ACADEMIC SENATE AWARDS
2021-2022
| Dr. Fred Spiess Award for Distinguished Service to the Academic Senate | Patti LiWang | SNS |
| Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award for a Senate Faculty | Elaine Denny | SSHA |
| Distinguished Graduate Teaching/Mentorship Award | Katrina Hoyer | SNS |
| Distinguished Early Career Research Award | Xuecai (Susan) Ge | SNS |
| Distinction in Research Award | Ashlie Martini | SOE |
| Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award | Edward Orozco Flores | SSHA |
| Excellence in Faculty Mentorship Award | Josh Viers | SOE |
| Contributions to Diversity Award | Maria Martin | SSHA |
| Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching for a Non-Senate Faculty Award | Kristina Callaghan | SNS |
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Award for Contributions to Shared Governance Sarah Frey, Vice Provost and Dean, Undergraduate Education Chris Kello, Vice Provost and Dean, Graduate Education Holley Moyes, Undergraduate Council Chair Erin Hestir, Graduate Council Chair Fatima Paul, Senate Executive Director Simrin Takhar, Senate Principal Analyst Melanie Snyder, Senate Analyst Sang Lee, Senate Analyst Naoko Kada, Former Senate Staff Member |
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Nomination form
(Past Recipients)
ANTIRACISM MINI GRANTS
Topic: Faculty Mini Grants to Combat Structural Racism to Promote a More Inclusive University
Deadline: 5:00pm, Friday, May 20, 2022
Please click on this Call for further details.
Application is available here.
Grant budget form is available here.
Email: senateminigrants@ucmerced.edu
|
PI |
Project Title |
School(s) |
Amount Funded |
|
Jayson Beaster-Jones |
Gateway to Merced: UC Merced Staff Experiences |
SSHA |
$5,000.00 |
| Nigel Hatton | Captivated Thinking: Addressing Incarceration and the Prisons Surrounding UC Merced Through a Pilot Common Read Program with Potential for the Undergraduate General Education Curriculum | SSHA | $5,000.00 |
| Catherine Koehler | Building a Prison- to-University Pipeline at UC Merced |
Merritt Writing Program |
$5,000.00 |
| Yang Lor | The Development of Bias-Free Student Evaluations of Teachings | SSHA | $4,600.00 |
| Maria Martin | Black and African Diaspora Studies Conference | SSHA | $5,000.00 |
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Helen Sandoval |
Toward Trauma- Informed Pedagogy: An Anti-Racism Learning Community Project |
Merritt Writing Program |
$5,000.00 |
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Derek Sollberger |
Bisexual Research Group |
SNS |
$2,500.00 |
| Derek Sollberger |
Implicit Bias in Data Visualization |
SNS | $100.00 |
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Todd Sorensen |
Interviews to Increase Inclusivity in Economics Curriculum |
SSHA |
$3.300.00 |
| Dawn Trook | Central Valley Stories | SSHA | $5,000.00 |
| Siddaiah Yarra | Inclusive Learning Climate through Diverse Academia and Industry Partnered Speaker Series | SOE | $5,000.00 |
ACADEMIC SENATE FACULTY GRANTS
The Academic Senate offers grants to Senate faculty through its annual faculty grants program. The grants program is managed by the Senate Commitee on Research.
2021-2022 recipients (Past Recipients)
|
PI |
Co-PI(s) |
Project Title |
School(s) |
Amount Funded |
|
Adeyemi Adebiyi |
- |
Investigating the overlooked impacts of longwave dust-cloud interactions on the Earth’s climate system |
SNS |
$5,000.00 |
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Chris Amemiya |
- |
Towards a paradigm shift: Mononclonal antibodies for the masses |
SNS |
$5,000.00 |
|
Harish S. Bhat |
Boaz Ilan, Christine M. Isborn |
Dynamic Learning of Potentials for More Accurate Simulations of Electron Dynamics |
SNS |
$15,000.00 |
|
François Blanchette |
- |
Simulating deep-sea mining’s impact on benthic (deep ocean) systems |
SNS |
$5,000.00 |
|
Carolin Frank |
- |
Microbiome of the drought tolerant blue oak |
SNS |
$5,000.00 |
|
Marcos E. García-Ojeda |
- |
The learning environment, affective factors and academic performance
|
SNS |
$5,000.00 |
|
Linda Hirst |
- |
Effect of e-cigarette additives on lung surfactant |
SNS |
$5,000.00 |
|
Shilpa Khatri |
Roummel Marcia, Kevin Mitchell |
Machine Learning for Predictions of Pulsing Soft Corals |
SNS |
$15,000.00 |
|
Sora Kim |
