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Contract and Grant Awards in August (back to Research Advocate)
Principal Investigator Campus Unit Award Sponsor Agency Project Title
Abbeel, Pieter ERSO 1,500,000 NSF CPS: Medium: Learning for Control of Synthetic and Cyborg Insects in Uncertain Dynamic Environments
Agogino, Alice M. ERSO 470,997 NSF Collaborative Research: Sustaining the Pathway for K-Gray Engineering Education
Arens, Edward A. CEDR 114,510 California Energy Commission Advanced Integrated Systems Technology Development
Banfield, Jill F. EPS 12,373 Army Research Office CRISPR_09 Symposium
Banfield, Jill F. EPS 15,000 DOE Supplement to Support CRISPR_09 Conference
Barnes, Lucinda BAM/PFA 75,000 Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts Fifty Years of Bay Area Avant Garde Cinema
Barnes, Lucinda BAM/PFA 106,406 IMLS Improving Collection Stewardship: Barcoding the PFA Film, Video and Book Collections
Basri, Gibor Disabled Students' Program 902,964 California Department of Rehabilitation Disabled Students Residence Program
Bayen, Alexandre M. ERSO 283,283 NSF CPS:Medium:Collaborative Researsh:Physical Modeling and Software Synthesis for Self-Reconfigurable Sensors in River Environments
Bentley, George IB 300,000 NSF Neuroendocrine Mechanisms of Reproduction in Songbirds
Berger, James M. QB3 94,190 National Cancer Institute Biochemical Analyses of Type II DNA Topoisomerases
Bergman, Robert G. Chemistry 770,000 NSF Organic and Organometallic Chemistry
Bertozzi, Carolyn R. Chemistry 172,018 Genentech Foundation for Biomedical Sciences Chemical Biology Graduate Program Student Support
Bertozzi, Carolyn R. Chemistry 165,836 National Institute of General Medical Sciences University of California Berkeley Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program
Bickel, Peter J. Statistics 519,903 NSF Statistical Inference When both the Model and/or Data Dimension is Large
Block, Gladys SPH 2,171,955 National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Gender, Obesity, C-Reactive Protein and Oxidative Stress
Bodik, Rastislav ERSO 500,000 NSF SHF: Small: Programming Abstractions for Algorithmic Software Synthesis
Borrelli, Francesco ERSO 1,368,941 NSF CPS: Medium: High Confidence Active Safety Control in Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems
Brady, Henry E. SRC 10,000 USDA Economics Research Service Linking Food Assistance Administration Records to Survey
Brayton, Robert K. ERSO 21,334 Intel Corporation Liveness Property Checking
Brenner, Steven E. Plant and Microbial Biology 266,184 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Protein Function Prediction by Statistical Phylogenomics
Buchanan, Bob B. CNR 15,000 USDA Forest Service California Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit
Buchanan, Bob B. CNR 15,000 USDI Fish and Wildlife Service CESU Administrative Support
Burgmann, Roland Berkeley Seismological Laboratory 58,448 USDI Geological Survey Space Geodetic Measurements and Models of Crustal Deformation in the San Francisco Bay Area
Caldwell, Roy L. Berkeley Natural History Museums 499,919 NSF Extending and Enhancing Understanding Evolution for the Undergraduate Community
Canny, John F. ERSO 40,000 NSF HCC: Small: First Days: Improving Maternal and Infant Health with Persuasive Technology
Carlson, Stephanie M. ESPM Ecosystem Sciences 50,000 NSF Research Starter Grant - Causes and Consequences of Biocomplexity
Carmichael, A. Christopher Botanical Garden 25,000 USDA Forest Service Seed Collection and General Native Plants Program Delivery
Cassidy, Michael J. ITS 82,311 Amman Institute for Urban Development Strategies for Segregating Bus and Car Traffic in Amman
Chang-Hasnain, Constance J. ERSO 1,799,510 DARPA Ultralow Loss, Chip-Based Hollow Core Waveguide Using High-Contrast Grating
Chokkalingam, Anand SPH 22,655 True Research Foundation Circadian Genes and Risk for Prostate Cancer
Chow, Fotini K. ERSO 85,097 LLNL Atmospheric Modeling for Wind Farm Sitting
Chow, Fotini K. ERSO 257,382 NSF Collaborative Research: Explicit Filtering and Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Large-Eddy Simulation
Cole, Robert W. Cal Performances 20,000 NEA 2009 Season
Collier, David Political Science 11,988 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: The Logic of Armed Violence in Drug Wars
Crawford, Patricia CNR 30,000 Abt Associates Inc. Food and Nutrition Service Evaluation of the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program
Daane, Kent ESPM: Organisms and Environment 10,000 California Raisin Marketing Board Sustainable Controls for Vine Mealybug - 2009
