| Contract and Grant Awards in September
Ackerly, David D., University/Jepson Herbaria, $510,000, NSF, "Niche Conservatism, Functional Trait Evolution and Diversification of the California Vernal Pool Flora."
Alber, Thomas C., QB3, $2,000,000, William M. Keck Foundation, "The Keck Macrolab at UC Berkeley: Accelerating Imaging of Macromolecular Machines that Mediate Cellular Information Flow."
Almeida, Rodrigo, ESPM: Insect Biology, $63,580, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, "Role of Alfalfa in the Epidemiology of Xf in California."
Almeida, Rodrigo, ESPM: Insect Biology, $40,000, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, "Mealybug Transmission of Grapevine Leafroll-Associated Viruses."
Almeida, Rodrigo, ESPM: Insect Biology, $71,392, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, "Modeling Sharpshooter of Transmission of Xf."
Arens, Edward A., CEDR, $5,000, City of Calgary, Canada, "Managing Building Performance Using Web-based Surveys."
Auslander, David M., ERSO, $61,211, LBNL, "Determining Waste of Water and Energy in Residential Hot Water Dist. Systems (37-23)."
Ayduk, Ozlem, IPSR, $180,002, NSF, "Collaborative Research: Self-Control in the Life Course."
Baker, Robin, Labor Occupational Health Program, $165,935, CDC, "A Participatory Intervention Program for Homecare Workers (HCWs)."
Baldwin, Bruce G., University/Jepson Herbaria, $5,610, USDA Forest Service, "Shasta-Trinity NF Contract."
Banks, Martin S., Optometry, $343,791, NSF, "Psychophysics of Picture Perception."
Battles, John J., Center for Forestry, $12,473, Nature Conservancy, "Monitoring Forest Carbon and Impacts of Climate Change with Forest Inventories, High-Resolution Satellite Images, and LIDAR."
Bertozzi, Carolyn R., Chemistry, $2,171,262, NIAID, "Mycobacterial Sulfation Pathways."
Bloom, Joshua, Astronomy, $18,369, NASA, "Probing Interstellar and Intergalactic Media at z>1."
Bolatto, Alberto, RAL, $195,580, JPL, "A Complete Picture of the Dust in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Following up Spitzer Imaging with Spectroscopic Observations."
Bruns, Thomas Dickinson, Plant and Microbial Biology, $310,000, NSF, "Leucoagaricus and Leucocoprinus: Phylogeny and Classification of Litter Saprotrophs in the Agaricaceae."
Budker, Dmitry, Physics, $85,000, Foundational Questions in Physics and Cosmology Institute, "Search for a Possible Time Variation of the Fine-Structure Constant by Radio-Frequency Spectroscopy of Atomic Dysprosium."
Candida Smith, Richard, Libraries - Bancroft, $10,000, NEA, "American Composers Oral History Project."
Candida Smith, Richard, Libraries - Bancroft, $425,000, Port of Oakland, "Oakland Army Base Oral History Documentation."
Chandler, David, Chemistry, $482,500, NSF, "Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure for Phase-Space Mapping - Free Energy, Phase Equilibria and Transition Paths."
Chay, Kenneth Y., Economics, $15,000, UC MEXUS, "Paying to Drive Your Own Car: Environmental Regulations in Mexico City."
Consey, Kevin, BAM/PFA, $9,000, City of Berkeley, "BAM/PFA Exhibition Support."
Consey, Kevin, BAM/PFA, $4,760, Government of France, "PFA French Exhibition Support."
Consey, Kevin, BAM/PFA, $5,850, National Film Preservation Foundation, "Pacific Film Archive Collection Preservation (Miss Jesus Fries on Grill)."
Consey, Kevin, BAM/PFA, $100,000, Packard Humanities Institute, "Pacific Film Archive Support."
Cuffey, Kurt, Geography, $181,801, NSF, "Collaborative Research: Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Ice Core."
Daane, Kent, ESPM: Insect Biology, $50,000, American Vineyard Foundation, "Biology and Management of Argentine Ants in California Vineyards."
Daane, Kent, ESPM: Insect Biology, $25,909, California Olive Committee, "2005/06 Quarantine Screening and Selection of Imported Natural Enemies of the Olive Fly."
Daane, Kent, ESPM: Insect Biology, $24,000, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, "Sustainable Controls for Vine Mealybug: Mating Disruption."
Daane, Kent, ESPM: Insect Biology, $21,511, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, "Xf. Group, Cultivar, Climate on ALS."
Daane, Kent, ESPM: Insect Biology, $66,000, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, "Sustainable Controls for Vine Mealybug: Biological Control."
Daane, Kent, ESPM: Insect Biology, $54,435, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, "Host Plant Preference and Natural Infectivity of Insect Vectors on Common Weeds Known to Host Xylella Fastidiosa."
