Grants and Contracts 2004

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December 2004

From the National Institutes of Health: $72,250 to Sam Pennington (Medicine) for " Maternal Dietary Fat: Effects on Mother and Offspring”; $310,388 to James McCubrey (Medicine) for “Ras/RAF & P13K/Akt Induced Breast Cancer Drug Resistance”; and $285,000 to C. Jeffrey Smith (Medicine) for “Role of B. Fragilis Oxygen Stress Response in Infection.”

From the National Science Foundation, $130,000 to Brett Keiper (Medicine) for “Function of Tissue-Specific elF4E Isoforms in Caenorhabditis Elegans.”

From the National Park Service, $8,500 to Richard Spruill and D. Reide Corbett (Geology) for “Exploration of the Subsurface and Development of Water Production in Well on Cape Lookout, Cape Lookout National Seashore.”

From the American College of Medical Toxicology, $7,500 to William Meggs (Medicine) for “Neurotoxicity of Chronic Exposure to Low Levels of Organophosphate Insecticides.”

From the N.C. Small Business and Technology Development Center to Margaret Hackney (Regional Development Services): $47,469 for SBTDC Federal and State Technology Transfer Partnership (FAST); and $42,558 for SBTDC – N.C. Recovery and Redevelopment (NC READE).

From the N.C. Department of Enviornment and Natural Resources, $55,902 to Allen Clark (Coastal and Marine Resources) for “A Citizen’s Water Quality Monitoring Program for the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuary.”

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, $25,000 to Elaine Cabinum-Foeller (Medicine) for TEDI BEAR: Children’s Advocacy Center.

From the N.C. Humanities Council, $1,200 to Maurice York and Nancy Shires (Academic Library Services) for “Eastern North Carolina and Literary Inspiration: A Homecoming.”

From UNC – Chapel Hill: $24,955 to Peggy Wittman and Beth Velde (Allied Health) for “Community Health and Environment Reawakening”; and $12,000 to Linner Griffin (Social Work) for the N.C. Child Welfare Education Collaborative.

From Purdue University, $103,698 to Zachary Robinson (Mathematics) for “Model Theory and Cell Decomposition for Valued Fiels with Analytic Structure.”

From the University of South Florida, $18,767 to David Mallinson (Geology) for “Continuation of Studies on the Florida Middle Ground Using a High Resolution Multibeam Bathymetry and Backscatter System.”

From the University of Virginia: $10,000 to Mark Brinson and $1,000 to Robert Christian (Biology) for contribution to long-term ecological research at the Virginia Coast Reserve: LTER IV.

From SCIREX Corporation, $18,580 to Robert Tanenberg (Medicine) for Protocol#: A0081036(CI-1008).

From the Pacific Southwest Research Station, $11,569 to Robert Pfister (Recreation and Leisure Studies) for “Perceptions of Innovations.”

From DOV Pharmaceutical, $35,000 to Brian McMillen (Medicine) for “Effect of DOV Pharmaceutical Drugs on Ethanol Consumption by the mHEP Rat.”

From CV Therapeutics, $83,700 to Jamal Mustafa (Medicine) for “Study of the Effects of Selective A2B Antagonists and its Comparison to Theophylline.”

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November 2004

From the National Science Foundation, $185,728 to J.P. Walsh (Geology) for “Collaborate Resarch: Sediment Dynamics on the Actively Deforming Waipaoa Continental Slope: An Examination of a Dispersal System Sink.”

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, $58,090 to Irene Hamrick (Medicine) for the Geriatric Academic Career Award.

From the N.C. Scottish Rite Masonic Foundation, $75,000 to Gregg Givens (Communication Sciences and Disorders) for the N.C. Scottish Rite Clinic for Childhood Language Disorders and Training Program.

From the N.C. Institute of Medicine, $2,500 to Herbert Garrison (Medicine) for N.C. Medical Journal scientific editor services.

From the N.C. Arts Council, $3,000 to Gil Leebrick (Art) for visual arts program support.

From the UNC General Administration, $53,000 to Jack Brinn and Ken Flurchick (ITCS) for the AVS Center.

From Florida Atlantic University, $69,561 to Michael Vitale (Education) for “Validation of a Multi-Phase Design for Scaling Up a Knowledge-Based Intervention.”

From Halifax and Northampton Counties, $8,050 to Thomas Skalko (Recreation and Leisure Studies) for the Halifax-Northampton-Health North Carolina’s Project.

From Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation, $49,818 to Tate Holbrook, John Olsson, and Kathryn Kolasa (Medicine) for Kidpower.

From Greene County Schools, $8,000 to Rebecca Torres (Geography) for Los Puentes fellowships.

From Tideland Mental Health Center, $4,000 to Katie Leegins-Vinson (Social Work) for the Tideland Mental Health Center Social Work Internship.

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October 2004

From the National Institutes of Health: $360,730 to Christopher Wingard (Medicine) for “Erectile Function and the Influence of Rho-Kinase”; $259,350 to Joseph Chalovich (Medicine) for “Protein Exchange to Study Muscle Function and Disease”; and $377,145 to Roy Martin Roop (Medicine) for “Brucella Stationary Phase Gene Expression and Virulence.”

From the National Geographic Society, 21,650 to Kyle Summers (Biology) for “Reproductive Strategy Transition in Peruvian Poison Frogs.”

