The Research Foundation’s fall 2009 Faculty Large Grants were announced recently.
The goal of these awards is to help faculty in all disciplines move into a better position to apply for and receive extramural funding for their research and scholarly activities.
For the 2009 Faculty Large Grant competition, the Research Advisory Council made 27 awards totaling more than $466,000.
The proposals were peer reviewed by members of a review panel.
The award recipients are:
Andrei Alexandrescu, Molecular & Cell Biology, NMR Structure and Dynamics of Sma0113/0114: A Model for Bacterial HWE Kinases and Their Protein Substrates, $24,181
Alexandru Asandei, Chemistry, Gold Catalyzed Polymerizations, $19,031
Peter Burkhard, Molecular & Cell Biology, Pilot Study to Design a Nanoparticle Avian Flu Vaccine, $24,993
Ellen Carillo, English, Freewriting: Beyond Textbooks, $4,277
Bodhisattwa Chaudhuri, Pharmaceutical Science, Experimentally Validated Numerical Modeling of Electrostatic Effects in Granular Media, $24,271
Kathleen Cienkowski, Communication Sciences, The Effects of Bandwidth Cut-off Frequency on Speech Intelligibility for Individuals with High Frequency Hearing Loss, $9,400
Carl Coelho, Communication Sciences, Intensity of Treatment and Constraint-Induced Language Therapy for Chronic Aphasia, $28,898
Joseph Crivello, Physiology & Neurobiology, The Molecular Mechanism of TBT Effects in Zebrafish, $15,000
Mary Fischer, Sociology, Examining the Impact of the Housing Boom on Minority Neighborhood Access, $17,776
Harry Frank, Chemistry, Role of Xanthophylls in Nonradiative Energy Dissipation in Photosynthesis (Sabbatical), $5,000
Yih-Woei Fridell, Allied Health Sciences, A UCP Model for Insulin Action and Calorie Restriction, $23,924
Robin Adele Greeley, Art & Art History, Between Campesino and State: the Mexican Avant-garde and Images of the Nation, 1920-1950, $1,745
Rainer Hebert, Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering, Exploratory Study of the Response of Amorphous Steels to Wear and Cavitation, $11,874
Guillermo Irizarry, Institute of Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, Breaching Borders: Latina/o Presence in Contemporary American Culture (Sabbatical), $3,097
Richard T. Jones, Physics, UV Laser Refurbishment for Milling Research-Grade Diamonds, $13,500
Kyungseon Joo, Physics, Nucleon Resonance Studies, $15,500
Colin Wayne Leach, Psychology, Morality and the Social Psychology of Self-evaluation, $24,157
Yao Lin, Chemistry, A Pilot Study to Examine the Adsorption and Diffusion Behavior of Artificial Cellulosomes, $29,104
Jeffrey McCutcheon, Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering, Electrospun Nanofiber Thin Film Composite Membranes for Engineered Osmosis Applications, $23,994
William Mustain, Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering, Electrochemical Conversion of CO3-2 Anions for Power Generation and Removal of Atmospheric CO2, $24,779
Ralf Schiffler, Mathematics, Cluster Algebras From Surfaces, $5,814
Christine Simon, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Using CAGT Genomic FLX Technology To Locate Microsatellites To Collect Preliminary Data For Tracking Gene Flow Across Species Boundaries, $24,000
Boris Sinkovic, Physics, Spin-Resolved Electronic Structure of Sr2FeMoO6 Films, $10,539
Jennifer Telford, Nursing Instruction, Capturing the Stories of UConn Alumni Nurse Veterans: An Oral History Project, $21,833
Heather Turcotte, Political Science, Ontologies of Slavery, Geographies of Abolition: Petroleum, Political Asylum, and the Politics of Feminist Exchange, $25,000
Lei Wang, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Developing Embedded DSP Systems Powered by Renewable Underwater Energy Sources, $23,494
Jun Yan, Statistics, Semiparametric Methods for Spatial Extremes with Application to Extremal Peak Flow in Connecticut, $11,747
