Carver Scientific Research Initiative awardees named for 2000-2001

The program provides competitive grants of up to $15,000 to faculty researchers who have ideas with long-range potential but who need to conduct preliminary studies before launching a project.

The program, administered by the UI Office of the Vice President for Research, supports projects in natural, physical, biological, and technological sciences in the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Engineering.

This year’s award winners are:

Jonathan Adrain, geology, Genetic Canalization in the Wake of the Cambrian Explosion of Life: Intraspecific Variation of Early Paleozoic Trilobites, $12,572

Debashish Bhattacharya, biological sciences, Ribosomal DNA as a Paradigm for Understanding Spliceosomal Intron Evolution, $12,600

William Eichinger, Institute of Hydraulic Research, Demonstration of a High Resolution, Pseudo Random Lidar for Particulate Measurements, $4,922

Gary Gussin, biological sciences, NMR Structural Analysis of Lambda CII Transcriptional Activator, $14,233

Stephen Heard and John Nason, biological sciences, Host Race Formation and Sympatric Speciation in the Goldenrod Elliptical-Gall Moth: Using Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Data to Test Evolutionary Hypotheses, $14,852

Alan Kay, biological sciences, Imaging Synaptic Activity in the Brain: Nanotechniques For Neuronal Imaging, $14,500

Anton Kruger and Witold Krajewski, Institute of Hydraulic Research, Exploration of Micro Impulse Radio/Radar Technology for Rainfall Measurements, $15,000

Hosin Lee, civil & environmental engineering, Feasibility Study to Develop a Rail Track Buckling Prediction System Using Uni-Axial Strain Transducer, $15,000

Lizhi Sun, civil & environmental engineering, Relationship Between Strength and Grain Size: A 3-D Dislocation Dynamics Simulation for Nano-structured Materials, $14,972

Tuong Ton-That and William Klink, mathematics, Infinite Dimensional Algebras, Space-Time, and the Elementary Particle Spectrum, $15,000

H. S. Udaykumar, mechanical engineering, Modeling and Simulation of Response of Biological Systems to Low Temperatures, $7,465

Mark Young, chemistry, The Development of VUV Photoionization Methods for Environmental Mass Spectrometry, $15,000

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