| Principal Investigator |
Department |
Sponsor |
Amount |
Award Period |
| Arnold, C. |
Dept. of Extension |
Environmental Protection Agency/Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection |
$200,000 |
8/08-6/10 |
| Responding to the First Impervious Cover-based TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load) in the Nation |
| Babb, I. |
Nat’l Undersea Research Center |
Dept. of Commerce/Nat'l Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin./Office of Ocean Exploration |
$900,500 |
1/08-1/09 |
| National Undersea Research Center – 2008 Omnibus Proposal |
| Boggs, S. |
Inst. of Materials Science |
Dept. of Defense/DARPA/General Electric Co. |
$100,000 |
8/08-12/08 |
| Modeling of Nonlinear Nanodielectrics |
| Boggs, S. |
Inst. of Materials Science |
UtilX Corp. |
$123,750 |
8/08-6/10 |
| Research into New Approaches to Partial Discharge Detection and Analysis for Shielded Power Cable |
| Boggs, S. |
Inst. of Materials Science |
UtilX Corp. |
$123,750 |
8/08-6/10 |
| Optimization of PD Data Acquisition and Analysis |
| Bonelli, J. |
Dept. of Extension |
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/Risk Management Agency |
$222,750 |
10/08-9/09 |
| Crop Insurance and Risk Management Education and Informational Resources Initiative for Connecticut Agriculture |
| Bucklin, A. |
Marine Sciences |
ENSR Corp. |
$52,200 |
8/08-8/08 |
| Research Vessel Connecticut Charter by ENSR Corp. |
| Bucklin, A. |
Marine Sciences |
Nat’l Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin./Dept. of Commerce/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
$24,360 |
8/08-8/08 |
| Research Vessel Connecticut Charter by WHOI for UMass Cruise |
| Bucklin, A. |
Marine Sciences |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$74,423 |
9/08-8/11 |
| Collaborative Research: Climate Forcing of Calanus finmarchicus Population of the North Atlantic |
| Bucklin, A. |
Marine Sciences |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$53,933 |
9/08-8/09 |
| SGER: Environmental Genomics of Salpi Thompson in the Southern Ocean |
| Bullock, K. |
School of Social Work Instr. & Research |
Hartford Foundation/Council on Social Work Education |
|
$5,000 |
| Curriculum Development Institute Program |
| Carstensen, F. |
Economics |
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
$34,724 |
8/08-8/09 |
| Bioenergy |
| Casa, D. |
Kinesiology |
Bloomfield Public Schools |
$17,049 |
8/08-6/09 |
| Athletic Training Services: A Partnership with Bloomfield High School |
| Casa, D. |
Kinesiology |
Nat’l Athletic Trainers' Association Research & Education Foundation |
$1,000 |
7/08-4/09 |
| Appearance of D20 in Sweat-Oral Ingestion vs. Intravenous Administration |
| Casa, D. |
Kinesiology |
Nat’l Athletic Trainers' Association Research & Education Foundation |
$2,500 |
8/08-5/09 |
| IV vs. Oral Rehydration: Medical and Performance Consideration |
| Casa, D. |
Kinesiology |
Select Physical Therapy |
$27,396 |
8/08-6/09 |
| Athletic Training Services: A Partnership with Select Physical Therapy |
| Chasin, E. |
Educational Psychology |
Conn. Dept. of Higher Education |
$475,000 |
8/08-6/09 |
| CommPACT Schools Initiative |
| Chiu, W. |
Mechanical Engineering |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$90,000 |
10/08-9/09 |
| GOALI: Pore-Scale Understanding of Ohmic Polarization in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes |
| Covell, N. |
Psychology |
Nat’l Insts. of Health/Nat’l Inst. of Mental Health/Mt. Sinai School of Medicine |
$48,698 |
7/08-9/08 |
| Effectiveness of Switching Antipsychotic Medications |
| D'Andrade, R. |
Anthropology |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$14,750 |
8/08-7/09 |
| Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Culturally Situating Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes Within Cambodian-American Communities |
| De Guise, S. |
Sea Grant College Program |
Morris Animal Foundation |
$76,502 |
9/08-8/10 |
| The Impact of Brevetoxin on the Health of Bottlenose Dolphins |
| Drinkuth, H. |
Dept. of Extension |
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/Conn. Dept. of Environmental Protection |
$89,706 |
8/08-7/10 |
| Building and Implementing a Watershed Conservation Plan at the Local Level |
| Enderle, J. |
Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Veterans Administration/Boston Healthcare System |
$218,727 |
8/08-9/13 |
| Clinical Engineering Internship Program at the Boston VA Hospital |
| Fein, D. |
Psychology |
Autism Speaks |
$63,370 |
8/08-7/10 |
| Mimicry and Imitation in Autism Spectrum Disorders |
| Fernando, G. |
Physics |
Nat’l Science Foundation/Univ. of Massachusetts at Lowell |
$26,443 |
7/08-5/09 |
| Novel Homogeneous, Low Loss, and Tuneable Magnetic Semiconductor-based Metamaterials |
| Frisman, L. |
School of Social Work Instr. & Research |
