Report on the FY '97 Activities of the POWRE

Program

(Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and

Education)

The POWRE announcement was developed in the spring, 1997 to inaugurate a program that would

merge the previous targeted women’s programs into one overall program. The programs

incorporated into POWRE included the Career Advancement Award (CAA), Research Planning

Grant (RPG), Faculty Award for Women (FAW), and Visiting Professorship for Women (VPW)

programs. The resources available from the Fiscal Year 1997 (FY97) budget as originally allocated

for the VPW and FAW programs totaled nearly $6 million. Additional funds were made available by

the Office of Research on Women's Health in the National Institutes of Health and by directorates

and offices in NSF. The total funding available for the FY97 competition of the POWRE program

was approximately $8 million.

The announcement was released as NSF 97-91. Management of the competition is coordinated

through an internal NSF working group with NSF-wide directorate and office representation,

referred to as the PCC (POWRE Coordinating Committee). To effectively distribute the

announcement, the PCC made extensive use of web connections and list server maintained by

science and engineering research, education, and industry organizations.

In addition to planning for management, directorate and office coordinating groups also have

prepared web sites that include clarifying information for women proposing in each disciplinary

area, and also FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) sheets. These web sites are extremely effective in

communicating with prospective PI’s, and pages from these web sites are linked here:

 Biological Sciences (BIO): http://www.nsf.gov/bio/pubs/nsf9791/biopowre.htm

 Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE):

http://www.cise.nsf.gov/cda/POWREhome.html or http://www.cise.nsf.gov/cda/faq.html

 Education and Human Resources (EHR) Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE):

http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/DUE/Documents/press/Notices/powre.htm

 Engineering (ENG): http://www.nsf.gov/home/eng/start.htm

 Geosciences (GEO): http://www.geo.nsf.gov/adgeo/powre

 Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS): http://www.nsf.gov/mps/phy/powre.htm

 Office of Polar Programs (OPP): http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/powre/opppowre.htm

 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE):

http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sber/common/powrehp.htm

Information on all awards is summarized in Table 1. A total of 635 proposals and supplement

requests were received, including 511 proposals in three options: Research/Educational

Enhancement (REE), Visiting Professor (VP), Visiting Researcher (VR) and 124 supplement

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requests. A total of 129 awards, either new grants or supplements to existing awards, were made.

The overall success rate was 20 percent and, among the directorates and OPP, the success rates

varied from 14 percent to 40 percent.

From the total 511 proposals for new grants received, 98 new grants were made. Of these, 76 or

about 80 percent of the grants were made as REE awards, and 20 percent of the awards were for VP

or VR. This proportion is considered to be a reflection of the short lead time between appearance of

the announcement and the deadline for submittals. Future competitions may show an increase in the

number of VP and VR proposals and awards.

Details about all new grants and supplements made in the FY97 POWRE competition including

abstracts, can be found by typing "POWRE" in the NSF Award Data Search Box. Information about

a specific award may be obtained by entering the appropriate award number in that same box. A

tabular listing of the awards is included as Table 2.

In addition, excerpts from the abstracts - a selection of phrases that effectively articulate the vision

for POWRE awards - are included below. Consideration of these statements may provide guidance

of value for future proposers to the POWRE program.

Sample Abstract Excerpts from Selected POWRE FY97 Awards

1. 9753205 "The POWRE award is critical to my re-entry into academia after a prolonged illness.

POWRE's Visiting Researcher program will provide release time from teaching to allow me to

re-establish my research program and allow me to be, once again, fully competitive for

funding."

2. 9752945 "This POWRE award permits [this investigator] to expand her research program by

applying her computational skills to model a significant question in evolutionary biology. This

work should increase her prominence in an interdisciplinary area of the biological sciences, an

area in which women are significantly underrepresented."

3. 9752970 "This project will be done in collaboration with [foreign PI and research institution].

This laboratory provides a particularly appropriate environment for the PI to learn the new

biophysical approaches she plans to employ in these studies."

