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Claude Bernasconi, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $4,000, National Science Foundation, "REU Supplement for Proton Transfers and Nucleophilic Reactions in Organic and Organometallic Systems."
Barry Bowman, professor of biology: $466,539, National Institutes of Health, "Minority Biomedical Research Support."
Bruce Bridgeman, professor of psychology and psychobiology, and Robert Welch, adjunct professor of pschology: $5,000, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, "Living in Space or Low Gravity Environments."
Jean Brodie, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics and associate astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $41,519, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Extragalatic Globular Cluster Systems."
Maureen Callanan, associate professor of psychology: $136,218, National Institutes of Health, "Negotiating Meaning--Children's Concepts and Theories."
Nancy Chen, assistant professor of anthropology: $13,392, Pacific Rim Research Group, "Ethnographies of the Urban in Late Twentieth Century China."
Andrew Chisholm, assistant professor of biology: $30,000, Cancer Research Coordinating Committee, "Analysis of Eph Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Pathways in C. elegans Epithelial Morphogenesis."
Mark Cianca, director of the University Events Office: $11,400, California Arts Council, "Fee Support for 1996-97 Season of Events."
Robert Coe, professor of earth sciences: $19,935, National Science Foundation, "Mechanism of Emplacement of Flood Basalts."
Daniel Costa, professor of biology: $314,775, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, "Potential Effects of Low Frequency Sound on Distribution and Behavior of Marine Mammals."
Phillip Crews, professor of chemistry: $3,657, National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute, "Molecular Approaches to Discover Marine Natural Products Anticancer Leads." David Deamer, professor emeritus of chemistry and biochemistry: $109,479, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "Structure and Function of Encapsulated Replicating Systems."
Margaret Delaney, professor of ocean sciences: $3,000, Joint Oceanographic Institute/U.S. Science Support Program, for the support of graduate student Kristina Faul, "ODP Leg 171B--Blake Nose."
Chongying Dong, associate professor of mathematics: $60,000, National Science Foundation, "Vertex Operator Algebras and Monstrous Moonshine."
Laurie Edwards, assistant professor of education: $13,000, UC Office of the President, "Constructing Geometric Knowledge Together."
Anthony Fink, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $148,500, AMGEN, "Development of Procedures to Refold GST-Receptor Fusion Proteins in E. coli"; $100,000, UC Biotechnology Research and Education, "Development of Procedures to Refold GST-Receptor Fusion in E. coli"; $80,000, National Science Foundation, "Early Events in Protein Folding"; and $4,000, National Science Foundation, "REU Supplement to Mechanisms of Enzyme Catalysis."
Stanley Flatte, professor of physics: $129,113, Office of Naval Research, "Ocean Bottom Effects on Ocean Acoustic Transmission."
Doyle Foreman, professor of art: $1,902, UC Office of the President, Intercampus Academic Program Incentive Fund, "Universitywide Meeting to Develop Plans for a Technical Art Facility (ARTECH)."
Edward Garnero, postgraduate researcher in earth sciences: $51,549, National Science Foundation, "Seismological Investigation of Depth and Lateral Distribution of Lower Mantle Shear Velocity Heterogeneity and Anistropy."
Robert Garrison, professor emeritus of earth sciences: $50,000, American Chemical Society, "Sedimentary Condensation and Dolomite-Phosphate Cycles in Neogene Coastal Upwelling Sediments."
Puragra Guhathakurta, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $11,558, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Measuring Luminosity Evolution in z=0.3 Field Galaxies from Internal Kinematics."
Lars Hernquist, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $132,270, Princeton University, "Formation of Galaxies and Large-Scale Structure in the Universe."
Karen Holl, assistant professor of environmental studies: $14,919, Earthwatch, "Tropical Rainforest Restoration."
Richard Hughey, assistant professor of computer engineering, and Kevin Karplus, associate professor of computer engineering: $184,131, National Science Foundation, "Multi-Purpose Parallel Processor for Biosequence Analysis."
Junko Itô and Armin Mester, professors of linguistics: $30,235, National Science Foundation, "The Structure of the Phonological Lexicon."
Yishi Jin, assistant professor of biology: $193,099, National Institutes of Health, "GABAergic Neuron Differentiation in C. elegans."
Robert Johnson, associate professor of physics: $126,716, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "Development of Silicon-Strip Tracker Readout Electronics for GLAST."
Douglas Kellogg, assistant professor of biology: $170,880, National Institutes of Health, "Control of Cell Cycle Events by Cyclin-Dependent Kinases."
Kenneth Kletzer, professor of economics: $2,750, UC Berkeley Center for German and European Studies, "Monetary Unification and Macroeconomic Stabilization."
Kenneth Kletzer, professor of economics, and Antonio Garcia-Pascual, graduate student in economics: UC Berkeley Center for German and European Studies, $3,300, "The Effects of the Monetary Union on the Structural Unemployment Problem: The Case of Spain."
