ACADEMIC SENATE AWARDS
2022-2023
ANTIRACISM MINI GRANTS
Topic: Faculty Mini-Grants Program to Combat Structural Racism to Promote a More Inclusive UC Campus
Please click on this Call for further details.
Application is available here.
Grant budget form is available here.
Email: senateminigrants@ucmerced.edu
2022-2023
|
PI |
Project Title |
School(s) |
Amount Funded |
|
Iris Ruiz |
Anti-racist Practices in Writing Program Administration |
Merritt Writing Program (MWP) |
$3000.00 |
|
Antoinette Stone |
A Repository of Tactical Pedagogies Designed to Improve Cultural Sensitivities and Promote Anti-racism in a Science Classroom |
SNS |
$1,500.00 |
SENATE FACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
In 2022-2023, the Academic Senate offered professional development grants to Senate faculty with funds from the Senate's portion of the MacKenzie Scott campus gift. These grants were managed by the Senate Committee on Faculty Welfare and Academic Freedom. The Call for Proposals is available here. Funds expire June 30, 2024.
| Applicant | School | Amount Funded |
| Po-Ya Abel Chuang | SoE | $5,000.00 |
| Aditi Chandra | SSHA | $3,450.00 |
| Ahmed Sabbir Arif | SoE | $5,000.00 |
| Cassandra "Beth" Koontz Scaffidi | SSHA | $3,350.00 |
| Carolin Frank | SNS | $1,250.00 |
| Cristian Ricci | SSHA | $900.00 |
| Dalia Magana | SSHA | $3,450.00 |
| Fan Jia | SSHA | $1,990.00 |
| Irenee Beattie | SSHA | $2,750.00 |
| Karl Ryavec | SSHA | $2,061.00 |
| Meng Tang | SoE | $3,500.00 |
| Melinda (Mindy) Findlater | SNS | $2,134.00 |
| Ren Liu | SSHA | $1,990.00 |
| Ricardo Pinto de Castro | SoE | $2,675.00 |
| Rowena Gray | SSHA | $1,500.00 |
| Siddaiah Yarra | SoE | $5,000.00 |
| Xuan Zhang | SNS | $2,000.00 |
| TOTAL: $48,000.00 |
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPPLEMENTAL TRAVEL AWARD
Please click on this Call for further details.
Deadline: 11:59pm, Thursday, May 25, 2023
Email: senatoffice@ucmerced.edu
|
Student |
Discipline |
Graduate Group Chairs/PI(s) |
Amount funded by Graduate Group/PI(s) |
Amount matched by the Graduate Division |
| Chanuwas Aswamenaku | Cognitive & Informational Sciences | Paul Smaldino | $500.00 | $500.00 |
|
Ellis Cain |
Cognitive & Informational Sciences |
Paul Smaldino |
$500.00 |
$500.00 |
|
Juan Sergio Ponce de Leon |
Cognitive & Informational Sciences |
Paul Smaldino |
$500.00 |
$500.00 |
|
Andrew Proulx |
Cognitive & Informational Sciences |
Paul Smaldino |
$500.00 |
$500.00 |
|
Joshua Clingo |
Cognitive & Informational Sciences |
Paul Smaldino |
$500.00 |
$500. 00 |
|
Zabir Mahmud |
Environmental Systems |
Emily Moran |
$820.00 |
$500.00 |
|
Shelby Defeo |
Environmental Systems |
Emily Moran |
$750.00 |
$500.00 |
|
Amir Sharafi |
Environmental Systems |
Emily Moran |
$750.00 |
$500.00 |
|
Kimberly Valle |
Public Health |
Alec Chan-Golston and Asa Bradman |
$1250.00 |
$500.00 |
|
Samuel Erickson |
Physics |
Sayantani Ghosh |
$500.00 |
$500.00 |
|
René Becerra |
Sociology |
Nella Van Dyke |
$500.00 |
$500.00 |
|
Jarrod Levell Brown Jr. |
Sociology |
Nella Van Dyke |
$500.00 |
