UCB RAC
UCB RAC
Contract and Grant Awards in June 2008 (back to Research Advocate)
Principal Investigator Campus Unit Award Sponsor Agency Project Title
Agol, Ian CPAM 333,162 NSF 3-Manifold Geometry and Topology
Ahn, Joonhong ERSO 100,698 Japan Atomic Energy Agency Advanced Systems Study for Performance of Geologic Disposal
Almeida, Rodrigo ESPM: Organisms and Environment 26,000 American Vineyard Foundation Mealybug Transmission of Grapevine Leafroll-Associated Viruses
Alter, Robert B. Jewish Graduate Studies 19,000 Jewish Community Federation Newhouse Graduate Fellowships and YIddish Instruction
Ando, Barbara LHS 299,759 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Linking Evidence to Explanation in Global Science
Arkin, Adam QB3 540,000 NSF Engineering Eukaryotic Protein Scaffolds to Reprogram Prokaryotic Signaling and Metabolic Pathways
Baas, Jacquelynn BAM/PFA 5,000 Government of France French Movies Series at the Pacific Film Archive in 2008
Baas, Jacquelynn BAM/PFA 45,000 University of Maine System Forging the Future: New Tools for Variable Media Preservation
Baker, Robin COEH/LOHP 497,500 California Department of Industrial Relations California Worker Training Program (WOSHTEP)
Baker, Robin COEH/LOHP 75,000 Zellerbach Family Foundation Domestic Worker Safety and Dignity Project
Bale, Stuart SSL 152,408 NASA Wave-Particle Physics in Solar Wind Reconnection
Barrett, Katharine Botanical Garden 75,000 East Bay Community Foundation Growing Learning Communities Teacher Education Program
Bayen, Alexandre M. ERSO 69,500 Federal Highway Administration Mobile Millenium - Cell Phones for Traffic Estimation
Berry, John D. Ethnic Studies 10,000 The Grammy Foundation The H.K. Yuen Social Movement Digital Archives
Bilder, David MCB 48,000 American Heart Association The Mechanism of Notch Receptor Activation during Endocytosis in Drosophila
Bradman, Asa Public Health 51,333 California Department of Pesticide Regulation 2008 California Child Care IPM Survey
Brashares, Justin ESPM: Ecosystem Sciences 25,000 Nature Conservancy Monitoring and Modeling the Giant Kangaroo Rat, an Ecosystem Engineer, with Satellite Imagery
Broughton, Janet Data Services 683,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Bamboo Planning Proposal
Brown, Timothy T. Public Health 54,500 California Department of Mental Health Academic Review of EPSDT Forecasting Methodology
Budker, Dmitry Physics 30,000 Southwest Sciences, Inc. Magnetometry for Calibrating Joyian Fields
Burgmann, Roland Berkeley Seismological Laboratory 62,957 U.S. Geological Survey Deformation and Earthquake Potential of the Eastern Coast Ranges from PS-InSAR Measurement
Cande, W. Zacheus MCB 2,085,143 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Kinesin Function in Mitosis and Automixis in the Widespread Parasite Giardia Interstinalis
Cassidy, Michael J. ITS 11,500 Federal Highway Administration The Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program 2008 Eisenhower Graduate Fellowships
Cheng, Ching-Shui Statistics 260,000 NSF Studies in Fractional Factorial Design
Citrin, Jack IGS 5,000 Koret Foundation Governing California: A Journal of California Politics, Government and Public Policy
Cohen, Ronald C. Chemistry 190,000 UCI ARCTAS-California 2008: An Airborne Mission to Investigate California Air Quality
Cole, Robert W. Cal Performances 7,500 Bank of America-Giannini Foundation Youth Arts Education Programs, 2007-08 Season
Cole, Robert W. Cal Performances 5,000 Kaiser Foundation Hospitals/Kaiser-Permanente Medical Centers AileyCamp 2008
Cole, Robert W. Cal Performances 150,000 Koret Foundation Cal Performance's Recital Series and Orchestra Sponsorship Proposal
Cole, Robert W. Cal Performances 7,500 The Barrios Trust AileyCamp 2008 Summer Program
