FY 2002 New Funds

FY 2002 1st Quarter

Biology

  • Matthew Hamilton, “A Genetic Analyzer for DNA Sequencing and DNA Fragment Analysis in the Basic Sciences at Georgetown University,” National Science Foundation
  • Joseph Neale, “Minority Student Supplement,” National Institutes of Health
  • Joseph Neale, “NAAG Peptidase and Neuronal Function,” National Institutes of Health
  • Diane Taylor, “Effect of a TH2 Bias on Malarial Immunity in Cameroon,” National Institutes of Health

Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

  • Harley Balzer, ” Title VI National Resource Center,” US Department of Education

Center for Latin American Studies

  • Richard Beardsworth, “US-Cuba Post Transition Security Issues,” ARCA Foundation
  • Marc Chernick, “Assessing Conflict in Latin America to Better Target International Cooperation,” Anonymous
  • Arturo Valenzuela, “Political Database of the Americas,” Organization of American States

Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

  • Margot Badran, “Islamic Feminism/s: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?,” United States Institute of Peace

Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship

  • Randy Bass, “The New Media Classroom:  Expanding Horizons,” National Endowment for the Humanities

Center for Population and Health

  • Maxine Weinstein, “Biodemography of Health and Life Challenges,” National Institutes of Health

Chemistry

  • David Yang, “Identification of Changes in Gene Expression for Development of a Rapid Diagnostic Tool for Predicting Exposure to Specific Biological Warfare Agents,” Defense Advanced Research Project Agency

Computer Science

  • Bala Kalyanasundaram, “Collaborative Research:  Algorithmic Problems in Next Generation Networks,” National Science Foundation

Economics

  • Roger Lagunoff, “The Design of Optimal Social Interaction for Repeated Games,” National Science Foundation
  • Rodney Ludema, “Visiting Scholar (International Economist),” US International Trade Commission

McCourt School of Public Policy

  • Gary Claxton, “Analysis of Medicare Prescription Drug Proposals,” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Gary Claxton, “Support for Program Direction and Policy Analysis on Medicare’s Future,” Urban Institute/The Commonwealth Fund
  • Gary Claxton, “Private Coverage Option,” The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Gary Claxton, “Planning and Implementing Health Care Options,” State of California
  • Gary Claxton, “Paper on Reinsurance and Risk Pooling,” Lawrence S. Lewin/The Commonwealth Fund
  • Darrell Gaskin, “Catholic Hospitals and the Nation’s Health Care Safety Net,” Catholic Health Association
  • Darrell Gaskin, “Maryland Health Care for All,” Johns Hopkins University
  • Janlori Goldman, “Health Privacy Project,” Anonymous
  • Paul Light, “Toward Ordinary Excellence:  A Project on Nonprofit Effectiveness,” The Meyer Foundation
  • Jens Ludwig, “A Mid-Term Evaluation of the Effects of the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) Demonstration on Adult and Criminal Juvenile Offending,” National Science Foundation
  • Geri Palast, “Justice at Stake Campaign Efforts in Pennsylvania and Ohio,” Open Society Institute
  • Karen Pollitz, “Providing Independent Analysis on the Patients’ Rights Debate,” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Virginia Sloan, “Death Penalty Reform Initiative,” Open Society Institute
  • Laura Summer, “Home and Community Based Programs,” AARP

Graduate School

  • Gerald Mara, “Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research,” US Department of Education
  • James Schaefer, “Minority Graduate Research Fellowship Program,” National Science Foundation

Kennedy Institute of Ethics

  • Leroy Walters, “National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics,” National Institutes of Health
  • Leroy Walters, “Enhancing the DNA Patent Database,” Department of Energy

Linguistics

  • James Alatis, “Teachers and Personnel Grant,” US Department of Education
  • James Alatis, “National Capital Language Resource Center,” US Department of Education

Mathematics

  • Haitao Fan, “US-Hong Kong Joint Research:  The Well-Posedness of Solutions of Systems Conservation Laws with Reaction Terms,” National Science Foundation

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health

  • Rochelle Mayer, “National Consortium to Advance Education,” Maternal and Child Health Bureau
  • Linda Randolph, “Services for DCDFC,” DC Developing Families Center

Physics

  • James Freericks, “Conference Proposal for Spintronics 2001,” National Science Foundation
  • Makarand Paranjape, “Development of a Non-Invasive Diagnostic Micro-Sensor for Monitoring and Evaluation of Urinary Dysfunction,” Istituto Trentino Di Cultura

Psychology

  • Darlene Howard, “Aging and the Implicit Learning of Sequential Patterns,” National Institutes of Health

School for Summer and Continuing Education

  • Roy Godson, “Bradley Fellowship,” Bradley Foundation

Science, Technology and International Affairs Program

  • Kai-Henrik Barth, “Scientists and the Making of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,” National Science Foundation

Security Studies

  • Bernard Finel, “DLAMP 2001,” Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc. 

