Grants
| The following grants were received through the Office for Sponsored Programs in September. The list represents only new proposals awarded, and excludes continuations. The list of grants is supplied to the Advance each month by the Office for Sponsored Programs and is printed in one or more issues, depending on space available. | ||||
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Department
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Principal Investigator
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Sponsor
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Amount
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Award Period
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| College of Agriculture & Natural Resources | ||||
| Natural Resources Management | Barclay, J. | Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection | $22,198 | 8/04-5/06 |
| Assessing Human Attitudes and Influences Towards Resident Canada Goose Nuisance Issues in Connecticut | ||||
| Avery Point Campus | ||||
| History | Rozwadowski, H. | National Science Foundation/Office of Polar Programs | $35,000 | 9/04-8/05 |
| Maury Workshop on the History of Polar Oceanography | ||||
| Physics | Gai, M. | Dept. of Energy | $411,000 | 6/04-4/07 |
| Studies in Low Energy Nuclear Physics | ||||
| Neag School of Education | ||||
| Educational Psychology | Colbert, R. | Futures Inc. | $25,073 | 8/04-5/05 |
| Counseling Intern Student | ||||
| Educational Psychology | Karan, O. | Plainfield School District, Plainfield, Conn. | $23,445 | 8/04-5/05 |
| Counseling Intern | ||||
| Educational Psychology | Kehle, T. | Sprague Board of Education | $17,583 | 9/04-6/05 |
| Psychological Services to the Schools | ||||
| Educational Psychology | Reis, S. | U.S. Dept. of Education/Educational Research & Development | $2,950,000 | 10/03-9/08 |
| Using Schoolwide Enrichment Model Reading, Framework (SEM-R) to Increase Achievement, Fluency, and Enjoyment in Reading | ||||
| Educational Psychology | Young, M. | Lebanon Public Schools | $18,803 | 8/04-5/05 |
| Counseling Intern | ||||
| School of Engineering | ||||
| Civil & Environmental | Anagnostou, E. | National Aeronautics & Space Administration | $24,000 | 8/04-9/07 |
| Spatio-temporal Characteristics of Tropical C/S Engineering Student : Alemu Tadesse | ||||
| Civil & Environmental Engineering | Wang, G. | National Aeronautics & Space Administration | $131,878 | 9/04-9/06 |
| Impact of Dynamic Root Water Uptake and Seasonal Vegetation Variation on Surface Hydrological Processes | ||||
| Chemical Engineering | Fenton, J. | Dept. of Energy/United Technologies-Fuel Cell Center | $455,000 | 4/04-5/05 |
| Development of High Temperature Membranes and Improved Cathode Structures | ||||
| Chemical Engineering | Helble, J. | Dept. of Energy | $199,967 | 9/04-8/07 |
| Homogenous and Heterogenous Reaction and Transformation of Hg and Trace Metals in Combustion Systems | ||||
| Chemical Engineering | Weiss, R. | National Aeronautics & Space Administration/University of Hartford | $6,000 | 7/04-2/05 |
| Intercalation of Silicate Clay with Ionomers | ||||
| Computer Science & Engineering | Ammar, R. | National Aeronautics & Space Administration/University of Hartford | $5,000 | 7/04-9/04 |
| A Software Architecture for System Level Performance Analysis | ||||
| Computer Science & Engineering | Cui, J. | National Science Foundation/ Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering | $240,000 | 10/04-9/07 |
| NeTS-Collaborative Research-NR: Over-Probe: A Toolkit for the Management of OverLay Networks with Mobile Users | ||||
| Computer Science & Engineering | Peters, T. | National Science Foundation/Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering | $254,999 | 9/04-8/07 |
| Computational Topology for Surface Approximation | ||||
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | Escabi, M. | National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Deafness | 1283000 | 7/04-5/09 |
| Spectro-Temporal and Binaural Response Properties and Other Communication Disorders | ||||
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | Luh, P. | National Science Foundation/Directorate for Engineering | 335000 | 9/04-8/07 |
| Achieving Quality and Coherent Configuration and Operations | ||||
| Materials Science | Padture, N. | National Science Foundation/Directorate for Engineering | $374,591 | 10/04-9/07 |
| Sensors: Engineered Nanowires and Arrays as Advanced Chemical Nanosensors | ||||
| Mechanical Engineering | Reifsnider, K. | National Science Foundation/Directorate for Engineering | $40,000 | 9/04-8/05 |
| Constitutive Modeling for Mechanical Response of Nano-Phase Composite Laminates | ||||
| Mechanical Engineering | Sammes, N. | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | $10,000 | 9/04-8/05 |
