Advanced
Research
Program B 1999
Advanced
Technology
Program B 1999
Report of Awards
May 2000
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Division of Finance, Campus Planning and Research
P.O. Box 12788
Austin, Texas 78711
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Pamela P. Willeford (Chairman)
Martin Basaldúa, M.D. (Vice Chair)
Jodie L. Jiles (Secretary)
William C. Atkinson
Dolores Hutto Carruth, M.D.
Ricardo G. Cigarroa Jr., M.D.
Kevin P. Eltife
Raul B. Fernandez
Robert I. Fernandez
Cathy Obriotti Green
Gerry Griffin
Carey Hobbs
Steve Late
Adair Margo
Leonard Rauch
Hector de J. Ruiz
Robert W. Shepard
Terderma L. Ussery, II
Austin
Houston
Houston
Bryan
Irving
Laredo
Tyler
San Antonio
Fort Worth
San Antonio
Hunt
Waco
Odessa
El Paso
Houston
Austin
Harlingen
Dallas
COORDINATING BOARD MISSION
The mission of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is to provide the Legislature
advice and comprehensive planning capability for higher education, to coordinate the effective
delivery of higher education, to administer programs efficiently and to improve higher education
for the people of Texas.
COORDINATING BOARD PHILOSOPHY
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will promote access to quality higher
education across the state with the conviction that access without quality is mediocrity and that
quality without access is unacceptable. The Board will be open, ethical, responsive, and
committed to public service. The Board will approach its work with a sense of purpose and
responsibility to the people of Texas and is committed to the best use of public monies.
Created by the Texas Legislature in 1965, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
works with institutions of higher education, other state agencies, the Legislature and the
Governor to ensure that Texans seeking higher education have access to high quality programs.
The Board's overall responsibilities include assessing the state of higher education in Texas,
making recommendations to the Governor, Legislature and institutions for its enhancement, and
establishing policies for the efficient and effective use of the state's higher education resources.
Table of Contents
Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 1
Role of the Advisory Committee on Research Programs .............................................................. 2
Solicitation of Research Proposals ................................................................................................ 3
The Peer Review Process ............................................................................................................. 4
Outcomes of the 1999 Advanced Research and Advanced Technology Program Reviews ....... 5
Biennial Evaluations of the Advanced Research and Advanced
Technology Programs .............................................................................................................. 6
Acknowledgments .......................................................................................................................... 6
Appendices
Appendix A: Affiliations of Review Panelists ................................................................ A-1
Appendix B:
Appendix C:
Appendix D:
Appendix E:
Appendix F:
Proposals Submitted by Research Area .......................................................
List of Funded Proposals ................................................................................
Funding by Institution ......................................................................................
Comparison of Awards in 1995, 1997 and 1999 ............................................
Proposal Evaluation Forms .............................................................................
B-1
C-1
D-1
E-1
F-1
List of Tables
Table 1: Advisory Committee on Research Programs, 1999 ................................................. 2
Table 2: Preliminary Allocations .............................................................................................. 3
Table 3: 1999 Review Panel Chairs ........................................................................................ 5
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Advanced Research Program/Advanced Technology Program
Report of Awards
Introduction
In 1987, the 70th Texas Legislature created the Advanced Research Program (ARP) and the
Advanced Technology Program (ATP) as complementary, statewide research programs providing peerreviewed, competitive grants to Texas college and university researchers. For the 1987-1988 biennium
$60 million was appropriated. Since then, approximately the same amount has been appropriated for
the programs for each of the six subsequent biennia.
The Advanced Research Program is devoted to basic research designed to attract and retain the
best students and researchers and help provide the knowledge base needed for innovation.
Researchers at all public institutions of higher education are eligible to compete.
The Advanced Technology Program is devoted to research with a technological objective and a
long-term economic goal, but retains a strong educational component. It is designed to promote the
state's economic growth and diversification by increasing the number and quality of scientists and
engineers in Texas, enlarging the technology base available to business and industry, creating new
products and services, and attracting new industries to Texas. Researchers at all public and
independent institutions of higher education are eligible to compete.
In 1999, three types of proposals were considered:
 Advanced Research Program proposals to support basic research in nine areas specified in
statute. Proposals to the biological sciences research area were invited based on peer review of
shorter pre-proposals.
 Advanced Technology Program proposals to support applied research in 11 areas specified
in statute, and a newly created transportation research area. Proposals to the biomedicine and
medical biotechnology research areas were invited based on peer review of shorter preproposals.
 ATP Technology Development and Transfer proposals to continue the development and
transfer to the private sector of technology created under previous Advanced Research Program
or Advanced Technology Program grants.
A separate competition was held for each type of award.
The implementation strategy for the ARP/ATP features three key elements:
 Policy guidelines and oversight are provided by the distinguished Texas scientists and engineers
who are members of the Coordinating Board's Advisory Committee on Research Programs
(ACORP);
 Proposals are solicited in 21 different research areas from faculty members at institutions of
higher education in the state; and
 Proposals are peer reviewed by nationally prominent scientific and technological professionals,
including industry representatives from Texas and throughout the nation.
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This report outlines the procedures followed during the 1999 ARP/ATP proposal solicitation and
review process and describes the outcomes of the competitions.
Role of the Advisory Committee on Research Programs
The Coordinating Board's Advisory Committee on Research Programs (ACORP) provides direction
and guidance to the programs and ensures their quality. Chaired by Dr. Norman Hackerman, it is
composed of 12 eminent Texas scientists and engineers from academe and industry representing a
wide range of disciplines (see Table 1). Currently, four members of the National Academy of Science or
the National Academy of Engineering serve on the Committee.
The Committee consistently recommends that the Coordinating Board seek proposals from all
possible sources within the Texas higher education system and select the very best of these through a
fair and open process. ACORP reviews the program announcement, makes a preliminary allocation of
funds among disciplines, and reviews the recommendations of the review panels.
Table 1
Advisory Committee on Research Programs, 1999
(Membership list through December 31, 1999)
Norman Hackerman (Chair) ...................................................................... President Emeritus, Rice University
Keith W. Brown .................................................................................... President and CEO, GeneScreen, Inc.
Paul C.W. Chu .....................................T.L.L. Temple Chair and Director, Texas Center for Superconductivity,
University of Houston
Rinn Cleavelin ......................................................................................... Chief Operating Officer, SEMATECH
Aaron Cohen ................. H.B. Zachry Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Texas A&M University
R. Gary Daniels ............................................. Senior Vice President and General Manager (retired), Motorola
Karin Loftin ........................................................................... Senior Scientist, Wyle Laboratories/Life Sciences
John McKetta ......................................................... Professor Emeritus and Joe C. Walter, Jr. Chair Emeritus,
Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Max Navarro ..........................................................President and CEO, Operational Technologies Corporation
William B. Neaves .................................................................... Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs,
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Billy E. Welch ................................................................. Director (retired), Armstrong Laboratory, San Antonio
Jane L. Winer........................................................ Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas Tech University
Jane L. Winer ....................................................... Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas Tech University
In 1999, ACORP recommended incorporating research areas that received few submissions in
previous competitions into other research areas. As a result, astronomy, atmospheric sciences, and
marine sciences in the Advanced Research Program and marine technology in the Advanced
Technology Program are no longer listed as separate areas. In the Advanced Technology Program,
agricultural biotechnology was incorporated into the agriculture research area and the biotechnology
research area was renamed medical biotechnology to facilitate review panel focus. To emphasize the
state=s increasing interest in transportation issues, ACORP created a transportation research area in
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the Advanced Technology Program.
ACORP recommended that reviewers place special emphasis on research projects that address
environmental and water resource issues of the Texas-Mexico border region, reflecting similar
legislative interest in this area.
Solicitation of Research Proposals
ACORP recommended the announcement of proposal solicitation and evaluation in March 1999.
The committee reviewed the proposal submission process, recruitment of reviewers, and the peer
review process.
ACORP approximated budget allocations for the targeted research areas (see Table 2). Exact
allocations were to be based upon the quality of proposals within each area.
In March 1999, the Coordinating Board staff conducted a workshop for 33 Sponsored Programs
officers to demonstrate a new electronic submission system for pre-proposals and Notices of Intent to
Submit a Proposal. The Sponsored Programs officers= response was favorable overall, and their
comments and suggestions were invaluable in helping improve development of the electronic system.
With this system, investigators would create and track the progress of their submissions through the
Coordinating Board=s web site.
The Coordinating Board adopted the program announcement proposed by ACORP at its April 1999
meeting. After adoption, the program announcement was available on the Coordinating Board=s web
site.
Table 2
Preliminary Allocations
Advanced Research Program
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Computer Sciences
Earth Sciences
Engineering
Materials Science
Mathematics
Physics
Social and Behavioral Sciences
$ 6,700,000
2,200,000
1,700,000
900,000
3,700,000
1,500,000
700,000
1,500,000
1,000,000
Advanced Technology Program
Aerospace
Agriculture/Aquaculture/Agricultural Biotechnology
Biomedicine
Computer and Information Engineering
Energy
Environmental Science and Engineering, Recycling, and Water Resources
Manufacturing Technology
Materials Technology
Medical Biotechnology
Microelectronics
Telecommunications
Transportation
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1,600,000
4,500,000
6,500,000
3,200,000
3,200,000
4,500,000
3,600,000
3,800,000
4,200,000
2,300,000
1,800,000
600,000
In spring 1999, Coordinating Board staff conducted a series of 10 briefings at campuses throughout
the state, as well as televised briefings transmitted to 26 additional campuses. In addition, over 5,000
copies of the program announcement and 71 copies of a videotaped briefing were distributed to Texas
institutions of higher education.
In 1999, an experimental Apre-proposal@ review procedure was used to improve the quality of
review and reduce the number of full proposals evaluated by the biological sciences review panels in
the Advanced Research Program and the biomedicine and medical biotechnology review panels in the
Advanced Technology Program and the ATP Development and Transfer Program. In past
competitions, these research areas have received far more proposals than could be funded. Typical
success rates for proposals submitted to the biological sciences and biomedicine research areas were 6
to 11 percent. In addition to improving the quality of the review process, the experimental pre-proposal
process decreased the amount of time investigators spend developing full proposals with little hope of
funding.
By June 3, the Board received 1,117 pre-proposals in the biological sciences, biomedicine, and
medical biotechnology areas. Each pre-proposal specified a research area, project title, keywords,
estimated budget, and brief discussion of the project=s goals and processes, staff, facilities and
resources available, and student education and training opportunities. The pre-proposals were
reviewed electronically and 507 were selected for full proposals. By the August 13 deadline,
investigators at 37 institutions had submitted 490 full proposals.
By June 8, the Board received 1,979 Notices of Intent to Submit a Proposal for other research areas.
Each notice specified a particular program research area and provided a project title, key words, and a
technical abstract for a prospective proposal. The notices were used to estimate the number and
specialties of individuals needed to serve as reviewers. By the July 13 deadline, investigators at 51
Texas institutions had submitted 1,744 proposals.
The Peer Review Process
To review proposals, 148 experts were organized into 15 panels. The chairs (see Table 3) and
panelists were recruited from academia, national laboratories, and U.S. and Texas companies. No
panelists were associated with any Texas university. The majority were from outside Texas and had not
served previously. A list of reviewer affiliations is provided in Appendix A.
The review criteria for the ARP proposals included the merit and soundness of the proposal,
capability of the investigator(s) to perform the necessary research, adequacy of institutional commitment
and resources, and potential positive effect on the infrastructure of science and engineering.
In addition to those criteria, the ATP proposals were also evaluated on their prospects for
commercialization, leveraging of grant funds to attract external funds, technology transfer, and
meaningful industrial collaboration.
Criteria for evaluating ATP Technology Development and Transfer proposals were the technical
merit and soundness of the proposal, personnel, and physical resources available to the project, and
the technology transfer plan.
The proposal evaluation forms in Appendix F outline the evaluation criteria in more detail.
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The Texas Legislature mandates that no more than 70 percent of the funds may be awarded to
institutions in The University of Texas System and the Texas A&M System. Adjustments were made by
Coordinating Board staff using priorities established by the panels to ensure that limit. To satisfy the 70
percent mandate, the 21 next-highest ranked proposals from non-UT/A&M system institutions were
added to the 389 proposals initially selected by the review panels. Final allocations for the 410
proposals selected for funding were reviewed by ACORP.