Sociology

  • Rebecca Wong, ”Mexican Health and Aging Study,” National Institutes of Health/University of Pennsylvania

Theology

  • Chester Gillis, “Two Become as One?  Interreligious Marriage in America ,” Louisville Institute
  • Vincent Miller, “Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture,” Louisville Institute

FY 2002 2nd Quarter

Biology

  • Heidi Elmendorf, “Virulence in Giardia lamblia,” Department of Agriculture
  • Heidi Elmendorf, “Transcriptional Regulation in Giardia lamblia,” National Institutes of Health
  • Diane Taylor, “TH2 Bias Effect on Malarial Immunity in Cameroon,” National Institutes of Health
  • Martha Weiss, “Learning in Multiple Behavioral Contexts,” University of Arizona/NSF

Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

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

Center for Latin American Studies

  • Gillian Gunn Clissold, “Research Program on US-Cuba Security Issues,” The Christopher Reynolds Foundation, Inc.

Chemistry

  • Angel de Dios, “CAREER:  NMR Chemical Shifts in Peptides,” National Science Foundation

Computer Science

  • Brian Blake, “Using Intelligent Agents to Determine Trends,” The Mitre Corporation

Graduate School

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

Institute for the Study of International Migration

  • Lindsay Lowell, “Research – Socioeconomic Status of Latinos,” University of Southern California

Kennedy Institute of Ethics

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

Linguistics

  • James Alatis, “Bilingual Education:  Graduate Fellowship Program,” US Department of Education

McCourt School of Public Policy

 

  • Janlori Goldman, “Internet for Health,” THe Markle Foundation
  • Virginia Hodgkinson, “Fostering Community Leadership:  Educational Partnerships to Build the Leadership Capacity of the Nonprofit Sector in the National Capital Area,” The W. K. Kellogg Foundation
  • Geri Palast, ”Polling Related to Judicial Independence,” Open Society Institute
  • Alexandra Shields, ”Continued Support of Participation in the Policy Component of ‘Partners with Tobacco Use Research Center:  Advancing Transdisciplinary Science and Policy Studies,'” The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Virginia Sloan, ”Judicial Independence Initiative,” Open Society Institute
  • Virginia Sloan, “Election Reform Initiative,” David and Lucille Packard Foundation
  • Laura Summer, “Simplifying Medicaid Enrollment for the Elderly and Disabled,” AARP

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health

  • Rochelle Mayer, “National Consortium to Advance Education,” Maternal and Child Health Bureau

Physics

  • John Currie, “Non-Exclusive Use of the Department of Physics GAEL Laboratory,” Southern California Air Conditioner Distributors
  • John Currie, “Non-Exclusive Use of the Department of Physics GAEL Laboratory,” Sophia Wireless Inc. & Virginia Millimeter Wave
  • James Freericks, “A Microscopic Description of the Josephson Junction Interface,” Office of Naval Research

Psychology

  • Sandra Calvert, “Collaborative Research/CRI:  Children’s Digital Media Centers,” National Science Foundation
  • Chandan Vaidya, “Cognitive Neuroscience Analysis of Declarative Memory Development,” National Science Foundation

Security Studies

  • Bernard Finel, “DLAMP 2001,” Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc. 
  • Margaret Knudson, “Transatlantic Relations and Globalization Conference,” Robert Bosch Foundation
  • Margaret Knudson, “Civil-Military-Political Cooperation in Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Rebuilding,” US Army War College

Volunteer and Public Service Center

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

FY 2002 3rd Quarter

Biology

  • Janet Mann, “Sexual Coercion in Wild Dolphins,” National Geographic Society
  • Joseph Neale, “Developing NAAG Peptidase Inhibitors for Neuroprotection,” National Institutes of Health
  • Anne Rosenwald, “CAREER:  Regulation of Membrane Traffic by Arl1 Protein in Yeast,” National Science Foundation
  • Steven Singer, “Immune Responses to Giardia lamblia,” National Institutes of Health

