SPONSORED PROGRAMS
The following sponsored programs are accepted subject to compliance with the University's policies on classified information and protection of human subjects.    This report covers the period:
December 10, 2008 through February 3, 2009.
ACADEMY OF APPLIED SCIENCE
Robert P. George/Mark E. Lyford; Zoology - Wyoming Colorado Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.  $              7,800 AAS46009 4261 11542
ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME
Merav Ben-David; Zoology - Estimating Coastal River Otter Abundance and Harvest Potential in Southcentral Alaska.  $            40,000 AKFG47526 4251 11541
Merav Ben-David; Zoology - The Status of Martens on Admiralty Island.  $            15,000 AKFG47529 4251 11541
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Hertanto Adidharma; Chemical and Petroleum Engineering - Water Alternating Gas Process.  $         100,000 AMCHEM47585 4231 11671
Ye Zhang; Geology - Evaluation of CO2 Modeling Uncertainties in Deep Saline Aquifers.  $         100,000 AMCHEM47584 4231 11401
AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE
Michael Gary Barker; Civil Engineering - General Research on Serviceability and Economical Design of Steel Bridges.  $            12,500 AISI47511 4231 11681
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS
Aimee L. Lewis/Kem P. Krueger/John H. Vandel; Pharmacy - Effect of Decompressing on Visual Acuity in Children.  $              5,000 ASHP47612 4261 11761
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT TAXONOMISTS
Gregory K. Brown; Botany - Operational Support.  $            16,000 ASPT6028 4261 11333
BOSTON VETERAN'S ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Matthew James Gray; Psychology - Adaptive Disclosure Training Program for Marines.  $            23,491 BVARI47707 4251 11481
BRITISH PETROLEUM
Calvin F. Strom; Cooperative Extension Service- Gas Well Reclamation and Topsoil Properties.  $              6,667 BRITPTR47716 4241 11261
Jay B. Norton/Stephen E. Williams; Renewable Resources - Gas Well Reclamation and Topsoil Properties.  $            13,333 BRITPTR47716 4241 11261
CENTER FOR CIVIC EDUCATION
Mark Allen Greene/Richard Jerome Kean Jr.; American Heritage Center - Wyoming Bolivia Partnership 2009.  $              7,320 CTRCIVED46142 4261 11013
William J. Gribb; Geography- Wyoming Bolivia Partnership 2009.  $              3,660 CTRCIVED46142 4261 11013
Carol J. Bryant; Secondary Education- Wyoming Bolivia Partnership 2009.  $              3,660 CTRCIVED46142 4261 11013
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES
Francisco Basile; Chemistry - Microbial Enhancement of Coal Bed Methane.  $            36,515 COMINES47866 4251 11681
David M. Bagley/Michael A. Urynowicz; Civil Engineering - Microbial Enhancement of Coal Bed Methane.  $            74,139 COMINES47866 4251 11681
EXCO RESOURCES
Lon D. Whitman; Institute for Energy Research - East Salt Creek Field.  $            36,000 EXCO47912 4231 11941
FARM BUREAU
Alfred R. Rodi; Atmospheric Science - Aircraft Mechanic.  $              1,171 FARMBUR6173 4231 11663
FIREHOLE TECHNOLOGIES
Mark Robert Garnich; Mechanical Engineering - Failure Initiation Prediction for Hybrid Composites.  $            31,500 FIREHOLE47988 4231 11701
Andrew C. Hansen; Mechanical Engineering - Second Generation Composite Laminate Failure Analysis Utilizing Constituent Level Damage Mechanics.  $            50,000 FIREHOLE47986 4231 11701
FREMONT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
Walt D. Scott; Psychology - Dropout Prevention.  $            30,000 FREMONT6118 4211 11483
FORT DODGE
Ana C. Bratanich/Donal Timothy O'Toole; Veterinary Science - Canine Influenza Virus Isolate.  $            25,000 FTDGE47971 4231 11271
GEORGIA, UNIVERSITY OF
David C. Finnoff; Economics and Finance - Algorithms for Invasive Species Decision Support.  $            44,985 GAUNV48042 4251 11581
GENERAL ELECTRIC
John P. Turner; Civil Engineering - Foundations for Wind Turbine Structural Support.  $            15,000 GE46072 4231 11683
INTERTECH ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENGINEERING
Jonathon L. Benson; Wyoming Technology Business Center - Environmental and Engineering Consulting.  $              9,676 INTRTCH46177 4231 19588
JOHNSON COUNTY
