February 27, 2003

Recent grants top $16M

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs reports 104 new grants and competing renewal grants for November and December 2002 totaling $16,258,279

CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION

Office of the Vice President for Information Technology

• Mambretti, Joel J. Title: Starlight: Strategic Technologies. Sponsor: National Science Foundation (subcontracted from University of Illinois at Chicago), $175,172.

• Rahimi, Morteza A. Title: Illinois On-Line Foreign Language Learning Initiative. Sponsor: Illinois Board of Higher Education, $36,000.

Office of the Vice President for Research

• Villa-Komaroff, Lydia. Title: Collaboration of Illinois Universities at Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory FY 2003. Sponsor: Illinois Board of Higher Education, $2,100,000.

• Villa-Komaroff, Lydia. Title: Documentation and Software for Enhanced Subject Protection. Sponsor: National Center for Research Resources, $250,000.

• Villa-Komaroff, Lydia. Title: State Matching Grant Program FY 2003. Sponsor: Illinois Board of Higher Education, $1,886,442.

Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs

• Capio, Michele M. Title: Student Citizen Fellows, Freshman Urban Program. Sponsor: Illinois Campus Compact for Comm. Service, $2,000.

SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION

Communication Sciences and Disorders

• Logemann, Jerilyn A. Title: Efficacy of Voice Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease. Sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and Other Com-munication Disorders (subcontracted from Univ. of Colorado), $16,879.

• Ruggero, Mario A. Title: Peripheral Mechanisms of Hearing. Sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, $520,499.

• Thompson, Cynthia K. Title: Neurolinguistic Investigations of Aphasia and Recovery. Sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, $463,579.

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL POLICY

Education and Social Policy

• Gomez, Louis M. Title: Research Network on Teaching and Learning. Sponsor: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (subcontracted from Stanford Univ. ), $38,754.

• Peterson, Penelope L. Title: Spencer Research Training Grant. Sponsor: The Spencer Foundation, $79,000.

FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Cell and Molecular Biology

• Miller, Jon D. Title: The Develop-ment of Student Interest in Biomedical Science Careers. Sponsor: Office of Science Education, $15,000.

Center for AIDS Research

• Wolinsky, Steven M. Title: Chemo-kine Receptors in HIV-1 Infection of the CNS. Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (subcontracted from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), $108,277.

Center for Genetic Medicine

• Chisholm, Rex L. Title: Center for Genetic Medicine: Development of Clinical Cancer Genetics, the NUGene Project, and the Microarray Core Facility. Sponsor: Illinois Department of Public Aid (subcontracted from Northwestern Memorial Hospital), $357,757.

Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center

• Mesulam, Marsel. Title: Illinois Regional Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Center. Sponsor: Illinois Department of Public Health, $300,000.

• Morhardt, Darby J. Title: Edu-cational Outreach - LEP Project. Sponsor: Ad-ministration on Aging (subcontracted from Illinois Depart-ment of Public Health), $20,000.

• Small, Dana. Title: Neural Correlates of Interactions between Motivation and Visual Spatial Attention in Alzheimer’s Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Aging. Sponsor: Illinois Department of Public Health, $35,000.

Dermatology

• Ansel, John C. Title: Proteinase Activated Receptors in Corneal Inflammation. Sponsor: National Eye Institute, $146,550.

Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies

• Manheim, Larry M. Title: Inter-governmental Personnel Agreement for L. Manheim: Health Economics Technical Assistance. Sponsor: Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital, $72,649.

• Schield, Jill S. Title: The Safety Net below the Safety Net. Sponsor: Jewish Community Foundation, $45,732.

Medicine

• Barrett, Terrence A. Title: The Role of IP-10 in Colitis. Sponsor: Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, $115,000.

• Batlle, Daniel C. Title: Intergovernmental Personnel Agree-ment for M. LaPointe: Na+/H+ Anti-porter and Cell Cycle Regulation in Diabetic Cells. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center, $75,619.

• Bennett, Charles L. Title: Quality of Life Item Banking and Adaptive Testing in Prostate Cancer. Sponsor: American Cancer Society (subcontracted from Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute), $90,839.

• Bergan, Raymond C. Title: Molecular Correlates of Soy in Humans. Sponsor: National Cancer Institute, $372,500.

• Boggio, Lisa N. Title: Prevention of the Complications of Hemophilia through Hemophilia Treatment Cen-ters, The Region V - West Program. Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control (subcontracted from Great Lakes Hemophilia Foundation), $56,800.

