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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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