ACADEMIC SENATE AWARDS
2019-2020
| Dr. Fred Spiess Award for Distinguished Service to the Academic Senate | Kathleen Hull | SSHA |
| Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award for a Senate Faculty | Carrie Menke | SNS |
| Distinguished Graduate Teaching/Mentorship Award | Zulema Valdez | SSHA |
| Distinguished Early Career Research Award | Kirk Jensen | SNS |
| Distinction in Research Award | YangQuan Chen | SOE |
| Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award | Mayya Tokman | SNS |
| Excellence in Faculty Mentorship Award | Arnold Kim | SNS |
| Contributions to Diversity Award | Dalia Magaña | SSHA |
| Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching for a Non-Senate Faculty Award | Yolanda Pineda Vargas | 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.
2019-2020 recipients (Past Recipients)
|
PI |
Co-PI(s) |
Project Title |
School(s) |
Amount Funded |
|
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe |
Teamrat A. Ghezzehei, Rebecca Ryals |
Effects of deeply rooted plants on soil carbon dynamics and their implications for the Earth’s climate system |
SNS |
$15,000 |
|
Camille Carvalho |
- |
Asymptotic methods for plasmonic problems |
SNS |
$5,000 |
|
Carolin Frank |
Jason Sexton |
Can microbes help plants respond to climate change? |
SNS |
$10,000 |
|
Katrina Hoyer |
- |
Autoimmune adverse events during checkpoint inhibition |
SNS |
$5,000 |
|
Dustin Kleckner |
Shilpa Khatri |
Droplet Cloud Interactions in Stratification Trapped Oil Plumes |
SNS |
$10,000 |
|
Mark Sistrom |
- |
Discovering bacteriophages and developing novel strategies to combat multidrug resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections |
SNS |
$5,000 |
|
Tao Ye |
- |
Designer Assemblies of Magnetic Nanoparticles on DNA Origami Templates |
SNS |
$5,000 |
|
Roberto C. Andresen Eguiluz |
- |
Tribocorrosion of metallic medical alloys |
SOE |
$5,000 |
|
Ahmed Arif |
- |
Reducing the Interaction Ambiguity of Smartphones |
SOE |
$5,000 |
|
Min Hwan Lee |
- |
Reactive Atomic Layer Deposition for High-Temperature Fuel Cell Electrodes |
SOE |
$5,000 |
|
Kara McCloskey |
Ajay Gopinathan, Suzanne Sindi |
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Directing Vascular Morphogenesis with Stem Cells |
SOE, SNS |
$15,000 |
|
Chih-Wen Ni |
Wei-Chun Chin |
Virus-free stable transgenesis |
SOE |
$10,000 |
|
Jeffrey V. Butler |
- |
Inequality in the Workplace and its effect on Pro-social and Anti-social Behavior |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Maria DePrano |
- |
Artisan Households and Material Culture in Renaissance Florence |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Rowena Gray |
- |
Moving on Up: Immigration and Native Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1900-1940 |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Nigel Hatton |
- |
Narrative Medicine and Incarceration |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Andrew C. Johnston |
- |
The Effects of Undocumented Labor on Society: Evidence from the E-Verify Program |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
David Kaminsky |
- |
Partner Dance and the Racial Imagination |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Nicola Lercari |
- |
Acquisition of UAV-based LiDAR SLAM for Investigating Paleo Environments |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Holley Moyes |
- |
Chronology Building at the Site of Las Cuevas, Belize, Central America |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Kit Myers |
- |
Going back “home”: Adoptees share their experiences of Hong Kong adoptee Gathering |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Sholeh A. Quinn |
- |
Debating the Night Journey: Religious Polemic and Dialog in 19th Century Iran |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Ana Tur-Prats |
- |
The Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War |
SSHA |
$5,000 |
|
Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young |
Yehuda Sharim |
Letters2Maybe: Immigrant testimonies/testimonios as an interdisciplinary exploration bridging art and health |
SSHA |
$10,000 |
|
Matthew Zawadzki |
Jennifer Howell, Deborah Wiebe |
Health in the Valley Study |
SSHA |
$15,000 |