Support for Collins Group Research

Hyperfine Interactions Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164

We are indebted to the National Science Foundation and Praveen Sinha Fund for Physics Research for financial support.

Research Grants

1980-83 NSF grant DMR 80-02443, Solid State Physics Program, Hyperfine Interactions Studies in Metals, with Applications to Critical Phenomena.  ($183,353 for three years, at Clark University:  Co-Principal Investigator, with Chris Hohenemser, P.I.).
1981-86 NSF grant DMR 8l-08307, Metals Program, Lattice Defects in Metals Studied by Hyperfine Interactions.  ($258,468 for five years, at Clark University:  Principal Investigator, with Chris Hohenemser, Co-P.I.).
1983-86 NSF grant DMR 83-03611, Low Temperature Physics Program, Hyperfine Interactions Studies of Magnetic Critical Phenomena.  ($327,660 for 3.5 years, at Clark University:  Co-Principal Investigator, with Chris Hohenemser, P.I.).
1987-90 NSF grant DMR 86-19688, Metals Program, Point Defects in Metals Studied by Hyperfine Interactions.  ($240,000 for 3 years, at Washington State University:  Principal Investigator).
1990-93 NSF grant CTS 89-12430, Synthesis and Physical Properties of Nanoclusters.  ($450,000 for 3 years, at Washington State University:  Associate Investigator, with Clayton Crowe and Howard Hamilton, P.I.s; John Hirth, Richard Hoagland and Jacob Chung, other Associate Investigators)
1990-93 NSF grant DMR 90-14163, Metals Program, Atomic Structure and Defects in Metals and Alloys Studied by Hyperfine Interactions.  ($275,000 for 3 years, at Washington State University:  Principal Investigator).
1993-96 NSF grant DMR 93-13702, Metals Program, Point Defects in Intermetallic Compounds.  ($325,000 for 3 years, at Washington State University:  Principal Investigator).
1996-99 NSF grant DMR 96-12306, Metals Program, Defects and Diffusion in Intermetallic Compounds.  ($356,320 for 3 years, at Washington State University:  Principal Investigator).
2001-04 NSF grant DMR 00-91681, Metals Program, Studies of Point Defects in Intermetallics using PAC  ($419,556 for 3 years, at Washington State University:  Principal Investigator).
2005-09 NSF grant DMR 05-04843, Metals Program, Lattice Location of Solutes and Diffusion in Intermetallics.  ($500,000 for 4 years, at Washington State University:  Principal Investigator). 
2009-12
 NSF grant DMR 09-04096, Metals Program, Diffusion in rare-earth binary and ternary intermetallic compounds studied by PAC  ($405,000 for 3 years, at Washington State University:  Principal Investigator).

Praveen Sinha Fund for Physics Research

2005--   
In December 2005, Praveen Sinha, PhD graduate of the group in 1995, founded a fund to support our research through a generous, unsolicited donation.  First, as a graduate student, Praveen synthesized nanocrystals of tetragonal indium metal and studied their properties, finding indirectly that the axial ratio becomes more cubic as crystal size decreases. Later, in dissertation research, he studied point defects produced by quenching or plastic deformation of intermetallic compounds and measured their concentrations.  After receiving his Ph.D. degree in physics in 1995, Praveen accepted a position as NIH postdoctoral research associate in radiation oncology at the University of Wisconsin, having graduated from WSU also with a MS degree in computer science.  He went back to school and earned a MBA degree in 2000. At about that time, Praveen co-founded UltraVisual Medical Systems that developed software products for hospitals to manage medical images over the web. After merging with another company, Emageon, the company went public in early 2005.  Currently, he co-founded and is CEO of Novashield, Inc., which offers software to enhance personal computer security by looking for and flagging unusual activity patterns in real time.  Professor Collins is highly honored by this gift.

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