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Faculty Notes

334 Appointments 334 Honors 334 Activities 335 Publications 337 Deaths

Administrators' Notes

338 Activities 338 Publications

Research

339 Departmental Awards Received and Proposals Submitted

340 Awards Received 341 Proposals Submitted

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Publications Now University Communications Design

Publications and Graphics Services, which creates the visual identity for projects ranging from the "Generations" campaign to posters for conferences held on campus, is changing its name. The new name, University Communications Design, more accurately reflects the purpose and activities of the group, headed by Carl Magel.

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Academic Apparel Rental

Measurements for academic apparel for the May 2001 Commencement Exercises will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, April17 and 18, ONLY from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore in the Eck Center. The rental of a doctoral cap, gown, and hood is $35. Faculty who received a Ph.D. or law degree from Notre Dame may rent the Notre Dame doctoral cap, gown, and hood. The rental fee is $90. The rental of a cap, gown, and hood for the master's degree is $34.

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Appointments

Erica Cain-Ward, assistant professional specialist in the College of Engineering, has been appointed director of the Minority Engineering Program.

Honors

Harvey Bender, professor ofbiological sciences, and Todd Whitmore, associate professor of theology and fellow in the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, have been named Carnegie Scholars, a distinction that annually honors 30 university-level teachers whose work will advance the profession of teaching and deepen student learning.

Kwan S. Kim, professor of economics and fellow in the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, has been named to the editorial board of the InternationalJoumal of Development Planning Literature, a quarterly journal of the Jan Tinbergen Institute of Development Planning.

Robin F. Rhodes, associate professor of art, art history, and design, has been named the Frederic Lindley Morgan Chair of Architectural Design at the Allen R. Hite Art Institute, Univ. of Louisville, for the spring semester 2003. He has also been elected to the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

B.F. Spencer, Jr., Leo E. and Patti Ruth Lin beck Professor of Engineering, was appointed to the international scientific committee for the International Conference on Advances in Building Technology, to be held December 4-6, 2002, Hong Kong.

Activities

Ani Aprahamian, professor of physics, gave the invited talk "Isomeric States in Nuclei and their Influence on the rp-process," at the Workshop on 'RISING (Rare Isotope Investigations at GSI) Physics with Stopped Beams,' Institute of Physics at the Univ. of Goettingen, Germany, March 8-9.

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Michael Baxter, assistant professor of theology, presented a weekend retreat "Casting Our Nets into Deep Water" for the Open Door Community, Atlanta, Feb. 2-4; an invited presentation "Blowing the Dynamite of the Church: a How-To Session in Catholic Social Theory and Practice," and "A Faith To Die For: Catechesis in the Post-Jubilee Era," Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, Feb. 17-18; and an invited presentation "A Faith To Die For: A Four-Part Presentation," at the Center for Spirituality, Diocese of Wichita, March 2-3.

David B. Burrell, C.S.C., Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. Professor of Arts and Letters, professor of theology and philosophy, and fellow in the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, presented "Friendship with God in al-Ghazali and Aquinas," Feb. 18 at American Univ. in Cairo, and March 8 at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem.

Brian E. Daley, Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology, as a member of the steering committee of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, attended the annual Cardinal Bernardin Conference, Mundelein Seminary, Chicago, March 9-11.

Dennis Doordan, associate professor of architecture and concurrent associate professor of art, art history, and design, presented "A Contemporary Perspective on the Art and Craft of the Machine by Frank Lloyd Wright" at the Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, March 3; and delivered a keynote address, "Opposing Cultures or Common Ground? The Role of Design History" at "ReInventing Design Education in the University," School of Design, Curtin Univ. of Technology, Perth, Australia, Dec. 11-13.

Keith J. Egan, adjunct professor of theology, lectured on John of the Cross at Saint Ambrose Univ., Davenport, Iowa, on Feb. 20-21.

Glenn Hendler, assistant professor of English, chaired a panel on "Masculinity and Performativity in Contemporary American Literature" at the Conference on Twentieth-Century Literature, Louisville, Ky., Feb. 24.

Barbara Kenda, visiting assistant professor of architecture, presented "American Vision for Architectural Education" at the annual International Conference of World Congress and Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bled, Slovenia, in October.

