The Research Foundation announces the following grants and contracts for January and February. 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.

TAMI C. AL-HAZZA, assistant professor of educational curriculum and instruction; ABHA GUPTA, associate professor of ECI; DAVID R. HAGER, professor of political science and higher education administration; and CHARLENE E. FLEENER, associate professor of ECI; “Teacher Reading Academy”; Virginia Department of Education, $79,404.

VIJAYAN ASARI, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, “Pose and Lighting Invariant Face Detection and Recognition”; Navy Engineering Logistics Office, $67,998.

MARK J. BUTLER, professor of biological sciences, “United Nations University”; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, $31,150.

MARGARET CAMARENA, director of the Social Science Research Center, “Evaluation of the Norfolk Mental Health Court”; Virginia Law Foundation, $15,000.

ABDELMAGEED A. ELMUSTAFA, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, “NASA Langley Graduate Student Researchers Program”; NASA Langley Research Center, $24,000.

HANI ELSAYED-ALI, eminent scholar of electrical and computer engineering, “Support Activities for the Jefferson Lab Free Electron Laser DC Photo-Injector”; Southeastern Universities Research Association, $30,000.

EILEEN E. HOFMANN, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Collaborative Research: U.S. SO GLOBEC Synthesis and Modeling: Understanding Between Climate Warming, Gyre Dynamics and Western Antarctic Peninsula Ecosystem Response”; National Science Foundation, $37,306.

CYNTHIA M. JONES, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Sheepshead Population Dynamics in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia”; Virginia Marine Resources Commission, $64,545.

LI-SHI LUO, associate professor of mathematics and statistics, “A Collaborative Proposal for Supporting U.S. Participation in the International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Sciences”; National Science Foundation, $16,600. Also, with WEI LIAO, research assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, “Develop and Implement Effective Multigrid Solvers for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations in 3D”; National Institute of Aerospace Associates, $45,005.

GAYLE B. MCCOMBS, associate professor of dental hygiene, “Bactericidal Effects of Cold Plasma Technology on Geobacillus Stearothermophilus and Bacillus Astrophaeus Spores”; American Dental Hygiene Association, $6,506. Co-PIs are MOUNIR LAROUSSI, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and MICHELE M. DARBY, eminent scholar of dental hygiene.

LINDA L. VAHALA, associate dean of the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, “Virginia Partner-ship for Education and Workforce Development”; George Mason University, $49,406. Co-PIs are SACHARIA ALBIN, professor, and HANI ELSAYED-ALI, eminent scholar, electrical and computer engineering.

BRIAN WARD, assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Measurements of the Diurnal Warm Layer and Biologically Induced Heating During the Cirene Campaign”; National Science Foundation, $351,677.

X. NANCY XU, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and CHRISTOPHER OSGOOD, associate professor of biological sciences, “Nanoassay for In-Situ Molecular Study of ABC Transporter”; U.S. Public Health Service, $1,246,431.

STEPHEN A. ZAHORIAN, professor, and MIN SONG, assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering, “Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellowship Program”; U.S. Department of Education, $380,016.