Table 3
1999 Review Panel Chairs
Donald Robert Brown ....................................... Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Michigan
Slade Cargill, III ....................................... Professor of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Lehigh University
Jan Christian ......................................................... Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology,
Oregon Health Sciences University
W. David Constant ....................................... Professor, Louisiana State University and Executive Director,
Civil and Environmental Infrastructure Research Center
Carl D. Crane, III ......................................... Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Florida
Ronald Evans ............. Kerr McGee Professor Emeritus, School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering,
University of Oklahoma
Ron Gyurcsik ........................... Director of Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Center, Cadence Design Systems
Carey, North Carolina
Tim Hallman ............................................................. STAR Group Leader, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Thomas C. Henderson .................................................. Professor of Computer Science, University of Utah
David Hoffman ................................................................ Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State University and
Division Director for Science and Technology, Ames Laboratory, Department of Energy
Michael Meyer .............................. Professor and Chair of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Fred Owens ......................................... Senior Rumen Function Physiologist, Optimum Quality Grains, LLC
Des Moines, Iowa
Gerald Sonnenfeld................................................... Professor and Chair of Microbiology and Immunology,
Morehouse School of Medicine
Craig Stevens.................................................................................... Associate Professor of Pharmacology,
Oklahoma State University College of Medicine
Nitish Thakor..................................... Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins Medical School
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In October 1999, the Advisory Committee on Research Programs recommended, based on the
results of the peer review process, specific projects to the Coordinating Board for funding.
In January 2000, the Advisory Committee on Research Programs recommended three additional
awards from funds returned by institutions. The three awards were approved by the Commissioner of
Higher Education, under the direction of the Coordinating Board. In April 2000, the Advisory Committee
recommended and the Commissioner approved three additional awards.
Summary of the 1999 Advanced Research and Advanced Technology Program Awards
The $58,873,654 appropriated for these research grant programs, plus an additional $2,190,437
carried forward from the previous ARP/ATP awards, was distributed as recommended by the review
panel chairs. A total of 415 proposals received funding B 176 Advanced Research Program proposals,
216 Advanced Technology Program proposals, and 23 Advanced Technology Program Development
and Transfer proposals. The average award was $147,142. Two or more higher education institutions
collaborated on 57 projects, and 26 of the collaborations included a public institution reporting less than
$8 million in total research and development expenditures for 1998.
A listing of the specific projects, principal investigators, institutions, and amounts awarded appears
in Appendix C.
Texas-Mexico Border Region
The 76th Texas Legislature expressed interest in providing funding for projects that address
environmental issues on the Texas-Mexico border. Review panels were directed to place special
emphasis on those projects. The Environmental Science and Engineering review panel dedicated more
than $1.2 million, or more than a quarter of the total environmental sciences funding allocation, to five
highly ranked border projects. One of the projects, AMulti-Purpose Water Management Technology for
the Texas-Mexico Border@ was funded at more than one-half of a million dollars and involves five
institutions. It was the largest project in terms of dollars and the second largest in terms of number of
participating institutions funded by the review panels in the 1999 competitions.
Border projects selected by the Environmental Science and Engineering review panel include:
AMulti-Purpose Water Management Technology for the Texas-Mexico Border@ ($550,000) by
Hanadi Rafai of the University of Houston, Philip Bedient of Rice University, Andrew Ernest of
Texas A&M University B Kingsville, Sushma Krishnamurthy of Texas A&M International
University, and William Berg of The University of Texas at Brownsville
ANovel Caged Crown Ligands for Waste Remediation: Toxic Heavy Metals in the Rio Grande
River@ ($221,720) by Jennifer Brodbelt of The University of Texas at Austin and Alan Marchand
of the University of North Texas
AField Scale Evaluation of Phytostabilization for Closure of Waste Impoundments@ ($198,031)
by Raymond Loehr of The University of Texas at Austin
ADeveloping Portable Integrated Membrane Systems for Producing Drinking Water in Texas
Border Areas@ ($149,760) by D. Clifford and S. Chellam of the University of Houston
AEvaporative Cooling Systems on Indoor Air Quality@ ($115,489) by Wen-Whai Li of The
University of Texas at El Paso
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Border projects funded by other review panels include:
AEvaluation of Rio Grande Wildlife Corridor Revegetation Efforts@ ($73,213) by Frank Judd and
Robert Lonard of The University of Texas-Pan American
AInfant Health in the Texas Border Region@ ($71,414) by Todd Jewell and Jeffrey Rous of the
University of North Texas
AMicrobial Pathogens and Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria in Irrigation Water and on Vegetables@
($235,000) by Suresh Pillai and Steven Ricks of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and
Keith Sternes of Sul Ross State University
Biennial Evaluations of the Advanced Research and Advanced Technology Programs
The legislation creating the Advanced Research and Advanced Technology Programs specifies that
the Coordinating Board appoint a committee consisting of representatives of higher education and
private research organizations to evaluate the programs= effectiveness every two years.
The programs were last evaluated in fall 1998 by a committee appointed by Coordinating Board
Chairman Leonard Rauch. The committee reviewed documentation associated with the programs and
met with representatives of the Governor=s Office, the Legislative Budget Board, the office of the
Speaker of the House, project investigators, institutional administrators, reviewers, industry
representatives, and representatives of the Advisory Committee on Research Programs (ACORP).
Dr. Gregory R. Reyes, chair of the evaluation team and Vice President of Biological Research,
Infectious Diseases and Oncology for the Schering-Plough Research Institute, reported the evaluation
committee=s findings to the Coordinating Board at its January 1999 meeting. The evaluation committee
was impressed with the enthusiastic response and uniformly positive input from faculty, grants
administrators, and industry collaborators. They found that the overall impact of these programs has
been significant in securing additional funding from more traditional sources (National Institutes of
Health and National Science Foundation), establishing new high technology business ventures, and
training the requisite personnel for these new enterprises. The committee recommended the
development of objective measurements of performance or metrics for the programs, strengthening
industry interactions, and reconsideration of triaging to limit proposal submissions to the competitions.
In response to the last recommendation, a pilot pre-proposal review procedure was used in the 1999
grant cycle to reduce the number of full proposals going to four research areas that received very large
numbers of proposals in past competitions.
Acknowledgments
The Advisory Committee on Research Programs and its chair, Dr. Norman Hackerman, continue to
make important and vital contributions to the success of these efforts. In addition, scientists and
engineers at Texas higher education institutions ensure the quality of the program through the
submission of more excellent proposals than can be funded.
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Appendix A
Affiliations of Review Panelists
Texas Industry
Institutions
BetaGene
Electric Power Research Institute
Equilon
Exxon Co., USA
GeneScreen, Inc
Huntsman Corporation
IBM Austin Research Laboratory (2)
Litton TASC
Lockheed Martin (2)
Mobil Exploration and Producing Technical
Center
Motorola, Inc. (2)
National Semiconductor Corp.
Pennzoil Energy
Raytheon Systems Co.
SBC TRI
SESACO
Shell Chemical Company
SRC/SEMATECH
Tanox, Inc.
Texas Eastman Chemical Co.
Texas Instruments (3)
Veridian
Arizona State University
Auburn University
Carolinas Medical Center (2)
Columbia University
Desert Research Institute - Reno
Duke University (3)
Duke University Medical Center
Emory University
Georgia Institute of Technology (2)
Illinois Natural History Survey
Indiana University
Iowa State University (3)
Jacksonville State University
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Kansas State University
Lehigh University
Louisiana State University (2)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Michigan State University (2)
Mississippi State University (2)
Morehouse School of Medicine
New Mexico State University - Las Cruces
North Carolina State University (2)
Northeastern University
Northwestern University (2)
Oklahoma State University (3)
Oklahoma State University College of Medicine
Oregon Health Sciences University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Roswell Park Cancer Institute(2)
Rutgers University
San Jose State University
Southwest Research Institute
St. Louis VA Medical Center
State University of New York at Buffalo (2)
Tulane University
University of Buffalo
University of Arizona (2)
University of Arkansas
University of California - Berkeley
University of California at Santa Cruz
University of Florida (2)
University of Georgia - Athens
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
University of Iowa
University of Kentucky
University of Louisville School of Medicine (2)
University of Maryland
University of Masschusetts - Amherst (2)
University of Michigan (3)
University of Michigan Medical School
University of Minnesota
U.S. Industry
Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Cadence Design Systems
Celera Genomics
Cotton, Incorporated
Genzyme Corporation
Glaxo Wellcome (2)
Hewlett Packard Laboratories
Novartis Seeds
Optimum Quality Grains, LLC
Schering-Plough Research Institute
Sugen
Pioneer Hi-Bred
The Dow Chemical Company
Government Affiliation
Argonne National Laboratories (2)
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (3)
NASA
National Institutes of Environmental Health
Sciences, NIH
Office of Solar Power, Biopower, and
Hydrogen Techology, DOE
Sandia National Labs
A-8
University of Missouri - Rolla
University of Nebraska Medical Center
University of Nebraska - Lincoln (3)
University of North Carolina - Greensboro
University of North Carolina - Charlotte
University of Oklahoma (3)
University of Oregon
University of Rhode Island
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
University of Utah
University of Utah Medical Center
University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
University of Washington
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Piper Cancer Institute
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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Appendix B
Proposals Submitted by Research Area
Number
Advanced Research Program
Biological Sciences - All Other
Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology and Genetics
Chemistry
Computer Science
Earth Sciences
Engineering - All Other
Engineering - Electrical and Electronics
Materials Science
Mathematics
Physics and Astronomy
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Advanced Technology Program
Aerospace
Agriculture/Aquaculture/Agricultural Biotechnology
Biomedicine
Computer and Information Engineering
Energy
Environmental Science and Engineering
Manufacturing Technology
Materials Technology
Medical Biotechnology
Microelectronics
Telecommunications
Transportation
ATP Development and Transfer
Aerospace
Agriculture/Aquaculture/Agricultural Biotechnology
Biomedicine
Computer and Information Engineering
Energy
Environmental Science and Engineering
Manufacturing Technology
Materials Technology
Medical Biotechnology
Microelectronics
Telecommunications
ATP Totals
GRAND TOTALS
Submitted
324
Submitted
334
Dollars
Requested
51,901,293
101
69
58
191
90
74
89
81
88
1,499
54,607,383
15,589,645
10,789,739
6,675,853
26,075,360
13,624,460
11,786,874
5,422,820
9,721,797
9,861,179
$216,056,403
33
157
260
84
124
166
70
99
184
48
38
29
1,292
5,172,415
26,793,624
60,910,119
14,339,768
20,418,439
29,406,972
10,979,471
17,598,252
35,263,685
8,981,015
5,755,081
3,412,328
$239,031,169
1
5
10
5
12
7
10
5
5
6
4
70
223,594
880,162
2,491,930
1,256,700
2,692,818
1,661,570
2,113,908
1,306,544
1,295,180
1,145,073
785,965
$15,853,444
1,362
$254,884,613
2,861
$470,941,016
Appendix C
List of Funded Proposals
Advanced Research Program
Biological Sciences ............................................................................................................................C-2
Chemistry ...........................................................................................................................................C-4
Computer Sciences ............................................................................................................................C-4
Earth Sciences ...................................................................................................................................C-5
Engineering ........................................................................................................................................C-5
Materials Science ............................................................................................................................... C-6
Mathematics .......................................................................................................................................C-7
Physics and Astronomy......................................................................................................................C-7
Social and Behavioral Sciences ........................................................................................................C-8
Advanced Technology Program
Aerospace ........................................................................................................................................C-10
Agriculture/Aquaculture/Agricultural Biotechnology ........................................................................C-10
Biomedicine ......................................................................................................................................C-11
Computer and Information Engineering ...........................................................................................C-12
Energy ..............................................................................................................................................C-13
Environmental Science and Engineering, Recycling and Water Resources ..................................C-14
Manufacturing Technology ..............................................................................................................C-15
Materials Technology .......................................................................................................................C-16
Medical Biotechnology .....................................................................................................................C-16
Microelectronics ...............................................................................................................................C-17
Telecommunications ........................................................................................................................C-18
Transportation ..................................................................................................................................C-18
Advanced Technology Development and Transfer
Aerospace ........................................................................................................................................C-19
Agriculture/Aquaculture/Agricultural Biotechnology ........................................................................C-19
Biomedicine ......................................................................................................................................C-19
Computer and Information Engineering ...........................................................................................C-19
Energy ..............................................................................................................................................C-19
Environmental Science and Engineering, Recycling and Water Resources ..................................C-19
Manufacturing Technology ..............................................................................................................C-19
Materials Technology .......................................................................................................................C-20
Medical Biotechnology .....................................................................................................................C-20
Microelectronics ...............................................................................................................................C-20
Telecommunications ........................................................................................................................C-21
C-1
Advanced Research Program
1999 Funded Projects
Biological Sciences
Digital Biodiversity - The Flora of Texas Project
$50,374 Texas A&M University
Hugh Wilson
$58,597 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Stephen L. Hatch
$76,831 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
John J. Leggett
$72,457 UTexas at Austin
Beryl B. Simpson
$55,232 Angelo State University
Bonnie B. Amos
$50,275 Southwest Texas State University
David E. Lemke
Evaluate IGFBP2 Pathways in Glioma with Tissue-Specific Transgenic Mouse Model
$237,600 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Wei Zhang; Eric Holland
Rational Drug Design of Chitinase Inhibitors to Prevent Malaria Transmission
$219,340 UT Medical Branch at Galveston
Joseph Vinetz; Robert Fox
Molecular Genetic Characterization of a Novel RING Finger Protein Implicated in Neoplasia
$203,400 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Ann Killary
SNooP B A Directed Search for Genetic Variation
$198,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Harold Garner; John Minna
The Pathogenesis of Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis
$175,050 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Janet Price
Neuronal Transplantation for the Treatment of Achalasia and Other Neurodegenerative GI Disorders
$172,040 UT Medical Branch at Galveston
Pankaj Pasricha; Maria Micci
Enhancing the Efficiency of Homologous Recombination in Primary Mammalian Fibroblasts
$171,090 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Jorge Piedrahita; Patrick W. Dunne
Role of NF-kappa B as an Oxygen-Regulated Switch in Developmental Induction of SP-A Gene Expression
$168,960 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Carole Mendelson
Novel roles for Defensins in the Cornea
$162,053 University of Houston
Alison McDermott
Quantitative Whole-Genome Analysis of Chromatin Structure and DNA-Protein Interactions in Yeast
$158,100 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Michael P. Kladde; Michael Polymenis
Designer Protein Synthesis via Novel Enzyme Engineering
$158,049 University of Houston
Susan Martinis; James M. Briggs
In Vivo Analysis of Dynamic Gene Expression in Zebrafish
$156,367 University of Houston
Gregory Cahill
A Functional and Spatial Map of the Drosophila Olfactory System *
$156,103 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Dean Smith
Functional Genomics Analysis of Meristem Formation and Maintenance
$153,850 Texas A&M University
Terry Thomas; Alan E. Pepper
SCF-mediated Regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana
$153,472 UT at Austin
Mark Estelle
Protein Translocation across and Integration into Mitochondrial Membranes
$150,051 Texas A&M University System HSCenter
Arthur E. Johnson
Positional Cloning of Genes Mediating Susceptibility to Autoimmunity
$149,364 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Edward Wakeland
Fibrosis and Anemia: A TGF-beta Transgenic Rat Model
$145,042 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Robert Hammer;J.A. Richardson
Tracing the Origin of the Salmonella Enteritidis Epidemic
$141,838 Texas A&M University System HSC
Andreas Baumler
Novel Regulation of Cyclic AMP by Relaxin via Tyrosine Kinase Action
$141,390 UT HSC at Houston
Carmen Dessauer; Barbara Sanborn,
Photoreceptors That Set the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock
$140,712 Texas A&M University
Susan Golden
* This grant was declined to accept an American Heart Association grant instead.
