Recent Research Funding Awards
Department of Biological Sciences
Joseph Angleson,“Regulation of glucagon secretion during hypoglycemia”, UCHSC-Barbara Davis Center, April 2007 – March 2008, $33,517
Sara Oyler-McCance, “Investigation of genetic structure of mountain lions and black bears in Colorado”, Colorado Division of Wildlife, October 2007 – June 2008, $9,718
Sara Oyler-McCance,“Investigating the Rate of DNA Degradation in DNA extracted from Cougar Fecal Samples”, Colorado Division of Wildlife, March 2008 – June 2008, $26,989
David Patterson, “Proteomics for Testing Hypotheses about Down Syndrome”, National Institute of Health, July 2007 – June 2008, $268,514
Thomas Quinn, “Pilot Study: Potential of CR1 Insertion Markers for Resolution of a Deep Polytomy in Anseriformes”, National Science Foundation, $99,279
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Gareth Eaton, “Rapid Scan Biomedical EPR Spectroscopy and Imaging”, National Institute of Health, July 2008 – June 2009, $840,477
Sandra Eaton, “Development of an X-Band Rapid Scan EPR Spectrometer", National Science Foundation, June 2008-May 2009, $466,208
Andrei Kutateladze, “OEDIT Bioscience Discovery Evaluation Grant Program-High Throughput Combinatorial Chemistry for Modern Drug Discovery”, Colorado Office of Economic Development, July 2007 – October 2009, $80,505
Martin Margittai, “Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Research”, Society for Progressive Supranuclea, January 2008 – December 2008, $75,000
Keith Miller, “Optimizing the Effluent From the Vertical Tube Reactor for Agricultural Applications”, Department of Agriculture, July 2007 – July 2008, $74,980
Keith Miller, “Intergration of a Portable X-Ray Flurescence Instrument into Archaeology, Biology, and Chemistry”, National Science Foundation, February 2008 – January 2010, $106,363
Donald Stedman, “On Road Motor Vehicle Emissions Measurements Including Ammonica, Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Dioxide”, California Aire Resources Board, November 2007 – May 2009, $90,042
Donald Stedman, “Remote Sensing Measurements of On-Road emissions from Heavy Duty Diesel Vehicles”, National Renewable Energy Lab, March 2008 – March 2009, $33,000
Denver Research Institute
Steven Ford, “Support for Target Assembly and Positioning at HAFB HSTT”, ITT Industries, June 2008 – December 2008, $21,143
Steven Ford, “High Speed Imaging of Rifle Scope Movement”, ITT Industries, November 2007 – December 2007, $10,327
Steven Ford, “Scientific/Technical Support, Terminal Ballistics”, Senter Goldfarb Rice, LLC, May 2007 – December 2007, $1,917
Steven Ford, “30 Caliber DOP Tests of Sponsor Supplied Targets”, Hitco Carbon Composites, Inc., February 2008 – April 2008, $10,550
Steven Ford, “Metal Composite Fragment Ballistic Tests”, Applied Research Associates, February 2008 – October 2008, $21,103
William McDermott, “Close Coupling of Excited Oxygen with Iodine Injection in COIL Lasers”, Directed Energy Solutions, September 2007 – August 2008, $169,746
Donald New, “Project Orion: Crew Exploration Vehicle, Phase 2: Impact Testing Engineering and Technical Support”, Lockheed Martin, September 2007 – January 2011, $873,975
Troy Krenning, “National Law Enforcement and Corrections Techology Center – RM”, National Institute of Justice, October 2007 – September 2008, $1,391,250
Troy Krenning, “CAPRAD Technical and Consultive Support”, Drakontas LLC, February 2008 – July 2008, $37,500
Donald New, “Support to National Bomb Squad Commanders Advisory Board NLECTC-RM”, National Institute of Justice, February 2005 – April 2008, $94,565
Donald New, “Testing of Fuel Air Diversionary Device (FADD)”, Law Enforcement Technologies, Inc., May 2008 – July 2008, $17,373
Joseph Russo, “The Weapons and Protective Systems Technologies Center Support”, Pennsylvania State University, February 2008 – September 2008, $1,400,000
Barbara McCombs, “Implementation of Learner-Centered Design Principles”, Utica Community Schools, May 2008 – April 2009, $13,000
Mathematics
Nikolaos Galatos, “BLAST Conference”, National Science foundation, March 2008-August 2008, $27,390
Physics and Astronomy
Robert Amme, “Promoting Rubberized Asphalt and Other Scrap Tire Products in Colorado”, CO Dept of Public Health and Enviro, April 2008 – June 2009, $96,601
Davor Balzar, “NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program”, National Institute of Standards & Technology, May 2008 – September 2008, $14,680
Aharon Goldman, “Supporting the Development of the HITRAN Database Progarm”, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, October 2007 – July 2008, $59,000
Jennifer Hoffman, “Transportation for the HPOL Spectropolarimeter”, Fund for Astrophysical Research, December 2007 – December 2008, $3,780
Jennifer Hoffman, “Awakenings: Reviving the HPOL Spectropolarimeter”, Mt. Cuba Astronomical Foundation, January 2008 – December 2008, $4,000