Joseph Konopelski, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $30,000, Cancer Research Coordinating Committee, "Synthesis of MDR Reversal Agent N-Methylwelwitindolinone C Isolthiocyanate."
Jackelyn Lundy, acting director of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems: $19,030, Margoes Foundation, "Sponsorship for Africans in Apprenticeship Course."
Geoffrey Mason, professor of mathematics: $75,000, National Science Foundation, "Vertex Operator Algebras and the Representation and Cohomology Theory of Groups and Algebras."
Richard Montgomery, associate professor of mathematics, and Viktor Ginzburg, assistant professor of mathematics: $52,982, National Science Foundation, "Periodic Orbits, Magnetic Fields and Other Topics in Symplectic Geometry."
Casey Moore, professor of earth sciences: $10,000, National Science Foundation, "Faults and Subsurface Fluid Flow: Fundamentals and Applications to Hydrogeology and Petroleum Geology: Conference Support Request."
Harry Noller, Robert L. Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology: $28,600, National Institutes of Health, for the support of postdoctoral researcher Lisa Newcomb, "Tethered FE (II): A Structural Probe of Ribosomal RNA."
Stanley Oden, community services coordinator, Oakes College: $1,825, San Francisco State University, "Oakes Serves Curriculum Revision Project."
Leo Ortiz, professor of biology: $164,513, National Institutes of Health, "University of California Santa Cruz Honors Undergraduate."
Caroline Pomeroy, assistant researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $34,185, Sea Grant, "Marine Reserves as a Management Tool: An Evaluative Study of Cooperative Data Collection at Big Creek."
Daniel Press, Pepper-Giberson Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies: $16,000, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, for the support of graduate student Paul Steinberg, "The Impact of International Environmental Agreements on Biodiversity Policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia."
David Rank, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $59,926, Universities Space Research Association, "Proposed SOFIA Instrument Rotator."
Gregory Rau, senior researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $29,000, CSU Monterey Bay, "Entry of Sewage-Derived Organic Matter from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, into the Benthic Food Web and Its Biological Consequences."
Justin Revenaugh, associate professor of earth sciences: $135,090, National Science Foundation, "Kirchoff Code Migration of Regional Network Data."
Donald Rothman, senior lecturer in writing: $108,000, UC Berkeley, California Writing Project, "Central California Writing Project Grant Renewal."
Bakthan Singaram, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $5,000, American Chemical Society, for the support of graduate student David Ball, "Assymetric Hydroboration of Functionalized Alkenes."
Lisa Sloan, assistant professor of earth sciences: $2,000, Office of Naval Research, for the support of graduate student Eric Small, "Office of Naval Research Fellowship."
Sean Swezey, specialist with the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems: $23,861, Wallace Genetic Foundation, "Operational Support for the Organic Farming Extension Program at CASFS, University of California, Santa Cruz."
Eugene Switkes, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $29,250, National Institutes of Health, "Studies of Color Vision."
Frank Talamantes, professor of biology: $366,562, National Institutes of Health, "Pregnancy-Associated Protection Against Breast Cancer"; and $2,500, Endocrine Society, "Research Fellowship for Cietta Penn."
John Tamkun, associate professor of biology: $30,000, Cancer Research Coordinating Committee, "Biochemical and Genetic Dissection of a Signalling Pathway Involved in Leukemogenesis."
Roland Tharp, professor of education and psychology: $3,999,912, U.S. Department of Education, "The National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning."
Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $99,887, Environmental Protection Agency, "Determination of the Relative Sensitivity of the Northern Elephant Seal and Other California Pinnipeds to the Toxic Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls"; and $1,480, Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "Avila Beach Tissue Signal Characterization."
Bess Ward, professor of ocean sciences: $16,500, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "The Effect of Methomyl on Nitrification in Elkhorn Slough Sediments."
Manfred Warmuth, professor of computer science, and David Helmbold, associate professor of computer science: $110,000, National Science Foundation, "Amortized Analysis for On-Line Learning Algorithms."
Jonathan Weitsman, associate professor of mathematics: $16,382, National Science Foundation, "Mathematical Sciences: Sympletic Geometry: Moduli Spaces and Manifold Invariants."
David Williams, associate adjunct professor of physics and associate research physicist: $18,000, Institute of Geophysics and Planentary Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Milagro: The World's Only Wide Aperature TeV Gamma Ray Observatory, A Proposal for Design Optimization and Development."
Dan Wood, director of Physical Education, Recreation, and Sports: $10,000, Calif. Department of Boating and Waterways, "Promoting Boating Safety on Monterey Bay."
Stanford Woosley, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $75,000, National Science Foundation, "Massive Stellar Evolution, Supernovae, and Nucleosynthesis."
Ru-Shan Wu, research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $200,000, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Fast 3D Prestack Depth Migration Using Multi-Screen Propagator."