Packard Fellows

Sorted by Award Year: 1995

Elizabeth Bradley

Field: Computer Science
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

I am exploring two nontraditional approached to engineering design: the active use of chaos to achieve design goals in various electrical, mechanical, and chemical systems, and the construction of computer programs that reason about the analysis and design processes.
Phone: 303-492-5355
FAX: 303-492-2844
Email: lizb@cs.colorado.edu
WWW: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~lizb/Home.html
Address: Dept. of Computer Science
University of Colorado
Campus Box 430
Boulder, CO 80309-0430




Erick M. Carreira

Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

Our group is interested in the development of catalytic reaction processes for applications in the synthesis of biologically active compounds.
Phone: 626-395-6064
FAX: 626-564-9297
Email: emc@starbase1.caltech.edu
WWW: http://www.caltech.edu/~chemistry/Faculties/Carreira.html
Address: Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Insititute of Technology
Mail Code 164-30 CR
Pasadena, CA 91125




Venkat Chandrasekhar

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

Magnetic and transport properties of mesoscopic systems.
Phone: 708-491-3444
FAX: 708-491-9982
Email: v-chandrasekhar@nwu.edu
WWW: http://www.physics.nwu.edu/research/chandra.html
Address: Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3112




Christopher C. Cummins

Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

Inorganic radical chemistry. Activation of small molecules including dinitrogen and the nitrogen oxides. Development of new synthetic methods for inorganic chemistry.
Phone: 617-253-5332
FAX: 617-258-6989
Email: ccummins@mit.edu
WWW: http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/www/faculty/cummins.html
Address: Dept. of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave, Room 2-227
Cambridge, MA 02139




Marcos Dantus

Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

Time resolved measurements of chemical reaction dynamics.
Phone: 517-355-9715
FAX: 517-353-1793
Email: dantus@cemvax.cem.msu.edu
WWW: http://www.cem.msu.edu/~dantus/
Address: Dept. of Chemistry
Michigan State University
58 Chemistry Bldg.
East Lansing, MI 48824-1322




Chang-Beom Eom

Field: Materials Science
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

The growth of epitaxial thin film heterostructures of various oxide materials such as high Tc superconductors, ferroelectrics, magnetic materials; and the nanostructure fabrication of novel materials.
Phone: 919-660-5329
FAX: 919-660-5164
Email: eom@acpub.duke.edu
WWW: http://www.duke.edu/~eom/intro.html
Address: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Duke University
221A Hudson Hall
Box 90300
Durham, NC 27708-0300




Edward Frenkel

Field: Mathematics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

Representation theory, quantum field theory, integrable systems, and interrelations between them.
Phone: 510-643-9216
FAX: 510-642-8204
Email: frenkel@math.berkeley.edu
WWW: http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~frenkel/
Address: Dept. of Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720




Martin Head-Gordon

Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

Electronic structure theory, algorithms and applications for ground and excited stats of molecules. Nonadiabatic transitions and energy transfer in molecules and at metal surfaces.
Phone: 510-642-5957
FAX: 510-643-1255
Email: mhg@cchem.berkeley.edu
WWW: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~mhggrp/
Address: Dept. of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
215 Hildebrand Hall, MC 1460
Berkeley, CA 94720-1460




Daniel Herschlag

Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

Our research centers around the critical feature of biological systems, enzymatic catalysis. We are taking this problem in two directions: toward deriving a fundamental understanding of the chemical and physical principles that underlie enzymatic catalysis and toward understanding how these principles are utilized to produce complex biological processes.
Phone: 650-723-9442
FAX: 650-723-6783
Email: herschla@cmgm.stanford.edu
WWW: http://cmgm.stanford.edu/biochem/herschlag.html
Address: Dept. of Biochemistry
Stanford University
Beckman Center, B471
Stanford, CA 94305-5307




Phillip Ihinger

Field: Geology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

My research explores the fundamental properties of silicate liquids and considers their relationship to the evolution of magmas with the earth. Additionally, I am pursuing the relationship of hot spot volcanism to plate tectonics, mantle convection, and the chemical structure of the mantle.
Phone: 203-432-3132
FAX: 203-432-3134
Email: phil_ihinger@qm.yale.edu
WWW: http://love.geology.yale.edu/kgl/People/Professors/ihinger.html
Address: Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
Yale University
P.O.Box 208-109
New Haven, CT 06520-8109




