Research Excellence Funds (REF)
(Not accepting proposals in 2007.)

REF Centers funded in 2004

Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online (MATRIX), Mark Kornbluh, director

2007 report (PDF)
 

Center for Leadership of the Digital Enterprise (CLODE), Vallahbh Sambamurthy, executive director

2007 report (PDF)
 

Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Martha Mulks, director

2007 report (PDF)
 

Center for Renewable Resource Chemistries, Rawle Hollingsworth, director

2007 report (PDF)
 

Center for Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins, Michael Garavito, director

2007 report (PDF)

Center for the Study of Cosmic Evolution, Jack Baldwin and Stephen Zepf, co-directors

2007 report (PDF)
 

Center for Sustainable Materials, Lawrence Drzal, director

2007 report (PDF)
 

Center for Water Sciences, Joan Rose and Jan Stevenson, co-directors

2007 report (PDF)
 

High Performance Computing Center, Bill Punch, director

2007 report (PDF)
 

Literacy Achievement Research Center, Nell Duke and Mary Lundeberg, co-directors

2007 report (PDF)

Fall 2005: Summary of year one reports
 

REF Centers funded in 2000

Animal Functional Genomics
Biological Modeling 
Composite Materials and Structures 
Fundamental Materials Research
Microbial Ecology
Plant Products and Technologies