Archive issue
September 15, 2003

People


University of Kentucky Research
New Accounts

•Jaykrishna Ambati, Ophthalmology, $100,000, Novel Mouse Models of Age-Related Macular Degeneration.
•Susan Barron, Psychology, $144,674, Polyamines in Neonatal Alcohol Neurotoxicity.
•Allen Brenzel, Psychiatry, $439,010, The Comprehensive Assessment and Training Services Project (CATS).
•Lauretta Byars, Minority Affairs, $83,000, Governor’s Minority College Awareness Program.
•Sean Campbell, Geography, $29,110, Chemical Weathering and Landscape Evolution in Norway and Finland.
•Joseph Crabtree, Kentucky Transportation Center, $50,000, Transportation Operations Center (TOC) Evaluation-Federal Aid Research Task No. 124.
•Thomas Curry, Obstetrics and Gynecology, $1,677,837, Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Women’s Health (COBRE).
•James Dinger, KY Geological Survey, $135,000, Kentucky Army National Guard 2002-2004.
•Joyce Evans, Graduate Center Biomedical Engineering, $266,320, Dynamics of Cardiorespiratory Responses to Particulate Exposures.
•Chandrachuranan Gairola, Pharmaceutical Technology, $245,055, Chemoprevention of Experimental Tobacco Carciniogenesis.
•Thomas Garrity, Behavioral Science, $209,480, Research Training in Drug Abuse Behavior.
•Arthur Hunt, AES/Agronomy, $859,000, Arabidopsis Polyadenylation Factor Subunits - Mutants and Protein Interaction Networks.
•Don Gash, Anatomy and Neurobiology, $84,042, Drug Distribution Study of Recombinant-Methionyl Human Glial Cell Line Derived Neurotropic Factor (r-metHu-GDNF) via Continuous Intraputamen Infusion in Rhesus Monkeys.
•Judith Goldsmith, Computer Science, $319,000, ITR: Decision-Theoretic Planning with Constraints.
•Chris Groeber, Social Work, $300,000, CHAFEE Independent Living Mentoring.
•Theodore Grossardt, Kentucky Transportation Center, $36,100, Historic Assessment of Properties Subject to Impact by Highway Construction-Federal Aid Research Task No. 127.
•Sandra Hackney, Lexington CC Instruction, $22,797, Real Estate Education Grant.
•Diane Haynes, Family Studies, $3,500, Transdisciplinary Service Delivery for Children with Severe and Multiple Disabilities Including Deaf Blindness.
•John Hiett, Center for Applied Energy Research, $167,808, Mine Mapping Program.
•Michael Jabbour, Mathematics, $8,500, Conference on Multiscale Effects in Material Microstructures and Defects.
•Jeffery Keller, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, $50,000, Mechanisms Responsible for and Involvement of Elevated Levels of p53 in HD.
•Avery Kerley, Lexington Institutional Support, $213,118, LCC FY 2004 Perkins Grant Objective 1.
•Avery Kerley, Lexington Institutional Support, $96,081, LCC FY 2004 Perkins Grant Objective 2.
•Avery Kerley, Lexington Institutional Support, $35,000, LCC FY 2004 Perkins Grant Objective 3.
•Avery Kerley, Lexington Institutional Support, $27,300, LCC FY 2004 Perkins Grant Objective 4.
•Avery Kerley, Lexington Institutional Support, $7,000, LCC FY 2004 Perkins Grant Objective 5.
•Avery Kerley, Lexington Institutional Support, $14,082, LCC FY 2004 Perkins Grant Objective 6.
•Avery Kerley, Lexington Institutional Support, $10,655, LCC FY 2004 Perkins Grant Objective 7.
•Fred Knapp, AES/Assoc. Director’s Office, $20,000, Administration and Evaluation of the Southern Region IPM Program.
•Donald Linebaugh,Program for Archaeological Research, $30,168, Interstate 65 Widening Barren, Edmonson, Hart, Larue and Hardin Counties Phase I Archaeological Survey - Item #4-10.01 & 4-10.05.
•Charles Lutz, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, $181,037, Molecular Mechanisms Controlling KIR Genes in NK Cells.
•Timothy McClintock, Physiology, $49,839, NIDCD Administrative Supplement for the Development of Mice Carrying Targeted Gene Mutations.
•Katherine McCormick, Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, $235,000, University of KY Technical Assistance Team.
•Madhusudan Menon, Computational Sciences, $19,800, Structure, Stability and Signal Processing in Branched Carbon Nanotube Structures.
•Robert Mentzer, Surgery/Department, Clinical Trial, Clinical Protocol for a Double-Blind Multicenter Study of the Safety and Efficacy of Paracoxib/Valdecoxib and Valdecoxib Compared to Placebo for Treatment of Post-Surgical Pain in Patients who have Coronary Bypass Graft via Median Sternotomy (Revision 3).