4. 9753009 "The POWRE funding mechanism will provide the investigator, already a senior

scientist and educator specialized in human vision, the opportunity to bring that knowledge to

bear in the design and interpretation of neurobiologically relevant imaging experiments. It will

also give her the opportunity to become proficient in fMRI techniques and to gain additional

knowledge that she will subsequently apply in her research and teaching. The MGH-NMR is a

superb training site for accomplishment of these goals. The results of this training will

significantly increase the candidate's visibility in the neuroscience and human brain mapping

community. Also, it will allow her to play a key role in the efforts of the Biomedical

Engineering Department at her home institution to develop a strong neurosciences track in the

graduate program in biomedical engineering."

5. 9752962 "This project represents a return to active cell biological research for the Principal

Investigator, after a major hiatus in her career. The support from a POWRE award will allow

the Principal Investigator to develop the necessary preliminary results for a novel and

promising avenue of research."

6. 9753128 "The funding provided by the POWRE program opens up new avenues of research

that will allow career enhancement and substantively further professional standing with the

research community. Since the investigator is in a non-tenured research associate position,

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POWRE support may assist in her academic advancement as well. This project could provide

the scientific community with a useful new tool and offers the researcher a chance to

contribute in an area not ordinarily available through regular research grants."

7. 9752947 "This POWRE award permits [the PI] to expand her research program by exploring

new questions in a new model system. It will help establish her in a tenure-track position, in a

discipline of field-oriented population biological research previously represented only by men

at her institution."

8. 9726424 "The proposed activities will be centered around the theme of her new line of

robotics research recently funded by NSF, to which there is much related expertise at [the

visiting institution] and a great possibility for fruitful collaboration. The results are expected to

impact significantly the PI's research and to be mutually beneficial to both her home and host

institutions."

9. 9753137 "The POWRE grant will provide the necessary funds for career advancement for the

investigator. She is a non-tenure track Assistant Professor, a position she has held for the past

five years. The grant will allow her to concentrate on her own research and delineate a longterm research program. It will also allow her to pursue a new methodological approach to the

study of language processing. In turn, the pursuit of a new experimental technique and

subsequent publication of the results could aid the investigator in obtaining a tenure-track

position."

10. 9753130 "This young investigator already has a record of accomplishment and is positioned to

make major advances in an important area of research. The investigator's previous research has

focused on the experimental testing of economic theories. Funding from the POWRE award

will allow her to extend that research focus to the experimental testing of operations theories.

This extension will enable her to use her experimental skills in attacking a new and important

problem in operations management. It also will likely have a large impact on the field,

enhancing her career and leadership potential."

11. 9753126 "The planned work will therefore significantly contribute to the improvement of the

quality of empirical research in political science. This POWRE Visiting Professorship award

will allow the investigator to expand her own methodological and teaching skills as well as

afford her the opportunity to develop numerous substantive applications for her

methodological innovations. This will give her an important research and educational

experience that will contribute to her visibility in her field and her subsequent academic

advancement."

12. 9753125 "This POWRE research grant will allow the investigator to plan her research agenda,

conduct pilot experiments, develop a new theoretical model, and analyze the results of pilot

experiments. She currently holds a joint position at the University of South Carolina: half-time

with a tenure track position in the department of economics and a half-time research position

managing the South Carolina economic forecasting service for the College of Business

Administration. Her duties for the research position take away from the time and attention she

can pay to her academic research on the public goods provision problem. The support of the

NSF will be invaluable in helping her to focus on her tenure track research objectives and thus

will advance her academic career."

13. 9753111 "The investigator is a traditional ethnographer who is moving, in mid-career, toward

combining computer modeling approaches to represent culture with descriptive ethnography.

This POWRE award affords her the opportunity to build significantly on her preliminary

modeling work, bringing three years of exploratory work to fruition. Her ultimate goal is to

develop the potential of simulation research in anthropology in order to enable more powerful

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analyses of social change, namely one that combines a commitment to the rich tradition of

narrative ethnography with the precision and scope that computer analysis can offer. This is

both a new career direction and new venue for anthropology."

14. 9720593 "This Visiting Professorship will allow for significant professional growth. The PI

will take advantage of [visited institution]’s national prominence in econometrics and game

theory by spending the year retooling in advanced methodological skills. In addition to

retooling, she will conduct research and consult with faculty to scientifically analyze

democratic consolidation. This experience will enhance the analytic sophistication of her

research and possibly lead to her promotion to Full Professor at [her home] University. The

completion of her research on a topic with broader applicability than her work to date will also

increase her visibility as a political scientist to the discipline nationally."

