ACADEMIC SENATE AWARDS
2020-2021
| Dr. Fred Spiess Award for Distinguished Service to the Academic Senate | Carolin Frank | SNS |
| Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award for a Senate Faculty | Holley Moyes | SSHA |
| Distinguished Graduate Teaching/Mentorship Award | Fred Wolf | SNS |
| Distinguished Early Career Research Award | Jennifer Howell | SSHA |
| Distinction in Research Award | ShiPu Wang | SSHA |
| Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award | Anna Song | SSHA |
| Excellence in Faculty Mentorship Award | Ashlie Martini | SOE |
| Contributions to Diversity Award | Rudy Ortiz | SNS |
| Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching for a Non-Senate Faculty Award | Alexander Khislavsky | SSHA |
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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.
2020-2021 recipients (Past Recipients)
| PI | Co-PI(s) | Project Title |
School |
Amount Funded |
| David Ardell | Summer Research Funding for Theoretical Investigations into the Origin of Cells | SNS | $9,746.00 | |
| Daniel Beller | Predicting Liquid Crystal-Mediated Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles | SNS | $10,000.00 | |
| Gordon Bennett | Developing gene manipulation technologies to test fundamental hypotheses in animal-bacterial interactions | SNS | $10,000.00 | |
| Hui Cai |
Exploring Novel Quantum States in Two-Dimensional Materials under Extreme Pressure |
SNS | $9,999.49 | |
| Michael Cleary | VU-tagging: a chemical/genetic method for identification of cell type-specific mRNAs | SNS | $9,940.00 | |
| Danielle L. Edwards | Testing how barriers to reproduction form during the process of speciation | SNS | $10,000.00 | |
| Petra Kranzfelder | Erik Menke, Laura Beaster-Jones |
Transforming Teaching and Learning in the Sciences at a Hispanic-Serving Institution through a Graduate Teaching Assistant Program |
SNS | $9,924.00 |
| Ramendra Saha | A study of BAF complex functions in neurons using novel inhibitors | SNS | $10,000.00 | |
| Michael Scheibner | Evading Noise in Sensing with Semiconductor Quantum Materials | SNS | $10,000.00 | |
| Sachin Goyal | Pre-symptomatic Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease Using Machine Learning | SOE | $10,000.00 | |
| Hua Huang | Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán | Tongue shape estimation via magnetic sensing: recording device and AI-based algorithms | SOE | $20,000.00 |
| Hyeran Jeon | Dong Li | Enabling Large Model Training on Heterogeneous Memory through Runtime Data Management and Architecture Support | SOE | $19,000.00 |
| Victor Muñoz |
Synthetic Host Decoys Based on Fluorescence Protein Biosensing and Multivalent Adhesion for Instant Molecular Diagnostics: COVID-19 Detection as Proof of Concept |
SOE | $10,000.00 | |
| Shijia Pan | TeethVib: Detecting Teeth Ill-Fitting Through Mouth-Guard Vibration Sensing | SOE | $10,000.00 | |
| Xiaoyi Lu | Wan Du | A Networking and Data Processing Infrastructure for Collaborative Research on Agriculture between UC Merced and Merced College | SOE | $20,000.00 |
| Paul Almeida | Preservation and Analysis of Central American Protest Music | SSHA | $7,530.42 | |
| Aditya Dasgupta | Pre-colonial States and Contemporary Agricultural Development | SSHA | $10,000.00 | |
| Mariaelena Gonzalez | Effects of covid-19 on substance use among a Latino young adult enrolled in college | SSHA | $10,000.00 | |
| Tom Hansford | Public Attitudes Regarding the U.S. Constitution | SSHA | $8,980.00 | |
| Brad LeVeck | Leadership and Collective Intelligence in Bargaining Games | SSHA | $10,000.00 | |
| Manuel M. Martín-Rodriguez | Literature and Historiography in the Borderlands of Colonial America | SSHA | $4,880.00 | |
| Muey C. Saeteurn | Custodians of Tea: A History of Tea Producers in Late-Colonial and Independent Kenya | SSHA | $5,000.00 | |
| Beth K. Scaffidi |
Isotopic Markers for Malnutrition, Disease, and Biological Sex in Human Skeletons |
SSHA | $10,000.00 | |
| Andrew Shaver | Media Reporting on International Affairs | SSHA | $10,000.00 | |
| Ketki Sheth | Do Financial Incentives Change Beliefs? A Field Experiment in Uganda | SSHA | $9,907.50 | |
| Meredith Van Natta | COVID-19 & Immigrant Serving Community Clinics in California’s Central Valley | SSHA | $10,000.00 |