• Boggio, Lisa N. Title: West Hemophilia Treatment Center Network, Region V—MCHB Cooperative Grant. Sponsor: Maternal and Child Health Bureau (subcontracted from Great Lakes Hemophilia Foundation), $21,964.

• Chandel, Navdeep S. Title: Mechanisms of Oxygen Deprivation Induced Apoptosis. Sponsor: American Heart Association, $55,746.

• Dunaif, Andrea. Title: Genes, Andro-gens and Intrauterine Environ-ment in PCOS. Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $1,060,293.

• Dunaif, Andrea. Title: Phenotype and Genotype in Familial Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (subcontracted from University of Pennsylvania), $329,084.

• Dunaif, Andrea. Title: Phenotype and Genotype in Familial Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Genetic Diagnosis of Adult-Onset Diabetes in Women. Sponsor: Illinois Department of Public Aid (subcontracted from Northwestern Memorial Hospital), $142,500.

• Eklund, Elizabeth. Title: Inter-governmental Personnel Agreement for S. Odneal: Merit Review. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center, $40,138.

• Eklund, Elizabeth. Title: Inter-governmental Personnel Agreement for Y. Lu: Merit Review. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center, $48,020.

• Flaherty, John P. Title: Clinical Infectious Diseases Research. Sponsor: Illinois Department of Public Aid (subcontracted from Northwestern Memorial Hospital), $90,000.

• Koch, Alisa E. Title: Intergov-ernmen-tal Personnel Agreement for K. Zhu: Soluble Adhesion Molecules as Inflammatory Angiogenic Medi-ators. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center, $55,552.

• Lowe, Jr., William L. Title: PDX-1 Expression and Embryonic Stem Cells. Sponsor: Illinois Department of Public Aid (subcontracted from North-western Memorial Hospital), $40,000.

• Platanias, Leonidas C. Title: Intergovernmental Personnel Agree-ment for F. Lekmine: Mechanisms of Action of Retinoic Acid in APL Cells. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center, $40,358.

• Platanias, Leonidas C. Title: Mechanism of Action of Arsenic Trioxide in Leukemias: Possible Modulation of the MAP Kinase Pathway to Enhance Its Efficacy. Sponsor: American Society of Clinical Oncology, $35,000.

• Pope, Richard M. Title: Inter-governmental Personnel Agreement for C. Zander: The Role of Flip Macro-phages and Synovial Fibroblasts. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center, $38,005.

• Pope, Richard M. Title: Inter-governmental Personnel Agreement for H. Liu: The Role of Flip in Macro-phages and Synovial Fibroblasts. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center, $46,535.

• Weiss, Kevin B. Title: Intergov-ernmental Personnel Agreement for C. Lyttle. Sponsor: Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital, $9,830.

• Weiss, Kevin B. Title: Outcomes Assessment in Pediatric Asthma. Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, $499,452.

Microbiology-Immunology

• Hauser, Alan R. Title: Pseudu-monas Aeruginosa Invasiveness and Persistence in Nosocomial Pneumonia. Sponsor: American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago, $35,000.

• Longnecker, Richard M. Title: In Vivo Model of Epstein-Barr Virus Latency. Sponsor: National Cancer Institute, $273,211.

• Seifert, H. Steven. Title: Mechanisms of Gonococcal Pilin Antigenic/Phase Variation. Sponsor: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, $334,782.

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

• Radosevich, James A. Title: Intergovernmental Personnel Agree-ment for K. Elseth: Expression of Nitric Oxide Synthase by Human Tissue. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center, $37,305.

Pathology

• Borensztajn, Jayme. Title: Inter-governmental Personnel Agreement for T. Fu: Hepatic Lipase and Chylo-micron Metabolism. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center, $51,041.

• Tourtellotte, Warren G. Title: Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement for J. Jones: Spinal Motor Neuron Survival and Target Innervation. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center, $39,532.

• Tourtellotte, Warren G. Title: Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement for L. Li: Spinal Motor Neuron Survival and Target Innervation. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center, $39,171.

• Tourtellotte, Warren G. Title: Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement for M. Mishra: Spinal Motor Neuron Survival and Target Innervation. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center, $45,106.

Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences

• Dewald, Julius P. Title: Cortical Activity Related to Isometric Joint Torque. Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Develop-ment, $63,214.

Physiology

• Heckman, Charles. Title: Sensory Motor Performance Program: Salary Support for Dr. Charles J. Heckman. Sponsor: Rehabilitation Institute Research Corporation, $80,522.

• Houk, James C. Title: Partici-pation of the Cerebellum in Problem Solving. Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, $323,548.

