AASU AWARDS SIXTEEN RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS

The following grants were awarded in the AASU Research and Scholarship Committee’s 2003-2004 grant competition:

Mark Burge, computer science. Personal Area Networks. $2,000.

Jim Byrd, chemistry and physics. Determination of Selenium Compounds in Wine by Solid Phase Microextraction. $1,417.

Cameron Coates, engineering. Improving Accelerated Corrosion Tests with Neural Networks. $1,700.

Thomas Cooksey, languages, literature, and philosophy. Philosophical Literature (Book Project). $2,000.

Kathryn Craven, biology. Causes of Sea Turtle Nest Failure on the Georgia Coast. $1,200.

Jacquie Fraser, health science and Meg Walworth, early childhood education. Health Needs Assessment: A Pilot Study of a Qualitative Tool. $1,836.

Lei He, information technology. The CAPTCHA Project: Telling Humans and Computers Apart. $1,500.

John Kraft, psychology. Group Discounting. $2,500.

Will Lynch, chemistry and physics. Matrix Reloaded: Matrix Effects on Nanoparticle Photocatalysts. $1,270.

Paul Micikevicius, computer science. Parallel Computing on Graphics Hardware. $1,361.

Jonathan Roberts and Vann Scott, psychology. Psychophysiology and Human Behavior. $873.

Vann Scott, psychology. The Relationship Between Alexithymia and Cancer. $500.

Renee Soto, languages, literature, and philosophy. Turning Data into Poetry. $1,100.

Ana Torres, languages, literature, and philosophy. Gloria Fuertes: An Attempt to Humanize Spanish Poetry. $2,250.

Teresa Winterhalter, languages, literature, and philosophy. Participating in the University of Oxford's Round Table on Women and Leadership. $1,500.

Lei Zhu, information technology. Geoblock: A Framework for Content-based Geographic Image Retrieval. $1,800.