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A Message From the President
Billiken Briefs
Human Resources FYI
Media Matters
Medical News
News Briefs
Professional Notes
Top Ten
Trivia Corner
University Condolences
University Grants
Dr. Ross C. Brownson (community health) has received a three-year subcontract award of $98,210 from the National Cancer Institute and Washington University. Brownson's study will seek to improve eating habits in African-American parents through the "Parents As Teachers" program. The main objectives of the study are to reduce dietary fat intake and to increase fiber-containing foods in the diets of parents.
Dr. Feifei Wei (community health) has received a one-year grant award of $225,901 from the Missouri Department of Health to fund the St. Louis Integrated Immunization Information System (SLIIIS). SLIIIS is an interactive system for housing current information on the immunization status of children.
Dr. R. Gregory Evans (community health) has received a five-month contract award in the amount of $29,000 from the city of St. Louis. He will conduct research for the city to assess the health needs of residents. The work will include interviews, surveys and focus groups representative of all segments of the city. The results will be presented to the City of St. Louis Health Department for use in determining priority areas for future programs.
Dr. Alexa Barnoski Serfis (chemistry) has received a Cottrell College Science Award, sponsored by the Research Corporation, of $25,550 for a project titled "Association of Blood Clotting Proteins with Phospholipid Monolayers on Water." The Research Corporation is a foundation for the advancement of science and supports basic research in chemistry, physics and astronomy. The program strongly encourages the involvement of students in the research.
Dr. Ellen Carnaghan (political science) has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program Fellowship. The project, "State Legitimacy in the New Russia," involves the first stage of research on how government ineffectiveness, rising economic inequality and ethnic identification affect government legitimacy in Russia. Carnaghan will develop a public opinion survey instrument in consultation with Russian scholars, investigate issues of the survey validity and undertake a small test-run of the survey to refine the questions. Furthermore, she will meet with scholars at the Institute of Sociology in Moscow, the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion and the Public Opinion Foundation to discuss existing data relevant to the study.
Dr. John P. Encarnacion (earth and atmospheric sciences) has been awarded $48,292 from the National Science Foundation to study basement rocks of the Transantarctic Mountains. These rocks are believed to record a change in the paleo-Pacific margin of Gondwana from a rifted passive margin to a tectonically active margin (Ross orogen).
Dr. Robert Herrmann (earth and atmospheric sciences) has been awarded $44,768 from the U.S. Department of the Interior/USGS to examine earthquake ground motion in the distance range of 10-500 km and to delineate regional differences. Research from "Comparative Ground Motion Studies" will provide the basic information required to refine current regional ground motion models used in national hazard studies.
Sean Nolan (earth and atmospheric sciences) has been awarded $1,000 from the Computing Time from National Center for Atmospheric Research. He uses computer time for research on "Mesoscale Instabilities Leading to Heavy Snow," through remote batch and interactive communication paths to the NCAR computing facilities.
Dr. Charles H. Parker (history) has been awarded $4,000 for an NEH Summer Stipend to examine Calvinism in Holland. Specifically, "The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland" explores the complicated relationship between municipal welfare institutions and Calvinist charity in six Dutch cities during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.