UpDate - Vol. 11, No. 19, Page 1
February 13, 1992
UDRF announces 16 awards at annual luncheon Jan. 11

     The University of Delaware Research Foundation (UDRF) awarded
16 research grants totaling $328,600 at its annual meeting Jan. 11.
     UDRF, a private, non-profit organization, is dedicated to
supporting young faculty members with promising new projects and
established researchers who are delving into new fields.
     Individual recipients of UDRF grants for 1992-93 are

College of Arts and Sciences
     H. Keith Chenault, assistant professor of chemistry and
biochemistry, $20,000 for "Designed a-Helical Peptides
Incorporating Unnatural Amino Acids";
     Gregory R. Moe, assistant professor of chemistry and
biochemistry, $10,000 for "Peptide Models of Protein Tertiary
Structure";
     Klaus H. Theopold, associate professor of chemistry and
biochemistry, $20,000 for "Oxidation Catalysis by Transition Metal
Complexes";
     Michael Paterakis, assistant professor of computer and
information sciences, $19,000 for "Fairness Issues in High Speed
Metropolitan Area Networks";
     Daniel J. Leathers, assistant professor of geography, $17,500
for "Snow Cover/Atmosphere Interactions Across the Northeast United
States";
     Sheella Mierson, associate professor of life and health
sciences, $17,000 for "Transport Mechanisms in Rat Taste Cells";
     Lynn Snyder-Mackler, assistant professor of life and health
sciences, $17,000 for "Muscle Morphology and Fatigue in Quadriceps
after Cruciate Ligament Surgery";
     Reinhold Blumel, adjunct associate professor of physics and
astronomy, $20,000 for "Spectral Statistics, Transport and Decay of
Waves in Confining Structures";

College of Engineering
     Jane Feng Powley, post-doctoral student in civil engineering,
$13,000 for "Impact of Global Warming on Atmospheric Ozone
Concentration";
     Anthony S. Wexler, assistant professor of mechanical
engineering, $20,000 for "Modeling Air Pollution Aerosols";

College of Marine Studies
     Patrick M. Gaffney, assistant professor, $18,000 for "Sea
Squirt Immunogenetics";
     Frank R. Hall, assistant professor, $20,000 for
"Mineral-Magnetic Evidence of Deglaciation in the Maritime Region";
     Xiao-Hai Yan, assistant professor, $19,100 for "Remote Sensing
of Surface Flow Fields of Delaware Coast"; and

Bartol Research Institute
     David Seckel, assistant professor of physics, $18,000 for
"Particle Astrophysics."
     A block grant of $40,000 was awarded to Masoud Ghodrati,
assistant professor of plant and soil sciences, and Charles S. Ih,
professor of electrical engineering, for "Characterization of the
Preferential Flow of Chemicals in Soil with Fiber Optics."
     A block grant of $40,000 was awarded to Richard Geider and
Patrick Gaffney, assistant professor and David Kirchman, associate
professor, marine studies, for "Molecular Signals in Marine
Ecology."
                                        - Barbara Garrison