David Lodge, professor ofbiological sciences and fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Studies, presented "Science and Religion: Friends, Foes, Complementary, or Just Different?" at First and Central Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, Del., March 29.

Scott Mainwaring, director of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Government and International Studies, presented talks on democracy in Latin America at the Catholic Univ. of Lima, Nov. 28-29 and Dec. 1; at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanas, Nov. 30; at CEBEM, La Paz, Bolivia, Dec. 3-5; and at the Baker Institute, Rice Univ., Dec. 11.

Timothy Matovina, associate professor of theology, presented "Latino Catholics and American Public Life" to the "Covering Religion's Impact on Urban Affairs and Social Services Conference," Pew Program on Religion and the News Media, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., Feb. 5.

Siobhan McEvoy, visiting fellow in the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, presented "Youth, Violence and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland," Notre Dame, March 23.

John P. Meier, professor oftheology, received a Lilly Theological Research Grant for the calendar year 2002 to research and write volume four of A Marginal Jew.

Dan Meisel, director of the Radiation Laboratory and professor of chemistry and biochemistry, presented a plenary lecture on ~·The Core. to Shell Interface in Bimetallic Particles" at the Particles 2001 Conference, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 26; and presented a seminar on "Radiation Effects in Suspended Nanoparticle," Auburn Univ., Ala., March 1.

Christian Moevs, assistant professor of romance languages and literatures, has received a fellowship for 2001-2002 at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Univ. Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. He will receive housing and a $40,000 award for a project titled "Landino's Dante: The SpiritualPhilosophical Interpretation of the Comedy in the Renaissance."

Rudolph M. Navari, M.D., associate dean, College of Science, preprofessional studies, presented "Substance P Inhibitors for the Management of Chemotherapy-Induced Emesis" at the fifth annual conference on Advances in Hematological Malignancies and Supportive Care in Cancer, March 10, Vancouver, B.C.

Liviu Nicolaescu, assistant professor of mathematics, presented "SeibergWitten Invariants of Rational Homology Spheres" and the "Diroc Operators and the Neighborhood" mini conference, IUPUI, March 2-3.

David O'Connor, associate professor of philosophy, presented "Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love: What We Learn from the Greeks," Furman University's Charles Ezra Daniel Memorial Chapel in Greenville, S.C., March 20.

Alvin Plantinga, John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy, presented "An Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism," as the Conlon Wilson Speaker at Berry College, Mount Berry, Ga., Jan. 18; and "Authority and Warrant" at the 22nd annual Philosophy of Religion Conference, Claremont Graduate Univ., Feb. 9.

Joseph M. Powers, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, presented "Resolved Viscous Detonation in Hz/Oz/ar using Intrinsic Low Dimensional Manifolds and Wavelet Adaptive Multilevel Representation" at the II International Workshop on Combustion Modeling, Feb. 21-23, Veracruz, Mexico.

Charles E. Rice, professor oflaw, presented "The Origin and Future of Legalized Abortion" at St. Pius X Church, Indianapolis, March 14 ..

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Mark W. Roche, I.A. O'Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters and Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Concurrent Professor of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, delivered the convocation address "Faith and Reason" at Holy Cross College, Feb. 27.

David Shields, codirector and professional specialist in the Mendelson Center for Sport, Character, and Culture, presented "Sport: Builder of Character or Characters?" at Benedictine High School, Richmond, Va., March 20.

Michael Signer, Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture, presented "Beyond Tolerance: Jews and Christians in a Pluralistic World," Temple Beth Israel, Houston, March 6.

Andrew Sommese, Vincent J. Duncan and Annamarie Micus Duncan Professor of Mathematics, presented "The Numerical Decomposition of the Solution Set of a Polynomial System" to the NATO Advance Research Workshop on Application of Algebraic Geometry to Coding Theory, Physics, and Computation, Eilat, Israel, Feb. 27.

Cheryl L. Stillson, adjunct instructor in psychology, presented "Speech and Language Development in Early Childhood" at The Enchanted Child in the Real World: Children and the Arts conference, Indiana Univ., South Bend, March 3.

Eugene Ulrich, Rev. John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology, was invited to lecture on "The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible is the Bible of Hillel and Jesus" and "The Significance of the Scrolls for Judaism and Christianity" at the Dead Sea Scrolls and Bible Seminar, in Scottsdale, Ariz., Feb. 25.

