Research Awards, February 2004

Asano, Katsura, US Department of Health and Human Services, $36,500, "Control of Translation Initiation in Fission Yeast."

Bhadriraju, Subramanyam, Alavi, Sajid, and Huang, Fangneng, US Department of Agriculture, $20,000, "Development and Implementation of a Thermal Death Kinetic Model for Management of Indianmeal Moth and Red Flour Beetle in Food Processing Environments."

Boyle, Elizabeth, and Aramouni, Fadi M., US Department of Agriculture, $7,500, "Meat and Poultry Small and Very Small Education Initiative."

Broce, Alberto B., US Department of Health and Human Services, $19,866, "West Nile Surveillance in the State of Kansas."

Carpenter, Kenneth H., US Department of Energy, $42,907, "Integrated Firing-System/Initiation-Train Modeling Enhancement."

Chapes, Stephen K., US Department of Health and Human Services, $10,150, "Kansas Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network Summer/Semester Scholarships."

Chapman, Kirby S., Gas Research Institute, $40,000, "Turbocharger Scavenging Impact."

Chapman, Kirby S., Gas Research Institute, $60,000, "Turbocharger Degradation Measurement through Embedded Sensors."

Culbertson, Christopher T., US Department of Energy, $75,000, "Development of a Microfluidics Package for On A KC-135 Flight at NASA JSC."

Davis, Lawrence C., Erickson, Larry E., and Hutchinson, Stacy L., Kansas Department of Health and Environment, $99,180, "Bioaugmentation Field Demonstration for Reductive Dechlorination of Drycleaning Solvent Contaminants Utilizing Desulfuromonas and Dehalococcoides Organisms."

DeLuccie, Mary L., US Department of Agriculture, $968, "Federal Aid in Support of the Child and Adult Care Food Program."

Dikeman, Michael E., Tyson Foods, Inc., $14,980, "Evaluation of Factors Causing the 'Black Bone' Condition in Packaged Beef Retail Cuts and Ways to Decrease the Incidence."

Drouillard, James S., National Corn Growers Association, $86,000, "Distiller's Solubles as Major Constituents of Protein Blocks for Cattle."

Erickson, Larry E., US Department of Defense, $23,489, "Fort Riley Cemetery Environmental Assessment."

Ganta, Roman Reddy R., Chapes, Stephen K., and Wilkerson, Melinda, US Department of Health and Human Services, $353,500, "Cellular Immunity Against Ehrlichia chaffeensis."

Garrett, Karen A., Smithsonian Institution, $7,000, "Invasibility of Tropical Forests by Pathogens."

Gould, Carol A., US Department of Commerce, $52,500, "Kansas Center for Community Economic Development."

Grauer, Gregory F., Ross University, $80,973, "Clinical Training for Ross University School of Health Sciences."

Ham, Jay M., DeRouchey, Joel M., Hargrove, William L., Maghirang, Ronaldo G., and Pierzynski, Gary M., US Department of Agriculture, $477,775, "Ammonia Losses from a Commercial Cattle Feedlot: Towards a Realistic NH3 Emissions Inventory for the Great Plains."

Harner III, Joseph P., US Environmental Protection Agency, $21,175, "Livestock Pollution Control Web Site."

Hua, Duy H., US Department of Health and Human Services, $36,500, "Amelioration of Amyloid-Beta Neuronal Toxicity."

Hunter, Robert P., Carpenter, James W., Isaza, Ramiro, and Mutlow, Adrian G., Morris Animal Foundation, $7,776, "Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Carfentanil and Naltrexone in the Common Eland Antelope (Taurotragus oryx)."

Jiang, Hongxing, and Lin, Jingyu, US Department of Defense, $150,000, "III-Nitride UV Optoelectronic Devices for Bio-Agents Detection."

Kanost, Michael R., US Department of Health and Human Services, $288,090, "Proteinase Systems in Insect Hemolymph."

Kanost, Michael R., US Department of Health and Human Services, $65,134, "Pilot Studies in Biochemistry of Anopheles Gambiae."

Kapil, Sanjay, US Department of Agriculture, $27,500, "Pseudorabies Laboratory Testing."

Kapil, Sanjay, and Oberst, Richard D., US Department of Energy, $18,088, "Agricultural Biosecurity Decontamination Technology - Reducing the Threat of Infectious Agent Spread."

Kuhn, William B., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $28,165, "Design of RFICs in Peregrine SOS Phase II."

Kuhn, William B., and Rys, Andrew, US Department of Energy, $99,864, "RFIC, Optical and Analog Circuit Development Using Integrated Circuit Technologies."

Lee, Charles D., Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, $15,716, "Extension Education Position Support."

