2019-20 Faculty Grant Recipients

SJSU RSCA Seed Grant Program 

PI Ivano Aiello

College of Science, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

Proposal: Modulation of CO2 through Silicate Weathering in Tropical Shelf-Slope Systems of the Indonesian Archipelago during the Ice Ages

PI Serena Alexander

College of Social Sciences, Urban and Regional Planning

Proposal: How Can the City of San Jose Harness the Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHGs) Mitigation Potential of On-demand Mobility and Autonomous Vehicles (AVs)?

PI Cynthia Baer

College of Humanities and the Arts, English and Comparative Literature

Proposal: Hearing them Out: Linguistic and Psychometric Profiles of Student Choice

PI Brian Belet

College of Education, Counselor Education 

Proposal: Travel to Bainbridge Island, WA for World Premiere Performance of a New Music Composition

PI Allesandro Bellofiore 

College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Proposal: In Vitro Thrombogenicity Testing of Mechanical Heart Valves

PI Dore Bowen-Solomon

Humanities and the Arts, Art and Art History

Proposal: Unfaithful Adaptation: The Unrealized Filmscript of Simone de Beauvoir's L'Invitée by Susan Sontag and Noël Burch

PI Theodore Butryn

College of Health and Human Sciences, Kinesiology

Proposal: A Qualitative Examination of Self-medication via Marijuana Use for Anxiety and Depression Among College Athletes

PI Marion Campisi

College of Science, Mathematics and Statistics

Proposal: Development and Decimation of Partisan Gerrymandering Detection Tools in Advance of US 2021 Redistricting

PI Lorri Capizzi

College of Education, Counselor Education

Proposal: Former Foster Youth in Higher Education: School Counselors' Impact on Their Educational Pathways

PI Shelley Cargill

College of Science, Biological Sciences

Proposal: Determination of IGF-1, Insulin, Estradiol, and Adiponectin levels in a Mouse Model with Increased Longevity

PI Jessica Castillo Vardaro

College of Science, Biological Sciences

Proposal: Adaptation Through Space and Time: an Integrative Investigation of American Pikas (Ochotona princeps) Throughout the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin

PI David Chai

College of Humanities and the Arts, Design

Proposal: Animated Short Film About Violence

PI Megan Chang

College of Health and Human Sciences, Occupational Therapy 

Proposal: Examining Relationships among Sensory Processing Patterns, Stress, and Sleep Quality of Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities

PI Duane Cheers

College of Health and Human Sciences, Journalism & Mass Communications

Proposal: Visualizing The Slave Trade and W.E.D. Du Bois: Engaging Augmented and Virtual Reality To Tell Our Story Through the Lens of an African American Digital Humanities Scholar

PI Yu Chen

College of Business, School of Information Systems & Technology 

Proposal: Artificially Intelligent (AI) Tutors: Designing and Evaluating Chatbots to Support Student Success

PI Ruma Chopra

College of Social Sciences, History

Proposal: Before Darwin: Early Modern Understandings of Climate

PI Minghui Diao

College of Science, Meteorology and Climate Science

Proposal: Improving Understanding of Clouds in Polar Regions based on Recent Field Campaigns in Arctic, Antarctica and Southern Ocean

PI Marcelle Dougan

College of Health and Human Sciences, Health Science and Recreation

Proposal: An Integrated Mobile Application for Breast Cancer Survivors

PI Folarin Erogbogbo

College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Proposal: Tumor Treating Fields combined with Chemotherapy for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

PI Rachael French

College of Science, Biological Sciences

Proposal: The Role of Epigenetric Regulation of Gene Expression in a Drosophila Model of Ethanol-induced Metabolic Syndrome

PI Maria Fusaro

College of Education, Child and Adolescent Development

Proposal: The Role of Experience-Based Coursework in Pre-service Practitioners’ Infant/Toddler Caregiving Competencies

PI Roberto Gonzalez

College of Social Sciences, Anthropology

Proposal: Connected: How a Mexican Village Created Its Own Cell Phone Network

PI Deepika Goyal 

College of Health and Human Sciences, Nursing

Proposal: Perinatal Depression Among Asian American Women

PI Bree Grillo Hill

College of Science, Biological Sciences

Proposal: Engineering Proteins to Measure Acid Levels in Living Cells

PI Diane Guerrazzi

College of Health and Human Sciences, Journalism and Mass Communications

Proposal: Advancement of Reporting on the Refugee Crisis

PI Crystal Han

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Proposal: On-chip Size-specific RNA Purification Technique for Small Input Ribosome Profiling

PI Yoon Chung Han

College of Humanities and the Arts, Design 

Proposal: Exploring California Environmental Issues through Interactive Data-Driven Art

PI Meekyung Han

College of Health and Human Sciences, Social Work

Proposal: Perinatal Depression Among Asian American Women

PI Jennifer Hartle

College of Health and Human Sciences, Health Science & Recreation

Proposal: Dietary Exposures to Bisphenols from Food Packaging and Consumer Products: Dangers in Your Diet Study II

PI Jo Farb Hernandez

College of Humanities and the Arts, Art & Art History

Proposal: Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments (Volume II)

PI Deborah Hicks

College of Health and Human Sciences, School of Information

Proposal: Debating Diversity: How Twitter Facilitates Professional Discussions

PI Matthew Holian

College of Social Sciences, Economics

Proposal: Replication in Econometrics

PI Yinghua Huang 

College of Health and Human Sciences; Hospitality, Tourism and Event Management

Proposal: How do Restaurant's Message Framing Strategies Impact Buffet Diner's Behavioral Intentions of Food Waste Prevention and Repatronage?