Rodney A. Wambeam; Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center - Study the Wyoming Drug Free Youth Groups.  $            33,508 JHNSN48201 4211 11511
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
Jenna Lee Evans; Cooperative Extension Service - Military 4-H Grant.  $            90,000 KSU46164 4251 11223
NAPA COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION
Rick Robert Hufnagel; Wyoming Institute for Disabilities - Special Quest Training Program.  $            14,000 NCOE48474 4251 11803
NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS FOR THE HUMANITIES
Susan B. Moldenhauer; Art Museum - Mavor Collection Assessment Phase Two and Rivolo Collection Assessment.  $              6,000 NFAHNEH40555 4201 11023
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Gerald Raymond Webster; Geography - Wyoming Geographic Alliance.  $            55,152 NTLGEOG47104 4261 11392
NATURESERVE
George P. Jones; Wyoming Natural Diversity Database - Mid-Level Hierarchy Development.  $              2,177 NATSRV46311 4231 16341
NORTH DAKOTA, STATE OF
Bistra B. Anatchkova/Michael D. Dorssom; Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center - North Dakota Adult Tobacco Survey.  $            64,000 NDS46338 4251 11513
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
Jerry C. Hamann; Computer Science - Self-Efficacy and Retention in Engineering.    $              8,421 NRTHESTN48684 4251 11691
David Lynn Whitman; Electrical Engineering - Self-Efficacy and Retention in Engineering.    $              8,422 NRTHESTN48684 4251 11691
OIL SPILL RECOVERY INSTITUTE
Merav Ben-David; Zoology - Recolonization or Local Reproduction and Assessment of River Otter Recovery in Previously Oiled Areas of Prince William Sound.  $            25,000 OSRI44602 4201 11541
SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Roderick Todd Bartee/Tena B. Hoyle/Laura L. Feldman; Kinesiology - Evaluation of the Seattle Public School District Full-Service Schools Project.  $            22,378 SEATTLE46343 4251 11773
SHELL EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION
Barbara Carrapa; Geology - Outcrop Study of Sego Formation in Northwestern Colorado.  $         200,000 SHELL48816 4231 11401
TEXAS, UNIVERSITY OF
Douglas L. Hixon; Animal Science - Sheep Research.  $                 771 TXUNV48903 4251 11211
TOTAL E&P UK
Norman R. Morrow; Chemical and Petroleum Engineering - Low Salinity.  $         200,000 TOTLEP48936 4241 11671
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION,
AND EXTENSION SERVICE
Jay B. Norton/Eric J. Arnould/Gary D. Franc/Bret W. Hess/ John P. Hewlett/Thijis J. Kelleners/Andrew R. Kniss/James M. Krall/Alexandre Vsevolo Latchininsky/Dallas E. Mount/Virginia B. Paige/Steven Paisley/Dannele Elaine Peck/Melea D. Press/Benjamin Rashford/Richard Douglas Smith/Peter D. Stahl/Naomi Louise Ward/David Wayne Wilson; Renewable Resources - Alternative Approaches at Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension Center.  $         166,667 USDACSRE45230 4201 11261
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
FOREST SERVICE
Ronald L. Hartman/Burrell E. Nelson; Botany - Flora of the Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands, Pikes and San Isabel National Forest.  $              8,493 USDAFS45356 4201 11331
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, AIR FORCE
Dimitri J. Mavriplis; Mechanical Engineering - Improved Accuracy and Uncertainty Management for High-Speed and Unsteady Flows Using Optimization Techniques.  $         124,166 DODAF41709 4201 11701
Douglas R. Smith; Mechanical Engineering - Synthetic Jet Flow Control in a Matched Index of Refraction Flow Facility.  $            56,515 DODAF41610 4201 11701
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, DEFENSE 
LOGISTICS AGENCY
Diane D. Wolverton/Leonard Allen Holler; Wyoming Small Business Development Center - Procurement Technical Assistance Program Gro-Biz.  $         350,000 DODDLA40182 4201 11983
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
David Lee Gruen/Sally Crow Schuman; Student Financial Aid - Academic Competitive Grants 2008-2009.  $            65,303 D-ED40147 4201 11173
David Lee Gruen/Sally Crow Schuman; Student Financial Aid - National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent 2008-2009.  $            35,068 D-ED40190 4201 11173