From the American School Food Service Association, $2,500 to Roman Pawlak (Nutrition and Hospitality Management) for “Identification and Quantification of Social, Attitudinal, Control, and Psychological Factors Related to Fruit, Vegetable, and Whole Grain Food Consumption Among Public High School Students.”

From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, $22,000 to Tim Runyan (History) and Frank Cantelas (Maritime History and Nautical Archeology) for the U.S. Alligator project.

From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, $10,000 to Rebecca Sweet (Interior Design and Merchandising) for “Greeting Standards for Green Structures: Process and Products.”

From the U.S. Department of Agriculture, $12,000 to Joseph Flood (Recreation and Leisure Studies) for the Black Swamp OHV System Project.

From the U.S. Department of Defense, $320,625 to Qun Lu (Medicine) for “Catenin and Cell-Cell Adhesion in Prostate Cancer.”

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, $273,552 to Jackie Hutcherson (Nursing) for the Nurse-Midwifery Program of North Carolina.

From the American Diabetes Association, $95,907 to Sam Pennington (Medicine) for “Effect of Maternal Dietary Fat on Her Offspring’s Insulin Response.”

From UNC – Chapel Hill: $6,00 to Christopher Mansfield (Health Services Research and Development) and Rita Manfredi (Medicine) for the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry Subcontract; and $15,000 to Elaine Cabinum-Foeller (Medicine) for the TEDI BEAR Regional Center for Child Maltreatment.

From the UNC Sea Grant Program, $5,850 to David Griffith (Coastal and Marine Resources) for “Mercury Risk Awareness and Fish Consumption Among the Fishing Community on the Tar-Pamlico River.”

From the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, $98,524 to Marilyn Sheerer (Education) an educational consultant to assist N.C. DPI with implementation of NCLB Legislation.

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, $3,511,650 to Gary Stainback (Medicine) for the Developmental Evaluation Clinic.

From Endacea, $14,391 to Michael Van Scott (Medicine) for “L-97-1 Piliot.”

From GeoSolutions, $48,068 to David Mallinson (Geology) for A Geophysical Seruvey Oregon Inlet, N.C.

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September 2004

From the National Institutes of Health: $236,906 to Jian Ding (Medicine) for “Dysregulation of Circadian Rhythm by HIV Protein Tat”; and $7,125 to Abdel Abdel-Rahman (Medicine) for “Mechanisms of Alcohol-Estrogen Hemodynamic Interaction.”

From the U.S. Department of Education, $250,000 to Sandra Warren (Education) for “ECU Gateways: Opening Doors for Special Educators and Students with Low-Incidence Disabilities.”

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration: $365,480 to Richard Bamberg (Allied Health) for “Preparation for Allied Health Careers”; $24,920 to Scott Simmons (Health Sciences Communication) for HRSA Telehealth Inventory; and $333,134 to Dean Patton and Ronald Perkin (Medicine) for an Obesity Center in Primary Care.

From the National Park Services, $20,000 to Stan Riggs (Geology) for Geologic Mapping of the Barrier Island Systems at Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Cape Lookout National Seashore.

From the National Endowment for the Arts, $10,000 to Peter Makuck (English) for support for Tar River Poetry.

From the American College Health Association, $3,887 to Karen Warren and Tywanna Jeffries (Student Health Services) for ACHA Building Health Campus Communities.

From the N.C. State Energy Office, $196,214 to Ralph Rogers (Technology and Computer Science) for “Upgrade and Save.”

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, $95,608 to David White (Health Education) for the ECU Regional Training Center.

From the N.C. Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission, $35,000 to Lauren Whetstone and Kathryn Kolasa (Medicine) for “Best Practices for Fit Together Obesity Prevention/Reduction Initiative.”

From the UNC Institute on Aging, $6,000 to James Mitchell (Center on Aging) for Web course development.

From UNC Chapel Hill, $65,502 to Stephen Engelke (Medicine) for A Nusring Support Intervention for Mothers of Premature Infants.

From UNC Greensboro, $200,420 to Cynthia Johnson (Human Ecology) for management plan for the Implementation of the ECERS/SACERS/FDCRS Assessment of the Rated License.

From Duke University, $59,375 to Roy Martin Roop (Medicine) for “Immunization Against A Brucella Antigen Using a Cross Priming BCG Vector.”

From UNC Wilmington, $13,800 to Libero Bartolotti (Chemistry) for Fostering Undergraduate Research Partnerships thorugh a Graphical User Environment for North Carolina Computing Grid.

From the University of New Hampshire, $21,060 to Joseph Luczkovich (Biology) and Mark Sprague (Physics) for Development of a Fish Acoustic Buoy and Underwater Loggin System Passive Acoustic Recorder for Use in Surveying Responses of Coastal Fishes to Hypoxia and Anoxia.

From the University of Maryland, Baltimore, $57,738 to Sharon Collins (ITCS) for Programming and Environmental and Training Plan.

From the Pitt County Health Education Foundation, $5,860 to Eric Anderson (Medicine) for Health Care Education for Life.

From the Glenmary Research Center, $2,153 to Thomas Crawford (Geography) for a Diocesan Mapping Project.

From the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust: $4,200 to Michael Crane for the School of Communication Editing Computer; $190,309 and $197,229 to Kristen Borre (Agro-Medicine) and Kathryn Kolasa (Medicine) for “Growing Up Fit! Building Healthy Lifestyles for Pitt County School-Aged Children.”

