FY 2003 New Funds

FY 2003 1st Quarter

Biology

  • Edward Barrows, “An Insect Database from 1998-1999, Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve, Virginia, USA,” Beloit College

  • Joseph Neale, “Undergraduate Biological Sciences Initiative,” Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  • Diane Taylor, “TH2 Bias Effect on Malarial Immunity in Cameroon,” National Institutes of Health

  • Martha Weiss, “Learning in Multiple Behavioral Contexts,” University of Arizona

Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

  • Angela Stent, “Title VI National Resource Center,”  Department of Education

Center for Population and Health

  • Maxine Weinstein, “Biodemography of Health, Social Factors, and Life Challenge,” National Institutes of Health

Center for Social Justice

  • Joy Tarpley,  “DC Reads Service Learning Project,” Corporation for National Service

Chemistry

  • David Yang, “Scientific Services Program,” Battelle/Army

Graduate School

  • Gerald Mara, “Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad,” Department of Education

  • Gerald Mara, “Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad,” Department of Education

  • Gerald Mara, “Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad,” Department of Education

  • Gerald Mara, “Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad,” Department of Education

  • Gerald Mara, “Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad,” Department of Education

  • James Schaefer, “Graduate Research Fellows,” National Science Foundation

  • James Schaefer, “Jacob Javits Fellowship,” Department of Education

  • James Schaefer, “Jacob Javits Fellowship,” Department of Education

Institute for the Study of International Migration

  • Susan Martin, “Planning for Association of Migration Scholars,” The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Kennedy Institute of Ethics

  • LeRoy Walters, “National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics,” National Institutes of Health

  • LeRoy Walters, “Reference Center for Bioethics Literature,” National Institutes of Health

  • LeRoy Walters, “Creation of Bioethics Citations for the NLM Search,” National Institutes of Health

  • LeRoy Walters, “ELSI of Human Genetics,” National Institutes of Health

  • LeRoy Walters, “Enhancing the DNA Patent Database,” Department of Energy

Linguistics

  • James Alatis, “Teachers and Personnel Grants,” Department of Education

  • James Alatis, “National Capital Language Resource Center,” Department of Education

  • Alison Mackey, “Doctoral Dissertation Research:  Recasts, Learner Perceptions, and L2 Development,”  National Science Foundation

  • Inderjeet Mani, “Constructing Protein Ontologies Using Text Mining,” National Science Foundation

McCourt School of Public Policy

  • Gary Claxton, ”Analysis of the Foundation’s Annual Employer Health Benefits Survey,” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

  • Robert Friedland, ”Demography is Not Destiny: Revisited,”  The Commonwealth Fund

  • Janlori Goldman, ”Bioterrorism, Public Health and Privacy,” Open Society Institute

  • Janlori Goldman, ”A Privacy Assessment of Personal Internetworked Notary and Guardian (PING),” The Markle Foundation

  • Janlori Goldman, ”HIPAA Privacy Implementation Supplement,”  California HealthCare Foundation

  • Janlori Goldman, ”Privacy Analysis of Online Health Insurance Sites,” California HealthCare Foundation

  • John Hoadley, ”Analysis of Strategies for Containing Prescription Drug Costs,” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

  • Katrina Holt, “National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center,” Maternal and Child Health Bureau

  • Jens Ludwig, “A Mid-Term Evaluation of the Effects of the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) Demonstration on Adult and Juvenile Criminal Offending,” Carnegie Mellon University/National Science Foundation

  • Cynthia Mann, ”Monitoring Medicaid Coverage,”   The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

  • Geri Palast, ”Justice at Stake Campaign – Operating Support,” Open Society Institute 

  • Karen Pollitz, “Studying the Experiences of Vulnerable Populations in Private Health Insurance,” The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  • Karen Pollitz, “Addressing the Needs of Chronically Ill People in Private Insurance Markets,” Commonwealth Foundation

  • Virginia Sloan, “Death Penalty Initiative,” The Arca Foundation

  • Virginia Sloan, “Death Penalty Initiative,” The Butler Family Fund

  • Laura Summer, “Simplifying Medicaid Enrollment for the Elderly and Disabled – Phase 2,” AARP

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health

  • Rochelle Mayer, “Program Income – National Consortium to Advance Education and Public Policy Development,” Maternal and Child Health Bureau

