In the
most recent cycle of Penns internally-funded Research Foundation,
the Office of theVice
Provost for Research has announced awards to the following members
of the faculty for the projects listed below.
The deadline
for the Fall Research Foundation proposals is November 1.
The Research
Foundation Guidelines are available from the Office of the Vice
Provost for Research,
215 College
Hall, and on the web at www.upenn.edu/research/FoundationGuidelines.htm.
University
Research Foundation Awards Spring, 2002
Faizan
Alawi, Pathology, Dental Medicine: Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma:
Identification of Molecular Differences Between HPV-positive and
HPV-negative Tumors
Katrina
Armstrong, Internal Medicine, Medicine: Racial disparities
in Provider-Patient Communication about Prostrate Cancer Risk
Paul
Axelsen, Pharmacology, Medicine: Internal Reflection Conditioning
System
Vijay
Balasubramanian, Physics, SAS: Efficient Information Transmission
in the Mammalian Retina
Laura
J. Balcer, Neurology, Medicine: Visual Dysfunction and Quality
of Life in Parkinsons Disease
Eric
Boder, Chemical Engineering, SEAS: System for Production of
Site-Specifically Biotinylated Proteins
Lisa
Marie Bouillion, Educational Leadership Division, GSE: The
Technology Literacy Divide: Young People as a Bridge for Bringing
Technology to Urban Schools and Neighborhoods
Francis
B. Brevart, German, SAS: Between Magic and Medicine: Wonderdrugs
in Medieval German Medical Literature (12th-16th Centuries)
Yuko
Goto Butler, GSE: The Effects of the Recent Introduction of
English Language Instructions at the Elementary School Level in
Taiwan, Korea, and Japan
Joseph
Clarke, English, SAS: New Worlds
John
C. Crocker, Chemical Engineering, SEAS: A High-Speed Video
Camera for Two-point Microrheology
M.
Fevzi Daldal, Biology, SAS: Membrane- attached Electron Carriers
in Photosynthesis and Respiration: A Global Approach
Jay
Todd Dautcher, Anthropology, SAS: Alcohol Consumption and Social
Health in China: Perspectives of Health Care Professionals and
Beverage Industry Officials on Social Action in Late- Socialist
China
Karen
Detlefsen, Philosophy, SAS: Embryology, Methodology, and Metaphysics
in Eighteenth-Century Germany
David
M. Eckman, and Russell J. Composto, Anesthesia, Medicine and Materials
Science & Engineering, SEAS: Force of Gas Bubble Adhesion
to a Biomimetic Glycocalyx
David
Embick, Linguistics, SAS: Syntax and Verb Meaning: A Study
of Causation in Igbo Verbal Alternations
Clark
L. Erickson, Anthropology, SAS: Computer Recording and Modeling
of the Precolumbian Built Environment
Stephane
Evoy, Electrical Engineering, SEAS: Electrofluidic Assembly
of Functional Nanostructures
Jesus
Fernandez-Villaverde, Economics, SAS: Racial Discrimination
as a Correlated Equilibrium
J.
Kevin Foskett, Physiology, Medicine: Request for a Dual CFP/YFP
Laser
Melanie
C. Green, Psychology, SAS: Becoming Transported into Narrative
Worlds: Story and Personality Factors
Andrea
G. Grottoli, Earth & Environmental Science, SAS: Upwelling
Records in Corals: A Multi-Proxy Approach
John
H. Holmes, Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Medicine: A New
Method for Mining Prospective Epidemiologic Surveillance Data
Dan
Hunter, and Thomas Lee, Wharton: UDRP Database: Assessing and
Administering Justice Using Semi-structured Data Management.
