Packard Fellows

Sorted by Award Year: 1997

Kristi S. Anseth

Field: Chemical Engineering
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Development of photo polymerization techniques for the production of advanced polymer materials.
Phone: 303-492-3147
FAX: 303-492-4341
Email: kristi.anseth@colorado.edu
WWW: http://www.colorado.edu/che/faculty/anseth.html
Address: Dept. of Chemical Engineering
University of Colorado
ECCH 128, Campus Box 424
Boulder, CO 80309




Sanjeev Arora

Field: Computer Science
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Approximation algorithms for NP-hard optimization problems.
Phone: 609-258-3869
FAX: 609-258-1771
Email: arora@cs.princeton.edu
WWW: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arora/
Address: Department of Computer Science
Princeton University
35 Olden Street
Princeton,NJ 08544-2087




Nancy M. Bonini

Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Genetic models of brain degeneration in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster)
Phone: 215-573-9267
FAX: 215-898-8780
Email: nbonini@sas.upenn.edu
WWW: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/biology/faculty/bonini/index.html
Address: Department of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
415 University Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6018




Steven K. Burratto

Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Optical and opto-electric properties of thin film materials.
Phone: 805-893-3393
FAX: 805-893-4120
Email: buratto@chem.ucsb.edu
WWW: http://www.chem.ucsb.edu/Faculty/FacultyPages/Buratto.html
Address: Department of Chemistry
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara,CA 93106-9510




Alex Eskin

Field: Mathematics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Mathematical properties of random motions.
Phone: 773-702-7380
FAX: 773-702-9787
Email: eskin@math.uchicago.edu
WWW: http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~eskin/
Address: Department of Mathematics
University of Chicago
5734 University Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637-1514




C. Daniel Frisbie

Field: Chemical Engineering
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Molecular single electron transistors and characterization by mesoscopic probes of organic electronic materials.
Phone: 612-625-0779
FAX: 612-626-7246
Email: frisbie@cems.umn.edu
WWW: http://www.cems.umn.edu/people/faculty/frisbie.html
Address: Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Minnesota
151 Amundson Hall
421 Washington Avenue SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455




Robert D. Grober

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Near-field optical scanning microscopy with applications to optical imaging of DNA.
Phone: 203-432-9653
FAX: 203-432-4283
Email: robert.grober@yale.edu
WWW: http://www.eng.yale.edu/faculty/vita/grober.html
Address: Department of Applied Physics
Yale University
Becton Engineering Center
15 Prospect Street
P.O. Box 208284
New Haven, CT 06520-8284




David R. Karger

Field: Computer Science
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Randomized algorithms for optimization problems on graphs.
Phone: 617-258-6167
FAX: 617-253-3480
Email: karger@lcs.mit.edu
WWW: http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~karger/
Address: Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room NE43-322
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139




Jeffrey G. Lawrence

Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Evolution of coenzyme metabolic pathways in enteric bacteria.
Phone: 412-624-4204
FAX: 412-624-4759
Email: jlawrenc@vms.cis.pitt.edu
WWW: http://www.pitt.edu/~biology/faculty/lawrence.html
Address: Department of Biological Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
A234 Langley Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260




Thomas H. Lee

Field: Electrical Engineering
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Design of CMOS radio frequency integrated circuits.
Phone: 650-725-3709
FAX:  
Email: tomlee@ee.stanford.edu
WWW: http://www-smirc.stanford.edu/
Address: Center for Integrated Systems
Stanford University
420 Via Palou Mall, CIS-205
Stanford, CA 94305-4070




Wendell A. Lim

Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Proteins that regulate cell morphology and motility.
Phone: 415-502-8080
FAX: 415-502-8644
Email: w_lim024708@ucsf.edu
WWW: http://msg.ucsf.edu/~lim/NewFiles/Peoplepages/Wendell.html
Address: Department of Pharmacology
University of California, San Francisco
Box 0450 HSE 2
San Francisco, CA 94143




Steven R. Majewski

Field: Astronomy
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

The contribution of Galactic cannibalism events to the formation of Milky Way halo.
Phone: 804-924-4893
FAX: 804-924-3104
Email: srm4n@didjeridu.astro.virginia.edu
WWW: http://www.astro.Virginia.EDU/~srm4n/
Address: Department of Astronomy
University of Virginia
PO Box 3818
Charlottesville, VA 22903




SonBinh T. Nguyen

Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Synthesis of catalysts for heterocyclic organic intermediates.
Phone: 487-467-3347
FAX: 847-491-7713
Email: stn@chem.nwu.edu
WWW: http://www.chem.nwu.edu/brochure/nguyen.html
Address: Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3113




Daphne K. Preuss

Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Molecular mechanisms of chromosome separation in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Phone: 773-702-1605
FAX: 773-702-9270
Email: dpreuss@midway.uchicago.edu
WWW: http://searle.bio.jhu.edu/people/preuss.html
Address: Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
University of Chicago
1103 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637




Daniel C. Ralph

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Electronic materials and devices on nanometer-length scales.
Phone: 607-255-9644
FAX: 607-255-6428
Email: ralph@msc.cornell.edu
WWW: http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/lassp_data/ralph.html
Address: Department of Physics
Cornell University
Clark Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-2501




Piali Sengupta

Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Development and function of olfactory sensory neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Phone: 781-736-2686
FAX: 782-736-3107
Email: piali@volen.ccs.brandeis.edu
WWW: http://squirrel.bio.brandeis.edu/faculty/sengupta.html
Address: Department of Biology
Brandeis University
415 South St.
Waltham, MA 02454




Charles C. Steidel

Field: Astronomy
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Observation of the formation and evolution of galaxies.
Phone: 818-395-4168
FAX: 818-568-9352
Email: ccs@astro.caltech.edu
WWW: http://astro.caltech.edu/~ccs/
Address: Department of Astronomy
California Institute of Technology
Mail Stop 105-24
Pasadena, CA 91125




Paul J. Tackley

Field: Geology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Modeling convection in the mantle of the Earth.
Phone: 310-206-9180
FAX: 310-825-2779
Email: ptackley@ess.ucla.edu
WWW: http://www.ess.ucla.edu/facpages/tackley2.html
Address: Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young East
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567




David S. Weiss

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Optical lattices, laser cooling, and Bose-Einstein condensation.
Phone: 510-643-0726
FAX: 510-643-8497
Email: dsweiss@physics.berkeley.edu
WWW: http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?subroutine=singlefullhttp://physics1.berkeley.edu/cgi/php.cgi/directory/faculty/faculty.long.phtml?last=Weiss&first=Davidlsid=1047
Address: Department of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-7300




Dennis Zaritsky

Field: Astronomy
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Formation and evolution of the Magellanic clouds.
Phone: 520-621-6027
FAX:  
Email: dzaritsky@as.arizona.edu
WWW: http://ngala.as.arizona.edu/dennis
Address: Department of Astronomy
University of Arizona, Tucson
Tucson, AZ 85721




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