Physics

  • James Freericks, “NIRT:  Computational Design and Optimization of Nanoscale Spintronic and Thermoelectric Devices,” National Science Foundation

  • Amy Liu, “Workshop on Opportunities in Materials Theory,” National Science Foundation

  • Jeffrey Urbach, “The Generation of Precisely Controlled Chemical Gradiants for Axon Guidance,” The Whitaker Foundation

Psychology

  • David Crystal, “Social Reasoning About Exclusion and Rights,” University of Maryland/NIH

  • Helen Yankovich, “Predoctoral Fellowship Program,” National Institutes of Health

School of Business

  • Srini Sankaraguruswamy, “Academic Economic Fellow with the SEC,” Securities and Exchange Commission

School of Foreign Service

  • Herbert Howe, “Democratization and Military Professionalism:  Dilemmas of Military Reform in Democratizing States,” United States Institute of Peace 

FY 2003 2nd Quarter

Biology

  • Edward Barrows, “Arthropod Inventory of Rock Creek Park,” National Park Service

  • Edward Barrows, “Potential Impacts of Mosquito Control Activities: Assessment of the Arthropod Fauna of Dyke Marsh, Virginia,” National Park Service

  • Heidi Elmendorf, “Transcriptional Regulation in Giardia lamblia,” National Institutes of Health

  • Joseph Neale, “Developing NAAG Peptidase Inhibitors for Neuroprotection,” National Institutes of Health

Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

  • Judith Tucker, “National Resource Centers,” Department of Education

Center for Liturgy, Spirituality and the Arts

  • Lawrence Madden, “Dining in the Kingdom of God,” The Louisville Institute

Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship

  • Randall Bass, “The Crossroads Online Institute,” Department of Education 

Center for Population and Health

  • Maxine Weinstein, “Integrative Pathways to Health and Illness,” University of Wisconsin/NIH

Center for Social Justice

  • Deanna Cooke, “Council of Governments Graduate Fellow,” HUD/Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments 

Chemistry

  • Timothy Warren, “CAREER:  Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonding in Later, First Row Complexes,” National Science Foundation

  • David Yang, “Novel Recombinant Protein Therapeutics of Botulism,” National Institutes of Health

  • David Yang, “Molecular Correlates Using Host Gene Expression,” Department of the Army – Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

Economics

  • Jonathan Heathcote, “Housing in the Business Cycle and the Life Cycle,” National Science Foundation

History

  • Cecile Kuznitz, “‘Where the Treasures of our People Lie:  The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Making of Modern Yiddish Scholarship,”  The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation  

  • Joseph McCartin, “NEH Fellowship Award,” National Endowment for the Humanities

Institute for the Study of International Migration

  • Patricia Fagen, “Stable Society Program,” CHF International

Linguistics

  • Jeffrey Connor-Linton, “English Language Acquisition: National Professional Development Program,” Department of Education 

McCourt School of Public Policy

  • Joan Alker, ”Analysis of Health Benefits for Low-Wage Workers,” The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured 

  • Doreen Cavanaugh, ”Policy Counts Project,” Center for the Study of Social Policy

  • Doreen Cavanaugh, “Strengthening Communities – Youth,” Northrop Grumman 

  • Gary Claxton, “Analysis of the Health Impact of Proposed CareFirst Conversion and Acquisition in the National Capital Area,” George Washington University/DC Appleseed Center    

  • Elizabeth Dahl, “War Powers Initiative,” The Ploughshares Fund  

  • Darrel Gaskin, “Data Analysis on Community Effects of Uninsurance,” National Academy of Sciences  

  • Janlori Goldman, “Privacy Analysis of Online Health Insurance Sites,” California HealthCare Foundation 

  • Janlori Goldman, “Connecting for Health,” The Markle Foundation 

  • Virginia Hodgkinson/Steven Heydemann, “Center for Democracy and the Third Sector,” Atlantic Philanthropies

  • Virginia Sloan, “General Operating Support,” Open Society Institute

  • Virginia Sloan, “Judicial Independence,” Open Society Institute

  • Virginia Sloan, “Death Penalty Initiative,” Open Society Institute

  • Virginia Sloan, “Operating Budget,” Open Society Institute

  • Laura Summer, “State-Funded HCBS Program,” AARP

Physics

  • Amy Liu, “Prediction of Magnetic Phenomena in Molecular-Assembled Crystals”, Office of Naval Research       

