Vol. 19, No. 30

May 10, 2000

UDRF announces 2000-2001 award recipients

The University of Delaware Research Foundation has announced awards totaling $413,758 for the years 2000-2001. Following is a list of the research recipients, their departments, areas of research and award amounts. N. Attoh-Okine, civil and environmental engineering, "Modeling Dependence and Risk Analysis in Construction Project Management," $29,610; Gregory D. Binford, plant and soil sciences, "Nutrient Availability of Poultry Manure Generated from Feeding HAP Corn," $29,988; Catherine Davies, animal and food sciences, "Maillard Reaction in Soy Protein Isolates During Storage," $30,000; Javier Garcia-Frias, electrical and computer engineering, "New Coding Techniques for Improved Performance in Real Communications Systems," $29,950; Chandra Kambhamettu, computer and information sciences, "Analysis of Tongue Contours from Ultrasound Image Sequences for Speech Disorders," $29,948; Norman J. Karin, biological sciences, "Induction of Sarco/Endoplasmic Reticulum Biogenesis," $29,712; Yang-Ming (Martin) Lo, animal and food sciences, "Functionality of the Exopolysaccharide Produced from Whey Lactose by Bifidobacteria," $30,000; Sharon L. Neal, chemistry and biochemistry, "3-Way Dynamic Fluorescence Spectroscopy," $30,000; Edmund R. Nowak, physics and astronomy, "Anomalous Magnetoresistance in the Silver Chalcogenides," $30,000; Anne Skaja Robinson, chemical engineering, "Optimization of Folding and Expression of Enzymes from Extreme Environments," $30,000; Allan D. Shapiro, plant and soil sciences, "Metabolic Profiling-based Screen for Arabidopsis Disease Resistance Signaling Mutants," $30,000; Darla J. Sherrier, plant and soil sciences, "Proteomic Analysis of the Nitrogen-fixing Root Nodules," $30,000; Barry C. Walker,, physics and astronomy, "Time Resolution of Chemical Shifts Using XUV Photoelectron Spectroscopy," $29,980; and Qing Xiang, mathematical sciences, "Sequences with Nice Correlation Properties," $24,570.