Research Foundation

Spring Cycle 1998 Awards

  • Edwin Abel, Biology, SAS; The Use of Temporally Regulated Transgenes to Study the Role of Protein Kinase A in Long-Term Memory Storage.
  • Nadia Alhasani, Architecture, GSFA; The Making of Place and Memory.
  • Margaret Aranda, Anesthesia, Med; Bolus Versus Continuous Infusion of Furosemide in Oliguric Adult Intensive Care Unit Patients.
  • Margaret Aranda, Anesthesia, Med; Indirect Evaluation of Toxic Metabolites in Patients Treated with Varying Doses of Inhaled Nitric Oxide.
  • Wendy Ashmore, Anthropology, SAS; Archaeological Reconnaissance Along the Rio Chacuey, Northwestern Dominican Republic.
  • Leon Axel, Radiology, Med; Characterization of Normal Cardiac Motion from Tissue-Tagged Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
  • Erfei Bi, Cell/Developmental Biology, Med; Molecular Studies of the Temporal and Spatial Regulation of Cytokinesis in Budding Yeast.
  • Michael Berkwits, Internal Medicine, Med; An Effect of Measuring Serum Cardiac Troponin on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Cardiac Ischemia: A Pilot Study.
  • Warren Breckman, History, SAS; Foundations and Justice: Political Thought in Contemporary France.
  • Elizabeth Bucher, Cell/Developmental Biology, Med; Studies of a Novel Family of Genes Required for Muscle-Epidermal Cell Interactions.
  • Liana Clark, Pediatrics, Med; A Photograph-Based Sexually Transmitted Disease Education Program for High Risk Adolescent Girls.
  • Mirjam Cvetic, Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Black Holes in Fundamental Theory.
  • W.F. DeGrado, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Med; Purchase of a Mass Spectrometer.
  • Dennis DeTurck, Mathematics, SAS; Mathematical Sciences Research Computing Environments.
  • Mark Devlin, Physics & Astronomy, SAS; A Cryogenic System to Facilitate the Development of Innovative Detector Technologies.
  • Ron Donagi, Mathematics, SAS; The Mathematics and Physics of Superstrings.
  • Lawrence Dougherty, Radiology, Med; Coronary Artery Imaging Using Three-Dimensional Gadolinium-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
  • Peter Drain, Physiology/Biochem/ Biophysics, Med; Molecular Mechanism of ATP-Dependent Inhibition Gating of the Pancreatic B Cell K Channel.
  • Arthur Dunham, Biology, SAS; Geographic Variation in Thermoregulatory Constraints and Its Influence on the Life Histories of Ectotherms.
  • Jeff Dyer, Management, Wharton; A Comparative Study of Inter-Organizational Learning in the U.S.A., Japan and Europe.
  • Kevin Foskett, Physiology, Med; Request for Nipkow Disk/FRAP Confocal Microscope.
  • Elaine Freedgood, English, SAS; Locating Risk: Victorian Constructions of a Safe England in a Dangerous World.
  • Arupa Ganguly, Genetics, Med; Genomic Mismatch Scanning of Ashkenazi Jewish Breast Cancer Patients Negative for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Gene Mutations.
  • Stephen Gluckman, Medicine,Med; Clinical and Cost Effectiveness of an Innovative Home Care Program for High Risk HIV Patients.
  • Robert Goldman, Rehabilitation Medicine, Med; Electrotherapy Reverses Inframalle-olar Ischemia.
  • Kristin Gowin, Medicine, Med; A Case-Control Study of Risk Factors for Fibromyalgia in Older Persons.
  • David Graves, Chemical Engineering, SEAS; Construction of a Scanner to Analyze DNA Microarrays.
  • Kathryn Hellerstein,Germanic Languages & Literature, SAS; Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky.
  • Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, Anthropology, SAS; Life-Style and Health Risks in Urban Trailer Park Residents.
  • Daniel Janzen, Biology, SAS; Caterpillars of a Tropical Dry Forest and Their Parasites: How Thorough the Rearing?
  • Alan Johnson, Physics &Astronomy, SAS; Ultra-High Vacuum AFM/STM System for Assembly, Imaging, and Spectroscopy of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Electrical Circuits.