  • Makarand Paranjape, “Cell Transformation Using a Single Chip Silicon Micromachined Array Incorporating Integrated Micro-Piercing Injectors,”  The Whitaker Foundation

  • Jeffrey Urbach, “CRCNS:  Mechanisms of Axonal Gradient Detection,”  National Institutes of Health

School of Business

  • Srini Sankaraguruswamy, “Academic Economic Fellow with the SEC,” Securities and Exchange Commission

School for Summer and Continuing Education

  • Michael Collins, “Support for the Graduate Studies of a Visiting Russian Student,”  The Bradley Foundation

  • Roy Godson, “Bradley Fellowship,” The Bradley Foundation

  • Emma Harrington, “Institute on the Constitution,” The James Madison Foundation

School of Foreign Service

  • John Ikenberry, “Strategic Reaction to American Global Predominance,” Anonymous

Security Studies

  • Sherry Gray, “European Participation in WIIS Conference on US-Baltic-European-Russian Relations,” The German Marshall Fund of the United States

FY 2003 3rd Quarter

Biology

  • Anne Rosenwald, “CAREER: Regulation of Membrane Traffic by the Arl1 Protein in Yeast,” National Science Foundation

  • Steven Singer, “Immune Responses to Giardia lamblia,” National Institutes of Health

Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

  • Laura Adams, “Collaborative Research on Intellectuals in Kyrgyzstan,” American Association for the Advancement of Science

Center for Latin American Studies

  • Miguel Ceballos, “Internal Conflict and Democratic Governability,” United States Agency for International Development

Center for Population and Health

  • Maxine Weinstein, “Infrastructure for Aging and Health Research at Georgetown University,” National Institutes of Health

Center for Social Justice

  • Sam Marullo, “Learn and Serve America Supported Community Research Project,” Bonner Foundation/Corporation for National Service

Graduate School

  • Cynthia Schneider, “Life Sciences and Society Initiative – Working Session,”  Department of the Army

History

  • Michael Kazin, “Americanism:  An Historical Conference,” James A. and Ruth D. Neff Historical Foundation

Institute for the Study of International Migration

  • Susan Martin, “New Immigrant Communities:  Addressing Integration Challenges Post September 11,” Carnegie Corporation of New York

Linguistics

  • Paul Portner, “Clause Types:  Form and Force in Grammatical Theory,” National Science Foundation

Mathematics 

  • Matthias Eller, “Conference on Control Theory for Partial Differential Equations,” National Science Foundation

  • Hans Engler, “Intergovernmental Personnel Act Assignment,” National Science Foundation

​McCourt School of Public Policy

  • Doreen Cavanaugh, ”Strengthening Communities – Youth,” Northrop Grumman

  • Jeffrey Crowley, “Analyzing Disability Issues,” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation 

  • Elizabeth Dahl, “Liberty and Security Initiative,” Open Society Institute 

  • Elizabeth Dahl, “General Operating Support,” Open Society Institute

  • Carol Emig,“Pew Commission on Foster Care,”  The Pew Charitable Trusts

  • Joseph Ferrara, ”Study of American Federalism Program,” Moscow School of Political Studies/USAID 

  • Virginia Hodgkinson, “Executive Institutes,” Jessie Ball duPont Fund

  • Mila Kofman, ”Trends and Analysis:  MEWAs, An Alternative to Traditional Health Insurance,” California HealthCare Foundation

  • Mila Kofman, ”Unlicensed Health Plans and Association Health Plan Insolvencies:  A New Crisis,” The Commonwealth Fund

  • Cynthia Mann, “Medicaid and SCHIP Policies,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 

  • Ellen O’Brien, ”Analysis of Long-Term Care Issues,” Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured

  • Geri Palast, ”Mid-West Planning Grant,” The Joyce Foundation 

  • Geri Palast, ”Justice at Stake Operating Support,” Open Society Institute

  • Karen Pollitz, ”Consumer Guides to Health Insurance in the States,” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

  • Virginia Sloan, ”General Support for the Constitution Project,” Anonymous

  • Virginia Sloan, ”Judicial Independence Initiative,” Deer Creek Foundation

  • Kent Weaver, “Faculty Buyout,” The Brookings Institution

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health

  • Rochelle Mayer, “Maternal and Child Health Library Services,” Maternal and Child Health Bureau

