Vanderbilt University Register: DECEMBER GRANTS * * * from the Division of Sponsored Research

DECEMBER 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 December that the following grants had been awarded:

Mark D. Abkowitz, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering, has been awarded a grant of $175,000 by the Tennessee Department of Transportation for "Intelligent Transportation Systems Support and Training."

A.V. Anilkumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering, has been awarded a grant of $30,000 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for "Flow Visualization Studies in Molten Zones."

James E. Auer, Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, has been awarded a grant of $40,000 by the Japan Industrial Location Center for "Development of an International Training Program for Japanese Government Officials."

Theodore A. Bapty, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the School of Engineering, has been awarded a grant of $300,000 by the Department of Defense for "Constraint Based Real-Time Program Composition."

Randolph Blake, Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $222,512 by the Public Health Service for "Mechanisms of Perceptual Organization in Human Vision."

Thomas F. Catron, Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, has been awarded a grant of $113,427 by the Department of Education for "Improving the Preparation of Personnel to Serve Children with High Incidence Disabilities." Vicki Harris is co-principal investigator.

Jon H. Kaas, Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $37,516 by the Public Health Service for "Plasticity of Extrastriate Cortex in Adult Primates." Christine E. Collins is co-principal investigator.

Piotr Kaszynski, Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $50,487 by the Department of Defense for "Polyazetes-Towards High Energy Density Materials."

Thomas W. Kephart, Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $32,300 by the Department of Energy for "The Commercial Viability of Complex Genome Sequence Analysis via Statistical Variance Matrices."

M. Douglas LeVan, Department of Chemistry in the School of Engineering, has been awarded a grant of $91,739 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for "Separation of Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide for Mars ISRU."

Shien-Fong Lin, Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $129,665 by the Public Health Service for "Imaging-Assisted Interactive Ventricular Defibrillation." John P. Wikswo Jr. is co-principal investigator.

Sankaran Mahadevan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering, has been awarded a grant of $99,995 by the Department of Energy for "Modeling and Simulation for Design Under Uncertainty."

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Department of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering, has been awarded a grant of $283,613 by the Public Health Service for "Brain Tumor and Tumor Margin Identification Using Optical Spectroscopy." Steve Toms is co-principal investigator.

Sandra J. Rosenthal, Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $37,000 by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for "High-Efficiency Biomimetic Photovoltaics Employing Semiconducting Nanocrystal Multicomposites."

Didier Saumon, Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $27,000 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for "The Pressure Ionization of Hydrogen and the Interiors of Jupiter and Saturn."

Deborah Deutsch Smith, Dean's Office at Peabody College, has been awarded a grant of $177,212 by the Department of Education for "Research Team on the Supply and Demand of Special Educators and Related Service Providers."

Michael P. Stone, Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a grant of $217,822 by the Public Health Service for "Adduct Induced Frameshift Mutagenesis."

Taylor G. Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering, has been awarded a grant of $175,000 by the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation for "Optimization Studies of PMCG Capsules Toward a Functional Cure for Diabetes." A.V. Anilkumar is co-principal investigator.