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Research Awards, June 2005

Aakeroy, Christer B., National Science Foundation, $126,000, "Developing Supramolecular Synthesis: From Molecular Function to Supramolecular Assembly."

Aiken, Robert M., National Sunflower Association, $2,000, "Identifying Sunflower Resistance to Stem Weevil and Sunflower Moth."

Andresen, Daniel A., Erickson, Howard H., Poole, David C., Spire, Mark F., and Warren, Steven, National Science Foundation, $12,000, "Infrastructure for Veterinary Telemedicine - Proactive Herd Health Management for Disease Prevention from Farm to Market."

Arnold, Carolyn E., Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission, $10,089, "Effects of Shock Wave Therapy on Synovial Fluid Parameters in Normal Equine Joints and in a Model of Synovitis."

Asano, Katsura, US Department of Health and Human Services, $10,000, "Biomedical Excellence Faculty Scholar Award."

Bollman, Stephan R., and Hockersmith, Carol D., Kansas Child Care Training Opportunities, Inc, $14,971, "Kansas Child Care Training Opportunities."

Bolton, Timothy A., Sidwell, Ronald A., Stanton, Noel R., and Von Toerne, Eckhard, National Science Foundation, $12,100, "Quarknet."

Bolton, Timothy A., Ferguson, Carolyn J., Glymour, Bruce D., Hubbard, Mary S., and Kambhampati, Srinivas, Kansas State University, $335,000, "Center for the Understanding of Origins."

Bolton, Timothy A., US Department of Energy, $6,000, "USCMS Teacher Fellowship."

Bossmann, Stefan, National Science Foundation, $68,750, "Porin from Mycobacterium smegmatis (MspA) as a Tool for the Development of Functional Nanostructures on Gold-Electrodes."

Bradshaw, Michael H., Kansas Health Foundation, $295, "Health Promotion for Older Kansans."

Brown, Susan J., Beeman, Richard W., and Denell, Robin E., US Department of Health and Human Services, $294,638, "Genetic Control of Segmentation."

Brown, Susan J., US Department of Health and Human Services, $10,000, "Biomedical Excellence Faculty Scholar Award."

Buchholz, Daryl D., Kansas Farm Service Agency, $870, "Memorandum of Understanding between Kansas Agricultural Mediation Service (KAMS) and Kansas Farm Service Agency (FSA)."

Buchholz, Daryl D., US Department of Agriculture, $120, "Memorandum of Understanding between Kansas Agricultural Mediation Services (KAMS) and Kansas Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)."

Cai, Liang-Wu, National Science Foundation, $199,157, "Two-Dimensional Tunable Phononic Materials Research."

Carey, Edward E., Kadir, Sorkel M., and Nechols, James R., US Department of Agriculture, $45,000, "Organic Integrated Pest Management in High Tunnel Vegetable, Small Fruit and Flower Production."

Culbertson, Christopher T., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $32,000, "Biosentinels: Biology-Based Microfluidic Reporter Technology for Monitoring Environmental Stressors."

Culbertson, Christopher T., National Science Foundation, $67,750, "Novel Materials and Methods for the Fabrication and Coating of Microfluidic Devices."

Cully, Jr., Jack F., National Science Foundation, $52,777, "Landscape Effects on Disease Dynamics in Prairie Dogs."

DeLuccie, Mary L., US Department of Agriculture, $853, "Federal Aid in Support of the Child and Adult Care Food Program."

Devlin, Daniel L., and Hargrove, William L., US Environmental Protection Agency, $10,127, "Implementing BMPs in the Smoky Hill - Kanopolis Lake Watershed."

Drouillard, James S., Dakota Gold Research Association, $81,700, "Evaluation of Growth Performance and Carcass Characteristics of Finishing Cattle Fed Ethanol Byproducts as a Partial Replacement for Steam-Flaked Corn."

Dryden, Michael W., Fort Dodge Animal Health, $52,111, "Efficacy of a Topically Applied Spot-on Formulation of Metaflumizone Against Fipronil Resistant Fleas on Cats."

Dryden, Michael W., Fort Dodge Animal Health, $50,212, "Efficacy of a Topically Applied Spot-on Formulation of Metaflumizone on Cats Against the Adult Cat Flea, Ctenocephalides felis, Flea Egg Hatch and Adult Flea Emergence."

Ebadi, Yar M., Kansas State University Foundation, $302,489, "Kansas State University Foundation Support."

Edgar, James H., National Science Foundation, $72,971, "Collaborative Research: Analysis of Defects and Their Causes in Bulk Aluminum Nitride Crystals."

