HMC
Faculty Research Grants

Shenda Baker (Chemistry)
U.S. Army Medical Research Command
$40,501 for “Aerosol Decontaminant for Use in Patient Care Areas” (Aug. 2008)

Lori Bassman
(Engineering)
National Science Foundation
$242,000 for “Materials World Network/Research in Undergraduate Institutions: The True Three-Dimensional Nature of Aligned Dislocation Boundaries in Deformed Metals” (Aug. 2008)

Kerry Karukstis and Gerald Van Hecke (Chemistry)
National Science Foundation
$270,000 for “RUI: Innovative Determination of Phase Diagrams of Green Surfactants in Water and Ionic Liquids” (July 2008)

Ran Libeskind-Hadas and Melissa O’Neill (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation
$292,921 for “REU Site: REU Site in Computer Systems” (May 2008)

David Vosburg
(Chemistry)
ACS Petroleum Research Fund
$50,000 for “Assembly of Polyenes” (April 2008)

Susan Martonosi and Michael Orrison (Mathematics)
National Science Foundation
$49,022 for the Harvey Mudd Mathematics Conference Series (March 2008)

David Harris (Engineering)
Sun Microsystems
$30,000 for research (Feb. 2008)

Elizabeth Orwin
(Engineering)
Hugh and Carolyn Shelton Military Neurotrauma Foundation
$268,644 for “Cell Delivery System for Traumatic Brain Injury” (Jan. 2008)

Elizabeth Orwin
(Engineering)
US Army Research Office
$35,000 for “Cell Delivery System for Traumatic Brain Injury” (Sept. 2007)

Darryl Yong and Robert Borrelli
(Mathematics)
National Science Foundation
$499,792 for “Online Resources to Improve the Teaching and Learning of Differential Equations: Encouraging Wide-Spread Use of Modeling and Computing” (Sept. 2007)

Andrew Bernoff
(Mathematics)
National Science Foundation
$54,113 for “Dynamics of Interfacial Domains” (Sept. 2007)

Mary Williams (Biology)
National Science Foundation
$313,209 for “Plant Specific Phosphoinositide Phosphates Essential for Membrane/Cytoskelton Dynamics in Arabidopsis” (Sept. 2007)

Peter Saeta (Physics), David Asai (Biology), Nancy Lape (Engineering), Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Computer Science) and Robert Cave (Chemistry and Dean of Faculty)
National Science Foundation
$579,600 for “S-STEM:  Preparing New Scientists and Engineers for the 21st Century” (Sept. 2007)

Francis Su (Mathematics)
National Science Foundation
$114,468 for “Combinational Fixed Point Theorems, Polytopes and Preference Sets” (Aug. 2007)