The Research Foundation announces the following grants and contracts for September and October. 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.

The Research Foundation announces the following grants and contracts for September and October. 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.

VIJAYAN ASARI, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and JERRY B. ROBERTSON, director of the Technology Applications Center, “Visibility Improvement in Digital Color Images and Color Video Stream”; Vision Innovations Corp., $10,000.

JAY A. AUSTIN, research assistant professor, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Development of Experi-mental Web-based Surface Current Radar Products”; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, $20,000. Also, “Chesapeake Bay Observing System Cooperative Expansion and Integration Demonstration: ODU/NOAA-NOS Component”; NOAA, $90,617. Co-PI’s from OEAS are: LARRY P. ATKINSON, eminent scholar; ARNOLDO VALLE-LEVINSON, associate professor; JOHN M. KLINCK, professor; and THOMAS C. ROYER, Slover Professor.

ANDREW BALAS, dean of the College of Health Sciences, “A New Model of Chronic Disease Management”; Centene Corp., $204,960.

OKTAY BAYSAL, dean, Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, “Student Support for the Turkish Air Force Academy”; General Command of Gandarme, $13,400.

GREGORY A. CUTTER, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Determination of Selenium Speciation in Groundwater Samples”; University of Texas, Arlington, $3,150.

DANIEL M. DAUER, eminent scholar of biological sciences, “Calculation of Benthic Indices of Biotic Integrity – Gear Type Effects”; Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, $20,000.

DONALD D. DAVIS and DEBRA A. MAJOR, associate professors, and JANIS SANCHEZ-HUCLES, professor, psychology, “Collaborative Research: Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment Enhancing Retention of Women and Minorities in Computer Science”; National Science Foundation, $168,752.

FREDERICK C. DOBBS, associate professor, and MARTINA A. DOBLIN and LISA A DRAKE, research assistant professors, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “NOAA 2004 – Ballast Microorganism Viability”; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, $118,293.

DAVID A. DRYER, senior research scientist, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, “Army Training Support Center”; C2 Technologies Inc., $100,000.

HANI E. ELSAYED-ALI, eminent scholar of electrical and computer engineering, “Modeling of Gallium Antimonide/Indium Arsenide Antimonide Dual-Band Detector”; National Institute of Aerospace, $25,407.

MICHAEL FREEMAN, adjunct visiting researcher/assistant professor of occupational and technical studies, “IPA Assignment with the Office of the Secretary of Defense”; Office of the Secretary of Defense, $151,900.

LAUREL S. GARZON, associate professor of nursing, “Educating Culturally Competent Nurse Practitioners in Virginia”; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, $178,978. Co-PI’s are:

RICHARDEAN BENJAMIN-COLEMAN, associate professor of nursing; STACEY B. PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health; and CAROLYN RUTLEDGE, associate professor of nursing.

MOOL C. GUPTA, director of the Applied Research Center, “Supplemental Budget to NSF Industry/
University Cooperative Research Center Project”; National Science Foundation, $29,000. Also, “Optical Flaw Detection System”; Army Research Office, $145,799.

EILEEN E. HOFMANN and JOHN M KLINCK, professors of oceanography, “Modeling Oyster Larvae Transport in Chesapeake Bay”; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, $45,945.

LUISA A. IGLORIA, associate professor of English, and FRED BAYERSDORFER, arts assistant to the dean of arts and letters, “27th Annual Literary Festival”; city of Norfolk, $5,000.

CYNTHIA M. JONES, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, and DAYANAND N. NAIK, professor of mathematics and statistics, “Support of Facilities to Provide Marine Finfish Ageing for Virginia”; Virginia Marine Resources Commission, $254,040.

RAVINDRA P. JOSHI, professor of electrical and computer engineering, “Phase I STTR with Calabazas Creek Research Inc.”; Calabazas Creek Research, $35,000.

OSAMA A. KANDIL, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, “Supersonic Transition in Boundary-Layer Flows”; NASA Langley Research Center, $87,403.

CHARLES B. KEATING, associate professor of engineering management, “SOSE Homeland Defense Initiative”; Naval Air Training System Division, $819,212. Co-PI’s are: ANDRES A. SOUSA-POZA, JI HYON MUN, GHAITH RABADI and RAFAEL LANDAETA, assistant professors of engineering management, and R. BOWEN LOFTIN, director of the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center.

MICHELLE L. KELLY, professor of psychology, “Parent Training and Couple Therapy for Drug Abuse”; State University of New York, $39,882. Also, “Effect of Treatment for Drug-abusing Fathers on Children”; U.S. Public Health Service (Including National Institutes of Health), $277,346.

IRWIN B. LEVINSTEIN, assistant professor of computer science, “Promoting Active Reading Strategies to Improve Students’ Understanding of Science”; University of Memphis, $86,839.

ROBIN J. LEWIS, professor of psychology, “Assistantship for Student in Virginia Consortium Program - Tidewater Child Development Center/Norfolk Department of Public Health”; Virginia Department of Health, $65,000.

