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Academic Senate Awards and Research Grants

ACADEMIC SENATE AWARDS

2022-2023

Dr. Fred Spiess Award for Distinguished Service to the Academic Senate (CoC)

Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award for a Senate Faculty (UGC)

Distinguished Graduate Teaching/Mentorship Award (GC)

Distinguished Early Career Research Award (CoR)

Distinction in Research Award (CoR)

Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award (CoC)

Excellence in Faculty Mentorship Award (FWAF) 

Contributions to Diversity Award (EDI) 

Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award for a Non-Senate Faculty (UGC) 

Nomination Form 

 

(Past Recipients)

 


ANTIRACISM MINI GRANTS


Topic: Faculty Mini-Grants Program to Combat Structural Racism to Promote a More Inclusive UC Campus

Deadline: 5:00pm, Monday, April 3, 2023

Please click on this Call for further details.

Application is available here

Grant budget form is available here.

Email: senateminigrants@ucmerced.edu

 

(Past Recipients)

 


SENATE FACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS


Topic: Professional Development Grant Program UC Merced Academic Senate

Deadline: 11:59 pm, Friday, April 14, 2023

Please click on this Call for further details.

Submit electronically to the Senate Office to the attention of Simrin Takhar, Principal Analyst: senateoffice@ucmerced.edu

Decisions will be announced by Tuesday, April 25, 2023

 


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.

 

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.

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