15. 9753139 "This POWRE award will support a completely new line of research for the

investigator involving different substantive questions in economic theory and different

techniques. The investigator, who is one of the top female academic economists in the country,

will learn new skills and methods which will enable her to move her research in a new

direction. The topics proposed and the directions she intends to take are path-breaking in

nature. Successful completion of this research will move her further along the path to

academic leadership."

16. 9753064 "While devoting again full energies to research after several years of academic

administration, the PI proposes exploratory work in how to conduct research in theoretical

computational geometry, to be valued by that community, while maintaining real

collaborations with applied scientists and demonstrably impacting the applied field as well."

17. 9753001 "The PI is returning to active research after a long absence and is currently in a nontenure-track teaching position while doing research voluntarily off-campus. Her goal is to

obtain a tenure-track position with research opportunities. This POWRE grant will allow her to

establish an active research program on campus that will include students, provide

opportunities to attend scientific meetings and network with other scientists, and show

potential employers that such plant research can attract extramural funding."

18. 9752970 "This project will be done in collaboration with [important researcher at a prestigious

foreign institution]. [This foreign] laboratory provides a particularly appropriate environment

for the PI to learn the new biophysical approaches she plans to employ in these studies."

19. 9720493 "The PI will engage in a collaborative research endeavor at [her home institution and

a host institution]. Funding provided will impact students at [her home institution], exposing

undergraduates to the challenges of state-of-the-art engineering research endeavors. This

funding is also expected to provide [the PI] with opportunity to forge a long-lasting research

relationship with [the host institution], thereby allowing her to establish a significant

integrated research and education program."

Table 1: POWRE FY97

Summary Information - All Awards

(including supplements and new grants)

Directorate

or Office

Total POWRE

Proposal and

Supplement

Requests

POWRE

Proposals

POWRE

Supplement

Requests

Total New

Grants or

Supplements

Total

New

FY97

Grants REE* VP* VR*

Total New

FY97

Supplements

Overall (New Grant

+ Supplements)

Success Rate

BIO 152 142 10 22 17 11 5 1 5 14%

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* REE = Research/Educational Enhancement; VP = Visiting Professor; VR = Visiting Reseacher

Table 2: NSF POWRE Awards - FY '97

CISE 61 50 11 13 10 6 4 0 3 21%

EHR 18 12 6 7 3 3 0 0 4 39%

ENG 107 90 17 23 19 18 1 0 4 21%

GEO 61 51 10 11 10 6 2 2 1 18%

MPS 159 100 59 28 18 16 2 0 10 18%

OPP 10 7 3 4 2 2 0 0 2 40%

SBE 67 59 8 21 19 14 5 0 2 31%

Totals 635 511 124 129 98 76 19 3 31 20%

Proposal

Award

Type*

PI Last

Name

PI First

Name Institution Title

NSF

Directorate or

NIH**

9630430 S Allen Karen N. Boston University Catalytic Mechanism of Acetoacetate Decarboxylase BIO

9419892 S Brainerd Elizabeth

University of

Massachusetts,

Amherst

Exhalation Mechanics and the Evolution of Aspiration

Breathing in Tetrapods BIO

9720479 VP Carleton Karen L.

University of New

Hampshire

The Role of Vision in Cichlid Mate Choice and Speciation:

