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Contracts and Grants-April 1997
Manuel Ares, associate professor of biology: $140,026, National Institutes of Health, "Structure and Function of Eukaryotic RNAse III."
Manuel Ares, associate professor of biology, and Rhonda Perriman, visiting postdoctoral researcher: $50,000, American Cancer Society, California Division, "Regulation of Gene Expression Using Circular RNAs."
David Belanger, professor of physics, and Henry Rutland, assistant to the dean for admissions and outreach: $168,910 and $217,170, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)."
Claude Bernasconi, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $110,000, National Science Foundation, "Proton Transfers and Nucleophilic Reactions in Organic and Organometallic Systems."
Peter Bodenheimer, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory, and Douglas Lin, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $90,000, National Science Foundation, "Evolution of Stellar Disks."
Barry Bowman, professor of biology, and Henry Rutland, assistant to the dean for admissions and outreach: $313,690, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)."
Sue Carter, assistant professor of physics: $231,542, National Science Foundation, "Charge Transport, Integration, and Degradation in Electroluminescent Polymer Devices."
Bruce Cooperstein, professor of mathematics, and Laurie Edwards, assistant professor of education: $90,000, California Math Project, "Monterey Bay Area Mathematics Project."
Bruce Cooperstein, professor of mathematics, and Henry Rutland, assistant to the dean for admissions and outreach: $168,910, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)."
Phillip Crews, professor of chemistry: $66,335, Sea Grant, "Marine Sponges and Their Associated Macroorganisms as a Source of Antiinfective Therapeutic Leads"; and $25,000, Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, "Recollection of Bengamide Sponge from Fiji for Isolation of Potential Anti-Cancer Agents."
Margaret Delaney, professor of ocean sciences: $3,314, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, for the support of graduate student Kristina Faul, "ODP Leg 171B - Blake Nose."
Sandra Faber, University Professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $55,200, Caltech, "On-Orbit Research with the Wide Field Planetary Camera Team."
Andrew Fisher, assistant professor of earth sciences: Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, $17,915, "Models of Ridge-Flank Hydrothermal Circulation: Role of Permeability Distribution and Fracture Representation"; and $19,472, "Hydrogeologic Studies of the Eastern Flank of Juan de Fuca Ridge."
Russell Flegal, professor of earth sciences: $47,500, Coastal Toxicology Program, "UC Toxic Substances Research/Teaching"; $1,000, Natural Resources Defense Council, "Analyses of Contaminants and Exposure"; $3,000, San Francisco Estuary Institute, "Contribution to 1995 RMP Annual Report"; $6,750, Applied Marine Sciences, "Trace Element Analyses"; and $13,700, Natural Resources Defense Council, "Analysis of Lead Contamination in Calcium Supplements."
Solomon Friedberg, professor of mathematics: $22,000, National Science Foundation, "Sums of L-functions, the Metaplectic Group, and Non-Generic Representations."
Daniel Friedman, professor of economics: $58,749, National Science Foundation, "A Laboratory Study of Customer Markets"; and $7,500, National Science Foundation, for the support of graduate student Nicole Bouchez, "Doctoral Dissertation Research: Learning in Three by Three Bimatrix Games: An Investigation with Experimental Data."
David Garrison, lecturer in ocean sciences: $135,659, National Science Foundation, "Ecological Studies of Sea Ice Communities in the Ross Sea, Antarctica."
James Gill, professor of earth sciences, and Alfred Hochstaedter, postgraduate researcher in earth sciences: $87,060, National Science Foundation, "Cross-Chain and Remnant Arc Volcanism in the Izu Arc."
Lydia Gregoret, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $79,587, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciencetopper-Gibersonsearcher x Games:, "Protein Folding-Side Chair Interactions in Beta Sheets."
Richard Hughey, assistant professor of computer engineering, and Kevin Karplus, associate professor of computer engineering: $25,328, National Science Foundation, "Multi-Purpose Parallel Processor for Biosequence Analysis."
Garth Illingworth, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $27,646, Space Telescope Science Institute, "The Nature of Galaxies in the HDF from HST Structural and Keck Kinematical Measurements."
David Kliger, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $75,000, UC Office of the President, "MESA/MSP Center."
David Kliger, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Robert Goldbeck, associate research chemist: $199,122, National Institutes of Health, "Time-Resolved Magnetic Circular Dichroism."
David Koo, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $26,048, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Spacial Structures and Masses of Faint Field Galaxies."
Burney Le Boeuf, professor emeritus of biology: $96,661, National Science Foundation, "Predator-Prey Interactions Among White Sharks and Northern Elephant Seals."
Douglas Lin, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $45,000, NASA, "Formation of Giant Planets."
Charles McDowell, associate professor of computer science, and Henry Rutland, assistant to the dean for admissions and outreach: $168,910, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)."
Casey Moore, professor of earth sciences: $9,334, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, for the support of graduate student Philip Stauffer, "Modeling Deformation and Dewatering in the Barbados Accretionary Complex: Implications for Proto-Decollement Propagation."
Harry Noller, Robert L. Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology: $58,000, American Cancer Society, California Division, for the support of graduate student Joseph Simpson, "Mapping the Inside of the Ribosome Using Tethered Fe(II) EDTA"; $29,900, National Institutes of Health, for the support of postdoctoral researcher Kathy Lieberman, "Analysis of Essential rRNA-Protein Interactions"; and $29,900, National Institutes of Health, for the support of postdoctoral researcher Gloria Culver, "Probing the 30S Ribosomal Subunit Using Anchored Fe-EDTA."
Alex Pang, assistant professor of computer science: $120,000, National Science Foundation, "REU Supplement to Visualizing Uncertainty in Scientific Data Displays (IRI-9423881)."
Daniel Press, Pepper-Giberson professor of environmental studies: $76,327, Environmental Protection Agency, "Community and Conservation in California."
Gregory Rau, senior researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $25,000, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Ocean Biogeochemistry Research at LLNL."
Thomas Schleich, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Henry Rutland, assistant to the dean for admissions and outreach: $168,910, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)."
Abraham Seiden, professor of physics: $4,000, University of Oslo, "Proposal for Binary Readout System for LHC"; and $4,000, University of Uppsala, "Proposal for Binary Readout System for LHC."
Eli Silver, professor of earth sciences: $3,000, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, "Consolidation and Permeability of Underthrust Sediments in the Costa Rica Subduction Complex."
Sean Swezey, specialist with the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems: $30,000, California EPA, Department of Pesticide Regulation, "BASIC (Biological Agriculture Systems in Cotton): A Cotton Pest Management Innovators Group in the Northern San Joaquin Valley."
Frank Talamantes, professor of biology: $28,675, National Institutes of Health, "Pregnancy-Associated Protection Against Breast Cancer."
Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $209,000, National Science Foundation, "A Survey of Nearby Stars for Extrasolar Planets."
Brian Walton, lecturer in environmental studies and coordinator of the Predatory Bird Research Group: $45,632, University of Utah, "1997 Regional Monitoring Program for Toxic Contaminants."
Todd Wipke, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $31,627, Montana State University, "De Novo Design of Membrane Protein Mimetics."
Dennis Zaritsky, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $70,000, National Science Foundation, "Reconstructing the Magellanic Clouds Star Formation History from a Digital UBVI Photometric Survey"; and $21,962, Space Telescope Science Institute, "A Search for Extended Stellar Galactic Halos."