Claire Lukens, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe |
Geochemical tracing of California wildfire: implications for pyrogenic carbon distribution and paleofire reconstruction |
SNS |
$14,999.00 |
|
Jennifer O. Manilay |
- |
Pesticides and Bone Marrow Failure |
SNS |
$5,000.00 |
|
Michele K. Nishiguchi |
Stefan C. Materna |
Evolution and developmental origins of light organ lens in a squid bioluminescent bacterium mutualism |
SNS |
$10,000.00 |
|
Erica Rutter |
Suzanne Sindi |
Learning & analyzing differential equations from multiscale agent based models in mathematical biology |
SNS |
$10,000.00 |
|
Liang Shi |
- |
Understanding the Structure and Thermodynamics of Anti-Freeze Protein via Molecular Simulation and Computational Spectroscopy |
SNS |
$5,000.00 |
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Mark Sistrom |
- |
Using Klebsiella pneumoiniae phage to treat drug resistant ventilator associated pneumonia in the age of COVID19 |
SNS |
$4,964.00 |
|
Emilia Sogin |
Clarissa J. Nobile, Aaron Hernday, Juris Grasis
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Microbial communities associated with the seagrass Zostera marina |
SNS |
$20,000.00 |
|
Justin D. Yeakel |
- |
Exploring the relationships between morphological variation, dietary breadth, and patterns of extinction among Hawaiian Honeycreepers (Drepanididae) |
SNS |
$5,000.00 |
|
Roberto C. Andresen Eguiluz |
Michael Findlater |
Synthesis and characterization of novel ionic liquids for low viscosity lubrication |
SOE, SNS |
$10,000.00 |
|
Ahmed Sabbir Arif |
Shijia Pan |
Smart Kiosk for Raising Awareness of Recycling in the UC Merced Community |
SOE |
$10,000.00 |
|
Wei-Chun Chin |
Changqing Li |
Rapid automatic point of care system using functional nanomaterials for COVID-19 antibody detection |
SOE |
$10,000.00 |
|
Po-Ya Abel Chuang |
- |
Development of a New Rheo-Impedance Method to Characterize Catalyst Structure for Energy Conversion or Hydrogen Generation |
SOE |
$5,000.00 |
|
Jeanette Cobian |
Ricardo Cisneros |
Wildfire Emissions in the age of COVID-19: insights from indoor and outdoor air quality in a university campus |
SOE, SSHA |
$8,778.00 |
|
Jennifer Lu |
- |
Suppressing ion shuttling for high performance aqueous Zn-I2 batteries for integration renewable energies into electric grid |
SOE |
$5,000.00 |
|
Alexander Petersen |
Jeffrey Jenkins |
Empirical method for evaluating knowledge supply-demand alignment in the US National Parks to inform both management and sustainability science |
SOE |
$10,000.00 |
|
Pengfei Su |
- |
Towards Efficient Big-data Software Stacks |
SOE |
$5,000.00 |
|
Anand Bala Subramaniam |
- |
Gaint liposomes for sustainable, cost-effective lateral flow Covid-19 antigen tests |
SOE |
$5,000.00 |
|
Camila Alvarez |
Charlie Eaton, Whitney Pirtle |
Missing Pictures and Stories in STEM Education: W.E.B. Du Bois and Inclusive Curriculum for Quantitative Methods and Data Science Instruction |
SSHA |
$15,000.00 |
|
Justin Cook |
- |
Potatoes, Milk, and Old World Conflict |
SSHA |
$4,227.00 |
|
Sarah Depaoli |
- |
Observing the Unobservable: How to Statistically Identify Unobserved Groups |
SSHA |
$5,000.00 |
|
Christian Fons-Rosen |
- |
Novelty in Entrepreneurial Innovation |
SSHA |
$4,800.00 |
|
Rowena Gray |
- |
Police Jobs, Mobility, and Race in American Urban History |
SSHA |
$5,000.00 |
|
Haiyan Liu |
- |
A Novel Double Latent Space Modeling of Social Networks |
SSHA |
$5,000.00 |
|
Haifeng Huang |
- |
The Effects of American Public Diplomacy in China |
SSHA |
$2,500.00 |
|
Jayson Beaster-Jones |
David Torres-Rouff, Anne Zanzucchi |
Livingston Centennial Project |
SSHA |
$15,000.00 |
|
Holley Moyes |
- |
3D Mapping of Ancient Maya Cave Sites: A Revolution in Cave Archaeology |
SSHA |
$5,000.00 |
|
Ren Liu |
- |
Uncover the Meaning Behind Nonresponses: The Development of Three Novel Statistical Methods |
SSHA |
$5,000.00 |
|
Tesalia Rizzo |
- |
The Social Impact of Participatory Financial Inclusion Programs in Rural Mexico |
SSHA |
$5,000.00 |
|
Yehuda Sharim |
- |
Y Escalar: Documenting Prison Communities in Rural California |
SSHA |
$5,000.00 |
|
Yiran Xu |
Paul Gibbons |
A translingual approach to writing: Developing translingual dispositions and writing competence among students in upper division writing courses |
SSHA |
$9,564.00 |
| Total: $289,832 |