Research Corporation for Science Advancement

Cottrell College Science Awards

Single Investigator Awards
2006 Spring

American University
Nathan L. Harshman , Computer Science, Aud. Tech., and Physics: Quantum information theory and particle physics: Entanglement in multiparticle scattering—$ 22,386

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Eric J. Hawrelak , Department of Chemistry: Catalytic synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocyles using organocobalt complexes—$ 36,500

Brock University
Tomas Hudlicky , Department of Chemistry: Development of new catalysts for asymmetric synthesis: Chemoenzymatic total synthesis of thebaine—$ 29,500

Brock University
Martin T. Lemaire , Department of Chemistry: Design, synthesis, and study of new oligo- and polymeric valence tautomeric materials—$ 32,000

Brock University
Georgii Nikonov , Department of Chemistry: New early-late heterobimetallic catalytic systems supported by bridging phosphido ligands—$ 32,616

Brock University
Melanie Pilkington , Department of Chemistry: The synthesis and characterization of novel spin bearing tetrathiafulvalene ligands—$ 29,800

Brock University
Hongbin Yan , Department of Chemistry: Solid-phase synthesis of small interference RNA (siRNA) using the Cpep as a novel protecting group for the 2'-hydroxy functions—$ 42,000

California State University, Long Beach
Jiyeong Gu , Department of Physics and Astronomy: Proximity effect in ferromagnet/superconductor (MgB 2) hybrid system—$ 31,134

Central Michigan University
Bradley D. Fahlman , Department of Chemistry: Mechanistic studies of low-temperature nanostructural carbon growth—$ 31,218

Central Washington University
Levente Fabry-Asztalos , Department of Chemistry: Novel 1,3-azaborine heterocycles as aspartic protease inhibitors—$ 38,828

City University of New York, York College
Adam A. Profit , Department of Chemistry: Peptide conjugate inhibitors of protein kinase B—$ 35,684

Cleveland State University
Ulrich Zurcher , Department of Physics: Mathematical description of surface electromyography time series—$ 32,220

Colby College
Jeffrey Katz , Department of Chemistry: Heteroatom-bridged aromatic macrocycles: Development of an oxacalixarene-based molecular toolbox—$ 42,684

Colgate University
Jeffrey T. Buboltz , Department of Physics and Astronomy: Establishing tie line patterns in phase-separated lipid raft mixtures by equilbrium surface pressure analysis—$ 39,771

College of the Holy Cross
Joshua R. Farrell , Department of Chemistry: Modular design of biomimetic ligands synthesized by Mannich condensations—$ 35,038

College of the Holy Cross
Richard S. Herrick , Department of Chemistry: Novel group 7 organometallic compounds as diagnostic imaging agents—$ 37,040

College of the Holy Cross
Paul Oxley , Department of Physics: Charge transfer collisions using coherent elliptical state atoms—$ 43,997

Colorado College
Gretchen A. Repasky , Department of Chemistry: Biochemical role of the PEDF tumor suppressor in Ras-mediated pancreatic oncogenesis—$ 42,645

Creighton University
David L. Sidebottom , Department of Physics: Dynamic light scattering investigation of the mixed alkali effect in alkali metaphosphate glasses—$ 37,200

DePauw University
Jacqueline R. Roberts , Department of Chemistry: Determination of important metal binding residues in an archaeal SmtB/ArsR transcription factor—$ 39,682

DePaul University
Anuj P. Sarma , Department of Physics: High angular resolution Zeeman effect observations of water masers in star forming regions—$ 20,656

East Carolina University
Yumin Li , Department of Chemistry: Molecular dynamics studies on S100 proteins and rational drug design—$ 38,218

Eastern Washington University
Chad A. Kinney , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry: Earthworms - sentinel indicators of exposure and bioaccumulation of wastewater derived contaminants in biosolid-impacted soils—$ 44,766

Elon University
Joel M. Karty , Department of Chemistry: Resonance and inductive/field effects in fundamental chemical systems—$ 30,148

Fordham University
Kunal K. Das , Department of Physics: Quantum interference effects in strongly-correlated and spin-entangled states in nanostructures and ultra-cold atomic systems—$ 41,220

Goucher College
Marin Pichler , Department of Physics: Formation and investigation of ultracold polar KCs molecules—$ 42,000

Hope College
Jason G. Gillmore , Department of Chemistry: Photochromic photooxidants: Developing a series of electron poor photochromes to gate photoinduced charge transfer—$ 43,219

Idaho State University
Andrew W. Holland , Department of Chemistry: Chelated amidometal complexes for catalytic C-N bond formation: N-H bond activation and strongly nucleophilic nitrogen centers—$ 39,204

Illinois State University
Rainer Grobe , Department of Physics: Computational quantum field theory—$ 35,218

Indiana State University
Richard Wayne Fitch , Department of Chemistry: Enantioselective sulfur-mediated oxidation of alcohols—$ 38,218

Indiana State University
Eric D. Glendening , Department of Chemistry: Oxidation of organic molecules on metal oxide clusters—$ 30,218

Ithaca College
Anna Larsen , Department of Chemistry: Non-coordinating carborane counterions for cationic organometallic catalysis—$ 38,035

James Madison University
Kevin P. Minbiole , Department of Chemistry: Small ring fragmentation strategies for the synthesis of chiral heterocycles—$ 15,071

Kennesaw State University
Karen M. Duda Rippe , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry: Effects on HNF4 a cofactor binding in response to variation of fatty acid ligand populations —$ 34,351

