The following grants were received by the
Office of Sponsored Programs in August:
(Those with UConn listed as a source represent a distribution of a larger
federal award to the University.) |
Department |
Researcher |
Amount |
Source |
Civil Engineering |
Ramesh Malla |
$30,350 |
UConn-Space Grant (Redistr.) |
Aerospace Structures and Materials |
Civil Engineering |
Barth Smets |
$25,000 |
United Technologies-Sikorsky Aircraft |
Evaluation of Engineered Bioattenuation of Sikorsky Stratford Site |
Communication Sciences |
Antonia Maxon & Marion
Cohen |
$146,761 |
U.S. Dept. of Ed-Special Education and Rehab.
Services |
An Improvement in the Childhood Hearing Impairment Program: An M.A. Training Program for Audiologists |
Communication Sciences |
Leslie Snyder |
$444,800 |
PHS-SAMHSA-Alcohol Abuse |
Natural Experiments on TV Liquor Ad Effects |
Computer Science |
Reda Ammar |
$30,350 |
UConn-Space Grant (Redistr.) |
Information Technology and High Performance Computing |
Computer Science |
Gerald Engel |
$50,000 |
Dept. of Defense-Office of Naval Research |
Issues in Systems Interoperability Workshop Series |
Cooperative Extension |
Stephen Broderick |
$25,000 |
Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection |
Project Agreement-Stewardship Program |
Cooperative Extension |
Carole Eller |
$15,780 |
Windham Public Schools |
4-H Lift: After School Grant Program |
Ecology & Evolutionary
Biology |
David Wagner |
$10,000 |
USDA-Forest Service |
Caterpillars of Eastern Forests |
Economics |
Dennis Heffley |
$21,120 |
Univ. of Connecticut Health Center |
Improving Prenatal Screening Protocols |
Educational Psychology |
Thomas Kehle |
$13,250 |
Windham Public Schools |
Psychological Services to Students
(Graduate Assistant: Donna Alfisi) |
Educational Psychology |
Thomas Kehle |
$13,250 |
Windham Public Schools |
Psychological Services to Students
(Graduate Assistant: Shamim Patwa) |
Electrical & Systems
Engineering |
Douglas Abraham |
$42,000 |
DOD-Navy-Naval Undersea Warfare Center |
Signal Class Statistical Descriptions for Class-Specific Classifier |
Electrical & Systems
Engineering |
Mehdi Anwar |
$14,150 |
UConn-Space Grant (Redistr.) |
Photonics |
Electrical & Systems
Engineering |
John Ayers |
$35,312 |
NSF-Division of Electrical & Communication
Systems |
Patterned Heteroepitaxial Processing: A New Approach to Mismatched Heteroepitaxy for the Fabrication of High-Performance
Semiconductor Device |
Electrical & Systems
Engineering |
John Ayers |
$38,898 |
NSF-Division of Electrical & Communication
Systems |
Reliability Study of Oxidized Deposited Polysilicon Gate Oxide for Silicon Carbide Power Transistors |
Electrical & Systems
Engineering |
John Enderle |
$60,000 |
Whitaker Foundation |
Industrial Internship Program in Biomedical Engineering at UConn |
Geography & Library |
Robert Cromley &
Thornton McGlamery |
$13,400 |
Interior-U.S. Geological Survey |
Establishing Distributed Spatial Metadata Collection in Connecticut |
Mathematics |
Michael Neumann |
$63,000 |
NSF-Division of Mathematical Sciences |
Computations and Applications for Stochastic Matrices, Linear Systems, and Graphs |
Mechanical Engineering |
Eric Jordan & Maurice
Gell |
$90,723 |
Univ. of Pittsburgh (Howard Heinz Endowment) |
Chemical/Mechanical Instabilities at Thermal Barrier Coating Interfaces |
Natural Resources
Management & Engineering |
Daniel Civco |
$14,150 |
UConn-Space Grant (Redistr.) |
Remote Sensing |
Natural Resources
Management & Engineering |
John Clausen |
$15,000 |
Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection |
Stormwater Treatment Devices |
Natural Resources
Management & Engineering |
John Clausen |
$80,000 |
Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection |
Jordan Cove National Monitoring Project |
Natural Resources
Management & Engineering |
David Miller |
$55,122 |
NSF-Atmospheric Sciences |
Vertical Divergence of Turbulent and Radiative Fluxes, and Influences of Mesoscale Motions on Turbulence Intermittency |
Natural Resources
Management & Engineering,
Civil Engineering |
Glenn Warner & Fred
Ogden |
$28,000 |
Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection |
Assessment of the Applicability of Engineering Hydrologic Models in Connecticut |
Nutritional Sciences |
Mary McGrane |
$260,251 |
USDA-National Research Initiative |
Retinoid Regulation of Genes in Hepatic Gluoneogenesis |