$500.00 |
|
Gabriela Flores |
Sociology |
Nella Van Dyke |
$500.00 |
$500.00 |
|
Rasha Naseif |
Sociology |
Nella Van Dyke |
$830.00 |
$500.00 |
|
Alauna Wheeler |
Physics |
Chih-Chun Chien |
$500.00 |
$500.00 |
|
Devika Gireesan Sudha |
Physics |
Chih-Chun Chien |
$500.00 |
$500.00 |
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS
Email: senatoffice@ucmerced.edu
|
Scholar Name (Full Name) |
Major |
Title of Research Project |
Faculty Mentor's First Name |
Faculty Mentor's Last Name |
|
Julie M Gomez |
Biological Sciences, Ecology and Evolution Emphasis |
The Effects of Peer Led Tutoring in an Introductory Biology Course |
Petra |
Kranzfelder |
|
Joshua Ancheta |
Mechanical Engineering |
Comparative Nanotribological Properties of MoS2 and (HEA)S2 Thin Films |
Mehmet |
Baykara |
|
Jesus De La Mora |
Mechanical Engineering |
Tribological Phenomena |
Ashlie |
Martini |
|
Axel Jacobo |
Cognitive Science |
Material Flammability |
Jeanette |
Cobian-Iñiguez |
|
Rodolfo Galvan Nunez |
Computer Science and Engineering with a Minor in Applied Mathematics |
Solar Power Inverters |
Ricardo |
Pinto de Castro |
|
Janelle Perez |
Cognitive Science |
UC Merced Course Registration Interface Redesign Study |
Ahmed |
Arif |
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. The Call for Proposals is available here.
2022-2023 recipients (Past Recipients)
|
PI |
Co-PI |
Project Title |
Originating/Lead School |
Amount Funded |
|
David Strubbe |
— |
New approach to calculate excited states of defects for quantum computing |
SNS |
$7,380.68 |
|
Fan Jia |
— |
A Shiny App for Searching for Efficient Designs in Developmental Sciences |
SSHA |
$6,230.68 |
|
Weisong Gao |
— |
Intimate Waters: A Queer Ecological Inquiry of Asian Diaspora |
SSHA |
$7,380.68 |
|
Henrik R. Larsson |
— |
Unraveling Attosecond Molecular Charge Migration by Quantum Dynamics Simulations using Novel Quantum Simulation Tools |
SNS |
$7,380.68 |
|
Andrea Merg |
— |
Engineering Porous 3D Frameworks from Multivalent Peptide Macrocycles |
SNS |
$7,380.68 |
|
Rebeca Arevalo |
— |
Discovery of sustainable catalysts for C(sp3)-C(sp3) bond functionalization |
SNS |
$7,380.68 |
|
Briana Ballis |
Andrew Johnston |
Parental Divorce, Death, Incarceration and their effects on Child Achievement |
SSHA |
$14,880.68 |
|
David Noelle |
Rachel Ryskin |
The Role of Prefrontal Cortex in Predictive Sentence Processing |
SSHA |
$14,880.68 |
|
Tao Ye |
— |
Synthesis of Quantum Dot Artificial Molecules with Designer Geometries |
SNS |
$7,380.68 |
|
Jay Sharping |
Raymond Chiao |
A spectroscopic test of the scalar Aharanov-Bohm effect in a Faraday Cage |
SNS |
$14,809.08 |
|
Emily Moran |
— |
The genetics of climate responses in Abies religiosa – a vital species for monarch butterfly conservation |
SNS |
$7,380.68 |
|
YangQuan Chen |
— |
Soil carbon smart sensing module using VIS-NIR spectrometry enabled by explainable artificial intelligence Internet of Things (XAIoT) technology |
SoE |
$7,380.68 |
|
Kinjal Dasbiswas |
Ajay Gopinathan |
Chiral active chains |
SNS |
$14,880.68 |
|
