Cottrell College Science Awards

Byron L. Bennett, Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide by Re(I) in fluorous media-$39,683

Christopher R. Brazier, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Long Beach: Jet-cooled emission spectroscopy of silicon boride-$35,382

Sara Ann Brazill, Department of Chemistry, Colgate University: Investigaton of DNA aptamer-protein recognition utilizing electrochemical techniques: Developments toward a protein microarray-$35,910

Daniel-Dennis McAlevy Bubb, Department of Physics, Seton Hall University: Resonant infrared pulsed laser deposition of polymer thin films-$35,000

Kevin L. Caran, Department of Chemistry, James Madison University: Facile synthesis and derivatization of two novel rigid trimeric scaffolds-$35,000

Nadja Cech, Department of Chemsitry and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Indentification of immune-stimulating liver metabolites of Echinacea-$34,784

Jeffrey S. Dyck, Department of Physics, John Carroll University: Pressure tuning the ferromagnetic transition in the layered V2-VI3 diluted magnetic semiconductors-$35,845

Timothy E. Elgren, Department of Chemistry, Hamilton College: Characterization of sol-gel encapsulated amine oxidase and chloroperoxidase-$35,220

Jason J. Engbrecht, Department of Physics, Saint Olaf College: Studies of positronium-gas interactions using an Age-Momentum Correlation spectrometer-$36,218

Bradley D. Fahlman, Department of Chemistry, Central Michigan University: Supercritical fluid facilitated growth of carbon nanotube-dendrimer nanocomposite materials-$37,830

Stephen A. FitzGerald, Department of Physics, Oberlin College: Quantum dynamics of gas doped fullerene systems-$37,648

Gregory Foster, Department of Physics and Astronomy, CUNY, Hunter College: Spin squeezing and entanglement of cold atoms for applications in precision measurement and quantum information-$35,144

Scott Victor Franklin, Department of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology: Jamming in large aspect-ratio granular materials-$35,018

Liping Gan, Department of Physics, University of North Carolina at Wilmington: Precision measurements of electromagnetic properties of the light pseudoscalar mesons-$28,110

Michael Gerken, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge: Novel molybdenum sulfide fluorides and polysulfide fluoride complexes-$28,980

Karl A. Haushalter, Department of Chemistry, Harvey Mudd College: The influence of chromatin structure on the repair of 8-oxoguanine DNA lesions-$34,976

Joel M. Karty, Department of Chemistry, Elon University: Resonance and inductive contributions to fundamental chemical systems-$34,218

Courtney Lannert, Department of

Physics, Wellesley College: Variational wavefunction Monte Carlo analysis of cooperative ring exchange in the intermediate-U Hubbard model-$35,148

Mark E. Little, Department of Physics and Engineering, Hope College: Charge carrier transport investigations in amorphous nitride films using time-of-flight drift mobility-$46,048

Craig D. MacKinnon, Department of Chemistry, Lakehead University: Engineering the structures of new oligomeric semiconductors-$32,713

Robert W. McGaff, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse: Solventothermal synthesis of transition metal alkoxides-$36,311

Marcia A. Miller-Rodeberg, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire: The degradation of azo dyes by the catalase/peroxidase enzymes of Brevibacterium fuscum-$40,576

Kevin P. Minbiole, Department of Chemistry, James Madison University: A cyclopropane fragmentation approach to heterocycle assembly-$35,000

Frank C. Peiris, Department of Physics, Kenyon College: Investigation of the electronic excitation structure of spintronics based diluted magnetic semiconductors using spectroscopic ellipsometry-$36,920

William F. Polik, Department of Chemistry, Hope College: Spectroscopically accurate potential energy surface calculations at high energies-$45,000

Kate Queeney, Department of Chemistry, Smith College: Wet chemical oxidation of silicon: A microscopic and macroscopic approach-$33,410

Ramin Radfar, Department of Chemistry, Wofford College: Structural analysis on the role of glycolytic enzyme enolase in interaction with cholesteryl esters and inhibition of cholesteryl ester hydrolase-$45,220

Yuriy Razskazovskiy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, East Tennessee State University: Sequence-specific radiation targeting of DNA in hypoxic environment-$36,335

John N. Richardson, Department of Chemistry, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania: Application of colloidal Au nanoparticles to attenuated total reflectance spectroelectrochemical sensing-$35,563

Kelly R. Roos, Department of Physics, Bradley University: Interlayer diffusion in metallic epitaxial systems-$34,144

Drew Rutherford, Department of Chemistry, Concordia College: Enantioselective catalysis in "green" solvents: Recyclable catalysts for perfluorocarbon and supercritical carbon dioxide solvent systems-$29,085

Paula Jean Schlax, Department of Chemistry, Bates College: Characterization of the role of RpoS mRNA interactions with regulatory factors during osmotic induction of the rpoS gene-$24,150

Kevin M. Shea, Department of Chemistry, Smith College: A new strategy for the synthesis of tricyclic compounds using cobalt mediated reactions-$33,684

George C. Shields, Department of Chemistry, Hamilton College: Quantum chemical investigation of the mechanism of action of the enediyne natural products-$35,000

Shane Stadler, Department of Physics, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: Half-metallic nanocomposites-$38,500

Rebecca A. Surman, Department of Physics, Union College: Heavy element synthesis in outflows from gamma-ray burst accretion disks-$20,948

Daren J. Timmons, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Military Institute: Development of metallaligands for the synthesis and luminescence studies of mixed d- and f-block complexes-$39,755

Scott M. Ulrich, Department of Chemistry, Ithaca College: Generation of allele-specific histone deacetylase inhibitors-$38,14

Xiaotai Wang, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado at Denver: Lanthanide-carboxylate coordination polymers: Syntheses, structures, and porous applications-$42,970

Guo-meng Zhao, Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Los Angeles: Oxygen-isotope effects on electrical transport and magnetic properties in single crystals and thin films of manganites-$45,803