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Grants
| The following grants were received through the Office for Sponsored Programs in August. The list represents only new proposals awarded, and excludes continuations. The list of grants is supplied to the Advance by the Office for Sponsored Programs and is printed in one or more issues, depending on space available. Other grants received in August were published in the Nov. 1 issue. | ||||
| College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | ||||
| Center for Survey Research & Analysis | Barnes, C. | Connecticut Dept. of Public Health | 7/04-10/04 | $58,700 |
| Dept. of Public Health – Lyme Disease | ||||
| Chemistry | Papadimitrakopoulos, F. | National Science Foundation/Northeastern University | 4/04-3/05 | $59,757 |
| Bio-Nano-Robotic Systems Using Viral Protein Motors | ||||
| Chemistry | Suib, S. | Syntroleum Corp. | 7/04-12/04 | $7,903 |
| XPS of Catalyst Supports | ||||
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Cardon, Z. | Environmental Protection Agency | 8/04-8/07 | $111,000 |
| Does Hydraulic Redistribution Increase Microbial Activity in the Rhizosphere | ||||
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Mehrhoff, L. | U.S. Dept. of Interior/U.S. Geological Survey | 7/04-10/05 | $18,882 |
| Early Detection Pilot for New England | ||||
| Economics | Carstensen, F. | Universal Healthcare Foundation of Connecticut Inc. | 7/04-11/04 | $19,800 |
| Comparative Assessment of Health Care Proposals | ||||
| Geography | Cromley, R. | Connecticut Dept. of Environmental Protection | 8/04-1/05 | $20,000 |
| Georeferencing of Year 2000 False Color Infrared (FCIR) Coastal Aerial Photos | ||||
| Marine Sciences/Marine Science & Technology Center | Fitzgerald, W. | National Science Foundation | 9/04-8/07 | $395,364 |
| Biogeochemical Cycling and Fate of Mercury and Methylmercury in the Arctic Alaskan Lakes | ||||
| Marine Sciences/Marine Science & Technology Center | Ward, E. | National Science Foundation | 9/04-8/07 | $611,503 |
| EID: Collaborative Research: Linking Marine Pathogens to Molluscan Shellfish: The Ecological Role of Marine Aggregates | ||||
| Philosophy | Kupperman, J. | National Endowment for the Humanities | 8/04-7/05 | $40,000 |
| Values in Ethics | ||||
| Physics | Cote, R. | National Science Foundation | 9/04-8/07 | $180,000 |
| Ultracold Collisions to Probe Fundamental Physics | ||||
| Physics | Jones, R. | National Science Foundation | 8/04-7/06 | $85,278 |
| Research Program in Intermediate Energy Physics | ||||
| Psychology | Barnes-Farrell, J. | U.S. Dept. of Transportation/Research and Special Programs | 7/04-1/06 | $99,711 |
| Psychometric Support for Alternative Safety Measures Study | ||||
| Psychology | Frisman, L. | Connecticut Dept. of Mental Health & Addiction Services | 5/04-1/05 | $13,200 |
| Understanding the Effect of Substance Abuse Treatment on Wages | ||||
| Psychology | Magnuson, J. | National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Deafness | 9/04-8/07 | $666,000 |
| The Auditory Lexicon: Similarity, Learning and Processing | ||||
| Sociology | Broadhead, R. | National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse | 9/04-8/09 | $624,622 |
| Global Expansion of Peer-Driven Interventions | ||||
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| School of Engineering | ||||
| Chemical Engineering | Fenton, J. | Toyota Technical Center USA Inc. | 7/04-12/04 | $18,000 |
| Evaluation of UConn’s High Temperature Membrane Electrode Assembly (HTMEA) by Toyota of Japan | ||||
| Chemical Engineering | Helble, J. | Mobotec USA Inc. | 7/04-10/04 | $13,955 |
| Report on Mercury in Combustion Systems | ||||
| Chemical Engineering | Zhu, L. | American Chemical Society/Petroleum Research Fund | 9/04-8/06 | $35,000 |
| Tailoring Centrisymmetric and Noncentrosymmetric Morphologies Using Poly(L-lactide)/Poly(D-lactide) Stereocomplex | ||||
| Civil & Environmental Engineering | Aultman-Hall, L. | U.S. Dept. of Transportation/Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 9/03-5/05 | $106,900 |
| Modeling Modal Transient Events for Vehicle Emission Models | ||||
| Civil & Environmental Engineering | DeWolf, J. | Connecticut Dept. of Transportation | 7/04-6/05 | $166,349 |
| Bridge Monitoring Network in Connecticut | ||||
| Civil & Environmental Engineering | Garrick, N. | U.S. Dept. of Transportation/MassachusettsInstitute of Technology | 9/03-8/05 | $126,000 |
| Parking Demand Management for Sustainable Development: Learning from InnovativeNew England Communities | ||||
| Civil & Environmental Engineering | Or, D. | National Science Foundation | 9/04-8/07 | $433,964 |
| Diffusional Constraints Affecting Microbial Distribution and Activity in Unsaturated Porous Media | ||||
| Computer Science & Engineering | Ammar, R. | National Science Foundation/U.S.-Egypt Joint Science & Technology Board | 9/04-8/06 | $30,306 |
| U.S.-Egypt Cooperative Research: Efficient Scheduling Strategies for Real-time Applications inCluster Environments with Possible Processor’s Failures | ||||
| Computer Science & Engineering | Gokhale, S. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration/University of Hartford | 3/04-11/04 | $10,000 |
| Performability Analysis of Software Architecture Styles | ||||
| Computer Science & Engineering | Kiayias, A. | U.S. Dept. of Commerce/National Institute of Standards and | 7/04-1/05 | $24,900 |
| Credential Management | ||||
| Computer Science & Engineering | Santos, E. | Dept. of Defense | 8/04-8/07 | $407,175 |
| On Effectively Handling Large Volumes of Geospatial Intelligence Information: A Formal Distributed Real-Time Processing Approach | ||||
| Connecticut Transportation Institute | Shea, D. | U.S. Dept. of Transportation/Connecticut Dept.of Transportation | 1/04-12/04 | $331,920 |
| Transportation Technology Transfer Center at the University of Connecticut | ||||
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | Anwar, A. | Dept. of Defense | 7/04-8/05 | $135,509 |
| IPA Sabbatical Leave | ||||
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | Enderle, J. | Lifespan | 8/04-8/06 | $37,099 |
| Clinical Engineering Internship Program at the Lifespan | ||||
| Materials Science | Wei, M. | International Team for Implantology Foundation/UConn Health Center | 7/04-6/06 | $59,580 |
| Bioactive Implant Guided Supracrestal Bone Formation | ||||
| Mechanical Engineering | Sammes, N. | Dept. of Energy/FuelCell Energy Inc. | 6/04-9/04 | $20,000 |
| Feasibility Study of Electrospray Deposition of Electrolytes/Electrocodes for Lower Cost SOFC | ||||
| Mechanical Engineering | Sammes, N. | Aerogel Composite LLC | 7/04-4/05 | $98,826 |
| Evaluation and Performance Metrics of Aerogel Composite Material | ||||
