2011 IBM Equipment Grant Awardees

Each year the IBM Matching Grants Program matches employee contributions to U-M 3:1 in the form of equipment donations. The U-M Unit IT Steering Committee solicits proposals from faculty and staff in the spring and awards the equipment in summer. In 2011, donated equipment worth $120,000 was awarded to ten U-M research teams launching new efforts in science and technology. Below is the list of award recipients.

Name	Grant Title	School/College
Jowei Chen	Where Do Gerrymanders Occur? Using Legislative Redistricting Simulations to Uncover the Geography of Partisan Gerrymandering Strategies	LSA Political Science
James Dunbar & Heather Carlson	GPU's for Structure Based Drug Design	Pharmacy
Carol Flannagan	Data Fusion Platform for Collaborative Road Safety Analysis	UMTRI
Kevin J. Kubarych & Rudy Richardson	Computer Visualization at the Interface of Toxicology and Molecular Biophysics: A Virtual Molecular Microscope of Biochemical Function	School of Public Health
Annette Ostling	A teaching initiative in ecological modeling and computation, and the development of a new tool for community ecology research	LSA Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Nicolai Lehnert	Hybrid Quantum-Chemical/Molecular Mechanics Calculations on whole Proteins	LSA Chemistry
Stephen Lentz	Secured Data Storage for Microscopy Based Image Analysis of Patient Nerve Fiber Densities	Medical School
Wei Lu	A Platform for Integrated Nanotechnology Research and Education	Engineering
Perry Samson & Mika LaVaque-Manty	Impact of Streaming Lecture on Large Class Dynamics and Learning	Engineering & LSA Political Science
Zeeshan Syed	Discovering Approximately Conserved Patterns of Heart Rate Changes Associated with Sudden Cardiac Death in Massive Time-Service Clinical Datasets	Engineering