Research and Sponsored Projects
Updated 7/2/08
Sharlene Katz (Electrical and Computer Engineering) has received $10,000 from Edwards Air Force Base/Kenexa in continuing support of a project entitled “Software Defined Radio (SDR) Projects.”
Catherine McLeod (National Center on Deafness) has received $1,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Education in continuing support of a project entitled “Postsecondary Education Programs for Individuals Who Are Deaf.”
Carrie Saetermoe (Psychology) has received $243,045 from the National Institutes of Health in continuing support of a project entitled “Facilitating Advancement in the Social Sciences—COR.”
Merri Whitelock (Center for Innovative and Engaged Learning Opportunities) has received $37,626 from the Corporation for National & Community Service in continuing support of a project entitled “VISTAS for Center for Community Service Learning.”
Updated 6/27/08
Hamid Johari (Mechanical Engineering) has received $7,606 from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in support of a project entitled “XR-50 Engine Performance Testing.”
Donna Sheng (Physics and Astronomy) has received $35,000 from the National Science Foundation in continuing support of a project entitled “RUI: Theoretical (Numerical) Investigations of Novel Transport and Topological Properties of Two-Dimensional Interacting Electron Systems.”
Updated 6/19/08
Barry Cleveland (Theatre) has received $2,500 from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc., in support of a project entitled “Willard F. Bellman Theatre Design and Technology Digital Archive Project.”
Hamid Johari (Mechanical Engineering) has received $22,000 from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc., in support of a project entitled “GUI for Multiple PWR Analysis Tools.”
Nicholas Kioussis, Gang Lu and Donna Sheng (Physics and Astronomy) have received $410,000 from the National Science Foundation, in continuing support of a project entitled “PREM—Multidisciplinary Research and Education in Computational Materials Science.”
Updated 6/13/08
Annette Besnilian (Family and Consumer Sciences) has received $27,543 from the California Department of Public Health, in support of a project entitled “Maternal PKU Camp Conference.”
Nancy Burstein and Ashley Skylar (Special Education) have received $200,000 from the U.S. Department of Education, in continuing support of a project entitled “Technology Enhanced Culturally-Responsive (TEC) Intern Program for Secondary Special Educators.”
Jan Tolan (Recreation and Tourism Management) has received $28,350 from the Lily Academy of Japan, in continuing support of a project entitled “2008 Lily Academy of Japan Institute.”
Updated 6/06/08
Deborah Chen and Michele Haney (Special Education) have received $200,000 from the U.S. Department of Education, in continuing support of a project entitled “CULTURE in ECSE.”
Teresa Madden (Sociology) has received $195,000 from the Corporation for National and Community Service, in continuing support of a project entitled “University/Community Partnership to Reduce Gang Activity-MOSAIC.”
Gerry Simila (Geological Sciences), Virginia Vandergon (Biology) and David Kretschmer (Elementary Education) have received $100,000 from the UC Regents, in continuing support of a project entitled “San Fernando Valley Science Project—Teacher Retention Initiative.”
Maria Elena Zavala (Biology) has received $589,004 from the National Institutes of Health, in continuing support of a project entitled “MARC U-STAR.”
Updated 5/29/08
Javier Hernandez (Student Outreach and Recruitment) has received $800 from the U.S. Department of Education, as supplemental support of a project entitled “Upward Bound.”
Updated 5/22/08
Paula Fischhaber (Chemistry & Biochemistry) received $4,022 from the National Institutes of Health, as supplemental support of a project entitled "Temporal and Spatial Relationships of Proteins in Yeast NER."
M. Helena Noronha, Alberto Candel, Rabia Djellouli and Werner Horn (Mathematics) received $372,307 from the National Science Foundation, in continuing support of a project entitled "PUMP: Preparing Undergraduates Through Mentoring Toward Ph.D.’s."
Roslyn Rosen (National Center on Deafness) received $261,623 from the Department of Rehabilitation, as supplemental support of a project entitled "California Assistive Loan Program."
Updated 5/16/08
Yolanda Chassiakos (Klotz Student Health Center) received $40,000 from the CSU Chancellor’s Office in support of a project entitled "Improving California State University Health Professions Pathways and Best Practices: Increasing Numbers and Diversity of Health Professionals in California.”
Jussi Eloranta (Chemistry & Biochemistry) received $50,000 from the ACS-PRF, in support of a project entitled "Spectroscopy of polycyclic hydrocarbons in bulk superfluid 4He."