Erickson, Howard H., Epp, Tammi S., and Poole, David C., Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission, $10,089, "Role of Pulmonary Leukocytes in Reducing EIPH with Concentrated Equine Serum-Phase II."

Erickson, Howard H., Biller, David S., Bulmer, Barret J., Epp, Tammi S., and Poole, David C., Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission, $60,158, "Does Left Ventricular Mass Heart Size, and the Presence of Valvular Regurgitation Affect Performance in Racing Greyhounds?."

Erickson, Larry E., Eckels, Steven J., Guikema, James A., and Leven, Blase A., US Department of Defense, $78,000, "Urban Operations Laboratory Research."

Esmaeily, Asadollah, Kansas Department of Transportation, $10,000, "Development of a Simple Procedure for Evaluation of Bridge."

Fjell, Dale L., Kansas Corn Commission, $4,000, "Corn Production in Kansas: Extension and Applied Research."

Flaherty, Roberta D., National Academic Advising Association, $746,091, "National Academic Advising Association Executive Office."

Fox, John A., and Mintert, James R., Kansas Corn Commission, $12,600, "Grain Marketing Research and Education in Support of Kansas Corn Producers."

Garcia, Robert, USD 383, Manhattan, $2,857, "Speech and Language Services."

Garrett, Karen A., Bai, Jianfa, Herman, Michael A., Leach, Jan E., and Wangemann, A. Philine, National Science Foundation, $25,000, "Acquisition of Equipment to Enhance Gene Expression Analysis Capacity at Kansas State University."

Gido, Keith B., US Department of the Interior, $41,000, "Kansas State University's Involvement in the San Juan River Recovery Implementation Program."

Gill, Bikram S., US Department of Agriculture, $36,000, "Positional Cloning of the Lr46/Yr29 Gene of Wheat."

Gipson, Philip S., US Department of the Interior, $69,339, "Changes in Vegetation, Small Mammal Communities, and Soil Compaction Associated with Military Training at the Smoky Hills Air National Guard Range, Kansas."

Goodin, Douglas G., and Hutchinson, J. M. Shawn, US Department of Health and Human Services, $102,911, "Impact of Rapid Anthropogenic Land Cover Change in the Chaco and Interior Atlantic Forest in Paraguay on Hantavirus Ecology."

Goodson, F. Todd, US Department of Education, $43,000, "Flint Hills Writing Project."

Gould, Carol A., Corporation for National and Community Service, $61,422, "Kansas Campus Compact."

Greene, Kathleen V., National Science Foundation, $15,025, "Kansas EPSCoR Summer Research Program."

Haddock, Michael J., and Ramaswamy, Mohan, US Department of Agriculture, $7,765, "Grain Sorghum Disease Image Collection: Optimizing the Digitization Protocol."

Hansen, Soren, National Science Foundation, $42,443, "Geometric Aspects of 2+1-Dimensional Topological Quantum Field Theories."

Harnett, R. Michael, US Department of Defense, $17,452, "Part-Time M.S. Program in Industrial Engineering - Summer 2005."

Harrington, Lisa M., Blair, John M., Goodin, Douglas G., Nicolaysen, Kirsten E., and Uhlarik, John J., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $30,900, "Kansas Space Grant Consortium."

Herrera, Socorro G., Flint Hills Special Education Cooperative, $3,005, "Flint Hills Special Education Coop."

Hoehn, Gerald H., National Science Foundation, $38,318, "Generalized Kac-Moody Algebras Arising from String Theory."

Howard, John E., Kansas Corn Commission, $50,000, "Market Development Grant - International Grains Program."

Hulbert, Scot H., US Department of Agriculture, $10,000, "Facilitate Multiple Stress Resistant Wheat and Alfalfa Germplasm."

Hutchinson, J. M. Shawn, and Harrington Jr, John A., Kansas State University, $550,000, "Geospatial Technology Infrastructure Enhancement Program - Phase II."

Jankowiak, Ryszard J., US Department of Defense/NASA, $160,000, "Novel Concept for Desalination of Seawater."

Jiang, Hongxing, and Lin, Jingyu, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $25,000, "MOCVD Growth of A1GaN Materials."

Johnson, Loretta C., and Herman, Michael A., National Science Foundation, $479,650, "Functional Genomic Approaches to Study Organismal Response to Global Environmental Change."

Johnson, Loretta C., and Herman, Michael A., Kansas State University, $2,000,000, "Targeted Excellence in Ecological Genomics: Building a Research Initiative into an Institute."

Johnson, Marc A., US Department of Agriculture, $805, "USDA Research Apprenticeship Program."