Publications

Peri E. Arnold, director of the Washington, D.C. Program and professor of government and international studies, reviewed H. Walton, Jr., Reelection: William Jefferson Clinton as a Native-Son Presidential Candidate, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000, in Political Science Quarterly, vol. 115, no. 4, winter 2000-2001, pp. 620-622.

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J. Matthew Ashley, assistant professor of theology, wrote "The Word Made Virtual: The Soteriology of the Internet," published in New Theology Review, vol. 14, no. 1, 2001, pp. 77-80.

lUaus-Dieter Asmus, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, coauthored "Radical Chemical Studies of Sullerenes and Derivatives in Solution: Redox Processes, Excited States and Radical Reactions" with Dirk Guidi, associate professional specialist in the Radiation Laboratory, published in Nuclear and Radiation Chemical Approaches to Fullerene Science, T. Braun, ed., Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp. 87-100.

Alicia M. Beatty, associate research professor of chemistry and biochemistry, coauthored "One-step Synthesis of 4(3H) = quinazolinones" with M.J. Deetz, J.P. Malerich, and Bradley D. Smith, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, published in Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 42, 2001, pp. 1851-1854.

Howard A. Blackstead, professor of physics, coauthored "Signatures of Nearly Invisible Defects in PrBa2Cu307 and Pr2-zCe2Sr2Cu2Nb010" with J.D. Dow, I. Feiner, and W.B. Yelon, published in Physical Review B, vol. 63, 2001, at 094517 (4 pp.).

Paul M. Cobb, assistant professor of history, published White Banners: Contention in 'Abbasid Syria 750-880, Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 2001, 224 pp.

Brian E. Daley, Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology, wrote "The Ministry of Primacy and the Communion of Churches," published in Church Unity and the Papal Office, C.E. Braaten and R.W. Jenson, eds., Eerdmans, 2001, pp. 26-58.

Malgorzata Dobrowolsl\:a, professor of physics, coauthored "Magnetic-fieldinduced Substructures in Multiple Quantum Wells Consisting of Magnetic and Non-magnetic Semiconductor Layers" with 8. Lee, Jacek K. Furdyna, Aurora and Tom Marquez Professor of Physics, and L.R. Ram-Mohan, pub-

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lished in Physical Review B, vol. 61, 2001, pp. 2120-2126; coauthored "Using Exciton Dynamics to Probe the Internal Structure of CdSe/ZnSe SelfAssembled Quantum Dots" with L.M. Robinson, H. Rho, H.E. Jackson, L.M. Smith, S. Lee, and Jacek K. Furdyna, published in Physica Status Solidi B, vol. 221, 2000, pp. 55-58; coauthored "Phonons and Exciton Recombination in CdSe/ZnSe Self-assembled Quantum Dots" with H. Rho, L.M. Robinson, L.M. Smith, H.E. Jackson, S. Lee, and Jacek K. Furdyna, published in Applied Physics Letters, vol. 77, 2000, pp. 1813-1815; coauthored "2-D Precursors and Interdiffusion in CdSe/ZnSe Self Assembled Quantum Dots" with J. Mirechi Millunchick, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics, N.A. Modine, and E.D. Jones, published in the Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Warrendale, Pa.: Materials Research Society, 2000, pp. 91-102; and coauthored "Phonon-related Exciton Relaxation in CdSe Self-assembled Quantum Dots" with H. Rho. L.M. Robinson, L.M. Smith, H.E. Jackson, S. Lee, and Jacek K.. Furdyna, published in the Proceedings of the 25171 Intemational Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Osaka, Japan, 2000.

Michael S. Driscoll, associate professor of theology, wrote "Per Sora Nostra Marte Corporale: The Role of Medieval Women in Death and Burial Practices," published in Liturgical Ministry, no. 10, winter 2001, pp. 14-22.

Umesh Garg, professor of physics, coauthored "Rotational Bands in the Proton Emitter 141 Ho" with D. Seweryniak, P.J. Woods, J.J. Ressler, C.N. Davids, A. Heinz, A.A. Sonzogni, J. Uusitalo, W.B. Walters, J.A. Caggiano, M.P. Carpenter, J.A. Cizewski, T. Davinson, K.Y. Ding, N. Fotiades, R.V.F. Janssens, T.L. Khoo, F.G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, P. Reiter, J. Shergur, and I. Wiedenhover, published in Physical Review Letters, vol. 86, no. 8, 2001, pp. 1458-1461.