David Lee Gruen; Student Financial Aid - Pell Grant 2008-2009.  $      2,703,445 D-ED40144 4201 11173
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, OFFICE OF
SCIENCE
Dean M. Roddick; Chemistry - Highly Oxidizing Excited States.  $         115,000 DOE42611 4201 11341
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
SERVICES, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Min Du; Animal Science - Fetal Skeletal Muscle Development.  $            64,350 DHHSNIH43942 4201 11211
Matthew McEchron; Medical Education and Public Health-WWAMI - Iron Nutrition and Impaired Hippocampal Development.  $         274,476 DHHSNIH43941 4201 16390
Francis W. Flynn; Neuroscience - Control of Vasopressin Release.  $         248,299 DHHSNIH43943 4201 11541
Charles Jeffery Woodbury; Zoology and Physiology - Nociceptor Maturation and Response to Peripheral Injury.  $         306,826 DHHSNIH43940 4201 11541
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, NATIONAL
PARK SERVICE
Greg Lynn Kerr; Civil Engineering - Glacial Change.  $            10,000 DOINPS44185 4201 11681
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED
STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Todd E. Cornish/David R. Edmunds/Matthew Kauffman; Veterinary Sciences - Chronic Wasting Disease in White-Tailed Deer.  $            82,738 DOIUSGS43624 4201 11271
UNITED STATES NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
ADMINISTRATION SPACE GRANT CONSORTIUM
Michael S. Brotherton; Physics - Understanding the Post-Starburst Quasar Population.  $            14,822 NASA43303 4201 11461
UNITED STATES NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
David C. Leon/Jefferson R. Snider; Atmospheric Science - Comprehensive Studies and Marine Stratocumulus During Vocals-Rex Using Airborne Radar, Lidar and Insitu Measurements.  $         150,927 NSF44346 4201 11661
Alfred R. Rodi/Robert D. Kelly; Atmospheric Science - King Air National Facility.  $         353,290 NSF44361 4201 11661
Don Allen Roth; Geology - Graduate Research Fellowship Program.  $            40,500 NSF44335 4201 11401
Demitris A. Kouris; Mechanical Engineering - Intergovernmental Personnel Act Assignment.  $         219,086 NSF40733 4201 11703
Mark Gomelsky; Molecular Biology - Cyclic Dimeric Guanosine Monophosphate, a Novel Second Messenger in Bacteria: Molecular Mechanisms.  $         163,214 NSF44320 4201 11241
UNITED STATES SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Diane D. Wolverton/Leonard Allen Holler; Small Business Development Center - Provide Consultation, Training, Technical Assistance and Business Assistance to Wyoming Entrepreneurs.  $         539,556 SBA40756 4201 11983
VARIOUS SPONSORS
Scott Lake; Animal Science - Research Laboratory Expenses.  $            19,686 VARSPN49120 4251 11211
Ronald L. Hartman/Burrell E. Nelson; Botany - Mounting of Plant Specimens for Vermejo Park Ranch.  $              1,488 VARSPN46431 4231 11333
Karen Cachevki Williams; Family and Consumer Sciences - Department Support.  $              1,150 VARSPN46427 4231 11233
Karen M. Wildman; Health Science Dean's Office - Casper Family Practice.  $              1,920 VARSPN46411 4251 16392
Larry Ray Stewart; Manufacturing Works - Operations.  $            18,930 VARSPN46409 4231 11973
Andrew R. Kniss; Plant Sciences - Biology, Ecology and Management of Weeds in Agronomic Crops.  $            12,000 VARSPN49113 4231 11251
Abdelouhab Mesbah; Plant Sciences - Crop-Weed Research.  $            11,500 VARSPN9192 4231 11251
Diane D. Wolverton/Leonard Allen Holler/Jill K. Kline; Small Business Development Center - Providing Consultation, Training, Technical Assistance and Business Assistance to Wyoming Entrepreneurs.  $            11,002 VARSPN46432 4211 11983
Laura Lea Westlake; Wyoming Institute for Disabilities - Early Childhood Vision Screening.  $              1,250 VARSPN6273 4211 11803
Deborah Kay Fleming; Wyoming Institute for Disabilities - Geriatric Education Center.  $                 750 VARSPN46413 4231 11803
Alan Joseph Redder; Wyoming Natural Diversity Database - Database Management.  $              1,638 VARSPN9123 4231 16343
Rodney A. Wambeam; Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center - Conduct the Community Level Prevention Framework Evaluation.  $            20,995 VARSPN49110 4231 11511
