2018-19 Faculty Grant Recipients

PI Serena Alexander

College of Social Sciences,  Urban and Regional Planning

Proposal: Harmonizing Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Oakland, CA

PI Benjamin Anderson

College of Business, Accounting and Finance

Proposal: Financial Analysts' Response to Bank Risk Management Committee Formation

PI Alessandro Bellofiore

College of Engineering, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Proposal: An Experimental Investigation of the Mechanisms of Blood Clotting Caused by Prosthetic Heart Valves

PI Anji Buckner-Capone

College of Health and Human Sciences, Health Science and Recreation

Proposal: Assessing School Climate Assessment Processes in California Public Schools: What Superintendents Tell us About the Collection and Use of School Climate Data in K-12 

PI Seung Ho Chang

College of Health and Human Sciences, Kinesiology

Proposal: Promoting Motor Skills and Self-Regulation for Socioeconomically Disadvantaged and Ethnic Minority Children

PI Guangliang Chen 

College of Science, Mathematics and Statistics

Proposal: A New Landmark-based Large-scale Spectral Clustering Algorithm using Diffusion Coordinates on Bipartite Graphs

PI Lionel Cheruzel

College of Science, Chemistry

Proposal: Photocatalysis and Light-driven Biocatalysis in Continuous Flow

PI Edward Cohen

College of Health and Human Sciences, Social Work

Proposal: Evaluation of a Prevention Program for Youth and Families in Juvenile Justice

PI Mary Currin-Percival

College of Social Sciences, Political Science

Proposal: Active-Learning and Civic Knowledge in an American Government Course

PI David Daum

College of Health and Human Sciences, Kinesiology 

Proposal: Technology Perceptions, Expectations and Usage: Investigating the Alignment Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers

PI Jan English-Leuck

College of Social Sciences, Anthropology

Proposal: Crafting Utopia and Re-engineering Nature in Silicon Valley

PI A. J. Faas

College of Social Sciences, Anthropology

Proposal: Cascading Impacts, Community, and Recovery: Resettlement in Ecuador After Ten Years

PI Maria Fusaro

College of Education, Child & Adolescent Development

Proposal: The Emergence of Questions in Early Communication

PI Deepika Goyal

College of Health and Human Sciences, Nursing

Proposal: Perspectives of Perinatal Depression in Korean American Women: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Co-PI: 

• Meekyung Han,College of Health and Human Sciences, Social Work

PI Jooyeon Ha 

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

Proposal: Measuring Quality of Service Technology in Restaurants: Scale Development and Validation

PI Crystal Han

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Proposal: On-chip Pre-concentration Technology for Rapid and Sensitive Immunoassay

PI Benedikt Harrer

College of Science, Physics and Astronomy

Proposal: Using Geometric Algebra to Aid Physics Students' Understanding of Rational Motion

PI Jennifer Hartle

College of Health and Human Sciences; Health Science and Recreation

Proposal: Dietary Exposures to Phenols and Phthalates from Food Packaging: Validation of Dietary Risk Survey

PI Michael Harvey

College of Health and Human Sciences, Health Science and Recreation

Proposal: Examining the Links Between Structural Vulnerability, Health Care Access, and Health Status Among an Indigenous Guatemalan Population in Fruitvale, Oakland

PI Jo Hernandez

College of Humanities and the Arts, Art and Art History

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

PI Areum Jensen

College of Health and Human Sciences, Kinesiology 

Proposal: The Effect of Exercise Training on Vascular Function and Risk Factors in Adults with Cerebral Palsy

PI Lara Kassab

College of Education, Teacher Education

Proposal: Preparing New Teachers to use Educational Technology: Investigating the (In) Equalities of Expectations Between Teacher Educators, administrators, and experienced teachers.

PI Ozgur Keles

College of Engineering; Biomedical, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Proposal: Vibration-assisted Additive Manufacturing of Polymer Matrix Composites: Effects of Dual Vibrations and Printing Speed on Mechanical Reliability

PI Michael Klein

College of Business, Marketing and Decision Sciences

Proposal: Dialysis Facilities: Does location, staffing and mode impact access to care?