Theresa Ghiralducci, associate professor of economics and fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Studies, wrote "Myths and Misinformation about America's Retirement System,"

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published in Unconventional Wisdom: Altemative Perspectives on the New Economy, J. Madrick, ed., New York: The Century Foundation, 2000, pp. 69-92; "Is Working Longer Desirable: Worker's View?" published in Health and Income Security of an Aging Workforce, A. Hunt, ed., Kalamazoo: UpJohn Institute, 2001, pp. 439-447; "The Political Economy of Social Security Reform in the United States," published in Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism: Radical Perspectives on Economic Themy and Policy, R. Baiman, H. Bosushey, and D. Saunders, eds., Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2000, pp. 321-330; and "Pension Policies to Maintain Workers' Access toRetirement," published in Back to Shared Prosperity: The Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in the United States, R. Marshall, ed., Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2000, pp. 204-210.

Dirk M. Guidi, associate professional specialist in the Radiation Laboratory, coauthored "Pulse Radiolytic Studies of Metallotexaphyrins in the Presence of Oxygen: Relevance of the Equilibrium with Superoxide Anion to the Mechanism of Action of the Radiation Sensitizer Motexafin Gadolinium (Gd-Tex2 + ,xcytrin)" with J.L. Sessler, N.A. Tvermoes, Gordon L. Hug, associate professional specialist in the Radiation Laboratory, T.D. Mody, and D. Magda, published in the Joumal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 105, 2001, pp. 1452-1457.

Glenn Hendler, assistant professor of English, published Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in NineteenthCentury American Literature, Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2001, 296 pp.

Gordon L. Hug, associate professional specialist in the Radiation Laboratory, coauthored "Complexation of Gold Nanoparticles with Radiolytically Generated Thiocyanate Radicals ((SCN)2"")" with A. Dawson, published in the Joumal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 104, 2000, pp. 11842-11846.

Boldiszar Janl\:6, assistant professor of physics, coauthored "Condensat1on Energy and Spectral Functions in High-temperature Superconductors"

with M.R. Norman, M. Randeria, and J.C. Campuzano, published in Physical Review B, val. 61, 2000, pp. 14742-14750.

Maxwell Johnson, associate professor of theology, wrote Images of Baptism, Forum Essays 6, Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2001.

Prashant Kamat, professional specialist in the Radiation Laboratory, wrote "Metal Nanoparticles. How Noble are They in the Light?" published in InterAmerican Photochemical Society Newsletter, vol. 23, no. 2, 2000, pp. 34-42.

Scott Mainwaring, director of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Government and International Studies, wrote Partidos Conservadores no Brasil, Sao Paulo: Paz e Terra, 2000, 107 pp.

Marvin J. Miller, George and Winifred Clark Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, coauthored "Synthesis of a Conformationally Restricted Substrate Analogue of Siderophore Biosynthetases" with M.D. Surman, published in Organic Letters, vol. 3, no. 4, 2001, pp. 519-521.

Larry K. Patterson, research professor emeritus of chemistry and assistant director of the Radiation Laboratory, coauthored "Interactions of Superoxide Anion with Enzyme Radicals: Kinetics of Reaction with lysozyme Tryptophan Radicals and Corresponding Effects on Tyrosine Electron Transfer" with R. Santus, Gordon L. Hug, associate professional specialist in the Radiation Laboratory, M. Bazin, J-C. Maziere, and P. Morliere, published in Free Radical Research, val. 33, 2000, pp. 383-391.

Robin F. Rhodes, associate professor of art, art b,istory, and design, is a coauthor of Architecture: The Critics' Choice, D. Cruickshank, ed., New York: The Ivy Press and Watson-Guptill, 2000, chosen by The Sunday Times

(3.XII.2000) as the top architectural publication of 2000.

