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The following grants were received by the Research Foundation in July:

(Those with UConn listed as a source represent a distribution of a larger federal award to the University.)
Department Researcher Amount Source
Animal Science Louis Pierro $39,679 Univ. of Connecticut Health Center
Genetic Control of Limb Development
Center for Academic Programs Susana Ulloa-Beal $245,071 U.S. Dept. of Ed.-Postsecondary Education
Upward Bound Program
Chemical Engineering Douglas Cooper $795 Haverhill Paperboard
Emerging Technologies
Chemical Engineering Douglas Cooper $795 Bayer Corp.
Emerging Technologies
Chemical Engineering Douglas Cooper $2,385 Genzyme Transgenics Inc.
Emerging Technologies
Chemical Engineering Douglas Cooper $4,500 SKC Inc.
Emerging Technologies
Chemistry Ashis Basu $79,478 PHS-NIH-Environmental Health Sciences
Independent Scientist Award
Career Award
Chemistry Ulrich Mueller-Westerhoff $20,000 Exciton Corp.
Metallocene-Dithiolene Near-IR Dyes
Chemistry Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos $75,000 NSF-DMR-Career Development Program
Nanoscale Controlled Supramolecular Light-Emitting Devices Novel Self Techniques
Career Development Award
Civil Engineering Emmanouil Anagnostou $22,406 NASA
Understanding the Error Characteristics of Precipitation Estimates From Space-Based Observing Systems
New Investigator Program
Civil Engineering Fred Ogden $10,731 Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana
Development of Innovative Algorithms for Culverts and Bridge Crossings In CASC2D
Civil Engineering Barth Smets $6,250 NSF-BES-Research Experience for Undergraduates
Quantification of Horizontal Gene Transfer as Adaptive Response to Containment Stress in Subsurface Microbial Communities (Bioengineering and Environmental Systems) Career Development Award
Civil Engineering & Transportation Institute Jack Stephens & James Mahoney $48,149 Pennsylvania State University
Work Order #18: Northeast Center for Excellence in Pavement Technology Regional Pooled Fund Study
Conn. Small Business Development Center Dennis Gruell $21,493 Association for Small Business Development Centers
SBA/ASBDCF National Small Business Y2K Readiness Training Project
Cooperative Extension Wanda Little $40,000 National 4-H Council
Implementation Node Site
Curriculum & Instruction Liliana Minaya-Rowe $250,000 U.S. Dept. of Ed.-Bilingual Education
Quality Plus Bilingual Teachers
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology David Wagner $5,000 Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection
An Assessment of the Invertebrate Fauna of Higganum Meadows: A State Natural Area
Educational Psychology Scott Brown $3,098 Conn. Dept. of Public Health
Public Health Analysis
Educational Psychology Lee McLean $203,794 U.S. Dept. of Ed.-Special Education and Rehab. Services
Special Projects & Demos Transitional Rehabilitation Services
Educational Psychology Lee Mclean $61,383 Univ. of Kansas
The Development of Presymbolic and Symbolic Communication in Persons with Severe Mental Retardation
Electrical & Systems Engineering Bahram Javidi $30,000 NSF-Div. of Electrical & Communication Systems
Massively Parallel Secure Fault Tolerant Systems for Optical Storage and Transmission of Data
Electrical & Systems Engineering Peter Luh $80,364 Northeast Utilities
Forecasting Market Clearing Prices in the Deregulated Power Market
Electrical & Systems Engineering Geoff Taylor $416,776 Intelligent Automation
A New Charge Coupled Device Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector Combination for Infra-Red Focal Plane Arrays