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May 15, 2000
Grants
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.
The following grants were received by the Office of Sponsored Programs in April:
(Those with UConn listed as a sponsor represent a redistribution of a larger award to the University)
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| Department |
Principal
Investigator |
Sponsor |
Amount |
Award Period |
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| Agriculture and Natural Resources |
| COOP EXT |
Gray, S. |
Conn. Dept. of Mental Retardation |
$11,000 |
1/00-12/01 |
| Nutrition Training for Birth to Three Providers and Parents |
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| Neag School of Education |
| ED PSYCH |
Brown, S. |
United Technologies-Corporate Headquarters |
$100,000 |
1/00-8/00 |
| UTC/UConn/Hartford Partnership:
Professional Development Academy |
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| Engineering |
| CHEM ENG |
Bell, J. |
United Technologies-Pratt & Whitney |
$46,000 |
3/00-12/00 |
| Research Assistance: Pratt & Whitney Supplemental Environmental Project |
| CIV ENG |
Accorsi, M. |
DOD-ARMY-Intergovernmental Personnel Act |
$14,982 |
5/00-8/00 |
| IPA 2000 on Advanced Parachute Simulations |
| CIV ENG |
Leonard, J. |
DOD-ARMY-Intergovernmental Personnel Act |
$21,283 |
5/00-8/00 |
| IPA 2000 on Advanced Parachute Simulations |
| COMP SCI |
McCartney, R. |
NSF-Computer & Information Science & Eng. |
$165,000 |
7/00-6/02 |
| Academic Diversity in Computer Science |
| COMP SCI |
Santos, E. |
Sytronics Inc. |
$40,000 |
3/00-9/00 |
| Active User Interfaces for Crew Intent Understanding |
| ESE |
Luh, P. |
IEEE Industry Application Soc. & IEEE
Foundation |
$50,000 |
1/00-12/00 |
| Editor-In-Chief Support, IEEE Transactions |
| ESE |
Taylor, G. |
DOD-Defense Univ. Res. Instrumentation
Program |
$199,144 |
4/00-4/03 |
| Network Analyzer and Coupled DC Parameter Analyzer |
| MECH ENG |
Begley, M. |
NSF-Engineering-Career Develop. Program |
$196,144 |
7/00-6/04 |
| Career: Determining Time and Temperature Dependent Material Properties for Small Components: Integrated Research and Education |
| MECH ENG |
Bergman, T. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
$5,000 |
1/00-12/00 |
| Senior Design Projects |
| MECH ENG |
Faghri, A. |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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$40,000 |
3/00-11/03 |
| Transport Phenomena in Thin Rotating Liquid Films Including Nucleate Boiling |
| MECH ENG |
Jordan, E. |
Department of Energy |
$151,647 |
2/00-1/01 |
| Development of Non-Destructive Inspection Technique for Thermal Barrier Coatings (Co-PI: Gell, M.) |
| METALL |
Shaw, L. |
DOD-NAVY-Defense Univ. Res. Instr. Program |
$176,796 |
3/00-9/00 |
| Advanced Tribometer and Non-Contact Profilimeter for Structural, Magnetic and Bio-Materials Applications |
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| Family Studies |
| FAMILY STDS |
Asencio, M. |
Soc. for the Psych. Study of Social Issues |
$1,000 |
3/00-8/00 |
| The Cultural Structuring of Universal Developmental Tasks |
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| Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| BIOL: EE |
Cardon, Z. |
Mellon Foundation |
$350,000 |
6/00-3/04 |
| Carbon Fluxes From Plant Roots to Soils: How Timing, Quality and Quantity of Fluxes Affect Rhizosphere Microbial Activity |
| BIOL: EE |
Simon, C. |
NSF-Biological Sciences |
$270,000 |
5/00-4/03 |
| Allochronic Speciation, Repro. Char. Displacement and Sexual Selection in Periodical Cicada (Migicicada spp.) |
| BIOL: MC |
Albert, A. |
PHS-NIH-National Eye Institute |
$243,497 |
4/00-3/01 |
| Rhodopsin Structure and Environment in Vision |
| BIOL: MC |
Gogarten, J. |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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$47,100 |
12/99-11/00 |
| Deciphering the Molecular Record of Early Evolution |
| BIOL: MC |