Michael Signer, Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture, Department of Theology, edited Humanity at the Limit: The Impact of the Holocaust Experience on Jews and Christians, Bloomington: Ind. Univ. of Indiana Press, 2000, and Memory and History in Christianity and Judaism, Notre Dame: Univ. ofNotre Dame Press, 2000. He wrote "Can Jews Trust Catholics: A Rabbi Looks Forward," published in Commonweal, Jan., pp. 12-16; "Letter of the Polish Episcopate on Dialogue with Judaism and Other Religions," published in Dialogue and Universalism, Jan.; and "Die Riss das Verbindet," published in H. Immenkotter, Wie Sehen Sich Juden und Christen?, Augsburg, Germany.

Mark A. Suckow, director and professional specialist in the Freimann Life Science Center, coauthored "The Characterization of Mice with a Targeted Combined Deficiency of Protein C and Factor XI" with J.C.Y. Chan, J.G. Ganopolsky, I. Cornelissen, Mayra J. Sandoval-Cooper, assistant professional specialist in the Center for Transgene Research, E.G. Brown, F. Noria, D. Gailani, Elliot D. Rosen, research associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, Victoria A. Ploplis, research associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Francis J. Castellino, dean of science, Kleiderer-Pezold Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and director of the Center for Transgene Research, published in American Journal of Pathology, vol. 158, 2001, pp. 469-479.

Eugene illrich, Rev. John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology, wrote "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Scriptural Texts" published in The Hebrew Bible and Qumran. The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, vol. 1, J.H. Charlesworth, ed., N. Richland Hills, Tex.: Bibal Press, 2001, pp. 105-133.

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Deaths

Walter Langford, 1930 graduate, professor, chair of the Modern Languages Department, and longtime coach of the University varsity tennis and fencing teams, died Feb. 28 in St. Louis. He received the Lay Faculty Award in 1959 and a Presidential Citation in 1973.

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Activities

Alan S. Bigger, director of Building Services, was interviewed on the subject of managing educational facilities for the winter issue of Commercial Floor Care, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 21-24.

Publications

Alan S. Bigger, director of Building Services, coauthored "Carpet Chemical Formulas for Success" with L.B. Bigger, published in Sanitary Maintenance, vol. 59, no. 3, 2001, pp. 40-42.

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Departmental Awards Received and Proposals Submitted

In the period February 1, 2001 to February 28, 2001.

Category Research Facilities and Equipment Instructional Programs Other Programs Service Programs Total

AWARDS RECEIVED

No. Amount 21 $2,888,796

0 0 0 0 0 0

_Q. 0 21 $2,888,796

PROPOSALS SUBMITTED

No. Amount 46 $12,611,558

0 0 0 0 0 0

_Q. 0 46 $12,611,558

FISCAL YEAR-TO-DATE CUMULATIVE AWARDS RECEIVED PROPOSALS SUBMITTED

Category No. Amount No. Amount

Research 282 $39,439,676 403 $179,994,646 Facilities and Equipment 0 0 0 0 Instructional Programs 9 $870,726 $11,500 Other Programs 1 $25,000 0 0 Service Programs _Q. 0 _Q. 0

Total 292 $40,335,402 404 $180,006,146

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Awards Received

In the period February 1, 2001 to February 28, 2001

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Hafiz M. Atassi Hydrodynamics and Acoustics of Rotor Blades in

Nonuniform Inflow Conditions Department of Navy $70,000 24 months

Thomas C. Corke, Flint 0. Thomas Acoustic Source Modelling and Control for High By-Pass Jet

Engines National Aeronautics and Space Admininistration $63,380 12 months

Thomas C. Corke, Flint 0. Thomas Enhanced Design of Turbojet LPT

National Aeronautics and Space Admininistration $58,000 36 months

Thomas J. Mueller Development of Experimental Inversion and Simulation

Techniques to Study Propeller Blade Response to Inflow Distortions

Department of Navy $60,000 12 months

Biological Sciences

John H. Adams Plasmodium yoelii eDNA libraries

Malaria Research and Reference Reagent Repository $20,000 12 months

David M . Lodge Monitoring Rusty Crayfish on the Ottawa National Forest

U.S. Forest Service $27,588 60 months

Dan Meisel, Keith P. Madden, Dirk Guidi, IOaus-Dieter Asmus, Gordon L. Hug, John J. Bentley, Robert H. Schuler, Goralill Nath R. Tripathi, Simon M. Pimblott, Ian C. Carmichael, Richard W. Fessenden, Guillermo Ferraudi, Jay A. LaVerne, Daniel M. Chipman, W. Phillip Helman, Prashant Kamat

