2021-22 Faculty Grant Recipients

Level-Up Grant

PI Anthony Bernier

College of Professional and Global Education, School of Information

Co-PI:

  • Michelle Villagran, College of Professional and Global Eduction, School of Information

Proposal: Feels Like Begging: First-Generation Online Graduate Students in Library and Information Science (LIS)

PI Folarin Erogbogbo

College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Proposal: Novel Anti-Stomal Prolapse Medical Device

PI Wendy Lee

College of Science, Computer Science

Proposal: Development of a Machine Learning-based System to Identify Next Generation Sequencing Errors

PI Matthew Love

College of Education, Special Education

Co-PI:

  • Wendy Quach, College of Education, Communicative Disorders and Sciences

Proposal: Leveling Up Interdisciplinary Practice and Preparation

PI Elisa Mattarelli

College of Business, School of Management

Co-PI:

  • Sumita Raghuram, College of Business, School of Management

Proposal: Performance and Wellbeing in Multiple Virtual Team Membership (MVTM) Contexts

PI Ellen Middaugh

College of Education, Child and Adolescent Development

Co-PI:

  • Mark Felton, College of Education, Teacher Education

Proposal: Enfranchised: Using Social Media to Foster Dialogue and Civic Empowerment

PI Anand Ramasubramanian

College of Engineering, Chemicals and Materials Engineering 

Co-PI:

  • John Lee, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Proposal: Four-dimensional Deformation Map of Blood Clots

PI Christopher Smallwood

College of Science, Physics and Astronomy

Proposal: Materials Spectroscopy Near Absolute Zero Temperature

SJSU RSCA Seed Grant Program

PI Michael Aguilar 

University Library

Proposal: First and Second Year Student Virtual Engagement with the Library

PI Mark Barash

College of Social Sciences, Justice Studies

Proposal: Predicting Externally Visible Human Appearance from a DNA Sample for Law Enforcement Applications 

PI Rebecca Chan

College of Humanities and the Arts, Philosophy

Proposal: A Trio of Works on Transformative Experience

PI Josh Coleman

College of Humanities and the Arts, English and Comparative Literature

Proposal: FAIR Education in Action: An Ethnographic Account of 10 Years of LGBTQ-Inclusive Educational Policy in Bay Area Schools 

PI Michael Dao

College of Health and Human Sciences, Kinesiology

Proposal: Immigration, Resistance and Assimilation: Sport and Physical Activity Experiences of Vietnamerica

PI Mel Day

College of Humanities and the Arts, Art and Art History

Proposal: Feeling Good-Wall of Song Project 3.0

PI Marcelle Dougan

College of Health and Human Sciences, Public Health and Recreation

Proposal: Social, Dietary, and Mental Health Impacts of Food Insecurity During the Coronavirus Pandemic

PI Daryl Eggers

College of Science, Chemistry

Proposal: Model Binding Studies Related to Drug Development and COVID-19

PI Nicholas Esker

College of Science, Chemistry

Proposal: Target Production for Structure Studies near 100Sn

PI John Gieng

College of Health and Human Sciences; Nutrition, Food Science and Packaging 

Proposal: Farming Practices of California Tomato Growers

PI Meghan Gorman-DaRif

College of Humanities and the Arts, English and Comparative Literature

Proposal: Resistant Realisms: The Pirate, The Maoist, and the Freedom Fighter in Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction

PI Yoon Chung Han

College of Humanities and the Arts, Design 

Proposal: A Solo Exhibition “Visualizing Ecological Systems” in Seoul, S.Korea in Summer 2022: Visualizing Environmental Data using New Media Technology

PI Jennifer Hartle

College of Health and Human Sciences, Public Health and Recreation

Proposal: Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and their Relationship to Childhood Obesity in a California LatinX Community

PI Lili He

College of Engineering, Electical Engineering 

Proposal:  A Novel Undergraduate Machine Learning Program – One Step Forward Towards Building Machine Learning Chips at SJSU

PI Funie Hsu

College of Humanities and the Arts, Humanities

Proposal: "Instructions for (Erasing) Empire- Manuscript completion (advance contract)"

PI Nima Karimian

College of Engineering, Computer Engineering

Proposal: Never Lose Your Heart: A Novel Key Generation and Authentication Scheme for Implantable Medical Devices

PI Hahn Koo

College of Humanities and the Arts, Linguistics and Language Development

Proposal: Effects of Ethnicity and Language on Voice Quality and their Implications for Foreign Accent Detection

PI Saili S. Kulkarni

College of Education, Special Education

Proposal: Re-imagining Teacher Preparation During a Global Pandemic Using Disability-Centered, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies

PI Binh Le

College of Engineering, Electrical Engineering 

Proposal: A Novel Undergraduate Machine Learning Program – One Step Forward Towards Building Machine Learning Chips at SJSU

PI Lyle Lustigman

College of Education, Communicative Disorders

Proposal: The Scaffolding Role of Adult-Child Co-Constructions in Early Language Development: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Spanish and English

PI Dahyun Oh

College of Engineering, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Proposal: Nanoengineering of Electrode Materials for Long-lasting Aqueous Lithium-ion Batteries

PI Alexander Payumo 

College of Science, Biological Sciences

Proposal: Why do Mammals Lose the Ability to Regenerate Their Hearts After Birth?

PI Giselle Pignotti

College of Health and Human Sciences; Nutrition, Food Science & Packaging

Proposal: Food Access, Lifestyle Behaviors, and Health Outcomes during COVID-19 in California

PI Gina Quan

College of Science, Physics and Astronomy

Proposal: Understanding the Experiences of Community College Transfer Students in Physics

PI Sharesly Rodriguez

University Library

Proposal: Do Chatbots Meet the Information Needs of University Students?

PI Liat Rosenfield

College of Engineering, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Proposal: Characterization of Flow of Red Blood Cells and Platelets in Venous Thrombosis Patients

PI Kohar Scott

College of Humanities and the Arts, Design

Proposal: The Virtual Factory; Connecting with Materials and Manufacturing Through Virtual Reality 

PI Tanqin (Kelly) Shi

College of Business, Global Innovation

Proposal: The Impact of COVID-19 on Applied Behavioral Analysis Services: Operational Challenges and Opportunities

PI Sonia Singhal

College of Science, Biological Sciences

Proposal: Patterns of Mutation Accumulation in Environments that Change at Different Rates

PI Amanda Stasiewicz

College of Social Sciences, Environmental Studies

Proposal: Exploring Local Fire Department Capacity—Dealing with Changing Risk Exposure, Capacity, and Resource Demand in a Wildfire-prone World

PI Kim Tsai

College of Education, Child and Adolescent Development

Proposal: Longitudinal Changes in Family Dynamics and Adolescent Well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A 3-year Study

PI Miguel Valero

College of Science, Meteorology and Climate Science

Proposal: Data Assimilation of Remote Sensing Observations for Improved Wildfire Spread Forecasts

PI David Wagner

College of Engineering, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Proposal: Bioenergy from Agricultural Wastes

PI Yolanda Wiggins

College of Social Sciences, Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Proposal: When The Family Goes to College: How Black Students Juggle Tensions Between Home and School

PI Angela Wu

College of Humanities and the Arts, Design

Proposal: “Do Unto Others” Animated Short Film and Augmented Reality Companion Piece Prototype

PI Kezban Yagci Sokat

College of Business, Marketing and Decision Sciences

Proposal: Integration of Analytics to Anti-trafficking Operations: Targeted Outreach Planning

PI David Yan

College of Engineering, Technology

Proposal: Vibration-assisted Surfacing for Strengthening Selective Laser Melted Ti-5553 Aerospace Structures