Jonathan Ormes, “The BESS Program to Measure Cosmic-Ray Antiprotons and Light Nuclei and to Search for Exotic Matter”, Goddard, December 2007 – December 2009, $23,150
Sean Shaheen, “Device Physics and Novel Architecture for Organic Photvoltaics”, National Renewable Energy Lab, December 2007 – December 2008, $126,349
Sean Shaheen, “Economic On-Grid Solar Energy via Organic Thin Film Technology”, Plextronics, Inc., December 2007 – January 2009, $70,000
Zeev Shayer, “A Sustainable Program on Environmental Impact Statements in Dealing with Radioactive and Special Materials”, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, August 2007 – August 2008, $200,000
Robert Stencel, “The Circumstellar-Insterstellar Interface Revealed”, Jet Propulsion Lab, July 2007 – June 2010, $17,440
Toshiya Ueta, “Excavating the Mass Loss History in the Circumstellar Dust Shells of Evolved Start (Spitzer HLHES)”, Jet Propulsion Lab, July 2007 – June 2010, $100,250
Toshiya Ueta, “Establishing the Nature of a Mysterious Evolved Star, HD179821”, NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute, July 2007 – June 2009, $32,518
Barry Zink, “Thermal Pathways in Ultra-High Resolution Gamma-Ray Detector Materials for Nuclear Materials Detection”, Natl Consortium for Measures and Si, March 2008 – February 2009, $122,000
Research by NSM Faculty
Department of Biological Sciences
Joseph Angleson, Ph.D. - Cellular and molecular mechanisms of secretion of neuropeptides from neurons and neuroendocrine cells. More...
Scott Barbee, Ph.D. - Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the temporal-spatial regulation of mRNA translation using Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. More...
Dennis Barrett, Ph.D. - The programming of early events in the development of the sea urchin embryo. More...
Christina Coughlan, Ph.D. - Protein folding and defects which have been implicated in the pathogenesis of many diseases including Alzheimers, Cystic Fibrosis and Creutzfeldt Jacob/"Mad Cow" disease. More...
Phillip B. Danielson, Ph.D. - Development of high speed technologies for the identification of human remains and analysis of evidentiary material using mtDNA and complex protein mixtures. More...
Robert M. Dores, Ph.D. - Molecular evolution of the opioid/orphanin gene family. More...
Jim Fogleman, Ph.D. - ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive paralysis. More ...
John Kinnamon, Ph.D. - Neurobiology of sensory systems, particulary the gustatory system. More...
Daniel Linseman, Ph.D. - Unraveling the role of cell death in neurodegeneration. More...
Nancy Lorenzon, Ph.D. - Calcium channel function and protein interactions involved in calcium signaling in muscle and neurons. More...
Hugh McIsaac, Ph.D. - Animal behavior and behavioral ecology, with emphasis on navigation and migration in birds. More...
Michael Monahan, Ph.D. - Role of habitat in shaping population, behavioral, and life history paramaters of breeding birds, especially blackbirds in wetland habitats. More...
David Patterson, Ph.D. - Biochemical genetics of Downs syndrome, Alzheimer disease, and autism. More...
James Platt, Ph.D. - K-12 and undergraduate biology eduction. More...
Thomas Quinn, Ph.D. - Conservation genetics, systematics, patterns and rates of change of DNA sequence as they relate to the "molecular clock", and the study of transposable elements. More...
Susan Sadler, Ph.D. - Early molecular events that trigger meiotic cell division. More...
Robert Sanford, Jr., Ph.D. - Plant and fire effects on soil nutrients, especially soil phosphorus fractions, in dry and moist tropical ecosystems, and in temperate, treeline and Colorado plateau ecosystems. More...
Anna Simon, Ph.D. - Identifying the interface between habitat disturbance and species invasions, and ecosystem restoration/re-vegetation after exotic control. More...
Judith Snyder, Ph.D. - Formation and function of the mitotic spindle during cell division. More...
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Amy Bauer, Ph.D. - Emission spectroscopy (especially laser- and spark-induced breakdown spectroscopies), chemical laser development, and aerosol generation and diagnostics. More...
Lawrence J. Berliner, Ph.D. - Understanding of structure/function relationships and dynamic aspects in protein structure in solution. More...
Gareth E. Eaton, Ph.D. - Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) (also known as electron spin resonance (ESR)) studies of molecules with unpaired electrons - primarily organic radicals and transition metal ions. More...
Sandra S. Eaton, Ph.D. - Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) (also known as electron spin resonance (ESR)) studies of molecules with unpaired electrons - primarily organic radicals and transition metal ions. More...
Julanna V. Gilbert, Ph.D. - Kinetic and spectroscopic studies of energetic inorganic compounds using low temperature matrix isolation and gas phase methods. More...
