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 |