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Monthly listings of extramural funding are supplied to the Advance by the Office of Sponsored Programs. The full month's list is posted to this website, generally by the third week of the month following the receipt of the grant by OSP. Grants are published in the weekly print version of the Advance on a space-available basis.

PLEASE NOTE: With this posting, the format for the grant listings has been revised: department names now conform to those provided by OSP; a column for the award period has been added; and departments are grouped by school/college.

The following grants were received by the Office of Sponsored Programs in January: (Those with UConn listed as a sponsor represent a redistribution of a larger award to the University)

Agricultural and Natural Resources
Allied Health
Business
Chancellor

Engineering
Family Studies
Liberal Arts and Sciences
Pharmacy

School/College: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Department Principal Investigator Sponsor Amount Award Period
ANIM SCI Venkitanarayanan, K. USDA-National Research Initiative $49,412 11/99-11/01
Characterization of Cold Temperature-Induced Proteins in Yersinia Enerocolitica and the Effect of Osmolytes on its Cold Tolerance
COOP EXT Eller, C. Kansas State University $3,500 9/99-12/00
Child Care National Newsletter
NUTR SCI Ferris, A. Connecticut Department of Social Services $1,228,024 10/99-9/01
Family Nutrition Program
PATHOBIO Whiteley, H. USDA-Agricultural Research Service $86,694 10/99-9/00
Research Support Agreement #58-3615-0-01
PLNT SCI Guillard, K. USDA-National Research Initiative $85,000 12/99-12/01
Late-Season Fertilization Effects on turfgrass Growth and Nitrate Leaching
PLNT SCI Li, Y. USDA-National Research Initiative $48,465 12/99-11/00
A Bench-Top Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometer
School/College: Allied Health
Department Principal Investigator Sponsor Amount Award Period
ALD HLTH Duffy, V. Connecticut Department of Public Health $13,770 10/99-9/00
Nutrition Education Intervention to Increase the Purchase of Healthy Food by Food Stamp Participants
School/College: Business
Department Principal Investigator Sponsor Amount Award Period
Business Mathieu, J. Department of Defense-U.S. Air Force $147,462 12/99-11/00
Integrated Multi-Team Decision Making, Processes, and Effectiveness
School/College: Chancellor
Department Principal Investigator Sponsor Amount Award Period
IMS Boggs, S. Consolidated Edison Co. $9,000 7/99-3/00
Washington Heights Service Interruption Investigation
School/College: Engineering
Department Principal Investigator Sponsor Amount Award Period
CHEM ENG Mather, P. Department of Defense-Air Force $112,722 12/99-11/00
New Polymers and Processing for Space Applications
CHEM ENG Weiss, R. Norton Performance Plastics $88,864 1/00-12/00
Improving Adhesion Between Fluoropolymers and Polyamides
CIV ENG Garrick, N. Massachusetts Institute of Technology $20,000 9/99-8/00
New England University Transportation Center UCONN
Graduate Fellowships
CIV ENG Ivan, J. Massachusetts Institute of Technology $50,000 9/99-8/00
Incorporating Intelligent Transportation Systems Development in Strategic Planning
CIV ENG. Ivan, J Massachusetts Institute of Technology $60,000 9/99-8/00
Finding Strategies to Improve Pedestrain Safety in rural Areas
CIV ENG Nikolaidis, N. United TEC-SAIR Sikorsky Aircraft $67,360 8/99-12/99
Sikorsky-Phase II RCRA (Resource Conservation & Recovery Act) Facility Investigation Work Plan Corrective Actoin Program
COMP SCI Peters, T. NSF-Division of Mathematical Sciences $30,000 1/00-12/00
Integrating Topology and Numerics at CAD (Computer-Aided Design) Interfaces
MECH ENG Bergman, T. United TEC-SAIR Sikorsky Aircraft $5,000 1/00-12/00
Senior Design Projects
METALL Padture, N. Department of Defense-U.S. Air Force $199,933 10/99-7/00
Fundamental Studies of Novel Contact-Damage-Resistant Ceramics
METALL Padture, N. U.S.-Spain Science and Tech Program $10,378 6/99-5/01
Novel Thermal Barrier Coatings
School/College: Family Studies
Department Principal Investigator Sponsor Amount Award Period
FAM STDS Blank, T. PHS-NIH-AGING $70,792 2/00-1/01
Aging Men Surviving Prostate Cancer: Personality Factors
School/College: Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department Principal Investigator Sponsor Amount Award Period
BIOL: PN Crivello, J. Northeast Utilities $9,458 9/99-8/00
Genetic Stock Identification of Pleurectes Americanus From Several Source Populations in the Northease and Mid-Atlantic States
CHEMISTR Suib, S. Yardney Technical Products, Inc. $97,659 1/00-12/01
Development and Demonstration of Improved Metallic Anode Material
CSRA Barnes, C. Dept. of Economic and Community Develop. $15,000 12/99-6/00
Economic Impact of Tourism
CSRA Barnes, C. Dept. of Economic and Community Develop. $10,000 11/99-4/00
Dept. of Economic and Community Develop. Outreach
ECONOMIC Carstensen, F. Dept. of Economic and Community Develop. $10,000 11/99-4/00
Department of Economic and Community Development Outreach
ECONOMIC Carstensen, F. Northeast Utilities $17,000 1/00-12/00
The Connecticut Economy: A University of Connecticut Quarterly Review
GEOG Cromley, E. Connecticut Department of Public Health $16,898 10/99-9/00
GIS (Geographic Information System) for Prevention of Tick-Borne Illness
GEOLOGY Cormier, V. NSF-Division of Earth Sciences $118,449 3/00-2/02
Heterogeneity, Anisotropy, and Anelasticity in the Lowermost Mantle and Inner Core
MARINE Bogden, P. Department of Defense-Navy $97,574 1/00-12/01
Predictability Studies with an Inverse Method at LEO-15
PHYSICS Wells, B. Department of Energy $57,899 12/99-11/00
Charge Inhomogeneity in Correlated Electron Systems
PSYCH Johnson, B. PHS-NIH-National Institute of Mental Health $112,872 8/99-4/00
Attitudes in the Context of HIV Prevention
PSYCH Johnson, B. PHS-NIH-National Institute of Mental Health $140,122 8/99-5/00
Synthesis of HIV Risk Reduction Research
SOCIOL Broadhead, R. PHS-NIH-National Institute of Drug Abuse $611,458 12/99-11/00
Increasing Drug Users' Adherence to HIV Therapeutics
School/College: Pharmacy
Department Principal Investigator Sponsor Amount Award Period
PHARM SCI Makriyannis, A. DED-CII-Critical Technologies $293,383 8/99-7/01
Estrogen Receptor Modulators for Diverse Breast Cancers
PHARM SCI Toce, Patricia CONN-DPH $10,000 9/99-3/00
Pharmacist as Public Health Educator II