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Grants- February 17, 2009Previous grant listings can be found on the Grants archive page.
Research Foundation announces fall 2008 'Faculty Large Grants' |
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| The Research Foundation’s fall 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 72 proposals totaling more than $1.5 million and made 44 awards totaling more than $683,000. The proposals were peer reviewed by members of a standing review panel. The award recipients are: Douglas Adamson, Chemistry, Microfluidic Method for the Controlled Formation of Polymersomes, $24,287 Nathan Adler, Molecular & Cell Biology, Fluorescence-Based Analysis of Membrane Protein Structure and Function: A Pilot Project for the Development of a Reconstituted Experimental System, $15,000 Thomas Blank, Human Development & Family Studies, Cancer's Impact on Survivors and Their Partners: Individual and Couple Analyses, $12,871 Jonathan Bobaljik, Linguistics, Cross-Linguistic Grammar Survey Resource, $6,634 Ross Buck, Communication Sciences, Spontaneous Emotional Expression and the fMRI: A New Version of the Communication of Affect Receiving Ability Test (Carat), $11,709 Chengyu Cao, Mechanical Engineering, Adaptive Control of Bio-Inspired Micro Aerial Vehicles, $25,760 Robin Chazdon, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Dynamics and Reassembly of Woody Seedling and Sapling Communities in Tropical Secondary Forests, $15,000 Rosa Chinchilla, Modern & Classical Languages, Spanish Humanism and the European Context: The Case of Literary Patronage 1500-1560, $5,119 Ock Chun, Nutritional Sciences, Development of an Algorithm to Establish Total Antioxidant Capacity Database of U.S. Population, $20,000 James Cole, Molecular & Cell Biology, Structural Analysis of PKR by Small Angle Scattering, $20,000 Edna Comer, Social Work, Efficacy of a Group Intervention on Coping in Persons Newly Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, $12,965 Patricia Cramer, English, Archival Research in Cambridge and London for Book Project, Virginia Woolf: The Lesbian Years, $2,200 Sylvain Deguise, Pathobiology & Veterinary Sciences, Identification of the Cell Surface Receptors Involved in the Immunotoxicity of Domoic Acid in Mice, $7,000 James Dixon, Psychology, Self-Organization of Executive Function, $8,500 Inge-Marie Eigsti, Psychology, A Gesture Towards Learning: Communicative Gestures and Mental Representation in Autism, $22,651 Edward Eyler, Physics, Atomic Sledgehammer: A Chirped Bichromatic-Force Laser Decelerator for Atomic Helium, $17,640 Maria-Luz Fernandez, Nutritional Sciences, Protective Effects of Lutein on Inflammation and Atherosclerosis, $15,000 Amy Gorin, Psychology, Development of an Empirically Validated Screening Tool for Obesity Risk in Children, $18,637 Kristen Govoni, Animal Science, Role of T-Box (Tbx) 2 in Regulating Osteoblast Function, $20,000 Joerg Graf, Molecular & Cell Biology, Establishment of High-Throughput DNA Sequencing for Genomic, Metagenomic, and Transcriptome Studies, $13,000 Jason Irizarry, Curriculum & Instruction, Project Fuerte (Future Urban Educators Conducting Research to Transform Teacher Education), $16,781 Menka Jain, Institute of Materials Science, Engineering, Magnetoelectric Nanocomposite Films, $19,624 Kristin Kelly, Political Science, Privacy of Electronic Medical Records: Dimensions of Patient Concern, $11,066 David Knecht, Molecular & Cell Biology, The Interaction of Actin Binding Proteins with Actin Filament Networks, $20,000 Challa Kumar, Chemistry, Dynamic Light Scattering – Use in Bio-Nano-Materials Research, $14,000 Yi Li, Plant Science, Acquisition of a Flow Cytometer for Plant Science Research, $15,000 Nicholas Lownes, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Driver Response to Adverse Weather: Impacts on Time Headway, $17,851 George Lykotrafitis, Mechanical Engineering, Coherent Gradient Sensing Microscopy (Micro-cgs): A Non-Invasive High-Speed Microinterferometric Technique for Quantitative Imaging of Cells and Their Dynamics, $38,214 James Magnuson, Psychology,Evaluating Effects of Neuro Feedback on Cognitive Processing, $12,647 Philip Mannheim, Physics, Conformal Gravity Challenges String Theory, $13,666 Barbara Mellone, Molecular & Cell Biology,Identification and Characterization of Protein Complexes Associated with the Novel Essential Centromere Component, Cal1, $20,000 Jeffrey Osleeb, Geography, A Preliminary Study of Community Correlates and Evaluation of Health System Efficiencies in the UConn Health Center Catchment Area, $10,329 Robertson Papke, Molecular & Cell Biology/General, The Impact of Gene Flow on Prokaryotic Lineages, $20,000 Janet Pritchard, Art & Art History, Views From Wonderland, A Creative Research Project, $10,626 James Renfro, Physiology & Neurobiology,Phosphate Transport by Mammalian Choroid Plexus, $15,000 Nancy Rodriguez, Nutritional Sciences, The Ubiquitin-Proteosome Pathway in Skeletal Muscle of Healthy, Active Adults: Effects of Energy Balance, Exercise, Leucine Intake, and Leucine Infusion, $12,000 James Rusling, Chemistry, Bioelectronic Peptide Arrays for Anti-Peanut IgE Biomarkers of Allergic Response, $16,349 Glenn Stanley, Music, The College Music Society 1957-2007: A Half Century of Service to Music in the Academy, $3,600 Paulo Verardi, Pathobiology,A Novel Functional Genomics Platform for Vaccine and Therapeutic Discovery, $20,000 Maxim Volgushev, Psychology, Action Potential Generation and Encoding in the Neocortex, $15,000 Barrett Wells, Physics, Measuring Oxygen in Oxide Films, $16,166 Chuanrong Zhang, Geography, Super-Resolution Land Cover Mapping with a Markov Chain Geostatistics Approach, $16,336 Adam Zofka, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Environmental Effects on Physiochemical Properties of Bituminous Materials, $18,071 Adam Zweifach, Molecular & Cell Biology, Phosphoflow and Bayesian Network Analysis of CTL Activation, $17,000 |
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