Joseph M. Hornback, Ph.D. - Organic photochemistry, organic synthesis, chemical education More...
Andrei G. Kutateladze, Ph.D. - Photolabile reporters of molecular recognition: caging, tagging and photoamplification. More...
Sheref Mansy, Ph.D. - Protein lipidation and bottom-up approaches to synthetic biology. More...
Martin Margittai, Ph.D. - More...
Keith Miller, Ph.D. - Fate and transport of pharmaceutical compounds in surface waters and sediments. More...
Dwight M. Smith, Ph.D. - Interaction of gas phase molecules with solid surfaces, with emphasis on the nature and reactivity of black carbon (soot), produced through the combustion of fossil fuels. More...
Donald H. Stedman, Ph.D. - Remote sensing of automobile emissions and air quality. More...
Department of Geography
Sharolyn Anderson, Ph.D. - Theoretical basis of geographic information science. More...
J. Michael Daniels, Ph.D. - Development and behavior of geomorphic systems over timescales ranging from decades to several millennia. More...
Andrew R. Goetz, Ph.D. - Transportation, urban, and economic geography. More...
Hillary B. Hamann, Ph.D. - Watershed processes, combining themes of water quality, runoff flowpaths and the effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbance (pollution, climate change, deforestation and wildfire) on hydrologic systems. More...
Michael J. Keables, Ph.D. - Spatial and temporal variability of water resources as related to climatic fluctuations. More...
Michael W. Kerwin, Ph.D. - Develop high-resolution climate records using tree rings as a means of identifying past episodes of drought. More...
Rebecca L. Powell, Ph.D. - Assessing urban contributions to global and regional environmental change. More...
Donald G. Sullivan, Ph.D. - Late Quaternary environmental change. More...
Paul C. Sutton, Ph.D. - Urbanization, spatial demography, and carrying capacity. More...
Matthew J. Taylor, Ph.D. - Human-environment relationships in Latin America. More...
Department of Mathematics
Alvaro Arias, Ph.D. - Banach space theory, probability theory, and operator theory. More...
Richard N. Ball, Ph.D. - Algebra and topology, combinatorics, topological dynamics, stability and complexity. More...
Natasha Dobrinen, Ph.D. - Set theory, Boolean algebras, mathematical logic, and foundations of mathematics. More...
Nikolaos Galatos, Ph.D. - Lattice theory, ordered algebras, mathematical logic. More...
Stanley Gudder, Ph.D. - Functional analysis, mathematical physics, foundations of quantum mechanics, probability theory. More...
James N. Hagler, Ph.D. - Functional analysis, topological dynamics, hereditarily indecomposable continua. More...
Michael K. Kinyon, Ph.D. - Nonassociative structures, loops, quasigroups, history of mathematics. More...
Frédéric Latrémolière, Ph.D. - C*-algebras, C*-dynamics. More...
Mario A. Lopez, Ph.D. - Computational geometry, algorithms, geographic information systems. More...
Nicholas Ormes, Ph.D. - Dynamical systems, ergodic theory, topology. More...
Alayne Parson, Ph.D. - Automorphic functions, complex analysis, number theory.
Petr Vojtêchovský, Ph.D. - Nonassociative algebra, combinatorics. More...
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Robert Amme, Ph.D. - Granular particle physics and the compaction of granular materials. More...
Davor Balzar, Ph.D. - Studies of materials' properties by diffraction methods. More...
Aharon Goldman, Ph.D. - Quantitative analysis of infrared and ultraviolet absorption of solar radiation by the earth's atmospheric gases, atomic and molecular solar lines, and infrared emission by the earth's atmosphere, from high resolution spectra obtained with ground-based and air-borne spectrometers. More...
Jennifer L. Hoffman, Ph.D. - Circumstellar material surrounding stars, particularly massive stars, throughout the course of their lifetimes. More...
Steven Iona, Ph.D. - Teacher preparation and student conceptual development specifically of physics topics.
Jonathan F. Ormes, Ph.D. - Locating the sites of the origin and the mechanism for the acceleration of galactic cosmic rays, highly energetic (relativistic) nuclei of atoms from throughout the periodic table that bombard the Earth continuously. More...
Matthew R. Pufall, Ph.D. - Magnetization dynamics induced by the interaction between polarized conduction electron spins flowing through nanoscale ferromagnetic structures.
Sean Shaheen, Ph.D. - Development of organic photovoltaic devices or "plastic solar cells" for low-cost solar energy harvesting.
Robert Stencel, Ph.D. - Stellar evolution and infrared instrumentation. More...
Toshiya Ueta, Ph.D. - Stellar evolution, astropaleontology, radiative transfer in dusty media, infrared observations of dusty media, and astromineralogy. More...
Barry L. Zink, Ph.D. - Use of micro- and nanofabrication techniques to control and measure the thermal, magnetic and electronic properties of systems to study the fundamental physics of new materials. More...