•R. Milich, Psychology, $3,884, Cognitive Restructuring in Helping Women Cope with Victimization.
•Susan Modesitt, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Trial, A Double Blind Placebo Controlled Multicenter Clinical Trial of Intravenous OvaRex MAb-B43.13 as Post Chemotherapy Consolidation for Epithelial Carcinoma of Ovarian Tubal or Peritoneal Origin.
•Carole Moncman, RCTF-Biochemistry, $294,000, The Role of Nebulin Isoforms in Thin Filament Assembly.
•Peter Nagy, RCTF-1-Plant Sciences-PlantPath, $68,000, Dissecting the Mechanism of Viral RNA Recombination.
•Peter Nagy, RCTF-1-Plant Sciences-PlantPath, $75,000, Characterization of Host Factors Involved in Plant Virus Replication Using Yeast as a Host.
•Lindell Ormsbee, KY Water Resources Institute, $300,000, Pathogen and Nutrient Enrichment TMDL for Beargrass Creek Watershed in Jefferson County, Ky.
•Lindell Ormsbee, KY Water Resources Institute, $74,300, Watershed Mangement Services.
•Lindell Ormsbee, KY Water Resources Institute, $24,500, Feasibility Study for New Dam on Pool 8 of the Kentucky River.
•Jerry Pigman, Kentucky Transportation Center, $40,000, Evaluation of Traffic Information and Prediction System-Federal Aid Research Task No. 128.
•Lynne Rieske-Kinney, AES/Entomology, $40,000, Recovery of Wood Vegetation Following Overstory Mortality From the Southern Pine Beetle-Phase I.
•S. Rimmer, Geology, $169,979, Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration in Devonian-Mississippian Anoxic Basins.
•Craig Rush, Behavioral Science, $219,000, Human Cocaine Discrimination.
•Jackie Sampers, Pediatrics, $143,582, Developmental Evaluation Services for Infants and Toddlers for the Kentucky Early Intervention System (KEIS).
•Jackie Sampers, Pediatrics, $10,000, PREPNET.
•Kevin Sarge, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, $284,493, Regulation of HSF2 SUMO-1 Modification.
•J. Selegue, Chemistry, $172,000, MRI Acquisition of Instrumentation for Thermal Characterization of Materials.
•Timothy Sineath, School of Library and Information Science, $38,316, Southeast Archives Education Collaborative.
•Daret St. Clair, Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences, $97,521, Training Program in Oxidative Stress and Nutrition.
•John Stanford, RCTF-Anatomy and Neurobiology, $73,513, GDNF and Motor Related Striatal Activity in Aged Rats.
•Glenn Telling, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, $134,516, Genetic Susceptibility and Biological Characterization of Chronic Wasting Disease.
•Eric Thompson, Economics, $96,010, System for Valuing Changes to Environmental Amenities.
•Eric Thompson, Center for Business and Economic Research, $24,376, An Economic Impact Study of the State Park System in Kentucky.
•Paul Toussaint, Kentucky Transportation Center, $175,000, Routine Highway Operations Environmental Performance Assessment and Implementation Plan.
•Timothy Uhl, Rehabilitation Sciences, $865, Electromyography of Shoulder and Scapular Musculature during Progressive Resistive Elevation Exercises.
•Robert Vallance,Mechanical Engineering, $9,450,       Opto Mechanical Design for Interferometry on Molecular Measuring Machine.
•Kenneth Warlick, Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, $110,000, ILSSA - South Carolina.
•Kenneth Warlick, Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, $12,000, ILSSA-DE.
•Jerold Woodward, Microbiology and Immunology, $43,969, Nanoengineered HIV-1 Vaccines Based on Tat.
•Cheryl Wyatt, CES/Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, $36,752, PACE in KY 03-04 Physically Active Community Environments.
•John Yannelli, Internal Medicine, $8,820, Nanoengineered HIV-1 Vaccines Based on Tat.
•Robert Yokel, Pharmaceutical Technology, $144,793, Reduction of Toxicity in the Premature Neonate Associated with Aluminum as a Contaminant.
•Linda Yonts, Lexington CC Instruction, $22,400, Scholarships for Nursing Students @ LCC.
•Chang-Guo Zhan, Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, $212,766, Redesign of Butylcholinesterase for Cocaine Metabolism.

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