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Grants

- May 30, 2006



The following grants were received through the Office for Sponsored Programs in March 2006. 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.

Previous grant listings can be found on the Grants archive page.

Department
Principal Investigator
Sponsor
Amount
Award Period
New Research Proposals
 
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Nutritional Sciences Ferris, A. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/Univ. of Rhode Island
$59,765
10/05-9/06
USDA Food Stamp Nutrition Education Project/Senior Nutrition Awareness Project
Plant Science Ellis, D. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/Conn. Agricultural Experiment Station
$41,858
1/06-12/06
FY 2006 Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) Program
 
Neag School of Education
Special Education Center Madaus, J. U.S. Dept. of Education/Conn. Dept. of Education
$35,652
1/06-12/06
Follow-Up Study of Exiters of Special Education in Connecticut School Districts – Year 2004
Kinesiology Volek, J. NBTY Inc./College of Charleston
$120,071
1/06-9/07
Safety and Efficacy of NBTY Products as Part of a Carbohydrate Restricted Diet With and Without Resistance Exercise
 
School of Engineering
Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center Molter, T. National Aeronautics & Space Administration/Infinity Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Inc.
$104,500
9/05-12/07
Fuel Cell Advanced Product Water Removal (APWR) and Management
Connecticut Transportation Institute Mahoney, J. Conn. Dept. of Transportation/New England Transportation Consortium
$109,918
8/05-8/07
NETC Project 04-1, Recycling Asphalt Pavements Containing Modified Binders
Civil & Environmental Engineering Kim, J. National Science Foundation
$400,000
8/06-7/11
CAREER: An Integrated Research and Education on Functionally Graded Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Modeling and Experiments
Electrical & Computer Engineering Fei, Y. National Science Foundation
$274,963
4/06-3/09
A Multi-Level/Multi-Facet Framework for Energy-Efficient Application-Specific Instruction Set Processor Synthesis
Electrical & Computer Engineering Pattipati, K. United Technologies-Pratt & Whitney
$21,000
2/06-12/06
Rapid Testing Tools for Engine Diagnostics
Mechanical Engineering Ilies, H. National Science Foundation
$320,000
3/06-2/09
COGEM: Constrained Geometric Morphing of Product Families of Mechanical Design
 
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Anthropology McBrearty, S. National Science Foundation
$32,414
3/06-2/07
First Fossil Chimpanzee
Center for Survey Research & Analysis Barnes, C. Conn. Office of the Secretary of the State
$14,000
2/06-12/06
Voting Machine Error Rate Study
Chemistry Suib, S. Dept. of Energy/Rohm and Haas Co.
$30,000
3/06-5/07
Millisecond Oxidation of Alkanes
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Caira, J. National Science Foundation
$500,801
3/06-2/10
Collaborative Research: A Survey of the Elasmobranchs and their Metazoan Parasites of Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan)
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Turchin, P. University of California at Riverside
$102,608
10/05-9/08
Global State Formation: Modeling the Rise, Fall, and Upward Sweeps of Large Polities in World History and the Global Future
History Baldwin, P. U.S. Dept. of Education/Capitol Region Education Council
$6,930
12/04-5/05
Teaching American History in the Capitol Region from Dec 2004 to May 2005
Marine Sciences Bucklin, A. Sloan (Alfred P.) Foundation/Univ. of New Hampshire
$65,124
10/05-9/06
Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ)
Marine Sciences Mason, R. National Science Foundation
$272,590
10/05-12/06
Investigating the Importance of the Coastal Zone as a Source of Methylmercury to the Ocean
Mathematics Cardetti, F. U.S. Dept. of Education/Conn. Dept. of Education
$113,300
4/06-8/07
Math Quality Education for Students and Teachers MathQuEST
Physics Sinkovic, B. Dept. of Defense, Army/North Carolina State Univ.
$6,716
11/05-4/06
On-Site Support at the U4A Beamline of the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS)
Psychology Barnes-Farrell, J. National Society of Black Engineers
$21,458
2/06-10/06
2006 NSBE Student Survey
Psychology Crawford, M. Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
$1,000
2/06-6/06
Sex for Sale: The Status of Women, Political Violence, and the Increased Risk of Sex Trafficking in Nepal
Psychology Marsh, K. Cure Autism Now Foundation
$9,793
3/06-3/07
Assessing Synchrony as a Basis for Social Connection in Autism
Statistics Chi, Z. National Institutes of Health/Univ. of Chicago
$31,170
7/05-6/06
Characterization of Non-Linear Auditory Receptive Fields
 
School of Nursing
School of Nursing Instruction & Research McDonald, D. National Institutes of Health
$233,100
3/06-2/08
Older Adults’ Response to Health Care Practitioner Pain Communication
 
Office of the Vice Provost for Research & Graduate Education
Center for Environmental Science & Engineering Willig, M. National Science Foundation
$155,261
12/05-11/06
Spatial Variation in the Composition of Local Assemblages in the Luquillo Experimental Forest: A Metacommunity and Scale Sensitive Perspective
Institute of Materials Science Boggs, S. Underground Systems Inc. (USi)
$50,730
3/06-10/06
Finite Element Analysis of Electrical Equipment
 
School of Social Work
School of Social Work Instruction & Research Havens, C. Conn. Dept. of Education/Hartford Public Schools
$50,000
10/05-6/06
Safe Schools/Healthy Students
 
New Service, Instruction, Training, and Planning Proposals  
 
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Pathobiology Bushmich, S. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/Conn. Dept. of Agriculture
$162,067
2/06-1/07
Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza Surveillance Program
 
Neag School of Education
Educational Psychology Colbert, R. Futures Inc.
$12,190
1/06-5/06
Counseling Psychology Internship – Mary Perry
 
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Marine Sciences Bucklin, A. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
$8,600
2/06-2/06
Charter of the R/V Connecticut for WHOI Buoy Recovery
 
School of Nursing
School of Nursing Instruction & Research Shelton, D. Public Health Service/Health Resources & Services Admin.
$83,259
3/06-2/07
Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant Program 

 

 

  
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