June 2006

Research Funding Report, April 2006

M. M. Abu-Omar, Chemistry, from National Science Foundation, $135,000, "Bioinorganic Enzymology of a Non-Heme Iron Hydroxylase."

D. G. Aliaga and M. Boutin, Computer Science, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $6,000, "MSPA-MCS: 3-D Scene Digitization-a Novel Invariant Approach for Large-Scale Environment Capture."

E. Bakker, Chemistry, from Beckman Coulter Inc, $83,200, "Particle Based Sensors for Clinically Relevant Analyses."

W. G. Bayley, Chemistry, from Dreyfus, Camille & Henry Foundation Inc., $55,500, "Science Express."

D. Ben-Amotz, Chemistry, from National Science Foundation, $120,000, "The Influence of Cohesive Imbalance Induced Dewetting on Hydrophobic Solvation and Association Equilibria."

M. W. Caffee, Physics, from Rutgers State University, $15,900, "Sample Costs."

E. Calais and A. M. Freed, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $110,728, "Collaborative Research: GPS Measurements and Deformation Modeling of Oblique Subduction and Strain Partitioning in the Northeastern Caribbean."

J. Chen, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Science, $277,571, "Structural and Mechanism of the ABC Maltose Transporter."

R. G. Cooks, Chemistry, from National Science Foundation, $231,000, "Chiral Magic-Number Clusters & Non-Covalent Complexes Studied by Electrospray Ionization & Ion Soft Landing."

A. L. Davidson, Chemistry, from PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Science, $291,704, "Molecular Mechanism of Maltose Transport."

S. M. Durbin and J. A. Yeazell, Physics, from National Science Foundation, $108,404, "REU Site: Multidisciplinary Physics at Purdue University."

J. S. Haase and R. L. Nowack, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from Geological Survey, U.S., $36,932, "Calculation and Validation of Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment for the Urban Area of Evansville Incorporating Site Effects."

J. Hu, Physics, from National Science Foundation, $78,996, "Physics in Higher Dimensional Quantum Hall Systems."

D. Kihara, Biological Sciences, from Agdia, Inc., $993, "Protein Structure Prediction."

S. D. King, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., $3,680, "Elsevier Editorship (for 2006)."

A. E. Konopka, Biological Sciences, from Howard Hughes Medical Institute, $3,500, "2002 Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program."

R. J. Kuhn, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Institute Allergy Infectious Dis, $39,988, "Structure-Function Studies of Flabviviruses."

R. J. Kuhn, J. Chen, M. G. Rossmann and W. Jiang, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Institute Allergy Infectious Dis, $3,142,992, "Structure-Function Studies of Alpha-and Flaviviruses."

G. Lebanon, Statistics, from National Science Foundation, $61,817, "Assessing the Readability of Documents and Statistical Tools for Non-Euclidean Data."

M. L. Lister, Physics, from National Science Foundation, $104,994, "Structure and Evolution of Relativistic Outflows Associated with Supermassive Black Holes."

P. S. Low, Chemistry, from PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Science, $420,243, "Studies of Erythrocyte Membrane Structure."

P. S. Low, Chemistry, from Ovar Coming Together Research, $20,000, "Probing the Metstic Ovarian Cancer Cells by in Vivo Two-Photon Flow Cytometry."

D. Phillips, Mathematics, from University of Illinois at Chicago, $5,389, "The 55th Midwest Partial Differential Equations Seminar."

K. N. Rabenold, J. Chaves and J. A. DeWoody, Biological Sciences, Forestry and Natural Resources, from National Science Foundation, $10,425, "Dissertation Research: Benefits of Cooperative Food Search in the Maintenance of Family Living in Ocellated Antbirds."

J. H. Rodriguez, Physics, from National Science Foundation, $170,000, "CAREER: Computational Electronic Structure of Antiferromagnetic Diiron Proteins and Bioinorganic Complexes."

L. P. Rokhinson, Physics, from Army Research Office, $300,000, "Digital Control of Exchange Interaction in a Spin-Based Silicon Quantum Computer."

C. J. Staiger, Biological Sciences, from U.S. Department of Energy, $120,000, "Regulation of Actin Dynamics at Filament Ends: The Role of Actin-Binding Proteins."

J. Vitek, Computer Science, from National Science Foundation, $100,000, "Assured Software Composition for Real-Time Systems."

J. Xie and D. Kihara, Statistics, Biological Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $160,246, "Bayesian Models and Monte Carlo Strategies in Identifying Protein or DNA Sequence Motifs."

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