Research Awards, April 2002

Aslin, Raymond G., US Department of the Interior, $16,504, "Assistance to Rural Firefighters."

Barnes, Philip L., US Environmental Protection Agency, $94,941, "Joint State Atrazine Big Blue River Monitoring Project."

Blair, John M., McGrath, Diane, and Wright, Valerie F., US Department of Education, $23,498, "Hands-On Ecological Science with Internet Connectivity at Konza Prairie Biological Station."

Bremer, Dale J., Fry, Jack D., and Rajashekar, Channa B., Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, $9,000, "Evaluation of Texas Bluegrass for Use in Golf Course Fairways and Roughs."

Chapes, Stephen K., US Department of Health & Human Services, $256,124, "Kansas Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (K-BRIN) Training and Mentoring Core."

Clem, Rollie J., US Department of Health & Human Services, $102,200, "Functional Analysis of Anti-Apoptotic IAP Proteins."

Conrad, Gary W., US Department of Health & Human Services, $343,766, "Fibroblast Differentiation During Eye Development."

Cully, Jr., Jack F., US Department of the Interior, $63,000, "Metapopulation Ecology of the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog: A Keystone Species of Badlands National Park."

Dritz, Steven S., National Pork Board, $24,754, "Corn Particle Size and Pelleting Influence on Fecal Shedding and Enteric Colonization of Salmonella Typhimurium."

Dyer, Ruth A., and Clegg, Victoria L., American Association for Higher Education, $5,000, "Encouraging Multiple Forms of Scholarly Excellence: Reflecting on Best Practice."

Dzewaltowski, David A., Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood, $20,000, "Evaluating and Enhancing the REACH and Dissemination of Health Promotion Interventions: The Behavior Change Consortium."

Erickson, Larry E., and Leven, Blase A., US Environmental Protection Agency, $6,660, "Technical Assistance to Brownfields in EPA Region 8."

Fenwick, Bradley W., US Department of Health & Human Services, $66,825, "Thrombin and vWF in Shiga-Toxin-Associated HUS."

Fingland, Roger B., University of Kansas, $4,000, "Pharm.D. Clerkship."

Garrett, Karen A., Land Institute, $3,000, "Perenniality, Cytogenetics, and Disease Resistance of Thinopyrum spp. X Triticum aestivum Hybrids and Genetic Heterogeneity Effects on Disease Epidemiology - Cindy M. Cox."

Gyurcsik, Nancy C., and Estabrooks, Paul A., Kansas Department of Health and Environment, $10,069, "Arthritis Foundation - Kansas Chapter Program Efficacy Evaluation Project."

Hargrove, William L., US Department of the Interior, $84,785, "Kansas Water Resources Research Institute." Havlicek, Barbara J., and Newhouse, Barbara S., AT&T Foundation, $105,000, "AT&T/KSU Project Solve."

Higgins, Randall A., Baldwin, Will G., Buchholz, Daryl D., Jardine, Douglas J., Marr, Charles W., Peterson, Dallas E., and Sloderbeck, Phillip E., US Department of Agriculture, $63,350, "Enhancing Information Exchange through a User-Friendly Diagnostic Image Library."

Hoag, Richard L., Metropolitan Community Colleges of Nebraska, $5,000, "Metropolitan Community College Studio Project."

Johannes, Elaine M., US Department of Agriculture, $250,000, "Opportunities for Prevention Education and Networking in Kansas."

Kane, Mary R., US Department of Education, $6,075, "Rewrite Ag Ed Standards."

Kane, Mary R., US Department of Education, $11,222, "Provide Inservice Activities for Beginning Teachers in Agriculture Education."

Kastner, Curtis L., Fung, Daniel Y.C., and Kropf, Donald H., US Department of Agriculture, $364,169, "Animal Sciences and Industry Food Safety Consortium-Kansas State University."

Kaufman, Glennis A., US Department of the Interior, $55,000, "Development and Evaluation of Gap-Related Educational Products."

Kluitenberg, Gerard J., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $92,609, "Flow and Distribution of Fluid Phases through Porous Plant Growth Media in Microgravity."

Knapp, Alan K., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $6,575, "Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Mobility Assignment Program."

Leach, Jan E., National Science Foundation, $22,000, "Workshop on Genomic Analysis of Plant-Associated Microorganisms, April 9 - 11, 2002."

Lee, Charles D., Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, $5,778, "Extension Education Position."

Long, James H., National Crop Insurance Services, $1,500, "Soybean Research in Southeast Kansas."

McGregor, Douglas S., US Department of Energy, $25,200, "Development and Fabrication of Improved GaAs Detectors."

Murphy, James P., and Harner III, Joseph P., US Environmental Protection Agency, $174,724, "Waste Management Water Quality Protection Learning Center - Part 2."

Musch, Timothy I., and Poole, David C., US Department of Health & Human Services, $218,250, "Aging, Chronic Disease and Skeletal Muscle Perfusion."

Poole, David C., US Department of Health & Human Services, $1,906, "Minority Predoctoral Fellowship - Danielle J. Padilla."

Ramaswamy, Sonny B., and Kadir, Sorkel M., US Department of Agriculture, $85,949, "Kansas Pesticide Usage Survey and Crop Profile Development."

Reddi, Lakshmi N., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $106,957, "Flow and Distribution of Fluid Phases Through Porous Plant Growth Media in Microgravity."

Riley, Jack G., Kansas Beef Council, $100,000, "Support of Regents Distinguished Professorship in Animal Sciences."

Rosenberg, Alexander, National Science Foundation, $42,300, "D-modules on Noncommutative Spaces, Noncommutative Local Algebra and Representations, Noncommutative Smooth Spaces."

Russell, Eugene R., and Landman, E. Dean, Kansas Department of Transportation, $35,000, "Assessment of a Personal Rapid Transit System within a University Campus and Surrounding Community."

Sargeant, Janice M., Nagaraja, Tiruvoor G., Oberst, Richard D., and Sanderson, Michael W., US Department of Agriculture, $194,555, "Ecology of E-coli O157:H7 in Beef Cow-Calf Operations from Ranch through Feedlot."

Stahlman, Phillip W., Monsanto Company, $5,000, "Risks of Weed Spectrum Shifts in Glyphosate-Resistant Cropping Systems."

Tuinstra, Mitchell R., and Hancock, Joe D., US Agency for International Development, $61,894, "Enhancing the Utilization of Grain Sorghum and Pearl Millet through the Improvement of Grain Quality via Genetic and Nutrition Research."

Upton, Steve J., US Department of Health & Human Services, $25,666, "In vitro Assay for Cryptosporidiosis." Von Bergen, Donald, and Thompson, Stephen, Kansas Department of Administration, $38,470, "Maintenance and Operation of GPS Base Station at KSU-Salina."

Wang, Xuemin, Shah, Jyoti, and Welti, Ruth, National Science Foundation, $150,000, "Metabolomic Profiling of Membrane Lipids and Their Compositional Dynamics in Plant Stress Responses."

Warren, Steven, National Science Foundation, $75,000, "Beyond Telemedicine: Realizing a Proactive Home Health Care Delivery Model through Research and Education in Plug-and-Play Components and Novel Sensors."

Wilde, Gerald E., Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., $2,000, "Product Transfer and Evaluation Agreement (Field Trials)."

Wissman, Janice R., and Soldan, Dorothy B., Ross, Paul, Charitable Foundation, $35,600, "Personal Finance Teacher Training/Curriculum Project."

Wyatt, Carol R., US Department of Health & Human Services, $3,405, "Mucosal Immune Responses during Cryptosporidiosis."