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Contracts and Grants--September 1997

Robert Anderson, professor of earth sciences: $45,000, NASA, "Zscape: A Coupled Tectonic-Geomorphic Landscape Evolution Model."

Manuel Ares, associate professor of biology, and David Haussler, professor of computer science: $141,792, National Institutes of Health, "Molecular and Bioinformatic Identification and Mapping of Yeast Introns."

David Belanger, professor of physics, and Henry Rutland, assistant to the dean for admissions and outreach in the Graduate Studies Division: $171,157, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)."

Barry Bowman, professor of biology, and Henry Rutland, assistant to the dean for admissions and outreach in the Graduate Studies Division: $171,157, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)."

Bruce Bridgeman, professor of psychology and psychobiology: $5,000, NASA Ames Research Center, "Dual Adaptation and Adaptive Generalization to Rearranged Visual Environments and Adaptive Performance in the Human VOR."

Frank Bridges, professor of physics: $80,000, National Science Foundation, "Polaron-Induced Local Distortions in Correlated Electron Systems."

Kenneth Bruland, professor of ocean sciences: $7,464, National Science Foundation, "Interdependence of Trace Metal Speciation and Phytoplankton Dynamics in the Eastern North Pacific."

Edmund Burke, professor of history: $165,000, National Endowment for the Humanities, "Summer Institute: Environment and World History."

Tina Campt, assistant professor of women's studies: $3,300, UC Berkeley Center for German and European Studies, "Manuscript Preparation for a Collection of Essays on Women of Color in Europe."

Nancy Chen, assistant professor of anthropology: $12,000, National Science Foundation, "Performing Able-Bodiedness: Amputees and Prosthetics in the USA (Steve Kurzman)."

Mark Cianca, director of the University Events Office: $25,375, California Arts Council, "Artist Fee Support for 1997-98 Season."

Bruce Cooperstein, professor of math: $4,500, National Science Foundation, "Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Katrina Barron)."

Bruce Cooperstein, professor of mathematics, and Henry Rutland, assistant to the dean for admissions and outreach in the Graduate Studies Division: $171,157, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)."

Daniel Costa, professor of biology: $22,170, SCEEE Services Corporation, "National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (Jason Gedamke)."

Michael Cowan, professor of American studies and literature: $3,000, Social Science Research Council, "The Very House of Difference: Lives of Rocky Mountain Lesbians, 1940-1965 (Katie Gilmartin)."

Phillip Crews, professor of chemistry: $531,898, National Institutes of Health, "Baccalaureate Bridge to the Biomedical Sciences Program"; and $263,360, National Institutes of Health, "Discovery of Novel Cytotoxic Natural Products from Marine Sponges."

Donald Croll, assistant researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences, and Bernie Tershy, postgraduate researcher in biology: $75,784, Office of Naval Research, "The Effects of Human-Produced LFS on the Foraging Ecology of Balaenoptera Whales."

Robert Curry, professor emeritus of environmental geology (environmental studies), and Margaret FitzSimmons, associate professor of environmental studies: $21,600, UC Water Resources Center, "Effects of Perennial Grass Buffer Strips on Movement of NPS Pollutants from Cropland to Wetland."

Charles Daniel, professor emeritus of biology: $201,791, National Institutes of Health, "Hormonal Regulation of the Mammary IGF System."

Sandra Faber, University Professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $100,000, Caltech, "On-Orbit Research with the Wide Field Planetary Camera Team"; $9,049, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Cores of Early Type Galaxies"; and $8,000, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Black Holes and Cores of Early-Type Galaxies."

Joel Ferguson and Tracy Larrabee, associate professors of computer engineering: $18,400, Semiconductor Research Corporation, "Test Generation for Realistic Faults."

Jonathan Fox, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies: $13,880, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, "Explaining the Implementation of the World Bank's Environmental Policy Reforms: Lessons from Mexico and the Philippines."

Laurel Fox, professor of biology, and Margaret FitzSimmons, associate professor of environmental studies: $112,500, National Science Foundation, "Multidisciplinary Regional Studies Graduate Training Program: A Critical Need."

