HMC
Recent Faculty Grants

Hal Van Ryswyk, Adam Johnson, David Vosburg, Gerald Van Hecke and Katherine Maloney (Chemistry)
National Science Foundation $234,310 for "MRI: Acquisition of a Liquid Chromatograph-Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer for Undergraduate Research and Research Training" (August 2009)

Ziyad Duron (Engineering)
National Institute of Science and Technology
$149,998 for "Development of A Wireless Fire-Sensor Technology for Monitoring Stability Loss in Burning Buildings"
(August 2009)

Nicholas Pippenger (Mathematics)
National Science Foundation
$122,124 for "RUI: Concrete Computational Complexity" (August 2009)

Christopher Stone and Melissa O'Neill (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation
$308,875 for "RUI: Observationally Cooperative Multithreading" (July 2009)

David Harris (Engineering)
National Science Foundation
$80,000 for "Collaborative Research: Reclaiming Moore's Law Through Ultra Energy Efficient Computing" (July 2009) 

Eliot Bush (Biology)
National Science Foundation
$157,489 for "RUI:  Characterizing Context-Dependent Biases in Nucleotide Substitution" (July 2009)

Catherine McFadden (Biology)
U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation
$160,000 for "Phylogeny of the Octocorals (Phylum Cnidaria, Family Xeniidae):  Application of Molecular and Morphology-Based Approaches" (July 2009)

Andrew Bernoff, Jon Jacobsen and Rachel Levy (Mathematics)
National Science Foundation
$800,000 for “Optimizing the Mathematics Postdoctoral Experience: A Teaching and Research Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvey Mudd College” (May 2009)
 
Theresa Lynn (Physics)
Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Cottrell College Science Award
$41,718 for “Photon Pair Entanglement in Multiple Degrees of Freedom for Quantum Communication” (May 2009)

Dagan Karp (Mathematics)
National Science Foundation
$23,850 for "Conference on Categorical Methods in Topology and Quantum Geometry; Fall 2009, Dallas, Texas" (April 2009)

Elizabeth Sweedyk (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation
$149,784 for “CCLI: CS Education: Computer Games: Course, Curriculum and Gender” (February 2009)
 
Robert Drewell (Biology)
National Science Foundation
$600,000 for “CAREER: Investigating the Evolution of Gene Regulation at Drosophila Hox Genes” (February 2009)
 
Nancy Lape (Engineering)
National Science Foundation
$404,589 for “CAREER: Tailoring Free Volume in Nanocomposite Gas Separation Membranes” (January 2009)

Tom Donnelly (Physics)
National Science Foundation
$166,000 for "RUI: Collaborative Research: Collisionless Heating During Strong Field Irradiation of Wavelength-scale Particles" (Sept. 2008)
This research is done through a collaboration with Prof. Todd Ditmire at the University of Texas at Austin.