C-2
Molecular Mechanisms of Hepatitis C Virusresistance to Interferon Therapy
$139,315 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Michael Gale
Molecular Bases for Isoniazid Activation and Resistance in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
$138,400 University of Houston
Shiao-Chun Tu
Genetic Dissection and Positional Cloning of Loci for Obesity in Mice
$138,258 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Howard Gershenfeld
Bacterial Gene Expression during Pathogenesis: Gene Regulation and Novel Virulence Properties
$136,000 UTMB at Galveston
David Niesel; David Watson
Neural Stem Cells: Controlling Proliferation and Differentiation
$135,520 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Jane Johnson
The Generation of Toxin and IL-2 Mutants Lacking a Disintegrin-Like Motif
$135,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Roxana Baluna; Ellen S. Vitetta
Functions of Histone Acetyltransferases in Mammalian Development
$134,800 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Sharon Roth
Selective Tissue Accumulation of Liposomes during Altered Vascular Permeability
$131,323 UT HSC at San Antonio
Linda McManus; William Phillips
Neural Ensemble Recordings from Multiple Sites in the Hippocampal Formation
$126,571 UT HSC at Houston
James Knierim
Regulation of Microbial Cellular Differentiation
$126,474 Texas A&M University
James Golden
Molecular Modeling of Membrane Protein Structures
$123,376 UTMB at Galveston
Werner Braun
Molecular Mechanisms Governing the Rhythmic Expression of Cryptochrome, a Blue Light Receptor Gene
$119,200 University of Houston
Paul Hardin
Manipulating Recombination for Gene Targeting, Novel Site-Specificities and Selective RNA Cleavage
$115,280 UT at Austin
Makkuni Jayaram
Kinetics of Serotonin Uptake in vivo in Mice with Genetic Alterations of the Serotonin Transporter
$115,245 UT HSC at San Antonio
Lynette Daws; Alan Frazer
Can Cannabinoid Antagonists Block the Addictive, But Not Analgesic, Actions of Opioids?
$111,056 University of Houston
Kelly Standifer; Amruthesh Shivachar
RGS Protein Function and Specificity in Dictyostelium Development
$109,565 UT HSC at Houston
Dale Hereld
The Role of Mutagenic DNA Repair in the Adaptation of Bacterial Plasmids to their Hosts
$109,368 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
George W. Sundin
Agonist-Directed Trafficking: A Novel Concept for Drug Selectivity
$109,055 UT HSC at San Antonio
William Clarke; Kelly Berg
Modulating Biological Membrane Fusion: Design of Helix-Binding Receptors with Protease Activity
$108,000 UT at Dallas
Gregg Dieckmann
Slow Inactivation of Dendritic Na Channels: Novel Therapeutic Target for Anti-Epileptic Agents
$107,832 University of Houston
Costa Colbert
Microsatellite Analysis of Attwater's Prairie Chickens
$48,550 Tarleton State University
Philip Sudman
$54,200 Texas Tech University
Robert J. Baker
Embryonic Environmental Influences on Development of Vertebrate Cardiovascular Physiology
$99,040 University of North Texas
Warren Burggren
Stethorus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Biodiversity in the Texas High Plains
$93,280 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Jerry Michels; Debra Fritts
Towards a Safer State Blood Supply
$90,900 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Sumana Datta
Apoptotic Gene Expression under Hypoxia Stress
$86,064 UT HSC at San Antonio
Zheng Dong
Oxidation of Host Site Amino Acids in Transmembrane Alpha Helical Peptides
$58,930 Texas Woman's University
Michael Merchant
$15,021 Texas A&M University System HSC
J. Martin Scholtz
Evaluation of Rio Grande Wildlife Corridor Revegetation Efforts
$73,213 UT - Pan American
Frank Judd; Robert I. Lonard
C-3
Identification of Meteorological Cues that Elicit Fire Ant Mating Flight
$56,950 Texas A&M University
$0 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Suojin Wang
Jianbo Li
Chemistry
Anion Sponges
$118,000 UT at Austin
Jonathan Sessler
$57,000 UT at San Antonio
John V. McClusky
RNA Structure, Metal Sites, and Dynamics Using Site-Specific Isotopic Labels
$101,700 Texas A&M University
Victoria DeRose
$72,810 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
David P. Giedroc
Structural and Functional Models of Catalytic Active Sites
$156,640 Texas A&M University
Marcetta Darensbourg; Donald Darensbourg
Multiscale Simulations of Rubber Composites
$144,000 University of Houston
Bernard Pettitt; Roland Glowinski
Using Molecular Probes to Study Protein-Ligand Interactions
$142,200 UT at Austin
Stephen Martin
Single Molecule Identification Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
$140,800 UT at Austin
Alan Campion
The Workman-Reynolds Effect at the Ice Interface: From Thunderstorm Electricity to Cryoprotection
$135,000 University of Houston
Anthony Haymet
Novel Approaches to Bioactive Aminoimidazole Natural Products
$130,680 UT at Arlington
Carl Lovely
Light Energy Storage in Mesoporous Silica and Silicoaluminophosphate Materials
$128,000 University of Houston
Larry Kevan
Chemical and Structural Studies of Covalent Metal DNA Adducts
$121,440 Texas A&M University
Kim Dunbar
Vibrational Dynamics in Microconfined Liquids
$118,358 Texas Tech University
Edward Quitevis
Chemical Studies of Enzymes
$109,120 UT at Arlington
Edward Bellion
Development of Adaptive Mesh Based Methods for Quantum Dynamical Calculations
$102,400 University of Houston
Eric Bittner
Investigation of Atmospheric Hydrocarbon Oxidation Reactions Relevant to Regional Air Quality
$91,696 Texas A&M University
Simon North; Renyi Zhang
Determination of the Structure of 2-(2=-Hydroxyphenyl)Benzenesulfinate Desulfinase
$69,000 Southwest Texas State University
Linette Watkins
$22,600 UT at Austin
Jon Robertus
Room Temperature Ionic Liquids--Novel Media for Chemical Separations
$89,700 Texas Tech University
Richard Bartsch
Long-Range Asymmetric Induction Reactions
$81,963 UT at Austin
Philip Magnus
Environmental Chemistry of Aged Contaminants in Soil
$69,600 Texas Tech University
Todd Anderson
Computer Sciences
Motion Estimation and Control Algorithms for Robotically Assisted Surgery
$184,002 University of Houston
Ioannis Kakadiaris; Karolos Grigoriadis
$44,616 UT HSC at Houston
George Zouridakis
Haptic Breast Biopsy Simulation with Patient Specific Data
$160,000 Texas Tech University
Bharti Temkin
$20,000 Texas Tech University HSC
Sammy Deeb
The METABuffer: Combining Realtime Parallel Graphics VR Display
$161,040 UT at Austin
Donald Fussell; Chandrajit Bajaj
Programming Models for Wireless-based Nomadic Application Systems
$146,286 UT at Austin
James Browne
Integrated Approaches to Digital Hardware Verification: Theory and Tools
$133,760 UT at Austin
Adnan Aziz; E. Allen Emerson
C-4
Design and Analysis of Combinatorial Algorithms
$123,318 UT at Austin
Vijaya Ramachandran
C0PE: Consistent 0-Administrator Personal Environment
$120,638 UT at Austin
Michael Dahlin; Lorenzo Alvisi
3-D Cellular Automata Models for Tissue Engineering and their Parallel Implementation
$111,744 University of Houston
Pauline Markenscoff
A Temporal Object Query Language and an Optimization Framework
$109,120 UT at Arlington
Leonidas Fegaras; Ramez Elmasri
Multiscale Techniques for Model Development for Groundwater Remediation and their Efficient Solution
$106,593 Texas A&M University
Richard Ewing; Xuejun Zhang
Content Based Indexing and Retrieval of Images and Video
$105,300 UT at Dallas
Haim Schweitzer
Optical Psuedo Channels: Using the Optical Layer to Minimize Queing Delays for Real-Time Traffic
$101,150 UT at Dallas
Andrea Fumagalli
Efficient Broadcasting of Compressed Video for Video on Demand Services
$87,586 University of Houston
Jehan-Francois Paris
Earth Sciences
Multi-Shooting Method for Stimulating and Acquiring Seismic Data
$152,550 Texas A&M University
Luc Ikelle
Refining the Geologic Time Scale: Integrated Biostratigraphy, Chemostratigraphy, and Sequence Stratigraphy
$92,633 UT at Austin
Stephen Ruppel
$53,622 Southwest Texas State University
Lance L. Lambert
Contaminants from South Texas Uranium Mines: Environmental Fate from Molecular to Watershed Scales
$83,630 Texas A&M University
Bruce Herbert
$35,501 Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Patrick Michaud
Characterizing Turbulence During Extreme Wind Events
$68,757 Texas Tech University
Richard Peterson; Xiaoning Gilliam
$41,233 Stephen F. Austin State University
Gregory Miller
Formation and Evolution of Proterozoic Crust in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico
$39,488 UT at El Paso
Kate C. Miller
$55,810 Texas Tech University
Calvin G. Barnes
Mueller Matrix Imaging: The Consummate Approach to Underwater Object Detection and Identification
$74,052 Texas A&M University
George Kattawar
$15,550 Stephen F. Austin State University
William D. Bruton
A Cooperative Geophysical Study of Lithospheric Structure in Central Europe
$83,864 UT at El Paso
G. Randy Keller
Investigation to Refine the Application of Geophysical Instruments to Ground Water Problems
$70,583 Texas Tech University
Harold Gurrola; George Asquith
Geochemical Fractionation of Dust at the Surface of a Wind-Eroding Playa
$55,125 Texas Tech University
Thomas Gill
Engineering
Phytoremediation of Soils Contaminated by Chlorinated Hhydrocarbons
$99,225 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
M. Yavuz Corapcioglu
$79,425 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Malcolm C. Drew
Vision Enhancement to Improve Early Cancer Detection
$143,100 UT at Austin
Rebecca Richards-Kortum
$27,900 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Ann Gillenwater
The Development of a Novel Room-Temperature Electrically-Induced Resistance Effect in CMR Films
$169,100 University of Houston
Shangqing Liu
Multigigahertz Super-Electrooptic Light Modulation
$154,880 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Ohannes Eknoyan; Henry F. Taylor
Flexible, High Speed Electro-Optic Modulator
$154,440 UT at Dallas
Dale Byrne
Voxel-Based Haptic Modelling for Laparascopic Surgery Simulation
$149,774 UT at Arlington
Venkat Devarajan
C-5
Low Damage, High Density Plasma Etching Studies for Single-mode, Mid-Infrared Lasers
$144,900 University of Houston
J. C. Wolfe; C. Horton
Behavior of Natural Gas Hydrates in Porous Media
$141,845 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Yuri Makogon
Pulsed-Laser Interaction with Nanoparticles on a Solid Surface: Removal and Manipulation
$141,780 UT at Austin
Dongsik Kim
Nitric Oxide Removal from Exhaust Gases Using Augmented Gas-Phase and Catalyst Technologies
$141,680 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Jerald Caton
The Role of Rate-Limited Mass Transfer in Surfactant Enhanced Aquifer Remediation
$139,400 UT at Austin
Mojdeh Delshad; Gary A. Pope
Enhanced Transmissions of Light Through Tissue for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications
$133,450 UT at Austin
A. J. Welch
In Situ Ion-Exchange/Biological Removal of Perchlorate from Groundwater
$131,680 University of Houston
Deborah Roberts; Dennis Clifford
Advanced Annealing Strategies for Ultra-Shallow Junctions
$131,087 UT at Austin
Sanjay Banerjee
Development of Forced Convection Micro Heat-Spreaders
$127,980 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Ali Beskok; Robert Lucht
Synchronous-Illumination Lock-In Detection of Phonon-Tagged Photons for Imaging Biological Tissues
