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Academic Senate Faculty Research Grants

Academic Senate Committee on Research Faculty Grant Recipients 2024-2025

PI

Co-PI

Project Title

School(s)

Amount Funded

Adeyemi Adebiyi

-

How will Climate Change affect the Southern African Easterly Jet?

SNS

$3,261.00

Harish S. Bhat

-

Scalable Algorithms for Quantum Optimal Control of Electron Dynamics

SNS

$4,552.31

Hui Cai

-

Altermagnetic MnTe: Controlling Magnetic and Electronic Properties Through Advanced

Synthesis

SNS

$7,500.00

Carolin Frank

-

Unveiling Truffle Microbiomes: Investigating Bacterial Contributions to Fungal-Plant-

Mammal Interactions

SNS

$7,500.00

Shilpa Khatri

-

Mathematical Methods to Study Fluid Flows of Symbiotic Systems

SNS

$7,500.00

Jennifer O. Manilay

-

Pesticide Exposure and Immune Health: Molecular Mechanisms of Pyraclostrobin-Induced

Thymic Dysfunction

SNS

$7,500.00

Stefan C. Materna

-

Deciphering spatial control of gene expression—one cell at a time

SNS

$7,500.00

Clarissa J. Nobile

-

Genetic regulation of interspecies biofilm formation

SNS

$7,500.00

Rudy M. Ortiz

Ruben M. Ceballos

Impacts of Long COVID on Hepatic Lipid Metabolism

SNS

$14,000.00

Stephanie Woo

-

Investigating the effects of forchlorfenuron on BMP signaling

SNS

$7,500.00

Mehmet Baykara

-

Atomic-Resolution Imaging and Electronic Spectroscopy of Moiré Patterns in 2D Quantum

Materials

SOE

$7,500.00

Alberto E. Cerpa

-

EDRP: Enhanced Dynamic Relay Point Protocol for Data Dissemination in Multi-hop

Wireless IoT Networks

SOE

$7,500.00

Ross Greer

-

Multimodal Machine Learning for Safety Assessments of Health, Alcohol, and Cannabis

Impairment Effects on Driving Behavior

SOE

$7,500.00

Hyeran Jeon

-

Pathway to AI-assisted Computer Design

SOE

$7,500.00

Qian Wang

-

Advancing Post-Quantum Cryptographic (PQC) Algorithms for Modern Computing

Platform

SOE

$7,499.84

Florin Rusu

-

Novel Sketching Methods for Vector Similarity Search

SOE

$7,500.00

Anand Bala Subramaniam

-

Lipid mesophase formation and mechanism for giant vesicle assembly

SOE

$7,500.00

Yiwei Wang

-

Educational Vision-Language Agent: An Instruction Tuning Framework for Embedding

Educational Agent Capabilities into Vision Language Models

SOE

$7,000.00

Kristina Backer

-

Decoding the Nature of Audiovisual Representations in Short-Term Memory

SSHA

$7,500.00

Aditi Chandra

-

Women and the Landscape: Mughal Gardens and the Colonial Imaginary

SSHA

$7,310.00

Nigel Hatton

-

21st Century Fanon: Global Poetic and Philosophical Pathways to New Language and a

New Humanity

SSHA

$4,000.00

Ren Liu

-

Improving Measurement Precision and Validity Using Machine Learning Techniques

SSHA

$3,750.00

Yang Lor

-

Contextual Identities: Exploring Hmong American College Students’ Racial and Ethnic

Identity in Wisconsin and California

SSHA

$7,500.00

Alexandra Main

Mayra Bámaca, Elif Isbell, Eric Walle

Parents as Teachers Home Visiting Study

SSHA

$22,500.00

Kit Myers

-

Convention on the Rights of the Child as it Relates to Transnational Adoption

SSHA

$4,859.00

Samantha Tetangco Ocena

-

Creative Writing Craft for the Next Generation

SSHA

$7,000.00

Christopher Ojeda

Anil Menon

Blaming the Loser: Responsibility Attributions in the Wake of Elections

SSHA

$11,320.00

Cristián Ricci

-

Enhancing Research through the Don Quixote Fellowship and Global Hispanophone

Studies

SSHA

$2,800.00

Alexandra C. Rivera-González

-

Health Care Provider Experiences with Puerto Rico Managed Care Health Insurance

Plans

SSHA

$7,500.00

Karl Ryavec

-

Field Mapping Buddhist Architectural Heritage in Zanskar, India

SSHA

$6,050.00

Muey Ching Saeteurn

-

Weathering Independence: Hail Suppression, Economic Influence, and the Persistence of

Multinational Power in Post-Colonial Kenya

SSHA

$7,493.00

Rose Scott

-

The rich and the benevolent: exploring beliefs about social status and morality across

childhood

SSHA

$7,459.21

Andrew Shaver

-

Developing Global, Historical, Subnational Dataset on Political Violence, Social Unrest,

and Natural Disasters

SSHA

$5,000.00

Ana Tur-Prats

-

Male Dominance and Cultural Extinction

SSHA

$7,500.00

Yueqi Yan

-

Using Semi-supervised Learning Strategies to Predict the Risk of Underdiagnosed Mental

Health Concerns with Electronic Health Records

SSHA

$6,656.25

Matthew Zawadzki

Sarah Depaoli

Boosting Adherence to mHealth Meditation: Examining What Kind of User Completes

App-Based Mindfulness Training

SSHA

$14,989.00

 

 

 

TOTAL:

274,999.61