From CZR Incorporated, $7,300 to Donald Stanley (Institute for Coastal and Marine Resources) for NCPC Tract Water Quality Monitoring, 2004.

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August 2004

From the National Institutes of Health: $104,625 to Ronald Cortright (Exercise and Sport Science) for “Mitochondria-Peroxisome Fatty Acide Oxidation in Obesity”; and $139,500 to Cortright for “Dysregulated Muscle Lipid Metabolism in African-Americans.

From the National Aeronautics and Space Administration: $88,268 to Scott Curtis (Geography) for “Intraseasonal Variations in Precipitation from the Indian to Western Pacific Oceans as a Forcing Mechanism for El Nino/Southern Oscillation”; and $75,339 to Michael Dingfelder (Physics) for “Patterns of Energy Deposition by HZE Particles in Cellular Targets.”

From the National Science Foundation, $300,000 to Ernest Marshburn (ITCS), Ken Flurchick (Physics) and Chemistry faculty Libero Bartolotti, Robert Morrison, Art Rodriguez, and Andrew Sargent for acquition of high performance computing resources in support of the Consortium for Computational Chemistry and Materials Sciences.

From the U.S. Department of Education: $200,000 to Sandra Warren (Education) for “Improving the Preparation of Personnel to Serviced Children with High Incidence Disabilities ECU Partnership East”; and $200,000 to Sandra Warren and Ruth Kilburn (Education) for “GOALS AT ECU: Guaranteeing Opportunities for All Learners Through Assistive Technology.”

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, $151,200 to Janice Daugherty (Medicine) for predoctoral training in family medicine; and $108,000 to Mark Darrow (Medicine) for training in primary care medicine.

From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, $15,000 to Roger Rulifson (Coastl and Marine Resources) for “Characterization of Anadromous Fish Spawning Habitat in the Tar River, NC.”

From the National Security Agency, $10,653 to Salman Abdulali (Mathematics) for “Abelian Varieties, Hodge Structure, and Algebraic Cycles.”

From the American Heart Association, $66,000 to Richard Franklin (Medicine) for “Mechanisms of Oxidant-Induced Inflammation.”

From the American Chemical Society: $35,000 to David Mallinson (Geology) for “Defining the Chronostratigraphic Framework of Paleoshorelines and Barrier Island Components in Northeastern North Carolina: Implications for Holocene Paleoclimate and Sea Level”; and $80,000 to Stephen Culver (Geology) for “Patterns of Species Diversity as Paleoenvironmental Indicators: A New Approach.”

From the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, $19,999 to Nelson Cooper (Recreation and Leisure Studies) for “NC Learn and Serve K-12 Evaluation Project.”

From the N.C. Small Business and Technology Development Center: $4,624 to Margaret Hackney (Regional Development Services) for the N.C. Small Business and Technology Development Center; and $560 to Hackney for SBTCD – N.C. Recovery and Redevelopment.

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services: $291,028 to Edward Newton (Medicine) for a High Risk Maternity Clinic; $211,886 to Charles Daeschner III and Charles Knupp (Medicine) for the N.C. Sickle Cell Program; $5,400 to Daeschner for the Hemophilia Assistance Program/Plan; $76,012 to Debra Tristram (Medicine) for HIV Pediatric Social Worker – Case Management Services in Eastern N.C.; and $40,800 to Nancy Leggett-Frazier (Medicine) for a Clinical Fellowship for Diabetes Education.

From the N.C. State Library, $144,448 to Carroll Varner (Academic Library Services) for “NC ECHO Heritage Partners Grant – Digitizing Eastern North Carolina History, Fiction and Artifacts for Educators.”

From UNC – Chapel Hill, $535,244 to Linner Griffin (Social Work) for the N.C. Child Welfare Education Collaborative.

From the UNC Sea Grant Program, $22,045 to David Griffith (Coastal and Marine Resources) for “Developing ‘Best Practices’ for Coastal Communities Experiencing Immigration.”

From Michigan State University, $179,806 to Charles Thompson (Education) for “A Study of Instructionally Effective School Districts.”

From N.C. State University, $142,219 to John Sabella (Agro-Medicine), James Gibson (Medicine) and Judy Bernhardt (Nursing) for “Farm Injury/Illness Project Assessing Pesticides and Other Environmental Hazards.”

From Florida Atlantic University, $30,000 to Ruth Ann Henriksen (Medicine) for support services for atherosclerosis and asthma research.

From the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, $38,000 to Paul Gemperline (Research and Graduate Studies) for Comprehensive Models for Batch Process Development.”

From the Pitt County Health Education Foundation, $4,000 to William Wooden (Medicine) for Family Support and Team Education.

From Hyde County Transit, $5,050 to Malcolm Simpson and Rawls Howard (Regional Development Institute) for a survey, Feasibility of Transportation System for Ocracoke Island.

From Martin County Schools, $2,500 to Betty Beacham (Education) for a consultant contract for Martin MAGIC.

From the Wilson-Greene Mental Health Center, $202,566 to Thomas Skalko (Recreation and Leisure Studies) for Horizons Program: A Day Treatment Program for Youth.

From the Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation: $25,000 to Linda Mayne (Nursing) for the Witness Program for Breast Cancer Education; and $30,000 to Mary Ann Rose (Nursing) for “Bound for Camp Timbercreek.”

