Frances H. Arnold Field: Chemical Engineering
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
iocatalysis and in vitro evolution of complex molecules.
| Phone: | 626-395-4162 | |
| FAX: | 626-568-8743 | |
| Email: | frances@cheme.caltech.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.che.caltech.edu/faculty/fha/fha.html | |
| Address: | Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology Mail Stop 210-41 Pasadena, CA 91125 |
Veit Elser Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
am currently studying minimal surfaces (soap films) having quasicrystalline (5-fold) symmetry.
| Phone: | 607-255-2340 | |
| FAX: | 607-255-6428 | |
| Email: | ve10@cornell.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/lassp_data/veit.html | |
| Address: | Dept. of Physics Cornell University 524 Clark Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 |
Andrew J. Gellman Field: Chemical Engineering
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
tudy of surface chemistry with relevance to problems in tribology. Adsorption and reactions of lubricant films are combined with measurements of frictional properties of metal-metal interfaces.
| Phone: | 412-268-3848 | |
| FAX: | 412-268-7139 | |
| Email: | ag4b@andrew.cmu.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.cheme.cmu.edu/who/faculty/gellman.html | |
| Address: | Dept. of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 |
John E. Hamer Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
olecular genetic studies of host-parasite interaction - rice blast biotechnical innovation for disease control on 3rd World crops.
| Phone: | 765-494-4944 | |
| FAX: | 765-494-0876 | |
| Email: | jhamer@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu | |
| WWW: | Http://www.bio.purdue.edu/courses/hamer/labintro.nclk | |
| Address: | Dept. of Biological Sciences Purdue University 1392 Hansen Life Science Bldg. West Lafayette, IN 47907-1392 |
Jerry M. Harris Field: Geophysics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
esearch of high-resolution, seismic imaging of the Earth's crust used to study oil and gas reservoirs and aquifers.
| Phone: | 650-723-0496 | |
| FAX: | 650-725-2032 | |
| Email: | harris@pangea.stanford.edu | |
| WWW: | http://pangea.stanford.edu/~smalley/jerry.html | |
| Address: | Dept. of Geophysics Stanford University Mitchell Bldg. Rm. 321 Stanford, CA 94305-2215 |
Anne M. Hofmeister Field: Geology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
easurement of infrared spectra of minerals, glasses and gases at pressure and temperature, with emphasis on phase transitions and application to planetary interiors.
| Phone: | 314-935-7440 | |
| FAX: | 314-935-7361 | |
| Email: | hofmeist@wups.wustl.edu | |
| WWW: | http://epsc.wustl.edu/admin/people/hofmeister.html | |
| Address: | Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences Washington University 1 Brookings Drive Campus Box 1169 St. Louis, MO 63130 |
Daniel J. Jacob Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
nderstanding the composition of the troposphere and its perturbation by human activity.
| Phone: | 617-495-1794 | |
| FAX: | 617-495-4551 | |
| Email: | djj@io.harvard.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www-as.harvard.edu/people/faculty/djj | |
| Address: | Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences Harvard University 29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Daniel T. Jaffe Field: Astronomy
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
am building and using infrared and submillimeter spectrometers to probe conditions in interstellar clouds. The goal of this work is to understand how stars form out of the gaseous material.
| Phone: | 512-471-3425 | |
| FAX: | 512-471-6016 | |
| Email: | dtj@astro.as.utexas.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/people/jaffe/jaffe.html | |
| Address: | Astronomy Department University of Texas at Austin RLM 12-308 Austin, TX 78712-1083 |
Richard B. Kaner Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
norganic chemistry: solid state synthesis and characterization; rapid precursor routes to refractory materials; conducting polymers as separation membranes; fullerenes-doping, superconductivity and physical properties.
| Phone: | 310-825-5346 | |
| FAX: | 310-206-4038 | |
| Email: | kaner@chem.ucla.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/kaner.html | |
| Address: | Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024-1569 |
Cynthia J. Kenyon Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
study animal development using the nematode C.elegans as an experimental organism. We study cell migration, pattern formation and aging.
| Phone: | 415-476-9250 | |
| FAX: | 415-476-3892 | |
| Email: | ckenyon@biochem.ucsf.edu | |
| WWW: | http://wormworld.ucsf.edu/ | |
| Address: | Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California, San Francisco HSE 1556 San Francisco, CA 94143-0554 |
Karla Kirkegaard Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
e use genetics and biochemistry to explore the mechanism of the transmission of genetic information in RNA viruses, especially the replication and recombination of their RNA genomes.