Daane, Kent ESPM: Organisms and Environment 99,995 EPA Food Quality Protection Act (AG INIT.) - Integrated Pest Management for Vine MealyBug
Deakin, Elizabeth A. IURD 60,000 World Resources Institute WRITET: Development of a Tool to Illustrate Low and High Carbon Scenarios for Future United States Transportation
Delory, Gregory T. SSL 281,422 NASA The Lunar Surface Electromagnetic Environment and its use in Magnetotelluric Subsurface Sounding
Dietrich, William E. EPS 34,000 USDA Forest Service GIS-Based Three-dimensional Analysis of Shallow Landslides to Investigate the Effects of Changing Root Strength Patterns Due to Climate Change and Fuels Managem
Edelman, Lauren B. CSLS 11,919 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Transitional Justice Social Movement
Edelman, Lauren B. CSLS 11,943 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research: Dispute Resolution of Consumer Legal Complaints: Processes, Perceptions, Attitudes
Ellman, Jonathan A. Chemistry 69,998 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Substrate Activity Screening: A New Approach to Inhibitor Discovery
Finkel, Robert C. EPS 75,980 NSF Collaborative Research: A Southern Hemispheric Perspective on Holocene Climate Variability Based on Mountain Glacial Chronologies
Full, Robert J. IB 3,195,091 NSF IGERT: Biological and Bio-Inspired Motion Systems Operating in Complex Environments
Gastpar, Michael C. ERSO 649,998 NSF CDI-Type I: New Information-Theoretic Methods for Analysis of Neuronal Ensembles
Gertler, Paul J. IBER 60,000 Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Impact Evaluation of Performance-based Financing for General Health and HIV/AIDS Services in Rwanda
Gillespie, Rosemary G. Berkeley Natural History Museums 698,281 NSF Genomics of Repeatedly Evolving Color Diversity in the Polymorphic Hawaiian Happy Face Spider
Goldberg, Kenneth Yigael ERSO 454,498 Case Western Reserve University RI-Medium: Robust Intelligent Manipulation and Apprenticeship Learning for Robotic Surgical Assistants
Gong, Peng ESPM: Ecosystem Sciences 29,881 NASA Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Association between Plant Functional Diversity and Flooding at Poyang Lake, PRC Using Remote Sensing and Simulation-Based Modeling
Govindjee, Sanjay ERSO 360,775 NSF High Performance Simulation Tools for Complex MEMS Resonator Design
Greenspan, Ehud ERSO 75,000 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC Neutronic Support for the LIFE Project
Hariharan, Iswar MCB 1,205,684 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Regulation of Cell and Organ Size in Vivo
Harland, Richard M. MCB 397,205 National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Genetic Analysis of Inner Ear Development in Tropicalis
Harley, Robert A. ERSO 44,990 Bay Area Air Quality Management District Mobile Laboratory Sampling of Air Pollution Sources and Concentrations in the San Francisco Bay Area
Harrison, Victoria University Police 25,000 California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control ABC Grant
Henry, Neil Journalism 210,000 Ford Foundation Africa Media Assessment and Journalism Training Strategic Plan
Horowitz, Roberto ITS 600,000 NSF CDI Type I: Freeway Corridor Operations Design and Implementation
Horvath, Arpad ITS 25,095 California EPA Department of Toxic Substances Control Green Chemistry Initiative Life-Cycle Thinking
Isacoff, Ehud MCB 178,243 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Single Molecule Analysis of Olfactory Receptor Assembly
Jacknis, Ira Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology 30,000 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Conservation Fellowship
Jerrett, Michael L. SPH 71,965 Claremont Graduate University Obesity Prevention Tailored for Health II
Kammen, Daniel M. CNR 15,000 Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments Cool Climate Network Membership Agreement, Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments
Katz, Randy H. ERSO 1,497,426 NSF CPS: Medium: LoCal - A Network Architecture for Localized Electrical Energy Reduction, Generation and Sharing
Kaufer, Daniela IB 15,000 NARSAD Aberrant Myelination in PTSD - Mechanism and Function
Kaufer, Daniela IB 1,191,579 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke TGF-Beta Mediated Inflammatory Signaling: a Critical Role in Epileptogenesis
Keasling, Jay QB3 125,000 Dow Agrosciences LLC SynBERC Industry Partnership Program - Membership
Keasling, Jay QB3 25,000 Genomatica, Inc. SynBERC Industry Partnership Program - Membership
