Grants awarded during April 2007

Biomedical Science

NANCY STEVENS and PATRICK O'CONNOR, A View From Both Sides of the K/T Boundary: Cretaceous and Paleogene Paleontology of the Rukwa Rift Basin, Southwestern Tanzania, National Geographic Society, $18,490.

WILLEM ROOSENBURG, Fourth Symposium for the Ecology, Status and Conservation of the Diamondback Terrapin, The Nature Conservancy, $1,000; Fourth Symposium for the Ecology, Status and Conservation of the Diamondback Terrapin, Maryland Sea Grant College, $500; Fourth Symposium for the Ecology, Status and Conservation of the Diamondback Terrapin, State of Maryland Department of Natural Resources, $500.

SHARON INMAN and FELICIA NOWAK, Antioxidants on Development of Diabetic Nephropathy, National Institute Of Health, $18,853.

ELLENGENE PETERSON, Sensory Processing in Mammalian Vestibular Organs, Harvard University, $29,961.

MARY CHAMBERLIN, Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) - Mary Chamberlin, National Science Foundation, $138,958.

Civil Engineering

SHAD SARGAND and J. LUDWIG FIGUEROA, Monitoring and Modeling of Pavement Response and Performance, Ohio Department Of Transportation, $302,612.67.

Athens Center for Film and Video

RUTH BRADLEY, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens County Convention And Visitors Bureau, $1,000.

Institute for Corrosion Multiphase Technology

SRDJAN NESIC, Corrosion Center Oil and Gas Section, Baker Petrolite, $35,000; Volatile Inhibitor - Talisman-Energy, Talisman Malaysia Limited, $3,400;  Corrosion CenterOil and Gas Section, Nalco Energy Services, $35,000; Corrosion Center Oil and Gas Section, Champion Technologies, $35,000.

Hearing, Speech & Language Science

REBECCA MEIER and BRANDIE NANCE, Enhancing the Audiologic Evaluation Process for Infants Not Passing Universal Newborn Hearing Screening, Ohio Department Of Health, $21,980.

LI XU, Tone Development in Children with Cochlear Implants, National Institute Of Health, $69,691.

University Libraries

SUSAN FOSTER-HARPER and DEBORAH DANIELS, Greater Midwest Region Outreach Libraries, University Of Illinois At Chicago, $2,000.

Avionics Engineering Research Center

JAMES RANKIN, WAAS/Baro VNAV Flight Inspection Methodology for Precision Approach Procedures, Federal Aviation Administration, $15,035; EFGS Installation & Optimization at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Serving Runway 07, Thales Atm Inc, $50,881; Wiesbaden Glide Slope Reconfiguration, Kaya Associates, Inc., $12,116; Telluride, CO - Runway 09 LDA Analysis for Relocation, Kimley-Horn And Associates, Inc., $15,588; Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS), Itt Corporation, $80,000.

JEFFREY DILL and JAMES RANKIN, TTNT LPI/LPD Waveform Development, Rockwell Collins, Inc, $150,000.

JAMES RANKIN and DAVID QUINET, Steep Angle Approaches G-550, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, $3,831; Steep Angle Approaches for the Cessna Mustang, Cessna Aircraft Company, $806.

COM Dean's Office

JOHN BROSE, Proposal to establish CORE Director of Research Development, Osteopathic Heritage Foundation, $87,486.71.

Edison Biotechnology Institute

JOHN KOPCHICK, Interaction of Caloric Restriction with Longevity Genes, Southern Illinois University, $45,275;  Proteomic Analysis of Serum Exposed to GH: A Future Assay for Detection of GH Doping, Aarhus University Hospital, $80,000.

Geography

BOB WALTER, FLAS - Uploading Africa! How Technology and the Arts Can Inspire Our Fields, U S Department Of Education, $262,500.

GEOFFREY BUCKLEY, A Longitudinal Analysis of the Social Dynamics of Environmental Equity in Baltimore, Arizona State University, $52,306.

Voinovich Center

LESLI JOHNSON and ROBIN LINDQUIST-GRANTZ, Improving Access to Mental and Behavioral Health Services for School-Age Children, Phase I, Paint Valley Adamhs Board, $14,000.

LESLI JOHNSON, OACCA Outcomes Data Project, Ohio Association Of Child Caring Agencies, $98,791.68

KEVIN ASPERGREN, New Markets Operational Assistance, Adena Ventures, $45,150; MBA Business Competition 2007, Fort Washington Capital Partners Group, $2,000.

JENNIFER BOWMAN, Non-Point Source Monitoring for AMD-Impacted Basins, Ohio Department Of Natural Resources, $88,252.

MARGARET HUTZEL, Evaluation of the Bethlehem Project, Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton, $10,000.

MARGARET HUTZEL and JUDY COIL, Even Start Program Evaluation - Belmont County, Community Action Commission Of Belmont County, $1,000.

SARA BOYD, Paving the Way Survey, City Of Columbus, $8,850; U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Program Evaluation of Bringing the Lesson Home (BTLH), Mem and Associates, $10,300.