Woowon Kang

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

Study of electronic correlation effects in low dimensional semiconductor systems; synthesis and characterization of organic superconductors.
Phone: 773-702-5244
FAX: 773-702-4735
Email: wkang@rainbow.uchicago.edu
WWW: http://rainbow.uchicago.edu:80/~wkang/
Address: Dept. of Physics
University of Chicago
James Franck Institute
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637




Bernhard Keimer

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

X -ray and neutron scattering investigations of the structure and dynamics of correlated electronic materials.
Phone: 609-258-1537
FAX: 609-258-1124
Email: keimer@pupgg.princeton.edu
WWW: http://pupgg.princeton.edu/www/jh/research/Keimer_Bernhard.htmlx
Address: Dept. of Physics
Princeton University
Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544




Gregory B. Martin

Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

Molecular, biochemical, and genomics approaches to pathogen recognition, signal transduction, and defense responses involved in plant disease resistance.
Phone: 607-254-1208
FAX: 607-255-6695
Email: gbm7@cornell.edu
WWW: http://ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu/ppath/FacultyInfo/Martin.html
Address: Boyce Thompson Institute
Cornell University
Tower Road
Ithaca, NY 14853-1801




H. Allen Orr

Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

I study the genetics of adaptation. I am particularly interested in determining how often "major genes" play a role in adaptation. I study several model systems, including the genetic basis of resistance to wasp parasitism in Drosophila.
Phone: 716-275-3838
FAX: 716-275-2070
Email: aorr@mail.rochester.edu
WWW: http://www.rochester.edu/College/BIO/ORRLAB/TALENPAGE.HTML
Address: Dept. of Biology
University of Rochester
319 Hutchinson Hall
Rochester, NY 14627




Gabriel Robins

Field: Computer Science
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

Ccomputer-aided design of very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits; combinatorial optimization, computational biology.
Phone: 804-982-2207
FAX: 804-982-2214
Email: robins@cs.virginia.edu
WWW: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins
Address: Dept. of Computer Science
University of Virginia
Thornton Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22903-2442




Didier Stainier

Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

We are interested in how organs form during vertebrate embryogenesis. We focus on the development of the heart and use the zebra fish, a simple vertebrate model system that allows a combination of embryological and genetic approaches.
Phone: 415-502-5679
FAX: 415-476-3892
Email: didier_stainier@biochem.ucsf.edu
WWW: http://www.ucsf.edu./dyrslab/
Address: Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Fransisco
513 Parnassus Avenue
Box 0554
San Fransisco, CA 94143-0448




Charles Wilson

Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

RNA structure and function.
Phone: 408-459-5126
FAX: 408-459-3139
Email: wilson@biology.ucsc.edu
WWW: http://www-biology.ucsc.edu/faculty/wilson.html
Address: Dept. of Biology
University of California, Santa Cruz
Sinsheimer Laboratories
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064




Victor M. Yakovenko

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

I study theoretically organic and high-temperature superconductors.
Phone: 301-405-6151
FAX: 301-314-9465
Email: yakovenk@glue.umd.edu
WWW: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~yakovenk/Welcome.html
Address: Dept. of Physics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4111




Jackie Y. Ying

Field: Chemical Engineering
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

My research interests include synthesis of advanced inorganic structures for catalytic, membrane, and ceramic applications. My laboratory is devoted to the processing of novel nanocrystalline and nanoporous materials, and the engineering of surface reactivity, microstructure, and thermal stability of these systems towards the efficient use of energy and resources, and the control and prevention of environmental pollution.
Phone: 617-253-2899
FAX: 617-258-5766
Email: jyying@mit.edu
WWW: http://web.mit.edu/nano/www/ying.html
Address: Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 023139-4307




Marek G. Zreda

Field: Geology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

Timing and spatial distribution of climate change using cosmogenic chlorine isotopes.
Phone: 520-621-4072
FAX: 520-621-1422
Email: marek@hwr.arizona.edu
WWW: http://www.hwr.arizona.edu/sub_facpro.html#zreda
Address: Dept. of Hydrology and Water Resources
University of Arizona
Harshbarger Bldg.
Tucson, AZ 85721




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