October 2005

Research Funding Report, August 2005

M. M. Abu-Omar, Chemistry, from National Science Foundation, $170,000, "Bioinorganic Enzymology of a Non-Heme Iron Hydroxylase."

E. M. Agee and A. Gluhovsky, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $134,134, "Modeling Coherent Structures in Convective Boundary Layers."

E. Bakker, Chemistry, from National Institutes of Health, $149,161, "Instrumental Control of Ion Selective Electrodes."

D. Bortoletto, A. F. Garfinkel and V. E. Barnes, Physics, from U.S. Department of Energy, $33,000, "An Experimental and Theoretical High Energy Physics Program - Task G."

M. W. Caffee, D. E. Granger, D. Elmore and P. F. Muzikar, Physics, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $692,784, "Facility Support: The Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory."

I. G. Camarillo, Biological Sciences, from Army Medical Research Acquisition Activy, $114,001, "Breast Cancer and Early Onset Childhood Obesity: Cell Specific Gene Expression in Mammary Epithelia and Adipocytes."

R. G. Cooks, R. J. Steuterman and W. J. Chappell, Chemistry, School of Management - Administration & Instruction, Electrical & Computer Engineering, from Prosolia Inc, $873,100, "Preparative Mass Spectrometry Using Ion Soft Landing."

H. G. Donnelly, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $118,000, "Scattering and Spectral Theory for Manifolds."

S. A. Fahmy and N. Shroff, Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, from National Science Foundation, $325,000, "Ct-T: Collaborative Research: Protecting TCP Congestion Control: Tools for Design, Analysis, & Emulation."

S. A. Fahmy, Computer Science, from University of Delaware, $41,076, "Benchmarks for DDOS Defense Evaluation."

A. Gabrielov, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $44,719, "CMG Collaborative Research: Cellular Automata, Directed Graphs, and the Modeling of Earthquakes and Landforms."

L. J. Gutay, Physics, from U.S. Department of Energy, $31,001, "An Experimental and Theoretical High Energy Physics Program - Task D."

A. L. Hosking, Computer Science, from National Science Foundation, $30,000, "CSR-AES: Collaborative: Rugged: Resilient Distributed Java Over Heterogeneous Platforms."

S. J. Karcher, Biological Sciences, from Association for Biology Laboratory Education, $1,600, "Serratia Transposon Mutagenesis."

D. Kihara, Biological Sciences, from Purdue Alumni Association, Inc., $500, "Structure Basis for Protein-Protein Interactions."

G. H. Krockover and D. P. Shepardson, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from Elkhart Community Schools, $80,306, "Encouraging Technology and Hands on Science in Elkhart."

S. T. Love, S. Khlebnikov, T. E. Clark and T. Kuo, Physics, from U.S. Department of Energy, $19,999, "An Experimental and Theoretical High Energy Physics Program - Task B."

B. J. Lucier, Mathematics, from Institute for Mathematics & its Applications, $60,000, "Scientific Computing Research Environments for the Mathematical Sciences (SCREMS)."

M. C. McCann, Biological Sciences, from U.S. Department of Energy, $10,000, "The Role of Pectin in Cell Elongation."

M. C. McCann, Biological Sciences, from U.S. Department of Energy, $100,000, "The Role of Pectin in Cell Elongation."

P. C. Meunier, Center:ED & Rsrch:Information Assurance & Security, from National Science Foundation, $25,000, "REU Supplement: Development of a Safe, Virtual Imaging Instrument for Logically Destructive Experiments."

D. J. Minchella, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH Fogarty International Center, $40,320, "Schistosoma Mansoni Resistance to Praziquantel Treatment."

D. Phillips, J. Shen and P. E. Bauman, Center:ED & Rsrch:Information Assurance & Security, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $329,346, "Collaborative Research: FRG: Ferroelectric Phenomena in Soft Matter Systems."

M. D. Raftery, Chemistry, from PHS-NIH National Center for Research Resource, $152,000, "Multi-Coil, Multi-Sample Magnetic Resonance."

R. G. Reifenberger, Physics, from Office of Naval Research, $5,000, "Trends in Nanotechnology Conference (TNT2005)."

M. G. Rossmann and R. J. Kuhn, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Institute Allergy Infectious Dis, $815,314, "Virus Assembly and Transmission."

M. G. Rossmann and S. L. Hafenstein, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Institute Allergy Infectious Dis, $48,296, "Structural Studies of Virus and Reception Interactions."

S. F. Savikhin, Physics, from National Science Foundation, $296,899, "Unique Properties of Chlorophyll in the Cytochrome B6f Complex."

P. B. Shepson, Chemistry, from National Science Foundation, $43,320, "Studies of the Impact of Emission of Reactive Gases from Arctic Snowpacks and See Ice."

P. B. Shepson, Chemistry, from National Science Foundation, $37,151, "Studies of the Fluxes of Atmospheric Organic Nitrogen Compounds to a Forest Environment."

C. V. Stauffacher, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Science, $32,506, "Minority Predoctoral Fellowship Program."

I. Szleifer, Chemistry, from National Science Foundation, $69,718, "’Collaborative Research’ Multiscale Modeling of Nanostructured Interfaces for Biological Sensors."

M. Torres, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $43,200, "Divergence-Measure Fields and Nonlinear Conservation Laws."

R. J. Trapp and M. Huber, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from University Corp for Atmospheric Research, $7,000, "Equipment to Enhance the Capacity to Process and Disseminate Value-Added Weather Data at Purdue University."

B. L. Wanner, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Science, $313,110, "Genomic-Driven Approaches to E. Coli Physiology."

G. C. Weaver and A. K. Bentley, Chemistry, from National Science Foundation, $200,000, "Bringing Science to the Undergraduate Experience through Chemical Research and Teaching Assistant Education-Discover Corp. Fellowship."

P. G. Wenthold, Chemistry, from American Chemical Society, $80,000, "Experimental Studies of Topological Effects on Spin Properties in Openshell Hydrocarbons."

N. Yip, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $64,993, "Analysis of Stationary Solutions and the Pinning Phenomena for the Modeling of Phase Boundary Motions in Materials Science."

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