Daane, Kent ESPM: Organisms and Environment 63,647 California Department of Food and Agriculture Biological Control of Arthropod Pests in California Agriculture: Current Status and Future Potential
Dan, Yang Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute 1,845,549 National Eye Institute Synaptic Basis for Visual Cortical Receptive Field Properties
Deakin, Elizabeth A. UC Transportation Center 37,500 World Bank Framework for Integrating Climate Change Considerations into Urban Transport Projects of the World Bank LAC Department
DeWeese, Michael R. Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute 15,000 NARSAD Probing the Cortical Mechanisms of Auditory Attention
Edley Jr., Christopher Law 150,000 Public Health Institute National Legal and Policy Effort to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Feller, Marla B. MCB 92,679 NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes Characterization of Slow AHP Conductance in the Developing Mammalian Retina
Fernandez-Pello, A. Carlos Graduate Division 117,000 Jewish Community Federation Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse Fund
Filippenko, Alexei V. Astronomy 15,000 Smithsonian Institution The Extreme Supernova 2006 GY
Firestone, Gary L. MCB 1,149,739 National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Steroid Control of Epithelial Cell-Cell Interactions
Fischer, Robert L. Plant and Microbial Biology 1,226,917 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Regulation and Function of DNA Demethylation in Arabidopsis
Fuller, Bruce C. Education 1,200,000 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Policy Analysis for California Education Infrastructure Grant
Gertler, Paul J. IBER 517,556 Economic and Social Research Council Building a Brighter Future: A Randomized Evaluation of Slum-Housing Upgrading
Guo, Xin IBER 109,055 NSF Credit Risk with Incomplete Information
Hanemann, W. Michael Agricultural and Resource Economics 91,820 Stockholm Environment Institute U.S. Economic Analysis of Water Use in El-Dorado Irrigation District
Hansen, Mark ITS 11,500 Federal Highway Administration The Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program 2008 Eisenhower Graduate Fellowships
Hansen, Mark ITS 1,500 Federal Highway Administration The Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program 2008 Eisenhower Graduate Fellowships
Hansen, Mark ITS 35,000 UCSC University Affiliated Research Center, Air Traffic Management Fundamental Research
Hariharan, Iswar MCB 48,000 American Heart Association Investigating Local and Systemic Responses to Tissue Damage in Drosophila
Harvey, Allison Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute 128,763 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Emotional and Behavioral Consequences of Sleep Deprivation in Adolescence
Heald, Rebecca MCB 137,500 Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research The Role of Organelle-Microtubule Linker Proteins in the Spatial Organization of the Cell
Healy, Kevin E. QB3 140,000 American Heart Association A Synthetic Prosurvival Matrix for Myocardium Stabilization
Herd, Denise A. Public Health 321,222 DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students
Hu, Chenming ERSO 3,275,000 DOD Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Scalable Steep-Subthreshold-Slope Transistor Technology
Hutchings, Michael CPAM 341,556 NSF Pseudoholomorphic Curves in Low-Dimensional Topology
Javey, Ali ERSO 243,297 NSF Nanoscale and Deterministic Doping of Semiconductors via Molecular Monolayers
Jerrett, Michael L. Public Health 45,405 University of Southern California USC Center for Transdisciplinary Research o Energetics and Cancer
Kammen, Daniel M. Energy and Resources Group 49,400 National Governors Assocation Report on Clean Energy Research Development and Deployment
Kelly, James M. ERSO 299,381 Caltrans In Situ Monitoring of the Force Output of Fluid Dampers: Experimental Investigation