Johnson, Marc A., USFT Other, $17,287, "IAP USFT Other."

Kadir, Sorkel M., US Department of Agriculture, $15,000, "Varietal Evaluation of Grapes under Kansas Conditions."

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

Kilgore, Gary L., and Fogleman, Sarah L., Kansas Corn Commission, $3,950, "Short Season Corn Extension Educational Program in Southeast Kansas."

Koelliker, James K., US Environmental Protection Agency, $213,000, "Evaluation System for Alternative Technologies for Feeding Operations (CAFOs) to Manage Process Wastewater and Nutrients."

Korten, Marianne, National Science Foundation, $84,000, "Free Boundary Problems with a Degenerate Phase: Regularity of Solutions and Interphases."

Lamm, Freddie R., and Aiken, Robert M., Kansas Corn Commission, $15,000, "Effect of Tillage Practices and Limited Irrigation on Corn Production."

Leslie, John F., US Agency for International Development, $22,500, "Agroecology and Biotechnology of Fungal Pathogens of Sorghum and Millet."

McCullough, Elizabeth A., US Department of Defense, $14,454, "Evaluation of the New Modular Sleeping Bag System."

McHaney, Roger W., US Department of Education, $53,000, "Promoting Internationalization in Central Kansas: The Business Education and Student Training Initiative at Kansas State University (PICK- the-BEST-In-Kansas)."

Mengel, David B., US Department of Agriculture, $9,672, "National Canola Cultivar Development Program to Identify Adapted Canola Cultivars to Improve Efficiency and Grower Profitability."

Moxley, Virginia M., and Maes, Sue C., US Department of Education, $248,000, "Kansas State University Institute for Academic Alliances Congressionally Directed Grant for Enhancing Academic Programs."

Moxley, Virginia M., US Department of Health and Human Services, $33,000, "Kansas Access to Early Childhood Higher Education Articulation Project."

Murphy, James P., US Department of Agriculture, $195, "Kansas Agricultural Mediation Service."

Murray, Ann D., Tobacco Settlement, $6,000, "Smart Start Local Evaluation Plan."

Muthukrishnan, Subbarat, Beeman, Richard W., Kanost, Michael R., and Kramer, Karl J., National Science Foundation, $238,650, "Molecular Genetic and Functional Analysis of Chitin Synthase during Insect Development."

Nagaraja, Tiruvoor G., Oberst, Richard D., Renter, David G., Sanderson, Michael W., and Zurek, Ludek, US Department of Agriculture, $178,716, "Ecology of E. coli O157:H7 in Beef Cow-Calf Operations from Ranch to Feedlot."

Neilsen, Mitchell L., US Department of Agriculture, $20,000, "Software Tools for Hydraulic Structure Design and Analysis - Phase II."

Nelssen, Jim L., Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc., $44,000, "Effect of Nutrient Enhanced Foods on Joint and Bladder Development in 30 to 130 kg Pigs."

Ortiz, J. Vincent, National Science Foundation, $153,000, "Electron Propagator Theory and Electronic Structure of Nucleotides, Double Rydberg Anions, Metal-Oxide Clusters and Metal-Base Complexes."

Paukert, Craig, and Whittier, Joanna B., US Department of the Interior, $104,322, "Identification of Data Gaps in Published and Unpublished Literature on Fishes in the Lower Colorado River."

Phebus, Randall K., 3M Company, $34,989, "Testing Project."

Poole, David C., and Erickson, Howard H., Lonza, Inc., $62,214, "Effects of L-Carnitine Supplementation on Performance, Metabolic Regulation and Indicators of Muscle Damage in Racing Greyhounds."

Powell, G. Morgan, US Environmental Protection Agency, $26,443, "Kansas Environmental Leadership Program."

Powell, G. Morgan, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, $41,656, "On-Site Wastewater Treatment and Household Water Supply Technical Services."

Procter, David E., Kansas State University, $450,000, "Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy."

Reddi, Lakshmi N., Kulakow, Peter A., and Leven, Blase A., US Environmental Protection Agency, $75,000, "Midwest Hazardous Substance Research Center Technical Assistance to Brownfields."

Rice, Charles W., US Department of Agriculture, $20,000, "Implementation and Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Credits for Agriculture."

Rowland, Raymond R. R., US Department of Health and Human Services, $73,000, "Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases (Development Project)."

Schermerhorn, Thomas, Great Plains Diabetes Research, Inc., $10,000, "Lipid Composition of SNARE-Containing Lipid Rafts in Insulin-Secreting HIT Cells."

