Effect on Keratinocytes |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences | Ben Bahr | $8,225 | Cortex Pharmaceuticals |
| A New Therapeutic Strategy to Attenuate Stroke-Related Neurodegeneration |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences | Michael Pikal | $110,874 | Pfizer Inc. |
| Material Properties of Formulations for Freeze Drying |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences | Michael Pikal | $22,000 | Dow Chemical Corp. |
| Purdue/UConn Center for Pharmaceutical Processing |
| Physics | Robin Cote | $30,000 | NSF-Division of Physics |
| Ultracold Atoms to Probe Fundamental Physics |
| Physics | Edward Eyler | $136,871 | NSF-Division of Physics |
| High Resolution Studies of Atomic and Molecular Structure and Coherence |
| Physics | Michael Ramsey-Musolf | $37,500 | NSF-Division of Physics |
| National Science Foundation Young Investigator |
| Physics | Niloy Dutta | $15,773 | Lucent Technologies |
| High Speed Optical Demultiplexing |
| Physics | Phillip Gould | $94,000 | Dept. of Energy |
| Experiments in Ultracold Collisions (Second Year) |
| Physics | Jeffrey Schweitzer | $20,000 | National Aeronautics & Space Administration |
| Development of Planetary Remote Sensing Technology for Applications to Teleforensics |
| Physics | William Stwalley Moshe Gai | $25,451 | Southeastern Universities Research Association Inc./Jefferson Laboratory |
| Proposal for a Memorandum of Understanding: UConn-CEBAF Three Positions |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Joseph Crivello | $4,138 | Nature Conservancy |
| The Estuary Watch Program: An Integrative Approach to Salt Marsh Monitoring |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Joseph Lo Turco | $74,134 | Beth Israel Hospital |
| Synaptic Physiology of Neocortical Ectopias |
| Plant Science | Mark Bridgen | $2,000 | New England Greenhouse Conference |
| Effect of Harvesting Technique and Genotype on Cut Flower Production of Alstroemeria |
| Plant Science | Lorraine Los & Richard Ashley | $82,000 | Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection |
| Quinnipiac River Watershed Reduced Pesticide Loading/Integrated Crop Management Demonstration Project |
| Political Science | Kenneth Dautrich | $27,000 | The Dallas Foundation |
| Center for Survey Research & Analysis |
| Political Science | Kenneth Dautrich | $142,830 | Hartford Courant |
| Hartford Courant/UConn Poll 1999 |
| Psychology | Deborah Fein | $19,977 | U.S. Dept. of Ed.-Special Education and Rehab. Services |
| The Autism Screening Project |
| Psychology | David Kenny | $630 | Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues |
| The Influence of Gender Stereotype Endorsement on Person Model Formulation |
| Graduate Assistant: Cynthia D Mohr |
| Psychology | Harvey Swadlow | $81,116 | NSF-Integrative Biology & Neurosciences |
| Functional Microcircuits of Sensory Neocortex |
| Psychology | Michael Turvey | $87,000 | NSF-Social & Behavioral Research |
| Haptic Perceptual Instruments |
| Social Work | Martin Bloom | $5,000 | Child & Family Agency of Southeastern Ct. Inc. |
| Agreement Between the Child and Family Agency and the UConn School of Social Work |
| Social Work | Kay Davidson | $1,500 | Univ. of Massachusetts |
| Subcontract Between UMass.-Boston and UConn School of Social Work |
| Social Work | Michie Hesselbrock | $48,691 | UConn Health Center |
| Consortium on the Genetics of Alcoholism |
| Statistics | Alan Gelfand | $49,706 | NSF-Division of Mathematical Sciences |
| Methodology for Analyzing Spatial Data |
| The name of Moshe Gai as co-principal investigator was omitted from the following grant in the November 1998 grants listing. |
| Physics | William Stwalley Moshe Gai | $159,311 | Southeastern Universities Research Association Inc./Jefferson Laboratory |
| Proposal for a Memorandum of Understanding: UConn-CEBAF Three Bridge Positions |
