The University's internally-funded Research Foundation makes awards twice each year, reviewing proposals from faculty under the guidelines presented by the Vice Provost for Research in this issue. These guidelines are also available in each Dean's office, and are now on the Web at www.upenn.edu/VPR/VPRHP.html. Below are the researchers whose work was chosen for funding in the Spring Cycle 1999.
Research Foundation Awards Spring 1999
Mark B. Adams, History & Sociology of Science, SAS; The Soviet Nature-Nurture Debate: Eugenics and Medical Genetics in Russia, 1900-1990 Hydar Ali, Pathology, Medicine; Mechanism of Mast Cell Chemokine Production Michael Awkward, et al., English, SAS; The Endlessly Beckoning Horizon: Afro-American Literature at the End of the Twentieth Century Leon Axel, et al, Radiology, Medicine; Development of a Small Animal Rabbit Model of Cardiac Function Using High Field MRI with Tissue-Tagging Paul H. Axelsen, Pharmacology, Medicine; Preparative Peptide Purification Eugenie L. Birch, City and Regional Planning, GSFA; Downtown Living: A Deeper Look Dawn A. Bonnell, Materials Science & Engineering, SEAS; Dynamic Properties at Atomic Resolution in STM Francis Brevart, German, SAS; Wonderdrugs and Miracle Cures in Medical Literature of the 12-16th Centuries Debabrata Chakravarti, Pharmacology, Medicine; Transcriptional Repression by Nuclear Receptor Corepressor NCoR Cristle Collins Judd, Music, SAS; Music and the Printed Book (Publication Subvention) Russell Composto, Materials Science & Engineering, SEAS; A Contact Angle Goniometer for New Research Involving Synthetic and Natural Polymers at Surfaces Kostas Daniilidis, Computer and Information Science, SEAS; Augmented Reality Goes Outdoors Harold L. Dibble, Anthropology, SAS; The Middle Paleolithic Industries of Pech de l'Aze IV (France) Dennis E. Discher, Mechanical Engineering, SEAS; Cell Adhesion System Peter Dodson, et al, Animal Biology, Veterinary Medicine; Excavating a Sauropod Dinosaur, Northern Wyoming Arthur Dunham, Biology, SAS; Feeding Rates and Net Assimilated Energy of Phrynosomatid Lizards Measured Using Turnover of Stable 39K, 85Rb, and 35Cl isotopes Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, History, SAS; Pre-publication Costs: Dulcinea in the Factory Harold I. Feldman, et al, Renal Electrolyte & Hypertension, Medicine; Predictive Value of Lipoprotein (a), Homocysteine and EBCT in Dialysis Patients Alan Filreis, English, SAS; Modern Poetry and Anticommunism, 1945-1960 Howard Goldfine, Microbiology, Medicine; Bacterial-Host Cell Interactions in Listeria Monocytogenes Infections Robert C. Gorman, Surgery, Medicine; Surgery for Postinfarction Left Ventricular Remodelling Kathleen Hall, Educational Leadership, GSE; Race, Class and Nationalism: Education and Social Mobility Among Sikhs in England Steven Heine, Psychology, SAS; A Cultural Investigation of Self-Improving Motivation Daniel Janzen, Biology, SAS; Habitat-Specific Mass Rearings of Tropical Dry Forest Caterpillars by UPenn Students and Costa Rican Biologists in Search of their Parasites Known to be Present in this Ecosystem |
Francis E. Johnston, Anthropology, SAS; Nutrition, Physical Growth, and Health of Children from Abruzzo, Italy-- Feasibility Study Madeleine M. Joullie, Chemistry, SAS; Novel Reagents for Amino Acid Detection Randall Kamien, Physics & Astronomy, SAS; Conference on Statistical Mechanics to Honor Professor A. Brooks Harris on his 65th Birthday Grace Kao, Sociology, SAS; Interracial Contact Among Adolescents in the U.S. Ziv Z. Katalan, Operations Information Management, Wharton; Product Variety and Manufacturing Performance in a Flexible Manufacturing System John C. Keene, City & Regional Planning, GSFA; Regional Planning in Spain: An Evaluation Marisa Kozlowski, Chemistry, SAS; Towards Alternate Amino Acid Synthesis: Investigations of Amidocarbonylation and Imine Carbonylation Reactions Joseph Kroll, Physics & Astronomy, SAS; Electronics for a Time of Flight Detector for the Study of B Physics with the CDF Detector S. Lahiri, et al, Physiology, Medicine; Role of Intracellular Calcium Stores in Carotid Body Cells in Hypoxic Response Phoebe S. Leboy, Biochemistry, Dental Medicine; The Role of BMPs in Facilitating Bone Repair Marsha