Logan, Brad, and Ritterbush, Lauren W., US Department of the Interior, $24,997, "National Register of Historic Places Evaluation of Selected Sites at Lovewell Reservoir, Jewell County, Kansas."

Lynch, Judith A., and Lynch, Michael L., US Department of Agriculture, $1,547, "Kansas State University - Beyond the Boundaries: A Summer Enrichment Academy."

Marcus, Daniel C., US Department of Health and Human Services, $331,013, "Cochlear and Vestibular Ion Transport."

Moxley, Virginia M., Great Plains IDEA Alliance, $48,984, "Great Plains IDEA Lead Institution."

Mrozek, Donald J., Kansas State University Foundation, $25,000, "Institute for Military History and 20th Century Studies."

Mrozek, Donald J., and Mulready-Stone, Kristin, Council of Graduate Schools, $5,000, "Proposal to Create a Professional M.A. in Security Studies."

Norman, David W., US Department of Agriculture, $9,359, "Agricultural Sector Training Needs Assessment."

Pei, Zhijian, National Science Foundation, $400,000, "Fundamental Research on Silicon Wafer Fine Grinding to Foster a Quantum Leap in Manufacturing of Silicon Wafers."

Peterman, Robert J., and Rasheed, Hayder A., Kansas Department of Transportation, $4,850, "Evaluating FRP Repair Method for Cracked Prestressed Concrete Bridge Members Subjected to Repeated Loadings."

Rathbun, Arthur J., City of Manhattan, Kansas, $10,000, "Targeted Intervention with KSU Residence Hall Judicial-Board Referred Alcohol and/or Drug Use/Abuse Students."

Rice, Charles W., Todd, Timothy C., and Wilson, Gail T., National Science Foundation, $150,000, "Grazer-Mycorrhizal Interactions in Tallgrass Prairie: Effects on Carbon and Nitrogen Partitioning and Sequestration."

Rozell, Timothy G., US Department of Health and Human Services, $36,500, "Bridging: Expression of Altered FSH Receptors in Bovine Ovaries."

Schermerhorn, Thomas, US Department of Health and Human Services, $1,080, "Beta Cell Inhibitors Act by Disrupting the SNARE Complex."

Shah, Jyoti, US Department of Health and Human Services, $36,500, "Lipid Compositional Changes in Host Defense."

Sherwood, Peter M., National Science Foundation, $120,000, "Corrosion and Oxide-Free Surfaces Probed by Surface Analysis."

Sherwood, Peter M., US Department of Defense, $5,446, "DoD Workshop on Research Grant Proposal Preparation."

Sherwood, Peter M., Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation, $1,000, "DoD Workshop on Research Grant Proposal Preparation."

Smit, Ann B., US Department of Health and Human Services, $75,000, "Priorities for the Templin Archive Project."

Spooner, Brian S., US Department of Health and Human Services, $109,500, "Recruitment Enhancement Package for Physiology/Cell Physiology."

Steichen, James M., Hutchinson, Stacy L., and Zhang, Naiqian, US Department of Defense, $354,000, "Assessing the Impact of Maneuver Training on NPS Pollution and Water Quality."

Tang, Xiaoyan, National Science Foundation, $81,500, "Functional Genomics of the Interactions of Tomato and Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000."

Trost, Stewart G., Dzewaltowski, David A., and Fees, Bronwyn S., United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, $99,600, "Impact of a Move and Learn Curriculum on Physical Activity in Preschool Children."

Tucker, Jeffrey W., US Department of Defense, $12,565, "Seat Belt Convincer Build."

Wang, Weiqun, Kansas State University Foundation, $773, "Graduate Student Travel Award- Hongyan Qu."

Wang, Youqi, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $49,967, "Computational Models for Electrostrictive Graft Elasometer."

Wangemann, A. Philine, US Department of Health and Human Services, $331,013, "Cytosolic Regulation of Inner Ear Ion Transport."

Watt, Susan D., US Department of Health and Human Services, $6,000, "Health Careers Pathways Program."

Welti, Ruth, US Department of Health and Human Services, $25,575, "Core Facility Support for the Kansas Lipodomics Research Center Analytical Laboratory."

Whaley, Paul M., Electric Power Research Institute, $60,000, "EPRI/DOE/KSU Nuclear Engineering Education Program."

Wilde, Gerald E., US Department of Agriculture, $15,841, "Biologically Intensive Areawide IPM of the Russian Wheat Aphid and Greenbug."

Zeigler, Robert S., US Agency for International Development, $15,000, "Development of a Microsatellite Framework Map for Marker Assisted Selection for the Control and Management of Abiotic and Biotic Stresses in Rice."

Zhang, Naiqian, John Deere Company, $84,836, "Embedded Systems Development for Sensor Fusion of GPS and Vision."