Center for Latin American Studies

  • John Bailey, “Police Reform and Public Security in the Americas,” William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Center for Population and Health

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

Center for Social Justice

  • Kathleen Maas Weigert, “After School Kids (ASK) Program,” District of Columbia Courts
  • Sam Marullo, “Learn and Serve America Supported Community Research Project,” Bonner Foundation/Corporation for National Service

Chemistry

  • Miklos Kertesz, “Synthetic Multifunctional Material Program,” University of Texas/DARPA
  • YuYe Tong, “Surface Electrochemical NRM,” The Petroleum Research Fund/ACS
  • Timothy Warren, “Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds in Hydrocarbon Functionalization,” The Petroleum Research Fund ACS
  • Timothy Warren, “CAREER:  Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonding in Later, First Row Complexes,” National Science Foundation
  • Richard Weiss, “Molecular Approaches to Investigating and Developing Polymers, Organogels, and Ionic Liquids through Photochemistry, Photophysics, and Structure,” National Science Foundation
  • David Yang, “Scientific Services Program,” Battelle/Army

Computer Science

  • Bala Kalyanasundaram, “Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Algorithms,” US Air Force, Office of Scientific Research
  • Marcus Maloof, “Learning Driving Behaviors for Autonomous Vehicles,” Department of Commerce/NIST
  • Thomas Shields, “Collaborative Research:  Anonymous Protocols,” National Science Foundation
  • Richard Squier, “Solitonic Gateless Computing,” Department of the Army

English

  • Sarah McNamer, “NEH Fellowship Award 2002-2003,” National Endowment for the Humanities

Government

  • Yossi Shain, “Mapping the Jewish Political World,” Posen Foundation

Institute for the Study of International Migration

  • Charles Keely, “Editor – International Migration Quarterly Review,” International Organization for Migration
  • Susan Martin, “Comparative Study of International Legislation and Practice in the Field of Immigration,” International Organization for Migration
  • Susan Martin, “Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies,” The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • Susan Martin, “Enhancing Capacities to Address Issues of Forced Migration in Eastern Africa,” The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Kennedy Institute of Ethics

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

Linguistics

  • James Alatis, “National Capital Language Resource Center,” US Department of Education
  • Ronald Scollon, “Doctoral Dissertation Research:  Textual Appropriation and Co-membership in Immigration Gatekeeping Interviews,” National Science Foundation

McCourt School of Public Policy

  • Jeffrey Crowley, ”Optional Medicaid Coverage for the Medically Needy,” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Jeffrey Crowley, ”Survey of State Medicaid Prescription Drug Policies,” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Pablo Eisenberg, ”Georgetown Public Policy Institute Senior Fellowship,” Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
  • Pablo Eisenberg, ”Pablo Eisenberg Project,” Open Society Institute
  • Pablo Eisenberg, ”Senior Fellow Program,” Public Welfare Foundation
  • Darrell Gaskin, ”Data Analysis on Community Effects of Coinsurance,” The National Academy of Sciences
  • Michael Gluck, ”Study of PBM Appeals Processes and their Implications for a Medicare Drug Benefit,” The Commonwealth Fund
  • Janlori Goldman, ”Privacy and E-Health Initiatives,” California HealthCare Foundation
  • Janlori Goldman, ”Meeting on Bioterrorism, Public Health and Privacy,” Open Society Institute
  • John Hoadley, “The Role of State Governments in Providing Retiree Health Benefits,” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
  • John Hoadley, ”Support of an Assessment of the Program Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization,” The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Harriet Komisar, ”Impact of Balanced Budget Act on Home Health,” Laguna Research Associates
  • Stephanie Lewis, ”Report and Database Development on State Programs Addressing the Problem of the Uninsured,” Congressional Research Service
  • Jens Ludwig, ”A Study to Identify Strategies for Reducing Gun Violence,” The Brookings Institution
  • Jens Ludwig, ”A Mid-Term Evaluation of the Effects of the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) Demonstration of Adult and Juvenile Criminal Offending,” Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • Jens Ludwig, ”Public Health Risk of Community Gun Prevalence,” Duke University
  • Jean Mitchell, ”Medicaid Managed Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs,” Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Ellen O’Brien, “Analysis of the Health Coverage of the Low-Wage Workforce,” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
  • James O’Hara, ”Alcohol Marketing and Children Project,” The Pew Charitable Trusts
  • James O’Hara, ”Alcohol Marketing and Children Project,” The Pew Charitable Trusts
  • James O’Hara, “Campaign to Reduce Children’s Exposure to Alcohol,” The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Geri Palast, ”Justice at Stake Campaign,” Open Society Institute
  • Virginia Sloan, ”Conference on Election Reform,” Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Virginia Sloan, ”Death Penalty Reform Initiative,” Deer Creek Foundation
  • Virginia Sloan, ”Initiative on Liberty and Security,” Deer Creek Foundation
  • Virginia Sloan, ”Initiative on Liberty and Security,” The Nathan Cummings Foundation
  • Virginia Sloan, ”Initiative on Liberty and Security,” Open Society Institute
  • Virginia Sloan, ”Initiative on Liberty and Security,” Public Welfare Foundation
  • Virginia Sloan, ”Constitution Project Support,” Stern Family Fund
  • Timothy Westmoreland, “Studying the Impact of the Federal Budget Process on the Modernization of American Public Health,” The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health