J. J Garcia-Luna, associate professor of computer engineering: $160,000, Department of the Army Advanced Research Projects Agency, "Protocols for Secure and Survivable Active Internetworking"; $60,000, Hughes Research Labs, "Adaptive Mobile Secure Networks"; $25,000, Hughes Research Labs, "Multicasting Problems in Internetworks with Asymmetric Paths"; and $40,000, Hughes Research Labs, "Efficient Routing Protocols for Tactical Internets."

David Garrison, professor emeritus of earth sciences; Mary Silver, professor of ocean sciences; and Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $30,336 Sea Grant, "Assessing Environmental Control of Domoic Acid Production by the Planktonic Diatom Pseudo-nitzschia australis in California Waters."

Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, professor of anthropology: $5,000, National Geographic Society, "Conservation Assessment of Jia Lanpo's Zhoukoudian ("Peking Man" Site) Archives."

James Gill, professor of earth sciences: $26,657, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Controls of U Groundwater Chemistry Constrained by AMS 14C and 36Cl (Aaron Reyes)."

James Gill, professor of earth sciences, and Avner Vengosh, associate researcher in earth sciences: $23,157, UC Water Resources Center, "Multi-Isotope Investigation of the Origin of Ground Water Salinity in Salinas Valley, California."

Puragra Guhathakurta, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $82,495, NASA, "The Properties of Interstellar Dust Grains in 'Cirrus' Clouds."

David Helmbold and Charles McDowell, associate professors of computer science: $50,000, National Semiconductor, "An Intelligent Electronic Assistant."

Ronald Henderson, dean of the Graduate Studies Division: $445,500, National Science Foundation, "Graduate Research Fellowship"; and $15,000, National Research Council, "1997 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (Marie Miranda, Andrea Lee Smith)."

Ronald Henderson, dean of the Graduate Studies Division, and Henry Rutland, assistant to the dean for admissions and outreach in the Graduate Studies Division: $48,902, U.S. Department of Education, "Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship."

Karen Holl, assistant professor of environmental studies: $9,935, Lindbergh Foundation, "Restoration of Tropical Rain Forests in Agricultural Land: Balancing Land Uses."

Richard Howarth, associate professor of environmental studies: $7,000, Redefining Progress, "Climate Change Policy Modelling."

Garth Illingworth, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $15,925, Johns Hopkins University, "A Proposal to Build an Advanced Camera for the Hubble Space Telescope"; and $33,361, Space Telescope Science Institute, "The Role of Environment in Galaxy Evolution: A Study of Galaxies in the Field, in Poor Groups, and in Clusters (Ann I. Zabludoff)."

John Isbister, provost, and Abbey Asher, student affairs officer, Merrill College: $14,533, Peace Corps, "Peace Corps Office."

David Kliger, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $241,891, National Institutes of Health/NEI, "Activation Mechanisms of Visual Pigments"; and $39,700, UC Office of the President/MESA, "MESA2 Program."

Joe Konopelski, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $100,000, UC Breast Cancer Research Program, "Anti-metastatic Drugs from Laminin Peptide 11."

Tracy Larrabee and Joel Ferguson, associate professors of computer engineering: $30,000, Intel, "Realistic Defect Modeling and Test Generation."

Douglas Lin, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, and Lars Hernquist, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $40,000, NASA, "Dynamical Processes Around Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei."

Ronnie Lipschutz, associate professor of politics: $18,500, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, "Stevenson Program on Global Security-Block and Activity Grants, 1997-98."

Darrell Long and David Helmbold, associate professors of computer science: $120,211, National Science Foundation, "Predictive Power Conservation."

Marc Mangel, professor of environmental studies: $85,000, U.S. Department of Agriculture, "Improving Biological Control by Exploiting Parasitoid Learning and Herbivore Response to Plant Variability."

Geoffrey Mason, professor of mathematics: $100,000, National Science Foundation, "Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Their Representations."

Charles McDowell, associate professor of computer science: $25,664, MICRO, "Building Embedded Java Systems"; and $50,000, National Semiconductor, "Building Embedded Java Systems."

Charles McDowell, associate professor of computer science, and Henry Rutland, assistant to the dean for admissions and outreach in the Graduate Studies Division: $146,706, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)."