From the Southern Arts Federation, $1,500 to Edward Jacobs (Music) for the 2004 NewMusic@ECU Festival.

From the Health and Wellness Trust Fund, $31,667 to Lauren Whetstone, Kathryn Kolasa, Doyle Cummings, and Susan Morrissey (Medicine) for the Child,Youth, and Community Obesity Prevention/Reduction Initiative.

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July 2004

From the National Institutes of Health: $279,000 to Joseph Houmard (Health and Human Performance) for “Lipid Metabolism in Obesity, Weight Loss and Exercise”; $88,518 to Rebecca Benfield (Nursing) for “The Effects of Hydrotherapy on Anxiety and Pain in Labor”; $225,000 to Christopher Wingard (Medicine) for “Erectile Function and the Influence of Rho-Kinase”; $279,883 and $362,624 to Timothy Jones (Allied Health) for “Ontogeny of Spatial Coding in the Mouse Utricle.”

From The National Science Foundation: $50,563 to Lisa Clough (Biology) for “Digestibility of Ice Algae and Phytoplankton: The Potential Impacts of Changing Food Supply in the Arctic Benthos”; $443,971 to D. Reide Corbett and David Mallinson (Geology) for instrumentation to enhance research and teaching of the estuarine and coastal processes research group; and $123,413 to Yong Zhu (Biology) for “RUI: Production and Characterization of Membrane Steroid Receptors.”

From the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, $698 to Maura MCAuliffe (Nursing) for a nurse anesthetist traineeship program; $66,388 to Sylvia Brown (Nursing) for an advanced education nursing traineeship program; and $264,235 to Alta Anderws (Nursing) for “Increasing FNP’s in Underserved Areas Via Technology.”

From the American Chemical Society, $35,000 to Colin Burns (Chemistry) for “Metal Cofactors in natively Unstructured Proteins: Exploring Zn2+ Binding in Prothymosim.”

From the American Diabetes Association, $100,000 to Phillip Pekala (Medicine) for “The Regulation of Adipose Tissue Metabolism by the RNA Binding Protein HuR.”

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services: $10,000 to Shelia Bunch (Social Work) for “Addresssing Family violence During and around the Time of Pregnancy”; and $145,193 to Linner Griffin (Social Work) for “Preparing Social Workers to Work with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.”

From the N.C. Biotechnology Center, $32,250 to Chia-yu Li (Chemistry) for GMP Education for Analytical Workers in the BioPharma Industry.

From the University of Texas Health Science Center, $4,712 to Christyn Dolbier (Psychology) for “Preterm Birth: Psychoneuroimmunology in Hispanics.”

From University Health Systems of Eastern North Carolina, $500,000 to Maura McAuliffe and Melydia Edge (Nursing) for a nurse anesthesia program.

From the Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation: $40,000 to Matthew Mahar (Health and Human Performance) for “Increasing Motivation for Physical Activity in Children and Teachers”; $28,000 to David Loy (Health and Human Performance) for adapted recreation; and $65,000 to Michael McCammon (Health and Human Performance) for physical activity and nutrition intervention for overweight adolescents.

From Pitt County Memorial Hospital, $48,387 to Kathryn Kolasa and Jacqueline Duffy (Medicine) for the Food Literacy Partners Program.

From the Pitt County Health Education Foundation, $10,000 to Kathryn Kolasa and Emilie Davis (Medicine) for Pitt County Medical Nutrition Therapy for Overweight Youth.

From Encelle, $11,630 to John Bradfield, Kenneth Salleng, and Stephen Vore (Medicine) for “Screening Evaluation for Biocompatibility and Tissue Response of New Biotech Materials in the Rat.”

From Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society, $750 to Robin Webb-Corbett (Nursing) for Growing Healthy Babies.

From Beverly Enterprises: $98,715 and $98,743 to Kenneth Steinweg (Medicine) for the Greenville Health and Rehabilitation center, Teaching Nursing Home Grant.

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June 2004

From the National Institutes of Health: $124,665 to Ray Morrison (Medicine) for “Ischemia-Reperfusion in A2A and A2B Knockout Hearts"; $445,162 to Jamal Mustafa (Medicine) for "Mechanisms of Coronary Flow Regulation by Adenosine"; and $228,950 to G. Lynis Dohm (Medicine) for "Muscle Glucose Metabolism in Diabetes and Exercise."

From the National Science Foundation: $138,090 to Jeffrey Johnson (Sociology), Lisa Clough (Biology) and David Griffith (Coastal and Marine Resources) for "Relations Between Traditional and Scientific Knowledge of the Kotzebue Sound Ecosystem"; $7,590 to Lisa Clough for "Digestibility of Ice Algae and Phytoplankton: THe Potential Impacts of Changing Food Supply in the Arctic Benthos"; $228,00 to Andrew Morehead (Chemistry) for "Mechanistic Studies of the Rhodium-Catalyzed Cyclization of OrthoFormyl Styrenes"; and $82,891 to Jeffrey Johnson for a Sumer Institute for Research Design in Cultural Anthropology.

From the Office of Naval Research, $272,592 to Arthur Bode (Medicine) for "Cross-Flow Filtration as a Means of Improving the Efficiency and Safety of Production of Lyophilized Platelets for the Arrest of Hemorrhage."

From the Center for Disease Control, $60,049 to Daniel Sprau (Health and Human Performance) for TPG Training.