  • Cristle Judd, Music, SAS; Exempla, Commonplace Books, and Writing Theory in the Sixteenth Century (Travel Funds for Research).
  • Ayako Kano, Asian &Middle Eastern Studies, SAS; Japanese Feminist Debates: The First Hundred Years in the Rhetoric of Gender and Sexuality.
  • Michael Koval, Institute for Environmental Medicine, Med; Cell Biology of Gap Junction Proteins in Lung Epithelium.
  • Ian Krantz, Pediatrics/Division of Human Genetics & Molecular Biology, Med; Molecular Analysis of the Cornelia de Lange Syndrome.
  • James Lok, Pathobiology, Veterinary Medicine; Genetic Regulation of Development in a Parasitic Nematode.
  • Chung-Pei Ma, Physics & Astronomy, SAS; Gravitational Lensing of Distant Clusters of Galaxies as Probe of Dark Matter.
  • Elizabeth Mackenzie, Institute on Aging/ Geriatrics, Med; Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Demographic Characteristics of Utilizers.
  • Frank Matero, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, GSFA; Field Research For Archaeological Site Conservation: Catalhoyuk.
  • Stuart Meyers, Clinical Studies, Veterinary Medicine; Influence of Sperm Hyaluronidase and Tyrosine Phosphorylation on Sperm Capacitation in Boars and Stallions.
  • Shakunthala Narasimhulu, Surgical Research, Med; Mechanism of Action of Cytochrome P450.
  • Sean Nicholson, Health Care Systems, Wharton; Determinants and Accuracy of Income Expectations.
  • Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Public Policy & Management, Wharton; Long-Term Unemployment and Stigma Effects: Hiring Practices in Europe and in the United States.
  • Julia Paley, Anthropology, SAS; Corporate Uses of the Culture Concept.
  • Eric Parente, Sports Medicine,Veterinary Medicine; The Metabolic Cost of Forelimb Lameness in the Fit Racehorse.
  • Hermann Pfefferkorn, Geology, SAS; Floral Changes at the Beginning of an Ice Age: A 330 Million Year Old Data Set From The Tropics.
  • Stephen Phipps, Geology, SAS; Ophiolitic Rocks in the California and Oregon Coast Ranges: Plate-tectonic Implications of on-land Oceanic Crust.
  • Christine Poggi, History of Art, SAS; Futurism: A Reader and Visual Repertory (Yale University Press-Under Contract).
  • Robert Preucel, Anthropology, SAS; Remembering the Pueblo Revolt: Cochiti Oral History and Narrative Poetry.
  • Mary Pugh, Mathematics, SAS; Modeling and Computational Studies of Orientation Tuning in the Mammalian Visual Cortex.
  • Andrew Rappe, Chemistry, SAS; First-Principles Study of Piezoelectric Materials.
  • Janine Remillard, Educational Leadership Division, Graduate School of Education; Mathematical Literacy for all Children: A Study of Appropriate Practices for Helping Urban Children Achieve High Levels of Mathematical Understanding and Skill.
  • Michele Richman, Romance Languages, SAS; Operative Communities: The Jewish Question in France from Durkheim to Levinas.
  • Paul Rosenbaum, Statistics, Wharton; Observational Studies.
  • Jean-Marie Roulin, Romance Languages, SAS; The French Epic from Voltaire to Chateaubriand.
  • Michael Russell, Anesthesia, Med; Aprotinin Infusion and Inflammatory Cytokines in Trauma.
  • Jean-Pierre Saint-Jeannet, Animal Biology, Veterinary Medicine; Regulation of Neural Crest Identity by Wnt Signaling.
  • David Sarwer, Psychiatry, Med; An Investigation of the Psychological Characteristics of Cosmetic Breast Augmentation Patients.
  • Jeffery Saven, Chemistry, SAS; Theoretical Approaches to Combinatorial Libraries of Folding Chain Molecules.
  • Gerhard Schad, Pathobiology,Veterinary Medicine; The Role of the Anterior Sensory Neurons in Host-Finding, Skin Penetration, and Development of Parasitic Nematodes: Laser Microbeam Ablation Studies.