Radiation and Photochemistry in Condensed Phase Department of Energy $175,000 36 months

Dan Meisel, Daniel M. Chipman, Ian C. Carmichael The NOx System in Nuclear Waste

Department of Energy $300,000 58 months

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Victoria A. Ploplis Pathological Consequences of the Plasminogen System

National Institutes of Health $246,662 12 months

Elliot D. Rosen Coagulation Initiation In FVll Deficient Mice


Richard E.Taylor Myriaporones: Synthetic and Biological Studies


Olaf G. Wiest Pericyclic Reactions of Radical Ions

National Science Foundation $79,500 48 months

Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences

CliveR. Neal Ocean Drilling Program

Texas A & M Research Foundation $3,000 37 months

Physics

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Jacek K. Furdyna, Malgorzat Dobrowolska-Furdyna, Bruce A. Bunker, Steven T. Ruggiero

Spintronics and Spin-Photonics in Ferromagnetic InAs/GaSbBased Heterostructures

Research Foundation of SUNY $515,000 12 months

Preprofessional Studies

Rudolph M. Navari Collaborative Cancer Research Program

Walther Cancer Institute $216,000 24 months

Psychology

John G. Borlmwsld Predicting and Preventing Child Neglect: A Study Utilizing

Cellular Phone Technology Centennial Communications $120,000 60 months

E. Mark Cummings Marital Conflict Resolution and Child Development


Radiation Laboratory

Jay A. LaVerne Radiation Chemistry and Microdosimetry in Plutonium

Storage Environments Los Alamos National Laboratory $45,225 19 months

Romance Languages and Literatures

John P. Welle Film of Paper: Writing Silent Cinema in Italy

National Endowment for the Humanities $35,000 12 months

Theology

Robert A. Krieg Catholic Theologians in Hilter's Germany Association of Theological Schools $45,500 12 months

Timothy M. Matovina Guadalupan Devotion in a Borderlands Community Association of Theological Schools $44,800 12 months

Proposals Submitted

In the period February 1, 2001 to February 28, 2001

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

James J. Mason Dynamic Failure of Layered Composites


James J. Mason Thermomechanical Investigations of High Speed Machining

of Aluminum National Science Foundation $429,456 36 months

Timothy C. Ovaert Tribological Investigation of the Chip/Tool Interface Using

Controlled-Environment Machining and Tribe-Chemically Activated Boundary Lubricants


Timothy C. Ovaert Advanced Mechanical Modeling ofNano-Identation and

Scratching of Organic Multi-Layered Structures National Science Foundation $257,331 24 months

Michael M. Stanisic Development of a Humanoid Shoulder Complex


Anthropology

Mark R. Schurr

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Investigations of Historic Potawatomi Villages in Northern Indiana

Indiana Department of Natural Resources $25,424 12 months

Biological Sciences

Frederick W. Goetz Characterization of Myostatin Expression in Fish

Department of Agriculture $402,215 36 months

Gary A. Lamberti Predicting Impacts of Climate Change on Pacific Salmon

Populations and Subsequent Ecosystem Effects Related to Decreased Salmon Spawning Migrations

Nature Conservancy $131,670 24 months

David W. Severson The Aedes aegypti Genome Project

National Institutes of Health $1,499,731 12 months

Martin Tenniswood, Kathryn E. Packman Genesis of the Invasive Phenotype in Prostate Cancer

American Cancer Society $118,000 36 months

Chemical Engineering

Arvind Varma REU Supplement for NSF Grant CTS 9900357


Arvind Varma REU Supplement for NSF Grant CTS 9907321


Chemistry and, Biochemistry

Paul W. Huber Localization of mRNA in Xenopus Oocytes


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Thomas Nowak The Regulation and Catalytic Process of Pyruvate Kinase


