CIFRE award recipients named

CIFRE provides support of up to $10,000 to tenure-track faculty and to research scientists of any rank in all areas of the University. Some preference may be given to applicants in the early stages of their careers.

Sixty applications were reviewed by advisory committees to the Office of the Vice President for Research in one of four areas: the arts and humanities, the biological sciences, the physical and mathematical sciences, and the social sciences. The final decision on awards is made by David Skorton, vice president for research.

Award winners for 1999-2000, along with the titles of their projects, their academic units, and the amounts of their awards, are:

Douglas Baynton, history, "The history of disability in American immigration law," $4,920

Peter Feldstein, art & art history, "Cliché verre images," $9,240

Elena Gavruseva, linguistics, "Acquisition of whose-questions in child English," $5,971

Prahlad Gupta, psychology, "Memory mechanisms and vocabulary learning," $9,830

John Kimmich-Javier, journalism & mass communication, "A family legacy: Photographs of the architecture of Nicodemus Tessin the Elder (1615-81) and Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654-1728), royal architects," $8,946

Aloysius Klingelhutz, microbiology, "Identifying genes involved in telomerase activation," $10,000

Amnon Kohen, chemistry, "Dihydrofolate reductase: The contribution of coupled motion and hydrogen tunneling to catalysis," $9,977

Sarah Larsen, chemistry, "Development and application of xeolite nanostructures," $8,915

Kathy Lavezzo, English, "Angels on the edge of the world: The geography of English identity from Aelfric to More," $2,500

Johna Leddy, chemistry, "Magnetic facilitation of electron conduction in polymers," $10,000

Tad Mutersbaugh, geography, "Peasant unionism and organic coffee markets: Commodities and authority in international markets," $8,150

John Nason, biological sciences, "Genetic diversification of goldenrod elliptical gallmakers: A case of sympatric speciation by host race formation?" $10,000

Kathleen Newman, Spanish & Portuguese/comparative literature, "Recent Spanish cinema: Aesthetic distanciation and political commitment," $8,820

Ksenia Nosikova, music, "‘Années de Pelerinage’ by Franz Liszt: Performance and recording," $7,500

Leighton Pierce, communication studies, "Sound objects," $4,377

Jacki Rand, history/American Indian & native studies, "The circulation of Kiowa horses: Ledger drawings and beadwork, 1867-1910," $6,632

Satish Rao, internal medicine, "Investigation of adenosine antagonist—Theophylline for the treatment of unexplained (noncardiac) chest pain," $9,975

Tom Redford, clinical & administrative pharmacy, "Enhancement of amphotericin B fungicidal activity with CpG DNA oligonucleotides," $10,000

David Redlawsk, political science, "Tracing voter decision making processes during political campaigns," $9,010

Julia Seng, nursing, "Abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder and childbearing," $9,991

Roumyana Slabakova, linguistics, "The English present tenses and their L2 acquistion," $3,850

Lizhi Sun, civil & environmental engineering, "Effective elastoplasticity of particle-reinforced metal-matrix composites with interfacial damage: A micromechanics approach," $9,998

Dwight Tardy, chemistry, "Probing the reaction environment in supercritical fluids," $9,420

Daniel Thedens, electrical & computer engineering, "Semi-automated segmentation and visualization for three-dimensional magnetic resonance coronary artery imaging," $9,867

Geb Thomas, industrial engineering, "Helping people control swarming automation," $8,816

H. S. Udaykumar, mechanical engineering, "Modeling and simulation of physicochemical transport phenomena in atherosclerotic plaque growth," $10,000

Shaun Vecera, psychology, "Selective attention to the parts of an individual object," $7,260

John Warren, preventive & community dentistry, "Oral health and nutrition in the very old," $9,580

Andrew Williams, electrical & computer engineering, "An Internet-based multiagent system for disease gene mapping research discovery," $10,000

Baoli Yang, obstetrics and gynecology, "Replication of human hereditary hemochromatosis point mutation in mice," $9,450

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