Ellen Moir, director of teacher education: $70,000, S. H. Cowell Foundation, "Development and Dissemination Grant, Santa Cruz New Teacher Project."

Harry Noller, Robert L. Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology: $29,150, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, "Defining the Peptidyl Transferase Center of the Ribosome (Rachael Green)."

Jack Okamuro, assistant professor of biology: $25,000, National Science Foundation, "Molecular Control of Flower Development."

Daniel Orange, adjunct research associatei-Metastatic ion, Antarctica, i in earth sciences: $30,000, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, "Tectonic and Hydrologic Studies in Monterey Bay."

Leo Ortiz, professor of biology: $22,000, NASA-Ames, "Effects of Water Immersion (Weightlessness) on the Regulation of Renal Function in Seals Exposed to a Terrestrial and Aquatic Environment (Rudy Ortiz)."

Thomas Pettigrew, research professor in psychology, and Stephen Wright, assistant professor of psychology: $94,419, National Science Foundation, "Intergroup Contact: A Meta-Analytical Empirical and Theoretical Clarification."

Joel Primack, professor of physics; George Blumenthal, professor of astronomy and astrophysics; and Sandra Faber, University Professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $110,000, NASA, "Testing Inflation and Dark Matter with New Data, Models, and Methods."

Gregory Rau, senior researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $593, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Ocean Biogeochemistry Research at LLNL"; and $25,000, CSU Monterey Bay, "Entry of Sewage-Derived Organic Matter from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, into the Benthic Food Web and Its Biological Consequences."

Christina Ravelo, assistant professor of ocean sciences: $6,498, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, "Cruise Leg 175 - Benguela (Dyke Andreasen)."

Thomas Schleich, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Henry Rutland, assistant to the dean for admissions and outreach in the Graduate Studies Division: $171,157, U.S. Department of Education, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)."

Susan Schwartz, assistant professor of earth sciences: $113,000, National Science Foundation, "Seismic and Geodetic Constraints on the Evolution of Magmatic and Eruptive Processes at Arenal and Irazu Volcanoes, Costa Rica."

Abraham Seiden, professor of physics: $582,000, U.S. Department of Energy, "High Energy Physics: Supplementary Proposal for BaBar Fabrication."

Buchanan Sharp, professor of history: $11,000, UC Berkeley Center for German and European Studies, "Graduate Fellowship (Helmut Paul Langerbein)."

Eli Silver, professor of earth sciences: $19,000, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, "Consolidation and Permeability of Underthrust Sediments in the Costa Rica Subduction Complex"; and $20,000, NASA-GSRP, "Evolution of Drainage Basins in New Guinea (Laura Wallace)."

Eli Silver, professor of earth sciences, and Donald Potts, professor of biology: $30,000, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Geothermal Plant Stress."

Lisa Sloan, assistant professor of earth sciences: $16,508, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project (PMIP) Analysis."

Graeme Smith, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics and associate astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $4,532, Space Telescope Science Institute, "A Search for Outflows and Mass Loss from Population II Red Giants."

Trish Stoddart, associate professor of education: $20,000, UC Office of the President, California Science Project, "LASERS Summer School and Institute: A California Science Project Pilot Site."

Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $15,907, Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program"; and $4,250, Cal Resources LLC, "PCB Analysis in Tissues and Sediments."

Geoffrey Vallis, professor of ocean sciences: $22,000, NASA, "Modeling Long-Term Climate Variability (Jolene Loving)."

Anujan Varma, associate professor of computer engineering: $50,000, National Semiconductor, "Research in Next-Generation LAN Switching."

Todd Wipke, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Joe Konopelski, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $32,785, Montana State University, "Template-Based Design of Anti-Metastatic Drugs from the Active Conformation of Laminin Peptide 11."

Ru-Shan Wu, research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics, and Xiao-Bi Xie, assistant researcher in earth sciences: $163,070, Defense Special Weapons Agency, "Synthesizing High-Frequency (1-25 Hz) Regional Phases at Large Distances (> 1000 km) Using Generalized Screen Propagators (GSP)."


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