BOWEN LOFTIN, director of the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, “National Center for Collaboration Medical Modeling and Simulation”; Eastern Virginia Medical School, $675,000. Also, “Human Factors Support to Joint Urban Operations”; General Dynamics, $21,799. Also, “Homeland Security and Defense: Phase II” and “New Task Order Under SFS Contract (H100)”; Navy Fleet Industrial Supply Center (Philadelphia), $862,558 and $336,647. Also, “State and Trait Estimation in Performance Modeling”; Army Medical Research and Materials Command, $99,865 (with JEN-KUANG HUANG, chair of mechanical engineering, and RICK MCKENZIE, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Also, “JWAC Seminar Support”; Navy Fleet Industrial Supply Center, Philadelphia, $111,283 (with KURT GAUBATZ, associate professor of international studies).

LI-SHI LUO, associate professor of mathematics and statistics, “Hypersonic Transition and Turbulence with Non-Equilibrium Thermo-Chemistry”; Texas Engineering Experiment Station, $45,824.

ROLAND R. MIELKE, professor of electrical and computer engineering, “Cryogenics Training Course Enhancement (FTC Project)”; Intelligent Decision Systems, $62,111.

JENNIFER A. MORROW, assistant professor of psychology, “Pride/Bridge Builders Annual Program Evaluation Project for the 2004 School Year”; Portsmouth Behavioral High School, $7,810.

RAVI MUKKAMALA, professor of computer science, “Integration Reconfiguration and Reusability of Health Usage and Monitoring Systems Architectures”; NASA Langley Research Center, $113,204.

LYTTON J. MUSSELMAN, eminent scholar of biological sciences, “Support for Khalid Al-Arid Lago Mar Canal”; U.S. Department of the Interior, $10,000.

MIKEL D. PETTY, research professor, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, “Support of the Global Vision Integrated Center”; Lockheed/Martin, $40,000.

BRYAN E. PORTER, associate professor of psychology, “The Virginia Strategic Plan for Pedestrian Safety: Completion of Final Steps to Produce the Commonwealth Plan” and “Occupant Protection in Hampton Roads: Increasing Safety Restraint Use with Community Outreach and Intervention”; Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, $29,000 and $50,000.

BILLIE M. REED, executive director, and WAYNE WOODHAMS, deputy executive director, Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, “East-West Coast Spaceports”; U.S. Air Force, $49 million. Also, “Extension of NASA IPA for Dr. Joseph C. Casas”; NASA, $452,020.

JERRY B. ROBERTSON, director of the Technology Applications Center, “Virginia’s Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership and the Technology Applications Center – FY05”; A.L. Philpott Manufacturing Center, $50,000.

CAROLYN RUTLEDGE, associate professor; MICAH SCOTT, lecturer; and LAUREL S. GARZON, associate professor, nursing; “Using the Health Disparity Collaborative Model in Nurse Practitioner Clinical Education”; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, $24,954.

MARY L. SANDY, director of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium, “Undergraduate Researchers Program”; Los Alamos National Laboratories, $30,000. Also, “NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program”; NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, $469,048. Also, “Additional Non-NASA Sponsors for Undergraduate Student Researchers Program”; National Space Grant Foundations, $34,000. Also, “Summer Workshop for Virginia Teachers”; National Institute Aerospace Association, $27,831. Also, “Using GPS and GIS to Direct a Meaningful Chesapeake Bay Experience in Coastal Virginia”; Virginia Cooperative Extension, $10,080.

KARL H. SCHOENBACH, eminent scholar of electrical and computer engineering, “Experimental Studies on the Effect of Ultrashort Electrical Pulses on Adipose Tissue”; The Innovation Factory, $244,040.

ANDRES A. SOUSA-POZA, assistant professor, and CHARLES B. KEATING, associate professor, engineering management, “Support to Establish the System of Systems Engineering Center of Excellence”; Concurrent Technologies Corp., $354,000.

STEPHEN W. TONELSON, professor of early childhood, speech-language pathology and special education; JANE HAGER, associate dean of education; CHERYL S. BAKER, lecturer of ECSLPSE; and ROBERT A. GABLE, eminent scholar of ECSLPSE; “Commonwealth Special Education Endorsement Program, 2004-05”; Old Dominion University, $449,000 and $176,000.

LINDA L. VAHALA, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, “Intergovernmental Personnel Act”; Air Force Research Laboratory, $15,007.

LEPOSAVA VUSKOVIC, professor of physics, “Effect of Microwave-generated Plasmas on Aerodynamic Flow”; NASA Langley Research Center, $10,000.

G. RICHARD WHITTECAR, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Optimizing Organic Amendments and Other Treatments for Wetland Restoration: Geologic and Hydrologic Assessmens - Year Four”; Virginia Tech, $20,000.

ROY L. WILLIAMS, professor emeritus of chemistry and biochemistry, “National Endocrine Disruptor in Lake Drummond Water”; Virginia Academy of Science, $1,000.

JAEWAN YOON, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, “Development of Geotechnical Analysis and Design Modules for VDOT”; Virginia Transportation Research Council, $117,231.

GUOQING ZHOU, assistant professor of engineering technology, “SEI: True Orthoimage Generation of High-Resolution UAV Video for Forest Fire Surveillance”; National Science Foundation, $75,364.

RICHARD ZIMMERMAN, chair of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Groundtruth Support and Hyperspectral Data Analysis for the Center for Integrative Coastal Observation, Research and Education”; San Jose State University Foundation, $88,650.

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