ACADEMIC SENATE AWARDS
2018-2019 Recipients (Past Recipients)
| Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award | Eric Walle | SSHA |
| Distinguished Graduate Teaching/Mentorship Award | Miriam Barlow | SNS |
| Distinguished Early Career Research Award | Anand Bala Subramaniam | SoE |
| Distinction in Research Award | Deborah Wiebe | SSHA |
| Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award | Katrina Hoyer | SNS |
| Excellence in Faculty Mentorship Award | Tanya Golash-Boza | SSHA |
| Contributions to Diversity | Clarissa Nobile | SNS |
| Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching for a Non-Senate Lecturer Award |
SNS SSHA |
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.
2018-2019 recipients (Past Recipients)
|
PI |
Co-PI(s) |
Project Title |
School(s) |
Amount Funded |
|
Anna Beaudin |
Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook, Kirk Jensen |
Influence of maternal infection during pregnancy on infant immune development |
SNS, SSHA |
$10,000 |
|
Chih-Chun Chien |
- |
Characterization of topological effects on thermal transport in 2D systems |
SNS |
$5,000 |
|
Changho Kim |
Mayya Tokman |
Multiscale Modeling of Cell Membrane Electroporation |
SNS |
$10,000 |
|
Mike Colvin |
Patti LiWang |
Interdisciplinary Investigation of the vCCI: Chemokine Binding Interaction |
SNS |
$9,500 |
|
Juris Grasis |
Chris Amemiya |
Generation of Monoclonal Antibodies ‘Lampribodies’ for Basal Metazoan Holobionts |
SNS |
$10,000 |
|
Roummel Marcia |
- |
Photon-Limited Imaging via Deep Learning |
SNS |
$3,214.65 |
|
Son C. Nguyen |
Mehmet Z. Baykara |
Atomic-Resolution Mapping of Ion Adsorption at Water-Metal Interfaces by Atomic Force Microscopy |
SNS, SOE |
$10,000 |
|
Maxime Theillard |
- |
Shining the light at active interfaces: Multi-scale modeling of multi-species active fluids |
SNS |
$5,000 |
|
Fred Wolf |
- |
Valence encoding in Drosophila motivational circuit elements |
SNS |
$3,214.65 |
|
Venkattraman Ayyaswamy |
- |
Irrigation water enrichment using ambient air plasmas |
SOE |
$4,999.20 |
|
Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán |
- |
Learning decision trees and deep nets with the TAO algorithm |
SOE |
$5,000 |
|
Po-Ya Abel Chuang |
- |
High Performance Catalyst Design and Preparation for Urea Water Electrolysis |
SOE |
$5,000 |
|
Tom Harmon |
- |
Socio-Environmental Strategies for Adaptive Freshwater Ecosystem Management |
SOE |
$4,500 |
|
Anand Bala Subramaniam |
|
Actualizing large-scale synthesis of mesoscale amphiphilic compartments for drug delivery, vaccines, and artificial cells |
SOE |
$5,000 |
|
Kristina Backer |
Heather Bortfeld |
Dissociating Lexical and Statistical Influences on Bilingual Speech Perception |
SSHA |
$10,000 |
|
Christina Torres-Rouff |
- |
Coastal Influence on Formative Period (300BC-AD500) Oasis Populations in Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Charlie Eaton |
- |
Asymmetry by Design? Identity Obfuscation and Consumer Predation in For-Profit Higher Education |
SSHA |
$4,700 |
|
Christian Fons-Rosen |
- |
How Access to Distant Knowledge Has Shaped Innovation Over the Last Decades |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Haifeng Huang |
- |
Experiencing Advanced Democracy: How International Education Affects Political Attitudes of Students from a Developing and Authoritarian Society |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Jayson Beaster-Jones |
Anne Zanzucchi |
Gateway to Merced |
SSHA |
$10,000 |
|
Dalia Magaña |
- |
How Spanish-speakers talk about mental health: Metaphor analysis in depression and anxiety discourse |
SSHA |
$4,998.63 |
|
Denise D. Payán |
- |
A Systematic Review of Obesity Policies in California (1999-2018) |
SSHA |
$4,872.88 |
|
Ren Liu |
- |
A Novel Psychometric Model for Personality Classification and Diagnoses of Behavioral and Mental Disorder |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Karl E. Ryavec |
- |
India Historical GIS: 1891 Census Pilot Study |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Melissa Sands |
Alexander Theodoridis |
Partyism in the Wild |
SSHA |
$10,000 |
|
Michael Spivey |
Jeffrey Yoshimi |
VR Eye-tracking for Perception & Consciousness Research |
SSHA |
$10,000 |
|
Fanis Tsoulouhas |
- |
Business Commonality, Standardization, Fragmentation and Product Cycles |
SSHA |
$5,000 |