UIC 2008/09 Recipients

Applicant Name/s Faculty	Collaborating Institution	Project Title	Funding Awarded
Prof Salim Bouzerdoum Informatics	Uni of Memphis	Visual pattern recognition for biometric and biomedical applications	$6,500
Dr Akemi Chatfield A/Prof Peter Hyland Informatics	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Validating the E-Governance model through Qualitative fieldwork with NSW E-Governments	$6,200
Prof Kathleen Clapham Dr Adam Lucas Woolyangah / Arts	Uni of Oklahoma	Scoping and planning for a masters program in indigenous studies	$8,000
Dr Louise D'Arcen Arts	Uni of California	Symposium on medievalism in postcolonial cultural memory	$8,500
Dr Debra Dudek Arts	Uni of Winnipeg	Homelessness and social justice in Australian and Canadian children's literatures	$8,900
Dr Penny Harris Creative Arts	Concordia Uni	Fabric as an inter-sensorial language	$7,000
A/Prof Xiaojing Huang Prof E Dutkiewicz Informatics	Shanghai Jiaotong Uni	Expanding collaboration on wireless broadband research with Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni	$7,000
A/Prof Zhengyi Jiang Engineering	Huazhong Uni of Science and Technology	Study on surface roughening in cold metal forming	$7,000
Dr Sandra Jones Ms Lyn Phillipson H&BS	Uni of Stirling	Alcohol sponsorship of sport in Australia and the UK	$7,000
A/Prof Paul Keller Science	Erlangen Uni	Promotion of undergraduate and research exchange with the Uni of Erlangen, Germany	$2,500
Dr Long Ngheim Engineering	Colorada School of Mines; Rice Uni USA	Predicting the removal of micropollutants during membrane treatment processes for indirect potable water recycling	$5,000
Dr C Schofield Dr R Warner Dr W Gullett Law	Scottish Assoc. for Marine Science (SAMS); UHI Millennium Inst.; Smith School of Enterprise and Environment; Uni of Oxford; Inst. of Maritime Law; Uni of Southampton	Arctic Oceans Governance Challenges - implications for Australia and the Asia-Pacific	$8,800
Dr Jun Shen Informatics	Uni of California; Georgia Institute of Technology; Uni of Leipzig, Germany	A methodology for integrating web services into enterprise systems	$7,000
Dr Philip Whitten Prof Geoffrey Spinks Engineering	Uni of California	Self-assembled arrays of conducting polymer nanofibres	$7,000
Prof Song-Ping Zhu Informatics	Huazhong Uni of Science and Technology	Using radial basis functions to price options written on multi-assets	$7,000
		TOTAL	$103,400