ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND - SMALL GRANTS COMPETITION

FALL 2000

ADF NO. PROJECT TITLE DIRECTOR / ACADEMIC UNIT AWARD
Biosciences
FG00-037 Genetic Engineering of Mouse Muscle Precursor Cells for Myocardial Repair P. Merrifield / Anatomy & Cell Biology 7,500
FG00-045 Identification of Molecular Changes in Pancreatic Diseases using Gene Chip Arrays C. Pin / Physiology 7,500
SUB TOTAL 15,000
Physical & Mathematical Sciences and Engineering
FG00-003 Evolving the Division of Labour; Generalists, Specialists and Task Allocation L.M. Wahl / Applied Mathematics 6,979
FG00-004 Enhancement/Detection of Vessel Trees in Retinal-Images M.R. El-Sakka / Computer Science 5,000
FG00-005 Legal Implications of DNA and Quantum Computing M. Perry / Computer Science 5,000
FG00-010 Development of an Interactive, Computer-Based Identification System for Nematode-Destroying Fungi R.G. Thorn / Plant Sciences 5,000
FG00-026 Wind-Driven Rain Full-Scale Measurements for Numerical Simulations H. Hangan / BLWT, Civil and Environmental Engineering 5,000
FG00-033 Flow-induced Vibrations of Circular Cylinders J.K. Galsworthy, G.A. Kopp /

Civil and Environmental Engineering

6,672
SUB TOTAL 33,651
Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
FG00-009 What are the Salient Attributes of Causes of Chronic Pain Among Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Patients, and What are the Implications for their Satisfaction with their Primary Medical Care? L. Swartzman / Psychology 6,927
FG00-21 After the Blackburns: An Analysis of the News Coverage of The London Free Press R. Smith Fullerton, M. Doyle /

Faculty of Information and Media Studies

2,520
FG00-024 Vocabulary Level in Performance on the Joint Story Retell: validation of measure of children's comprehension E. Skarakis-Doyle, C. Lee/

Communicative Disorders, Occupational Therapy

6,150
FG00-027 Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Language D.S. Hair / English 2,743
FG00-028 Geographic Distribution, Dispersal Mechanisms, and Environmental Impacts of Salt-Cedar (Tamarix chinensis) in River and Lake Systems, Northern Great Plains C.M. Pearce / Geography 4,695

FG00-032 Enterprise in Context: Jean-Antoine Morand and the Development of 18th Century Lyon (France) P.C. Reynard / History 3,000
FG00-035 French, Spanish, Irish: The interactions among three different variants of Catholicism in southern Louisiana during the late eighteenth century M.P. Carroll / Sociology 3,000
FG00-036 An Electronic Motif-Index of the marvellous in Medieval Literature F. Gingras / French 7,445
SUB TOTAL 36,480
TOTAL $85,131
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