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December 2000

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Awards - September and October 2000

The list below includes all awards processed and reported to the Board of the Institutions of Higher Learning during the months of January and February 2000. The Office of Research congratulates all recipients. Thank you for your hard work.

September 2000 Awards

James Chambers, National Center for Physical Acoustics
U. S. Department of Agriculture/Mississippi State University for “Practical Vitamin and Protein Nutrition, Fish Health, and Acoustics in Channel Catfish Farming,” $81,697.
Charles Smith, Electrical Engineering
U. S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command for “Advanced Radar Power Technology,” $1,000,000.
John O’Haver, Chemical Engineering
National Science Foundation to for “GK-12: The North Mississippi GK-12 Project,” $ 36,750.
James Reidy, Physics and Astronomy
Department of Energy for “Experimental Study of Electroweak and Heavy Flavor Physics (Amendment No. 24),” $ 69,400.
Steven Davis, Chemistry
National Science Foundation/Mississippi State University for “The University of Mississippi National Science Foundation EPSCoR Infrastructure,” $25,000.
Donald Cole, Graduate School
National Science Foundation for “Graduate Research Fellowship Program (2000-2001),” $17,850.
K. P. George, Civil Engineering
Waheed Uddin, Civil Engineering
Mississippi Department of Transportation for “Subgrade Characterization for Highway Pavement Design,” $14,952.
Donald Cole, Graduate School
U. S. Department of Education for “Ronald E. McNair Post‑Baccalaureate Program,” $221,827.

 

Mahmoud ElSohly, National Center for Natural Products Research
National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse, for “Production, Analysis and Distribution of Cannabis and Marijuana Cigarettes (Amendment 1),” $260,062.
Robert Woolsey, Mississippi Mineral Resource Institute
U. S. Department of the Interior for “The Center for Marine Resources and Environmental Technology,” $55,500.
John Seiner, National Center for Physical Acoustics
U. S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command for “Directed Research, Analysis, and Software Development for Aeroacoustically-Induced Vibration in Endoatmospheric Interceptors,” $1,302,000.
Mark Hamman, Pharmacognosy
National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for “AntiAIDS Agents from Marine Organisms (Year 6),” $252,000.
Dale Nagle, Pharmacognosy
Department of Defense/U. S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for “Discovery of New Drugs that Target Peroxisomal Proliferator Activated Receptor-Gamma (PPAR-Gamma) for the Treatment of Breast Tumors,” $72,000.
Walter Cleland, Chemistry
National Science Foundation/Mississippi State University for “The University of Mississippi National Science Foundation EPSCoR Infrastructure,” $31,250.
Mitchell Avery, Medicinal Chemistry
World Health Organization for “Design, Economic Synthesis and Testing of Nontoxic Orally Active Analogs of Artemisinin,” $43,490.
Alice Clark, National Center for Natural Products Research
Alcorn State University for “Natural Products Initiative,” $700,000.
Mitchell Avery, Medicinal Chemistry
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Infectious Diseases for “Development and Testing of New Antimalarial Drugs,” $5,000,000.
Mitchell Avery, Medicinal Chemistry
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Infectious Diseases for “Development and Testing of New Medications for Treatment of Emerging Infectious Diseases,” $1,500,000.