Katie L. Kleinhesselink; Wyoming Union - Match to Serve Wyoming Connecting Campus and Community 2008-2009.  $              2,800 VARSPN46429 4231 17361
WYOMING ARTS COUNCIL 
Diana L. Baumbach; Art - Gallery 211.  $            10,000 WAC46234 4211 11323
Pallavi Choudhuri; Associated Students of the University of Wyoming - Indian Diwali Night.  $              1,000 WAC46233 4211 18604
WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Laura L. Feldman; Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center - Partnership in Nursing Grant.  $            28,000 WCF46478 4261 11513
WYOMING COMMUNITY NETWORK
Edward A. Craig/Jonathon L. Benson; Wyoming Technology Business Center - County Facilities for Use as Kitchen Incubators.  $              7,200 WYCN47326 4211 19588
WYOMING COMMUNITY COLLEGE COMMISSION
David Lee Gruen; Student Financial Aid - State Student Incentive Program.  $            10,710 WYCOMMCOLL6700 4211 11173
WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Alexandre Vsevolo Latchininsky/Hilary Lucia Getz; Renewable Resources - Wyoming Cooperative Agriculture Pest Surveys Program Infrastructure.  $            39,019 WYAG49681 4211 11261
Shannon Lee Swist; Veterinary Sciences - Mycoplasma Ovipneumoniae Bighorn Sheep Pneumonia.  $            82,500 WYAG49680 4211 11271
Jonathon L. Benson/Edward A. Craig; Wyoming Technology Business Center - County Facilities for Use as Kitchen Incubators.  $            41,040 WYAG46729 4211 19588
WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Bistra B. Anatchkova/Anita Drever/Thomas Alan Furgeson/Michelle Oliva Delapp Lorenz; Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center - Collect Baseline Data for a Pilot Study on the Effects of the Hathaway Scholarship.  $         135,000 WDE49455 4211 11511
Anita Drever; Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center - Wyoming's Twenty-First Century Community Learning Centers.  $            78,000 WDE46895 4211 11513
WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Jennifer E. Tanner; Civil Engineering - Bridge Deck Evaluation.  $         116,210 WYDOT49863 4211 11681
Khaled Ksaibati; Civil Engineering - Wyoming LTAP Center.  $            22,500 WYDOT46892 4211 11683
Khaled Ksaibati; Civil Engineering - Wyoming Technology Transfer Center.  $         218,750 WYDOT46891 4211 11683
WYOMING DIVISION OF VICTIM SERVICES
Hristiyan Beshkov; Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center - WyoSafe Maintenance.  $            13,488 WYVICSR46784 4211 11513
WYOMING GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT
Amy Catherine Krist/Wayne A. Hubert/Teresa M. Tibbits; Zoology - Freshwater Gastropods Habitat Conditions in Northwestern Wyoming.  $            77,794 WYGF49790 4211 11541
WYOMING HUMANITIES COUNCIL
Quincy D. Newell; Religious Studies - Picturing Faith.  $              2,000 WCH46544 4211 16631
WYOMING STATE ENGINEER'S OFFICE
Fred L. Ogden/Nawa Raj Pradhan; Civil Engineering - Second Phase ET Mapping, Phase Two.  $            72,689 WYENGR49879 4211 11681
Eli J. Rodemaker; WYGISC - Second Phase ET Mapping, Phase Two.  $            15,687 WYENGR49879 4211 11681
WYOMING STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Stephen Timothy Gray; Civil Engineering - Wind/Bighorn Groundwater Study.  $            35,000 WSGS49643 4211 11681
TOTAL - Sponsored programs approved 
December 10, 2008 through February 3, 2009.  $      8,642,683
TOTAL - Sponsored programs previously approved:
07/01/08 - 08/12/08;  $    16,330,870
08/13/08 - 10/14/08;  $    20,854,697
10/15/08 - 12/09/08.  $      7,342,251
TOTAL - Sponsored programs approved July 1, 2008 through
                February 3, 2009.                 $    53,170,501
INSTITUTIONAL AWARDS
WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
William A. Gern/Robert Ballard; Vice President's Research Office - Great Plains Gasification (Fiscal Year 2009).  $      5,000,000 WYDEQ49812 4211 11921
Mark A. Northam; School of Energy Resources - Advancement of Energy Resources.  $      8,710,282 WYDEQ49811 4211 19328
Mark A. Northam; School of Energy Resources - Clean Coal Technology Fund.  $      1,278,720 WYDEQ49813 4211 19328
 
TOTAL - Institutional Awards approved July 1, 2008 through
                February 3, 2009.                 $    14,989,002