Contract and Grants-March 1997

Barry Bowman, professor of biology, and Emma Jean Bowman, research biologist: $277,765, National Institutes of Health, "Eukaryotic Vacuolar ATPase."

Kenneth Cameron, professor of earth sciences: $20,000, National Science Foundation, "Upgrade of Mass Spectrometer."

Yin-Wong Cheung, associate professor of economics: $3,300, UC Berkeley Center for German and European Studies, "Do Small European Countries Depend on the German or the U.S. Business Cycle? Evidence from Sectoral Comovements Between Germany and the U.S."

Andrew Chisholm, assistant professor of biology: $191,422, National Institutes of Health, "Head Region Development in C. elegans."

Donald Coyne, adjunct professor of physics: $33,000, UC Irvine, "UCI Addition to Milagro Lightning Protection Project."

Wayne Dai, associate professor of computer engineering: $475,000, Advanced Research Project Agency, "Integrated Electrical Analysis and Layout Synthesis of Embedded Passive Components on Multichip Modules"; and $91,840, IBM, "Performance Driven Layout for Deep Submicron Chip Design."

Margaret Delaney, professor of ocean sciences: $20,000, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/US Science Support Program, for the support of graduate student Katherine Mcintyre, "Early Pleistocene Climate Change and Deep Water Variability."

Anthony Fink, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and David Haussler, professor of computer science: $100,000, Sloan Foundation, "Statistical Methods to Detect Weak Protein Homologies and Predict Structure and Function of Newly Discovered Proteins."

James Gill, professor of earth sciences: $20,000, National Science Foundation, "Upgrade of Mass Spectrometer."

Gary Griggs, professor of earth sciences, and Ellen Moir, director of teacher education: $113,962, California Postsecondary Education Commission, "Science Connections 2."

Lars Hernquist, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $25,930, Princeton University, "Formation of Galaxies and Large-Scale Structure in the Universe."

Peter Holden, associate specialist in earth sciences: $20,000, National Science Foundation, "Upgrade of Mass Spectrometer."

Garth Illingworth, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $27,350, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Kinematics and Structure of HDF Galaxies."

Anastassia Kanavarioti, assistant research chemist, and Claude Bernasconi, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $99,840, NASA-Ames Research Center, "Template-directed Synthesis of Polynucleotides with Dimers as Building Blocks."

David Koo, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $21,900, Space Telescope Science Institute, "Objective Analysis of Multicolor Photometric and Structural Parameters of Faint Field Galaxies."

Robert Kraft, professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics and astronomer emeritus at UCO/Lick Observatory, and Graeme Smith, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics and associate astronomer at UCO/Lick Observatory: $135,000, National Science Foundation, "Deciphering the Origin of Globular Cluster Light-Element Abundance Inhomogeneities: Implications for Stellar Evolution, Nuclear Astrophysics, Stellar Populations, and the Formation of the Galactic Halo."

William Mathews, professor of astronomy and astrophysics: $59,000, NASA-Goddard, "Interstellar Gas and Dust in Elliptical Galaxies."

Casey Moore, professor of earth sciences: $58,838, National Science Foundation, "3D Coherence Analysis of the Barbados Seismic Data Volume: Improved Imaging of Faults and Fluid Conduits."

Harry Noller, Robert L. Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology: $23,700, National Institutes of Health, for the support of Lisa Newcomb, "Tethered FE(II): A Structural Probe of Ribosomal RNA ."

Lucinda Pease-Alvarez, associate professor of education; Ellen Moir, director of teacher education; and Carrol Moran, coordinator of the Monterey Bay Educational Consortium: $60,000, UC San Diego, "UCSC/Monterey Bay Regional Literacy Project."

Gregory Rau, senior researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $53,000, National Science Foundation, "An Investigation of Photosynthetic Carbon Isotope Fractionation in the Ocean."

Michael Riordan, research physicist with the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics: $14,368, University of Illinois, "The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider."

John Schechter, associate professor of music, and Guillermo Delgado, lecturer in Latin American and Latino studies: $10,000, UC Humanities Research Institute, "The Quechua Expressive Art: Creativity, Analysis, and Performance."

Lisa Sloan, assistant professor of earth sciences: $15,428, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project (PMIP) Analysis."

Ronald Tjeerdema, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $175,000, City of San Jose, "Active and Chronic Toxicity Tests and Development of a Site-Specific Acute-to-Chronic Ratio for South San Francisco Bay"; and $42,760, Applied Marine Sciences, "Solid-Phase Sediment Bioassays."

Allen Van Gelder, associate professor of computer science: National Science Foundation, $55,101, "Practical Algorithms for Problems in Propositional Logic."

Jonathan Weitsman, associate professor of mathematics: $75,000, National Science Foundation, "NSF Young Investigator."

Mark Wells , assistant research marine chemist with the Institute of Marine Sciences: $121,999, National Science Foundation, "The Distribution and Dynamics of Bioactive Metals Within the Marine Colloidal Phase."

Jane Wilhelms and Allen Van Gelder, associate professors of computer science: $121,940, National Science Foundation, "Hierarchial Exploration and Visualization of Large and Complex Multi-Dimentional Data Sets."

Todd Wipke, professor of chemistry and biochemistry: $99,876, NASA Ames Research Center, "de novo Design of Nanotechnology Components."

Dan Wood, director of Physical Education, Recreation, and Sports: $14,000, United States Water Polo, Inc, "U.S. Water Polo Grant."

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