From the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, $191,923 to Mark Mannie (Medicine) for “Antigen-Specific Inhibition of EAE.”

From the American Heart Association, $132,000 to Timothy Gavin (Exercise and Sport Science) for "Age, Exercise Training, and Skeletal Muscle Capillarization in Humans."

From the National Children's Alliance, $8,500 to Elaine Cabinum-Foeller (Medicine) for TEDI BEAR: Children's Advocacy Center.

From the U.S. Department of Agriculture, $549,526 to Nancy White (Research and Graduate Studies) for “Integrated Watershed Based Molecular and Hydrologic Monitoring Techniques to Assess Pathogen Loading in Estaurine and Shellfish Environment.” Also to White, from the UNC General Administration, $53,000 for “Assessment of Contaminant Load in North Carolina’s Storm Water Using Novel Molecular Techniques.”

From the N.C. Department of Public Instruction: $3,000 to Betty Beacham (Education) for Martin Magic Evaluation; $18,351 to Nelson Cooper (Recreeation and Leisure Studies) for the NC Learn and Serve K-12 Evaluation Project; and $112,713 to David Powers (Education) for the NCDPI Division of Exceptional Children Contract. Also to Beacham and John Swope (Education), from the N.C. Commission on Volunteerism and Community Services, $577,328 for Project Heart.

From the N.C. Biotechnology Center, $122,176 to Alexander Murashov (Medicine) for “Development of a Method for Treatment of Brain Injury Using Embryonic Stem Cells.”

From the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, $82,404 to Mark Brinson, Richard Rheinhardt, and Robert Christian (Biology) for "Development of Ecological Assessments for Planning in Coastal Plain Stream Restoration."

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, $83,102 to James Cummings (Medicine) for a Neonatal Outreach Education Program.

From the N.C Education Assistance Authority, $9,300 to Rose Mary Stelma (Financial Aid) for a summer internship for counselors.

From the UNC General Administration, $23,275 to Tarrick Cox (Rural Education Institute) for the GEAR UP Summer Leadership Institute.

From Indiana University, $11,293 to Hong-Bing Su (Geography) for "Forest-Atmosphere Exchange of CO2 over a Mixed Hardwood Ecosystem in the Midwest."

From Duke University, $7,993 to D. Reide Corbett (Geology) for Development of Environmental Proxies for Coastal Environments.

From University Health Systems of Eastern North Carolina, $20,000 to Doyle Cummings and Lauren Whetstone (Medicine) for the Health Assist Project.

From the Wilson-Greene Mental Health Center, $17,968 and $1,634 to Thomas Skalko (Recreation and Leisure Studies) for Horizons Program: A Day Treatment Program for Youth.

From the Upper Coastal Plain Council of Governments: $689 to Alan Burne (Planning) for Delineation of traffic Analysis Zones; and $1,500 to Rodney Jackson (Geography) for Land Use Survey, Bertie and Hertford Counties, NC.

From Resource Consultants, $15,175 to Paul Kauffman (Industrial Technology) for "Lovering Johnson Littigation Support - Critical Path Analysis."

From Under Armor Performance Apparel, $42,666 to Robert Hickner (Exercise and Sport Science) for Thermoregulation in Under Armor Apparel.

From the Eppley Foundation for Researcher, $24,800 to Martin Bier (Physics) for "Motor Proteins - Finding Parameters for their Optimal Performance."

From Riverstone Counseling and Personal Development Center, $56,763 to Elizabeth Gail Sharpe (Social Work) for the Halifax County NC System of Care Initiative Evaluation Project.

From the Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society, $750 to Janice Neil (Nursing) for “Quality of Life in Patients with Prosthetic Legs: A Comparison Study.”

From Schering-Plough Corporation, $15,000 to Michael Van Scott (Medicine) for Cynomologus Sensitization.

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May 2004

From the U.S. Department of Agriculture, $22,747 to Joseph Flood (Recreation and Leisure Studies) for the Black Swamp OHV System Project.

From the U.S. Department of Education, $77,600 to Holly Hapke (Geography) for "Gender, Cast-Religio and Economic Livelihoods in the Fisheries Sector of South India."

From the National Science Foundation: $5,000 to Frank Cantelas (Maritime History and Nautical Archeology) and Tim Runyan (History) for "Exploring the Russian American Shipwreck Kad'yak; $98,991 to Alexandra Shlapentokh (Mathematics) for "Existential Definability Over Product Formula Fields"; and $428,030 to Marilyn Sheerer, Sharon Nichols and Sandra Huskamp (Education) for "Teacher Retention and Renewal Through Visualization and Immersive Technologies in Rural Education."

From the National Park Service, $96,296 to Richard Spruill and D. Reide Corbett (Geology) for "Exploration of the Subsurface and Development of Water Production in Well on Cape Lookout, Cape Lookout National Seashore."

From the National Institutes of Health: $331,313 to Abdel Abdel-Rahman (Medicine) for "Mechanisms of Alcohol-Estrogen Hemodynamic Interaction" and $281,493 to Abdel-Rahmen for "Negative Impact of Alcohol of Antihypertensive Therapy"; $139,500 to Nancy Stephenson (Nursing) for "Partner-Delivered Reflexology: Effects on Cancer Pain"; $195,596 to Larry Toburen (Physics) for "Electron Transport in 'Tissue-Like' Material"; and $259,350 to Joseph Chalovich (Biochemistry) for "Actin Based Regulation of Smooth Muscle Contraction."

