EXTERNAL GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
Awarded
FACULTY
OF ARTS AND SCIENCES TOTAL:
$10,192,219
American Studies
Gundaker, Grey, Fulbright-University
of
*
$30,000
Anthropology
Fisher, William, Fulbright Scholar Award,
to
Hamada, Tomoko, “Testing the Information Technology
System Environment and Programs for Trans-Pacific Courses,” Keio University
TelePresence program, $3,000
Moyer, Curtis, Various Projects, David Brown,
$170
Center for Archaeological Research
Blanton, Dennis B., Combined projects, Virginia
Department of Transportation, $564,838
Blanton, Dennis B., “
Blanton, Dennis B., “Private Artifacts Collection,”
Blanton, Dennis B., “Byrd Hall Expansion,”
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, $2,853
Blanton, Dennis B., “ADI, Site 44JC1042,
Blanton, Dennis B., “Historical Climatic Reconstructions,”
National Science Foundation, $25,182
Blanton, Dennis B., “Mainland Farm, Graphic
Data Summary of Land Use Patterns,
Blanton, Dennis B., “Fort Pocahontas 2000,
Blanton, Dennis B., “
Blanton, Dennis B., “Pittman Pottery Study,”
Stone House Foundation, $5,000
Blanton, Dennis B., “ADD Property,” Associated
Developers, Incorporated, $4,541
Blanton, Dennis B., “Glasshouse II,” National
Park Service, $9,387
Blanton, Dennis B., “Jamestown-Glasshouse
PT/II,” National Park Service, $25,570
Blanton, Dennis B., “Naval Weapons Station,”
Blanton, Dennis B., “Corotoman/I,
Blanton, Dennis B., “
Blanton, Dennis B., “Utility Pits/MON, Small
Private Projects,” MASTEC, $826
* $1,235,156
Applied Science
Hinders, Mark K., “Endoscopic
Detection of Prostate Cancer by Ultrasound,” Synergetic Medical Technology
Systems Corporation, $601,603
Hinders, Mark K., with graduate student Jeffrey
S. Boghosian, “Large Ultrasonic Phased Arrays for
Aircraft Non-Destructive Evaluation,” National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
$22,000
Hinders, Mark K., “Ultrasonic Periodontal
Probe,” Visual Programs, Inc., $100,000
Holloway, Brian C., “Production of Carbon
Nanotubes,” University of Florida, $50,000
Kelley, Michael, “SURA Faculty Services,”
Southeastern Universities Research Association, $103,913
Kulas, Bernadette, “Research
and Development Alliance,” Scinco, Inc., $10,000
Luepke, Gunter, “Vibrational Relaxation of Hydrogen-Related Defects in Silicon,”
The Jeffress Memorial Trust, $29,500
Luepke, Gunter, “Dynamics of
Local Vibrational Modes in Semiconductors,” National
Science Foundation, $100,000
Manos, Dennis M., “Theoretical Studies on
Microwave Plasma Electronics and Microhollow Cathode
Discharges,” Old Dominion University, $15,273
Manos, Dennis M., “Pulsed Electric Field Effects
on Biological Cells,” Old Dominion University, $14,580
Manos, Dennis M., “Theoretical Studies on
Microwave and RF Plasma Electronics Air Plasmas, and Micro hollow Cathode
Discharges,” Air Force Office of Scientific Research, $149,940
Manos, Dennis M., “Technology Innovation Center for Plasma and
Photon Processing at the Applied Research Center,” Virginia Center for Innovative
Technology, Year 3, $465,000
Orwoll, Robert A., with graduate
student Donovan Delozier, “Formation of Inorganic
Nanophases in Polymeric Matrices,” National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, $32,000
Pipes, R. Byron, and Dennis M. Manos, “Cyber
Simulation for Composite Materials and Structures in Aeronautics and Aerospace,”
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $174,059
Starnes, William H., Jr., “Vinyl Heat Stabilizers
Containing No Heavy Metals,” Edison Polymer Innovation Corporation, $107,871
Vold, Robert L., and Gina L.