Philosophy

  • Henry Richardson, “Visiting Scholar, Department of Bioethics, NIH,” National Institutes of Health

Physics

  • Paola Barbara, “CAREER:  Superconductor/Carbon-Nanotube Junctions and Interfaces,” National Science Foundation

  • John Currie, “B-FIT System:  Bio-Flips Integrable Transdermal Microsystems,” Department of the Army

  • James Freericks, “Theoretical Modeling of Josephson Junctions for Digital Electronics,” Office of Naval Research

  • Jeffrey Urbach, “CAREER:  Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Thin Fluidized Granular Media,” National Science Foundation

Psychology

  • David Crystal, “Social Reasoning about Exclusion and Rights,” University of Maryland, College Park

  • Darlene Howard, “Minority Predoctoral Fellowship Program,” National Institutes of Health  

School for Summer and Continuing Education

  • Emma Harrington, “Institute on the Constitution,” The James Madison Foundation

Security Studies

  • Valerie Gilpin, “Renewal of WIIS Core Funding,” The Ford Foundation

  • Michael Brown, “WIIS – Science, Technology, and Security Initiative,” The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

  • Michael Brown, “WIIS – Women Leaders in a Global Community,” US Department of State

FY 2003 4th Quarter

Asian Studies

  • David Steinberg, “Georgetown Southeast Asia Survey,” The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.

Biology

  • Heidi Elmendorf, “RNA Extraction from Gerbils Infected with Giardia lamblia,” Marine Biological Laboratory

  • Matthew Hamilton, “REU – Research Experiences for Undergraduates,” National Science Foundation

  • Diane Taylor, “Training of Cameroonian Scientists,” John E. Fogarty International Center

BMW Center for German and European Studies

  • Bradley Wise, ”ACES Consortium,” Johns Hopkins University

Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

  • Barbara Stowasser, “FLAS on the Middle East and North Africa,” Department of Education

Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

  • Angela Stent, “FLAS in Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies,” Department of Education

Center for Latin American Studies

  • Robin King, “Multilateral and Regional Trade Issues for the Americas: An Advanced Training Course for Government Officials,” Organization of American States

Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship

  • Randall Bass, “The Crossroads Online Institute,” Department of Education

Center for Population and Health

  • Maxine Weinstein, “Biodemography of Health, Social Factors and Life Challenge,” National Institutes of Health

Center for Social Justice

  • Kathleen Maas Weigert, “Tutorial and Self-Esteem Services,” DC – Superior Court

Chemistry

  • Michael Pope, “Asymmetric and Functionalized Polyoxometalates,” Petroleum Research Fund 

  • Jennifer Swift, “CAREER:  An In Situ AFM Investigation of Cholesterol Crystal Growth,” National Science Foundation

  • Richard Weiss, “Approaches to Gelation for Enhanced Oil Recovery,” Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

Communication, Culture, and Technology

  • Linda Garcia, “Communications Policy:  An Organizational Field Analysis,” The Ford Foundation

Computer Science

  • Marcus Maloof, “Machine Learning:  Detect and Classify Malicious Code,” The MITRE Corporation

  • Marcus Maloof, “Learning Driving Behaviors for Autonomous Vehicles,” National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Richard Squier, “Solitonic Gateless Computing,” University of Central Florida

Government

  • Douglas Reed, “Resisting Reform:  Political Capacity and Challenges,” Brown University

Graduate School

  • Gerald Mara, “Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation,” Department of Education

Institute for the Study of International Migration

  • Elzbieta Gozdiak, “Meetings Addressing the Welfare of Children,” US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Inc. 

  • Susan Martin, “Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies,” The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 

  • Susan Martin, “Enhancing Capacities to Address Forced Migration,” The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

  • Susan Martin, “Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies,” The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation   

  • Andrew Schoenholtz, “Immigration and Integration Policy:  Transatlantic Lessons and Exchanges,” The German Marshall Fund of the United States

Kennedy Institute of Ethics

  • LeRoy Walters, “Creation of Bioethics Citation for the NLM Search,” National Library of Medicine

McCourt School of Public Policy

  • Elizabeth Dahl, ”Initiative on Liberty and Security,” Public Welfare Foundation 

