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The Research Foundation announces the following grants and contracts for April and May. Award amounts are totals expected for the entire funding period. The list does not include supplements, modifications or other changes to existing grants or contracts. For awards that have more than one investigator, the first faculty member listed is the principal investigator.
SACHARIA ALBIN, professor of electrical and computer engineering, "Photonic Sensors for Integrated System Health Monitoring"; NASA Langley Research Center, $123,516. DWIGHT ALLEN, eminent scholar of urban education, and JOHN HEYL, executive director of international programs, "Global Citizenship From the NIS to Norfolk Interns for Old Dominion University"; American Council of Teachers of Russian, $29,500. ROBERT ASH, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, "VSGC 2002-03 Scholarship and Fellowship Awards"; Virginia Space Grant Consortium, $38,000. Also, with OSAMA KANDIL, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, "Education Cooperative Agreement NCC-1-369"; NASA Langley Research Center, $41,780. JULIAN ASHFORD, research scientist, and CYNTHIA JONES, professor, biological sciences, "Maryland Department of Natural Resources/NOAA Blue Crab Survey"; Maryland Department of Natural Resources, $182,167. HAN BAO, professor of mechanical engineering, "Cost Estimation Techniques for Multidisciplinary Optimization"; NASA Langley Research Center, $125,000. STEPHEN BOBKO, laboratory manager, and CYNTHIA JONES, professor, biological sciences, "Biological Sampling of Spanish Mackerel"; Virginia Marine Resources Commission, $22,171. MARK BUTLER, professor of biological sciences, "Field Survey of Nearshore Hard-bottom Habitat in the Florida Keys"; Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, $66,229. Also, "Changing Salinity Effects on Spring Lobster and Hard-bottom Habitats"; U.S. Department of Commerce, $24,980. KENT CARPENTER, associate professor of biological sciences, "Chesapeake Bay Zooplankton Monitoring Program"; Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, $144,025. CAROL CONSIDINE and PAUL KAUFFMAN, assistant professors of engineering technology, "Litigation Support ICO Smoot Corp."; Resource Consultants Inc., $10,460. GLENN COTA, research associate, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, "Carbon Cycling in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas - Field and Modeling Studies"; National Science Foundation, $727,731. Also, "Supplemental Sea Water System (SSI) for SBI Process Cruises in 2002"; NSF, $294,111. DANIEL DAUER, eminent scholar of biological sciences, "Benthic Biological Monitoring of the Lower Chesapeake Bay" and "Data Management and Data Analysis in Support of the Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program"; Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, $167,451 and $112,000. Also, with KENT CARPENTER and HAROLD MARSHALL (biological sciences) and JOHN DONAT (chemistry), "2001 Update of Status and Trends in Water Quality and Living Resources of the Chesapeake"; VDEQ, $15,000. FRANK DAY, professor of biological sciences, "Long-term Ecological Research on Disturbance, Succession and Ecosystem State Change at the Virginia Coast Reserve: LTER IV - Subcontract: Vegetation Monitoring on the Hog Island Chronosequence"; University of Virginia, $20,000. JOHN DONAT, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, "Water Quality Monitoring Component of Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program"; Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, $459,407. DAVID DRYER, assistant professor of engineering management, WILLIAM SWART, former dean of engineering and technology, and DERYA JACOBS, former assistant dean, "CCHI-EMD: Virtual Collaborative Engineering for the Freshman Curriculum"; National Science Foundation, $74,778. CAROLYN DUNLAP, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures, "English to Spanish Translation of Powerpoint Presentation"; NOVA Chemicals Inc., $415. MUDGE ERTEN-UNAL, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, "Hazardous Material Flow Study for PLEPC"; City of Newport News, $18,750. WENDY FRAZIER, assistant professor of educational curriculum and instruction, and SILVANA WATSON, assistant professor of early childhood, speech language pathology and special education, "Laser Fellowship Program - Science for All Students"; University of Florida, $5,000. ANN GARGETT, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Doppler Turbulence Techniques for Ocean Observances: An Interactive Approach Using In Situ Measurements and LES Models"; National Science Foundation, $845,884. Also, "Collaborative Research: Interactive Effects of UV and Vertical Mixing on Phytoplankton and Bacterioplankton in the Ross Sea - With Smithsonian Environmental Research Center"; NSF, $239,879. MOOL GUPTA, director, and NORMAN JOHNSTON, senior research scientist, Applied Research Center, "Nanocomposite Structure-Property-Process Relationships"; NASA Langley Research Center, $356,709. JEFFREY HARLOW, director, and TANCY VANDECAR-BURDIN, associate director, Social Science Research Center, "Ready to Learn Team - Norfolk"; City of Norfolk, $1,000. Also, "The Virginia Beach Ready to Learn Team"; City of Virginia Beach, $4,953. EILEEN HOFMANN, professor, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, "Paradigm: The Partnership for Advancing Interdisciplinary Global Modeling"; University of Rhode Island, $71,097. KEVIN JOHANNESSON, assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Quantifying Rare Earth Element Transport in Aquifers Using Field, Laboratory and Numerical Approaches"; National Science Foundation, $238,000. OSAMA KANDIL, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, "Application and Improvement of Full Potential for Sonic Boom Prediction"; Eagle Aeronautics, $45,000. JOHN KIEFER, adjunct assistant professor, and WILLIAM LEAVITT, professor, urban studies and public administration, "MOU Between ODURF and Portsmouth City Public Schools"; City of Portsmouth, $3,500. Also, "Survey for the City of Portsmouth Police Department"; City of Portsmouth, $15,000. THOMAS LANG, program manager for