• Miller, Lee E. Title: Motor Command Signals and the Cortico-Cerebellar Network. Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, $241,376.

• Mussa-Ivaldi, Ferdinando. Title: Physiology and Neural Control of Pectoral Fins of Aquatic Animals. Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, $10,000.

• Mussa-Ivaldi, Ferdinando. Title: Sensory Motor Performance Program: Salary Support for Dr. Ferdinando Mussa-Ivaldi. Sponsor: Rehabilitation Institute Research Corporation, $124,539.

• Ohno, Masuo. Title: CaMKII and Neuronal Excitability Changes in Learning. Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health, $300,439.

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

• Gutmann, David L. Title: Retirement in the Israeli Kibbutz. Sponsor: The Retirement Research Foundation, $10,000.

Radiology

• Gabriel, Helena. Title: Contrast Enhanced Dynamic Breast MRI in the Evaluation of Breast Cancer with Direct Pathologic Correlation. Sponsor: Illinois Department of Public Aid (subcontracted from Northwestern Memorial Hospital), $140,000.

Surgery

• Kaufman, Dixon B. Title: A Pilot Study of Islet Transplantation in Non-Uremic Diabetic Patients. Sponsor: Illinois Department of Public Aid (subcontracted from Northwestern Memorial Hospital), $220,628.

• Matsumura, Jon S. Title: Inter-governmental Personnel Agreement for W. Alford: Open Versus Endovas-cular Repair. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center, $63,798.

KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Dispute Resolution Research Center

• Brett, Jeanne M. Title: Proposal for Basic Hewlett Funding. Sponsor: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, $37,500.

MCCORMICK SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE

Center for Photonic Communication and Computing

• Kumar, Prem. Title: Quantum Optics with a Q-Switched Pump Source. Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, $62,500.

• Shahriar, Selim. Title: Nanopho-tonic Modulator Using Electromag-netically Induced Transparency. Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (subcontracted from Chrono Chrome, Inc.), $30,000.

Center for Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention

• Fine, Morris E. Title: Alloy Design of a High-Strength Low-Carbon, Chromium-Free Steel with Copper and Nickel Aluminide Nanosize Precipitates. Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, $139,927.

Center for Quantum Devices

• Razeghi, Manijeh. Title: Form-ation of InAs/GaSb Superlattice Quantum Dots for Multicolor Detect-ion. Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory (subcontracted from Uni-versal Technology Corp.), $192,327.

Computer Science

• Dinda, Peter A. Title: CISE RR: Collaborative Research on Wide-Area Network Computing Using Virtual Machines. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $105,000.

Materials Science and Engineering

• Barnett, Scott A. Title: Oper-ation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anodes with Practical Hydrocarbon Fuels. Sponsor: Department of Energy, $150,000.

• Wessels, Bruce W. Title: Inte-grated Ferroelectric Thin Films for Guided Wave Photonic Devices. Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory, $15,000.

Mechanical Engineering

• Belytschko, Ted B. Title: Failure Prediction of Underwater Structures - Cohesive Models. Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, $73,544.

• Lee, Jung-Hoon. Title: Mass Producible Assembly of Nanotechnol-ogy (MAN). Sponsor: Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea, $30,696.

• Lee, Jung-Hoon. Title: Mass Pro-ducible Assembly of Nanotechnology (MAN). Sponsor: Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea, $119,304.

• Ruoff, Rodney S. Title: Flight Weight Magnets Using Carbon Nanotubes. Sponsor: National Aero-nautics and Space Administration (subcontracted from LyTec LLC), $36,400.

• Ruoff, Rodney S. Title: MRSEC: Nanostructured Materials and Inter-faces Seed Project. Sponsor: National Science Foundation (subcontracted from University of Wisconsin-Madison), $61,622.

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTERS

Center for Public Safety

• Baker, Kenneth S. Title: Vehicle Dynamics. Sponsor: Indiana State Police, $10,000.

• Buren, R. Michael. Title: Super-vision of Police Personnel for the Springfield, MO Police Department. Sponsor: Springfield Police Department (MO), $20,000.

• Freesmeyer, Timothy J. Title: Executive Management Program for Western Illinois University in Pere Marquette, Illinois. Sponsor: Western Illinois University, $50,585.

• Freesmeyer, Timothy J. Title: School of Police Staff and Command for the Idaho Peace Officer’s Standards and Training Facility. Sponsor: Idaho POST Academy, $131,074.

• Freesmeyer, Timothy J. Title: School of Police Staff and Command for the Northern Illinois Training Advisory Board (NITAB). Sponsor: Northern Illinois Training Advisory Board, $93,000.