Keasling, Jay QB3 25,000 International Park of Creativity SynBERC Industry Partnership Program - Membership
Keasling, Jay QB3 25,000 ITI Scotland Limited SynBERC Industry Partnership Program - Membership
Keasling, Jay QB3 125,000 Novo Nordisk Co. SynBERC Industry Partnership Program - Membership
Keasling, Jay QB3 433,116 NSF Collaborative Research: Synthetic Integrons for Continuous Directed Evolution of Complex Genetic Ensembles
Keasling, Jay QB3 74,902 NSF ARS Synthetica - A Multimedia Forum Exploring the Artful Design of Living Things
King, C. Judson Center for Studies in Higher Education 75,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communications: An In-Depth Study of Faculty Needs and Ways of Meeting Them
Kirchner, James W. Berkeley Natural History Museums 50,000 S.H. Cowell Foundation Sagehen Creek Adventure Risk Challenge Year-Round Programming
Knobloch, Edgar Physics 261,669 NSF Spatially Localized States in Extended Systems
Kopp, Jaine LHS 40,848 UC California Math Project Bay Area Mathematics Project
Lee, Luke P. ERSO 50,000 Northrop Grumman Corporation Artificial Compound Eyes for LWIR Applications
Lightfoot, Kent G. ARF 211,844 NSF The Study of Indigenous Pyrodiversity Management Practices in Central California: An Eco-Archaeological Approach
Linn, Marcia C. Education 3,499,553 NSF Visualizing to Integrate Science Understanding for All Learners (VISUAL)
Ma, Chung-Pei TAC 93,744 Space Telescope Science Institute The Merger-Driven Growth and Evolution of Galaxies
Mahin, Stephen A. ERSO 320,000 NSF Coordinating Workshops for the NEES/E-Defense Collaborative Research Program in Earthquake Engineering (Phase 2)
Maslach, Christina Division of Undergraduate Education 100,000 Bernard Osher Foundation Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Berkeley
Maslach, Christina Educational Technology Services 550,000 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Opencast Matterhorn Project
Melis, Anastasios Plant and Microbial Biology 308,000 Tabletop Energy, Inc Ethanol Production via Microalgal Photosynthesis
Merenlender, Adina Center for Forestry 24,959 Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District Landscape Connectivity Model/Nothern Mayacamas Mountains
Miguel, Edward IBER 25,190 Global Development Network Effectiveness of Alternative Water and Sanitation Interventions
Ngai, John Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute 202,264 National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Programs of Gene Expression in Olfactory Neurogenesis
Norena, Carlos F. History 53,870 UC California History-Social Science Project California Subject Matter Projects (CSMP) No Child Left Behind (NCLB) 6 Technical Assistance and Support Program
O'Grady, Patrick M. Berkeley Natural History Museums 574,436 NSF A Comparative Approach to Dating the Diversification of Hawaiian Diptera
O'Hare, Michael Public Policy 413,000 California EPA Air Resources Board CARB-UC Agreement
Packard, Richard E. Physics 850,000 NSF Superfluid Macroscopic Quantum Effects
Padian, Nancy S. IBER 21,362 Global Development Network Behavior Change Interventions to Prevent HIV among Low-Income Girls and Women Living in Low Middle Income Countries
Paxson, Vern ERSO 250,000 UC San Diego Infiltration of Botnet Command - Control and Support Ecosystems
Pearson, P. David Education 59,000 UC California Writing Project CSMP Application for Continued Funding 2008-2011
Pestana-Nascimento, Juan M. ERSO 277,114 NSF Improved Description of the Seismic Response of Deep Soft Clay Deposits
Peterson, Per F. ERSO 214,389 DOE Nuclear Energy University Programs - Infrastructure Support
Peterson, Per F. ERSO 136,936 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Design and Proof Testing of the AHTR Compact Integgral Effects Test
Poolla, Kameshwar ERSO 400,000 NSF Networked Control of Greenhouses
Quail, Peter H. PGEC Plant Gene Expression Center 819,000 USDA Agricultural Research Service Agricultural Crop Improvement through Genomic and Molecular Research on Mechanisms of Plant Growth and Adaptation to a Changing Environment
Quigley, John M. IBER 82,500 Maastricht University Green Buildings in the Urban Environment
Rine, Jasper D. QB3 75,000 Genentech Foundation for Biomedical Sciences Genentech Intent to Apply
Rine, Jasper D. QB3 158,850 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Impact of Genetic Variation on Folate Metabolism: Etiology of Neural Tube Defects
Ritchie, Robert O. ERSO 116,803 Teledyne Technologies, Inc. Hypersonic Materials and Structures
