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Research Foundation announces spring 2008 'Faculty Large Grants' - May 5, 2008 |
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| The Research Foundation’s spring 2008 Faculty Large Grants were announced recently. The goal of these awards is to help faculty move into a better position to apply for and receive extramural funding for their research and scholarly activities. For the Faculty Large Grant competition, the Research Advisory Council received 61 proposals totaling more than $1.2 million and made 34 awards totaling more than $575,000. The proposals were peer reviewed by members of a standing review panel. Award recipients are: Daniel Adler, Anthropology, UConn's Archaeological Field School in Armenian Prehistory: The Razdan Gorge Palaeolithic Project, Armenia, $23,523 Maya Beasley, Sociology, Investigating the Role of Counterterrorism and Repression on Terrorist and Non-Violent Activities in the Middle East, $3,010 David Benson, Molecular & Cell Biology, Comparative Shotgun Proteomics of Free-Living Versus Plant Symbiotic Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria, $24,000 Edna Brown, Human Development and Family Studies, The Divorce Experience in the Context of Race and Gender, $3,010 Richard Christenson, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Distributed Real-Time Hybrid Simulation, $23,500 Christophe Dupraz, Marine Sciences, Biosphere-Lithosphere Interface: the Role of EPS in the Precipitation of Carbonate Minerals in Biofilms, $21,289 Pamela Erickson, Anthropology, Social Context of Sexual Behavior among Emergent Adults: A Pilot Study of Caucasians, $26,000 Till Daniel Frank, Psychology, Delay Oscillators of Behavioral Dynamics and Dynamical Diseases, $21,593 Paulo Goes, Operations & Information Management, A Study of Late Bidding Behavior in Online Auctions, $10,100 David Goldhamer, Molecular & Cell Biology, The Cellular Basis of Heterotopic Ossification, $16,300 Amy Ruth Howell, Chemistry, Investigation of a Plantinum-Catalyzed Expansion of Oxaspirohexanes to Tetrahydrofurane, $20,143 Randall Hoyt, Art & Art History, The Origins and Influence of Graphic Design Pedagogy in the United States during the Mid-to Late 20th Century, $10,000 John Ivan, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Investigation of Vehicle Interaction Severity as a Surrogate for Highway Crash Severity, $2,500 Blair Johnson, Psychology, Meta-analysis of Psychosocial Interventions to Increase Physical Activity in Cancer Survivors, $22,269 Cynthia S. Jones, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Variation in Structural and Functional Traits Across Diverse Plant Growth Forms, $15,225 Shiva Kotha, Mechanical Engineering, Non-invasive Stimulation of Bone Resorption, $23,500 Kathryn Libal, Human Development and Family Studies, Analyzing Non-Governmental Politics, U.S. Refugee Policy, and Iraqi Refugees, $12,460 Earl Macdonald, Music, The Composition and Recording of Original Works for Jazz Orchestra, $20,000 Mary McGrane, Nutritional Sciences, Protective Effects of a Functional Food Compound: Maintaining Osteoblast Lineage Development and Bone Health, $23,831 Tyson Miller, Chemistry, Assessment of Stereochemistry Through a Formal Interview, $24,688 Robert F Miller, Music, The Wooden Sword: An Opera Workshop, $8,064 Akiko Nishiyama, Physiology & Neurobiology, In Vivo Fate Analysis of NG2 Glia Using New Transgenic Mouse Lines, $22,294 Spencer Nyholm, Molecular & Cell Biology, Regulation of Mucus Secretions in a Squid/Vibrio Symbiosis, $21,000 Crystal Park, Psychology, Health Behavior Change in Breast Cancer Survivors: Project to Collect Pilot Data, $17,698 Heather Read, Psychology, Functional Organization of Developmentally Altered Cortex, $24,000 Mark Rudnicki, Natural Resources Management & Engineering, Interaction Between Large Coherent Eddies and Tree Sway Motion: Full-Scale Measurement, $12,704 Eric Schultz, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Copulation Kinematics in Poecilia, a Genus of Livebearing Fish, $13,304 Erling Smith, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Research on Progressive Collapse and Transportation Security, $3,500 Joan Smyth, Pathobiology & Veterinary Sciences, Pathogenesis of Necrotic Enteritis: Investigation of Clostridium perfringens Adhesion to Epithelium and Extracellular Matrix Proteins, $16,500 Wei Sun, Mechanical Engineering, Biomechanical Modeling of Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Annuloplasty, $29,805 Mohammad Tehranipoor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Silicon Design Authentication and Malicious Alteration Detection in Integrated Circuits Using Delay Analysis, $23,371 Nathaniel Trumbull, Geography, Urban Waterfront Renewal, Participatory Planning, and Lessons to be Learned in New London and New Bedford: A Comparative Analysis, $6,126 Charles Venator, Political Science, Constitutional Exceptions: From Territories to Congressional Apportionment, A Historical Appraisal, $9,250 Randall Walikonis, Physiology & Neurobiology, Regulation of Excitatory Synapses of c-Met, $21,689 |
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