$125,588 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Lihong Wang
Intelligent (Smart) Concrete-Polymer Composite Materials
$124,080 UT at Austin
David Fowler; Mircea D. Driga
The Effects of Implant Surface Composition on Cellular Biomechanical Characteristics
$123,575 UT HSC at San Antonio
Daehwan Shin
Multi-Scale Analysis Theory and Applications to Chemical Engineering Processes
$115,740 UT at Austin
Joe Qin
Beam Delivery Configuration for Treatment of Irregularly Shaped Targets
$82,806 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Rosana G. Moreira; M. Elena Castell-Perez
$30,772 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Leslie A. Braby
Oscillatory Networks for Classification
$112,307 University of Houston
Ben Jansen
Joint Source-Channel Coding for ad hoc Networks
$105,597 UT at Dallas
Aria Nosratinia; Kamran Kiasaleh
A Reduced Order Model of Unsteady Flows in Turbomachinery
$100,889 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Paul Cizmas
Error Estimation and Adaptive Numerical Modeling of Unbounded Domains
$98,330 UT at Austin
John Tassoulas
Smart Sandwich Composite Pipes for Corrosive Resistance, Durability and Rapid Installation
$96,600 University of Houston
Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan
A New Approach for Modeling Fracture in Ductile Solids
$95,427 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
David Allen
Long-Term Multiaxial Durability and Life Prediction of Polymer-Matrix Composites with Aging and Damage
$90,000 University of Houston
Su Su Wang
Engine Friction Reduction for Improved Fuel Economy and Wear
$89,228 UT at Austin
Ron Matthews; S.P. Nichols
Shock Physics Simulation for Aerospace Engineering Design
$87,278 UT at Austin
Eric Fahrenthold
A New Framework for the Run-Time Engine for Discrete-Event Simulation
$83,970 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Bryan Deuermeyer
Investigation of a Non-Intrusive Method to Detect Defects in Metal Pipelines
$72,400 Texas Tech University
Klaus W. Zieher
Monte Carlo Sampling Methods for Time-Dynamic Stochastic Optimization Models
$57,728 UT at Austin
David Morton
Materials Science
Self-assembly Growth of Oriented Organic Thin Films and Nanostructures by Molecular Beam Deposition
$219,769 University of Houston
Chengzhi Cai; Scott Perry
C-6
Improvement of Performance of Thermoplastic Polymers and Thermosets by Addition of Fluoropolymers
$96,800 University of North Texas
Witold Brostow
$96,240 Southwest Texas State University
Patrick E. Cassidy
Novel Laser and X-ray Surface Scattering from Functional Materials with Structural Transformations
$188,200 University of Houston
Simon Moss; Lowell Wood
Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical Properties of Nanoscale Strucutres
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$174,780 UT at Austin
Angela Belcher; Mike White
Implantable Microparticles for Intracellular and Extracellular Glucose Sensing
$171,486 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Michael Pishko; Gerard Cote
(G,In)(As,N) Strain Balanced Short Period Superlattices
$146,200 University of Houston
Alex Freundlich
Synchrotron Radiation Based Ultrahigh Resolution M-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy of Materials
$135,000 UT at Austin
James Erskine
Low Cost Superplastic Ceramics
$121,536 UT at Austin
Desiderio Kovar; Eric M. Taleff
Second Harmonic Spectroscopy of Surface-Adsorbate Systems: Experiment Meets ab initio Theory
$100,320 UT at Austin
Michael Downer
Heteroepitaxial Self-Assembled Quantum Dots for Si-Based Optoelectronics
$85,833 UT at El Paso
Jeff Drucker
Field Emission from Room Temperature Grown Diamond Coated Microtips
$66,225 University of North Texas
David E. Golden
Mathematics
Analysis of a Stochastic Host-Parasite Model for Bees and Mites
$63,272 Texas A&M University
James Matis; Thomas R. Kiffe
$25,025 UT - Pan American
Ben Onofa
Global Topology and Physics from Local Structure
$76,075 UT at Austin
Charles Radin; Lorenzo Sadun
The Numerical Analysis of Stochastic Models in Finance
$75,741 Texas Tech University
Dean Victory; Edward J. Allen
Modeling the Human Muscular Control System
$70,203 Texas Tech University
W.P. Dayawansa
Computational Number Theory
$49,360 UT at Austin
Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas
Adaptive Recursive Filters for Data Mining
$44,820 UT at Austin
Elmira Popova
Multi-Scale Charged Particle Transport and Applications to Sub-micron Semiconductor Models
$43,965 UT at Austin
Irene Gamba
Segregation Analysis in Genetic Epidemiology Using Generalized Estimating Equations
$36,950 Texas Tech University
Song Yang
Multidimensional Continued Fractions and Simultaneous Rational Approximations
$35,634 University of North Texas
Luca Zamboni
Research in Birational Geometry
$35,499 UT at Austin
Sean Keel
The Trace Formula and the Length Spectrum on Nilmanifolds
$34,670 Texas Tech University
Ruth Gornet
Multivariate Wavelet Component Selection in Near-Infrared Calibration Problems
$34,325 Texas A&M University
Marina Vannucci
Modeling Methods for Large Data Sets
$34,320 UT at Austin
Edward George
Occurrence, Frequency, Duration, Size, and Spread of Epidemics in Stochastic Structured Models
$33,618 Texas Tech University
Linda Allen
Mathematical Analysis of Fluid Fingering Problems in Porous Media
$17,684 UT at Arlington
Jianzhong Su
Physics and Astronomy
Development of CW Lasers in the Vacuum Ultraviolet
$161,458 Texas A&M University
C-7
Edward Fry; Robert A. Kenefick
Quantum Transport Phenomena in Charge Density Waves
$159,000 University of Houston
John Miller; Jia-Rui Liu
Physics of Kinetic Confinement in Semiconductor Quantum Wells
$65,450 University of Houston
Terry Golding
$71,485 University of North Texas
Christopher Littler
Search for New Physics via Rare Charm Procceses
$113,200 University of Houston
Kwong Lau; Joerg Pyrlik
Effective Lagrangians Description of Low-energy Quantum Chromodynamics
$109,013 University of Houston
Carlos Ordonez
Stochastic Cooling of Atoms Using Lasers
$101,200 UT at Austin
Mark Raizen; Toshiki Tajima
Study of Metal-Insulator Transition in Manganites with Colossal Magneto-Resistance
$99,000 University of Houston
Chin-Sen Ting
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
$96,800 Texas A&M University
Che-Ming Ko
Nanoparticle Tracking: Normal and Anomalous Diffusion in Liquid Crystal Monolayers
$96,750 UT at Austin
Josef Kas
An Investigation of the Physical Properties of Protoplanetary Disks
$95,580 UT at Austin
John Lacy; Neal J. Evans
Structure and Properties of Bone
$95,010 University of Houston
Kevin Bassler; Gemunu Gunaratne
The Texas Distant Cluster Survey
$89,675 UT at Austin
Gary Hill
The Equilibrium Structure of Galaxies and Clusters in the Cold Dark Matter Cosmology
$83,622 UT at Austin
Paul Shapiro; Hugo Martel
Lithium Isotopes and the Baryon Density of the Universe
$56,395 UT at El Paso
Verne Smith
A Search for Heavy Flavored Baryons and Their Decays
$44,000 UT - Pan American
Akhtar Mahmood
The Isotopic Composition of Argon in the Solar Wind
$30,800 Sam Houston State University
Russell Palma
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Play Intervention for Children with Autistic Symptoms
$144,000 UT at Dallas
Nira Granott
Evaluation of Auditory and Speech Perceptual Skills in Subjects with Low Serotonin Levels
$100,000 University of North Texas
Kamakshi V. Gopal; Raymond G. Daniloff
Uninsured Adult Working-Age Population in Tarrant Co.: Access, Cost of Care, and Health Status
$77,430 University of North Texas
Susan Brown Eve; Kenneth Koelln
$12,605 University of North Texas HSC at Fort Worth
Fernando M. Trevino
$10,115 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Joane Baumer
The Gault Site: Art and Archeology of the Earliest Texans
$49,725 UT at Austin
Michael Collins; Thomas R. Hester
$36,513 Texas A&M University
Harry J. Shafer
Neural and Biochemical Mechanisms Associated with the Affective/Motivational Determinant of Pain
$80,502 UT at Arlington
Perry N. Fuchs
Lead Exposure and Polydrug Self-Administration
$73,482 Texas A&M University
Jack Nation
Liquor Consumption: The Relative Importance of Different Social Control Devices
$72,800 Texas A&M University
James Griffin; Badi H. Baltagi
A Fuzzy-based Human Reliability Analysis System for Web-based ACLS Training and Performance
$76,138 UT - Pan American
Jen-Gwo Chen; Miguel Gonzalez
Monetary Policy Asymmetry and Bank Portfolio Composition
$42,680 Texas A&M University
Dennis Jansen
$26,220 Southwest Texas State University
Ruby P. Kishan
Infant Health in the Texas Border Region
$71,414 University of North Texas
R. Todd Jewell; Jeffrey J. Rous
C-8
A Longitudinal Study of Marriage from Mid Life through Old Age
$66,900 University of Houston - Clear Lake
Linda Bell
AI, Psychological and Decision Theoretic Predictors of Child Abuse
$63,200 University of Houston
Roy Lachman
A General Equilibrium Model for Economies with Both Private and Public Ownerships
$43,200 Texas A&M University
Guoqiang Tian
C-9
Advanced Technology Program
1999 Funded Projects
Aerospace
Control of Pressure Oscillations in Supersonic Fighter Weapons Bays
$244,635 UT at Austin
David Dolling; Noel T. Clemens
Cockpit Data Fusion with Fixed-Base Simulation Validation for Free-Flight Guidance
$208,061 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
John Painter; John Valasek
Ejector-Augmented Pulse Detonation Rocket
$201,800 UT at Arlington
Donald R. Wilson; Frank K. Lu
Optimal Control of Flow Induced Noise
$201,317 Rice University
S. Scott Collis; Matthias Heinkenschloss
Thrust and Exhaust Diagnostics for the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket
$198,500 University of Houston
Edgar Bering
A New Sensor Concept for Vision-Based Navigation of Spacecraft, Aircraft, and Robots
$191,911 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
John Junkins; John L. Crassidis
A Novel Benign Technology for the Direct Fixation of Nitrogen Oxides
$73,600 University of Houston - Clear Lake
Ramiro Sanchez
Optimum Design for Hole-Pattern Annular Seals
$53,100 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Dara Childs
Agriculture/Aquaculture/Agricultural Biotechnology
Microbial Pathogens and Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria in Irrigation Water and on Vegetables
$160,168 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Suresh D. Pillai; Steven C. Ricke
$74,832 Sul Ross State University
Keith Sternes
Role of Production Practices on Microbial Contamination of Cabbage and Cantaloupes
$171,000 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Elsa A. Murano; Gary Acuff
$63,000 UT - Pan American
Luis Materon
Restoration of Rice Transgene Expression by Inactivation of Polycomb Proteins or Methylation
$221,452 Texas A&M University
Timothy Hall
TERMITINATORBDesign of a Structure-Based Biocontrol Agent for Termites
$209,720 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Linda A. Guarino; Edgar Meyer
Risk of Salmonella and Campylobacter Contamination of Cattle During Transport to Slaughter
$206,284 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Gary Acuff; Elsa A. Murano
Molecular Mapping and Functional Genomics of Sorghum Adaptation to Stress Environment
$200,000 Texas Tech University
Henry Nguyen
Strategic Approaches for Analysis and Manipulation of Genomes and Genes