October 2000 Awards

Ron Borne, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
National Science Foundation/Mississippi State University for “University of Mississippi National Science Foundation EPSCoR Infrastructure,” $14,000.
Ellen Lackey, Mechanical Engineering
Georgia-Pacific Shared Services Corporation for “Examination of Phenolic Resins Used for Pultrusion, Part III,” $1,875.00.
James Vaughan, Mechanical Engineering, from CCD Research Group Structures Laboratory at the Waterways Experiment Station for “Pultrusion of Veiled Structures,” $2,478.
Walter Gurley, Mississippi Small Business Development Center, from U. S. Small Business Administration for “Mississippi Small Business Development Center,” $24,569.
John Winkle, Social Science Research Laboratory
Mississippi State Administrative Office of Courts for “Gender Fairness Survey,” $42,500.
Marjorie Holland, University of Mississippi Field Station/Center for Water and Wetland Resources
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency for “Effectiveness of Silvicultural Best Management Practices (BMP) in Protecting Aquatic Habitat in Timber Management Areas,” $100,000.
Marjorie Holland, University of Mississippi Field Station/Center for Water and Wetland Resources
National Science Foundation for “Acquisition of Instrumentation for Development of a Laboratory in Environmental Biogeochemistry and Groundwater Analyses,” $386,371.
S. N. Prasad, Civil Engineering, from U. S. Department of Agriculture for “Transport of Sediment by Wave Power in Shallow Flow (Amendment 6),” $10,000.
K. P. George, Civil Engineering
Portland Cement Association for “Soil Stabilization Field Trial,” $20,178.
J. Robert Woolsey, Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute
U. S. Department of the Interior/Mineral Management Service for “The Center for Marine Resources and Environmental Technology (Task Order 16178, Modification 1),” $457,500.
J. Robert Woolsey, Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute
U. S. Department of the Interior/Mineral Management Service for “The Center for Marine Resources and Environmental Technology (Modification 6),” $57,000.
S. N. Prasad, Civil Engineering
U. S. Department of Agriculture for “Predicting Infiltration and Incipient Ponding into Swelling and Cracking Soils (Amendment 6),” $35,000.
S. N. Prasad, Civil Engineering
U. S. Department of Agriculture to for “Predicting Infiltration and Incipient Ponding into Swelling and Cracking Soils (Amendment 5),” $3,383.
Brian Barkdoll, Civil Engineering
U. S. Department of Agriculture for “Geotechnical Evaluation of Cohesive Materials and their Interactions with Riparian Zones (Amendment 6),” $9,000.
Donald Cole, Graduate School
U. S. Department of Education for “Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Program,” $3,000.
Jon Parcher, Chemistry
National Science Foundation for “Applications of Frontal Chromatography to Multicomponent Systems,” $192,000.
Henry Bass, National Center for Physical Acoustics
U. S. Army Research Office for “Support for the Ninth International Symposium on Long-Range Sound Propagation,” $9,800.
Ken Gilbert, National Center for Physical Acoustics
U. S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for “Acoustic Technology Research: New and Innovative Ideas For Advanced Technology Exploitation,” $1,200,000.
Peter Sukanek, Chemical Engineering
Old Dominion University Research Foundation to for “NASA Solar System Education Program,” $560.50.
Pamela Lawhead, Computer and Information Science
U. S. Department of Agriculture for “Software and Database Development for Utilization of AGNPS98 (Amendment 2),” $168,326.
Pamela Lawhead, Computer and Information Science
U. S. Department of Agriculture for “Software and Database Development for the Utilization of AGNPS 98 (Amendment 3),” $9,500.
James Chambers, National Center for Physical Acoustics
U. S. Department of Agriculture for “Acoustic Technologies for Evaluating Catfish Production (Amendment 1),” $48,780.
Henry Bass, National Center for Physical Acoustics
Office of Naval Research for “Physical Acoustic Research Initiative (Modification P0004),” $500,000.
Clint Williford, Chemical Engineering
U. S. Department of Energy for “DOE EPSCoR,” $57,809.
Sam Davis, School of Law
U. S. Department of Justice for “National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law,” $3,000,000.
Jane Logan, National Food Service Management Institute
U. S. Department of Agriculture for “FY 2000 Cooperative Agreement,” $2,690,000.
Henry Bass, National Center for Physical Acoustics
Defense Threat Reduction Agency for “United States Installation of Data Acquisition and Communication Interfaces for Dual-Use CTBT Auxiliary Stations,” $255,000.
Walter Gurley, Small Business Development Center
U. S. Small Business Development Center for “Small Business Development Center,” $847,168.
Alice Clark, National Center for Natural Products Research
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “Phytomedicines at The University of Mississippi,” $1,823,000.
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