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

    December 2002

    ANDELMAN, S.J. (Marine Science Institute), PYKE, C.R.
    (Marine Science Institute), National Center for Ecological
    Analysis & Synthesis, $129,402, Nature Conservancy, "Climate,
    Ecosystems, and Land-Use: Understanding Environmental
    Variability in Human-Dominated Landscapes."
    BELKIN, A. (Political Science), Institute for Social,
    Behavioral, and Economic Research, $15,000, Gill Foundation,
    Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military.
    BEUTLER, L.E., HARWOOD, T.M., Gevirtz Graduate School
    of Education, $34,100, Central Coast Commission for Senior
    Citizens, Strategic Plan and Assessment of Elderly Substance
    Abuse.
    BROWN, F.L., Chemistry & Biochemistry, $35,000,
    Research Corporation, Research Innovation Award: "Methods for
    Interpreting Single Molecule Spectroscopy: Generating Functions,
    Stochastic Simulation and E-Machine Reconstruction."
    DAUGHERTY, P.S., Chemical Engineering, $12,500,
    Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, SBCH-UCSB Special Research
    Award: "Enzyme Engineering for Alzheimer's (Ab) Peptide
    Proteolysis."
    DOZIER, J.C., Donald Bren School of Environmental
    Science & Management, $50,000, UC Los Alamos National
    Laboratory, "Influences of Topography and Plant Canopies on
    Surface Climate Variability."
    FLACKS, R. (Sociology), Institute for Social,
    Behavioral, and Economic Research, $7,736, UC Institute
    for Labor and Employment, "Exploring the Dimensions of
    a New Labor Movement: Perspectives of Front Line
    Organizations."
    FORD, P.C., STROUSE, G.F., Chemistry & Biochemistry,
    $42,320, UC Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Transient
    Infrared Analysis of Surface State Participation in
    Nanomaterials."
    GANS, P.B. (Geological Sciences), Institute for
    Crustal Studies, $360,347, National Science Foundation,
    "Neogene Evolution of the Sonoran Margin: The Transition from
    Backarc Extension to Transtensional Rifting."
    GARRATT, R. (Economics), Institute for Social,
    Behavioral, and Economic Research, $7,770, UC MEXUS,
    "Bank Runs."
    GERBER, M. (Gevirtz Graduate School of Education),
    LEAFSTEDT, J. (Gevirtz Graduate School of Education),
    Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, $15,000,
    American Educational Research Association, "Microgenetic
    Analysis of Reading Development in English Learners."
    HARRELD, J.H. (Chemistry & Biochemistry), Mitsubishi Chemical
    Center for Advanced Materials, $67,000, Mitsubishi, "Transparent
    Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Plastics for Optoelectronic
    Applications."
    HOMSY, G.M., Mechanical & Environmental Engineering,
    $120,000, Stanford University, "Development of Strand
    Theories of Polymer Stress."
    JUERGENSMEYER, M. (Sociology), College of
    Letters & Science, $3,000, UC Institute of Global
    Conflict & Cooperation, Global & International Studies
    Program: IGCC Block/Activity Grants.
    KAMNISKY, K., YOUNG, M.D. (Student Affairs Division),
    Student Health Service, $3,000, Santa Barbara County,
    "Tobacco Cessation for Special Populations."
    KENDALL, B.E., MCAUSLAND, C., Donald Bren School of
    Environmental Science & Management, $7,855, Placer
    County, "Dry Creek Ecological Risk Assessment."
    LI, C.N., Graduate Division, $260,248,
    Education Dept., Jacob Javits Graduate Fellowship.
    MADISON, J.L., YOUNG, M.D., Student Affairs Division,
    $13,165, California Department of Education,
    Summer Food Service Program.
    MANJUNATH, B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering,
    $2,909,596, National Science Foundation, IGERT:
    Graduate Training Program in Interactive Digital Multimedia.
    MARTIN, C.L., Physics, $625,000, David and Lucile
    Packard Foundation, David & Lucile Packard Foundation
    Fellowship for Science and Engineering.
    NICHOLSON, C., Institute for Crustal Studies, $40,000,
    Interior Dept., "Kinematic Mapping of 3D Fault Planes
    in Southern California."
    PEARSON, J.A., Dramatic Art, $3,600, Santa
    Barbara County Arts Commission, "Cal Arts."
    PETZOLD, L.R., Computer Science, $2,894,749,
    National Science Foundation, "Development of a
    Graduate Education Program in Computational Science and
    Engineering with Emphasis on Multiscale Problems in Fluids
    and Materials."
    RINKER, R.G., College of Engineering, $231,222,
    UC MESA and $72,114, UC Office of the President,
    Continuing MESA Schools Program.
    ROSE, K., GERSHO, A., Electrical & Computer Engineering,
    $76,393, UC MICRO, "Efficient Compression and Processing
    of Audio and Video Signals."
    SCHIMEL, J.P., Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology,
    $354,901, Colorado State University, "Coupling of
    Carbon and Water Cycles in a Cold, Dry Ecosystem:
    Integrative Physical, Chemical, and Biology Processes
    and Their Controls on CO2 Exchange."
    SCHNEIDER, B.E. (Sociology), BRYANT, K. (Sociology),
    Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research,
    $3,000, Social Science Research Council, "The Politics of
    Sexuality and the Making of "Gender Identity Disorder."
    SEGURA, D.A. (Sociology), GARCIA, L. (Sociology),
    Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research,
    $3,000, Social Science Research Council, "Beyond the
    Latina Virgin/Whore Dichotomy: Investigating Latina Adolescent
    Sexual Subjectivity."
    SHI, J.C., Institute for Computational Earth System
    Science, $20,000, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, HYDROS
    Project Risk Mitigation Task Plan.
    THEOFANOUS, T.G., Chemical Engineering, $90,000,
    UC Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Risk
    Assessment and Management in Engineering Systems Supersonic
    Flow, Simulation, Wind Tunnel."
    WONG, R.S. (Sociology), Institute for Social,
    Behavioral, and Economic Research, $11,661,
    University of Michigan, University of Michigan Survey Project.
    ZIMMERMAN, D.H., WAKIN, M., Sociology, $24,713,
    Department of HUD, "Documenting the Use of Vehicles as
    Housing: Towards a More Permanent Solution."