  • Katherine Schultz, Division of Educational Leadership, Graduate School of Education; After Desegregation: Discourses of "Race" in a Post-Desegregation Middle School.
  • William Schwartz, Pediatrics, Med; Comparison of Medical Trainee's Attitudes Towards Cost Containment of Medical Laboratory with Problem Solving Performance Using Computerized Patient Simulations.
  • Chyng-yann Shiue, Radiology, Med; Development of F-18 Labeled Herpes Simplex Virus Thymidine Kinase (HSV tk) Substrates as Pet Imaging Agents for Gene Therapy.
  • Neil Shubin, Biology, SAS; The Development of a Global Framework to Understand the Origin of Terrestrial Ecosystems.
  • Gary Smith, Clinical Studies, Veterinary Medicine; A Stochastic Model for the Dynamics of Bovine Diarrhea Virus Infections.
  • Gary Smith, Clinical Studies, Veterinary Medicine; Risk Factors for Lyme Disease in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
  • David Solomon, Neurology & Otolaryn-gology/Head & Neck Surgery, Med; Differential Processing of Inner Ear Vestibular Signals Underlying Gaze Stabilization and Postural Control During Turning.
  • Wenchao Song, Center for Experimental Therapeutics/Pharmacology, Med; Physiological Functions of Decay-Accelerating Factor.
  • Nancy Spinner, Pediatrics/Division of Human Genetics & Molecular Biology, Med; The Role of Notch Signaling Pathway Ligands in Cardiovascular Disease.
  • David Stern, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, SAS; Publication Subvention for Through the Pages of the Past: The Jewish Book and the Jewish Experience.
  • Cecil Striker, History of Art, SAS; Publisher's Subvention: Kalenderhane in Istanbul: The Excavations.
  • Marilyn Stringer, Division of Healthcare of Women & Childbearing Families, Nursing; Prenatal Care Attendance: Personal Costs and Outcomes.
  • Albert Stunkard, Psychiatry, Med; Eating Behavior of Children at High Risk for Obesity.
  • Emily Thompson, History & Sociology of Science, SAS; The Architecture of Science.
  • Andrei Tikhonenko, Pathobiology,Veterinary Medicine; The Myc Oncoprotein and Control of Tumor Neovascularization.
  • Nancy Tkacs, Science & Role Development-Division I, Nursing; Central Mechanisms of Defective Glucoregulation After Hypoglycemia.
  • John Tomaszewski, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Med; Loss of Heterozygosity Analysis in Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma.
  • Michael Topp, Chemistry, SAS; Picosecond Spectroscopy of Coumarins in Binary Solvents.
  • Peter Ubel, General Medicine, Med; The Impact of Renal Transplantation on Quality-of-Life.
  • Barbara von Schlegell, Religious Studies, SAS; Feminism, Fundamentalism, and Mysticism: Women's Sufi Movements in Contemporary Damascus.
  • Joel Waldfogel, Public Policy & Management, Wharton; Measuring the Impact of Pro-Competitive Reforms on Quality of Medical Care in New Jersey.
  • Susan Watkins, Sociology, SAS; Expanding the Data Basis for Analysis of Fertility, AIDS, Social Networks, and Public Program Effects in a High-Fertility and High HIV-Incidence Population.
  • Mark Weiner, Medicine, Med; Implementation and Analysis Issues for a Modified SF-12 at an Active Primary Care Practice.
  • Guy Welbon, South Asia Regional Studies/Religious Studies, SAS; Buddha Image, Buddha Cult: The Early Spread of Buddhism from South India to Sri Lanka and Burma.
  • SteffanieWilk, Management, Wharton; Discrimination, Occupational Mobility and Attainment: A Matching Approach.
  • Gary Wu, Medicine/Gastrointestinal Section, Med; Alteration on Epithelial Gene Transcription in Intestinal Pathobiology.
  • Ji-fang Zhang, Pharmacology, Med; The Role of Mutant Calcium Channels in Epileptogenesis.
  • Linda Zhao, Statistics, Wharton; Bayesian Inferential Estimation in Nonparametric Regression.

Almanac, Vol. 45, No. 3, September 15, 1998

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