Daane, Kent, ESPM: Insect Biology, $30,000, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, "Biology and Management of Argentine Ants in California Vineyards."
Dawson, Todd E., IB, $15,964, UC MEXUS, "Tree Community Patterns of Water Acquisition in Mature and Regenerating Tropical Dry Forests in Mexico."
Depaolo, Donald J., Earth and Planetary Science, $170,000, NSF, "Transport Times and Ages of Quaternary Fine-Grained Terrestrial Sediments Using U Series Isotopes."
D'Esposito, Mark, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, $1,584,934, NIMH, "Working Memory and Prefrontal Cortex."
Dietrich, William E., Earth and Planetary Science, $14,956, NSF, "2006 Gilbert Club Meeting to be Held in Berkeley, California."
Dodd, Richard S., ESPM: Forest Science, $16,600, USDA Forest Service, "Population and Within Population Variation in Tanoak for (a) Resistance to Phytophthora Ramorum, and (b) Growth and Adaptive Traits."
Dornfeld, David A., ERSO, $430,107, NSF, "Cleanability of Mechanical Components."
El Ghaoui, Laurent, ERSO, $56,906, European Org. for Safety of Air Navigation, "Robust Optimization and Control for Highly Time and Cost Efficient Air Transport System."
El Ghaoui, Laurent, ERSO, $230,000, NSF, "Collaborative Research: MSPA-MCS: Sparse Multivariate Data Analysis."
Elfenbein, Hillary Anger, IBER, $205,517, NSF, "Accuracy in the Cross-Cultural Understanding of Others' Emotions."
Filippenko, Alexei V., Astronomy, $384,712, NSF, "Supernovae in Nearby Galaxies: Discovery, Rates, and Detailed Studies."
Finkel, Robert C., Earth and Planetary Science, $169,000, NSF, "Collaborative Research: A Proposal for the Cosmic-Ray Produced Nuclide Systematics on Earth (CRONUS-Earth) Project."
Firestone, Gary L., Cancer Research Laboratory, $63,074, UC Breast Cancer Research Program, "Artemisinin Disrupts Estrogen Receptor-Alpha and Cell Growth."
Fisher, George H., SSL, $200,000, NSF, "Collaborative Research: The Comprehensive Corona Heliosphere Model (CCHM)."
Fleming, Graham R., QB3, $125,000, USDA Cooperative State Research Service, "Probing the Molecular Details of Wasteful Energy Dissipation in Antennae of Higher Plants."
Frechet, Jean, Chemistry, $249,475, UCSF, "Biocompatible Dendritic Polymers for in Vivo Application."
Garbelotto, Matteo, ESPM: Ecosystem Sciences, $851,623, NSF, "Collaborative Research: Sudden Oak Death: Feedback between a Generalist Pathogen, Hosts, and Hetrogeneous Environments at Multiple Spatial and."
Garbelotto, Matteo, ESPM: Ecosystem Sciences, $24,310, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, "Finalizing a Proficiency Panel for Including a Comparative Study of Effectiveness of Different Diagnostic Assays and Their Detection Thresholds for."
Garbelotto, Matteo, ESPM: Ecosystem Sciences, $90,000, USDA Pacific Southwest Forest/Range Experiment Station, "Molecular Diagnostics of Phytophthora Ramorum and Other Associated Phytophthora ssp."
Gilbert, Neil, Center for Child and Youth Policy, $900,000, Administration for Children and Families, "National Resource Center for Programs Servicing Abandoned Infants and Infants at Rick of Abandonment and Their Families."
Gillespie, Rosemary G., BNHM, $81,124, NSF, "PBI: Collaborative Research: The Megadiverse, Microdistributed Spider Family Oonopidae."
Glaeser, Andreas M., ERSO, $245,000, NSF, "Liquid-Film-Assisted Ceramic-Metal Bonding."
Glaser, Steven D., ERSO, $239,796, NSF, "A New Family of Acoustic Emission Sensors for Damage Source Identification."
Goldstein, Allen Hyman, ESPM: Ecosystem Sciences, $109,274, Northern Arizona University, "Carbon Exchange in a Ponderosa Pine Plantation: Strategies of Water Use, Seasonality of Plant Physiology, and the Impact of Aerosols on Photosynthesis."
Goldstein, Thomas J., Journalism, $50,000, Ford Foundation, "Journalism - New Print Journalism and Report Discuss the Economic Realities in Journalism and Economic Models."
Griffiths, Thomas L., ICBS, $159,998, NSF, "Collaborative Research: Bayesian Methods for Learning and Analyzing Natural Languages."
Grigoropoulos, Costas P., ERSO, $60,000, NSF, "NER: Collaborative Research: Carbon Nanotube Nanofluidics."
