December 1996

Contracts and Grants

Manuel Ares, associate professor of biology: $255,013, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, "Structure and Function of Yeast Small Nuclear RNPs."

Barry Bowman, professor of biology, and Henry Rutland, graduate student in education: $313,690, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)."

Jean Brodie, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics and associate astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $21,251, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Globular Clusters in Fornax Galaxies."

Pak Chan and Martine Schlag, associate professors of computer engineering: $11,559, Xilinx, "Hardware Acceleration of Placement and Routing Algorithms."

Phillip Crews, professor of chemistry: $75,000, California Sea Grant, "Cultured Marine Fungi as a Source of New Bioactive Materials."

Wayne Dai, associate professor of computer engineering: $197,011, Advanced Research Projects Agency, "Multi-GOPS Image Processor Accelerator Based on Large Scale Enhanced Field-Programmable Multi-Chip Module"; $17,648, UC MICRO, "Performance Driven Layout for Deep Submicron Chip Design"; and $7,424, UC MICRO, "Measurement and Analysis of Clock Jitter in a Noisy Environment."

Margaret Delaney, professor of ocean sciences: $129,184, National Science Foundation, "Phosphorus Accumulation in Cenozoic Marine Sediments."

Olof Einarsdottir, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $155,636, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, "Electron Transfer and Proton Pumping in Cytochrome Oxidase."

Miriam Ellis, lecturer in French language: $6,500, National Endowment for the Humanities, "Foreign Language in Expanded Domains."

Miriam Ellis, lecturer in French language; Mark Cioc, associate professor of history; and Judith Harris-Frisk, lecturer in German: $5,000, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), "Team Teaching Grant in German Studies (matching funds for National Endowment for Humanities FLIED grant)."

Andrew Fisher, assistant professor of earth sciences: $19,793, National Science Foundation, "Fine-Scale Hydrogeology and Geochemistry of Areas of Active Venting in Middle Valley, a Sedimented Rift on the Northern Juan de Fuca Ridge."

Margaret FitzSimmons, associate professor of environmental studies: $16,000, Mary A. Crocker Trust, "Community Supported Agriculture Training and Demonstration."

Russell Flegal, professor of earth sciences: $38,000, Natural Resources Defense Council, "Analyses of Contaminants and Exposure."

James Gill, professor of earth sciences, and Andrew Fisher, assistant professor of earth sciences: $240,000, Concurrent Technologies Corporation, "Fort Ord Landfill Demonstration Project."

Stephen Gliessman, Alfred E. Heller Professor of Agroecology (environmental studies): $990, Inter-American Foundation, for the support of graduate student Claudia Schmidt, "Building an Alternative Agriculture: Technical-Productive and Social Organization Practices of Small Farmers in Rio Grande do Sul."

Gary Griggs, professor of earth sciences: $106,000, National Biological Service, "Population and Community Ecology of Sea Otters."

David Haussler, professor of computer science: $78,554, SmithKline Beecham, "Hidden Markov Models and Similar Bayesian Methodologies."

David Hoy, professor of philosophy: $5,000, National Endowment for the Humanities, "What Practices Do (Summer Institute)."

Garth Illingworth, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $30,370, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Determination of the Extragalactic Distance Scale."

Joseph Konopelski, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $200,000, American Cancer Society, "Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Marine Alkaloids."

Daniel Orange, visiting assistant research marine scientist with the Institute of Marine Sciences and research associate in earth sciences, and Casey Moore, professor of earth sciences: $7,200, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, "Tectonic and Hydrologic Studies in Monterey Bay."

Tudor Ratiu, professor of mathematics, and Debra Lewis, associate professor of mathematics: $60,000, National Science Foundation, "Symplectic Methods in Bifurcation Theory, Hamiltonian Dynamics, and Lie Theory."

Nina Rosenberg, research fellow with the Institute of Tectonics, and Andrew Fisher, assistant professor of earth sciences: $5,000, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Modeling Fluid Flow and Mass Transport in the Earth's Crust."

Thomas Schleich, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Henry Rutland, graduate student in education: $168,910, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)."

Abraham Seiden, professor of physics: $4,500, University of Freiburg/CERN, "Binary Readout System for LHC"; and $10,000, Argonne National Laboratory, "Frontend Electronics for ZEUS BPC Tracker."

William Sullivan, associate professor of biology: $186,019, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, "Analysis of Cytokinesis in the Early Drosophila Embryo."

Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $23,500, California Department of Fish and Game, "Marine Bioassay Project."

Harold Widom, professor emeritus of mathematics: $35,000, National Science Foundation, "Research in Random Matrices and Spectral Asymptotics."

Terrie Williams, assistant professor of biology: $59,994, Office of Naval Research, "Dolphins as Models for Cost Efficient Autonomous Underwater Vehicles"; and $2,000, Shedd Aquarium, for the support of graduate student Shawn Noren, "Pushing the Limits: Aerobic and Anaerobic Metabolism of Pacific White Sided Dolphins."

Dennis Zaritsky, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $8,000, National Science Foundation, "Galactic Halos: A UC Santa Cruz Workshop."

Dennis Zaritsky, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory, and Ann Zabludoff, visiting postdoctoral researcher in astronomy: $5,101, Space Telescope Science Institute, "The Detailed Morphology of Post-Merger Galaxies."

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