M. Helena Noronha (Mathematics) received $9,716 from the National Science Foundation, as supplemental support of a project entitled "IRES: A US-Brazil Collaboration for Mathematical Research Experiences for Students."
Dayanthie Weeraratne (Geological Sciences) received $82,824 from the National Science Foundation, in support of a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Depth Distribution of Anisotropic Fabric in the Ocean Mantle."
Updated 5/9/08
James Decker (Social Work) is the principal investigator for two grants starting in July 2008 through June 2009. The first, an award for $967, 405, was received from CalSWEC to support 13 students with stipends for $18,500, and tuition and fees for eight additional students in the three-year part-time MSW program to work in child welfare in California. The second, an award for $456,709, was received from the County of Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services Inter-University Consortium Training Services (IUC) to train eight MSW students to work in child welfare in the County of Los Angeles.
Updated 4/25/08
James David Ballard (Sociology) received a $12,000 Haynes Foundation Fellowship, a summer fellowship for initial study of the transportation of nuclear waste in Southern California counties.
Alan Glassman (Management) received $143,000 from Stonefield Josephson, Inc., in support of a project entitled "SJ University."
Charles Hanson (Educational Psychology & Counseling) has received $40,400 from the California Office of Emergency Services, as supplemental support of a project entitled "Valley Trauma Center."
Hamid Johari (Mechanical Engineering) received $40,000 from the Department of the Army, in support of a project entitled "Aerodynamic Performance of High Glide Ram-Air Parachutes."
Marianne Link (Klotz Student Health Center) received $63,811 from the California State University, Fresno Foundation, in support of a project entitled “CSU Alcohol and Traffic Safety Grant.”
Mary Ann Cummins Prager (Center on Disabilities) received $653,466 from the California Department of Rehabilitation, in continuing support of a project entitled “Workability IV Contract with California Department of Rehabilitation Services.”
Updated 4/18/08
Alyce Akers (Family and Consumer Sciences) received $149,872 from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, in continuing support of a project entitled “Head Start Hispanic Latino Service: Partnership Institutions.”
Raul Aragon (EOP Admissions and Partnership Programs) received $302,646 from the Los Angeles Unified School District, in continuing support of a project entitled “GEAR UP LASSO Monroe School Complex.” He also received $100,000 from the Los Angeles Unified School District, as supplemental support of a project entitled “GEAR UP LASSO Monroe School Complex.”
James Ballard (Sociology) received $56,986 from the Foundation for CSU San Bernardino, in continuing support of a project entitled “Intelligence Studies Program.”
Donald Bleich (Finance, Real Estate and Insurance) received $9,000 from the CSU Real Estate & Land Use Institute, in continuing support of a project entitled “Real Estate Program Improvement Grant.”
Patrick Boudreault (Deaf Studies) received $82,745 from the University of California, Los Angeles, in continuing support of a project entitled “Outcomes of Cx26 Testing in Deaf/Hard of Hearing Adults.”
David Boyns (Sociology) received $40,000 from UC Riverside, in continuing support of a project entitled “Copernicus Project Evaluation.”
Nancy Burstein and Sue Sears (Special Education) received $681,025 from the Los Angeles County Office of Education, in continuing support of a project entitled “SPED Intern Program–Program Improvement Plan.” They also received $86,513 from the Los Angeles County Office of Education, as supplemental support of a project entitled “Special Education Interim Program (CAIP).”
Robert Carpenter (Biology) received $90,000 from UC Santa Barbara, in continuing support of a project entitled “LTER: Long-Term Dynamics of a Coral Reef Ecosystem.”
Gary Chapman (Physics and Astronomy) received $71,080 from the National Science Foundation, in continuing support of a project entitled “RUI: A Study of the Sources of Solar Total and Spectral Variability.”
Debi Prasad Choudhary (Physics and Astronomy) received $70,335 from the National Science Foundation, in support of a project entitled “CAREER: Magnetic Tomography of Emerging Sunspots (MATES).”
Robert Dale Conner (Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management) received $14,999 from the California Institute of Technology, in support of a project entitled “Cellular Amorphous Metallic Structures for Energy Absorption.”
Irene Cota and Elaine Adelman (Elementary Education) received $67,948 from the Los Angeles Unified School District, in continuing support of a project entitled “Multiple Subject Internship Program.”
