Santa Clara University

2006 - Present

College of Arts and Sciences

Richard Barber, Physics, received a subcontract award from UC Berkeley that provides $15,857 to support Spatial Instabilities, Homogeneities and Proximity Effects: Highly Correlated Metals. UC Berkeley's award was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Rose Marie Beebe, Modern Languages and Literatures, and Donna Schuele (UCLA Center for the Study of Women), have received a grant from the Historical Society of Southern California and the Haynes Foundation for their project, Women in Law and Politics in California during the 19th century.

Catherine Bell, Religious Studies, received a $40,000 NEH Fellowship for University Teachers for the 2007-2008 academic year for, “Believing: Universal or Particular, Mental or Physical, Private or Communal?”

Michael Carrasco, Chemistry, received $2,442 in supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation to support CAREER: Combinatorial Neoglycopeptide Arrays: Synthesis and Application Toward Creating Bioactive Peptides Resistant to Proteolysis. The award with this amendment totals $331,162.

Jane Curry, Political Science, has received a 17-month award from the U.S. Institute of Peace that provides $45,000 to support Making Peaceful Change: People Power in Serbia, Ukraine, and Georgia.

Janice Edgerly-Rooks, Biology, has received $37,698 in funding from the National Science Foundation to support Collaborative Research: Phylogeny, Behavior and Silk Evolution of Web spinners (Embioptera), a Little-Known Insect Order. This is year-two funding of an anticipated three-year award. The award total to date is $60,589.

David Gray, Religious Studies, received a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Leslie Gray, Environmental Studies, was awarded a National Science Foundation grant. This is awarded to a new faculty member who is most likely to become an academic leader of the 21st century.

Leslie Gray, Environmental Studies, and Elizabeth Powers, School of Law, won Fulbright grants. Gray will study the effects that U.S. cotton subsidies have on poor farmers in West Africa. Powers will teach a course at the law school at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Ángel Islas, Biology, has received a two-year award from the National Institutes of Health that provides $202,023 to support Non-template-directed Nucleotide Addition by Human-DNA Polymerases. Islas also received a new award from the National Science Foundation that provides $190,000 to support RUI: Template Switching by DNA Polymerases Involved in DNA Repair and Translation Synthesis. This is year-one funding of an anticipated three-year award.

Peter Kareiva, Environmental Studies, has received a two-year award of $25,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to support Adaptation Options for Climate Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources Synthesis of Case Study Results.

Michelle Marvier, Biology and Environmental Studies, has received third-year funding of $44,366 from the Environmental Protection Agency to support Evidence-based Risk Analysis: Learning from Our Experience with Genetically Modified Crops. The award, with this amendment, totals $232,347.

Leilani Miller, Biology, has received $7,400 in supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation to support RUI: Functional Analysis of the C. elegans Winged-Helix Transcription Factor, LIN-31. The funds will be used to support an undergraduate student research effort on the project.

Chad Raphael, Communication, has received a one-year award through the Center of Science, Technology, and Society from the California Consumer Protection Fund that provides $40,000 to support Increasing the Participation of Low-Income People, People of Color, Limited-English Proficient People, People with Disabilities and Rural Residents in California on the Municipal Broadband Policy Debate.

Bill Stover, Political Science, was named a senior Fulbright specialist for information technology and conflict resolution. The grant involves up to five overseas consulting visits in the next five years.

Keith Warner OFM, Environmental Studies, received a grant for $31,353 from the National Science Foundation to support Managed Risk in the Public Interest: How Ethics and Values Shape Biological Control Practice and Policy. This funding is for the first year of an anticipated three-year award. Warner also received second year funding of $34,181 in fall 2007 from the California Department of Food and Agriculture to support “Institutional Aspects of Biological Control.” With this amendment, the award totals $68,096, providing funding for research into the scientific, economic, and policy factors shaping pesticide alternatives in California agriculture.

Justen Whittall, Biology, received a one-year award from the U.S. Department of the Interior in fall 2007 that provided $74,721 to support “Propagation and Reproduction of the Metcalf Jewelflower, Santa Clara County.” This study seeks to enhance population viability of the federally endangered Metcalf Jewelflower of Santa Clara County. SCU will collaborate with the UC Davis College of Agriculture and a U.S. Forest Service Conservation Geneticist on this project. Funding is provided for an undergraduate research assistant to participate in the project.

Betty Young, Physics, received second year funding from the National Science Foundation that provides $40,000 to support Detector Optimization for the Super CDMS Experiment. She also received $32,927 from Lockheed Martin to support Aluminum Manganese TES Development for Large Scale Arrays of Microcalorimeters. This is second year funding of an anticipated three year award. The Lockheed Martin award is funded by NASA-Goddard. The award with this amendment totals $71,309. In fall 2007, she received a subcontract award from Case Western Reserve University that provides $224,375 to support “Super CDMS 25 kg Experiment.” The National Science Foundation funded this collaborative award.

Leavey School of Business

Drew Starbird, OMIS, received $24,000 in second year funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support Economics of Performance Measures for Food Safety Inspection Protocols. The award with this amendment totals $49,000.

