External Funding
Research Grants
National Institutes of Health FIRST Award "Mechanistic Studies of Glutamine Cyclotransferase", 6/1/90-5/31/95, $479,690, PI
National Institute on Drug Abuse, "Enzyme-Activated Enkephalinase Inhibitors" 4/1/91-3/31/93, $134,416, PI
National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA, Dept. of Commerce) S-K Grant Program, "Dipstick Screening Test for Amines in Fisheries Products", PI on five independent awards from 4/1/91-5/31/01 totaling $249,046
MS/Alabama Sea Grant (NOAA, Dept. of Commerce) “A Rapid Putrescine/Cadaverine Test for Decomposition in Fisheries Products”, 2/1/97-1/31/98, $75,096, PI
MS/Alabama Sea Grant (NOAA, Dept. of Commerce) “A Chemiluminescent Method for Assessing Seafood Quality” Sea Grant Graduate Fellowship to Rachell Booth. $6,000, 1/1/99-6/30/99
MS/Alabama Sea Grant (NOAA, Dept. of Commerce), "Development of an Environmentally-Favorable Macromolecular Emulsifier Derived from Fish Protein By-Product" 6/1/93-5/31/96, $131,321, Co-PI
MS/Alabama Sea Grant (NOAA, Dept. of Commerce) “The Development of Menhaden Soluble Protein as a Commercial Wetting Agent” 4/1/98-11/30/98, $24,999, co-PI
Biochemistry Education Grants
National Science Foundation, Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Award "Enhancement of Undergraduate Biochemistry Instruction", 6/1/92-12/31/93, $18,274 (plus equal USM match). PI
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Summer High School Teacher Fellowship, Two consecutive awards, mainly stipend for teacher.
- First Award, Summer 1991, $6,500 Ms. Ann Sullivan
- Second Award, Summer 1992, $6,500 Ms. Carole Phillips
USM Summer Grant for Improvement of Instruction, “Enhancement of Undergraduate Biochemistry Instruction Using Internet Tools” 1996
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology “Travel grant to Robert C. Bateman Jr. for 1998 ASBMB meeting in Washington DC” provided by Biochemistry Education Committee $500, 5/16/98-5/20/98
USM Summer Grant for Improvement of Instruction, “A Manual for Student Authoring of Three-Dimensional Illustrations in Undergraduate Biochemistry” 2000
National Science Foundation, CCLI Program, “Student Authoring of Three-Dimensional Illustrations in Undergraduate Biochemistry” 2/15/00-2/14/03, $445,242, PI
Infrastructure Grants
NSF EPSCoR Innovations through Computational Sciences (USM chemistry thrust), 05/01/06 - 04/30/09, $300,000, PI
Department of Education GAANN (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need), 8/14/06-8/13/09, $627,333, PI
NSF CRIF:MU “Purchase of an Ion Trap/LC Mass Spectrometer”, 04/01/07 - 03/31/10, $280,130, co-PI
NSF S-STEM “Undergraduate Scholarships for Polymer Science and Chemistry Majors in Mississippi”, 9/15/07-9/14/10, $600,000, co-PI
Multiple Investigator Infrastructure Grants (as participant)
National Institutes of Health Small Instrumentation Grant, 9/1/93, $5,000 (Co-PIs, Drs. George Santangelo and Glen Shearer, Biological Sciences)
National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), Structure and Dynamic Analysis Cluster, 5/1/92-4/30/95, $2,045,400 including state and USM match (EPSCoR participants including USM, MSU, UM, JSU).
National Science Foundation Academic Research Infrastructure (ARI) Grant, Awarded Fall 1993, $480,500 plus match to set up the Mississippi Magnetic Resonance Facility at MSU, PI Ken Brown at MSU with several co-PIs including RCB.
Participated in and wrote a section for: Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences for Mississippi Colleges and Universities. $249,723, National Science Foundation, 1993-1996. B.L. Middlebrooks, PI
National Science Foundation Instrumentation Proposal, $638,000 plus match to upgrade NMR facilities in Chemistry and Polymer Science, PI Lon Mathias with several co-PIs including RCB