Research Funding Report, July 2006

E. M. Agee and A. Gluhovsky, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $134,070, "Modeling Coherent Structures in Convective Boundary Layers."

E. Bakker, Chemistry, from PHS-NIH National Institute Biomed Imaging/Bioeng, $269,538, "Improving the Detection Limit of Potentionmetric Sensors."

E. Bakker, Chemistry, from PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Science, $142,458, "Instrumental Control of Ion-Selective Electrodes."

G. J. Bowen, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from American Chemical Society, $35,000, "A New Feedback on the Carbon Cycle Involving Clays and Hydrologic Cycle and the Stabilization of Climate During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum."

J. Chen, Biological Sciences, from Pews Scholars Program, $2,716, "Molecular Mechanism of ABC Transporters."

R. G. Cooks, Chemistry, from U.S. Department of Energy, $156,000, "High-Throughput Preparative Mass Spectrometry at Atmospheric Pressure for the Creation and Soft- Landing of Catalytic Particles of Known Size and Composition."

W. K. Cui, Physics, from National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $58,500, "Rapid Flares from TEV Blazars."

Z. J. Feng, R. K. Swihart and Y. D. DeWoody, Mathematics, Forestry and Natural Resources, from Mcdonnell, James S. Foundation, $4,090, "An Integrated, Hierarchical Framework for Modeling Biocomplexity."

A. K. Ghosh, Chemistry, from University of Illinois at Chicago, $298,333, "Proj 3 Design & Synthesis of SARS Protease Inhibitors."

S. E. Hambrusch, Computer Science, from Intel Foundation, $47,186, "Intel Foundation Phd Fellowship Award."

P. J. Hollenbeck, Biological Sciences, from Harvey Mudd University, $35,497, "Function and Structure of Dynein-2 in Tetrahymena Thermophila."

S. D. King, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., $7,840, "Elsevier Editorship."

N. Li, Computer Science, from Brigham Young University, $55,083, "ITR: Automated Trust Negotiation in Open Systems."

D. J. Minchella and J. T. Detwiler, Biological Sciences, from IN Academy of Science, $1,641, "Population Re-Structuring and Complex Life Cycles: The Effect of Intermediate Host Specificity and Vagility on Parasites Transmission."

D. Phillips and P. E. Bauman, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $357,336, "Nonlinear PDES for Soft Matter Systems."

S. K. Prabhakar, Computer Science, from National Science Foundation, $160,000, "Design and Development of a Data Management System for Uncertain Data."

F. E. Regnier, Chemistry, from PHS-NIH National Institute on Aging, $237,748, "Mitochondrial Proteomics of Aging."

T. Ren, Chemistry, from Army Research Office, $48,036, "Screening and Optimizing Catalyst Libraries via Optical Spectroscopy: In Search of a ‘Cocktail’ for Expedient Degradation of Chemical Warfare Agents."

M. G. Roeckner, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $100,000, "Kolmogorov Operators and SPDE."

M. G. Rossmann and R. J. Kuhn, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Institute Allergy Infectious Dis, $818,421, "Virus Assembly and Transmission."

M. G. Rossmann and S. L. Hafenstein, Biological Sciences, Reserves for Allocation, from National Institutes of Health, $50,428, "Structural Studies of Virus and Receptor Interactions."

M. G. Rossmann, J. Chen, R. J. Kuhn, W. Jiang and W. Zheng, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Center for Research Resource, $2,000,000, "An Electron Microscope for the Study of Complex Biological Assemblies."

E. P. Sacks, Computer Science, from Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., $50,000, "Samsung - MEI."

C. V. Stauffacher, Biological Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $231,236, "Exploring the Mechanism of HMG-COA Reductase with Time-Resolved Laue Diffraction."

C. V. Stauffacher, Biological Sciences, from National Institutes of Health, $32,506, "Minority Predoctoral Fellowship Program."

E. J. Taparowsky, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Cancer Institute, $264,468, "AP-1 Complexes and Target Gene Regulation."

E. J. Taparowsky, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Cancer Institute, $292,920, "BATF in Blood Cell Growth, Development and Malignancies."

G. C. Weaver, Chemistry, from National Science Foundation, $9,815, "Undergraduate Research Center-Center for Authentic Science Practice in Education."

A. Wei, Chemistry, from PHS-NIH National Institute Biomed Imaging/Bioeng, $313,284, "Plamon-Resonant Nanorods as Multifunctional Contrast Agents for Optical Coherence Tomography."

J. Yu, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $46,479, "Geometry and Representations of P-ADIC Groups."