Integration of Biology, Chemistry and Physics in Research and

in the Classroom BIO

9753013 REE Colby Carol L.

University of

Pittsburgh Spatial Cognition in Primates BIO

9752945 REE Durand Marie D. Princeton University

Evolution and Persistence of the t-haplotype in Finite

Populations BIO

9753282 REE Ellis Lynda

University of

Minnesota

Economic Models for Support of the Biological Database

Infrastructure BIO

9752947 REE Galloway Laura F. University of Virginia

The Contribution of Parental Effects to Life History Evolution

in Campanula Americana BIO

9753027 REE Gleason Evanna L.

Louisiana State

University

Role of Calcium Binding Proteins in Synaptic Transmission

Between Retinal Amacrine Cells BIO, NIH

9506805 S Hedstrom Lizbeth K. Brandeis University Structure of a Serpin - Protease Complex BIO

9752961 VP Koslowsky Donna

Michigan State

University

gRNA/mRNA Interactions During Editing in Trypanosoma

brucei BIO

9753044 REE Mann Janet Georgetown University

Communication During Separations in Wild Bottlenose

Dolphin Mothers and Infants BIO

9752974 VP Merchant Sabeeha University of Houston

Molecular Genetic Approaches to Study Organellar Membrane

Proteins BIO

9632302 S Mopper Susan

University of

Southwest Louisiana

International Workshops on Population and Evolutionary

Biology: I. Local Adaptation in Parasite-Host Associations BIO

9753015 REE Murphy Anne Z.

U. Maryland,

Baltimore

Role of MPO-Brainstem Connections in Male Reproductive

Behavior BIO, NIH

9752962 REE Robinson Jane S. University of Arizona Mechanisms of Organelle Autophagy in the yeast S. cerevisiae BIO

9753001 REE Shea Elaine M. Loyola (MD)

Metabolism of the Plant Hormone Indole-3-acetic Acid During

Somatic Embryogenesis BIO

9753283 REE Shoop

Elizabeth

G.

University of

Minnesota

Combining Data Mining and Information Visualization

Techniques With a Molecular Biology Sequence Similarity

Database System BIO

9753021 VP Swann Jennifer Lehigh University Pheromonal Stimulation of Multiunit Activity in the MPN Mag BIO

9743990 S Vaccarino Flora M. Yale University

Blockade of Fibroblast Growth-Factor Signaling by Transgenic

Dominant Negative Mutant Receptors BIO, NIH

9752978 REE Vierling Elizabeth University of Arizona

A Genetic Approach to Structure and Function Analysis of a

New Class of Molecular Chaperones BIO

9726943 VR White Susan A. Bryn Mawr College

Dissecting an RNA-Protein Interaction VISITING

RESEARCHER BIO

9753006 VP Wolfner Mariana F. Cornell University

Genetic and in vitro Investigations of Drosophila Reproductive

Proteins BIO

9601602 S Bernhard Jennifer T.

University of New

Hampshire Wireless Evaluation Environments and Effective Teaching CISE

9720545 VP Ellis Carla S. Duke University Systems Research in Adaptation CISE

Mount Holyoke

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9720508 REE Franklin Judy A. College Positive Human/Machine Interaction Through Music CISE

9303152

(9743920) S Hix Deborah

Virginia Polytechnic

Institute

Interactive Accessibility: Breaking Barriers to the Power of

Computing CISE

9753065 VP Hughes Ester A. North Carolina A&T Real-Time Reconfigurable Network Interfaces CISE

9753055 REE Landau Susan

University of

Massachusetts,

Amherst Certification of Security Protocols CISE

9401021

(9743731) S Roddis W. M. University of Kansas Design Lab CISE

9720470 REE Scarlatos Lori L.

CUNY, Brooklyn

College

Smart Object Interfaces for Collaborative Learning

Environments CISE

9720579 REE Seiter Linda M. Santa Clara University Managing Dynamic Evolution in Object-Oriented Systems CISE

9753064 REE Souvaine Diane L. Rutgers University Geometric Computation and Applications CISE

9753277 REE Spink Amanda H.

University of North

Texas

Interaction in Information Retrieval: Sucessive Searching by

Usage Over Time CISE

9753054 VP Wacholder Nina Columbia University Computationally Tractable Methods for Document Analysis CISE

9726424 VP Xiao Jing

University of North

Carolina, Charlotte Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University CISE

9743570 S Cordes Penelope

University of Alaska,

Fairbanks Yup'ik Conception of Wellness EHR

9752989 REE

GoodsonEspy TracyUniversity of North

Alabama Project Pathway EHR

9751274 S Haller Susan

University of

Wisconsin, Madison Computer Science Laboratory EHR

9752990 REE Ondracek Rochelle

University of Nebraska,

Lincoln

Introducing Interactive Case Studies in the Advanced

Materials Science Laboratory EHR

9752985 REE Parrill Abby

Michigan State

University

Interactive Technologies for Chemistry Websites: Educational

Materials for Organic Chemistry (EMOC) EHR

9743560 S Schofield Janet

School District of

Pittsburgh

Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh, Creating an Urban Research