  • Rochelle Mayer, “National Consortium to Advance Education,” Maternal and Child Health Bureau
  • Rochelle Mayer, “National Consortium to Advance Education,” Maternal and Child Health Bureau
  • Linda Randolph, “Services for DCDFC,” DC Developing Families Center

Physics

  • Paola Barbara, “Liquid, Solid, and Superconducting Mercury/Carbon-Nanotube Junctions,” Research Corporation
  • John Currie, “Bio-fluidic Chip Technology for Chemical / Biological Microsystems,” Department of the Army
  • David Egolf, “Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of Fluctuations and Jamming in Granular Media,” Research Corporation
  • James Freericks, “Theoretical Modeling of Josephson Junctions for Digital Electronics,” Office of Naval Research
  • Jeffrey Urbach, “PECASE:  Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Thin Fluidized Granular Media,” National Science Foundation

Psychology

  • Darlene Howard, “Minority Predoctoral Fellowship Program,” National Institutes of Health
  • Deborah Phillips, “Child Care and Parental Employment,” National Institutes of Health

School for Summer and Continuing Education

  • Michael Collins, “Executive Development Program,” Internal Revenue Service
  • Emma Harrington, “Institute on the Constitution,” James Madison Foundation

School of Business

  • Robin Dillon, “Programming Risk Analysis for Critical Engineering Systems Under Tight Resource Constraints,” Stanford University/NSF

School of Foreign Service

  • John Ikenberry, “America Unbound,” The German Marshall Fund of the United States

Security Studies

  • Margaret Knudson, “WIIS – Security Studies Program,” Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Margaret Knudson, “WIIS – Security Studies Program,” The Ford Foundation
  • Margaret Knudson, “WIIS – Security Studies Program,” The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Student Affairs

  • Juan Gonzalez, “Georgetown:  A Caring Community,” Anheuser-Bush/Northern  Illinois University, NSNRC

FY 2002 4th Quarter

Biology

  • Joseph Neale, “NAAG Peptidase and Neuronal Function,” National Institutes of Health
  • Anne Rosenwald, “CAREER:  Regulation of Membrane Traffic by Arl1 Protein in Yeast,” National Science Foundation
  • Diane Taylor, “Training of Cameroonian Scientists,” National Institutes of Health

Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

  • Harley Balzer, “National Resource Center and Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship,” Department of Education

Center for Latin American Studies

  • Miguel Ceballos, “Joining Efforts for Columbia,” Friedrich Stiftung Columbia
  • Miguel Ceballos, “Joining Efforts for Columbia,” Ecole de la Paix
  • Marc Chernick, “Assessing Conflict in Latin America,” Anonymous
  • Robin King, “Multilateral and Regional Trade Issues,” Organization of American States

Center for Population and Health

  • Maxine Weinstein, “Biodemography of Health, Social Factors and Life Challenges,” National Institutes of Health/RAND Corporation

Chemistry

  • Miklos Kertesz, “Synthetic Multifunctional Material Program,” University of Texas/DARPA
  • Jennifer Swift, “CAREER:  An In Situ AFM Investigation of Cholesterol Crystal Growth,” National Science Foundation
  • David Yang, “Scientific Services Program,” Battelle/Army
  • David Yang, “Identification of Changes in Gene Expression,” DARPA

