In
the most recent cycle, Spring 2003, of Penns internally-funded
University Research Foundation, the Office of the Vice 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, 2003. The Research Foundation
guidelines are available from the Office of the Vice Provost for
Research, 119 College Hall, and on the web at www.upenn.edu/research/FoundationGuidelines.htm and
in last weeks issue of Almanac, which is available
at www.upenn.edu/almanac/v50/n09/research_guides.html.
University Research
Foundation
Spring 2003 Awards
Paul H. Axelsen,
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine; Qtrap Mass Spectrometer
for Lipidomics
Tracy L. Bale, Department
of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine; Involvement
of CRF and Stress-sensitivity in Depression
Elisabeth R. Barton,
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Dental Medicine;
Role of IGF-I Isoforms in Promoting Muscle Hypertrophy
Debabrata (Debu) Chakravarti,
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine; Translating the
Histone Code of Transcription
Rabindranath De La Fuente,
Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine; Transcription
of the Mammalian Oocyte Genome: Use of RNAi to Determine the Role
of Poly (ADP) Ribosylation in Chromatin Structure and Function
Carol Deutsch, Department
of Physiology, School of Medicine; Ontogeny of an Ion Channel
Pore
Zhengxia Dou and Helen
Aceto, Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine;
Assessing the Environmental Survival Characteristics and Ecological
Impacts of Multidrug Resistant Salmonella Enterica Serovar Newport
Terri H. Finkel, Department
of Pediatrics, School of Medicine; Effects of Chronic GVH on
B Cell Receptor Editing
Fred R. Frankel, Department
of Microbiology, School of Medicine; Recombinant Listeria Monocytogenes
Designed to Elicit Anti-HIV Antibodies
Michael Gamer, Department
of English, School of Arts & Sciences; Novel Databases: British
and American Fiction 1660-1830 at Penn
Mauro F. Guillen, Department
of Management, Wharton; Globalization, Institution, and the Diffusion
of Economic Policymaking: The Case of Central Bank Independence,
1950-2000
Marina A. Guvakova, Department
of Microbiology, School of Medicine; Rap 1: A Tumor Suppressor
of Breast Cancer?
Angela Haczku, Pulmonary,
Allergy and Critical Care Division, School of Medicine; Regulation
of the Innate Immune Molecule SP-D in Aspergillus Fumigatus-induced
Allergic Airway Inflammation by the Th2-type Cytokines
Matthew Hartley, Higher
Education Division, Graduate School of Education; Inter-Institutional
Academic Partnerships: Bridging the Ivory Towers
Erika L. F. Holzbaur,
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine; Request for an
Ultracentrifuge to Examine the Mechnochemistry of Cytoplasmic Dynein
and Dynactin
Thomas A. Jongens, Department
of Genetics, School of Medicine; Determining the Spatial and
Temporal Requirements for dfmr1; Using a Drosophila Model for Fragile
X Syndrome
Akira Kaji, Yale Goldman,
and Barry Cooperman, Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine;
Fast Kinetic Studies on the Disassembly of the Ribosomal Post-termination
Complex by Ribosome Recycling Facto (RRF) with Fluorescent Labeled
Components
Randall D. Kamien, Department
of Physics & Astronomy, School of Arts & Sciences; Novel
Spherical Phases of Diblock Copolymers
Robert Kurzban, Department
of Psychology, School of Arts & Sciences; The Establishment
of Trust: An Experimental Proposal
Eileen Lake, Foundational
Sciences and Health Systems Division, School of Nursing; Effect
of Nurse Expertise on Patient Outcomes
Ponzy Lu and Don Baldwin,
Department of Chemistry, School of Arts & Sciences; Mixed
Probe Microarrays
Jennifer R. Lukes, Department
of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, School of Engineering
& Applied Science; Laser-Based Flow Control in Micro/Nanoscale
Fluidic Channels
Anuradha Mathur, Department
of Landscape Architecture, School of Design; The Ganga Project:
Constructing a Dynamic Landscape
Eric Meggers, Department
of Chemistry, School of Arts & Sciences; Metal Complexes
as Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Paul Moberg, Steven Kanes,
and Gregory Smutzer, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine;
A Mouse Model for Schizophrenia
Nirinjini Naidoo, Department
of Medicine/ Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology, School
of Medicine; Sleep Deprivation Induces, in Brain, a Response
Similar to ER Stress
Robert D. Nicholls, Department
of Psychiatry, School of Medicine; Transgenic Models of Ghrelin
Hormonal Function
Howard Pack, Department
of Business and Public Policy, Wharton; Sources of Decline in
African Industrial Productivity
Daniel Polsky, Division
of General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine; Decision Support
Tools for Nurse Workforce Management: Testing a Model of the International
Migration of Nurses to the United States
Janine T. Remillard,
Educational Leadership Division, Graduate School of Education; Mathematical
Literacy: Exploring Parent-Child Numeracy Connections
Dejian Ren, Department
of Biology, School of Arts & Sciences; Ion Channels Required
for Male Fertility
Barbara J. Riegel, Division
of Foundational Sciences and Health Systems, School of Nursing;
Enhanced Education to Improve Heart Failure Self-Care
Keith M. Robinson, Department
of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine; Functional Outcome
after Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation (STN-DBS) to Treat Parkinsons
Disease
Lawrence C. Rome, Department
of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences; Suspended Load Backpack
to Reduce Orthopedic Injury in Children
Peggy Reeves Sanday,
Department of Anthropology, School of Arts & Sciences; Track
of the Rainbow Serpent: Aboriginal Representations of the Wolfe
Creek Meteorite Crater
Roberta G. Sands and
Joretha N. Bourjolly, School of Social Work; Family Relations
and Religious Change in African American Families
Karen L. Schumacher,
Division of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing; A
Pilot Study of Family Caregiving Across the Course of Cancer Chemotherapy
Duane Sewell, Department
of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Medicine; Cancer Immunotherapy
for HPV-associated Tumors in the Context of the Human MHC Allele
HLA-A2
Barry G. Silverman, Department
of Electrical & Systems Engineering, School of Engineering &
Applied Science; Healthy Choice for Urban Youth: Nutrition Education
Through Self-Designed Video Games
Phyllis L. Solomon, School
of Social Work; Violence Against Family Caregivers by Adults
with Severe Mental Illness
Steve Tinney and Anthony
Kroch, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, School of Arts &
Sciences; Penn Parsed Corpus of Sumerian (PPCS): Pilot Program
Nancy C. Tkacs, FSHS,
School of Nursing; Cortical Neuron Death after Non-coma Hypoglycemia
Peijing Jeremy Wang,
Department of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine; Functional
Characterization of a Putative Transcription Factor Taf2q
Matthew White, Department
of Business and Public Policy, Wharton; Demand and Pricing in
Electricity Market: Lessons from Californias Energy Crisis
Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 10,
October 28, 2003
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