From the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, $3,000 to Charles Ewen (Anthropology) for "New Bern Battlefield 2."

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, $240,407 to Gary Stainback (Medicine) for a developmental evaluation clinic.

From the N.C. Biotechnology Center, $50,000 to S. Jamal Mustafa (Medicine) for "A Novel Drug for Asthma with Dual Action Via Ars."

From Duke University: $29,566 to Roy Martin Roop (Medicine) for "Immunization Against A Brucella Antigen Using a Cross Priming BCG Vector"; and $156,363 to Joseph Houmard (Exercise and Sports Science) for "Peripheral Effects of Exercise on Cardiovascular Health."

From Ohio State University, $23,591 to Hong-Bing Su (Geography) for "Mass and Energy Exchange in a Northern Mixed Hardwood Ecosystem."

From the UNC Sea Grant Program, $121,212 to William Queen (ICMR) for the Sea Grant Extension Program; $61,591 to Roger Rulifson (ICMR) for "Spiny Dogfish Mortality Induced by Gill Net and Trawl Capture, Tag and Release"; and $35,834 to David Griffith (ICMR) and Jeffrey Johnson (Sociology) for "Developing 'Best Practices' for Coastal Communities Experiencing Immigration."

From UNC­Chapel Hill, $1,269 to Christopher Mansfield (Health Services R&D) and Rita Manfredi (Medicine) for the "Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry"; and $3,000 to Elaine Cabinum-Foeller (Medicine) for the TEDI BEAR Regional Center for Child Maltreatment.

From the UNC General Administration, $186,000 to Nancy White (Research and Graduate Studies) for "Coastal Studies Institute: Interim Support."

From Vanderbilt University, $9,500 to Charles Daeschner III (Medicine) for "Region IV North Comprehensive Hemophilia Treatment."

From Kinston-Lenoir Parks and Recreation Department, $2,500 to Joseph Flood (Recreation and Leisure Studies) for a risk management plan.

From the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, $10,700 to Rachel Roper (Medicine) for "Production of Monoclonal Antibodies to Small SARS Proteins."

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April 2004

From the National Institutes of Health: $213,750 to Jun Q. Lu (Physics) for "Simulation of Light Scattering by Biological Cells Using Parallel Finite-Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Method"; $244,125 to Everett Pesci (Medicine) for "Role of a New Signal Molecule in P. Aeruginosa and Virulence"; and $209,250 to C. Jeffrey Smith (Medicine) for "B. Fragillis Multiple Drug Resistance-Origin and Control."

From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: $65,000 to Tim Runyan (History) for the Ocracoke Remote Sensing Survey; and $50,000 to Frank Cantelas (Maritime History and Nautical Archeology) and Tim Runyan (History) for Exploring the Russian American Shipwreck Kad'yak.

From the National Science Foundation: $50,145 to Paul Gemperline (Chemistry) for Chemometric Tools for Characterization of Evolving Chemical Processes; and $69,265 to Jeffrey Johnson (Sociology) for a Summer Institute for Research Design in Cultural Anthropology.

From the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $41,089 to Paul Kauffman (Industrial Technology) for "Longitudinal Study of Cockpit Weather Systems."

From the U.S. Geological Survey, $165,001 to Stanley Riggs, Stephen Culver, D. Reide Corbett, and David Mallinson (Geology) for North Carolina Quatemary Stratigraphy and Regional Geologic Synthesis.

From the U.S. Department of Education, $299,034 to Melissa Engelman, David Powers, Sandra Warren, and Ruth Kilburn (Education) for Preparation of Special Education, Related services, and Early Intervention Personnel to Serve Infants, Toddlers and Children with Low Incidence Disabilities.

From the National Endowment for the Humanities, $5,000 to Gregg Hecimovich (English) for "Searching for Hannah Crafts: Kate Wheeler Cooper and the First Novel By an African American Woman."

From the U.S. Army, $22,500 to Donald Fletcher (Medicine) for Anatomy Prosections/Dissections for Army Personnel Medical Training.

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services: $551 to James Cummings (Medicine) for the Neonatal Outreach Education Program; and $3,520 to Edward Newton (Medicine) for the High Risk Maternity Clinic.

From the N.C. Small Business and Technology Development Center, $4,500 to Margaret Hackney (Regional Development Services) for the N.C. Small Business and Technology Development Center at ECU.

From the Foundation for the Carolinas, $10,000 to Kenneth Soderstrom (Medicine) for "Persistent Effects of Juvenile Nicotine Exposure."

From UNC Chapel Hill, $3,333 to Charles Daeschner III (Medicine) for Regional IV North Prevention of Complications of Hemophilia through Hemophilia Treatment Centers.

From the UNC General Administration, $25,200 to Ann Bullock (Education) for N.C. Teach; and $41,579 to Sandra Huskamp and Ken Flurchick (Information Technology and Computer Systems) for the AVS Center.

From the UNC Institute on Aging, $30,000 to James Mitchell (Center on Aging) for Aging and Rural Transition.

From the Upper Coastal Plain Council of Governments, $7,977 to Rodney Jackson (Geography) for a Land Use Survey, bertie and Hertford Counties.

From the Health and Wellness Trust Fund, $106,500 to Lauren Whetstone, Kathryn Kolasa, Doyle Cummings, and Susan Morrissey (Medicine) for the Child, Youth, and Community Obesity Prevention/Reduction Initiative.