English

  • Sarah McNamer, “ACLS Fellowship,” American Council of Learned Societies

McCourt School of Public Policy

  • Gary Claxton, “Round IV Site Visits,” Center for Studying Health System Change
  • Gary Claxton, “Planning and Implementing Health Care Options,” State of California
  • Judith Feder, “Preparation of a Book on the Landmark 1996 Welfare Reform Bill,” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Robert Friedland, “Caregiving Data Profiles,” Mather LifeWays
  • William Gormley, “Program in Children and Public Policy,” Foundation for Child Development
  • Virginia Hodgkinson, “Services in Coordination with The Democracy Collaborative,” University of Maryland, College Park
  • Virginia Hodgkinson, “World Values Survey,” C. S. Mott Foundation
  • Virginia Hodgkinson, “Completion of Capacity Building Effort,” Jessie Ball duPont Fund
  • Paul Light, “Sustaining Effectiveness:  Paths to Ordinary Excellence in America’s Top Nonprofits,” Kauffman Foundation
  • Jean Mitchell, “Children with Special Health Care Needs,” Department of Health and Human Services
  • Jean Mitchell, “Children with Special Health Care Needs,” Department of Health and Human Services
  • Jean Mitchell, “Children with Special Health Care Needs,” Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Paul Offner, “Medicaid Managed Care Survey Project,” The Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Paul Offner, “Neighborhood Initiative,” The Brookings Institution
  • Geri Palast, “Public Education Campaign,” Open Society Institute  
  • Karen Pollitz, “Development of a Handbook on Health Insurance and Related Public Policy Issues,” March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
  • Virginia Sloan, “Election Reform Initiative,” The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
  • Virginia Sloan, “Mandatory Justice:  Eighteen Reforms to the Death Penalty,” The Justice Project
  • Richard Sorian, “Editorial Support for National Quality Forum,” National Forum for Health Care
  • Laura Summer, “Data for a Pediatric Asthma Chartbook,” Center for Health Care Strategies
  • Laura Summer, “State Solutions:  An Enrollment Initiative for Low-Income Elderly,” Rutgers University

Government

  • Eusebio, Mujal-Leon, “Cuba in the 21st Century:  The Political Economy of Democratization and Reconstruction,” Helen Dwight Reid Education Fund
  • Yossi Shain, “Mapping the Jewish Political World,” Posen Foundation

Graduate School

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

History

  • Adam Rothman, “ACLS Fellowships for 2002-2003,” American Council of Learned Societies
  • John Tutino, “Making Mexico, Remaking the Atlantic World,” National Endowment for the Humanities

Institute for the Study of International Migration

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

Kennedy Institute of Ethics

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

Linguistics

  • Jeffrey Connor-Linton, “Doctoral Dissertation Research,” National Science Foundation

Mathematics

  • Paul Kainen, “Minimization of Error Functionals by Neural Networks,” National Research Council
  • Judith Miller and Matthew Hamilton, “Modeling Evolution of Quantitative Traits with Finite Locus Effects in Structured Populations,” National Science Foundation

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health

  • Katrina Holt, “National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center,” Maternal and Child Health Bureau
  • Rochelle Mayer, “Program Income – National Consortium to Advance Education,” Maternal and Child Health Bureau
  • Thomas Vallin, “Title V Block Grant and Discretionary Grant Information System,” Anonymous

Philosophy

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

Physics

  • John Currie, “Rental of GAEL Lab Space,” SAIC
  • John Currie, “Bio-fluidic Chip Technology for Chemical / Biological Microsystems,” Department of the Army
  • David Egolf, “Research Fellowship,” Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • James Freericks, “Theoretical Simulation of Electronic Raman Scattering Near a Metal-Insulator Transition,” US Civilian Research and Development Foundation
  • James Freericks, “A Microscopic Description of the Josephson Junction Interface,” Office of Naval Research

Psychology

  • Sandra Calvert, “Collaborative Research/CRI:  Children’s Digital Media Centers,” National Science Foundation
  • Darlene Howard, “Aging and the Implicit Learning of Sequential Patterns,” National Institutes of Health
  • Darlene Howard, “Aging and the Implicit Learning of Sequential Patterns,” National Institutes of Health
  • Deborah Phillips, “Who Leaves?  Who Stays?  A Longitudinal Study of the Child Care Workforce,” UC Berkeley/HHS