Seed Grants 2000

ISSO received 21 proposals and awarded the following to UH and UHCL Faculty for the period of April to August 2000. A total of $142,000 was awarded for these seed-level projects.

University of Houston

Miniature Multifunction Fluorescence Sensors on Si Substrates

Abdelhak Bensaoula, Research Associate Professor, UH Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center/NSM
Ph: 713-743-3621; email: bens@space.svec.uh.edu; Fax: 713-747-7724

Rapid Identification of Unexpected Bacterial Pathogens

George Fox, Professor, UH Dept. of Biology & Biochemistry/NSM
Ph: 713-743-8363; email: fox@uh.edu; Fax: 713-743-8351

New Adsorbates for Soft Lithographic Patterning in the Fabrication of Nanoscale Devices

Randall Lee, Assistant Professor, UH Dept. of Chemistry/NSM
Ph: 713-743-2724; email: trlee@uh.edu; Fax: 713-743-2709

Millimeter-Wave Technology of Dielectric Resonator Antenna Systems

Stuart A Long, Professor, UH Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering/ENGRG
Ph: 713-743-4445; email: long@uh.edu; Fax: 713-743-4444

Development of Extended Shelf Life Tortillas for Long-duration Space Flight

Clinton Rappole, Professor, UH Conrad Hilton College of Hotel & Restaurant Management/HRM
Ph: 713-743-2429; email: clrappole@uh.edu; Fax: 713-743-2498

Improved Sabatier Reactors for in-situ Resource Utilization on Mars

James Richardson, Professor, UH Dept. of Chemical Engineering/ENGRG
Ph: 713-743-4324; email: jtr@uh.edu; Fax: 713-743-4323

High-Tc Superconducting rf Receiver Coil Arrays for Enhanced Field-of-View in an MRI System

Jaroslaw Wosik, Research Asst. Prof., UH Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering/ENGRG
Ph: 713-743-8237; email: jarek@uh.edu; Fax: 713-743-4444

University of Houston—Clear Lake

Cox Regression Modeling and Analysis Applied to NASA Decompression Sickness Data

Raj Chhikara, Professor, UHCL Natural & Applied Sciences/NAS

Ph: 281-283-3726; email: chhikara@cl.uh.edu; Fax: 281-283-3707

Event Sequence Diagrams for Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Analysis

Raj Chhikara, Professor, UHCL Natural & Applied Sciences/NAS
Ph: 281-283-3726; email: chhikara@cl.uh.edu; Fax: 281-283-3707

Using Shuttle Images to Study Suspended Sediment Transport in Galveston Bay

Theron Sage, Associate Professor, UHCL Environmental Sciences/NAS
Ph: 281-283-3776; email: sage@cl.uh.edu; Fax: 281-283-3707

A Novel Benign Technology for the Direct Fixation of Nitrogen Oxides

Ramiro Sanchez, Associate Professor, UHCL Dept. of Chemistry/NAS
Ph: 281-283-3782; email: sanchezr@cl.uh.edu; Fax: 281-283-3707