Maria D’Orsogna (Mathematics) received $10,000 from UCLA, in support of a project entitled “Participation in an Optimal Transport Program.”
Shawna Dark and James Craine (Geography) received $92,614 from the San Francisco Estuary Institute, in support of a project entitled “Ventura County Historical Ecology Project.”
James Decker (Social Work) received $541,442 from the Regents of the University of California, in continuing support of a project entitled “CalSWEC Title IV-E Funding Stipend Program.”
Cynthia Desrochers (Elementary Education) received $20,000 from the Trustees of the California State University, in support of a project entitled “The MERLOT Faculty ELIXR Project.”
Fred Dukes (Administration and Finance) received $4,200 from Washington State University, as supplemental support of a project entitled “Afghan Equality Alliances–Participant Training.”
Janice Eckmier and Carolyn Burch (Secondary Education)received $495,050 from the Los Angeles Unified School District, in continuing support of a project entitled “Single Subject University Intern Program.”
Peter Edmunds (Biology) received $157,923 from the National Science Foundation, in support of a project entitled “Homeostasis, stoichiometry and dynamic energy budgets at multiple levels of biological organization.” He received $100,000 from UC Santa Barbara, in continuing support of a project entitled “Long Term Ecological Research: Coral Reefs in Moorea, French Polynesia.” Edmunds also received $5,975 from the National Science Foundation as supplemental support of a project entitled "RUI: Long-Term Coral Reef Dynamics in the U.S. Virgin Islands: 1987-2008."
Rafi Efrat (Accounting and Information Systems) received $45,000 from the Internal Revenue Service, in support of a project entitled “The Tax Clinic.”
Xiaojun Geng (Electrical and Computer Engineering) received $30,088 from the National Science Foundation, in support of a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Gaming and Interactive Visualization for Education.”
Alan Glassman (Management) received $53,049 from the L.A. County Superior Court, in continuing support of a project entitled "Superior Court Manager Development Program," and $47,150 from the City of Los Angeles, in continuing support of a project entitled “Bureau of Sanitation LEAD Program.” He also received $20,826 from the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, in continuing support of a project entitled “Superior Court Managing People #2.”
Anne Glavin (Public Safety) received $20,000 from the CSU Trustees, in support of a project entitled “Homeland Security Grant.”
Charles Hanson (Educational Psychology and Counseling) received $284,905 from the California Department of Public Health, in continuing support of a project entitled “Northwestern Los Angeles County Rape Crisis Center Rape Prevention Education.” He also received $244,742 from the State of California Office of Emergency Services, in continuing support of a project entitled “Valley Trauma Center” and $134,996 from the State of California Office of Emergency Services, in continuing support of a project entitled “Northwestern Los Angeles County Rape Crisis Center.” Hanson also received $25,000 from Catholic Healthcare West, in continuing support of a project entitled "SART Case Manager."
Javier Hernandez (Student Outreach and Recruitment) received $250,000 from the U.S. Department of Education, in support of a project entitled “Upward Bound.” He also received $181,600 from the U.S. Department of Education, in continuing support of a project entitled “Talent Search Program Region I”; $61,829 from the LAUSD, in continuing support of a project entitled “GEAR UP Project STEPS”; $60,000 from the LAUSD in continuing support of a project entitled “GEAR UP Project LASSO” and $23,530 from the LAUSD, in support of a project entitled “GEAR UP Southgate College Partnership.”
Nhut Ho (Mechanical Engineering) received $150,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Establishing a CDIO Franework to Improve Learning and Retention in a Diverse Undergraduate Engineering Student Population." Ho also received $75,000 from the California State University Long Beach Foundation, in continuing support of a project entitled “Metrics for Operator Situation Awareness, Workload, and Performance in Automated Separation Assurance Systems.”
Hamid Johari (Mechanical Engineering) has received $12,000 from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, as supplemental support for a project entitled "Performance of Hydrofoils with Leading Edge Protruberances."
Karla Johnson-Majedi (Engineering and Computer Science, Student Services Center/EOP Satellite) received $102,156 from University Enterprises Inc., CSU Sacramento, in continuing support of a project entitled “CSU Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, Phase III.”
Sharlene Katz (Electrical and Computer Engineering) received $10,000 from Edwards Air Force Base/Kenexa, in support of a project entitled “Software Defined Radio (SDR) Projects.”
David Klein (Mathematics) received $5,000 from the Fordham Foundation, in support of a project entitled “An Evaluation of High School Math Programs.”