Kerfeld, Cheryl Plant and Microbial Biology Department 58,754 University of Missouri-Rolla Sequence or Consequence: A Hands-on Approach to Bioinformatics Research for Undergraduates
Klinman, Judith P. QB3 1,946,290 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Principles of C-H and O2 Activation
Kuriyan, John MCB 117,927 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineered Antibody EGFR Antagonist Cancer Therapeutics
Levine, Michael S. MCB 1,936,567 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Molecular Characterization of the Dorsal Morphogen
Li, Song QB3 43,000 American Heart Association Engineering Nanofibrous Vascular Graft
Lindow, Steven E. Plant and Microbial Biology 100,000 Colorado State University Development of Sentinel Plants for Detection of High Risk Pathogens
Linn, Marcia C. Education 625,238 Concord Consortium Logging Opportunities in Online Programs for Science (LOOPS): Student and Teacher Learning
Little, Judith Warren Education 49,950 Spencer Foundation Mapping the Terrain of Organization Learning and Professional Practice: A Project of Conceptual Development and Integration
Luan, Sheng Plant and Microbial Biology 1,421,561 NSF 2010 Arabidopsis/AFGN Collaborative Project: An Exemplary Calcium Signaling Network in Plant Stress Responses
MacDonald, Elizabeth S. IURD 1,500 Federal Highway Administration 2008 Eisenhower Graduate Fellowships
Manga, Michael Earth and Planetary Science 154,274 NSF Collaborative Research: Multi-Scale Dynamics in Explosive Volcanic Eruptions
Marletta, Michael QB3 81,000 American Heart Association Tonic and Acute Nitric Oxide Signaling through Soluble Guanylate Cyclase
Maslach, Christina Division of Undergraduate Education 45,000 The Teagle Foundation Systematic Improvement of Undergraduate Education in Research Universities
Maslach, Christina Educational Technology Services 120,000 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation OpenCast Planning Grant
May Jr., Adolf D. ITS 96,652 Caltrans Improve Freeway Queue (FREQ) Macroscopic Freeway Analysis Model
Midanik, Lorraine T. Social Welfare 255,000 Stuart Foundations California Connected by 25 Initiative
Mills, Nicholas J. ESPM: Organisms and Environment 17,000 American Vineyard Foundation Spider Mites in California Vineyards: Temperature Tolerance, Effects of Plant Water Status through Leaf Temperature, Impact of Novel Pesticides and
Mills, Nicholas J. ESPM: Organisms and Environment 17,281 California Dried Plum Board Biological Control of Mealy Plum Aphid
Mofrad, Mohammad K. QB3 50,000 UC CRCC A Peek into Focal Adhesion Mechanotransduction: The Key Initial Step in Cell Migration and Metastasis
Morris, John W. ERSO 66,002 Toyota Motor Corporation Plastic Deformation of Gum Metal
Nacht, Michael Public Policy 299,932 SNL Future Nuclear Pathways: An Exploration of Alternatives
Needell, Barbara Social Welfare 150,000 Stuart Foundations California Connected by 25 Initiative
Needell, Barbara Social Welfare 150,000 Walter S. Johnson Foundation California Connected by 25 Initiative
Neureuther, Andrew R. ERSO 197,925 Semiconductor Research Corporation GRC Fellowship Program (GFP)
Ngai, John Functional Genomics Laboratory 125,000 Ajinomoto Co, Inc. Identification of Amino Acid Ligands for Chemosensory Receptors
Ngai, John Functional Genomics Laboratory 84,062 NIH Signals that Regulate Olfactory Epithelial Development
Nichols, Johanna B. Linguistics 21,505 NSF Typology and the Study of Language: Comparative Grammar and Beyond
Nielsen, Rasmus IB 27,783 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellowship
Nogales, Eva QB3 100,000 Human Frontier Science Program Motions in Macromolecular Function: New Approaches to Visualize and Stimulate Conformational Flexibility in Large Protein Complexes
O'Hare, Michael Public Policy 4,600 California Department of Health Services Pay-for-Performance for Long-Term Care
