Grants Recipients

• Sustained Excellence in Scholarship, On Shun Pak
• Recent Achievement in Scholarship, Yuhong Liu

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• “Cultbusters: The Anticult Movement and the Challenge of Religious Freedom in Modern America”, James Bennett (Religious Studies)
• “Long-term educational and labor market effects of two randomized interventions in French middle schools”, Adrien Bouguen (Economics)
• “Develop a Global Industrial Value Chain Network (GIVCN) model using MultiRegional Input-Output (MRIO) data”, Gangshu Cai (ISA)
• “Virtual Touch and Consumer Decision Making”, Rebecca Chae (Marketing)
• “Research on Impacts and Awareness of Automated Expungement of Criminal Records”, Elsa Chen (Political Science)
• “Accelerating Hardware Design Space Exploration using Parallelized Bayesian Optimization with MultiFidelity Knowledge Transfer”, Younghyun Cho (CS&Eng)
• “Social Media and Democracy in India and the Indian Diaspora”, Rohit Chopra (Communication)
• “Fireside Chats”, Justin Clardy (Philosophy)
• “Despotic Theologies in Early Christianity“, Jeremiah Coogan (JST)
• “Building Bridges: Educational Opportunity in the Age of Uncertainty”, Omar Davila (Child Studies)
• “Real Time Prediction of User Clicks: A Privacy-Preserving Multimodal AI Framework”, Xiaojing Dong (Marketing)
• “Associations between Hope and Basic Cognitive Processes”, David Feldman (Counseling Psychology)
• “Ethical Critical Reflexivity: Fostering Youth Mindfulness in an Era of Generative AI“, Jesica Fernandez (Ethnic Studies)
• “Updating Models of Belonging in STEM Higher Education”, Desiree Forsythe (Biology)
• "Inadequacies of Consent: Labor, Trafficking, and the Nuance of Moral Agency ", Karen Peterson-Iyer (Religious Studies)
• “Mapping Friendship Across Barbed Wire and Racial Lines”, Sonia Gomez (History)
• “Activism and Activist Burnout: How Leaders and Citizens’ Attitudes About Political Conflict Can Change for the Better”, Dennis Gordon (Political Science)
• “Develop a Global Industrial Value Chain Network (GIVCN) model using MultiRegional Input-Output (MRIO) data”, Audrey Guo (Economics)
• "Afro-Indigeneity, Family Remembrance, and the Narragansett of Rhode Island", Anthony Hazard (Ethnic Studies)
• “The Unbound Self: Technology and What It Means to Be Us”, Susan Kennedy (Philosophy)
• “Social emotions in relational context: A cross-cultural investigation”, Birgit Koopmann-Holm, (Psychology)
• “The Development and Validation of a State-Level Perceptions of LGBQ+ Structural Stigma Measure”, Micah Lattaner (Publich Health)
• “Evaluating Permanent Supportive Housing Using Firsthand Indicators of Wellbeing”, Naomi Levy, (Political Science)
• ‘Beautiful’ Babies and ‘Super’ Babies: An ethnography of reproductive technologies in Silicon Valley”, Sonja Mackenzie (Public Health)
• “Music and Ecstasy: Recording Project”, Teresa McCollough (Music)
• “Examining the use of a digital intervention and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) to target a neural marker of risk for anxiety“, Alexandria Meyer (Counseling Psychology)
• “The Limits of Laughter: Black Millennials and the New Pop Culture”, Danielle Morgan (English)
• "Unprotected Players: Black Women, Sport, and the American University", Ezinne Ofoegbu (Education)
• “Information Theoretical Analysis of Deep Learning models”, Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, (Electrical&Computer Engineering)
• “Generative AI and the Sustainability of Human-Led Fact-Checking”, Jingbo Hou (ISA)

• “Improving Safe Drinking Water Access Through Comparative Testing of Low-Cost Filtration Systems“, Aria Amirbahman, Civil (Envr & Sustainable Engineering)
• “Determining the Site-Specific Effects of PARP14 and 15 Auto-ADP-Ribosylation on Viral Regulation”, Ian Carter-O'Connell (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
• “Changes in Oligodendrocyte Development and Myelination in a Genetic Model of Schizophrenia”, Laura Cocas (Biology)
• “Real-Time Multimodal Ergonomic Risk Assessment for Human–Robot Collaboration in Manufacturing”, Fatemeh Davoudi Kakhki (Mechanical Engineering)
• "Refining Results of a LiDAR Study in Tahcabo, Yucatán, Mexico", Maia Dedrick (Anthropology)
• “Targeting the Proteasome as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy Against Toxoplasma gondii Infections”, Pascale Guiton (Biology)
• “Privacy- and Security-Aware Data Access in Machine Learning and AI”, Anoosheh Heidarzadeh (Electrical&Computer Engineering)
• “Engineering Learning Human-Robot Collaboration from Human-Human Collaboration”, Maria Kyrarini (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
• “Collaborative Local Grid Power Optimization with Federated Reinforcement learning”, Xiao Li (Computer Science & Engineering)
• “Building a dataset for deep learning and design of thermostable cellulases”, Michelle McCully (Biology)
• “Deciphering Bacterial Swimming Motion”, On Shun Pak (Mechanical Engineering)
• “Grain-Orientation–Controlled Void Nucleation in Through-Silicon Vias”, Panthea Sepehrband (Mechanical Engineering)
• “How does the rapid rise in hyper-scale data centers impact water resources in water-scarce and socio-economically vulnerable regions of the US and Europe?”, Iris Stewart-Frey (Env Studies & Sciences)
• “Parameterization Innovation: Can Human-Centered and MachineLearned Representations Be Unified for Interpretable Design in Engineering?”, Jun Wang (Env Studies & Sciences)
• “Investigating the origin of the nonreciprocal response in noncentrosymmetric intercalated transition metal dichalcogenides”, Shan Wu (Physics & Eng. Physics)
• "Women’s Workforce Preparation for Manufacturing: A Manufacturing Human-Factors Study Using Industry-Embedded Workshops and a Female-Majority Collaborative Manufacturing Experiment", Xiaoou Yang (Mech Engineering)