Schaffer, David QB3 101,764 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Reverse Engineering of Transcriptional Networks in Somatic Cell Reprogramming
Shackley, M. Steven Anthropology 58,667 NSF The Berkeley Archaeological XRF Laboratory Instrument Maintenance, 2009-2011
Simon, Horst ERSO 755,604 NSF Simulations and Analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Data at the Petascale and Beyond
Skabardonis, Alexander ITS 98,816 Caltrans Assess the Trade-Offs between People Throughout and LOS Degradation in the Conversion of a Mixed Flow Lane to a Bus Only Lane on US101
Sonnenthal, Eric L. EPS 264,076 NSF Collaborative Research: Coupled Thermal-Hydrological-Mechanical-Chemical-Biological Experimental Facility at DUSEL Homestake
Stamper-Kurn, Dan Physics 1,398,346 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Quantum Cavity Opto-Mechanics with Ultracold Atoms on an Atom Chip
Stephens, Richard S. SPH 69,894 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Characterization of a Transport System Within the Chlamydial Inclusion
Stojadinovic, Bozidar ERSO 8,759 NSF Workshop Collaborative Research: Vision 2020: An Open Space Technology Workshop on the Future of Earthquake Engineering; St. Louis, Missouri; January 2010
Tager, Ira B. SPH 32,832 Stanford University Research Project with University of California
Taira, Taka'aki Berkeley Seismological Laboratory 210,474 NSF An Investigation into Time-Dependent Fault Zone Properties at Seismogenic Depth on the San Andreas Fault Near Parkfield
Taubes, Gary SPH 334,846 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The Sweetening of a Nation: The History, Politics and Health Effects of Sugar and High-Fructose Corn Syrup
Taylor, John W. Plant and Microbial Biology 161,175 UC Irvine Pacific Southwest Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research
Tetlock, Philip E. IGS 250,000 The Searle Freedom Trust Taking a Careful Scientific Second Look before Making a Big Policy Leap: An Epistemic Audit of the Unconscious-Bias
Thier, Herbert Center for Integrative Planetary Science 443,353 NSF Community Oriented Science Education
Thorne, Barrie Sociology 9,000 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research: Family Formation and Social and Economic Outcomes
Tomsick, John Allen SSL 53,085 NASA Identification of INTEGRAL Sources in the Galactic Plane
Tremsin, Anton SSL 206,758 NOVA Scientific, Inc. Efficient Thermal Neutron Position Sensitive Detectors
Valentine, James IB 27,630 NSF Collaborative Research: The Dynamics of Geographic Ranges: Origin and Maintenance of Marine Diversity Gradients
Van Steenwyk, Robert A. ESPM: Organisms and Environment 7,000 California Apple Commission Positioning Strategies of Reduced Risk Insecticides
Vujic, Jasmina L. ERSO 3,000,000 DOE California - Berkeley Fellowship and Scholarship Support
Wainwright, Martin ERSO 506,063 Air Force Office of Scientific Research New Theory and Algorithms for Scalable Data Fusion
Wake, Marvalee H. IB 24,999 NSF International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology
Walker, Gretchen H. LHS 150,000 IMLS Facing Mars: Building an Adult Audience
Werthimer, Dan SSL 100,000 JPL First Demonstration of a Flight-Like Digital Spectrometer for Future Planetary Microwave Spectroscopy Missions
Whitebook, Marcy IRLE 30,856 Children's Council of San Francisco No Single Ingredient: The Complexity of Effective Early Childhood Teacher Preparation
Whitebook, Marcy IRLE 28,192 Santa Barbara, County of No Single Ingredient: The Complexity of Effective Early Childhood Teacher Preparation
Wilmoth, John R. IBER 438,490 National Institute on Aging Studies in Global Mortality
Wilson, Mark Graduate School of Education 97,012 Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute Science Assessment: Strengthening and Expanding the SERP-SFUSD Field Site
Wu, Junqiao ERSO 27,000 VIPMobile, Inc. Technologies for Space Power and Propulsion
Yablonovitch, Eli ERSO 210,000 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Nanophotonic Devices; Spontaneous Emission Faster than Stimulated Emission
Yang, Peidong Chemistry 200,000 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology KAUST Fellowship
Zambryski, Patricia C. Plant and Microbial Biology 68,150 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Characterization of the Helical Localization Pattern of the TS44 in Agrobacterium
Zettl, Alex BNNI 549,000 Eni S.p.A. Nanomaterials - Based H2S Sensing Platforms
Zhang, Hengzhong EPS 333,461 NSF Interfacial Free Energy of Nanominerals in Solutions, Biofilms and Microbial Cells

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