$199,500 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
David M. Stelly; H. James Price
Leptospirosis in Texas Cattle and Wildlife
$83,750 UT Medical Branch at Galveston
Joseph Vinetz
$55,000 Texas A&M University
A. Konrad Eugster
$57,500 Texas Tech University
Carleton J. Phillips
Genome Technology and Gene Discovery for Texas Agriculture
$194,000 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
John E. Mullet; Patricia Klein
Genes for Insecticidal Proteins Inducing Mortality and Apoptosis in the Cotton Boll Weevil
$186,700 Texas Tech University
Shan Bilimoria
Parallel Radiation Hybrid Mapping for Isolating Economically Important Genes in Cattle
$180,963 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
James E. Womack
Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Texas Oysters: Biology and Public Health Significance
$180,000 Texas A&M University at Galveston
John Schwarz
Improved Profitability of Peanut with Multiple Disease Resistance
$178,500 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Charles E. Simpson; James L. Starr
Analysis and Field Test of Transgenic Cotton Plants that Express Arabidopsis Antioxidant Genes
$175,628 Texas Tech University
Hong Zhang; A. Scott Holaday
Contributions of Agronomically Valuable Refuges to Integrated Pest Control in Texas Cotton
$170,655 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Kevin M. Heinz; James W. Smith
C-10
A Virus-Mediated Plant Expression System for Rapid Purification of Foreign Proteins
$162,000 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Herman Scholthof
Development of Stress Tolerant Cotton Seeds
$147,000 Texas Tech University
Randy Allen; David Tissue
Engineering Plant Herbicide Resistance
$146,800 UT at Austin
Alan Lloyd; Stanley Roux
Elimination of Gossypol from Cottonseed via Biotechnology
$143,660 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Chauncey R. Benedict; Clint Magill
Candidate Gene for Reproductive Sterility in Pinus Taeda L.
$130,000 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Claire G. Williams
Antioxidants and Other Cereal Components for Functional Foods
$102,500 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Lloyd W. Rooney
Heat Stress and Production Efficiency at Cattle Feedyards
$100,000 Texas Tech University
Michael Galyean
Native or Naturalized Legumes and Nutritional Supplements for Pasture and Range-Based Goat Nutrition
$69,170 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
James P. Muir
$29,610 Tarleton State University
Timothy F. Brown
Molecular Diagnostic Assays for the Detection of Babesia Equi in Horses
$92,282 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Patricia Holman; Judith Ball
Peptide Spawning Pheromone for Commercial Oyster Production in Texas
$62,540 UT Medical Branch at Galveston
Gregg Nagle; Sherry D. Painter
$26,906 Texas A&M University at Galveston
Sammy M. Ray
Value-Enhanced High Oil Corn for Feedlot Cattle
$68,521 Texas Tech University
Reed Richardson
Ocean Freight Futures for Risk Management to Enhance the Global Competitiveness of Texas Ports
$49,528 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Michael S. Haigh; Stephen W. Fuller
Dietary Modulation of Health in Morone Hybrids for Increased Production Efficiency in Aquaculture
$49,500 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Delbert M. Gatlin
Biomedicine
Redesign of a Genetics Tracking Program to Improve Ease of Use and Reduce Errors
$188,474 UT HSC at Houston
Todd Johnson; Jiajie Zhang
$36,526 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Margaret Spitz
Polyethlyenimine Gene Therapy Given by Aerosol: A Novel Treatment for Pulmonary Metastases
$108,490 Baylor College of Medicine
Charles Densmore
$116,510 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Eugenie Kleinerman
Molecular Classification of Human Gliomas by Gene Expression Profiling
$225,000 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Wei Zhang; Gregory N. Fuller
Discovery and Development of Src Inhibitors for Treating Ovarian Cancer
$225,000 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Raymond Budde; Robert Newman
An Orally-Regulable Gene Therapy for Advanced Cancers
$225,000 Baylor College of Medicine
Bert O'Malley
A Strategy to Eliminate the Latent Reservoir of HIV
$225,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Ellen Vitetta; Octavio Ramilo
A Novel Approach for Myocardial Protection and Revascularization
$225,000 UT Medical Branch at Galveston
Massoud Motamedi; Marschall Runge
A Highly Sensitive Blood Test for Early Detection of Carcinoma Cells
$225,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Jonathan Uhr
Mouse Models for Human Cardiac Hypertrophy and Heart Failure
$225,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Eric Olson
Use of Telomerase for the Immortalization of Normal and Pre-Malignant Human Cells
$225,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Carmela Morales; Jerry W. Shay
Controlling Protein Stability as a Mechanism of Drug Design
$224,818 Baylor College of Medicine
Stephen Elledge
C-11
Rapid Repair of Chronically Severed Spinal and Sciatic Axons in Mammals
$102,000 UT at Austin
George Bittner; Timothy Schallert
$43,000 UT Medical Branch at Galveston
Harvey M. Fishman
$59,000 Southwest Texas State University
Joseph R. Koke
$12,000 Huston-Tillotson University
Kathy Wylie Schwab
Exploring the Phenotypic Traits Associated with the Formation of Candida albicans Biofilms
$198,830 UT HSC at San Antonio
Jose Lopez-Ribot; Brian L. Wickes
Beta Cell Specific Cytotoxicity Using a Rat Insulin Promoter Thymidine Kinase Construct
$197,744 Baylor College of Medicine
F. Charles Brunicardi; Manas K. Ray
Generation of an Expression cDNA Microarray to Study Complex Metabolic Diseases
$197,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Jay Horton; Joachim Herz
High-Throughput Screening of CNS Signal Transduction Pathways
$196,852 Baylor College of Medicine
John David Sweatt
Tumor Vaccine in Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation
$194,000 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Craig Mullen
Development of Thromboresistant Vein Grafts by Somatic Gene Transfer
$193,149 UT HSC at Houston
Pierre Zoldhelyi; James T. Willerson
Noninvasive Glucose Sensing with a Novel Optical Technique
$192,200 UT Medical Branch at Galveston
Rinat Esenaliev; Wayne F. March
Ribozyme Treatment for Atherosclerosis
$191,000 UT HSC at Houston
Ba-Bie Teng
New Strategy for a Syphilis Vaccine
$183,472 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Michael Norgard
Isolation and Genetic Engineering of Myogenic Stem Cells
$181,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Daniel Garry
Microarray Analysis of Doxorubicin Cardiomyopathy
$180,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Ralph V. Shohet
Alteration of FGFR-1 RNA Splicing in Glioblastoma Cells by Antisense Oligoribonucleotides
$176,000 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Gilbert Cote; Wei Jin
Antimetastatic Therapy by Combined Use of a Novel uPA-derived Peptide (A6) plus Cyclophosphamide
$173,100 University of North Texas HSC at Fort Worth
Ronald Goldfarb; Richard P. Kitson
p202, An Interferon-Inducible Protein, in Cancer Gene Therapy
$170,000 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Duen-Hwa Yan
Identification of a Gene Essential for Human Tooth Formation
$134,467 Baylor College of Medicine
Pragna Patel
$30,000 UT HSC at Houston
Rena D'Souza
Lung Radioprotection by Stimulation of Pneumocyte Proliferation with Keratinocyte Growth Factor
$160,049 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Nicholas Terry; R. Allen White
DNA Based Vaccine Against Melanoma
$153,700 University of North Texas HSC at Fort Worth
Jerry Simecka
Development of Heparin with Enhanced Clinical Efficacy Utilizing HIP Peptide-1
$144,000 Texas A&M University System HSC
Magnus Hook
Interior Cleavage Fragments of the Retinoblastoma Tumor Suppressor Protein
$138,015 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Hong-Ji Xu; Shi-Xue Hu,
Development of New Assays for Broad-Spectrum Anti-Microbial Drugs Against Cell Division Proteins
$118,000 UT HSC at Houston
William Margolin
Bifunctional b-Lactamase Inhibitors to Simultaneously Target Serine and Metallo-beta-Lactamases
$102,594 Southern Methodist University
John Buynak
Computer and Information Engineering
Validating Secure Network Protocols For Electronic Commerce
$179,670 UT at Austin
Jacob Abraham
$92,366 Southern Methodist University
Sukumaran V. S. Nair
Architecture Evaluation Using Commercial Workloads
$211,750 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Laxmi Bhuyan
Geometric Reasoning Methods for Molecular Docking and Computer-Aided Drug Discovery
$209,800 Rice University
Lydia Kavraki; George Phillips
C-12
Distributive Adaptive Network Caching
$206,000 University of Houston
Jaspal Subhlok; Martin Herbordt
NextGen: A Programming Environment for Generic Java
$192,104 Rice University
Robert Cartwright; Matthias Felleisen
Compiling for Energy Efficiency in Embedded Systems
$174,567 Rice University
Keith Cooper; Devika Subramanian
VLIW ASIPs for Embedded Multimedia and Signal Processing Applications
$170,240 UT at Austin
Margarida Jacome; Gustavo DeVeciana
High Performance Multimedia Processors
$108,667 UT at Austin
Lizy John; Earl Swartzlander
$49,133 UT - Pan American
Eugene B. John
Internet and Component-Based Modeling System for Lake Water Quality and Fish Habitat Projections
$76,493 Lamar University
Xing Fang; We-Ran Zhang
$45,282 University of Houston
Theodore G. Cleveland
$31,359 Southwest Texas State University
Alan W. Groeger
DSP Systems Using Wavelet-Based Image Compression for Multimedia
$151,760 Texas Tech University
Sunanda Mitra; David J. Mehrl
Implementation of Automated Multi-Level Substructuring for Industrial Frequency Response Analysis
$149,000 UT at Austin
Jeffrey Bennighof
Speedy Delivery - A New Approach for VLSI and Broadband Packaging Interconnect Design
$148,972 UT at Austin
Robert Flake
Resource Management for Cluster-Based Web Servers
$148,696 Rice University
Peter Druschel; Willy Zwaenepoel
A Library for Network Optimization
$143,000 Rice University
David Applegate; William Cook
A Flexible and Robust Global Data Infrastructure
$142,604 UT at Austin
Michael Dahlin; Harrick Vin
Secured Real-Time Communications in High Performance Networks
$79,226 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Wei Zhao; Riccardo Bettati
$41,480 University of Houston - Clear Lake
Sadegh Davari
Support for Adaptive Multi-Criteria Transaction Processing in E-Commerce Applications
$117,800 UT at Dallas
I-Ling Yen
Scan Vector Compression/Decompression for Testing Systems-on-a-Chip
$109,880 UT at Austin
Nur Touba
Telecommunication Software Testing and Quality Assurance
$95,672 Southern Methodist University
Jeff Tian
Dynamic Scene Update in Virtual Environment by Parsing MPEG-4 Video Data and Mapping with 3D Objects
$62,500 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Amarnath Banerjee
Energy
Control System for Advanced, Energy Efficient, and Low Emission Vehicles
$231,000 Texas Tech University
Micheal Parten; Jon Bredeson
Vortex Aluminum Fuel Cell
$168,784 University of Houston
Hyder Husain
$47,600 Texas Southern University
Gerald Hill
