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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