Nat’l Insts. of Health/Nat’l Inst. on Drug Abuse |
$3,521,025 |
9/08-8/13 |
| Conn. CJ-DATS 2 Center |
| Frisman, L. |
School of Social Work Instr. & Research |
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Svcs./Substance Abuse Mental Health Svcs. Admin./Conn. Dept. of Mental Health & Addict. Svcs. |
$302,614 |
8/08-9/10 |
| Seclusion and Restraint Reduction |
| Gebremichael, M. |
Civil & Environmental Engineering |
Nat’l Aeronautics & Space Admin. |
$357,155 |
5/08-5/11 |
| What is the Ability of Global Land Surface Models to Simulate Land Surface Processes? |
| Giardina, C. |
Molecular & Cell Biology |
Nat’l Insts. of Health/Nat’l Cancer Inst./UConn Health Center |
$28,500 |
8/08-5/13 |
| Cancer Biomarker Evaluation in Cell Culture Models |
| Gokirmak, A. |
Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$199,644 |
8/08-7/11 |
| GOALI: Side Gated Ultra Narrow Channel Silicon MOSFETs and Transport Studies at Nanometer Scale |
| Hiscox, A. |
Natural Resources Mgmt. & Engineering |
Dept. of Defense/Army Space & Missile Defense Command/Univ. of Florida |
$33,666 |
6/08-6/09 |
| Improving Application Methods for Effective Control of Sand Flies in Military Environments |
| Howell, A. |
Chemistry |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$360,000 |
9/08-8/11 |
| Exploiting Oxetanes with alpha-unsaturation |
| Huey, B. |
Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Eng. |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$311,111 |
9/08-8/10 |
| Development of High Speed SPM for Research and Education |
| Kiayias, A. |
Computer Science & Engineering |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$193,500 |
9/08-8/11 |
| CT-ISG: Collaborative Research: Key Generation from Physical Layer Characteristics in Wireless Networks |
| Kiayias, A. |
Computer Science & Engineering |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$223,225 |
9/08-8/11 |
| CT-ISG: Collaborative Research: Tamper Proofing Cryptographic Operations |
| Kraus, C. |
Center for Survey Research & Analysis |
True Insight Marketing Ltd. |
$12,500 |
8/08-9/08 |
| DC Foster Care Survey |
| Kraus, C. |
Center for Survey Research & Analysis |
University of Colorado at Denver |
$4,800 |
5/08-6/08 |
| Kindergarten Transition Survey |
| Li, Y. |
Plant Science |
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
$34,725 |
8/08-8/09 |
| Bioenergy |
| Malla, R. |
Civil & Environmental Engineering |
Dept. of Transportation/Federal Highway Admin./New England Transportation Consortium |
$75,000 |
8/08-7/11 |
| Sealing of Small Movement Bridge Expansion Joints – Phase II: Field Demonstration and Monitoring |
| Marcus, A. |
Curriculum & Instruction |
Conn. Humanities Council |
$11,375 |
5/08-10/08 |
| Supporting Student Learning at History Museums: The Practice of Teachers and Museum Professionals |
| McBride, K. |
Anthropology |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$14,952 |
9/08-8/09 |
| Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Geomorphology of the Connecticut River's Alluvial Lowland as a Spatial-temporal Context for Prehistoric Settlement Patterns |
| McCartney, R. |
Computer Science & Engineering |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$1,836 |
9/08-8/11 |
| Collaborative Research: A Network of Disciplinary Commons in Computing Education |
| Michel, L. |
Computer Science & Engineering |
Dept. of Defense/Air Force/VeroModo Inc. |
$34,000 |
12/07-12/08 |
| An Extensible and Scalable Framework for Formal Modeling, Analysis, and Development of Distributed Systems |
| Molter, T. |
Conn. Global Fuel Cell Center |
Dept. of Defense/Army/Ensign-Bickford Industries Inc. |
$143,518 |
6/08-6/09 |
| Solid Hydrogen Fuel Element Development – Thermal/Fluid Analysis of Fuel Element Housing and Ammonia Borane Pyrolysis Chemistry Characterization |
| Murphy, K. |
Mechanical Engineering |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$50,000 |
7/08-7/11 |
| Collaborative Research: Improvement of MEMS Performance by Structural Vibrations – Theory and Practical Implementations |
| Noll, K. |
Molecular & Cell Biology |
Nat’l Aeronautics & Space Administration |
$597,936 |
5/08-5/11 |
| Genome-based Investigations into the Nature of the Common Ancestor of the Thermotogales |
| Olgac, N. |
Mechanical Engineering |
Nat’l Insts. of Health/Nat’l Center for Research Resources/Mass. General Hosp. |
$93,918 |
6/08-4/09 |
| Simple and Cost Effective Storage of Mouse Sperm |
| Parnas, R. |
Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Eng. |
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
$34,724 |
8/08-8/09 |
| Bioenergy |
| Pattipati, K. |
Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc./Nat’l Security Innovations Inc. |
$19,999 |
7/08-9/08 |
| Machine Learning Techniques to Identify Patterns in Sparse Data – Phase II (Expansion Effort) |