Laboratory EHR

9743679 S Van Zoest Laura

Western Michigan

University

Renewing Mathematics Teaching Through Curriculum

(RMTC) EHR

9753072 REE Axe Lisa

New Jersey Institute of

Technology

Using X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy to Understand and

Model Contaminant Distribution ENG

9720537 REE Balbuena Perla B.

University of Southern

California Molecular Modeling of Electrochemical Systems ENG

9720523 REE Beck Carolyn L.

University of

Pittsburgh

Multivariable Modeling and Control Methods for Intravenous

Anesthetic Pharmacodynamics ENG

9753096 REE Broadbridge

Christine

C. Trinity College

Microstructural, Optical and Electrical Properties of Thin Film

Silica Aerogels as a Function of Processing Method ENG

9625691 S Chung Deborah SUNY Buffalo

Carbon Fiber Reinforced Concrete as an Intrinsically Smart

Concrete for Damage and Strain Sensing During Dynamic

Loading ENG

9753082 REE Coger Robin N.

University of North

Carolina Modeling and Engineered Liver Tissue System: Phase I ENG, NIH

9753086 REE Figueroa Linda

Colorado School of

Mines

Use of Fluorescent Oligonucleotide Probes & Other Advanced

Techniques to Characterize Population Distribution of

Notrifying Bacteria in a Full-Scale Nitrifying Trickling Filter ENG

9753091 REE Hastings Mardi C. Ohio State University

Experimental Investigation of a Biological Ultrasonic Sensory

System ENG

9753074 REE Hering Janet G. Cal Tech

Water Supply in Groundwater Systems: Facing Constraints of

Regulations, Risk and Reality ENG

9753075 REE Jasiuk Iwona M.

Georgia Institute of

Technology Multiscale Mechanics of Bone ENG

9596099 S Jones Patricia M.

University of Illinois,

Urbana-Champaign Collaborative Work in Civil Infrastructure Systems ENG

9453422 S Liu Yilu

Virginia Polytechnic

Institute Virtual Museum Development (based on PYI Award) ENG

9720541 REE Montz Burrell SUNY at Binghamton

The Hazardousness of Place: Modeling Risk and Vulnerability

(50% ENG, 50% SBE) ENG

9720623 REE Mullen Ruth Ann

University of

Washington Optically Reconfigurable Antenna Synapses ENG

9720606 REE Murphy Regina M.

University of

Wisconsin, Madison

Novel Spectroscopic Methods for Assessing Peptide Linkage

Interactions ENG

9753234 VP Murray Jean P.

Colorado School of

Mines (Portland State) POWRE: Solar-Thermal Processing for ENG

9753099 REE Parvin Azadeh University of Toledo

Enhancement of Beam-Column Connections Through the Use

of Fiber Reinforced Plastic ENG

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9720493 REE Robertson Janet K. Lafayette College A Micro Gas Separation Column ENG

9720570 REE Robinson Anne S. University of Delaware Molecular Determinants and Inhibition of Protein Aggregation ENG, NIH

9358108 S Rohde Suzanne University of Nebraska Supplement to an NSF Young Investigator Award ENG

9753160 REE Shireen Wajiha Univ. Houston

Development of a MCT Based Solid State DC Switch and

Circuit Breaker ENG

9753164 REE

van der

Meulen Marjolein Cornell University

Modeling Trabecular Bone Adaption to Mechanical

Engineering ENG

9753157 REE Walker Lynn M.

Carnegie Mellon

University

Rheology and Microstructure of Dilute Surfactant Systems in

Complex Flows ENG

9753287 REE Zhou Qian Purdue University

Group Modeling of Droplet Dispersion and Evaporation in

Turbulent Sprays ENG

9753093 REE Barros Ana

Pennsylvania State

University Laboratory Experiments of Wind-Raindrop Interactions GEO

9753175 VR Blank Jennifer

University of California

at Berkeley

An Experimental Investigation of Abiotic Synthesis of Organic

Compounds under Hydrothermal Conditions GEO

9630285 S Crossey Laura

University of New

Mexico

Biogeochemical Cycling of Redox-sensitive Metals During

Surface-Subsurface Water Exchange (supplement) GEO

9720622 REE Kieffaber Lois Whitworth College

High-Resolution Studies of Gravity Waves and Airglow

Continuum GEO

9753186 REE Larson Kristine

University of Colorado,

Boulder Real Time Monitoring at Kilauea Using GPS GEO

9720574 REE Logar

Antonette

M.