PI Susan Lambrecht

College of Science, Biological Sciences

Proposal: Rapid Evolution in a Native Plant in Response to California’s Recent Drought

PI Matthew Leineweber

College of Engineering; Biomedical, Chemical, and Materials Engineering

Proposal: Developing a 3D Gait Model for Simulating Motor Control Strategies in Individuals Using Above-knee Prostheses

PI Zongchao Li

College of Health and Human Sciences, Journalism and Mass Communications

Proposal: To Love or to Hate? Relationship Norm, Interactional Fairness, and Controllability on Consumer Responses to A Failure Situation

PI Laura Long

College of Humanities and the Arts, Film and Theatre

Proposal: Indieland, a Six Episode Mockumentary Web Series

PI Shishir Mathur

College of Social Sciences, Urban and Regional Planning

Proposal: Urban Growth Boundary's Impact Across the Entire House Price Spectrum 

PI Kevin Moore

College of Humanities and the Arts, Linguistics and Language Development 

Proposal: Conference Travel to Present "'Following' in Ego-centered Moving Time and fictive motion"

PI Elizabeth Mullen

College of Business, Management

Proposal: Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility

PI Mary Pickering

College of Social Sciences, History

Proposal: Siege of Paris

PI Carlie Pietsch

College of Science, Geology

Proposal: Business As Usual or a New Normal? Investigating the Recovery from the End-Permian Mass Extinction

PI Katerina Potika

College of Science, Computer Science

Proposal: Local Community Detection in Online Graphs

PI Colette Rabin

College of Education, Teacher Education

Proposal: Improving Teacher Preparation through Co-Teaching

PI Madalyn Radlauer

College of Science, Chemistry

Proposal: Iridium Catalysis in Polymers in Pursuit of Efficient Liquid Fuel Production

PI Ferdinand Rivera

College of Science, Mathematics and Statistics

Proposal: Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Formative Assessment-Driven Classrooms

PI Liat Rosenfield

College of Engineering; Biomedical, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Proposal: Incorporating Janus silica Nanoparticles in PDMS - Toward a New Era in Microfluidic Based Biosensors

PI Cheyla Samuelson

College of Humanities and the Arts, World Languages and Literatures

Proposal: Beyond the Narconovela: Alternative Narratives of Violence in Contemporary Mexico

PI Virginia San Fratello

College of Humanities and the Arts, Design 

Proposal: House of Clay/House of Snow

PI Carlos Sanchez

College of Humanities and the Arts, Philosophy

Proposal: Translation of Emilio Uranga's Analisis Del Ser Del Mexicano

PI Elizabeth Sibilia

College of Social Sciences, Geography

Proposal: Myth and Method: the Political-economic, Social and Environmental Imperatives of Demystifying the 'Origin' of Shipbreaking in Bangladesh

PI Steven Silver

College of Business, Marketing and Decision Sciences

Proposal: Discriminating Charismatic Leadership in the US Presidency from the Value Content of Press Conferences

PI Melinda Simon

College of Engineering; Biomedical, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Proposal: Improving the Physiological Relevance of Drug Testing for Drug-Loaded Nanoparticles using 3D Tumor Spheroids

PI Ryan Skinnell

College of Humanities and the Arts, English and Comparative Literature

Proposal: Rhetoric and Demagoguery

PI Elizabeth Skrovan

College of Science, Biological Sciences

Proposal: The Role of a LysR-type Transcriptional Regulator in Carbon Distribution, Stress Response, and Bioplastic Production in Methylobacterium extroquens

PI Julia Swan

College of Humanities and the Arts, Linguistics & Language Development

Proposal: Linguistic Innovation in Multi-Ethnic San Jose

PI Elizabeth Sweet

College of Social Sciences, Sociology & Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Proposal: "She's a Dream Come True..." Femininity and the Emergence of the Fantasy Princess in 20th Century Toy Advertisements

PI Shaonan Tian

College of Business, Marketing and Decision Sciences

Proposal: Can Textual Disclosures Predict Bankruptcy? Applications of Deep Learning Models

PI Cristina Tortora

College of Science, Mathematics and Statistics

Proposal: Probabilistic Distance Clustering for Frequency Data

PI Pei-Tzu Tsai

College of Education,  Communicative Disorders & Sciences

Proposal: The Impact of Pitch on Transgender Voice Perception

PI Ningkun Wang

College of Science, Chemistry

Proposal: Defining Internal Interactions that Affect the Activity of SIRT1, a Deacetylase Enzyme

PI David Whitenack 

College of Education, Teacher Education

Proposal: Preparing Teachers For All Students: Comparative Case Studies