Knox, J. |
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories |
$100,000 |
3/00-3/02 |
| Crystallographic Structures of Two SHV Beta-Lactamases and Their Reaction Intermediates With Tazobactam |
| BIOL: MC |
Reiter, W-D |
Department of Energy |
$95,000 |
4/00-4/01 |
| Genetic Analysis of Nucleotide Sugar Interconversions in Arabidopsis |
| BIOL: PN |
Johnson, B. |
American Heart Association |
$65,000 |
1/00-12/02 |
| Regulation of the Cardiac L-Type Calcium Channel by the Cytoskeleton Pathways |
| CHEMISTRY |
Rusling, J. |
NSF-Mathematical & Physical Sciences |
$360,000 |
4/00-3/03 |
| Dynamics of Mediated Electrochemical Synthesis in Micro-Emulsions |
| CHEMISTRY |
Seery, T. |
NSF-Mathematical & Physical Sciences |
$71,999 |
2/00-2/01 |
| Direct Synthesis of Polymer Brushed Using Organometallic Catalysts |
| CHEMISTRY |
Seery, T. |
NSF-Mathematical & Physical Sciences |
$60,000 |
3/00-2/01 |
| REU Site in Polymer Materials for Sensing and Actuating |
| COMM SCI |
Gaztambide, J. |
UConn Health Center |
$38,843 |
9/99-8/00 |
| Barriers to Health Communication Among Hispanic Elders in Connecticut |
| ECONOMICS |
Carstensen, F. |
CIGNA Corp. |
$31,460 |
3/00-10/00 |
| CIGNA Developmental Proposal |
| ECONOMICS |
Heffley, D. |
Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation |
$74,776 |
3/00-9/01 |
| Evaluating Standardized Test Performance (Co-PI: Ray, S.) |
| ENGLISH |
Fairbanks, A. |
Conn. Dept. of Education |
$100,000 |
7/99-6/00 |
| Connecticut Writing Project (Co-PI: Manning, J.J. Jr.) |
| GEOLOGY |
Cormier, V. |
DOD-Defense Threat Reduction Agency |
$48,358 |
3/00-3/03 |
| Seismic Calibration for International Monitoring System Stations in Eastern Asia |
| MARINE SCI |
Cooper, R. |
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. |
$27,853 |
1/00-12/00 |
| The Aquanaut Program 2000 |
| MARINE SCI |
Monahan, E. |
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. |
$848,000 |
3/00-2/01 |
| 2000-01: Conn. Sea Grant Coll. Program (Co-PIs: Laufer, H., Balcom, N., Chen, T., Yarish, C., Scheifele, P., Arnold, C., Crawford, H.,
Babb, I.) |
| MATH |
Gine-Masdeu, E. |
DOD-National Security Agency |
$10,000 |
4/00-4/01 |
| 5th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society-Partial Support U.S. Participants |
| PHYSICS |
Gould, P. |
Commerce-Natl. Inst. of Standards and Tech. |
$5,000 |
2/00-6/00 |
| Conference Proposal: Annual Meeting of the Division for Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics |
| POLI SCI |
Dautrich, K. |
The Dallas Foundation |
$80,400 |
7/99-12/00 |
| Center for Survey Research and Analysis |
| PSYCH |
Fein, D. |
PHS-NIH-National Institute of Mental Health |
$24,521 |
4/00-3/01 |
| The Autism Screening Project (Graduate Assistant: Robins, D.) |
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| Pharmacy |
| PHARM SCI |
Manautou, J. |
PHS-NIH-Environ. Health Sciences |
$106,876 |
4/00-3/03 |
| Analysis of Multi Drug Resistance-Associated Protein (cMOAT) Expression During Hepatocellular Proliferation |
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| Office of Vice Chancellor for Bus. & Admin. |
| PUB SAFETY |
Hudd, R. |
Conn. Office of Policy & Mgmt. |
$4,736 |
3/99-2/00 |
| Bullet Proof Vest Partnership Program |
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| Office of Vice Provost for Research & Graduate Education |
| ERI |
Carley, R. |
City of Hartford, Health Department |
$49,660 |
3/00-2/01 |
| Hartford Air Toxics Study (Co-PI: Perkins, C.) |
| MSTC |
Babb, I. |
NOAA-Natl. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. |
$1,000,000 |
1/00-12/00 |
| The National Undersea Research Center |
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| The following grant received in March was omitted from the list supplied to the Advance: |
| Agriculture & Natural Resources |
| IWR |
Thomas, H. |
Dept. of Interior-U.S. Geol. Survey |
$68,178 |
3/00-2/01 |
| State Water Resources Research Program |
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