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.

LOKTAY BAYSAL, dean of the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, “Turkish Air Force Student Support”; General Command of Gandarme, $122,832.

MARK J. BUTLER, professor of biological sciences, “Lobster Larval Behavioral Studies”; United Nations University, $39,625.

MARGARET CAMARENA, director of the Social Science Research Center, “Investing in Virginia’s Children Subgrant”; Child and Family Services of Eastern Virginia, $102,660.

SUSHIL K. CHATURVEDI, professor of mechanical engineering, “Implementation Grant: Simulation and Visualization-enhanced Engineering Education”; National Science Foundation, $999,741. Co-PIs are: HASSAN B. NDAHI, associate professor of occupational and technical studies; WORTH W. PICKERING, director of university assessment; STEPHEN A. ZAHORIAN, professor of electrical and computer engineering; and OSMAN A. AKAN, professor of civil and environmental engineering.

SHERI COLBERG-OCHS, associate professor of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation, “Mechanisms of Exercise-induced Improvement in Defective Neurovascular Function in Type 2 Diabetes”; American Diabetes Association, $100,000.

MICHAEL L. CORY, manufacturing consultant, Technology Applications Center, “Lean Enterprises Certification”; Hampton Machine Shop Inc., $6,225.

JEREMIAH H. CREEDON, director of transportation research, “Aerospace System Research”; National Institute of Aerospace, $94,784.

DENNIS A. DARBY, professor, GREGORY A. CUTTER, professor, and JENS F. BISCHOFF, lecturer, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Collaborative Research: Trans-Arctic 2005 Expedition for Development of a Pan-Arctic Stratigraphy and Paleoclimate Record”; National Science Foundation, $28,658.

DAVID A. DRYER, senior research scientist, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, “Joint Deployment and Support Initiative for U.S. Forces in Korea”; General Dynamics, $24,999.

MICHAEL FREEMAN, adjunct assistant research professor of occupational and technical studies, “IPA Assignment for Michael Freeman”; Office of the Secretary of Defense, $155,156.

MARJORIE FRIEDRICHS, research assistant professor, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Primary Production from Space: A Comparative Study of Space-based Algorithms and in situ Measurements”; NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, $37,305.

LAUREL S. GARZON, associate professor of nursing, “Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship Program” and “Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship Program”; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, $9,260 and $71,910.

RYAN GASKINS, senior research scientist, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, “CTA Link Analysis”; Werner Anderson Inc., $27,723.

ABHA GUPTA, associate professor of educational curriculum and instruction, “No Child Left Behind: Integrating Reading/Science into the Core Area for Grades 4-8 Teachers”; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, $132,193. Co-PIs are: RAVI MUKKAMALA, professor of computer science; STEVE MYRAN, research associate of ECI; and RAYMOND F. MORGAN, professor of ECI.

EILEEN E. HOFMANN, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “U.S. Southern Ocean GLOBEC
Synthesis and Modeling: Southern Ocean GLOBEC Planning Office”; National Science Foundation, $221,861. Also, two grants with JOHN M. KLINCK, professor of OEAS: “Genomic Approaches to Under-standing Genetic and Physiological Causes of Variation in Survival, Dispersal and Recruitment of Larval Marine Organisms”; University of Southern California, $78,853; and “Habitat Utilization of Southern Ocean Seals: Foraging Behavior of Crabeater and Elephant Seals Using Novel Methods of Oceanographic Data Collection”; University of California, $38,422.

CYNTHIA M. JONES, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences “Natural Tags to Estimate the Value of Juvenile Nurseries”; National Science Foundation, $429,105. Also, “Probing the Population Structure of Atlantic Menhaden in the Mid-Atlantic”; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, $462,712. Also, with DAYANAND N. NAIK, professor of mathematics and statistics, “Support of Facilities to Provide Marine Finfish Ageing for Virginia”; Virginia Marine Resources Commission, $244,281.

JOSEPH P. LAPLACA, manufacturing consultant, Technology Applications Center, “Stretching Pole Design with Accessory Movement/Retention Clips”; Davies Design LLC, $755. Also, “Creation of Sales/
Marketing Brochure for the Romax Electrical Wire Dispenser and Organizer”; David Wheeler, $300.

KURT J. MALY, eminent scholar, STEVEN J. ZEIL, associate professor, and MOHAMMAD ZUBAIR, professor, computer science, “Tools for Automatic Extraction of Metadata from Defense Technical Information Center Electronic Documents Collection - Phase II”; Defense Technical Information Center, $90,000.

ROLAND R. MIELKE, acting director of simulation programs, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, “IPA for Richard Burklund”; U.S. Joint Forces Command, $137,751.

JENNIFER A. MORROW, assistant professor, and BRYAN E. PORTER, associate professor, psychology, “The Utilization of Collaborative Peer-assisted and Web-enhanced Learning Approaches in an Introductory Psychology Research and Learning Enhancement Laboratory”; National Science Foundation, $149,301.

MICHAEL L. NELSON, assistant professor of computer science, “Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Repository Analysis for the NASA Langley Research Center Atmospheric Sciences Data Center”; Science Applications International Corp., $21,892.

NORA NOFFKE, assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures: A New Reference Catalogue for the Detection of Life on Mars”; NASA, $119,291.

CESAR A. PINTO, assistant professor of engineering management, “Security Risk Analysis of Virginia Port Authority Norfolk International Terminals”; Virginia Port Authority, $49,997. Co-PIs are: GHAITH RABADI, assistant professor of engineering management, and WAYNE K. TALLEY, eminent scholar of economics.

BILLIE M. REED, executive director of the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, “Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority Operations, 2005-06”; General Assembly of Virginia, $100,000.

JERRY B. ROBERTSON, director of the Technol-ogy Applications Center, and HAN P. BAO, professor of mechanical engineering, “Wheelchair Accessible Medical Examination Table”; Amadas Industries, $6,809.

MARY L. SANDY, director of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium, “Runway Safety and Airport Capacity University Design Competition”; Federal Aviation Administration, $135,175. Also, “Summer Science Education Institute for Virginia Teachers”; National Institute of Aerospace, $34,889. Also, “Teaching Earth and Space Science the Special Way”; College of Charleston, $10,000, and Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired, $2,000.

JOHN SOKOLOWSKI, acting chief scientist, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, “Center for Homeland Security/Disaster Preparedness National Center for Training and Experimentation”; Old Dominion University, $276,536.

ANDREAS TOLK, senior research scientist, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, “Simulation Data Organization for Rapid Scenario Generation”; Lockheed Martin, $50,000.

STEPHEN W. TONELSON, professor of early childhood, speech-language pathology and special education, “Commonwealth Special Education Endorsement Program/Paraprofessional Preparation for Extraordinary Teaching 2005-06”; Old Dominion University, $193,334 and $731,665. Co-authors are CHERYL S. BAKER, lecturer of ECSSE; JANE HAGER, chair of educational curriculum and instruction; and ROBERT A. GABLE, eminent scholar of ECSSE.

LEPOSAVA VUSKOVIC, professor of physics, “Plasma Aerodynamics and Combustion Supplement”; NASA Langley Research Center, $5,000. Also, “Investi-gation of Plasma Etching for Superconducting RF Cavities Surface Preparation”; U.S. Department of Energy, $178,000.

X. NANCY XU, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, “Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams – Design of Biocompatible Nanoparticles for Probing Living Cellular Functions and Their Potential Environmental Impacts”; National Science Foundation, $100,000.

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