Hoatson, Department of Physics, “Structure and Dynamics
of Polymer Nanocomposite Materials,” National Science
Foundation, $115,000
Zhang, Shiwei, “CAREER:
Understanding Strong Correlations in Real Materials with Scalable High
Performance Computing,” National Science Foundation, $50,000
Zhang, Shiwei, “Computational
Studies of Electron Correlations in Materials,” Research Corporation, $75,000
* $2,215,739
Art and Art History
Thompson, Nancy K., “The Stained Glass of
Ulisse De Matteis and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Florence,” Florence,
Italy, May-August 2000, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, $5,000
Thompson, Nancy K., Corpus Vitrearum Medii aevi International Conference in Bristol, England, $650
* $5,650
Biology
Allison, Lizabeth
A., “Nucleocytoplasmic Transport of the Thyroid
Hormone Receptor,” The Jeffress Memorial Trust,
$14,950
Beck, Ruth A., “Monitoring and Protection
of Endangered and Threatened Avian Species during the 2000 Nesting Season
on Craney Island,” U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, $25,000
Bradley, Eric L., “Imaging Diabetes: An In
Vivo Analysis of the Insulin, Leptin, and TNF Ligand-Receptor Systems,” American Diabetes Association, $81,190
Case, Martha A., with graduate student Holly
J. Grubbs, “Localization and Conservation of Genetic Variation in Ginseng
(Panax quinquefolius),”
Herb Society of America, $2,980
Case, Martha A., “Student Internship Agreement
with Colonial National Historical Park,” National Park Service, $5,000
Saha, Margaret S., “Presidential
Faculty Fellow,” National Science Foundation, $103,068
Shakes, Diane C., “Metaphase to Anaphase Transition
in Mitosis and Meiosis,” National Institutes of Health, $101,680
Van Dover, Cindy L., “Collaborative RIDGE
Research: Distribution of Phototrophic Organisms at Hydrothermal Vents,” National
Science Foundation, $41,881
Van Dover, Cindy L., “Species Composition
and Biodiversity in Mussel Beds,” National Science Foundation, $86,235
Van Dover, Cindy L., “Search for Phototrophs in a Non-Solar Environment in the Deep Sea,” Arizona
State University, $7,618
Van Dover, Cindy L., “CAREER: Comparative
Biodiversity and Community,” National Science Foundation, $83,742
Van Dover, Cindy L., “Comparative Biodiversity
in Mussel Beds,” University of North Carolina at Wilmington, $9,536
Ware, Donna M. E., “A Conservation Plan for
the Small Whorled Pogonia at Fort A.P. Hill,” Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, $2,000
Zwollo, Patty, “CAREER: Mechanisms
Regulating Activity of the Pax-5 Transcription Factor During B-Cell Development,”
National Science Foundation, $100,000
Center for
Conservation Biology
Bradshaw, Dana, “James River Watershed,” James
River Association, $11,000
Byrd, Mitchell A., “Peregrine Falcon Research,”
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, $3,000
Byrd, Mitchell A., “Banding Station Operation
at Wise Point and Fisherman Island,” Virginia Department of Game and Inland
Fisheries, $1,900
Byrd, Mitchell A., and Bryan D. Watts, “Bald
Eagle Nesting and Production,” Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries,
$14,610
Byrd, Mitchell A., and Bryan D. Watts, “Peregrine
Falcon Nesting and Productivity,” Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries,
$7,262
Watts, Bryan D., “Enhancing Nature-Based Tourism
through Migration Research and Public Education on the Lower Delmarva Peninsula,”
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, $19,980
Watts, Bryan D., “Investigating the Use of
Exposed Power Lines by Breeding Waterbirds on Smith
Island, Maryland,” A&N Electric Cooperative, $29,352
Watts, Bryan D., “Monitoring Peregrine Falcons,”
Cape Henry Audubon Society, $200
Watts, Bryan D., “The Influence of Thorny
Elaeagnus on Automobile-Induced Wildlife Mortality,” Virginia
Transportation Research Council, $12,588
Watts, Bryan D., “Osprey Reintroduction Program,”
Jim Petro, $1,200
Watts, Bryan D., “Monitoring Osprey Nests
in Virginia and Maryland,” County of Northampton, $1,200
Watts, Bryan D., “Fall Stopover Ecology of
Neotropical Migrants on Quantico Marine Base: Are Hardwood-dominated
Forests of the Inner Coastal Plain Energy Sources for Migrants?” U.S. Department
of the Navy, $36,203
Watts, Bryan D., “Studies of Hardwood Forest
Breeding Birds and the Whip-poor-will Habitat Use of Managed Pine Forest on
Weyerhaeuser Lands in North Carolina,” Weyer-haeuser,
Inc., $34,192
Watts, Bryan D., “Production of the Partners-in-Flight