From Washington University in St. Louis, $21,750 to Phillip Neff for "Silent Cerebral Infarct Multi-Center Clinical Trial."

From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $199,961 to Suezanne Orr (Health Education and Promotion) and Edward Newton (Medicine) for "Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Postpartum Smoking Behaviors."

From PCS Phosphate, $3,456 to Chia-yu Li (Chemistry) for a Chemistry internship program.

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March 2004

From the National Endowment for the Humanities, $5,000 to LuAnn Jones (History) for "Dupont Comes to Tobacco Road: Industrialization in the Postwar South."

From the National Security Agency, $11,371 to Chris Jantzen (Mathematics) for "Induced Representations for Classical Groups."

From the National Council on Family Relations, $1,163 to Sharon Ballard, Elizabeth Carroll, Kevin Gross, Susan Reichelt and Linda Robinson (Child Development and Family Relations) for the CFLE Promotion Workshop.

From the National Science Foundation, $10,800 to D. Reide Corbett (Geology) for "Collaborative Research: Evaluating Groundwater Discharge into River-dominated Coastal Waters; a Multiple Tracer Approach."

From the N.C. Biotechnology Center: $78,719 to James Gibson (Medicine) for the creation of an In Vitro Cell Culture Core Laboratory; and $14,750 to Edmund Stellwag (Biology) for an Introductory Biotechnology Workshop for Teachers 2004.

From the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, $241,942 to Roger Rulifson (Institute for Coastal and Marine Resources) for Establishment of an Inshore Large Mesh Commercial Gillnet Observer Program in N.C.

From the N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation, $50,000 to Stanley Riggs, David Mallinson, and D. Reide Corbett (Geology) for "Sedimentologic, Geomorphic, and Ecologic Analysis of Merchants Mill Pond State Park: Implications of Long-Term Management.

From Halifax and Northampton Counties, $8,050 to Thomas Skalko (Recreation and Leisure Studies) for Halifax-Northampton-Healthy North Carolinian's Project.

From Pitt County Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Center, $80,997 to Kim Floyd (Education) for Case Management of REAP Students.

From the Town of Pinetops, $4,000 to Robert Wendling (Recreation and Leisure Studies) for Comprehensive Recreation and Parks Master Plan for the Town of Pinetops, N.C.

From the Town of Ahoskie, $4,000 to Robert Wendling (Recreation and Leisure Studies) for Comprehensive Recreation and Parks Master Plan for the Town of Ahoskie, N.C.

From Janssen Pharmaceuticals, $1,500 to Husam Moutada (Medicine) for support of the New Horizons program.

From Carolina's Gateway Partnership, $775 to Richard Brockett (Regional Development Services) for Economic Impact, Truck Assembly Plant.

From Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation: $9,500 to William Wooden and Patty Vore (Medicine) for equipment and software for the craniofacial program; and $26,687 to Kathryn Kerkering and Charles Wilson (Medicine) for Telehealth: Medical Management of Medically Fragile Children in the Home.

From the Children's Miracle Network: $10,000 to Elaine Cabinum-Foeller (Medicine) for TEDI BEAR: Children's Advocacy Center Phone Upgrade and Facility Improvement; and $5,000 to Mary Ann Rose (Nursing) for Bound for Camp Timbercreek II.

FromMedImmune, $4,000 to Joseph Zanga (Medicine) for Rural Health Interest Group and Student National Medical Association Bone Marrow Donation Week.

From Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, $64,297 to Lillian Burke (Medicine) for "Effect of Statins on Molecular Markers of Premylation in Patients of Long Term Therapy for Treatment of Hypercholesterolemia."

From Allergan, $3,000 to Daniel Moore (Medicine) for support of Botulinum Toxin and Its Applications,

From the Southern Arts Federation, two awards of $1,000 each to Ed Jacobs (Music) for the NewMusic@ECU Festival.Also to Ed Jacobs (Music) for the New Music@ECU Festival: from the Alice M. Ditson Fund, $1,000; and from the James J. and Mamie Richardson Perkins Trust, $3,000.

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February 2004

From the National Institutes of Health: $125,675 to Kenneth Soderstrom (Medicine) for "Cannabinoid Effects on Development of a Learned Behavior"; $207,575 to Ann Sperry (Medicine) for "Isoforms of a Mitotic Kinesin in Mammalian Spermatogenesis"; and $209,250 to G. Lynis Dohm (Medicine) for "Muscle Glucose Metabolism in Diabetes and Exercise."

From the North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service, $128,000 to Betty Beacham and John Swope (Education) for Project HEART.

From the North Carolina Institute of Medicine, $15,000 to Herbert Garrison (Medicine) for scientific editor services for the N.C. Medical Journal.

From the Children's Home Society of North Carolina, $20,000 to Gail Sharpe (Criminal Justice) for Agreement between the Children's Home Society of N.C. and ECU.

From UNC Chapel Hill: $1,667 to Charles Daeschner III (Medicine) for the Region IV North Prevention of Complications of Hemophilia through Hemophilia Treatment Centers; and $29,934 to Al Delia (Regional Development Services) for a Highway Safety Survey.

From the Weill Medical College of Cornwell University, $1,395 to Jen Jar Lin (Medicine) for "TGF Beta and the Progression of Renal Disease."

