MARCH GRANTS . . .from the Division of Sponsored Research

In the final issue of each month, the Register publishes grants in excess of $25,000 that were awarded the previous month. The Division of Sponsored Research received notification in March that the following grants had been awarded:

Royal G. Albridge, Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $60,000 from the National Science Foundation for "Undergraduate Summer Research Experiences at Vanderbilt University."

Randolph Blake, Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $117,152 from the Public Health Service for "Binocular Rivalry in Human Vision."

Frank E. Carroll, Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $299,181 from the Department of Defense for "Prototype Development of a Compact, Pulsed Hard X-ray Source for Medical Imaging and Research in Biological and Materials Sciences."

David S. Cordray, Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, has been awarded a grant of $77,497 from the Kellogg Foundation for "Kellogg Birthing Center Evaluations."

Robert L. Galloway Jr., Department of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering, has been awarded a grant of $62,500 from the National Science Foundation for "Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program for Technology-Guided Therapy." Benoit Dawant and Michael J. Fitzpatrick are co-principal investigators.

Isabel Gauthier, Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $106,121 from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative: Categorization and Expertise in Human Visual Cognition II."

Carl H. Johnson, Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $222,923 from the Public Health Service for "Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer Protein Interaction System Applied to Oscillating Cells."

Gabor Karsai, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the School of Engineering, has been awarded a grant of $568,734 from the Department of Defense for "Software Enabled Control."

Gabor Karsai, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the School of Engineering, has been awarded a grant of $439,220 from the Department of Defense for "Autonomous Negotiating Teams and Model-Integrated Computing for Autonomic Logistics."

Kazuhiko Kawamura, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the School of Engineering, has been awarded a grant of $124,539 from the Department of Defense for "Research in Interactive Human-Robot Interaction." D. Mitchell Wilkes and Richard Alan Peters are co-principal investigators.

David Kosson, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering, has been awarded a grant of $164,620 from the Department of Defense for "Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement for Dieter Rudolph."

Lloyd W. Massengill, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the School of Engineering, has been awarded a grant of $93,000 from the Department of Defense for "Single Event Transient Characterization." Ronald D. Schrimpf is co-principal investigator.

Kay J. McClain, Department of Teaching and Learning in Peabody College, has been awarded a grant of $100,358 from the National Science Foundation for "CAREER: An Integrated Approach to Researching Teacher Change."

David Piston, Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $53,343 from MXIS Systems, Inc., for "Technical Services for MXIS Systems, Inc."

Prasad L. Polavarapu, Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $99,000 from the National Science Foundation for "Vibrational Spectral Studies."

Ned A. Porter, Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $168,000 from the National Science Foundation for "Peroxide Reaction Mechanisms."

Sandra J. Rosenthal, Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $65,000 from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for "High-Efficiency Biomimetic Photovoltaics Employing Semiconducting Nanocrystal Multicomposites."

Jeffrey D. Schall, Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $491,530 from the Public Health Service for "Core Grant for Vision Research."

Larry L. Schumaker, Department of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $69,037 from the Department of Defense for "Spline Methods for Bivariate and Trivariate Surface Fitting."

James V. Staros, Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $44,000 from the Department of Defense for "Kinetics of Dimerization of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor and its Type II Receptor for Kristin B. Whitson." Kristin B. Whitson is co-principal investigator.