Schlegel, Alan J., Dumler, Troy, and Stone, Loyd R., Kansas Corn Commission, $12,000, "Irrigated Cropping Systems to Reduce Groundwater Depletion While Sustaining Profitability."

Schroeder, Ted C., Crespi, John M., and Fox, John A., US Department of Agriculture, $276,000, "Meeting National Needs for Scholars Trained in Economics of Food Marketing and Biosecurity."

Shanklin, Carol W., Canter, Deborah D., McKnight, Laura E., and Sauer, Kevin L., American Dietetic Association, $10,000, "Career Development Methodology."

Singh, Gurdip, Edgar, James H., and McGregor, Douglas S., Kansas State University, $1,500,000, "Center for Sensors and Sensor Systems."

Snead, Bruce C., US Environmental Protection Agency, $27,266, "Regional Radon Training Center."

Sorensen, Christopher M., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $24,000, "Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles - Matthew Berg."

Spooner, Brian S., Kansas State University Foundation, $18,546, "Cancer Center Core."

Steichen, James M., Hutchinson, Stacy L., and Zhang, Naiqian, US Department of Defense, $262,000, "Assessing the Impact of Maneuver Training on NPS Pollution and Water Quality."

Steward, David R., Blair, John M., and Koelliker, James K., Kansas State University, $381,790, "Strategically Positioning K-State to Benefit for NSF's CUAHSI and NEON Programs."

Steward, David R., Layne Western, $4,241, "Comparison of Horizontal Collector Well and Angle Well for City of Wichita Municipal Water Supplies."

Sun, X. Susan, and Seib, Paul A., US Department of Energy, $45,000, "High-Strength Degradable Plastic From Starch and Poly(Lactic Acid)."

Sun, X. Susan, Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc., $40,698, "Development of Cold Pellet Processing Technology."

Takemoto, Dolores J., Graves, Harriet J., and Takemoto, Larry J., US Department of Health and Human Services, $146,000, "Expression of Therapeutic Proteins in the Whole Lens."

Takemoto, Larry J., US Department of Health and Human Services, $327,375, "Lens Membrane in Relation to Human Cataractogenesis."

Thumm, Uwe, National Science Foundation, $45,000, "Quantum Dynamics in Particle Interactions with Complex Surfaces."

Trewyn, R. W., Kansas State University Research Foundation, $210,083, "KSU Research Foundation Staff Compensation."

Tuinstra, Mitchell R., and Kofoid, Kenneth D., US Department of Agriculture, $126,860, "Center for Sorghum Improvement."

Vanier, Martha A., Fung, Daniel Y.C., Oberst, Richard D., and Phebus, Randall K., US Department of Defense, $2,556,400, "Biosecurity Research Institute at Kansas State University: Facilities, Methods and Technologies to Determine Real-Time Biohazards in Foods and to Validate Technology Readiness."

Warren, Steven, National Science Foundation, $75,000, "Beyond Telemedicine: Realizing a Proactive Home Health Care Delivery Model through Research and Education in Plug-and-Play Components and Novel Sensors."

Watt, Susan D., US Department of Health and Human Services, $7,000, "Health Careers Pathways Program."

Wei, Qize, US Department of Health and Human Services, $12,629, "Roles of MyoGEF and its Interacting Partners in Cell Division and Cell Signaling."

Welti, Ruth, Rintoul, David A., Shah, Jyoti, and Sun, X. Susan, National Science Foundation, $180,789, "Establishment of the Lipidomics Research Center at Kansas State University."

Welti, Ruth, and Shah, Jyoti, National Science Foundation, $32,675, "Metabolomic Profiling of Membrane Lipids and Their Compositional Dynamics in Plant Stress Responses."

Whaley, Paul M., US Department of Energy, $11,400, "University Reactor Sharing Program."

Whaley, Paul M., US Department of Energy, $45,000, "Matching Grant Program."

Whaley, Paul M., US Department of Energy, $49,820, "University Reactor Instrumentation Grant."

Wilde, Gerald E., and Roozeboom, Kraig L., Kansas Corn Commission, $13,000, "Effect of Systemic Insecticide Seed Treatments on Yield of Corn and Pests."

Wilson, Gail T., and Hartnett, David C., National Science Foundation, $60,991, "Testing a Unified Hypothesis of Mycorrhizal Function."

Wyatt, Carol R., and Rowland, Raymond R. R., US Department of Agriculture, $169,930, "Development of Methodologies for Understanding Epitope-Specific T Cell Responses Involved in Immune Protection and Pathogenesis."

Zhang, Naiqian, John Deere Company, $87,588, "Embedded Systems Development for Sensor Fusion of GPS and Vision."

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