Min Hwan Lee |
— |
Long-term high-temperature electrochemical cell test station |
SoE |
$7,380.68 |
|
Stephen Wooding |
— |
Genetic diversity and natural selection in cassava, a key Amazonian crop |
SSHA |
$7,380.68 |
|
Bercem Dutagaci |
— |
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of RNA Polymerase II C-terminal Domain in Concentrated Solutions |
SNS |
$7,380.68 |
|
Katrina Hoyer |
— |
Microbiota protection from Coccidioides infection (Valley fever) |
SNS |
$7,380.68 |
|
Nestor Oviedo |
— |
Analysis of Cellular Transformation During Tissue Renewal |
SNS |
$7,380.68 |
|
Mai-Linh Hong |
— |
Perilous Telling: Story in the Shadow of the Refugee Regime (book manuscript development) |
SSHA |
$7,555.18 |
|
Holley Moyes |
— |
Photogrammetry in Heritage Preservation |
SSHA |
$7,363.68 |
|
Carolyn Jennings |
Angelo Kyrilov |
Data on Graduate Student Experience and Employment in Philosophy |
SSHA |
$14,190.56 |
|
Tanya Golash-Boza |
— |
Real Estate Speculation in Brightwood Park, DC |
SSHA |
$7,360.68 |
|
Michael Dawson |
— |
Cardinal Rules for Conservation |
SNS |
$6,852.68 |
|
Sachin Goyal |
Christian Fons-Rosen |
Prosthetic Leg Design, Adoption and its Impact on Well-Being |
SoE |
$14,880.68 |
|
David Kaminsky |
— |
Racial Politics of Swing, Blues, and Fusion Dancing |
SSHA |
$7,379.68 |
|
Beth Scaffidi |
— |
Resource-Driven Migration and State Collapse: A Case Study of Resource Management and Well-being in Times of Post-Wari Era Climate Stress (ca. 1000-1432 CE) |
SSHA |
$7,379.68 |
|
Dustin Kleckner |
— |
Fluid Dynamics of Low Renolds Number Wings |
SNS |
$7,380.68 |
|
Rowena Gray |
— |
Rent and the City |
SSHA |
$5,880.68 |
|
Michael Cleary |
Gordon Bennett |
Genome and Microbiome Diversity in Novel Domesticated Strains of Black Soldier Fly |
SNS |
$14,880.68 |
|
Stefan C. Materna |
Stephanie Woo |
Tell me where you come from and I’ll tell you where you’ll go: linking cell migration to cell fate in embryonic development of the gastrointestinal tract |
SNS |
$14,880.68 |
|
Ramendra Saha |
— |
A study of BAF complex functions in neurons using novel inhibitor '704'. |
SNS |
$7,380.68 |
Academic Senate Faculty Instrumentation Grants
In 2022-2023, the Academic Senate offered instrumentation grants to Senate faculty with funds from the Senate's portion of the MacKenzie Scott campus gift. These grants were managed by the Senate Commitee on Research. The Call for Proposals is available here.
|
PI(s) |
Project Title |
Originating/Lead School |
Amount Funded |
|
Changqing Li |
SoE |
A microPET scanner for small animal imaging at UC Merced |
$150,000.00 |
|
Michael Findlater/David Rice |
SNS |
Upgrade of the 500 MHz NMR in the NMR Facility to Support Low Sample-temperature NMR |
$20,439.00 |
|
Rebecca Ryals |
SNS |
Multi-user equipment replacement and upgrade: Acquisition of an Automated Discrete Analyzer for the Environmental Analytical Laboratory (EAL) |
$69,237.85 |
|
Jason Sexton |
SNS |
Shared equipment upgrade: independent, remote, and automated watering and environmental controls for UC Merced Greenhouses |
$54,600.00 |