Improved Catalytic Membrane Reactors for Synthesis Gas Generation
$185,800 University of Houston
James T. Richardson
A Novel Five-Phase Electric Motor Drive for Electric/Hybrid Vehicles
$185,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Hamid Toliyat
Numerical Prediction of Flow-Structure Interactions for Designing Deepwater Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico
$130,600 UT at Austin
John Kallinderis
$52,800 UT at San Antonio
Anthony T. Chronopoulos
Computation of Transport Properties from Petrographic Images
$127,000 University of Houston
K. K. Mohanty
$51,200 University of Houston - Clear Lake
L. Shih
Next Generation Subsurface Simulator for Distributed Computer Networks
$161,426 UT at Austin
Mukul Sharma; Steven Bryant
C-13
Power System Reliability Analysis Including Dynamics and Control Effects
$159,504 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Garng Huang; Chanan Singh
Automating Refinery Optimization Using the Adaptive Critics Design
$158,700 Texas Tech University
James Riggs
New Techniques for Maintaining Reliability in the Restructured Electric Utility Industry
$156,200 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Karen Butler; B. Don Russell
Mechanisms and Kinetics of Gas Hydrate Decomposition
$150,000 Rice University
Walter Chapman; Joe Hightower
A 3-D Forward and Inverse Model for the Virtual Assembly and Deconstruction of Carbonate Platforms
$123,322 Texas A&M University
Rene O. Thomsen; Steven L. Dorobek
Development of Low Cost and Environmentally Benign Electrodes for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries
$116,000 UT at Austin
Arumugam Manthiram
Co-Firing Coal: Biowaste Blends in Boiler Burners
$88,200 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Kalyan Annamalai
$25,400 Texas A&M University
John Sweeten
High-Efficiency Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers with Porous Baffles
$72,240 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Sai Lau; T. Lalk
Environmental Science and Engineering, Recycling, and Water Resources
Multi-Purpose Water Management Technology for the Texas-Mexico Border
$165,986 University of Houston
Hanadi Rifai
$129,224 Rice University
Philip Bedient
$138,171 Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Andrew Ernest
$53,521 Texas A&M International University
Sushma Krishnamurthy
$63,097 UT at Brownsville
William Berg
A Portable Remote Sensor for Hydrocarbon Gas Leakage Detection
$257,800 University of Houston
Han Le
Environmental and Industrial Monitoring of Trace Gases with Novel Quantum Cascade Lasers
$236,265 Rice University
Frank Tittel; Robert F. Curl
Surfactant Remediation of Recalcitrant Groundwater Contaminants
$234,716 UT at Austin
Gary Pope; Russell T. Johns
Novel Caged Crown Ligands for Waste Remediation: Toxic Heavy Metals in the Rio Grande River
$110,860 UT at Austin
Jennifer Brodbelt
$110,860 University of North Texas
Alan P. Marchand
Field Scale Evaluation of Phytostabilization for Closure of Waste Impoundments
$198,031 UT at Austin
Raymond Loehr
Enhancing Efficiency of Ruminant Protein Utilization and Recycling to Minimize Environmental Impact
$186,595 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
William C. Ellis
$10,000 Texas A&M University
James H.Matis
Electron-Beam Technology for Remediation of Chemical and Biological Contamination of Water
$196,200 Texas A&M University
Peter McIntyre
Integrated Multifunctional Fluorescence Sensors for Real Time Environmental Effluents and Water Analysis
$194,702 University of Houston
David Starikov; Nasr-Eddine Medelci
Fiber-Based Fourier Transform Raman Spectrometer for Pollutant Detection
$193,320 UT at Austin
Philip Varghese
Thermocatalytic Conversion of Tires, Plastics and Other Organic Materials to Chemical Feedstock
$187,974 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
James Holste
Foam-Enhanced Sweep in Surfactant Subsurface Remediation
$155,224 UT at Austin
William Rossen; Mojdeh Delshad
Super-Porous Titania/NLO-Coated Fiber Optic Photoreactor for Enviornmental Applications
$154,000 Lamar University
Daniel Chen; Kuyen Li
Developing Portable Integrated Membrane Systems for Producing Drinking Water in Texas Border Areas
$149,760 University of Houston
Dennis Clifford; Shankar Chellam
An in situ Catalytic Process for the Remediation of MTBE in Groundwater
$140,360 University of Houston
William Rixey
Experiments and Model Development for Biomass Combustion
$135,000 UT at Austin
Bill Gardiner
C-14
Degradation of Halogenated Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Soils and Sediments
$130,904 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Bill Batchelor
On-Board Distillation of Gasoline for Decreased Hydrocarbon Emissions from Gasoline Vehicles
$126,545 UT at Austin
Ron Matthews; Tom Kiehne
Mitigation of Heave and Shrinkage Distress of Expansive Soils Using Recycled Waste
$58,258 UT at Arlington
Anand J. Puppala
$58,374 University of North Texas
Nandika Anne D'Souza
Determining the Impacts of Evaporative Cooling Systems on Indoor Air Quality
$115,489 UT at El Paso
Wen-Whai Li; Russell R. Chianelli
Novel Catalysts and Reactors for Air Pollution Control
$110,000 University of Houston
Vemuri Balakotaiah
Environmentally Safe, Simple and Rapid Disposal of Animal Carcasses by Aerobic Thermophile Digestion
$101,650 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Billy M. Hargis; John Carey
Geohazards Associated with Seafloor Erosion on the Continental Slope of the Gulf of Mexico
$69,700 University of Houston
Seiichi Nagihara
Manufacturing Technology
Laser Beam Guided by Waterjet in Cutting Thin and Heat Sensitive Materials
$83,500 UT at Arlington
Heather E. Beardsley
$158,436 Southern Methodist University
David Johnson
Hypervelocity Powder Deposition by Magnetic Flux Compression Devices
$223,642 UT at Austin
Mircea Driga; Raymond Zowarka
Integration of Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing with Computer Simulation of Human Body
$210,601 UT Medical Branch at Galveston
William Buford; Rita M. Patterson
Insertion of Legacy Design and Analysis into a Collaborative Virtual Prototyping Environment
$198,658 UT at Arlington
Venkat Devarajan; John Mills
Study of Mechanical Interactions in Centrifugally Cast Interfaces
$171,126 LeTourneau University
Yoni Adonyi
High Speed Liquid Metal Jetting for Metal Parts and Electronic Interconnects
$159,600 UT at Arlington
John W. Priest
Development of Hybrid Rapid Prototyping Process Based on 3D Welding and CNC Milling
$149,152 Southern Methodist University
Radovan Kovacevic
Reliability in Electronic Packaging: A New Design-Testing Paradigm
$145,700 UT at Austin
Glenn Masada; Tess J. Moon
Behavior of Heat Exchange Fluid Aerosols Leaking from Manufacturing Processes
$143,350 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Sam Mannan; Ken D. Kihm
Reflow Processes for Flip-Chip Solder Connections
$143,000 UT at Austin
Ronald Panton
Manufacturing Processes for Adhesive Bonding Structural Steel Frames and Panels
$142,183 LeTourneau University
William Schroeder
Dynamic Configuration of Agent-based Decision-Making Systems for Manufacturing Enterprises
$134,396 UT at Austin
K. Suzanne Barber
Scanning SQUID Microscope for Nondestructive Imaging of Subsurface Defects
$133,400 University of Houston
John Miller; Wu-Pei Su
Defect Detection and Prevention in Printed Circuit Board Assembly via Information Integration
$124,100 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Daniel Apley
Imaging Polarimetry for High-Throughput Screening
$123,465 University of Houston
Richard Willson
Automated Assessment of the Health and Functionality of Machinery
$100,888 UT at Austin
Benito Fernandez; Michael Bryant
Third Party Warehousing for Effective Manufacturing Logistics
$100,700 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Chung-Yee Lee; Sila Cetinkaya
Broad Modeling of Grinding Thermal Damage for Precision Gear Materials
$95,447 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
John Mayer; Angie Hill Price
PID Controller Design for Industrial Applications: A Novel Approach
$87,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Aniruddha Datta; S. P. Bhattacharyya
Colorimetric and Fluorescent Diagnostics for Industrial Mixing Processes
$66,000 UT at Dallas
Lynn Melton
C-15
X-ray Microtomographic Image Analysis for Identification and Measurement of Cotton Contaminants
$64,000 Texas Tech University
Hamed Sari-Sarraf; Eric F. Hequet
Surface Roughness Quantification of Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms
$58,975 Texas Tech University HSC
Mansoor Khan
A Generic Thermal Signature Library for Circuit Card Inspection
$51,124 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Sheng-Jen Hsieh
Powder Compaction Mechanisms in Manufacturing of Pharmaceutical Solid Products
$30,000 University of Houston
Yi-chao Chen; Kamel Salama
Materials Technology
Preparation and Applications of Derivatized Carbon Nanotubes
$325,000 Rice University
John L. Margrave
Production of Functionalized Fullerene Nanotubes
$293,000 Rice University
Richard E. Smalley
Mechanochemical Synthesis of Nanocomposite Materials for Superior Mechanical and Chemical Behavior
$198,820 Lamar University
Malur Srinivasan; David L. Cocke
Polymer Nanocomposites by Melt Processing
$197,000 UT at Austin
Donald Paul
Ultrathin Gate Dielectric ZrO2 and Zr-Silicate for Advanced Si and SiGe Device Application
$196,520 UT at Austin
Jack Lee
New Materials Technology Research and Development for the Texas Leather Industry
$151,040 Texas Tech University
Dennis Shelly
$39,000 Texas State Technical College
Kirk P. Hunter
Thermal Resists for Next Generation Electron-Beam Mask Patterning
$190,000 UT at Austin
Grant Willson
Development of High-Resolution Moire Interferometry for Electronic Packaging Applications
$190,000 UT at Austin
Paul Ho; David R. Kincaid
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Lasing without Inversion in Rare Earth Doped Compounds
$146,500 Texas A&M University
Olga Kocharovskaya
$38,450 Prairie View A&M University
Cleo Bentley
Innovative Materials for High Speed Semiconductor Devices
$180,000 University of North Texas
Richard F. Reidy; Dennis W. Mueller
Megatubes and Nanotubes: New Dimensions in the Synthesis and Structure of Carbonaceous Materials
$170,000 UT at Austin
R. Malcolm Brown, Jr.; Richard Lagow
New Bio-Compatible Silicon Electronic Devices for Drug Delivery and DNA Sensing
$150,511 Texas Christian University
Jeff Coffer
Melt Processable Polyaniline: Commercially Important Environmentally Benign Synthesis and Processing
$147,300 UT at Arlington
Martin Pomerantz
Diamond-Silicon Carbide Composites for Drill Bits
$137,358 Texas Christian University
T. Waldek Zerda
Development of Large-Area Nanostructured Carbon Films for Flat Panel Display Applications
$127,067 University of North Texas
Jose M. Perez
Switchable Mirrors Using Metal Hydride Films
$118,000 UT at Austin
John Markert
Medical Biotechnology
Polarization Sensitive Retinal Tomography for Glaucoma Diagnosis
$221,300 UT at Austin
H. Grady Rylander; Thomas Milner
Thin Film Optical Microdetectors for Retinal Implantation: A ABionic@ Eye
$120,600 University of Houston
Alex Ignatiev
$97,000 UT HSC at Houston
Charles Garcia
Targeted Gene Expression in Areas of Low Flow in Vascular Cells
$205,118 Rice University
Larry McIntire
