Grants
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2006 - Present
College of Arts and SciencesRichard Barber, Physics, received additional subcontract funding in spring 2009 of $17,636 from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to support “Oxides, Interfaces and Disorder.” The U.S. Department of Energy provides the LBNL project. The subcontract award now totals $37,200. He received a $300,000 grant from the Department of Energy for “Oxides, Interfaces, Transport and Disorder” (2008–09), as well as a SCU sub-award from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for $19,564. He 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.Marco Bravo, Education, received $46,218 in subcontract funding in spring 2009 from UC Berkeley/ National Science Foundation to support “The Role of Educative Curriculum Materials in Supporting Science Teaching Practices with English Language Learners.” This is year-one funding of an anticipated four-year award. 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. Elizabeth Dahlhoff, Biology, received an award of $95,691 from the National Science Foundation in spring 2009 to support “Collaborative Research: RUI: Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Environmental Change in Sierra Nevada Populations of a Montane Willow Beetle.” This is year-one funding of an anticipated five-year award. 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, received third-year funding of $39,014 from the National Science Foundation in 2009 to support “RUI: Cotton, Poverty and the Environment in Africa.” The award with this amendment now totals $127,981. She also 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 Patrick Hoggard, Chemistry, received a three-year award of $65,000 from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund to support “Photocatalytic Dechlorination of Chloroalkanes in Hydrocarbon Mixtures” in spring 2009. 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. Teresa McCollough, Music, received a Dean’s Grant to support the November 2008 Faculty Recital. She also received the Argosy Challenge Grant in fall 2008. 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. Craig Stephens, Biology, in spring 2009, received year-two funding from the National Science Foundation to support “RUI: Function of LacI-type Transcription Factors in Caulobacter.” The award now totals $264,670. 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. Nicholas Tran, Mathematics and Computer Science, was awarded a three-year $127,821 grant from National Science Foundation for “A Complexity-Theoretic Foundation for Digital Watermarking Systems.” Keith Warner OFM, Religious Studies and CSTS, in spring 2009 received year-three funding of $34,098 from the National Science Foundation to support “Managing Risk in the Public Interest: How Ethics and Values Shape Biological Control Practice and Policy.” The award now totals $105,000. 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. Chris Weber, Physics, received a two-year award in 2009 from Research Corporation that provides $44,570 to support “Ferromagnetic Exchange in (Ga, Mn) As: Microscopic, Time-Resolved Study by Transient-Grating Spectroscopy.” He also received a Research Corporation Grant of $44,570 for “Microscopic, Time-Resolved Study by Transient-Grating Spectroscopy.” Justen Whittall, Biology, in spring 2009, received a $6,000 supplement from the National Science Foundation after receiving a $546,050 grant from the National Science Foundation (Co-PI Matt Carlson) for “Flower Color Evolution in the Arctic: Integrating Genomic Research and Undergraduate Education in Polar Environments.” He 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 $53,360 from the National Science to support “Detector Optimization for SuperCDMS and Other Experiments” in 2009. This is year two-funding of an anticipated three year award; the award now totals $107,013. She also received supplement subcontract funding from Case Western Reserve University in 2009 that adds $36,000 to support “Super CDMS 25 kg Experiment.” The revised award total is $489,169, which is provided by the National Science Foundation. She received supplemental subcontract funding from Case Western Reserve University in fall 2008 that adds $36,000 to support “Super CDMS 25 kg Experiment.” The revised award total is $489,169. The National Science Foundation provides the funds for this collaborative award. She also received second year funding from the National Science Foundation that provides $40,000 to support Detector Optimization for the Super CDMS Experiment and $32,927 from Lockheed Martin to support Aluminum Manganese TES Development for Large Scale Arrays of Microcalorimeters. 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 BusinessDrew 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 EngineeringThe School of Engineering received a grant in 2008 for $107,000 from the S.D. Bechtel, Jr., Foundation to develop community-based projects. The School of Engineering will collaborate with faculty in the Department of Education and regional teachers. Walden West is a partner for this pilot. The Computer Engineering Department received a five-year National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics grant, totaling $597,781. The grant will provide $10,000 a year for four years to five computer engineering students entering Santa Clara in 2009, 13 students in 2010, 2011, 2012, and eight students in 2013. 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 Cruz, Mechanical Engineering; Timothy Hight, Mechanical Engineering; Mark Aschheim, Civil Engineering; Kathrina Simonen (California College of the Arts); and Robert Bornstein (San Jose State University) received a $30,000 grant from the National Science Foundation in 2008 to support “Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Sustainable Engineering Systems.” 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. Tim Hight, Mechanical Engineering, received a Technology Steering Grant for $22,180 for “Solar Decathlon 2009: Instrumentation and Control.” Christopher Kitts, Mechanical Engineering, received a one-year award of $55,000 in spring 2009 from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to support “IRIS: Intelligent Response Imaging Spacecraft.” This is first-year funding of an anticipated two-year award. In 2008 he received a new installment of $159,000 on his current NASA Ames Research Center grant to continue work on the development and use of satellite mission operation systems for controlling NASA spacecraft. This work includes continued operation of GeneSat-1 as well as control of the new PharmaSat spacecraft. In 2008 he also received a one-year subcontract award of $200,000 from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks to support “RETINA: Robotic Exploration Technologies in Astrobiology.” The University of Alaska at Fairbanks award was funded by NASA. He also received a new $175,000 installment on a grant with NASA Ames Research Center focused on the on-orbit control of NASA spacecraft. He 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. Edwin Maurer, Civil Engineering, received a one-year, $50,000 subcontract award from the University of California–San Diego to support “Use of Other Statistical Downscaling Techniques and Hydrological Modeling.” Dan Lewis, Computer Engineering, received an award from the National Science Foundation in 2009 that provides $71,883 to support “Attracting a New Generation of Students to Computing.” This award provides first-year funding of an anticipated five-year award. He also 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. Wendelin Wright, Mechanical Engineering, received $50,000 from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in spring 2009 to support “Mechanical Behavior of Amorphous Metallic Foams.” This is year-three funding of a U.S. Department of Energy Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The award with this amendment totals $150,000. Yuling Yan, Bioengineering, is one of the three investigators in a multi-investigator proposal “High-contrast imaging of single molecules in live cells” awarded in 2009 by the National Institute of Health for a three-year funding period; she is receiving a total funding of $220,842. School of LawAngelo Ancheta, Law School, received two one-year renewal awards that provide funding for the Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center. The first is a City of San Jose award of $27,539; the second is a County of Santa Clara award of $31,519. He received an award from the State Bar of California that provides $31,056 to support the Workers' Rights Project. School of Education, Counseling Psychology, and Pastoral MinistriesRuth 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 |
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