School of Engineering

In the 2006 - 07 academic year, the School of Engineering’s Solar Decathlon team received a challenge grant of up to $50,000 from University President Paul Locatelli, S.J., in support of the SCU 2007 Solar Decathlon entry. The grant, which comes from the President’s Fund for Strategic Initiatives, was matched by funds raised by the Solar Decathlon team. They also received a $35,000 grant from the Technology Steering Committee as well as a $100,000 grant from the Department of Energy. These funds were used to instrument the house as a laboratory for sustainability upon its return to the Santa Clara campus following the international Solar Decathlon competition in Washington, D.C., in fall 2007. The Solar Decathlon team placed third in the international competition.

Santa Clara University was selected as one of 42 two- and four-year colleges and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico to receive a 2007 HP Technology for Teaching grant, which is designed to transform teaching and improve learning in the classroom through innovative uses of technology. The School of Engineering will receive an award package of HP products and a faculty stipend valued at more than $68,000.

Jorge Gonzalez, Timothy Hight, Christopher Kitts, Mechanical Engineering, and Mark Aschheim, Civil Engineering, have received a subcontract award from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory that provides $50,000 to support the SCU 2007 Solar Decathlon Entry: Promoting Sustainable Living Through Dynamically Responsive Buildings.

Jorge Gonzalez-Cruz, Mechanical Engineering, was awarded a $95,000 grant from the California Energy Commission for the phase change material solar thermal storage system. This solar air conditioning project uses no electricity.

Christopher Kitts, Mechanical Engineering, received funding of $55,000 from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to support the OBSIDIAN Nanosatellite Project in the 2006-07 academic year. This funding is for the first year of an anticipated two-year award. Kitts also received supplemental funding of $115,000 from NASA-Ames to support Development of Small Satellite Design, Test and Operations Technologies. The award, with this amendment, totals $425,000. Kitts also received three-year funding from the National Science Foundation that provides $366,861 to support MRI: Development of a Mobile Robot Instrument Cluster; and a $6,000 subcontract from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to support “The University Space Systems Symposium.” In the 2007-08 academic year, he received a six-month award from BMW North America that provides $25,000 to support Model-Based Vehicle Anomaly Management. This project is part of a graduate student research initiative, although undergraduates also may be involved in the project. He also received a three-year award from NASA that provides $2,747,336 to support Development of Small Spacecraft and Payload Design, Test, and Operations. This project significantly expands an established collaborative research and development program between SCU’s Robotic Systems Laboratory and the NASA-Ames Research Center.

Dan Lewis, Computer Engineering, received a three-year award from the National Science Foundation that provides $102,209 to support An Innovative Approach for Attracting Students to Computing: A Comprehensive Proposal. Santa Clara University, St. Joseph's University, the Colorado School of Mines, Ithaca College and Duke University have received NSF awards to support this collaborative project, which addresses the issues of attracting and retaining more students in computing (especially women and underrepresented minorities) by helping high school teachers learn innovative and effective ways of introducing computing and computer programming.

Nam Ling, Computer Engineering, received a $70,000 award from Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. in fall 2007 to support “A Statistical Motion Vector Coding Model” to conduct research on an efficient statistical model for coding motion vectors for Advanced Video Codecs. Ling plans to incorporate the results into a future video coding international standard.

Mahmud Rahman, Electrical Engineering, received a one-year NASA-Ames award in the 2006-07 academic year that provides $24,000 to support Field Emission Optimization of an Individual Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube. In fall 2007, he received two one-year NASA Ames awards to fund graduate student research and study leading to masters or doctoral degrees in fall 2007. Each award provides $30,000 and includes an internship at NASA Ames. The first provides second year support (for a cumulative total of $54,000) for graduate student Bryan Ribaya’s research, “Field Emission Optimization of an Individual Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube.” The second award funds graduate student Darrell Niemann’s research, “Evolutionary Optimization of a Carbon Nanotube Based Cold Field Emission Gun for Micro-Column Electron Microscope Development Applicable to Space Exploration.”

Sally Wood, Electrical Engineering, received a 3 ½-month award from Applied Signal Technologies that provides $10,000 to support Communications Research: Equalization for FSK in Multipath Environments. She also received a subcontract award from Southern Methodist University (SMU) that provides $17,500 to support Processing Arrays of Nygiost-Limited Observations to Produce a Thin Electro-Optic Sensor (PANOTYPES). The award to SMU is funded by the Office of Naval Research. SCU's funding will provide funding for graduate students to participate in the project.  

School of Law

Angelo Ancheta, Law School, has received a new award from the State Bar of California that provides $31,056 to support the Workers' Rights Project.

School of Education, Counseling Psychology, and Pastoral Ministries

Ruth Cook, Education, has received $197,022 in year-two funding from the U.S. Department of Education to support Joining Forces to Meet the Challenge: Preparing Special Educators who will also be able to Meet the Needs of Young Children with Autism Spectrum. The award with this amendment totals $391,340.

Centers of Distinction

Geoffrey Bowker, Center of Science, Technology and Society, received a subcontract award from New York University that provides $82,334 to support Collaborative Research: SoD-Team at Play Integrating Social Factors into Design. The award to NYU is funded by the National Science Foundation.