{"id":259338,"date":"2010-02-01T10:10:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/mu\/forum\/?p=6239"},"modified":"2010-02-01T10:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:10:57","slug":"brooklyn-college-research-scientists-receive-grants-of-more-than-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/259338","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn College, Research Scientists Receive Grants of More than $3 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn, N.Y.\u2014Brooklyn College and members of its faculty have received in excess of $3 million in the latest spate of grant funds that have been awarded for the furtherance of the college\u2019s diversity program as well as for a variety of research projects.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Associate Professor of Biology Juergen Polle received a subgrant award of about $931,000 as a partner in the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts, which in January received a $44 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. Polle is a recognized leader in the investigation of the potential of algal biomass as a future source of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Brooklyn College received a $248,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its efforts to increase the number of minority students who are pursuing Ph.D. degrees nationwide. The first half installment was scheduled for January; the second for next year. The funding is expected to cover activities for the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>Among other research grants received by Brooklyn College faculty that have not been previously announced are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A $941,014 award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Assistant Professor of Physics Gregory Boutis for the project &#8220;Probing Dynamics of Water in Elastin by Q-Space Imaging and Multiple Quantum NMR.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A $471,000 award from the NIH to Assistant Professor of Chemistry Maria Contel for the project &#8220;Organogold Phosphorus-containing Compounds as Antitumor Agents.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A $435,195 award from the NIH to Associate Professor of Chemistry Brian Gibney for the project &#8220;Thermodynamics of Coupled Binding of Zn(II) and DNA to a Zinc Finger Tumor Suppressor.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A $296,881 award from the U.S. Department of Energy to Professor of Geology Constantin Cr\u00e2nganu to fund the project &#8220;Carbon Dioxide Sealing Capacity: Textural or Compositional Controls.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A $39,580 award from the NIH to Professor of Biology Dan Eshel to fund the project &#8220;Signaling Pathways and Microtubule Function.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A $32,500 award from City University of New York to Assistant Professor Sandra Kingan and co-principle investigators Assistant Professor Anthony Clement and Professor Jun Hu, all of the Mathematics Department, for the project &#8220;The Gap Project: Closing Gaps in Gateway Mathematics Courses.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn, N.Y.\u2014Brooklyn College and members of its faculty have received in excess of $3 million in the latest spate of grant funds that have been awarded for the furtherance of the college\u2019s diversity program as well as for a variety of research projects. Most recently, Associate Professor of Biology Juergen Polle received a subgrant award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}