Creating Biosensors from Massively Parallel Addressable Arrays of Planar Supported Biomembranes
$202,692 Texas A&M University
Eric Simanek; Paul Cremer
Development of Multiphoton NSOM for Studying Local Neurotransmitter Kinetics at Individual Synapses
$202,000 UT at Austin
David Vanden Bout; Jason Shear
C-16
High-Throughput Cloning of Restriction Enzymes and DNA Methylases for Medical Diagnostics
$126,656 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Michael Kladde
$70,500 Texas A&M University
Lisa Campbell
Optimization of Antibodies for Use in Biotechnology Research
$193,100 UT at Austin
Brent Iverson; George Georgiou
Steroid Receptor RNA Activator as a Diagnostic/Therapeutic Factor in Endocrine Tissue Malignancies
$191,454 Baylor College of Medicine
Rainer Lanz; Kent C. Osborne
Development of Novel IL-5 Antagonists for Therapy of Allergic Inflammation
$191,000 Baylor College of Medicine
David Huston; David B. Corry
New Strategies for Immune Manipulation
$187,474 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Stephen Johnston
An Open Reading Frame Vector for the Isolation of Genes
$181,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Irene Rombel
Biochip Microarrays Synthesized Using a Novel Photochemistry
$176,115 University of Houston
Xiaolian Gao
Functional Mimics of Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha
$175,000 Texas A&M University
Kevin Burgess; Scott Linthicum
Non-Fouling, Timed-Release Antimicrobial Coatings to Combat Implant-Centered Infections
$170,000 UT at Arlington
Richard Timmons
Development of Adenovirus Vector Specifically Replicated in Cancer Cells for Gene Therapy
$163,680 Baylor College of Medicine
Heshan Zhou; Malcolm Brenner
Defined DNA Tertiary Structures for Drug Target Screening
$161,168 UT at Dallas
Stephen Levene
Stochastic Sensing of Medically Relevant Organic Analytes
$159,076 Texas A&M University System HSC
Hagan Bayley
Controllable Neurotrophin Gene Therapy for Age-Associated Memory Impairments
$149,800 Baylor College of Medicine
Keyi Yang
Analysis of Sequence Determinants of Antisense DNA
$147,650 UT at Dallas
Donald Gray
Rapid Screening of Libraries of Genetically Engineered Cells Using Micropatterned Biomaterials
$74,492
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Michael Pishko
$68,753
Texas A&M University
Richard M. Crooks
Development of Lysostaphin as a Control Prophylaxis for S. aureus Infections
$130,000 UT at Dallas
Ronald Yasbin
Bacteriophage Genes as the Basis for New Antibiotics
$121,957 Rice University
Charles Stewart
VlsE as an Immunodiagnostic and Immunoprotective Reagent for Lyme Disease
$118,000 UT HSC at Houston
Steven Norris
Microelectronics
Novel High-Permitivity Gate Dielectric Materials for Advanced Microelectronics
$176,239 University of North Texas
Robert M. Wallace; Bruce E. Gnade
$120,302 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Wiley P. Kirk
Development of Advanced MOS Gate Stack for Deep Sub-100nm CMOS Technology
$218,000 UT at Austin
Dim-Lee Kwong; Mike White
Improving Chemical Mechanical Planarization through Determination of Fundamental Polishing Mechanism
$124,673 Southwest Texas State University
Heather Galloway
$76,272 University of Houston
Scott S. Perry
Exploring New High Dielectric Constant (High k) Thin Film
$185,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Yue Kuo
UV Raman Studies of Ultrashallow Ion Implantation, Stress, and Alloying in Silicon
$178,600 Texas Tech University
Mark Holtz
Ultra Shallow Junction Formation by Cluster Beam Ion Implantation in Silicon
$166,451 University of Houston
Wei-Kan Chu
High-Power Coherent Arrays of Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Lasers
$160,894 Southern Methodist University
Gary Evans
Deposition and Process Integration of Low-k Porous Fluorocarbon ILD Films for ULSI Circuits
$151,000 Texas Tech University
Shubhra Gangopadhyay; Sindee Simon
C-17
High Density Plasma Source Technology
$78,805 UT at Dallas
Lawrence Overzet; Matthew Goeckner
Telecommunications
Development of Wideband Vector Channel Models and Testbed for 3rd Generation Wireless Mobile Systems
$159,759 UT at Austin
Guanghan Xu; Hao Ling
$69,648 UT - Pan American
Heinrich Foltz
High Speed Wireless Local Area Network
$205,216 Rice University
Behnaam Aazhang; Richard G. Baraniuk
Foveated Wireless Video Communication
$198,700 UT at Austin
Alan Bovik; Brian Evans
Routing and Resource Allocation with the Challenge of Mobile Wireless Networks
$152,763 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Mi Lu
Effective Resource Management for Differentiated Services
$96,700 UT at Dallas
Biao Chen; SiQing Zheng
$52,400 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Wei Zhao
Photonic Band Gap Antennas for Wireless Communications
$142,000 University of Houston
David Jackson
Analysis of Group Decision Support Systems and Consensus Building for Electronic Commerce
$109,000 Texas Tech University
Mario Beruvides; Dean Fontenot
Universal Signal Separation for Teleconferencing and Wireless Communications
$101,719 Southern Methodist University
Scott Douglas
Advanced Coding Techniques and Low Complexity Decoding for Wireless Data Networks
$72,600 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Krishna Narayanan
Transportation
A Sensor for Remote Detection of Alcohol Vapors
$109,608 UT at Arlington
Siamak A. Ardekani; Theresa A. Maldonado
$57,892 Texas Christian University
Edward S. Kolesar
$12,500 Texas Southern University
Carol L. Lewis
The Design of a New Generation of Traffic Noise Barriers
$178,200 UT at Austin
David Blackstock
Dynamic Optimization of Logistics and Transportation Operations
$125,000 UT at Austin
Hani Mahmassani; Patrick Jaillet
Advanced Control Algorithm Development and Testing for Off-Road Vehicle Active Suspension Systems
$120,000 UT at Austin
Joseph Beno
Development of a Wireless Integrated Moisture Sensor for Pavement Moisture Content Monitoring
$114,900 University of Houston
Richard Liu; Wallace L. Anderson
Transportation System Modeling Using High Level Architecture
$100,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Robert Shannon
Forecasting Traffic Parameters by Classification of Patterns
$92,687 Texas Transportation Institute
Laurence Rilett; Steve Liu
A Multipoint Optical Rolling Wheel Deflectometer
$72,804 University of Houston
Tony King
C-18
Advanced Technology Development and Transfer
1999 Funded Projects
Aerospace
Smart Structures Technologies in Industrial Environments
$175,000
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Match: $100,000 NAL Research Corporation
$85,000 Aeroprobe Corporation
$40,000 National Instruments
Dimitris Lagoudas; Othon Rediniotis
Agriculture/Aquaculture/Agricultural Biotechnology
Cloning Transgenic Cattle Resistant to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, Mad Cow Disease)
$194,000
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Mark E. Westhusin; Patrick Dunne
Match: $200,000 Ultimate Genetics, LLC
Biomedicine
A High Resolution Convertible PET Camera for Functional Imaging and Diagnosis
$225,000
UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Wai-Hoi Wong; Jorge Uribe
Match: $420,000 Siemens/CTI, Inc.
Commercialization of New Sulfated Cyclodextrins for Electrophoretic Biomedical and Drug Separations
$140,000
Texas A&M University
Gyula Vigh
Match: $140,216 J&W Scientific, Inc.
Computer and Information Engineering
Large Scale Mixed-Integer Programming
$83,000
Rice University
Match: $100,000 Compaq Computer Corporation
William Cook; Robert Bixby
Energy
Development of Thick Superconducting Tapes for High Current Applications by Photo-Assisted MOCVD
$304,290
University of Houston
Pen-Chu Chou
$45,710
Sam Houston State University
Gan Liang
Match: $600,000 Metal Oxide Technologies, Inc.
$20,000 Epichem
Development of an Industrial Grade Active Filter to Cancel 5th, 7th, 11th, 13th Harmonic Currents
$227,000
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Prasad Enjeti
Match: $175,000 Current Technology, Inc.
$120,000 Lucent Technologies
Increased Energy Efficiency from Novel Labyrinth Seals and Discouragers
$173,800
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
David Rhode
Match: $650,000 Pratt & Whitney
Environmental Science and Engineering, Recycling, and Water Resources
Modeling and Computer Simulation of Environmental Remediation Using Parallel Finite Elements on PC Clusters
$247,600
UT at Austin
Mary F. Wheeler; Graham Carey
Match: $1,000,000 Schlumberger
Commercialization of Semiconductor Etch Tool Emission Control Technology
$200,000
Texas A&M University
John Bevan; Robert R. Lucchese
Match: $119,000 Rf Environmental Systems, Inc.
$100,000 Motorola
$60,000 SEMATECH
Manufacturing Technology
Laser-Aerosol Manufacturing of Nanoparticle Electronic Materials
$125,200
UT at Austin
Match: $160,000 The DuPont Company
C-19
John Keto; Michael F. Becker
An Innovative Management System for End-of-Life Electronic Product Disassembly and Recycling
$120,000
Texas Tech University
Hong-Chao Zhang
Match: $194,800 System Service International, Inc.
$30,000 Compaq Computer Corporation
Development of Photonic Antenna Technology
$100,000 UT at Arlington
Robert Magnusson; Theresa Maldonado
Match: $100,000 Raytheon Systems Company
Materials Technology
Advanced Antennas Using Artificial Magnetodielectrics
$393,000
UT at Austin
Rodger Walser
Match: $100,000 Grant Associates
$70,000 Bell Helicopter Textron
$70,000 The Boeing Company
$70,000 Northrop-Grumman
$70,000 General Electric
$70,000 Raytheon/TI Systems
$70,000 Lockheed Martin Corp.
$70,000 Sierra Nevada Corp.
Scale-Up of Ceramic Composite Components for Advanced Mining and Aerospace Applications
$390,000
University of Houston
Ken White; L. Wheeler
Match: $350,000 Valvtechnologies, Inc.
$80,000 Lockheed Martin Vought Systems
Medical Biotechnology
Hyperspectral Microscopic Imaging
$285,500
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Match: $1,100,000 Immunicon Corporation
Roger Schultz; Harold R. Garner
Microelectronics
Packaging-Compatible Chip-to-Chip Optoelectric Interconnects for Board-Level System Bus
$298,000
UT at Austin
Ray Chen; Jack Lipovski
Match: $400,000 Radiant Research, Inc.
$200,000 LightPath
$180,000 3M Corporation
$150,000 New Century Consulting
$150,000 Texas Instruments, Inc.
$100,000 Honeywell
$100,000 SEMATECH
$50,000 AMP Incorporated
$42,500 Dell Computer Company
Early Failure Detection for Reliability Evaluation of On-Chip Interconnects
$220,000
UT at Austin
Paul Ho; Ennis Ogawa
Match: $654,000 Motorola
$430,000 SEMATECH
$72,000 Texas Instruments, Inc.
$20,000 Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies
Development of 2-D Dopant Profiling Tools for Sub-100 nm Devices
$128,500
UT at Austin
Chih-Kang Shih
Match: $312,000 Motorola
$75,000 Advanced Micro Devices
$46,560 SEMATECH
Nonvolatile Memory Cell Consisting of One Ferroelectric Gate Transistor
$100,000
Rice University
Thomas Rabson; Marc Robert
Match: $100,000 Motorola, Inc.
C-20
Telecommunications
Implementation of W-CDMA Networks: Advanced Mobile and Basestation Receiver Prototyping
$211,148
Rice University
Joseph Cavallaro; Don H. Johnson
Match: $160,000 Texas Instruments, Inc.
$120,000 NOKIA Corporation
Development of Integrated Multimedia Wireless Networks
$180,000
Rice University
Edward Knightly; Behnaam Aazhang
Match: $240,000 NOKIA Corporation
$160,000 Texas Instruments, Inc.