Bird Conservation Plan for the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain Physiographic Area,”
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Northern Neck Audubon Society, $6,500
Watts, Bryan D., “Production of a Revised
Landowner Guide to Bald Eagle Management,” Hancock Corporation, $8,000
Watts, Bryan D., “Investigating the Distribution,
Population Status, and Habitat Requirements of Threatened High-Marsh Bird
Species within the Mid-Atlantic Region,” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, $87,000
Watts, Bryan D., “Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
Banding,” Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and The Nature
Conservancy, $9,050
*
$948,117
Chemistry
Bagdassarian, Carey K., “Enzymatic
Activity and Protein-Matrix Flexibility,” The Jeffress
Memorial Trust, $14,000
Hinkle, Robert J., “CAREER: Alkenyl(aryl)iodanes: Investigations
of Reactivity and New Syntheses,” National Science Foundation, $294,810
Hinkle, Robert J., and David E. Kranbuehl, “Understanding the Role of Diffusion and pH on
a Color Indicator,” Coatings Technology, Ltd., $58,010
Kiefer, Richard L., “Predictions for Radiation
Shielding Materials,” National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $114,184
Kiefer, Richard L., with undergraduate student
Richard Anderson, “Synthesis and Analysis of Atomic Oxygen Resistant Polymers
for Aerospace Applications,” Virginia Space Grant Consortium, $8,500
Kranbuehl, David E., “Study of Conditions
on Conductivity of NMP Salt Mixtures,” Skylabs,
Inc., $3,500
Kranbuehl, David E., Miscellaneous
Projects, CorrOcean, $30,109
Kranbuehl, David E., Miscellaneous
Projects, Robitas, Inc., $55,345
Kranbuehl, David E., “In-Situ FDEMS
Sensing for Analytical Monitoring of Reaction Chemistry,” ICI Paints North
America, $35,000
Morgan, Kathleen M., “Solvent Effects on Amide
Rotation Using ‘Twisted’ Amides,” National Institutes of Health, $139,514
Orwoll, Robert A., “Preparation
of Polyamide NanoCompos-ites,” National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, $17,495
Pike, Robert D., “Chemical Investigations
of Metal-Organic Polymeric Networks,” Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Teacher-Scholar Award, $60,000
Poutsma, John C., “The Study of
the Gas-Phase Chemistry of Non-Protein Amino Acids,” The Camille and Henry
Dreyfus Foundation, $20,000
Rice, Gary W., “Trace Element Analysis of
Fish and Sediment Samples,” Virginia Institute of Marine Science, $25,672
Starnes, William H., Jr., and Robert D. Pike,
“Smoke Suppression of Vinyl Polymers by Reductive Crosslinking
Agents,” National Science Foundation, $250,000
Thompson, David W., “Formation of Metallic
Nanophases in Polymeric Matrices,” Petroleum Research Foundation,
$30,000
*
$1,156,139
Computer Science
Chrisochoides, Nikos
P., “Parallel Algorithms and Runtime Systems,” National Science Foundation
through Cornell University, $25,000
Ciardo, Gianfranco, “Advanced
Hierarchical Hybrid Environment for Reliability and Performance Modeling,”
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $110,404
Ciardo, Gianfranco, with graduate
student Andrew Miner, “Exact Solution Techniques for Large Markov Models,”
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $12,000
Feyock, Stefan, “Uniform Ontology
for Software Interfaces,” National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $44,752
Kearns, J. Philip, with graduate student Joel
Hollingsworth, “Kernel-to-Kernel Message Passing,” Virginia Space Grant Consortium,
$5,000
Park, Stephen K., with graduate student Barry
G. Lawson, “Simulation Techniques for Lattice-Based Artificial Society Models,”
Virginia Space Grant Consortium, $5,000
Prosl, Richard H., Graduate
Fellowship for Elizabeth P. Weibel, National Physical Science Consortium, $12,500
Rahman, Zia-ur,
and Stephen K. Park, “Nonlinear Encoded Signals,” National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, $99,856
Simha, Rahul,
“Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of WDM Optical Networks,” National Science
Foundation, $64,970
Smirni, Evgenia,
“Next Generation Software,” National Science Foundation, $126,050
Stathopoulos, Andreas, with graduate student
James McCombs, “Aerospace Graduate Research Fellowship,” Virginia Space Grant
Consortium, $5000
Torczon, Virginia J., “CAREER:
Research in Nonlinear Numerical Optimization and Practicums
for Computational Science,” National Science Foundation, $49,999
Voigt, Robert G., Director, Computational
