The Office of Research announced the research awards ($50,000 and above) for February and March '06. School of Science awards include:

Crystal IS, Inc. Shur, Connection One Consortium for Telecommunication Circuits and Systems, $50,000

Georgia Institute of Technology, Ajayan, Cale, Gutmann, Lecoz, Lu, Nalamasu, Interconnect Focus Center for Hyper-Integration, $233,083

Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., Zhang, Polychromic Imaging for Standoff Detection of Explosives and Weapons, $250,000

National Science Foundation, Freedman, Career: Combined Shape- and Intensity-Based Methods for tracking, $74,704; Abrajano Jr. Kilduff, Komisar, Nyman, Peroxy-Acid Pretreatment-Microbial Degradation: A Hybrid Approach to Remediation to Contaminated Sediments and Soils – A Phase II Study, $96, 274; Adams, Napolitano, Stoler, The Structure of Hadrons With Electromagnetic Probes, $450,000

National Institutes of Health, McGown, Affinity Interactions Between Unsulin and Quadruplex DNA, $217, 289; Linhardt, Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Glycosaminoglycan Oligos, $381,529

Research Foundation of SUNY, Lu, The New york Center for Advanced Interconnect Science and Technology, $82,500

Triquint Semiconductor, LP, Shur, Wide Band Gap Semiconductors for RF Applications, $63,932

United States Army, Flaherty, Shephard, Adaptive Multiscale Analysis of Deposition Processes, $90,000

United States Department of Energy, Herron, Magnetorotational Instability Dissipative MHD flows, $80,597

Originally published May 2006 in the Rensselaer Research Update.

Published June 22, 2006