Electrooptics Technology for Fiber Optic Networks
$160,000
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Henry Taylor; Ohannes Eknoyan
Match: $207,000 3M Corporation
C-21
Appendix D
Funding by Institution
Number
of Projects*
Institution
Angelo State University
Baylor College of Medicine
Huston-Tillotson College
Lamar University
LeTourneau University
Prairie View A&M University
Rice University
Sam Houston State University
Southern Methodist University
Southwest Texas State University
Stephen F. Austin State University
Sul Ross State University
TAMU System Health Science Center
Tarleton State University
Texas A&M International University
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University-Galveston
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Texas Christian University
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Texas Southern University
Texas State Technical College
Texas Tech University
TTU Health Sciences Center
Texas Transportation Institute
Texas Woman's University
University of Houston
University of Houston-Clear Lake
University of North Texas
UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth
The University of Texas at Arlington
The University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Brownsville
The University of Texas at Dallas
The University of Texas at El Paso
The University of Texas-Pan American
The University of Texas at San Antonio
UT Health Science Center at Houston
UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
UT Medical Branch at Galveston
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
TOTALS
Dollars
1
10
1
3
2
1
18
2
7
8
2
1
5
2
1
34
1
2
1
31
3
42
2
1
31
2
1
1
55
4
13
3
15
87
1
13
5
7
2
12
6
15
10
20
55,232
1,783,305
12,000
429,313
313,309
38,450
3,309,412
76,510
860,833
510,389
56,783
74,832
609,986
78,160
53,521
3,650,610
35,501
206,906
138,171
4,020,107
345,761
5,232,221
60,100
39,000
3,316,164
78,975
92,687
58,930
7,718,289
233,180
1,270,568
339,405
1,825,604
12,119,570
63,097
1,516,610
381,069
400,157
109,800
1,357,765
764,092
2,444,850
1,467,847
3,515,020
484
$61,064,091
*Joint proposals are counted multiple times -- once for each institution participating in the proposed project. The number of
funded projects is 410.
Appendix E
Comparison of Awards in 1995, 1997, and 1999
Number of Proposals Funded by Area
Advanced Research Program
Astronomy
Atmospheric Sciences
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Computer/Information Sciences
Earth Sciences
Engineering
Marine Sciences
Materials Science
Mathematics
Physics
Social/Behavioral Sciences
Advanced Technology Program
Aerospace
Agriculture and Aquaculture
Biomedicine
Biotechnology
Computer/Information Engineering
Energy
Environmental Sciences/Engineering
Manufacturing Technology
Marine Technology
Materials Technology
Medical Biotechnology
Microelectronics
Telecommunications
Transportation
ATP Development and Transfer
Aerospace
Agriculture and Aquaculture
Biomedicine
Biotechnology
Computer/Information Engineering
Energy
Environmental Sciences/Engineering
Manufacturing Technology
Materials Technology
Medical Biotechnology
Microelectronics
Telecommunications
1995
4
3
47
17
11
9
23
5
11
17
13
15
175
1997
4
4
37
18
13
8
26
7
10
15
14
12
168
1999
49
18
13
9
32
11
15
16
13
176
9
32
31
23
17
21
23
20
4
16
11
6
213
8
24
29
29
15
24
13
16
3
20
12
7
200
8
28
33
20
15
23
24
16
23
9
9
8
216
1
2
3
5
1
2
1
3
4
3
1
5
4
3
4
1
4
3
3
2
1
1
1
2
1
3
2
3
2
1
4
3
TOTALS
26
414
30
398
23
415
Comparison of Awards in 1995, 1997, and 1999
Funding Allocations by Research Area
Advanced Research Program
Astronomy
Atmospheric Sciences
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Computer/Information Sciences
Earth Sciences
Engineering
Marine Sciences
Materials Science
Mathematics
Physics
Social/Behavioral Sciences
Advanced Technology Program
Aerospace
Agriculture and Aquaculture
Biomedicine
Biotechnology
Computer/Information Engineering
Energy
Environmental Sciences/Engineering
Manufacturing Technology
Marine Technology
Materials Technology
Medical Biotechnology
Microelectronics
Telecommunications
Transportation
ATP Development and Transfer
Aerospace
Agriculture and Aquaculture
Biomedicine
Biotechnology
Computer/Information Engineering
Energy
Environmental Sciences/Engineering
Manufacturing Technology
Materials Technology
Medical Biotechnology
Microelectronics
Telecommunications
E-1
1995
260,328
220,686
6,350,426
2,217,463
1,463,260
886,314
3,322,045
629,630
1,537,912
789,596
1,463,585
1,095,585
20,236,830
1997
273,357
329,652
5,744,110
2,221,727
1,714,714
916,642
3,572,523
702,577
1,428,757
747,549
1,418,142
995,410
20,065,160
6,865,320
2,202,707
1,715,153
922,398
3,903,961
1,602,389
711,161
1,568,438
1,046,924
20,538,451
1,446,906
4,434,080
5,864,135
4,315,188
2,887,698
3,154,822
3,541,183
3,007,546
697,859
3,422,463
1,966,024
1,316,490
36,054,394
1,565,183
3,941,835
5,194,244
4,635,717
2,183,157
3,359,187
3,031,427
2,722,802
565,248
3,495,187
1,872,488
1,292,633
33,859,108
1,372,924
4,348,669
6,295,990
3,138,021
2,390,776
4,172,586
3,098,443
2,995,566
4,005,585
1,636,236
1,360,505
983,591
35,798,892
249,576
338,332
372,680
737,761
235,588
374,762
173,360
646,000
559,541
500,000
50,000
4,237,600
568,727
731,227
313,737
981,625
156,216
821,522
845,447
462,940
443,396
201,336
5,526,173
175,000
194,000
365,000
83,000
750,800
447,600
345,200
783,000
285,500
746,500
551,148
4,726,748
1999
Appendix F
TOTALS
Fund - Priority 1
Fund - Priority 2
Do Not Fund
Revise Budget
$60,528,824
$59,450,441
Advanced Research Program - 1999
Rank
Proposal Evaluation Form
(Fund - Priority 1
Proposals only)
61,064,091
Merit and soundness of the proposal (50%)
A.
Scientific Base/Importance
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Research of far-reaching significance and based on quality, adequately referenced, scientific work
Research important to development of discipline and based on quality, adequately referenced work
Research important to development of discipline but based on more speculative research
Research is significant in only a narrow area
Research not significant within the boundaries of this competition
B. Originality
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Original idea that looks feasible
Established technique applied to new area
Idea previously investigated
C. Research Plan and Budget
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Well documented research plan with appropriate budget and time schedule
Feasible plan but proposed budget or schedule is 25% over or under what is needed to do the job
Feasible plan but proposed budget or schedule is 50% over or under what is needed to do the job
Poorly thought out research plan
Capability of the investigator(s) (25%)
D. Staff
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Principal investigator(s) capable of conducting outstanding research in the proposed area and qualified
support personnel listed
Principal investigator(s) with some experience in this area and qualified support personnel listed
Principal investigator(s) with qualified support staff needed but not included
Principal investigator(s) with thus far little demonstrated potential for research in this area
Adequacy of institutional commitment and resources (10%)
E.
Institutional Priority and Available Laboratory Equipment
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Clear institutional priority with significant institutional support and needed equipment in place
Clear institutional priority with significant institutional support and equipment can
reasonably be expected to be in place when needed
A departmental priority with modest support and equipment can reasonably be expected to be in place
when needed
A topic of interest primarily to the investigator(s) and/or proposed facilities inadequate to do the job
Effect on the infrastructure of science and engineering (15%)
F.
Education/Training
Possible Reviewer Comments:
E-3
Research designed to attract, retain, and enhance the qualifications of the best students and researchers
Research involves few students and provides modest training for research or innovation
No student involvement in proposed research
F-2
Fund - Priority 1
Fund - Priority 2
Do Not Fund
Revise Budget
Advanced Technology Program - 1999
Proposal Evaluation Form
Rank
(Fund - Priority 1
Proposals only)
Merit and soundness of the proposal (50%)
A.
Importance/Effect on Science and Technology Base
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Research of far-reaching significance, important to Texas, based on quality, adequately referenced work
Research important and based on quality, adequately referenced work
Research important but based on more speculative technology
Research is significant in only a narrow area
Research not significant within the boundaries of this competition
B. Originality
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Original idea that looks feasible
Established technique applied to new area
Idea previously investigated
C. Research Plan and Budget
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Well documented research plan with appropriate budget and time schedule
Feasible plan but proposed budget or schedule is 25% over or under what is needed to do the job
Feasible plan but proposed budget or schedule is 50% over or under what is needed to do the job
Poorly thought out research plan
D. Leveraged Funds and Technology Transfer
Possible Reviewer Comments:
An idea with a 70% chance of creating a major marketable product in five years and project funds are substantially
leveraged from other sources
An idea with a 50% chance of producing a marketable product in ten years and project funds are leveraged
Prospects for leveraging of funds and/or meaningful industrial collaboration exists
Project includes a meaningful collaboration
An idea that is unlikely to yield a commercial product; there is no leveraging of funds and no meaningful collaboration
exists
Capability of the Investigator(s) (15%)
E.
Staff
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Principal investigator(s) capable of conducting outstanding research in the proposed area and qualified support
personnel listed
Principal investigator(s) with some experience in this area and qualified support personnel listed
Principal investigator(s) with qualified support staff needed and not included
Principal investigator(s) with thus far little demonstrated potential for research
Student Involvement and Research Training Opportunities (15%)
F.
Education/Training
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Proposed research designed to increase number and quality of scientists and engineers in Texas
Proposed research involves few students and provides modest training for research or innovation
No student involvement in proposed research
Adequacy of institutional commitment and resources (10%)
7. Institutional Priority and Available Laboratory Equipment
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Clear institutional priority with significant institutional support and needed equipment in place
A departmental priority with modest support and the equipment necessary can reasonably expected to be in place
when needed
A topic of interest primarily to the investigator(s) and/or proposed facilities inadequate to do the job
F-3
Fund - Priority 1
Fund - Priority 2
Do Not Fund
Technology Development and
Transfer Program- 1999
Revise Budget
Proposal Evaluation Form
Rank
(Fund - Priority 1
Proposals only)
Technical Merit and Soundness of the Proposal (45%)
A. Potential Impact
Possible Reviewer Comments:
A new technology with wide application that will create new markets
A technology that will be important in a narrow range of applications
A technology that is interesting but which will have a relatively narrow range of applications
Little or no potential impact
B. Technological Importance
Possible Reviewer Comments:
A technologically sophisticated breakthrough technology
Interesting but technologically unsophisticated
Minimal technological importance
C. Plan, Budget and Schedule
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Well documented research plan with appropriate budget and time schedule
Feasible research plan, but proposed budget or schedule is 25% over or under what is needed to do the job
Feasible research plan, but proposed budget or schedule is 50% over or under what is needed to do the job
Poorly thought out research plan
Personnel and Physical Resources Available to the Project (20%)
D. Staff
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Principal Investigator has proven record in developing and transferring technology
Staff has good records as scientists but little experience in technology transfer
Staff inadequately prepared to undertake project
E. Facilities
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Excellent facilities to undertake project
Appropriate facilities to undertake project
Inadequate facilities to undertake project
Technology Transfer Plan (35%)
F. Intellectual Property
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Ownership of intellectual property well-defined and protected
Legal protection of intellectual property initiated
Inadequate protection for intellectual property to allow commercialization
G. Industrial Collaborator
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Strong industrial collaborator willing to commercialize in Texas
Industrial collaborator only marginally interested in commercializing in Texas
No significant industrial collaboration
H. Collaboration Plan
F-4
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Collaborator intimately involved in project with both personnel and financial support
Collaborator moderately involved in project with both personnel and financial support
Unrealistic collaboration plan
Related reports available:
Research Assessment Program, Final Report; July 1998
Advanced Research Program/Advanced Technology Program, Progress Report; November 1998
Evaluation of the Advanced Research and Advanced Technology Programs; January 1999
Advanced Research Program/Advanced Technology Program 1999 Program Announcements, April
1999
Research Expenditures September 1, 1997 - August 31, 1998; April 1999
Related information is also available on the web site of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board at:
http://www.thecb.state.tx.us
or the web site of the Coordinating Board=s Research Office in
Finance, Campus Planning and Research Division at:
http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/divisions/research/research.htm
For information about this program contact:
Dr. Linda Domelsmith
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Division of Finance, Campus Planning and Research
P.O. Box 12788
Austin, Texas 78711
(512) 483-6150
Internet: domelsmila@thecb.state.tx.us
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