Lester, Chemistry, SAS; Matching Funds for a Mid-Infrared Parametic Oscillator (OPO) to be Used in the Investigation of the Spectroscopy and Reaction Dynamics of Activated Entrance Channel Complexes Mary Susan Lindee, History & Sociology of Science, SAS; Science in the Cold War: Global Perspectives James B. Lok, Pathobiology, Veterinary Medicine; Role of Insulin-Like Signaling in the Development of Parasitic Nematodes Patrick J. Loll, Pharmacology, Medicine; Crystallization Screens for Integral Membrane Proteins David Ludden, History, SAS; The Commercial Geography of Coastal South Asia in the 1820s John McCoubrey, History of Art, SAS; Subvention for republication of his American Tradition in Painting (George Braziller, 1963) by University of Pennsylvania Press Sarah E. Millar, Dermatology, Medicine; The Role of WNT Signaling in Morphogenesis of the Epidermis and its Appendages John M. Murray, Cell & Developmental Biology, Medicine; A Novel Strategy for Discovery of Proteins Regulating Microtubules Jack H. Nagel, Political Science, SAS; Functioning and Reform of Pluralitarian Electoral Systems Benjamin Nathans, History, SAS; Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia Hermann Pfefferkorn, Geology, SAS; Numerical Ages for the Carboniferous Period Pedro Ponte-Castenada, Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, SEAS; Nonlinear Heterogeneous Materials and Microstructure Evolution |
Margaret Priestley, Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Medicine; Determining the Role of Caspases in Neonatal Neuronal Death Following Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest Keith M. Robinson, Rehabilitation Medicine, Medicine; Directed- Forgetting in Multiple Sclerosis: A Novel Method to Improve Long-Term Memory David L. Rousseau, Political Science, SAS; The Perception of Gains from Cooperation in International Relations Jeffrey Saven, Chemistry, SAS; Theoretical Approaches to Combinatorial Libraries of Folding Chain Molecules Robert Seyfarth, Psychology, SAS; Predator Alarm Calls of Free-Ranging Baboons Neil Shubin, Biology, SAS; Dinosaurs of the Gobi Desert Donald Silberberg, et al, International Medical Programs, Medicine; Identification, Prevalence and Causes of Neo-Natal Hyperbilirubinemia in Ghana and Zimbabwe Amos Smith, Chemistry, SAS; Upgrade of an AMX-500 Mhz NMR Spectrometer Eric Steig, et al, Earth & Environmental Science, SAS; Atmospheric Deposition History of Organochlorine and Organophosphorus Compounds, from Temperate and Polar Ice Core Records Sarah Tabbutt, Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Medicine; Effect of Inspired Gases on Single Ventricle Physiology Charles Thayer, Geology, SAS; A 2,000-year El Niño History from Cross-dating of Growth Bands in Western Pacific Coralline Sponges Michael J. Therien, Chemistry, SAS; Mechanistic Investigation of Biomimetic Hydrocarbon Oxidation Catalysts that Derive their Oxidizing Equivalents from Dioxygen E Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Psychology, SAS; Effects of Prefrontal Lesions on Semantic and Executive Functions Sergio Turtletaub, Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, SEAS; Multiscale Optimal Design for Transient Phenomena Anne Whiston Spirn, Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, GSFA; Telling Landscape: Photographs and Words Karen Winey, Materials Science & Engineering, SEAS; Universality of Defects in Layered Materials: A Proposed International Research Collaboration Using Simultaneous Shearing and Synchrotron Scattering Sidney G. Winter, Management, Wharton; Firm Capabilities and the Direction of Expansion John H. Wolfe, Pathobiology, Medicine; Supplement to Develop a Shared Genome Scanning Facility for Large Animal Models of Complex Genetic Traits Stanton Wortham, Educational Leadership, GSE; Representation and Enactment in Classroom Discourse Haidi Zhang, et al., Rheumatology, Medicine; Development of FasL Gene Scalpel for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Other Arthropathies Shiyu Zhou, Computer & Information Science, SEAS; Communication Protocols for Multimedia Applications in Wireless Mobile Communication Networks |
Almanac, Vol. 46, No. 5, September 28, 1999
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