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  • Campus Contract and Grant Awards

    Data provided by the Office of Research. "()" represent investigators' home departments when those are different from the administering unit.

    October 2002

    AGRAWAL, D., EL ABBADI, A., Computer Science,
    $20,000, UC MICRO, "Using Network Hardware Acceleration
    for Database and Distribution Applications."
    ALDENDERFER, M. (Anthropology), Institute for Social,
    Behavioral, and Economic Research, $6,090, UC Digital
    Media Innovation Program, "In-Field Digital Methods for
    the Recording of Archaeological Excavation: a Conference."
    BELDING-ROYER, E.M., Computer Science, $24,375,
    UC MICRO, "Providing Internet Connectivity
    to Ad Hoc Mobile Networks."
    BIELBY, W.T., Sociology, $8,000, UC Institute for
    Labor and Employment, "Serial Employment:
    Professional, Managerial, and Technical Workers
    in the New Economy."
    BLUMENTHAL, D.J., Electrical & Computer Engineering,
    $129,999, U.S. Navy, "Wavelength Steering for
    Analog Radio Frequency Photonic Link Filtering."
    BLUMENTHAL, D.J., Electrical & Computer Engineering,
    $571,544, Cisco Systems, Inc., and $454,922,
    UC Digital Media Innovation Program, "All-Optical
    Label Swapping Adaptation Layers and Network Interfaces."
    BLUMENTHAL, D.J., Electrical & Computer Engineering,
    $25,000, Intel Corporation, "Optical Packet
    Switching Protocol Processing and Performance Analysis."
    BLUMENTHAL, D.J., Electrical & Computer Engineering,
    $13,185, UC MICRO, "Digitally Tunable Frequency
    Agile Lasers and Reconfigurable WDM Network Applications."
    BLUMENTHAL, D.J., Electrical & Computer Engineering,
    $306,529, Cisco Systems, Inc., "10 Gbps NRZ Signal
    Processing Elements using Integrated InP Photonic
    Building Blocks."
    BREWER, F.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering,
    $50,000, Intel Corporation, and $40,500,
    UC MICRO, "Symbolic Architectural Synthesis III."
    BUTLER, A.A., Chemistry & Biochemistry, $415,000,
    National Science Foundation, "Investigations
    of the Mechanism of Vanadium Haloperoxidases."
    CHANDRASEKARAN, S., Electrical & Computer Engineering,
    $82,020, UC Berkeley, "Collaborative Research:
    Fast Numerically Stable Matrix Algorithms (with UCSB)."
    CLARKE, D.R., EVANS, A.G., Materials, $100,484,
    Clemson University, "A Science-Based Approach to
    Enhanced Zirconia-Based Thermal Barrier Coatings
    for Advanced Gas Turbine Applications."
    CLARKE, D.R., Materials, $42,000, Universal
    Technology Corporation, "Thermal Barrier
    Coating Inspection Using Luminescence Shifts."
    DELMAS, M. (Bren School of Environmental Science &
    Management), Aigner, D. (Bren School of Environmental
    Science & Management), Institute for Social,
    Behavioral, and Economic Research, $229,473,
    Environmental Protection Agency, "Environmental
    Management Strategies and Corporate Performance:
    Identification and Analysis of the Motivators of
    Regulated Entities' Environmental Behavior and Performance."
    DOYLE, F.J., Chemical Engineering, $172,162,
    University of Delaware, "Sensing and Analyzing
    Stress During Protein Expression."
    GIBSON, J.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering,
    $232,488, National Science Foundation,
    "Spectral Entropy and Adaptive, Lossy Source Coding."
    HELFRICH, K.G., SCOATES, C.J., Art Museum, $40,956,
    National Endowment for the Humanities, "Crafting
    a Regional Modernism: The Architecture of Antonin
    and Noemi Raymond."
    KHAMMASH, M., Mechanical & Environmental Engineering,
    $49,082, National Science Foundation, "SGER:
    Applying Control Engineering Concepts for
    Understanding Biological Regulation."
    KOEGEL, R.L., Gevirtz Graduate School of Education,
    $150,930, County of Santa Barbara, First S.T.E.P.
    Year 2-3.
    LEE, H., Electrical & Computer Engineering, $30,000,
    Karl Storz Imaging, and $23,062, UC MICRO,
    "Viewing Enhancement in Video-Endoscopy."
    LENIHAN, H.S. (Bren School of Environmental Science &
    Management), BROOKS, A.J., Marine Science Institute,
    $112,348, Interior Dept., "Relative Importance of
