November Awards Received: 18 totaling $1,783,259
November Proposals Submitted: 28 from 25 Principal Investigators
FY08 Year-to-Date Number of Active Sponsored Projects: 454 as of November 30, 2007
FY08 Year-to-Date Number of Active Investigators: 209 as of November 30, 2007
Awards Received ~ November 2007

External funding awards listed on this page are drawn from database records maintained in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. An award is recorded as “received” on the date when the UM Accounting Office notifies the Principal Investigator (PI) and the ORSP that a grant account has been established for the project.

PI Name
PI Department/Unit
Sponsor Name
Proposal Title
Co-PI Name/s
Bass, H. National Center for Physical Acoustics U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Advanced Acoustic Sensor Technology Research (ASTER)
Buchannon, R. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Mississippi Development Authority Enterprise for Innovative Geospatial Solutions
Burnham, T. School of Education Mississippi Department of Education Principal Corps
Clancy, T. School of Law Mississippi State University/U.S. Department of Justice Legal Aspects of Computer Searches and Seizures: Regional Training Program for Law and Enforcement and Members of the Judiciary
Doerksen, R. Medicinal Chemistry American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Rational Computer-Aided Drug Design for Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 Inhibition
Durham, D. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Mississippi State University/Naval Oceanographic Office Sea Enterprise Strategic Planning
Hallam, J. Center for Health Promotion and Health Behavior Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Activity-Friendly Environments in Rural America: Development and Dissemination of Self-Report and Objective Measures
Harper, M. Center for Educational Research and Evaluation Mississippi Public Broadcasting Between the Lions Addendum Report by Classroom
Highsmith, R. Center for Water and Wetlands Resources MS Dpt of Environmental Quality/EPA
Johnson, J. Sociology and Anthropology University of Southern Mississippi Geophysical Survey of Two Prehistoric Sites Near Hattiesburg
Johnson, J. Sociology and Anthropology Wildlife Technical Services, Inc. Geophysical Survey of a Chickasaw Site Near Sherman
Johnson, J. Sociology and Anthropology Northwestern State University Cemetery Monument Conservation Workshop
Jones, T. Physical Plant Mississippi Department of Health/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Water Fluoridation Program Pearson, A.
McConnell, G. Curriculum and Instruction Jackson Public School District Mississippi Teacher Corps Training Grant Guest, B.
Van Slyke, J. University Police Department Mississippi Emergency Management Agency/Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Project 1604-0017 University of Mississippi Communications Console Swann, C.
Vaughan, J. Mechanical Engineering Triton Systems, Inc/U.S. Air Force Low Cost Production of Mesophase Pitch Matrix Heat Sinks Lackey, E.
Wang, S. National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Incorporation of Advanced Numerical Modeling Techniques and Representation of Physical Processes in Coastal Inlets Research Program Predictive Technology
Wang, S. National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Incorporation of Advanced Numerical Modeling Techniques and Representation of Physical Processes in Coastal Inlets Research Program Predictive Technology
Proposals Submitted ~ November 2007

External funding proposals listed on this page are drawn from database records maintained in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. A proposal is recorded as “submitted” on the date when the approval signature of the University’s Authorizing Institutional Representative is affixed.

PI Name PI Department/Unit Sponsor Name Co-PI Name/s
Buchannon, R. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Mississippi Development Authority
Cantu, J. Theatre Arts Oxford Tourism Council Angle, T.
Clancy, T. School of Law Mississippi State University/U.S. Department of Justice
Doerksen, R. Medicinal Chemistry National Institutes of Health Hamann, M.
Hamann, M. Pharmacognosy National Science Foundation
Hammer, N. Chemistry and Biochemistry National Science Foundation Tschumper, G.
Hammer, N. Chemistry and Biochemistry American Chemical Society/PRF
Harper, A. Division of Outreach and Continuing Education Southern Humanities Media Fund
Harper, M. Center for Educational Research and Evaluation Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Highsmith, R. Center for Water and Wetlands Resources MS Dept of Environmental Quality/EPA
Hollis, K. Chemistry and Biochemistry American Chemical Society/PRF
Hollis, K. Chemistry and Biochemistry National Science Foundation
Johnson, J. Sociology and Anthropology Wildlife Technical Services, Inc.
Johnson, J. Sociology and Anthropology University of Southern Mississippi
Jones, T. Physical Plant Mississippi Department of Health/U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services		 Pearson, A.
Lawhead, P. Computer and Information Sciences National Science Foundation
Mathur, S. Mathematics National Science Foundation Agarwal, A.
Muir, T. National Center for Physical Acoustics Miltec Research and Technology
Murthy, S. Pharmaceutics National Institutes of Health
Ownby, T. Center for the Study of Southern Culture Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Peng, H. Mathematics National Science Foundation Dang, X.
Sabatier, J. National Center for Physical Acoustics U.S. Army Research Office
Speth, R. Pharmacology National Institutes of Health Shariat-Madar, Z.
Karamyan, V.
Van Slyke, J. University Police Department Mississippi Emergency Management Agency/Federal Emergency Management Agency Swann, C.
Vaughan, J. Mechanical Engineering Triton Systems, Inc./U.S. Air Force Lackey, E.
Weber, E. Public Policy Research Center The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
Weston, J. Biology National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Threlkeld, S.
Yarbrough, L. University of Mississippi Geoinformatics Center U.S. Department of Justice/National Institute of Justice Easson, G.