PROF Awardees AY 05-06
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The next round of review will take place during the Winter Quarter of 2006.  Please click on the link below to download this year's RFP application. The deadline for this year's RFPs is January 20, 2006.

RFP Application

PROF Awardees AY 04-05

The AY 04-05 University Budget contains new funding for faculty research projects.  Seventeen faculty projects received funding during the inaugural round of peer review during the spring.  These projects begin on July 1, 2005.  

The following faculty members were awarded these PROF funds during the inaugural round of proposal review and selection.  These projects were chosen from a pool of 60 applications, following a two-stage peer review process that took place in the spring of 2004. 

 A summary of each project can be accessed by clicking on the project title in the table below.  For a copy of the full proposal, please contact Dr. Cathryn Potter, President of the Faculty Senate at cpotter@du.edu.

 

Professor Department Project Title

Tom Quinn

Department of Biological Sciences

Natural Sciences and Mathematics

The Application of a Transposable Element to the Study of Waterfowl Systematics: Proof of a Concept for NSF

(Patent pending: Full proposal not yet available)

Donald G. Sullivan

Department of Geography

Natural Sciences and Mathematics

High Resolution Reconstruction of Late Quaternary Changes in Temperature and Effective Moisture.

Sandra Eaton

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Electron Spin Relaxation Times

Nic Ormes &

Peter Vojtechovsky

Department of Mathematics

Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Sums of Partial 2-Dimensional Dynamical Systems

Corninne Lengsfeld

Department of Engineering

School of Engineering and Computer Science

Improving Drug Delivery to Patients on Mechanical Ventilators

(Patent pending: Full proposal not available)

Seon Ho Kim  

Department of Computer Science

School of Engineering and Computer Science

Zoned-RAID for Streaming Media Servers

Hyunyoung Lee

Department of Computer Science

School of Engineering and Computer 

Science

Defense Mechanisms against Security Attacks in Wireless Mobile Networks

Jan Keenan

Department of Psychology

Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

Etiology of Reading Disorders

Anne DePrince

Department of Psychology

Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

Child Maltreatment, Attention and Memory

Tony Gault      

Department of Mass Communications and Journalism Studies

Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

Yampa – A 16mm Film

Naomi Resothko

Department of Philosophy

Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences

Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of Neither Good nor Bad

Ralph DiFranco

Department of Languages and Literatures

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Critical Edition of a Late Sixteenth-Century Spanish Poetry Manuscript

Shannen Hill

School of Art and Art History

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

The Changing Legacies of Bantu Stephen Biko and Black Consciousness in South African Visual Culture

David Schneer

Departments of History and Judaic Studies

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Through Soviet Jewish Eyes

Toni Linder

Child, Family and School Psychology

College of Education

Effectiveness of Read, Play and Learn for Promoting Overall Development, Literacy, Vocabulary and Numeracy

Alan Gilbert

Graduate School of International Studies

Completion of Book Manuscript, Emancipation and Independence

David Paul

Department of Information Technology & Electronic Commerce

Daniels College of Business

Knowledge Management in the Virtual World: A Field Study