| Phone: | 650-728-7075 | |
| FAX: | 650-725-6757 | |
| Email: | karlak@leland.stanford.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www-med3.stanford.edu/Action.lasso?[database]=bluebookdb&[layout]=frddetail&[response]=bluebook%2ffrddetail.html&[recid]=33129&[search] | |
| Address: | Department of Microbiology and Immunology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA 94305-5402 |
Andrew C. Kummel Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
hemical dynamics of semiconductor etching at an atomic level. State-to-state reaction dynamics on surfaces. Digital etching.
| Phone: | 619-534-3368 | |
| FAX: | 619-534-2063 | |
| Email: | ack@chem.ucsd.edu | |
| WWW: | http://chem-faculty.ucsd.edu/kummel/ | |
| Address: | Dept. of Chemistry 0358 University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0358 |
Andrew E. Lange Field: Astrophysics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
bservational cosmology, with a focus on the development of new instrumentation to observe the cosmic infrared and microwave backgrounds.
| Phone: | 626-395-6887 | |
| FAX: | 626-584-9929 | |
| Email: | ael@astro.caltech.edu | |
| WWW: | http://astro.caltech.edu/~lgg/ | |
| Address: | Astrophysics California Institute of Technology 59-33 Caltech Pasadena, CA 91125 |
Ruth Lehmann Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
e use genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry to study the following aspects of early development in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster: 1) on the molecular level, how germ cells are set aside early during embryogenesis, and how they subsequently develop into egg and sperm; 2) how head-to-tail polarity is established by assymmetric distribution of maternal RNA within the egg cell.
| Phone: | 212-263-8071 | |
| FAX: | 212-263-7760 | |
| Email: | lehmann@saturn.med.nyu.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.med.nyu.edu/people/R.Lehmann.html | |
| Address: | Skirball Institute New York University Development Genetics Program 540 First Avenue, 4th Fl. New York, NY 10016 |
Andrew G. Myers Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
ynthesis and study of molecules of importance in biology and human medicine. Development of synthetic strategies, chemical reactions, and reagents.
| Phone: | 626-395-6044 | |
| FAX: | 626-795-3658 | |
| Email: | agm@starbase1.caltech.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.caltech.edu/~chemistry/Faculties/Myers.html | |
| Address: | Division of Chemistry California Institute of Technology Mail Stop 164-30 Pasadena, CA 91125 |
Monica Olvera de la Cruz Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
tatistical mechanics in polymer systems. Thermodynamics of polymer solutions and blends; copolymer melts and solutions, polyelectrolytes, polymer dynamics, dynamics of phase separation.
| Phone: | 708-491-7801 | |
| FAX: | 708-491-7820 | |
| Email: | m-olvera@northwestern.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.matsci.nwu.edu/faculty/mo.html | |
| Address: | Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern University 2225 N. Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-3108 |
Raghu Ramakrishnan Field: Computer Science
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
igh level query languages for databases, data integration, sequence and image data management. My goal is to make it easier to access, understand, and manipulate complex, heterogeneous data collections.
| Phone: | 608-262-9759 | |
| FAX: | 608-262-9777 | |
| Email: | raghu@cs.wisc.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~raghu/ | |
| Address: | Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin-Madison 1210 W. Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706-1685 |
Paul C. Sereno Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
y research program integrates geological and paleontological data with active field exploration to piece together dinosaur evolution and the origin of birds and to understand the biological and geological factors that shaped this innovative episode of Earth history.
| Phone: | 773-702-8115 | |
| FAX: | 773-834-0545 | |
| Email: | dinosaur@uchicago.edu | |
| WWW: | http://dinosaur.uchicago.edu/ | |
| Address: | Dept. of Organismal Biology and Anatomy University of Chicago 1027 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637 |
Yasutomo J. Uemura Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
tudies of superconductivity and magnetism of condensed matter using muon spin relaxation measurements.
| Phone: | 212-854-8370 | |
| FAX: | 212-854-5888 | |
| Email: | tomo@cusol.phys.columbia.edu | |
| WWW: | http://phys.columbia.edu/faculty/uemura.htm | |
| Address: | Dept. of Physics Columbia University 538 W. 120th Street, Rm. 1310 New York, NY 10027 |
Cumrun Vafa Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
tudying low-dimensional quantum field theories, with applications to quantum gravity (through string theory) and to topological aspects of physics.
| Phone: | 617-496-8207 | |
| FAX: | 617-731-6624 | |
| Email: | vafa@string.harvard.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.physics.harvard.edu/fac_staff/vafa.html | |
| Address: | Physics Dept. Harvard University Lyman Laboratory Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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