  • Elizabeth Dahl, ”Liberty and Security Initiative,” Open Society Institute

  • Elizabeth Dahl, ”Judicial Independence Initiative,” Open Society Initiative

  • Elizabeth Dahl, ”War Powers Act,” The Ploughshares Fund

  • Pablo Eisenberg, “Senior Fellow Program,” Public Welfare Foundation

  • William Gormley, “An Evaluation of Tulsa’s Universal Pre-K Program,” Rutgers University

  • William Gormley, “Center for Research on Children in the US,” Foundation for Child Development

  • Katrina Holt, ”Oral Health Web-Based Distance Education Module,” University of Illinois – Chicago

  • Mila Kofman, ”Private Insurance Markets:  The Missing Link – Association Health Plans and Other Pooled Purchasing Arrangements,” The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  • Mila Kofman, ”Association Health Plans and California’s Insurance Market,” California HealthCare Foundation

  • Mila Kofman, ”SCI Issue Brief,” Academy Health

  • Jens Ludwig, ”A Mid-Term Evaluation of the Effects of the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) Demonstration on Adult and Juvenile Criminal Offending,” Carnegie Mellon University

  • Cynthia Mann, “Medicaid and SCHIP Policies,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

  • Jean Mitchell, ”Medicaid MGD Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs,” Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 

  • Jean Mitchell, ”Medicaid MGD Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs,” Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  • Geri Palast, ”Justice at Stake Campaign,” Carnegie Corporation of New York

  • Geri Palast, ”Strategic Planning Grant,” Joyce Foundation

  • Karen Pollitz, “Updating Health Insurance Information on www.healthinsuranceinfo.net,” The Commonwealth Fund

  • Karen Pollitz, “State Health Reform,” Center for Health Policy Development

  • Karen Pollitz, “Health Insurance Consumer Assistance Module,” American Diabetes Association

  • John Richards, “Web-based Health Check Provider Education System,” District of Columbia Government 

  • Patricia Ruggles, “Earnings and Transitions for Low-Income Women,” American Statistical Association

  • Laura Summer, “Public Benefits Program for the Elderly:  Should Asset Tests be Used? Repeated? Documented?,”  The Commonwealth Fund 

  • Laura Summer, “State Solutions:  An Enrollment Initiative for Low-Income Elderly and Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries,”  Rutgers University

  • Patrick Wolf, “Planning Grant,” Anonymous

Mortara Center

  • John Ikenberry, “A Meeting in Italy on the Nature of the Strain in US-European Relations,” The German Marshall Fund of the United States

Physics

  • John Currie, “Contract for the Non-Exclusive Use of the Department of Physics GAEL Laboratory,” Sophia Wireless, Inc.

  • John Currie, “B-FIT System:  Bio-Flips Integrable Transdermal Microsystems,” Department of the Army

  • David Egolf, “CAREER:  Computational Science Far-from-Equilibrium and in the Classroom,” National Science Foundation

  • David Egolf, “Computational Science in the Heart and in the Classroom,” Research Corporation

  • James Freericks, “NIRT:  Computational Design and Optimization of Nanoscale Spintronic and Thermoelectric Devices,” National Science Foundation

  • Amy Liu, “Workshop on Opportunities in Materials Theory III,” National Science Foundation

  • Amy Liu, “Prediction of Magnetic Phenomena in Molecular-Assembled Crystals” Department of the Navy

  • Makarand Paranjape, “Cell Insertion and Manipulation Using MEMS,” National Science Foundation 

  • Jeffrey Urbach, “The Generation of Precisely Controlled Chemical Gradients for Axon Guidance,” The Whitaker Foundation

  • Edward Van Keuren, “Development of a 2-D Separations Chip,” SAIC

  • Edward Van Keuren, “Physics Industrial Internship Program,” SAIC

Psychology

  • Rachel Barr, “Imitation from Television During Infancy,” National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

  • Sandra Calvert, “Collaborative Research Children’s Digital Media Centers,” National Science Foundation

  • Darlene Howard, “Aging and the Implicit Learning of Sequential Patterns,” National Institute on Aging

  • Jennifer Woolard, “Parental Involvement in Juvenile Case Proceedings,” The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 

Spanish and Portuguese

  • Harriet Bowden, “Experience in Late-Acquired Language Neurocognition,” National Institute of Mental Health 

  • Kara Short, “Second Language Learning:  An Artificial Language Study,” National Institute of Mental Health