    POCS Oil Platforms on the Regional Population Dynamics
    of Reef Fishes in the Eastern Santa Barbara Channel."
    LICHTENSTEIN, N.N., History, $14,500, UC Institute
    for Labor and Employment, "Justice at Work:
    a Conference Honoring David Brody."
    LITTLE, R.D., Chemistry & Biochemistry, $175,129,
    Procter & Gamble Company, "Materials Synthesis."
    MADHOW, U., Electrical & Computer Engineering,
    $276,088, U.S. Navy, "Network-Centric Quality
    of Service in Heterogeneous Networks."
    MEIBURG, E., Mechanical & Environmental Engineering,
    $150,000, UC San Diego, "Non-Boussinesq Gravity
    Currents and Two-Layer Bores."
    MERTES, L.A., Geography, $48,351, Nature Conservancy,
    "Grant Programs Except Ecosystem Research-Santa
    Clara River, UCSB-TNC."
    NAKAMOTO-LEVINE, S.N., SPICKARD, P., History, $5,000,
    UC Institute for Labor and Employment,
    "Americanizing Japanese Immigrant Women and Families
    on Hawaii's Sugar Plantations, 1900-1945."
    PAGE, H.M., DUGAN, J.E., Marine Science Institute,
    $156,515, Interior Dept., "Ecological Performance
    and Trophic Links: Comparisons Among Platforms
    and Natural Reefs for Selected Fishes and Their Prey."
    RAY, M.K., Student Affairs Division, $11,180,
    California Department of Education, Infant/Toddler
    Resource Grant.
    RODWELL, M., Electrical & Computer Engineering,
    $746,419, Rockwell International Corporation,
    "Submicron Polycrystalline Regrown Heterojunction
    Bipolar Transistors."
    SCHAUSER, K.E., Computer Science, $33,750, UC MICRO,
    "Providing Quality of Service for Internet Clusters."
    SPECK, J.S., Materials, $300,000, U.S. Navy,
    "Basic Materials Studies in MBE-Grown GaN, InGaN, and InN."
    STEIDL, J.H., Institute for Crustal Studies,
    $674,279, Brigham Young University, "Permanently
    Instrumented Field Sites for Study of
    Soil-Foundation-Structure-Interaction."
    STONICH, S.C. (Anthropology), WEIANT, P.A.
    (Anthropology), Institute for Social, Behavioral,
    and Economic Research, $38,101, UC Pacific Rim
    Research Program, "The Role of Marine Protected Areas
    (MPAs) in Providing Livelihoods and Food Security in
    Coastal Communities of the Pacific Rim Region."
    SULLIVAN, R. (Sociology), FLACKS, R. (Sociology),
    Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic
    Research, $19,973, UC Institute for Labor and Employment,
    "Making People Pro-Union: Exploring Social Movement
    Dynamics in Labor Organizing."
    TANIMOTO, T. (Geological Sciences), Institute
    for Crustal Studies, $18,000, UC Institute
    of Geophysics & Planetary Physics, "Continuous
    Free Oscillations and its Application to Planetary Seismology."
    TIRRELL, M.V. (College of Engineering),
    Chemical Engineering, $116,995, Florida Atlantic
    University, "Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
    Tissue Engineering Using Peptide Amphiphile Biomimetics."
    TO, J.K., YOUNG, M.K. (Student Affairs Division),
    Associated Students, $25,000, California Governor's
    Office on Service and Volunteerism, CAB Corps Planning
    Grant 2002.
    VALENTINE, D.L. (Geological Sciences), Marine
    Science Institute, $83,071, Interior Dept.,
    "Weathering of Aromatic Compounds in the Coastal Marine
    Environment: Quantifying Rates of Microbial Metabolism."
    WASHBURN, L., (Geography), Marine Science Institute,
    $135,210, Interior Dept., "Observations of the Surface
    Circulation in the Eastern Santa Barbara Channel Using
    High Frequency Radar and Lagrangian Drifters."
    WICKER, L., BROWN, M.T., Gevirtz Graduate School
    of Education, $20,000, UC ACCORD, "A Social
    Cognitive Model of Attrition."
    WOLSKI, R.M., KRINTZ, C., Computer Science, $29,925,
    National Science Foundation, "Developing a
    Resource-Aware Adaptive Compilation System for
    High-Performance Distributed Computing."
    ZIMMERMAN, D.H., Sociology, $10,000, UC
    Institute for Labor and Employment, "La Barda:
    Documenting Conditions and Exploring Change at
    Santa Barbara's Labor Line."
    ZOK, F.W., Materials, $200,000, Triton Systems,
    Inc., "Design and Failure Prediction of Hybrid
    Graded Composites."