 PI Areum Jensen

College of Health and Human Sciences, Kinesiology

Proposal: Clinical Exercise Testing in Pediatric Autism Spectrum Disorder: Assessment of Cardiorespiratory Function and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors

PI Jennifer Johnson 

College of Science, Biological Sciences

Proposal: Utilization of the RhD Locus as a Safe Harbor for Gene Therapy Applications

PI Ozgur Keles

College of Engineering, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Proposal: Prediction of Structure-property Relationships in 3D Printed Composites: A Machine Learning Approach

PI Resa Kelly

College of Science, Chemistry

Proposal: Exploring Scaffolds for Introducing General Chemistry Students to Conflicting Animations of Chemical Reactions

PI Suneuy Kim

College of Science, Computer Science

Proposal: A Framework for Developing Geospatial Applications on NoSQL Database Systems

PI Elena Klaw

College of Social Sciences, Psychology

Proposal: The Cyber Spartan Peer Leadership Program: Community Engagement to Diversify the STEM Workforce

PI Michael Klein

College of Business, Marketing and Business Analytics

Proposal: Workflow Models for Specialist Care

PI Revathi Krishnaswamy

College of Humanities and the Arts, English and Comparative Literature

Proposal: World Literature from The Silk Road World System

PI Saili S. Kulkarni

College of Education, Special Education

Proposal: Re-imagining Teacher Beliefs and Practices of Special Education Teachers of Color Through a Critical Affinity Group

PI Yvonne Y. Kwan

College of Social Sciences, Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Proposal: Afterlives of Diaspora: Cambodian American Trauma and Memory

PI Robin Lasser

College of Humanities and the Arts, Art and Art History

Proposal: The State We're In: Water

PI Hyojin Lee

College of Business, Marketing and Business Analytics

Proposal: The Effect of Touch on Prosocial Behavior

PI Sang E. Lee

College of Health and Human Sciences, Social Work 

Proposal: Examining Knowledge About Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Predictors of AD Knowledge Among Korean Americans

PI Matthew Leineweber

College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Proposal: Using 3D Printed Molds to Fabricate Low Cost, Functional, and Lifelike Prosthetic Hand for Infants

PI Avizia Long

College of Humanities and the Arts, World Languages

Proposal: The Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language: Foundations and New Developments

PI Alison McKee

College of Humanities and the Arts, Film and Theatre

Proposal: Of an (Un)Certain Age: Spinsters, or the Single Older Woman in Mid-Century American Film

PI Scott Myers-Lipton

College of Social Sciences, Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Proposal: Panelist at American Sociological Association's Annual Conference in NYC

PI Dahyun Oh

College of Engineering, Chemicals and Materials Engineering

Proposal: Developing Design Strategies of Artificial Solid-electrolyte Interphase Layers for Long-lasting Aqueous Lithium-ion Batteries

PI Colin Onita 

College of Business, Accounting & Finance

Proposal: Why Should I (not) Share: Effective Strategies for Dissuading Users of Online Social Media Websites from Posting Potentially Damaging Information on Public Websites

PI Chunhui Peng

College of Humanities and the Arts, World Languages & Literatures

Proposal: Transmedia Memories: Remember the Chinese Cultural Revolution

PI Carlie Pietsch

College of Science, Geology 

Proposal: Examining the Evolutionary History and Environmental Function of Gastropod Shells

PI Madalyn Radlauer

College of Science, Chemistry

Proposal: Structured Polymer Supports to Enhance Ruthenium-catalyzed Reactions

PI Anthony Raynsford

College of Humanities and the Arts, Art & Art History

Proposal: Inventing the Ecological City: Urban Design and Radical Politics in Northern California, 1966-74

PI Ben Reed

College of Science, Computer Science

Proposal: Benchmark for Distributed Coordination

PI Liat Rosefield

College of Engineering, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Proposal: Microdroplet Stability in Constricted Channels

PI Mantra Roy

University Library

Proposal: Desis of Silicon Valley Speak: An Oral History

PI Virginia San Fratello

College of Humanities and the Arts, Design

Proposal: The House of Smoke

PI Tianqin (Kelly) Shi

College of Business, Global Innovation & Leadership

Proposal: Green Product Design with Retail Competition and Fairness Concerns

PI Ryan Skinnell

College of Humanities and the Arts, English and Comparative Literature

Proposal: Hitler's Rhetoric

PI Christopher Smallwood

College of Science, Physics and Astronomy

Proposal: Quantum Properties of Color Centers in Diamond and Silicon Carbide

PI Matthew Spangler

College of Social Sciences, Communication Studies

 Proposal: Striking Back: The Story of an Anti-Apartheid Striker

PI Drew Todd

College of Humanities and the Arts, Film and Theatre

Proposal: Ashgar Farhadi: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2021)

PI Cristina Tortora

College of Science, Mathematics and Statistics

Proposal: Developing New Clustering Techniques Through Multi-University Collaborations

PI Kim Tsai

College of Education, Child & Adolescent Development 

Proposal: Exploring Ethnic Disparities in the Influence of Family Stress on Adolescent Sleep

PI Masaaki Tsuruike

College of Health and Human Sciences, Kinesiology

Proposal: Injury Prevention in Overhead Athletes through Professional Baseball Pitchers

PI Anand Vaidya

College of Humanities and the Arts, Philosophy

Proposal: Knowing as a State of Mind: On the Relevance of Classical Indian Philosophy to Contemporary Debates About What is it to Know Something

PI Fabrizio Vergine

College of Engineering, Aerospace Engineering

Proposal: Entry Descent and Landing Systems Optimization through Vortex Dynamics

PI Ningkun Wang

College of Science, Chemistry

Proposal: Understanding the Mechanism of SIRT1 Activation by Resveratrol