Deborah Leidner and Richard Castallo (Educational Leadership and Policy Studies) received $103,161 from the U.S. Department of Education, as supplemental support of a project entitled “PROJECT CHANGE: A Partnership to Prepare Tomorrow’s Leaders.”
Marta Lopez-Garza (Women’s Studies, Chicana/o Studies) received $10,000 from the California Council for the Humanities, in support of a project entitled “’When Will Punishment End? Stories by Formerly Incarcerated Women.”
David Miller (Accounting and Information Systems) received $19,900 from the National Science Foundation, in support of a project entitled “Regional Information Systems Security Center.”
Jerry Nader (Education) received $204,000 from Project GRAD Los Angeles, as supplemental support of a project entitled “Project GRAD Los Angeles.”
Peter Nwosu (Human Relations) received $24,500 from El Proyecto del Barrio, in support of a project entitled “Youth Leadership Skills and Career Pathway Development Program.”
Miroslav Peric (Physics and Astronomy) received $7,800 from JPL, as supplemental support of a project entitled “Atmosphere Aerosol Studies From MSIR: Researching Aerosols and Pollution in Mexico City.”
Scott Plunkett (Family and Consumer Sciences) and two colleagues from North Carolina State University and Oklahoma State University received $457,278 ($114,693 to CSUN) from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, in support of a project entitled “Fathers Count.” Plunkett also received $121,685 from North Carolina State University in support of the "Fathers Count" project.
Dora Preminger and Gary Chapman (Physics and Astronomy) received $22,952 from NASA, in support of a project entitled “Magnetic Origins of Solar Irradiance Variations.”
Ramin Roosta (Electrical and Computer Engineering) received $20,000 from the Northrop Grumman Corporation, in support of a project entitled “Power-aware design planning and physical implementation for effective power reduction.”
Robert Ryan (Mechanical Engineering) received $19,856 from DMJM Harris, in support of a project entitled “Fume Hood Exhaust System for Science 3 and 4.”
Mark Sergi (Psychology) received $26,597 from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & Depression, in continuing support of a project entitled “Improving Skill Acquisition in Schizophrenia: Neurocognitive Prediction of Effective Instruction.”
Debra Sheets (Health Sciences) received $20,171 from UCLA, in support of a project entitled “California Geriatric Education Center.”
Yohannes Shiferaw (Physics and Astronomy) received $75,087 from the American Heart Association, in support of a project entitled “Stochastic Calcium Signaling and Cardiac Arrhythmia.”
Gerry Simila (Geological Sciences), Virginia Vandergon (Biology) and Steve Oppenheimer (Biology) have received $24,612 from the UC Regents, in support of a project entitled “San Fernando Valley Science Project” and $20,000 in additional funding for the “San Fernando Valley Science Project—Supplement.”
Mark Steele and Larry Allen (Biology) have received $175,670 from the California Coastal Commission, in continuing support of a project entitled "SONGS Mitigation Monitoring Program (2008-2009)."
Yifei Sun (Geography) has received $18,937 from the National Science Foundation, in continuing support of a project entitled "Collaborative Research: A Comparative Study of ICT Industry Development in Beijing, Shanghi-Suzhou Corridor and Pearl River Delta in China."
John Van Arsdale (Recreation and Tourism Management) has received $40,000 fom the California Department of Boating and Waterways, in connection with the CSUN Aquatic Center at Castaic Lake. The center acts as a learning center for CSUN students, and a community program outreach center focusing on water safety and aquatics for communities in the Santa Clarita valley
Ann Watkins (Mathematics) received $30,975 from Western Michigan University, in continuing support of a project entitled “Core-Plus Mathematics Revision Project.”
Ivor Weiner (Special Education) received $209,351 from the California Department of Education, in continuing support of a project entitled “Family Focus Center–Family Empowerment.” He also received $73,955 from the North Los Angeles County Regional Center, Inc., in continuing support of a project entitled “The Family Focus Resource Center” and $48,766 from the North Los Angeles County Regional Center, Inc., in continuing support of a project entitled “Family Focus Resource Center Antelope Valley.”
Doug Yule (Geological Sciences) received $117,493 from the National Science Foundation, in continuing support of a project entitled “Earthquake Geology of the Pakistani Himalaya: Characterizing Slip Rates and Recurrence of Potentially Devastating Earthquake Sources.”
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