• Stenzel, William W. Title: School of Police Staff and Command for the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Depart-ment. Sponsor: Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department, $114,000.

• Stenzel, William W. Title: School of Police Staff and Command for the North East Multi-Regional Training Board (NEMRTB). Sponsor: North East Multi-Regional Training, Inc., $94,500.

• Stenzel, William W. Title: School of Police Staff and Command for the Philadelphia Police Department. Sponsor: Philadelphia Police Depart-ment, $123,950.

• Stenzel, William W. Title: School of Police Staff and Command for the Philadelphia Police Department. Sponsor: Philadelphia Police Depart-ment, $113,900.

Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology

• Laposky, Aaron D. Title: SBIR - Rat Models to Screen Compounds Inducing Slow-Wave Sleep. Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (subcontracted from SloWave, Inc.), $255,823.

• Turek, Fred W. Title: Temporal Biology Training Program. Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (subcontracted from Univ. of Virginia), $29,298.

Institute for Neuroscience

• Spruston, Nelson P. Title: NRSA Fellowship in Support of the Role of Ca2+ Channels in Bursting and Plas-ticity. Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, $39,242.

Materials Research Institute

• Chang, R.P.H. Title: NIRT: Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Boron and Metal-Boride Nanowires and Nanoscale Devices Built from Them. Sponsor: National Science Foundation (subcontracted from Washington University), $75,752.

• Ruoff, Rodney S. Title: NIRT: Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Boron and Metal-Boride Nanowire and Nanoscale Devices Built from Them. Sponsor: National Science Foundation (subcontracted from Washington Univ.), $75,752.

WEINBERG COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology

• Holmgren, Robert A. Title: Regulation of the Ci Protein by Signal Transduction. Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences, $199,649.

• Linzer, Daniel I. Title: Placental Hormones and the Control of Hema-topoiesis. Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, $328,572.

Chemistry

• Hoffman, Brian M. Title: Elec-tron Transfer within Protein Complex-es. Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, $334,875.

• Meade, Thomas J. Title: Towards an In Vivo Diagnostic for Alzheimer’s Disease. Sponsor: American Federation for Aging Research, $1,000.

• Ratner, Mark A. Title: Density Functional Analysis of Asymmetric Current Flow in Molecular Nanojunc-tions. Sponsor: National Institute of Standards and Technology, $45,000.

• Wasielewski, Michael. Title: Nanostructured Biocomposite Materi-als for Energy Transduction. Sponsor: Department of Energy (subcontracted from Univ. of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory), $75,000.

Geological Sciences

• Robinson, Mark S. Title: High Resolution Color and Physical Properties of Eros’s Regolith. Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $66,956.

• Russo, Raymond. Title: Seismic Attenuation and Anisotropy in the Carpathians and Adjacent Basins: Upper Mantle Role in the Last Stages of Tethyan Closure. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $37,505.

• Sella, Giovanni. Title: Collab-orative Research: Block Kinematics of the Northwestern US. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $19,703.

Neurobiology and Physiology

• Allada, Ravi. Title: In Vivo Characterization of a Novel, Evolu-tionarily Conserved Ion Channel. Sponsor: American Heart Association Midwest Affiliate, $33,500.

• Raman, Indira Monica. Title: NRSA Fellowship in Support of Mechanisms of Resurgent Na+ Current in Purkinje Neurons. Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, $44,527.

• Woolley, Catherine S. Title: Estrogen-Induced Hippocampal Seizure Susceptibility. Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, $282,863.

Physics and Astronomy

• Chandrasekhar, Venkat. Title: NIRT: Atomic Layer Controlled Epitaxial Ferromagnetic Oxide Nano-structures. Sponsor: National Science Foundation (subcontracted from Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), $55,000.

• Ulmer, Melville P. Title: Studies of GaN-Based Films for UV Photo-cathodes. Sponsor: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, $23,782.

• Ulmer, Melville P. Title: The Development of Laminated, Electro-formed Shape Memory Composite Technology for Segmented and Deployable Mirrors for Space and Ground Based Applications. Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (subcontracted from Composite Technology Development, Inc.), $36,318.

• Zadeh, Farhad Y. Title: GBT Student Support Program: A Multi-Frequency Radio Continuum Obser-vations of the Galactic Center Region. Sponsor: Associated Universities, Inc., National Radio Astronomy Observatory, $14,386.

• Zadeh, Farhad Y. Title: GBT Student Support Program: Search for Positronium Recombination Maser Line Toward the Galactic Center. Sponsor: Associated Universities, Inc., National Radio Astronomy Observatory, $13,210.