From Pitt Partners for Health: $1,000 to Kathryn Kolasa (Medicine) for the Food Literacy Partners Program: Farmers Market Nutrition Education Program; and $1,000 to Nancy Harris (Nutrition and Hospitality Management) for "Improving Nutrition Habits in the Special Olympic Population in Pitt County."

From the Johnston County Mental Health Center, $3,000 to Thomas Durham (Psychology) for a psychology internship.

From GlaxoSmithKline, $42,000 to Paul Gemperline (Chemistry) for Chemometric Tools for Salt and Polymorph Screening.

From the Aaron Copland Fund, $2,000 to Edward Jacobs (Music) for the 2004 NewMusic@ECU Festival.

From Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation, $150,000 to Mathew Mahar and David Rowe (Exercise and Sports Science) and Kristen Borre (Agro-Medicine) for "Project PHASE: Physically Active Sensible Eaters."

From the Health Resources and Services Administration, $127,400 to Emily Bray (Medicine) for Training in Primary Care Medicine.

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January 2004

From the National Science Foundation: $14,465 to Gail Ratcliff and Chal Benson (Mathematics) for "Analysis and Invariant Theory of Gelfand Pairs"; $127,123 to John Stiller (Biology) for "CAREER: Evolution and Constraint of the RNA Polymerase II C-Terminal Domain"; and $130,000 to Brett Keiper (Medicine) for "Function of Tissue Specific elF4E Isoforms I nCaenorhabditis Elegans."

From the National Institutes of Health, $303,005 to James McCubrey (Medicine) for "Ras/RAF & P13K/Akt Induced Breast Cancer Drug Resistance."

From the Golden Leaf Foundation: $250,000 to Mark L'Esperance (Education) for "The Three R's in Improving teacher Shortages: Recruitment, Retention, and Resilience"; $250,000 to Chia-yu Li (Chemistry) for "GMP Training for Analytical Laboratory Workers in the Pharm/Biotech Industry."

From the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $88,268 to Scott Curtis (Geography) for "Intraseasonal Variations in Precipitation from the Indian to Western Pacific Oceans as a Forcing Mechanism for El Nino/Southern Oscillation."

From the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, $969 to Rose Allen and Michael Rastatter (Allied Health) for "Student Judgments of Ethical Statements."

From the National Park Services, $5,689 to Richard Spruill and D. Reide Corbett (Geology) for "Determination of the Effect of Overwash Events on Chloride Concentrations in the Surficial Aquifers Under High Relief Dunes on Cape Lookout, Cape Lookout National Sea."

From North Carolina's Eastern Region Economic Partnership, $50,000 to Richard Brockett (Regional Development Services) for a Small Business Entrepreneurial Recruitment Initiative.

From the N.C. Council on Developmental Disabilities, $50,000 to Sandra Warren and Cheryl McFadden (Education) for the N.C. Principals' Leadership Center: Introducing Students with Significant Development Disabilities in the General Curriculum.

From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, $211,886 to Charles Daeschner III and Charles Knupp (Medicine) for the N.C. Sickle Cell Program.

From California State University at Los Angeles, $12,230 to Ahmar Mahboob (English) for "The Relationship between teachers' English Proficiency and Curriculum Delivery in EFL Setting sand Settings Where English is an Institutionalized Language."

From the UNC Sea Grant Program, $7,500 to David Edgell (Human Ecology) for "Sustainable Tourism as an Economic Development Strategy in the Waterways and Coastlines of the Southeastern North Carolina Region."

From the University of Arkansas, $896 to Robin Web-Corbett (Nursing) for "MI Symptoms in Women: Disparities in Women of Color."

From Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation, $16,000 to Dale Newton and Elaine Cabinum-Foeller (Medicine) for BEAR PATCH (Better Abuse Response Through Prevention Assessment, and Treatment for Children.

From Pitt County Memorial Hosptial, $276,120 to Loretta Kopelman and John Moskop (Medicine) for a Bioethics Center.

From Hyde County, $1,125 to Albert Delia (Regional Development Services) for the Hyde County courthouse relocation study.

From the Beaufort County Program for the Rural Carolinas, $1,575 to Richard Brockett (Regional Development Services) for the Historical Tri-County Comparative Study.

From the Town of Grifton, $600 to William Powell (Regional Development Services) for a population study, Town of Grifton.

From Maysville Economic Development Commission, $800 to William Powell (Regional Development Services) for an industrial park design.

From Hemocellular Therapeutics, $22,500 to Arthur Bode (Medicine) for Production of Human Canine Lyophilized Platelets for Hemocellular Corporation.

From Eli Lilly and Company, $3,500 to Anthony Hayford (Chemistry) for an Eli Lilly scholarship in Chemistry.

From Greenville Utilities Commission, $34,140 to Albert Delia (Regional Development Services) for a GUC Survey.

From the Field Museum of Natural History, $52,614 to Jason Bond (Biology) for "The Diplopoda: Research Taxonomic Training and Computerization Project."

From Tideland Mental Health Center, $1,260 to Thomas Durham (Psychology) for a Psychology internship.

From Children's Hospital of Boston, $145,296 to Stephen Engelke (Medicine) for "Molecular Antecedents of Brain Damage in Preterm Infants."

From PCS Phosphate, $99,506 to Donald Stanley (Biology) for PCS Phosphate Effluent Monitoring and Water Quality in the Pamlico River Estuary, NC.

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