AUSTIN, Texas—A total of 26 researchers at The University of Texas at Austin is receiving grants averaging at least $150,000 from the Welch Foundation of Houston. The grants are for three years each and include funding for new research and continuing support for projects previously funded.
The Welch Foundation is one of the nation’s oldest and largest sources of private funding for basic chemistry research. The foundation is contributing $22.5 million this year in new and renewed grants to 135 scientists at 27 Texas institutions. In addition to renewing support for a total of 97 projects, the Foundation is funding 38 new proposals this year.
In total, the foundation supports 438 investigations at 27 institutions and has contributed more than $441 million to chemical research since its establishment in 1954. The UT Austin faculty members include:
Eric V. Anslyn, Finger Printing Pectins and Tannins in Wines
Nathan L. Bauld, Cation Radical Diels-Alder Cycloadditions: New and Efficient Synthetic Methodology and Novel Electron Transfer Mechanisms
Jennifer S. Brodbelt, Cation-Pi Interactions in the Gas Phase
R. Malcolm Brown, Jr., Applications of Atomic and Molecular Imaging with Transmission Electron Microscopy
Kevin N. Dalby, The Catalytic Mechanism of ERK2
Todd Ditmire, Ultrafast Probing of Multi-Electron Ionization and Coulomb Explosion in Rare Gas Clusters
Michael C. Downer, Femtosecond Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Column IV Interface Chemistry
John G. Ekerdt, Chemistry on Semiconductor and Dielectric Surfaces
Andrew D. Ellington, Chemical Augmentation of Nucleic Acid Catalysts
John C. Gilbert, Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Dicarbene Character of Cycloalkynes
John B. Goodenough, Influence of Counter Cation in Mixed-Metal Oxides
Marvin L. Hackert, X-ray Structural Analysis of Proteins
David L. Herrin, Catalytic RNAs and Site-Specific Endonucleases Derived from Group I Introns
Sean M. Kerwin, Molecular Recognition and DNA Damage
Richard J. Lagow, Megatubes: New Dimensions in Carbon Materials
J. J. Lagowski, On the Synthesis and Characterization of Metallo-Fullerenes
Hung-Wen Liu, Mechanistic Studies of Novel Enzymes
Philip D. Magnus, Manganese (III) Complexes in Organic Synthesis
Dmitrii E. Makarov, Theory and Simulation of the Dynamics of Individual Molecules
Edward Marcotte, Mass Spectrometric Detection of Proteome-Wide Protein Expression
Ilya Prigogine, Nonlocality and Time Symmetry Breaking in Classical and Quantum Dynamics
Linda E. Reichl, Transport and Decay Processes at Atomic and Nanometer Length Scales
Jon D. Robertus, Chemistry of Folate-Dependent Dehydrogenation
Keith J. Stevenson, Fundamental Investigations of Ion/Charge Transfer Reactivity in Mesoscopic Materials
Harry L. Swinney, Frequency Locking Tongues in Oscillatory and Excitable Reaction-Diffusion Systems
C. Grant Wilson, Photobase Generators for Advanced Imaging Applications