Science, Xiaodong Zhang, Rahul
Simha, Evgenia Smirni, and Virginia J. Torczon,
“MRI: Acquisition of High Performance Clusters for Effective Parallel Computing
in Computational Science Research and Education,” National Science Foundation,
$461,820
*
$1,022,351
Economics
Mellor, Jennifer M., “Long-Term Care in the
AHEAD Survey,” National Institute on Aging, $66,364
*
$66,364
English
Braxton, Joanne M., “Monuments of the Black
Atlantic,” Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, $6,000
Martin, Jack B., “Creek Grammar and Expanded
Textbase,” National Science Foundation, $31,529
Price, Kenneth M., “Whitman, Dickinson, and
Teaching American Literature with New Technologies,” U.S. Department of Education,
$59,625
*
$97,154
Geology
Berquist, C. R., Jr., “Creation
of Digital Geological Maps in the Radford and Williamsburg 1:100,000 Scale-Quadrangles,
Virginia,” Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, $42,743
Berquist, C. R., Jr., “Creation
of Digital Geologic Maps - Danville, Lewisburg, Buena Vista 1:100,000 Quadrangles,”
Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, $1,986.57
Berquist, C.R., Jr., “Digital Physiographic,
Mineral Resources, and Geological Highway Maps for Virginia,” Virginia Division
of Mineral Resources, $33,281
Hancock, Gregory, “Deducing Uplift Rates and
a Detailed Glacial Chronology for the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, Using Radionuclides,” The Jeffress Memorial
Trust, $17,542
Macdonald, R. Heather, “Preparing the New
Generation of Geoscience Faculty: Workshops to Shape
the Future,” National Science Foundation, $11,259
Macdonald, R. Heather, “Building Quantitative
Skills of Students in Geoscience Courses: An NAGT
Workshop to Examine Successful Practices and Promote Course and Curricular
Revision,” National Science Foundation, $114,322
Owens, Brent E., “Geochronology and Geochemistry
of the State Farm Gneiss,” The Jeffress Memorial
Trust, $13,900
*
$235,034
Government
Cheng, Tun-Jen,
“Korea Symposium at William and Mary,” Korea Economic Institute of America,
$1,500
Rapoport, Ronald B., “Collaborative
Research on the Reform Party and Major Party Change,” National Science Foundation,
$50,984
*
$52,484
History
Sheriff, Carol, with graduate student Amanda
McVety, Jacob Javits Graduate
Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, $25,500
*
$25,500
Kinesiology
Deschenes, Michael R., “Recovery
of Neuromuscular Junctions from Space Flight,” The Jeffress
Memorial Trust, $19,220
Kambis, Kenneth W., “The Effects
of Caloric Restriction on Mood States at Sea Level and High Altitude,” The
Jeffress Memorial Trust, $10,797
Whitley, Kim, “Reversing the Trend: A Heads-Up
for White Water Paddlers,” United States Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety,
$30,000
*
$60,017
Mathematics
Kincaid, Rex K., “Bell-Curve Based Evolutionary
Strategies for Structural Optimization,” National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
$44,840
Leemis, Lawrence M., “Traveling
Salesman Problem Implementation,” Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, $13,560
Lutzer, David J., “REU: Matrix
Analysis and Applications,” National Science Foundation, $151,176
Rublein, George, “Eisenhower:
Measurement Skills in Science and Mathematics,” George Mason University, $13,787
Spitkovsky, Ilya,
“Toeplitz Operators and Their Applications,” National
Research Council, $2,750
*
$226,113
Modern Languages and Literatures
Arries, Jonathan, Faculty Mentor
Award, Virginia Cooperative Outreach and Opportunity League, $1,000
*
$1,000
Music
Rasmussen, Anne K., Fulbright Scholar Award
to Indonesia, $45,750
Tucker, Mark, “The Music of Thelonious Monk (1917-1982),” National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowship, $30,000
*
$75,750
Physics
Averett, Todd D., “Nucleon Spin
Structure Studies Using Parity Violating and Inelastic Electron Scattering,”
National Science Foundation, $60,000
Averett, Todd D., “Investigations
of the Structure of the Nucleon by Parity Violating Electron Scattering,”
The Jeffress Memorial Trust, $15,000
Benner, D. Chris, “HALOE and Other Remote
Sensing Satellite Experiments,” National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
$32,954
Benner, D. Chris, “High Resolution Spectroscopy
to Support Atmospheric Measurements,” National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
$111,000
Carlson, Carl E., Christopher D. Carone, and Marc T. Sher, “Topics
in Theoretical Physics,” National Science Foundation, $155,000