Cottrell College Science Awards

Hind A. Al-Abadleh, Department of Chemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University: Surface interactions of organoarsenical compounds with model geosorbents: In-situ spectroscopic studies-$40,000

S. Burcin Bayram, Department of Physics, Miami University: Photoionization spectroscopy of highly excited cesium atoms-$37,539

Andreas Bill, Department of Astronomy, California State University, Long Beach: Coexistence of superconductivity and inhomogeneous ferromagnetism in multilayer structures-$26,684

Anthony J. Borgerding, Department of Chemistry, University of Saint Thomas: Nitric oxide studies in brains of living animals using gas phase microdialysis sampling-$35,218

Mauricio Cafiero, Department of Chemistry, Rhodes College: The application of density functional theory and ab initio methods to aromatic protein/ligand binding-$36,914

Anthony R. Chianese, Department of Chemistry, Colgate University: Visor N-heterocyclic carbene ligands: An approach to secondary-sphere regulation of selectivity in homogeneous catalysis-$42,750

Daniel D. Clark, Department of Chemistry, California State University, Chico: Proteomic an biochemical investigation of Coenzyme-M biosynthesis in Nocardioides sp. strain JS614-$46,318

Keri L. Colabroy, Department of Chemistry, Muhlenberg College: Lincomycin biosynthesis: The enzymology of propylhygric acid assembly-$37,942

JoAnn Peters DeLuca, Department of Chemistry, Central Washington University: Imprinting silica gel surfaces through reversible covalent attachment of organic templates-$41,218

Chiles Wade Downey, Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond: A tandem enol silane formation-Mukaiyama aldol reaction: Controlling cationic silicon-$39,822

Melissa Eblen-Zayas, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Carleton College: Exploration of possible phase inhomogeneity in EuO thin films exhibiting a colossal magnetoresistive response-$22,911

Jussi M. Eloranta, Department of Chemistry, California State University, Northridge: Application of non-local bosonic density functional theory to model molecular-scale phenomena in superfluid 4He-$41,218

Lars Q. English, Department of Astronomy, Dickinson College: Generation of lattice solitons via modulational instability in discrete electronic transmission lines- $29,226

Paula L. Fischhaber, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Northridge: The temporal role of ubiquitylation and sumoylation in nucleotide excision repair-$42,780

Steven T. Frey, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Skidmore College: Phototriggered linkage isomerization of immobilized ruthenium dimethylsulfoxide complexes-$44,990

Robert M. Giuliano, Department of Chemistry, Villanova University: Synthesis and structural characterization of functionalized graphite nanofibers: Materials for nanoscale applications in biology-$37,000

Brian Goess, Department of Chemistry, Furman University: Development of homologated [2,3] and [3,3] sigmatropic rearrangements-$42,618

Andrea Gorrell, Department of Chemistry, University of Northern British Columbia: mRNA turnover in arcaea: Purification and charactization of a putative RNase-$25,554

Gregory J. Grant, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga: Self-assembled platinum(II) and palladium(II) molecular square containing trithiacrown complexes as vertices-$35,218

Piotr Habdas, Department of Physics, Saint Joseph's University: Fluorescence microscopy studies of the re-entrant glass transition-$43,500

Cindy DeForest Hauser, Department of Chemistry, Davidson College: Heterogeneous chemistry of secondary organic aerosols and gas-phase oxidants-$39,454

Geneive E. Henry, Department of Chemistry, Susquehanna University: Chemical and biological investigation of hypericum species-$34,980

Robert J. Hinkle, Department of Chemistry, College of William and Mary: Establishing the active catalyst in Bi(III)-mediated reactions-$33,983

Byung I. Kim, Department of Physics, Boise State University: Scanning probe microscopy of interfacial water confined between silica surfaces-$36,683

Andrew Kunz, Department of Physics, Marquette University: Simulation of domain wall injection and manipulation in magnetic nanowires-$29,464

Dana Lawrence, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Hood College: Structural and thermodynamic characterization of the zinc-binding domain of zinc-finger antiviral protein-$39,000

Susan M. Lederer, Department of Physics, California State University, San Bernardino: High-velocity impact experiments: Investigating the effects of collisions on the surface properties of comets-$45,000

Bao-An Li, Department of Physics, Texas A&M University at Commerce: Constraining the possible time variation of Newton's universal gravitational constant G using the latest terrestrial nuclear laboratory data-$37,418

Michael W. Lufaso, Department of Chemistry & Physics, University of North Florida: Structure-composition-property relationships in complex Bi-Ni-Mn oxide phases-$42,911

Jamie L. Manson, Department of Chemistry, Eastern Washington University: Design, synthesis, and characterization of quasi-2D polymeric magnets-$42,662

James P. McEvoy, Department of Chemistry, Regis University: Direct electrochemical investigations of photosystem II-$40,164

Rayane F. Moreira, Department of Chemistry, Hampshire College: Green chemistry with a superoxide dismutase mimic: Pirating a redox enzyme active site for Lewis acid catalysis-$34,909

Jonas R. Mureika, Department of Physics, Loyola Marymount University: Exploring the texture and geometry of the universe: Lacunarity analysis of cosmological large scale structure-$31,430

Elizabeth T. Papish, Chemistry, Salisbury University: Novel water-soluble N-heterocyclic carbene chelates for transition metal catalysts-$44,320

Steven J. Peters, Department of Chemistry, Illinois State University: Solution phase chemistry between the free radical nitric oxide and coenzyme-Q antioxidants-$41,554

Karl Saunders, Department of Physics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo: Theoretical study of 'de Vries' smectic liquid crystals- $33,220

Thomas J Savage, Department of Chemistry, California State University, Sacramento: Elucidation of the biochemical pathway to the marine neurotoxin domoic acid-$27,856

Thomas A. Schmedake, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte: Development of nanoscale optical materials-$35,300

Ralph Shiell, Department of Physics, Trent University: The efficient production of heavy Rydberg systems using ultraviolet laser light-$20,500

Benjamin L. Stottrup, Department of Physics, Augsburg College: Transbilayer diffusion and mechanical properties of lipid bilayers containing sterol molecules-$30,019

Q. Charles Su, Department of Physics, Illinois State University: Light scattering in random media-$36,218

Xiaoping Tang, Department of Physics, University of Louisville: A synergistic study of phase behavior, local dynamics and long-range transport of organic fluids confined in nanopores of functionalized nanotubes-$36,413

Dmitri A. Tenne, Department of Physics, Boise State University: Ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy of ferroelectric and multiferroic nanostructures-$40,968

Ionel Tifrea, Department of Physics, California State University, Fullerton: Nuclear magnetic resonance in low dimensional semiconductor nanostructures-$43,684

Matthew L Trawick, Department of Physics, University of Richmond: Nanometer-scale shearing and curvature-driven grain bondary migration in diblock copolymer thin films-$37,818

Brian C. Utter, Department of Physics, James Madison University: The effect of imposed force fluctuations on the jamming transition in granular materials-$44,718

Stephen D. Warren, Department of Chemistry, Gonzaga University: Synthesis of lactate analogs as potential probes for the study of metabolic changes present in various pathophysiological conditions-$38,862

Min Xu, Department of Physics, Fairfield University: Backscattering of partially coherent polarized light from a turbid medium-$39,218

Da-Ming Zhu, Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Kansas City: Study microscopic conduction distributions and mechanisms in proton exchange membranes-$42,383