Karen
A. Jehn, Management, Wharton: Faultlines, Conflict and Effectiveness
of Peacekeeping Troops in Bosnia
Amishi
P. Jha, Psychology, SAS: Keeping Visual Information In and
Out of Working Memory
Arthur
Johnson, Earth & Environmental Science, SAS: Development
of Environmental Geophysics Magnetic Detection Device
Brad
F. Johnson, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Medicine: Regulation
of Telomere Function by the Werner Syndrome Family of Proteins
Using Yeast and Mouse Model Systems
Kelly
L. Jordan-Sciutto, Pathology, Dental Medicine: Cell Cycle Protein
Role in Parkinsons Disease
Roland
G. Kallen, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Medicine: Transgenic
Mouse Models: Studies of Pathomechanisms and Potential Therapies
of One Form of Human Hereditary Periodic Paralysis (Paramyotonia
Congenita)
Michael
Koval, Physiology, Medicine: Regulation of Lung Cell Junctions
Marisa
C. Kozlowski, Chemistry, SAS: Bifunctional Salen Catalysts
for Asymmetric Synthesis
Aili
L. Lazaar, Medicine, Medicine: VEGF and Airway Smooth Muscle
Cell Function
Peter
D. Le Roux, Neurosurgery Medicine:Bone
Morphogenetic Proteins in the Cerebrospinal Fluid
Daniel
D. Lee, Electrical & Systems Engineering, SEAS: Distributed
3-D Mobile Sensor Network
Ritty
Lukose, Educational Leadership Division, GSE: Learning Modernity:
Education and Youth Culture in Kerala, India
Miroslaw
Mackiewicz, Medicine, Medicine: Identification of CREB Target
Genes
Gerald
A. McDermott, Management, Wharton: Institution Building, Network
Restructuring, and Firm Creation in Emerging Markets
Mechthild
Pohlschroeder, Biology, SAS: Characterization of the Twin Arginine
Translocation Pathway in Halophilic Archaea
Jean-Michel
Rabate, English, SAS: 8th APCS Annual Conference: "The
Emotions"
David
M. Rubin, Pediatrics, CHOP: Foster care Placement Patterns
and Health Care Utilization Among Foster Care Children in Philadelphia
Thomas
Max Safley, History, SAS: Decline, Bankruptcy, and Revival:
The Economics and Ethics of Early Capitalist Enterprise, 1500-1800
Lawrence
K. Saul, Computer & Information Science, SEAS: A real-time
Architecture for Fundamental Frequency Estimation of Overlapping
Speakers
Jeffery
G. Saven, Chemistry, SAS: Computational Methods for the Partial
Design of Membrance Proteins
Paul
S. Schmidt, Biology, SAS: Expression Profiling of Reproductive
Diapause in Drosophila Melanogaster
Thomas
P. Schoenemann, and Janet Monge, Anthropology, SAS: High-Resolution
Computed Tomography (CT) of Human and Non-Human Crania from the
University Museum: Collection, Archiving, and Analysis
Richard
Schultz, and Ted Abel, Biology, SAS: Request for High-Density
Cage Racking System to House Mice
Maurice
E. Schweitzer, Operations & Information Management, Wharton:
Self- Efficacy, Social Proof, and Unethical Decision Making
John
T. Seykora, Dermatology, Medicine: The Role of Srcasm in Keratinocyte
Differentation
Billy
I. Smith, Large Animal Clinical Studies, Veterinary Medicine:
Improving Health and Productivity in Holstein Dairy Cows Diagnosed
with Twins: Evaluation of Feeding Strategies
Wayne
L.Worrell, Materials Science & Engineering, SEAS: A Cold
Isostatic Press for the Processing of Advanced Ceramics
Newman
Yeilding, Medicine, Medicine: Analysis of Tie2 Function in
Tumor Angiogenesis
Takashi
Yonetani, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Medicine: Potential
Bioactivity of Nitrite in the Vascular System by Reaction with
Hemoglobin
Rong
Zhou, Radiology, Medicine: Creatine Kinae, a 31P Magnetic Detectable
Marker Gene for Quantitation for Gene Therapy of Familial Hypercholesterolemia