CRUI Awards: 2001 | 2002


Fiscal Year 2003 Awards
Collaborative Research at Undergraduate Institutions (C-RUI) Program

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Institution
Award Number

Principal
Investigator

Co-PIs
(Institution, if different)

Title

Total Award
(all awards 48 months)

Hope College     DBI-0330840

Thomas L. Bultman

Kenneth L. Brown
Janet L. Andersen
Debbie Swarthout

CRUI: A Multidisciplinary Test of Mutualistic Benefits Fungal Endophytes Provide Their Host Plants

$885,773 (standard)

Youngstown St University
DBI-0330883

Chester R. Cooper

Thomas D. Kim
Gary Walker

C-RUI: Proteomic Profiling of Dimorphism in Penicillium Marneffei

$696,996 (continuing)

Fitchburg State College
DBI-0330897

Christopher K. Cratsley

Kevin B. Austin
Howard H. Thomas

CRU-I: Exploring the Ecology of Flash Communication in Photinus Fireflies Through Collaborative Undergraduate Research with Computer-Simulated Signaling Behavior

$663,228 (standard)

AR State U Main Campus
DBI-0328832

Robyn Hannigan

 

Jon Russ
Jerry Farris

 

CRUI: Assessing Environmental Life Histories of Freshwater Fish: Applications of Otolith Microchemistry

$698,665 (continuing)

U of Texas Pan American
DBI-0330815

Michael Persans

Thomas Whelan
Nabanita Dasgupta-Schubert

C-RUI: An Undergraduate Research Training Program Focused on Plant Responses to Copper in the Environment

$767,916 (continuing)

Southern Oregon University
DBI-0330806

John Roden

Gregory V. Jones

CRUI: Historic Patterns of Fog Utilization and Climate Variability Using Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis of Redwood Tree Ring Cellulose

$457,794 (standard)

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Active Awards for Fiscal Year 2002
Collaborative Research at Undergraduate Institutions (C-RUI) Program

Principal Investigators

Institution

Title

Total Award ($)

Total Duration (yrs)

Tim Mihuc

Janet Mihuc

Christopher Cirmo
0222165

0222038

0222127

 

SUNY College at Plattsburgh

Paul Smith’s College of Arts and Sciences

SUNY College at Cortland

Collaborative Research at Undergraduate Institutions: Forever Wild, the Adirondack Uplands and Watershed Integrity

$667,281

3

Stephen Wright
0216716

Middle Tennessee State University

C-RUI: Development and Applications of a Novel Biosensor

$782,916

4

Bruce Schulte

Thomas Goodwin

L.E.L. Rasmussen
0217062

0217068

0216862

Georgia Southern University

Hendrix College

Oregon Health Sciences University

Collaborative Research: RUI - Development and Identity of Sexually Dimorphic Reproductive Signals and Responses by African Elephants

$849,998

4

Ross Meentemeyer

0217064

Sonoma State University

C-RUI: Spatial Modeling of a Biological Invasion: The Spread of Sudden Oak Death and the Importance of Host Genetics, Environmental Forcings, and Community Structure

$810,656

4

Terry Hill

0211600

Rhodes College

C-RUI: Identification of Genes Regulating Cell Wall Integrity in Aspergillus nidulans

$562,861

3

Wade Hazel

0223089

DePauw University

Theoretical and Empirical Studies of a Conditional Strategy: Environmentally Cued Pupal Color in Swallowtail Butterflies

$841,934

4

Ann Rypstra

0216947

0216776

Miami University

C-RUI: Shifts in Wolf Spider Reproductive Behavior Under Predation

$624,434

4

Joel Snodgrass

0216974

Towson University

C-RUI: Cellular, Physiological, and Life-History Responses of a Stream Fish, Blacknose Dace (Rhinichthys atromaculatus) to Urbanization

$286,132

3

Cindy Wolfe

0215924

Tougaloo College

C-RUI: Intracellular and Structural Analysis of Roles of a Cytokine Precursor in Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Complexes

$542,526

4

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Active Awards for November 2001
Collaborative Research at Undergraduate Institutions (C-RUI) Program

Principal Investigators Institution Title Total Award ($) Total Duration (yrs)
Anne Moore
Craig Vierra 
Barbara Lawrence

0112165
University of the Pacific C-RUI: Molecular Mechanisms of Mechanical Diversity in Spider Silks $849,972 4
Robert Preston
George Kidder
Christopher Petersen
0111860
Illinois State University CRUI: Osmoregulation in euryhaline fish: Physiology, ecology and molecular biology $869,566 4
Corey Freeman
Nathaniel Wheelwright
0116139
Skidmore College C-RUI: Behavior and the Major Histocompatibility Complex in Savannah Sparrows $646,469 3
Robert Fritz
0108172
Vassar College
C-RUI: Tolerance to Damage:  Examining Genetic Architecture and Selection of Candidate Traits Using Hybrid Willows $853,572 4
Cris Hochwender
0127369
University of Evansville
Scott Wissinger
Eli Wiener-Avnear
0108931
Allegheny College C-RUI Collaborative Research on Mechanisms Underlying Salamander Population Fluctuation $819,609 4
David Borst
Steven Juliano
Douglas Whitman
9978810
Illinois State University

CRUI: Plasticity and Canalization of Reproductive Tactics -- Integration From Molecular Mechanisms to Fitness Consequences

$914,944 4
Michael Steele
John Carlson
Peter Smallwood
William Terzaghi
9978807
Wilkes University

C-RUI: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Ecological and Evolutionary Interactions Between Food-Hoarding Animals and the Oaks

$833,731 4
Andrew Mason
Roger Acey
Feimeng Zhou
9978806
California State University Long Beach

CRUI: Quantification of Metal Transfer From Metallothionein to Apometalloproteins Using Voltammetry Combined On Line with HPLC/ICP-MS

$1,036,217 4
Edward Burtt
David Lever
Jann Ichida
Gerald Goldstein
9978805
Ohio Wesleyan University

CRUI: Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry to Study Evolutionary, Ecological & Behavioral Interactions Between Birds & Feather-Degrading Bacteria & Environmental Applications

$799,337 4
Howard Whiteman
George Kipphut
Bommanna Loganathan
William Spencer, Jr
9978797
Murray State University CRUI: Biogeochemical and Ecological Processes Within a Reservoir Littoral Zone $789,764 4
Alan Goodman
John Reid 
Debra Martin
Dulasiri Amarasiriwardena
9978793
Hampshire College CRUI: Teeth as Chemical Records of Chronological Changes in Diet and Environment $827,197 4
David Hansen
David Ratner
Patricia O'Hara
Richard Goldsby
9978779
Amherst College CRUI: Antibody Catalysts from Immunoglobulin Repertoires of Enhanced Diversity $850,977 4
Martin Posey
Robert Roer
Stephen Kinsey
Richard Dillaman
L. Scott Quackenbush
9978613
University of North Carolina Wilmington CRUI: Juvenile Blue Crab Use of Low Salinity Areas: Costs and Benefits $842,675 4

 

Last Modified: October 23, 2003