Lebanon Valley College
Timothy J. Peelen , Department of Chemistry: Direct synthesis of Fmoc-protected amines via acyl iminium chemistry—$ 43,758

Luther College
Todd K. Pedlar , Department of Physics: Studies of heavy quarkonium spectroscopy with the CLEO and CLEO-c experiments—$ 36,076

Macalester College
Tonnis Ter Veldhuis , Department of Physics & Astronomy: The construction of brane world effective field theories—$ 33,218

Miami University
James P. Clemens , Department of Physics: Many-atom entanglement produced via collective spontaneous emission—$ 38,236

Northern Arizona University
Gary E. Bowman , Department of Physics and Astronomy: Quantum trajectories and decoherence in an archetypal chaotic system—$ 23,682

Oberlin College
Rebecca J. Whelan , Department of Chemistry: Development of aptamer-based assays for biomarkers of ovarian cancer—$ 32,220

Occidental College
Darrell F Schroeter , Department of Physics: Quantum number fractionalization in an exactly solvable model for the chiral spin liquid—$ 38,398

Pacific Lutheran University
Myriam Cotten , Department of Chemistry: Solid-state NMR investigations of molecular recognition and structure-function relationships in antimicrobial piscidin at water-lipid interfaces—$ 42,000

Pacific Lutheran University
Paul H. Davis , Department of Chemistry: SERS microscopy using gold nanoparticle aggregates: High sensitivity detection and identification of molecules—$ 45,610

Pacific University
Stephen C. Hall , Department of Physics: Investigation of possible intermediate phase transition in the crystal growth of highly supecooled fragile glass formers—$ 43,303

Rutgers University, Camden
Daniel-Dennis McAlevy Bubb , Department of Physics: Resonant infrared matrix assisted pulsed laser deposition of polymers and biomaterials—$ 35,000

Saint Joseph 's University
Brian S. Hammes , Department of Chemistry: Controlling oxygen activation of Fe(II)-polyimidazole complexes via proton-coupled electron transfer—$ 39,886

San Jose State University
Gilles Muller , Department of Chemistry: The design and photophysics of lanthanide complex-based luminescent probes—$ 45,000

Seton Hall University
Frank G. Curti , Department of Physics: Electrochemical properties of metallic quantum wells—$ 28,274

Southern Connecticut State University
Matthew Enjalran , Department of Physics: A study of geometric frustration in the two dimensional Hubbard model—$ 26,684

Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Cristina De Meo , Department of Chemistry: Oxazolidinone protected sialosyl donors and acceptors: Effect on the stereoselectivity and reactivity in glycosylation reactions—$ 39,998

Sweet Briar College
Scott D. Hyman , Department of Physics: A galactic center transient radio source monitoring program—$ 25,342

Texas State University, San Marcos
Walter Rudzinski , Department of Chemistry: The effects of immobilizing the matrix in laser desorption ionization/mass spectrometry—$ 33,657

University of Colorado at Denver and Health Science Center
Hai Lin , Department of Chemistry: Reaction mechanism and dynamics of cytochrome P2450 3A4 enzyme by combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical computation—$ 34,950

University of Massachusetts, Boston
Stephen B. Arnason , Department of Physics: Noise spectroscopy of a relaxing electron glass—$ 33,868

University of Memphis
Mohamed Laradji , Department of Physics: Numerical studies of compositional and morphological inhomogeneities in lipid membranes—$ 35,264

University of Minnesota, Duluth
Viktor N. Nemykin , Department of Chemistry: Synthesis, characterization, and theoretical modeling of ferrocenyl-substituted tetraazaporphyrins—$ 35,680

University of Minnesota, Duluth
Jon N. Rumbley , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry: Complimentarity between transmembrane amino acids of the organic anion transporters and substrates by QSAR and mutational analysis—$ 35,900

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Nadja Cech , Department of Chemsitry and Biochemistry: Elucidation of Echinacea's mechanism of action: A proteomic approach—$ 34,084

University of North Florida
Robert Vergenz , Chemistry & Physics: Role of methyl-donated hydrogen bonds in protein secondary structure and folding—$ 41,554

University of Northern British Columbia
Stephen Rader , Department of Chemistry: The role of U4 snRNP in spliceosome assembly—$ 45,050

University of Richmond
Jonathan D. Dattelbaum , Department of Chemistry: Design of novel fluorescent protein biosensors—$ 33,420

University of South Dakota
P. Stanley May , Department of Chemistry: Potential for metal-surface enhancement of upconversion luminescence from lanthanide-doped nanoparticles—$ 39,002

University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
James E. Boulter , Department of Chemistry: Laboratory studies of hydrocarbon uptake on mixed ammonia hydrate and sulfide ices present in the Jovian atmosphere—$ 43,190

University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Jason A. Halfen , Department of Chemistry: Chemistry of high-valent imidoiron complexes—$ 36,176

Wellesley College
Don ald E. Elmore , Department of Chemistry: Dissecting membrane interactions of the antimicrobial peptide Buforin II using computer modeling and experimental biochemistry—$ 41,561

Wilfrid Laurier University
Vladimir V. Kitaev , Department of Chemistry: Highly-ordered metallodielectric nanocomposites for photonics via self-assembly of monodispersed rationally designed nanoparticles—$ 35,806

Wilkes University
Henry J. Castejon , Department of Chemistry: Modeling the liquid-gas interface using self-assembled monolayers—$ 34,362

Youngstown State University
Tom N. Oder , Department of Physics and Astronomy: Growth and delta doping of ZnO epitaxial films by magnetron sputter deposition—$ 43,470