Onek, David Law 430,000 The Wachovia Foundation Street Violence Reduction in Oakland
Perez, Blas Public Policy 200,000 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Environmental Policy Workshops for Mexican High-Level Environmental Authorities and Community Leaders
Pisano, Albert P. ERSO 420,000 NSF Direct Nanoimprinting-Based Nanopatterning of Functional Nanomaterials for Electronics and Sensing Applications
Pitman, James W. Statistics 240,000 NSF Combinatorial Stochastic Processes
Ragland, David ITS 160,000 Caltrans Strategies for Reducing Pedestrian and Bicyclist Injury at the Corridor Level
Ramesh, Ramamoorthy Physics 104,945 AFOSR Acquisition of Rheed-Trax System to Study Growth Phenomena in Complex Functional Oxide Materials on Semiconductors
Raymond, Kenneth N. Chemistry 15,520 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Microbial Siderophore-Specific Innate Immune Responses
Reimann, Jan S. CPAM 59,095 NSF Randomness in Recursion Theory and Effective Descriptive Set Theory
Rio, Donald C. MCB 141,318 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Analysis of Alternative Splicing Regulators and Their in Vivo Functions
Ryan, Robert O. Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology 43,000 American Heart Association The Effect of Adenoviral Mediated Gene Transfection of Apolipoprotein A-V Variants on Mouse Plasma Triglyceride Levels
Schoenfeld, Alan H. Education 54,816 Carnegie Mellon University Using Comparisons to Leverage Learning from Chemistry Visualizations
Sen, Koushik ERSO 400,000 NSF CAREER: Scalable Automated Software Testing and Repair
Shackley, M Steven Anthropology 105,467 NSF The Southwest Archaeological Obsidian Project for the 21st Century
Shaheen, Susan A. ITS 60,944 Caltrans Assembly Bill 32: Global Warming Solutions Act
Shapira, Michael IB 399,595 Ellison Medical Foundation Studying Molecular Interfaces between Infection and Aging in C. Elegans
Skabardonis, Alexander ITS 499,457 Caltrans SPRINTER II: Improve the Efficiency and Safety at Urban Rail/Highway Grade Crossings
Somerville, Shauna QB3 122,111 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Mechanisms of PEN Protein Focal Accumulation and Regulation in Plant Immunity
Stage, Elizabeth K. LHS 500,000 Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation Enhancing the Visitor Experience at the Lawrence Hall of Science
Terry, Norman Plant and Microbial Biology 22,998 Electric Power Research Institute Use of Boron Hyperaccumulating Plants for the Remediation of Boron Contaminated Effluents
Tinoco, Ignacio Chemistry 87,500 Human Frontier Science Program Translation by Single Ribosomes One Codon at a Time
Tjian, Robert Stem Cell Center 20,183,500 California Institute for Regenerative Medicine UC Berkeley CIRM Center of Excellence
Tomsick, John Allen SSL 44,996 NASA Jets and Accretion Disks in X-Ray Binaries
Varaiya, Pravin P. ITS 275,000 Caltrans Performance Measurement System (PeMS) Research #10
Villas-Boas, Sofia B. Agricultural and Resource Economics 72,928 Washington State University Response to Nutrition Information Provision on Grocery Store Shelves: An Experimental Approach in the Field
Walrand, Jean C. ERSO 1,770,833 Army Research Office Tools for the Analysis and Design of Complex Multi-Scale Networks
Wang, Jen-Chywan Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology 50,000 UC CRCC Selective Modulation of Glucocorticoid Receptor Action
Weinstein, Alan D. CPAM 4,444 NSF Conference on Low Dimensional Topology and Quantum Geometry, Kansas City MO
Wu, Ming ERSO 1,000,000 DARPA Optical Transformers with Integrated Couplers (OTIC) for Ultrahigh SERS Enhancement
Xu, Ting QB3 70,000 NSF Self-Assembly of Diblock Copolymer-Based Supramolecule Thin Films at Two Length Scales

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