LESLI JOHNSON and AMY JENNINGS, Technical Assistance to Morgan County Family and Children First Council to Meet Requirements of HB 289, Morgan County Family And Children First Council, $6,700.

SCOTT MILLER, Burrowing Crayfish, Midwest Biodiversity Institute, $16,703.

Ohio Program of Intensive English

GERARD KRZIC, Chubu Spring/Summer/Fall Study Program, Chubu University, $280,827.

Philosophy

MARK LEBAR, Visiting Associate Professorship at UNC, University Of North Carolina, $60,000.

COM Academic Affairs

KEITH WATSON, RPAC1, Various Hospitals, $1,545,651; Associate COM Member Agreements, Various Hospitals, $74,000; Affiliate COM1, Various Hospitals, $261,500.

COM Community & Clinical Services

KATHLEEN TRACE, Athens County Tobacco Community Action Plan, Athens City-County Health Department, $5,000; Healthy Communities Project, Sisters of Saint Joseph Charitable Fund, $25,000.

Psychology

G. DANIEL LASSITER, Ohio University Conference on Interrogations and Confessions, American Psychological Association, $8,000.

CHRISTOPHER FRANCE and BRUCE CARLSON, Preventing Adverse Reactions in Novice Blood Donors, National Institutes of Health, $330,053.

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

GERARDINE BOTTE, Scale Up of Ammonia Electrolytic Cell, Hydra Fuel Cell Corp., $41,182.30.

KEVIN CRIST, Sustainability 2007: Northeast Ohio Air Quality On-Line, Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, $14,986.

Ohio Research Institute for Transportation and the Environment (ORITE)

SHAD SARGAND, Afghan Merit Scholars Program, Washington State University, $147,130.80;  Instrumentation of the Way-30 Test Pavements, Ohio Department of Transportation, $12,438.40.

Physics and Astronomy

MARKUS BOETTCHER, Modeling High-Energy Radiation from Supernova Remnants and Microquasars, Naval Research Laboratory, $8,992.

ARTHUR SMITH, NIRT: Building Nanospintronic and Nanomagnetic Systems - Growth, Manipulation and Characterization at the Atomic Scale, National Science Foundation, $29,375.

Environmental & Plant Biology

BRIAN MCCARTHY, American Chestnut Restoration Project, National Wild Turkey Federation, $5,000.

MORGAN VIS-CHIASSON, REVSYS: Systematics of the Batrachospermalean Contorta Clade (Rhodophyta), National Science Foundation, $60,140.

ORC Ironton (Southern) Campus

WILLIAM LARSON, South Regional School Improvement Team (SRSIT) Ohio University Leadership Program Supplement, South Regional School Improvement Team, $7,300.

ROBIN STEWART, Environmentally Sustainable Development - Central Appalachian Network (CAN), The Ford Foundation, $220,000.

ROBERT CULP, On the Cutting Edge: Teaching-N-Tomorrow (TNT), Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, $48,016.

WILLIAM LARSON, Ohio University Leadership Program Supplement, Various High Schools, $17,500.

DAN EVANS, Expanded Enrollment for Tech Prep, Shawnee State University, $3,500.

Recreation and Sport Sciences

JEFFREY SEEGMILLER, Athletic Training Services for Area High Schools, Various High Schools, $590.79

Teacher Education

RALPH MARTIN, ORC Science Content Committee - Ohio Board of Regents, Ohio State University Research Foundation, $75,173.

RALPH MARTIN and JEFFREY CONNOR, Southeastern Ohio Center for Excellence in Math and Science, Ohio Board of Regents, $225,000.

WOUB Center for Public Media

CAROLYN LEWIS, CPB Nielsen Digital Encoder Program, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, $8,220.

Center for Automatic Identification Education and Research

KEVIN BERISSO and TODD MYERS, Radio Frequency Identification Tagging Research and Development, Alien Technology Corporation, $9,880.

Graduate Studies

EDDITH DASHIELL, Student Achievement in Research and Scholarship, Miami University, $3,499.

Appalachian Rural Health Institute

MARY DE GROOT, JAY SHUBROOK, FRANK SCHWARTZ and MICHAEL KUSHNICK, Depression Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes Appalachians, National Institutes of Health, $212,071.

Center for Intelligent Chemical Instrumentation

GLEN JACKSON, IDBR: Development of an Advanced Quadrupole IonTrap Mass Spectrometer for Proteomics, National Science Foundation, $116,189.

Linguistics

MARMO SOEMARMO and DREW MCDANIEL, Summer Programs in Advanced Indonesian Language Study in Manado, Indonesia, U.S. Department of Education, $76,756.87.

SCOTT JARVIS, Language Learning Journal, Language Learning, $2,000.

Center for Air Quality

KEVIN CRIST, Development of a Fine Grid Urban Airshed Modeling Tool for Air Quality Planning and Analysis, Ohio Air Quality Development, $64,131.  

VALERIE YOUNG, Injury and Mortality Risks from Wildland Fire Smoke and Heat Exposures - Smoke Particulate and Gas Concentration during Hardwood Fires and Nighttime Inversions, U.S. Department of Agriculture, $50,400.