Hansen, Mark, ITS, $50,000, FAA, "Methodology for Condition Assessment of Unstaffed Facilities for the National Airspace System Infrastructure."
Hansen, Mark, ITS, $106,514, FAA, "Impact of Convective Weather on Commercial Power Outages."
Hansen, Mark, ITS, $35,000, FAA, "Alternative Demand Scenarios."
Hirst, Robert H., Libraries - Bancroft, $100,000, NEA, "The Mark Twain Project."
Hlusko, Leslea J., IB, $301,977, NSF, "The Evolution of Modularity in the Dentition of Old World Monkeys."
Hochbaum, Dorit S., IBER, $330,453, NSF, "New Optimization Techniques in Data Mining."
Horvath, Arpad, ITS, $534,788, California Energy Commission, "Life-Cycle Energy Assessment of Alternative Water Supply Systems in California-Extensions and Refinements."
Hu, Chenming, ERSO, $300,000, Semiconductor Research Corp., "Versatile Multi-Gate MOSFET Compact Model."
Hu, Chenming, ERSO, $7,875, UC MICRO, "Multigate MOSFET Compact Model."
Huntsinger, Lynn, ESPM: Ecosystem Sciences, $34,711, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, "Assessing the Non-Market Values of California Ranches."
Immel, Thomas, SSL, $100,000, NSF, "Collaborative Research: The Community-Based Whole Magnetosphere Model (CWMM)."
Jeanloz, Raymond, Earth and Planetary Science, $300,002, LLNL, "Physics and Chemistry of Grant Planetary Interiors."
Jernigan, J Garrett, SSL, $41,000, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, "Computing Work Related to the Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP)."
Jordan, Michael I., ERSO, $77,744, Fox Chase Cancer Center, "New Methods for High-Resolution Comparative Modeling."
Kane, Caroline M., IB, $1,600,000, HHMI, "University of California, Berkeley, Undergraduate Science Education Program: PreGraduate Pathway."
Kane, Caroline M., MCB, $1,400, Industrial Initiative for Science and Math Education, "Summer Science Fellow with High School Teacher."
Kariv, Shachar, IBER, $50,774, NSF, "Collaborative Research: Substantive and Procedural Rationality in Decisions under Uncertainty."
Keasling, Jay, QB3, $15,000, UC Discovery Grant, "Second International Conference on Synthetic Biology."
Kelly, Nina Maggi, ESPM: Insect Biology, $90,574, USDA Cooperative State Research Service, "Spatial-Temporal Investigation of Establishment and Spread of Sudden Oak Death in Hardwood Forest."
King, Tsu-Jae, ERSO, $60,000, Sematech, "Advanced Processes to Reduce Source/Drain Resistance for Nanoscale MOSFETs."
Knobloch, Edgar, Physics, $230,577, NSF, "Formation and Properties of Spatially Localized States."
Knobloch, Edgar, Physics, $10,964, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, "Collaborative Research: Symmetry- Breaking Bifurcations in an Oscillating Fluid Layer."
Kremen, Claire, ESPM: Society and Environment, $9,650, Utah State University, "Pest Control Services from Natural Habitat."
Lacey, Eileen A., MVZ, $12,250, UC MEXUS, "Evaluation of the Genetic Isolation by Distance for Species with Different Dispersal Capacity in the Baja California Peninsula."
Lee, David S, IBER, $45,000, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, "Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Economics."
Levine, Michael S., MCB, $111,490, UCSB, "Ascidian Stock Center (ASC)."
Louie, Steven G., Physics, $60,000, NSF, "U.S.-Taiwan Workshop on Frontiers in Nanoscience."
Lustig, Steve, University Health Services, $5,000, Carson J. Spencer Foundation, "Look for the Signs, Too Campaign."
Lustig, Steve, University Health Services, $199,690, US Dept. of Justice, "Preventing Violence at Cal (PVC) Program."
Madanat, Samer M., ITS, $44,363, Caltrans, "Hydrogen Fuel Cell: NH3/NH4 as an Alternative Hydrogen Medium."
Mahin, Stephen A., ERSO, $150,000, NSF, "Robust Performance-Based Design of Concentrically Braced Steel Frame Buildings."
Malik, Jitendra, ERSO, $62,282, California Institute of Technology, "Learning to Recognize Visual Surveillance."
McFadden, Daniel L., IBER, $20,000, NIGMS, "Conference on the Effect of Aging on Cognition, Affect, Perception, Planning and Well-Being."
McFadden, James P., SSL, $200,000, NASA, "Berkeley Microprobe Development."
Merenlender, Adina, ESPM: Forest Science, $13,280, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, "The Politics and Practice of Watershed Restoration: Insights from the Russian River Watershed, Northern California."
