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Sonia Alvarez, associate professor of politics, and Norma Klahn, associate professor of literature: $50,000, Ford Foundation, "Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies."
Robert Anderson, professor of earth sciences: $18,535, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Dating of the Santa Cruz Marine Terraces Using 10Be and 26A1 Profiles."
Manuel Ares, associate professor of biology, and Charles Wilson, assistant professor of biology: $6,000, UC Biotech Research and Education Program, "RNA-Mediated Gene Ablation: Technology Development and Biological Testing."
Jack Block, research professor in psychology, and Per Gjerde, associate professor of psychology: $83,614, National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Mental Health, "Longitudinal Study of Ego and Cognitive Development."
Sue Carter, assistant professor of physics: $84,668, Stanford University, "Polymer/Nanoparticle Composite Devices."
Pedro Castillo, associate professor of history: $1,000, UC MEXUS, "The Rosalie Evans Letters."
Nancy Chen, assistant professor of anthropology: $600, UC Pacific Rim Research Program, "Ethnographies of the Urban in Late Twentieth-Century China."
Robert Coe, professor of earth sciences: $28,000, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics/Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Understanding the Geodynamo."
Bruce Cooperstein, professor of mathematics: $23,166, UC Office of the President, Math Diagnostic Testing Program, "Monterey Bay Area Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project."
Phillip Crews, professor of chemistry: $548,908, National Institutes of Health, "Molecular Approaches to Discover Marine Natural Products."
Robert Curry, research professor of environmental studies: $2,000, Calif. Water Resources Control Board, "Ranking Priorities for Wetland Restoration and Mitigation Banking; Updating Regional Mono County Database; Coordinating Regulatory Environment."
Wayne Dai, associate professor of computer engineering: $26,633, MICRO, "Numerical and Experimental Modeling of MCM Passive Components for Wireless Applications."
Russell Flegal, professor of environmental toxicology: $500, UC Toxic Substances and Training Program, "Copper-Mediated Reduction of Hexavalent Chromium by Superoxide in Natural Waters (CCTSRTP Travel Grant, Khalil Abu-Saba)."
J. J. García-Luna, associate professor of computer engineering: $170,000, DARPA, "SPARROW: Secure Protocols for Adaptive, Robust, Reliable, and Opportunistic Wings."
Lynda Goff, professor of biology: $19,999, University of Hawaii, "Understanding Gracilaria Gall Syndrome."
Robert Goldbeck, associate research chemist, and Charles Strauss, staff scientist with the Advanced Chemical Diagnostics and Instrumentation Section of Los Alamos National Laboratory: $38,949, CULAR-Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Nanosecond Time-Resolved Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Temperature-Jump Initiated Protein Folding Dynamics."
Gary Griggs, professor of earth sciences, and Ellen Moir, director of teacher education: $228,000, Calif. Postsecondary Education Commission, "Science Connections 2."
Lars Hernquist, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $5,544, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Nuclear Brightness Profiles of Merger Remnants: Do Mergers Form Ellipticals?"
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"; and $16,000, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Determination of the Extragalactic Distance Scale."
Burney Le Boeuf, professor emeritus of biology: $15,000, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, "Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship (Michelle Denise Wainstein, Fellow)."
Dominic Massaro, professor of psychology: $170,000, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, "Creating Conversational Agents."
Leo Ortiz, professor of biology: $162,125, National Institutes of Health/John H. Fogarty International Center, "Minority International Research Training Grant (MIRT)"; and $27,419, National Institutes of Health, "University of California, Santa Cruz, Honors Undergraduate."
Gregory Rau, senior researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $16,785, NASA-Ames, "A NASA-Ames/UCSC Investigation of Carbon Isotope Abundances in ALH84001"; and $24,354, UC San Diego/Scripps Institution of Oceanography, "Long-Term Changes in California Current Zooplankton Assemblages: A Retrospective Analysis."
Donald Rothman, senior lecturer in writing and director of the Central California Writing Project: $17,000, Cal Writing Project, "CCWP Mini Grant."
Ronald Schusterman, adjunct professor of biology and ocean sciences: $123,591, Office of Naval Research, "Marine Bioacoustics of Monterey Bay Pinnipeds: Auditory Fatigue and Masking."
Abraham Seiden, professor of physics: $5,000, Hytec, Inc., "Evaluation of Pyrolytic Graphite and Carbon - Carbon Material."
Abraham Seiden, professor of physics and director of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, and Michael Dine, professor of physics: $1,321,000 and $146,000, U.S. Department of Energy, "Research in High Energy Physics."
Eli Silver, professor of earth sciences: $3,627, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, "Workshop on the Costa Rica-Nicaragua Seismogenic Zone."
William Sullivan, associate professor of biology: $12,476, National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, "Analysis of Cytokinesis in the Early Drosophila Embryo (Brigette De Saint Phalle, Fellow)."
Sean Swezey, specialist with the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems: $40,000, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Establishing Native, Perennial, Non-Crop Farmscape Vegetation for Erosion Control and Pesticide Use Reduction in Strawberries in California's Monterey Bay Area."
James Tait, research associate with the Institute of Marine Sciences, and Gary Griggs, professor of earth sciences and director of the Institute of Marine Sciences: $3,948, U.S. Geological Survey, "Determining Coarse-Grained Sediment Sources and Dispersal Patterns in Monterey Bay: An Inverse Theoretical Approach."
Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $132,553, Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "Environmental Fate of Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Clean-up Agents"; $130,605, Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "Environmental Effects of Dispersed Oil"; and $39,842, Calif. Department of Fish and Game, "Oil Spill Clean-up Agent Performance."
Brian Walton, lecturer in environmental studies and coordinator of the Predatory Bird Research Group: $5,500, Lockheed, "Monitoring Services for Peregrine Falcons During Missile Launches at Vandenburg Air Force Base."
Mark Wells, associate researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $74,020, Office of Naval Research, "Optically-Active Colloidal Organic Matter and Its Contribution to Variable Chromophoric DOM Signatures in Nearshore Seawaters."
David Williams, associate adjunct professor of physics and associate research physicist: $15,330, California Space Institute, "STACEE: Gamma-Ray Astronomy at 50 GeV."
Terrie Williams, associate professor of biology: $50,000, Office of Naval Research, "Dolphins as Models for Cost Efficient Autonomous Underwater Vehicles."
Ru-Shan Wu, research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $29,700, Exxon, "Wavelet Transform on Propagation and Imaging."
Ann Zabludoff, visiting postdoctoral researcher in astronomy, and Dennis Zaritsky, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $5,100, Space Telescope Science Institute, "The Detailed Morphology of Post-Merger Galaxies."
Dennis Zaritsky, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics and assistant astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $21,962, Space Telescope Science Institute, "A Search for Extended Stellar Galactic Halos."
Jin Zhang, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $40,000, CULAR-Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Development and Characterization of Novel Conjugated Polymer/Semiconductor Nano-Particle Composite Materials."
Xixi Zhao, lecturer in earth sciences and assistant research geophysicist with the Institute of Tectonics: $3,000, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Support Program, "A Detailed Magnetostratigraphic and Rock Magnetic Study of Cores from Leg 173."