| Pollution Reduction and Resources Saving through the Use of Waste Derived Gas for Fueling a High Temperature Fuel Cell | ||||
| School of Family Studies | ||||
| Family Studies Instruction & Research | Weaver, S. | Conn. Dept. of Education | $75,000 | 7/04-6/05 |
| Family & Consumer Sciences Teacher Preparation Program | ||||
| School of Fine Arts | ||||
| Art & Art History | Givens, J. | American Council of Learned Societies | $40,000 | 7/04-6/05 |
| Picturing the Healing Arts: Word, Image and the Illustrated Tractatus de herbis, 1280-1526 | ||||
| College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | ||||
| Center for Survey Research & Analysis | Barnes, C. | Conn. Dept. of Agriculture | $4,000 | 5/04-9/04 |
| Farm Risk Management | ||||
| Center for Survey Research & Analysis | Barnes, C. | U.S. Dept. of Labor/Conn. Dept. of Labor | $57,000 | 8/04-9/05 |
| Survey of Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Job Seekers/Employers | ||||
| Center for Survey Research & Analysis | Barnes, C. | The Hartford Courant | $1,500 | 7/04-8/04 |
| Medical Marijuana Questions | ||||
| Chemistry | Howell, A. | National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases | $95,064 | 8/04-8/07 |
| Predoctoral Fellowships for Students with Disabilities | ||||
| Communication Sciences | Cienkowski, K. | Vivatone Hearing Systems LLC | $29,358 | 9/04-9/05 |
| Insertion Loss and Occlusion Effect Evaluation | ||||
| History | Brown, R. | National Endowment for the Humanities | $109,877 | 10/04-9/05 |
| Early American Microhistories | ||||
| History | Dayton, C. | Andrew Mellon Foundation/American Antiquarian Society | $40,000 | 8/04-5/05 |
| Self and Sanity in Early New England | ||||
| Marine Sciences/Marine Science & Technology Center | Goebel, N. | Environmental Protection Agency/Long Island Sound Office | $71,010 | 9/04-8/05 |
| A Biological-Physical Numerical Simulation Model for the Investigation, Predication, and Management of Pelagic Oxygen Production and Consumption in Long Island Sound: Data Analysis and Model Formulation | ||||
| Marine Sciences/Marine Science & Technology Center | O’Donnell, J. | University of Maine | $19,200 | 8/04-8/04 |
| Charter of the Research Vessel Connecticut | ||||
| Molecular & Cell Biology | Gogarten, J. | National Aeronautics & Space Administration | $368,477 | 9/04-8/07 |
| Exploration of Novel Methods to Visualize Genome | ||||
| Physics | Joo, K. | National Science Foundation/Directorate for Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences | $19,600 | 9/04-8/07 |
| U.S.-Korea Cooperative Research Measurements of 5th Structure Function for Single Pion Electro-Production in the Delta (1232) Resonance Region | ||||
| Psychology | Barnes-Farrell, J. | Leadership Research Institute | $14,209 | 8/04-1/05 |
| Graduate Field Research Training | ||||
| Psychology | Essock, S. | Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration/Mount Sinai School of Medicine | $15,308 | 5/04-8/04 |
| Project Liberty Analyses | ||||
| Psychology | Essock, S. | New York State Office for Mental Health/Mount Sinai School of Medicine | $15,244 | 5/04-8/04 |
| OMH Waiver/Kids Oneida Phase 2 | ||||
| Psychology | Frisman, L. | Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration/Conn. Dept. of Mental Health & Addiction Services | $13,200 | 5/04-1/05 |
| Understanding the Effect of Substance Abuse Treatment on Wages: an Evaluation of the State of Connecticut’s Substance Abuse Treatment Programs | ||||
| Psychology | Turvey, M. | National Science Foundation/Directorate for Social, Behavioral, & | $300,000 | 9/04-8/07 |
| Coordination Dynamics | ||||
| Political Science | Robbins, M. | Town of West Hartford, Conn. | $30,000 | 5/04-6/05 |
| Citizen Identified Municipal Performance Measures | ||||
| School of Pharmacy | ||||
| Pharmaceutical Sciences | Vinogradova, O. | American Heart Association | $195,000 | 8/04-7/07 |
| Molecular Mechanism of Integrin Outside-in Signaling: Tyrosine-Phosphorylation and Binding of aIIbb3 Cytoplasmic Face | ||||
| Office of the Vice Provost for Research & Graduate Education | ||||
| Environmental Research Institute | Dahmani, A. | River Sound Development/BL Companies | $4,500 | 6/1-6/4/04 |
| The Preserve | ||||
| Office for Undergraduate Education | ||||
| Academic Programs Center | Rivera, A. | SBC Foundation/National Council for Community & Education Partnerships | $49,910 | 9/04-9/05 |
| Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs | ||||
| Academic Programs Center | Rivera, A. | SBC Foundation/National Council for Community & Education Partnerships | $43,031 | 9/04-9/05 |
| Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs | ||||
| Academic Programs Center | Ulloa-Beal, S. | Conn. Dept. of Higher Education | $125,985 | 7/04-6/05 |
| Connecticut Collegiate Awareness and Preparation Programs (CONNCAP) | ||||