| Pattipati, K. |
Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Naval Postgraduate School |
$104,813 |
8/08-5/09 |
| Coordination Mechanisms for ISR and MHQ/MOC |
| Pescatello, L. |
Kinesiology |
Nat’l Insts. of Health/Nat’l Inst. on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism/UConn. Health Center |
$6,607 |
8/08-11/08 |
| ARC Pilot Study |
| Pikal, M. |
Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Parenteral Drug Association |
$10,000 |
8/08-7/09 |
| Characterization of Heat and Mass Transfer for Freeze-Drying in Syringes Fellowship – Sajal M. Patel |
| Pomeroy, R. |
Agricultural & Resource Economics |
WorldFish Center |
$29,000 |
9/08-12/08 |
| International Fisheries Governance |
| Pratto, F. |
Psychology |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$69,575 |
8/08-7/09 |
| Experimental Tests of How Power Dynamics Cause Gender Inequality |
| Shumway, S. |
Marine Sciences |
Dept. of Commerce/Nat'l Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin./Oceanic & Atmospheric Research |
$160,000 |
7/08-6/10 |
| Nat'l Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. Marine Aquaculture Program: Molluscan Shellfish Aquaculture and the Environment |
| Sosis, R. |
Anthropology |
John Templeton Foundation/Univ. of Edinburgh |
$150,026 |
6/08-5/10 |
| The Adaptive Logic of Religious Belief and Behavior |
| Srivastava, R. |
Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Eng. |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$75,813 |
9/08-8/11 |
| Collaborative Research: A Systems Biology Approach for Metabolically Engineering Escherichia Coli for Producing Hydrogen via Fermentation |
| Strausbaugh, L. |
Molecular & Cell Biology |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$511,736 |
9/08-8/11 |
| MRI: Acquisition of a Genome Sequencer System for Research and Education |
| Sugai, G. |
Educational Psychology |
Illinois State Board of Education |
$10,000 |
7/08-6/09 |
| Illinois PBIS Evaluation |
| Suib, S. |
Chemistry |
Dept. of Defense/Nat’l Geospatial Intelligence Agency |
$239,994 |
8/08-8/10 |
| Catalysts for Primary and Rechargeable Lithium Air Batteries |
| Suib, S. |
Chemistry |
Nat’l Aeronautics & Space Administration/Univ. of Hartford |
$25,000 |
3/08-6/09 |
| Catalysts for NASA Advanced Water Processing |
| Tehranipoor, M. |
Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$164,659 |
9/08-8/11 |
| GOALI (Industry-University Collaborative Project): Collaborative Research: Scalable Techniques for Detecting Small-Delay Defects in Nanometer Integrated Circuits |
| Van Hoof, T. |
Nursing Instruction & Research |
Qualidigm |
$43,200 |
8/08-8/09 |
| UConn/Qualidigm Agreement in Support of Medicare Quality Improvement Organization |
| Vernal-Wright, F. |
History |
Woodrow Wilson Nat’l Fellowship Foundation |
$31,500 |
6/08-6/09 |
| Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty |
| Vlahos, P. |
Marine Sciences |
Fromson (Howard A.) Foundation |
$38,500 |
7/08-5/09 |
| Algal Biomass Feasibility Study for Application in Carbon Neutral Energy Generation |
| Welch, M. |
Dept. of Extension |
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/Auburn Univ. |
$5,500 |
7/08-6/09 |
| Connecticut House Smart: Solutions for Managing Clutter |
| Werkmeister Rozas, L. |
School of Social Work Instr. & Research |
American Cancer Society Inc./UConn Health Center |
$19,971 |
7/08-6/09 |
| Factors Influencing Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening |
| Wilhite, B. |
Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Eng. |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$400,000 |
8/08-7/13 |
| CAREER: Composite Catalytic Micromembranes. Tailoring Reaction and Transport at the Microscale for Efficient Hydrogen Extraction from Green Hydrocarbons |
| Willett, P. |
Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Nat’l Aeronautics & Space Administration/Qualtech Systems Inc. |
$30,000 |
1/08-1/09 |
| Data Reduction Techniques for Real-time Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) and Multiple Fault Interference with Imperfect Tests |
| Wu, Y. |
Computer Science & Engineering |
Nat’l Science Foundation |
$305,209 |
9/08-8/11 |
| III-CXT-Medium:Collaborative Research: Inference of Complex Genealogical Histories in Populations: Algorithms and Applications |
| Yang, X. |
Natural Resources Mgmt. & Engineering |
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
$34,725 |
8/08-8/09 |
| Bioenergy |
| Zangari, R. |
Technology Incubation Program |
Dept. of Commerce/Economic Development Admin. |
$100,100 |
7/08-6/11 |
| EDA University Center |
| Zangari, R. |
Technology Incubation Program |
Small Business Admin. |
$282,000 |
7/08-6/11 |
| Technology Incubation Program Expansion |
| Zinn, S. |
Animal Science |
American Society of Animal Science |
$78,040 |
8/08-8/11 |
| Support for Post Doctoral Fellow |
