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Academic Senate Faculty Research Grants

Academic Senate Committee on Research Faculty Grant Recipients 2024

PI

Co-PI

Project Title

School(s)

Amount Funded

Eileen Kogl Camfield

Emily Johnston

Open Source Funding for Joy-Informed Pedagogy

SSHA

$12,372.00

Jing Xu

Cargo membrane fluidity as a determinant of motor protein function

SNS

$9,872.00

Anna Nierenberg

An improved model for gravitational lensing dark matter studies

SNS

$9,606.00

Changho Kim

Lei, Yue

Intriguing Mathematical Structure and Properties Observed in the Reversible Adsorption of Dimers on Finite Lattices

SNS

$19,872.00

Meng Tang

 —

Generative Data Augmentation for Visual Perception

SoE

$9,872.00

Jiajun Liang

 —

Writing Memories: Colonial Nostalgia in Hayashi Fumiko’s Postwar Fictions

SSHA

$9,872.00

Maria DePrano

 —

Artisan Book Ownership in Renaissance Florence

SSHA

$6,572.00

Greg Wright

 —

The Long-Run Impact of a Trade Shock on Educational Attainment

SSHA

$7,222.00

Jeff Yoshimi

 —

Travel to ASSC Conference to Present Research

SSHA

$2,372.00

Eva de Alba

 —

Ligand Binding and Oligomerization in Pattern Recognition Receptors

SoE

$9,872.00

Kevin Dawson

 —

Black Seaports in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

SSHA

$9,872.00

Ramesh Balasubramaniam

 —

Brain Dynamics of Music Learning & Predictive Processing

SSHA

$9,872.00

Ayush Pandey

 —

Safety guarantees for large language models

SoE

$9,872.00

Christina Torres

 —

Human mobility in the Archaic Period (5300-3500 BP): Interaction and exchange on northern Chile’s hyperarid Atacama Desert coast

SSHA

$4,672.00

Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan

 —

Learning decision diagrams for classification, regression and other machine learning problems

SoE

$9,872.00

Xiaoyi Lu

 —

Ada4Sci: Application-Defined Accelerations for Scientific Discovery

SoE

$9,872.00

Hua Huang

Ahmed Sabbir Arif

Hampad: An Electromagnetic Tracking and Haptic Feedback System for Feet-based Interaction in Virtual Reality

SoE

$19,872.00

Jason Sexton

 —

Coupling plant phenology and environmental DNA to detect global change responses

SNS

$9,872.00

Jayson Beaster-Jones

 —

Music Memory Hours: Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memory in India

SSHA

$8,130.00

Po-Ya Abel Chuang

 —

Study of Liquid Water Transport in Porous Media Using Neutron Radiography

SoE

$9,872.00

Justin Yeakel

 —

Unraveling Ecological Drivers Of Mammalian Macroevolution

SNS

$9,872.00

Ramendra Saha

 —

Building novel optogenetic tools to study biomolecular phase separation

SNS

$9,872.00

Alexander Petersen

Tea Lempiala

Multi-campus university systems and regional innovation systems; understanding the role of organizational culture and research synergies

SoE

$19,872.00

Boaz Ilan

Roummel Marcia

Mathematical Models of Solar Concentrators

SNS

$19,872.00

Patricia LiWang

Jennifer Lu

Advancing Cancer Treatment: Innovative 3D Printed Sensors for Enhanced Detection of Cancer Markers

SNS, SoE

$16,872.00

Linda Hirst

 —

Building a new microscope apparatus for accurate microtubule tracking in active biological fluid

SNS

$9,872.00

Sachin Goyal

 —

A Novel Inverse Mechanics-Based Approach to Model and Understand the Deformability of Biological Filaments

SoE

$9,872.00

Mindy Findlater

 —

Impact of Learning Assistants in Large Introductory Biology Discussions

SNS

$9,856.00

Michael Findlater

 —

Metalla-Electrocatalytic Approaches to Upcycling Polymers

SNS

$9,872.00

Yiran Xu

 —

Linguistic landscape

SSHA

$9,872.00

     

TOTAL

$324,986.00