South Dakota School of

Mines and Technology

Integration of Artificial Intelligence Techniques into a Global

Cloud Mask Generation System GEO

9753190 VP Miller Meghan

Central Washington

University

Visiting Professor at MIT: Geologic and Geodetic Constraint

on Continental Deformation and Mountain Building GEO

9753205 VR Perry Mary Jane

University of

Washington

Forward and Inverse Analysis of Hydrologic Optics to

Measure Aspects of Marine Phytoplankton GEO

9753174 VP Rankin Kelly

Stevens Institution of

Oceanography

Development of Instrumentation for In-Situ Measurement of

Bottom Shear Stress over Moveable Beds at LEO-15 GEO

9753187 REE Schweitzer

Mary

Higby

Montana State

University

Application of Immunological Methods to the Study of

Ancient Tissues GEO

9753170 REE Yager Patricia

Florida State

University An Arctic Ocean Time Series of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon GEO

9753258 REE Alamo Rufina

Florida A&M

University Solid State NMR Applied to Polymer Characterization MPS

9720491 REE

AmatoWierda CarmelaUniversity of New

Hampshire The Missing Link: Gas-Phase Chemistry of Plasma CVD MPS

9753229 VP Barsony Mary

University of

California, Riverside Visiting Professorship at Harvey Mudd MPS

9313642

(9743821) S Brewer Karen

Virginia Polytechnic

Institute

Mixed-Metal Supermolecular Complexes as a New class of

Multifunctional DNA Binding Agents MPS, NIH

9753216 VP Chen Min

Pennsylvania State

University Study of Model Equations for Water Waves MPS

9753215 REE Dingus Brenda University of Utah TeV Astrophysics With Milagro MPS

9622589

(9743819) S Dunbar Kim

Michigan State

University Ordered Arrays of Metals With Polynitrile or Cyanide Ligands MPS

9720558 REE Feng Zhilan Purdue University Mathematical Models for Host-Parasite Systems MPS

9502213 S Francesconi Lynn Hunter College Technetium Complexes of Metal Oxides MPS

9753220 REE Gornet Ruth E. Texas Tech University Spectral Geometry of Nilmanifolds and Keinian Groups MPS

9720485 REE Haegel Nancy Fairfield University

Imaging Near-Contact Transport in High Resistivity

Semiconductors MPS

9320633 S Hunt Katharine

Michigan State

University Nonlocal Electromagnetic Response: Theory and Applications MPS

9520619 S Ladanyi Branka

Colorado State

University Solvation Dynamics in Reverse Micelles MPS

9753211 REE Letzter Gail

Virginia Polytechnic

Institute

New Constructions for Quantized and Classical Enveloping

Algebras MPS

9457700 S Levinger Nancy

Colorado State

University

Solvation and Chemical Dynamics at Immiscible Liquid

Interfaces MPS

9753262 REE Lewis Nita University of Miami Molecular Wires With Controlled Lengths and Shapes MPS

9753270 REE McClure Cynthia

Montana State

University Synthesis of Alkaloids via a Photochemical Methodology MPS, NIH

9623569

(9743551) S McCormack Elizabeth Bryn Mawr College

Excited-State Molecular Physics Probed by Laser-Induced

Grating Spectroscopy MPS

9720482 REE McKay Susan University of Maine

Driven Nonequilibrium systems With Quenched Disorder: A

Renormalization Group Study MPS

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9624138 S Meyer Tara

University of

Pittsburgh Magnetism in Polyaniline Isomers MPS

9624995 S Mohney S.

Pennsylvania State

University

Native Oxides on the III-V Nitrides and Chemical Cleaning of

the Semiconductor Surfaces MPS

9753219 REE Murnane P. University of Michigan Ultrafast Dynamics Probed by X-Rays MPS

9722672 S Neuhauser Barbara

San Francisco State

University

High Sensitivity Detectors for Particle Physics and

Astrophysics MPS

9720490 REE Nolan Deborah

University of

California, Berkeley Statistics: Research, Education, and Application MPS

9753254 REE O'Brien Leah

Southern Illinois

University Research Enhancement at the University of British Columbia MPS