the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, four awards from the U.S. Joint Forces Command: "J86/J1 & 1 Support," $466,199; "J864 ACTD Support," $84,711; "J9 CINCUSJFCOM Joint Experimentation Directorate Support," $139,955; and "JW500, USJFCOM/JWFC JTASC Directorate Support," $92,163. Also, "J86/J1 & 1 Support"; Navy Fleet Industrial Supply Center (Philadelphia), $182,093. VERNON LEWIS, senior lecturer of engineering technology, "Wall Panel Test"; Millennium Building Systems LLC, $2,800 and $2,500. CHENG LIN, associate professor of engineering technology, and MICHAEL CORY, manufacturing specialist for the Technology Applications Center, "Inking Head Interface"; Tidewater Occupational Center, $3,500. BOWEN LOFTIN, director, and MARK PHILLIPS, senior research scientist, VMASC, "MCO2 Range Integration Project"; ACS Systems, $74,000. KURT MALY, eminent scholar, and MOHAMMAD ZUBAIR, associate professor, computer science, "TRI Project"; Los Alamos National Laboratories, $34,943. HAROLD MARSHALL, professor emeritus of biological sciences, "Chesapeake Bay Phytoplankton Monitoring"; Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, $99,280. Also, with ANDREW GORDON, professor of biological sciences, "Research and Monitoring of Pfiesteria Organisms in Virginia Estuaries - Year 5"; Virginia Department of Health, $250,000. KEVIN MCCLESKEY, general manager of the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, "COMOPTEVFOR Support"; Science Applications International Corp., $302,477. GAYLE MCCOMBS, assistant professor of dental hygiene, "Sulphur By-product: A Potential Indicator of Periodontal Disease Activity"; Diamond General Development Corp., $13,272. RICK MCKENZIE, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, "Quantifying Success of Prostate Cancer"; Foundation for Specialized Surgery, $9,000. ROLAND MIELKE, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and MARK PHILLIPS, senior research scientist, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, "Development of VMASC Battle Lab Facility"; Commonwealth Technology Research Fund, $452,199. MOUSTAFA MOUSTAFA, associate professor of engineering technology, "Vent Hood Cleaning Apparatus"; Sherry Kincheloe, $775. MARGARET MULHOLLAND, assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Collaborative Research: Fate of Recently Fixed N2 in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Does the Regeneration of N by Trichodesmium Support the Development of Gymnodium Breve Blooms?"; National Science Foundation, $58,623. HASSAN NDAHI, assistant professor of occupational and technical studies, "Delivering Technology Education Laboratory Courses Through Virtual Means"; Council on Technology Teacher Education, $1,000. JOHN NUNNERY, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, "Performance Standards for Aspiring Educational Leaders"; Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds, $35,000. GEORGE OERTEL, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "The Effect of Hydro-Hypsography on Morphodynamics and Hydrodynamics in Coastal Lagoons"; University of Virginia, $10,000. MIKEL PETTY, research professor, VMASC, "Joint Simulation System Support" and "JSIMS Validation Event Exercise"; Commander Operational Test and Evaluation Force, $3,250. ANATOLY RADYUSHKIN, eminent scholar, IAN BALITSKY, associate professor, JAY VAN ORDEN, professor, and ROCCO SCHIAVILLA, associate professor, "Topics in Theoretical Nuclear Physics"; U.S. Department of Energy, $46,000. JERRY ROBERTSON, director of the Technology Applications Center, "Economic Development Authority Business Assistance Grants"; City of Norfolk, $30,000. RALPH ROGERS, professor of engineering management, "ENMA 614 Course - Summer 2002 Semester"; TASC Inc., a Northrup Grummond company, $22,000. MARY SANDY, director of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium, "Support of the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program"; NASA Goddard Spaceflight Facility, $475,000. Also, "Development of Feasibility Studies and Planning in Support of a Redesigned Micromaps Mission"; NASA Langley Research Center, $53,461. ALAN SAVITZKY, associate professor of biological sciences, "Support to Upgrade and Computerize a Collection of Reptilian Embryos"; National Science Foundation, $19,124. KARL SCHOENBACH, eminent scholar of electrical and computer engineering, "Diagnostic Systems for Pulsed Electric Field Studies"; Air Force Office of Scientific Research, $125,004. ELIZABETH SMITH, research assistant professor, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, "Review of the NASA-Image 2000 (NASA 12K) Image Processing Software Package and Incorporation Into the NASA Studying Earth's Environment From Space Educational Product"; NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, $10,000. LINDA VAHALA, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, "Development of MHD Algorithms on Type-II Quantum Computers"; Air Force Office of Scientific Research, $20,384. ARNOLDO VALLE-LEVINSON, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Career: On the Hydrodynamics of the Subtidal Exchange Between Estuaries and Their Adjacent Waters"; National Science Foundation, $5,000. SILVANA WATSON, assistant professor, and EILEEN ABRAHAMSEN, associate professor, early childhoold, speech pathology and special education, "Laser Fellowship Program - Reading"; University of Florida, $5,000. STEVE WELLS, associate professor of engineering technology, and MICHAEL CORY, manufacturing specialist for the Technology Applications Center, "Model 430 Cutter Head"; SOLO Inc., $1,010. KEITH WILLIAMSON, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and DENNY WOLFE (ECI), JOHN ADAM (Math), HASSAN NDAHI (OTS), MARY SANDY (VSGC), JANIS SANCHEZ-HUCLES (psychology) INGRID WHITAKER (sociology and criminal justice) and MARTY SHARPE (institutional research and assessment), "The Virginia Center for Urban Education at Old Dominion University: Engineering Graduate Fellows and Master Teachers for Grades 4-5"; National Science Foundation, $1,148,509. STEPHEN ZAHORIAN, professor of electrical and computer engineering, "Microelectronics Support"; University of Virginia, $19,204.
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