W .R. Scheidt X-Ray and Chemical Studies ofMetalloporphyrins


Slavi C. Sevov Synthesis of New Intermetallic Clathrates and Optimization

of the Thermoelectric Efficiency American Chemical Society $90,000 36 months

Bradley D. Smith Promoters and Inhibitors of Membrane Fusion


Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences

Jeremy B. Fein U and Hg Adsorption onto Bacillus subtilis and Shewanella

putrefaciens: Bulk Adsorption Experiments and XAFS Studies

Department of Energy $384,897

Robert L. Irvine

36 months

Assessment of Alternatives at MCDF for Sediment Re-use Environmental Protection Agency $200,000 24 months

Yahya C. Kurama REU Supplement 2001

National Science Foundation $10,000

Clive R. Neal

12 months

Interpreting Platinum-Group Element Behavior in Basaltic Systems


Stephen E. Silliman Groundwater Management Considering Salt-Water Intrusion

and Changing Land Use: Southern Benin National Science Foundation $27,598 36 months

College of Science

Mark A. Suclmw, Rucolph M. Navari, Morris Pollard Evaluation of Chemopreventive Agents by In Vivo Screening

Assays National Institutes of Health $0 12 months

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Electrical Engineering

Panos J. Antsaldis, Danny Z. Chen e-Systems (Algorithms and Architectures)

Lockheed Martin Corporation $50,000 12 months

Martin Haenggi

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Stochastic Optimization of Dynamic Wireless Networks National Science Foundation $172,367 36 months

Martin Haenggi, Ruey-Wen Liu Capacity-Preserving Equalization of Dynamic Matrix

Channels National Science Foundation $314,362 36 months

Douglas C. Hall, Patrick J. Fay, Thomas H. Kosel, Bruce A. Bunker, Gregory L. Snider

Electronic Properties and Device Applications of III-V Compound Semiconductor Native Oxides

Department of the Air Force $779,510 36 months

Yih-Fang Huang

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Turbo Multiuser Detection for Long Code CDMA Wireless Communications


Alan C. Seabaugh Development of Nanopositioner-Translated Shadow

Evaporation System National Science Foundation $343,736 12 months

Govemment and Intemational Studies

Daniel A. Lindley Is War Rational? The Extent of Miscalculation and

Misperception as Causes of War U.S. Institute of Peace $45,000 12 months

Keough Institute for Irish Studies

Mary Ann Smyth, Seamus F. Deane Partition and Memory: An International Conference

U.S. Institute of Peace $45,000 6 months

Philosophy

Michael Detlefsen Construction, Rigor, and Freedom in Mathematics


Don A. Howard Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Science and the Origins of

Rational Reconstruction National Science Foundation $84,000 24 months

Physics

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi The Topologic Properties of Metabolic Networks


David P. Bennett Confirmation of Black Hole, Planetary, and Binary

Microlensing Events Space Telescope Science Institute $14,980 12 months

Umesh Garg "Complete" Spectroscopy at High Angular Momentum in

Nuclei in the Vicinity of the Neutron Magic Number N =50 National Science Foundation $44,622 36 months

Umesh Garg, Randal C. Ruchti REU Site: Physics REU Program at the University of Notre

Dame (RET) National Science Foundation $374,169 36 months

Peter M. Garnavich Light Echos and the Nature of Type Ia Supernovae

Space Telescope Science Institute $70,153 12 months

Peter M. Garnavich SINS: The Supernova INtensive Study-Cycle 10

Space Telescope Science Institute $19,966 12 months

Peter M. Garnavich Tracing the Cosmic Expansion to z > 1 with Type Ia

Supernovae Space Telescope Science Institute $19,966 12 months

Walter R. Johnson Photoexcitation and Photoionization in Dense Plasmas

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory $85,866 12 months

Psychology

Michael J. Wenger Perceptual Processes, Evidence, and Configurality

Indiana University Bloomington $172,928 36 months

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Radiation Laboratory

Dirk M. Guidi Endohedral Metallofullerenes and Nanotubes: Properties and

Nanoscale Device Applications Virginia Polytechnical Institute $449,996 60 months

Sociology

Maureen T. Hallinan Comparative Analysis of Best Practices in Public and Private

Elementary and Secondary Schools Department of Education $2,550,001 60 months

David H. Sikkink Religion, Schools, and Civic Participation

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion $2,000 24 months

University Counseling Center

Luis G. Manzo The Effectiveness of a Web-Based Intervention Designed to

Teach Youth Swimmers to Think Like Optimists USA Swimming $10,159 12 months

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