9720607 REE Oliviera P. Texas A&M University

New Numerical Algorithms for Particle Transport and Integral

Equations MPS

9753227 REE Parks

Mary

Elizabeth Colgate University

Enhancement of a Time-Domain THz Spectrometer for

Studying Condensed Matter Systems MPS

9753271 REE Pence Laura University of Hartford

Systematic Preparation of High space Nuclearity Metal -

Carboxylate Clusters MPS

9752998 REE Ledley Tamara S. TERC, Inc.

A Study of the Influence of El Nino (Southern Oscillation

(ENSO)) on the Polar Ocean Regions: A Student and Scientist

Partnership OPP

9423730 S

BrighamGrette Julie

University of

Massachusetts,

Amherst

Pleistocene Glacial Ice Cover and Interglacial Paleoclimatic

History in the NE Russian Arctic - Comparisons With Alaska OPP

9753000 REE Askin

Rosemary

A. Ohio State University

Palynological Survey of Sirius Group and Related Neogene

Sediments, Transantarctic Mountains OPP

9530746 S Dickson Mary-Lynn

University of Rhode

Island

Oxygen Dynamics During the JGOFS Southern Ocean Process

Study OPP

9753139 REE Allen Beth

University of

Minnesota

Topics in Economic Theory: The Timing of Transactions and

Firm Formation SBE

9753110 REE Benson Janette University of Denver POWRE: Spatial Development in 1-To-3-Year-Old Children SBE

9720473 REE Boland Julie Ohio State University

The Measurement of Eye Movements During Sentence

Comprehension SBE

9720593 VP Casper Gretchen Texas A&M University

Application of Econometrics and Game Theory to the Study of

Democratic Consolidation SBE

9753130 REE Croson Rachel

University of

Pennsylvania

POWRE: Dynamic Behavior in Supply Chains: Experimental

Investigations SBE

9753119 VP DeBoef Suzanna Harvard University

POWRE: Near Integration: The Implications for Macro

Political Theory SBE

9720432 REE Finkelstein Marcia

University of South

Florida Attitude-Behavior Relationships in Dyads: Condom Use SBE, NIH

9753138 REE Gardner Wendi

Northwestern

University Parsing Attitudinal Responses and Change SBE

9423291 S Hermon Gabriella University of Delaware Supplement: The Acquisition of Reflexives and WH Questions SBE

9753136 REE Jones Caren

University of

Massachusetts,

Amherst

POWRE: Associative Recognition: Recall-to-Reject or Recallto-Accept SBE

9753128 REE Kirner Donna

University of

California, Riverside

Microgram to Nanogram: A Study to Reduce the Sample Size

of Graphitic Carbon Targets for AMS Radiocarbon Dating SBE

9753125 REE Laury Susan

University of South

Carolina POWRE: Individual Motives for Giving SBE

9720475 VP Litfin Karen

University of

Washington

Global Gaze: Earth Observing Satellites and the Changing

International Knowledge Structure SBE

9720541 REE Montz Burrell SUNY at Binghamton

The Hazardousness of Place: Modeling Risk and Vulnerability

(50% ENG, 50% SBE) SBE

9753145 VP Popielarz Pamela

Northwestern

University

Visiting Porfessorship: Structural Constraints on Demographic

Heterogeneity in Personal Networks SBE

9753142 REE Puri Manju Stanford University

POWRE: Anti-Manipulation Regulations, Bank Powers and

the Use of Internet in Public Security Offerings SBE

9753137 REE Sereno Joan Cornell University POWRE: Behavioral Investigations of Nouns and Verbs SBE

9753111 REE Small Cathy

Northern Arizona

University

POWRE: A Computer-Assisted Approach to Ethnohistorical

Analysis in Polynesia SBE

9507469 S Tate Katherine

University of

California, Irvine Supplement: The 1996 National Black Election Survey SBE

9753009 REE Vaina Lucia Boston University

POWRE: Combined fMRI and Psychophysics to Study

Functional Plasticity in the Human System SBE

9753126 VP Zeng Langche

George Washington

University POWRE: Nonlinear Modeling for Political Data Analysis SBE

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