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The Internal Funding Initiatives (IFI) supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research are composed of the Arts & Humanities Initiative (AHI), the Biological Sciences Funding Program (BSFP), the Mathematical & Physical Sciences Program (MPSFP) and the Social Sciences Funding Program (SSFP). Over the past 12 years, more than 400 faculty and staff members were awarded in excess of $6 million dollars to support research and scholarly activity.
Listed below are the Math & Physical Sciences award recipients and project titles from the past three years.
Spring 2012 Awardees
David Cwiertny, Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Development of Nanoscale Aluminum-doped Iron Oxide
Sara Mason, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Theoretical Discovery of Universal Reactivity Factors Describing Environmental Interfaces
Mark Reagan, Professor, Geoscience
Reconstructing ocean compositions and temperatures over the past six million years using Dichocoenia corals from the tropical Caribbean
Elizabeth Stone, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Assessment of Surfactants in Atmospheric Aerosols
Spring 2011 Awardees
Spring 2010 Awardees
Mohamed Elhakeem, Research Scientist, IIHR -- Hydroscience & Engineering
Monitoring Water Surface Velocities and Stream Discharge in Complex Environments Using a Thermal Infrared Camera
Eric Nuxoll, Assistant Professor, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
Barrier-Mediated Pulsatile Release