Awards 2006-2007

Dr. Ali Akoglu - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Reconfigurable Compressed Sensing Tools

Dr. Anne Arnold - Plant Sciences
Bacterial Endosymbionts: Hidden Masterminds of Plant-Fungus Interactions?

Dr. Sara Dionne - Valley Fever Center for Excellence
Interaction of Dendritic Cells and Coccidioides Arthroconidia

Dr. Becky Farley -- Physiology
Dual Task Assessment to Detect Motor Impairments in Early Parkinson Disease

Dr. Melissa Goldsmith -- Nursing
Creating a Deaf-Friendly Stop-Smoking Online Intervention

Dr. Melissa Halpern -- Pediatrics
Interleukin 18 in the Pathogenesis of Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Dr. Franko Kueppers - Optical Sciences
Massive Parallel Optical Clock Processing for Future Ultra-High-Capacity Communication Networks

Dr. David Kurjiaka -- Physiology
Hypertension: Role of Gap Junction Communication in the Resistance Vasculature

Dr. Jungmee Lee - Speech and Hearing
Mechanisms of Auditory Temporal Processing for Speech: Implications for Dyslexia

Dr. Ravishankar Palanivelu -- Plant Sciences
Pollen Tube Signaling Network in Arabidopsis Flowers

Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman - Arizona State Museum and Anthropology
Integrating Isotopic Analyses and Historical Archaeology at 18th-Century Missions

Dr. Alexander Pavlov - Planetary Sciences
Interstellar Dust Clouds as a Trigger of the Snowball Glaciations

Dr. Pavel Polynkin - Optical Sciences
Compact Ultraviolet Fiber-Laser Source at 355nm for Flow Cytometry

Dr. James Tanyi - Radiation Oncology
Radiotherapy Dosimetry in the Presence of Hip Prostheses

Dr. Jason Vollen -- Architecture
Emerging Materials Technology: Ceramic/Composite Building Panel

Dr. Dale Woolridge - Emergency Medicine
Polamine Acetyl Derivatives as Biomarkers of Urinary Tract Infections

Dr. Leisy Wyman - Language, Reading, and Culture
Accountability Negotiated: Transforming School, Transforming Indigenous Youth in Southwestern Alaska