Micco, Guy, Public Health, $136,350, UCOP, "Academic Geriatric Resource Program."
Miguel, Edward, IAS, $1,854,007, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, "Assessing Strategies to Make Rural Water Service Provision Sustainable."
Mills, Nicholas J., ESPM: Insect Biology, $26,000, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, "Spider Mites in California Vineyards: Temperature Tolderance, Effects of Plant Water Status through Leaf Temperature, Impact of Novel Pesticides and."
Moehle, Jack P., ERSO, $169,000, PG&E, "Directed Studies of Reducing Seismic Vulnerability of Gas and Electrical Distribution and Transmission Systems."
Moehle, Jack P., ERSO, $97,760, PG&E, "Directed Studies of Reducing Seismic Vulnerability of Gas and Electrical Distribution and Transmission Systems."
Moran, Rachel F., ISSC, $20,000, Kern County, "Kern County Small Community Prevention Training and Technical Assistance."
Needell, Barbara, Social Welfare, $75,001, Urban Institute, "Extended Employment Outcomes for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care."
Niknejad, Ali M., ERSO, $450,000, Semiconductor Research Corporation, "BSIM for Mixed Mode Circuit Simulation Using Advanced CMOS Technology."
Niyogi, Krishna K., Plant and Microbial Biology, $898,956, NIGMS, "Reverse Genetics of Chlamydomonas Using TILLING."
Packard, Andrew K., ERSO, $120,001, University of Minnesota, "Fault Detection and Nonlinear Filtering in Safety Critical Commercial Aircraft Systems."
Papadimitriou, Christos H., ERSO, $350,000, NSF, "Research on Games, Networks, and Algorithms."
Pearson, P David, Education, $10,359, UCI, "The Pathway Project: A Cognitive Strategies Approach to Reading and Writing Instruction for Teachers of Secondary English Language Learners."
Pempel, T J., IEAS, $1,184,000, DOED, "East Asia Comprehensive National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship."
Pennypacker, Carlton R., SSL, $30,838, Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, "CI-Team: Introducing High School Science Teachers to 21st Century Research Techniques Made Possible by the Cyberinfrastructure."
Ragland, David, Public Health, $465,000, California Office of Traffic Safety, "Latino Traffic Safety Project."
Ramchandran, Kannan, ERSO, $300,000, NSF, "Randomized Signal Processing and Decentralized Coding for Robust Large-Scale Distributed Systems."
Ramesh, Ramamoorthy, Physics, $450,000, NSF, "Materials World Network: Transport, Switching and Size Effects in the Lead-Free Ferroelectric, BiFeO3."
Rine, Jasper D., MCB, $1,000,000, HHMI, "2006 HHMI Professors Award."
Robertson, Lynn C., IPSR, $1,462,892, NIGMS, "Spatial Representations and Attention."
Roland, Gerard, IGS, $133,094, NSF, "Voteworld: Comparative Legislative Behavior."
Schaffer, David, QB3, $420,001, NSF, "Molecular Evolution of Retroviral Vectors for Enhanced Gene Delivery."
Schlissel, Mark, MCB, $80,000, State of California EPA, "Department of Toxic Substamples Control Agreement."
Seshia, Sanjit A., ERSO, $270,000, NSF, "Collaborative Research: CT-T: Towards Behavior-Based Malware Detection."
Stephens, Richard S., Public Health, $657,295, NIAID, "Training in Infectious Diseases and Immunity Research."
Stover, Eric, Human Rights Center, $616,000, Omidyar Network, "Accountability Research Project."
Subramanian, Vivek, ERSO, $240,000, NSF, "Next Generation Die Attach Technologies Using Nanoengineered Materials."
Tomizuka, Masayoshi, ERSO, $44,065, NSF, "The World Forum on Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology 2007 (SMSST' 07)."
Tomlin, Claire, ERSO, $200,000, Vanderbilt University, "Frameworks and Tools for High-Confidence Design of Adaptive, Distributed Embedded Control Systems."
Walrand, Jean C., ERSO, $808,260, NSF, "Collaborative Research: NeTS-FIND: Market Enabling Network Architecture."
Weinstein, Alan D., CPAM, $15,270, NSF, "Conference on Geometry and Theoretical Physics."
Whitebook, Marcy, IIR, $50,000, Schumann Fund for New Jersey, "New Jesey Preschool Director Survey."
Yang, Haw, Chemistry, $201,026, NIST, "Characterization Methods for Kinetics of Bottom-Up Assembly with Nanoscale Building Blocks."
Yu, Bin, Statistics, $450,000, NSF, "High-Dimensional Challenges in Statistical Machine Learning: Theory, Models and Algorithms."
Zilberman, David, ARE, $50,000, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, "Energy and Agriculture." |