• “Development of a Mobile Phone Application to Support Intergenerational Transmission of Agricultural Heritage and Climate Adaptations, while Strengthening Data Sovereignty in Yucatán, Mexico“, Maia Dederick (Anthropology), Iris Stewart-Frey, (Env Studies&Sciences), Qiuwen Li (Art & Art History), Allan Báez Morales (Frugal Innovation Hub), Angela Musurlian (Computer Engineering)
• “The South Bay Blueprint: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Social Determinants and Resource Allocation”, Alice Villatoro (Public Health), Jasmin Llamas (Counseling Psychology)
• “Exploring Ignatian Pedagogy and Jesuit Values in Science Curriculum and Pedagogy”, Desiree Forsythe (Biology), Paul Schutz (Theology)
• “Tenure Track: A Narrative Investigation into the Challenges of Modern Academia”, Andrew Ishak (Communication), Erick Ramirez (Philosophy)
• “Mapping the Community Literacy Ecosystem in Santa Clara County”, Brita Bookser (Child Studies), Kirsten Read (Psychology)
• “Can Robots Dance?”, Kristin Kusanovich (Theatre & Dance), Maria Kyrarini (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
• “Blackitalian: A Documentary Film Project”, Michael Whalen (Communication), Christina Zanfagna (Music and Ethnic Studies), Danielle Morgan (English), Evelyn Ferraro (Italian Studies)
• “Understanding the Emotional Dependency on Generative AI Chatbots for Mental Health and Emotional Support”, Smita Ghosh (Mathematics and Computer Science), Xiaochen Luo (Counseling Psychology)

• “Developing a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) focusing on zebrafish development”, Christelle Sabatier (Biology)
• “Integrated Pricing and Fulfillment Strategies for Sustainable and Resilient Omnichannel Operations”, Thunyarat Amornpetchkul (ISA)
• “International Medieval Congress 2026”, Jackie Hendricks (English)
• “The Dahlia Project: Flowers for Aagron”, Renee Billingslea (Art & Art History)
• “Leading with Purpose: A path to integrating virtues in developing business leaders for the 21st century”, Deirdre Frontczak (Management & Entrepreneurship)
• “Fostering Situational Curiosity to Improve Memory?”, Lisa Whitfield (Psychology)
• “Teaching in the Age of AI: Practical Approaches for the University Classroom”, Katia Moles (General Engineering)
• “The Switch Effect: How Code-Switching Impacts Perspective Taking in Children”, Jui Bhagwat (Psychology)
• “The AI Transformation in the MENA Region: Navigating Occupational Exposure, Complementarity, and the Digital Divide”, Shireen AlAzzawi (Economics)

• “Reimagining & Regenerating 5 Years after CZU: Community-Based Arts, Environmental Justice, and Stewardship in the Santa Cruz Mountains”, Matt Driscoll (English)
• “International Steering Committee Member and Paper Presentation”, Aron Tillema (Religious Studies)
• “Career Exploration and Discernment Modules for Psychology Students”, Steve Del Chiaro (Psychology)
• “Paint on Glass Coral”, Stefie Gan (Art & Art History)
• “Fostering Situational Curiosity to Improve Memory?”, Karl Lampley (Religious Studies)
• “(Dis)Appearing on Campus: A Virtue Ethics Approach to Disrupting Ableism at SCU”, Charlotta Kratz (Communication)

• “The social pragmatics of address in heritage Spanish: a virtual reality study”, Abel Cruz, (Modern Languages and Literatures)
• “Family Engagement in a Digital Intervention Targeting Risk for Anxiety in Parent-Child Dyads: Mixed Methods Study”, Alexandria Meyer (Counseling Psychology)
• “Understanding Linux Kernel-based Packet Switching on WiFi Access Points”, Behnam Dezfouli (Computer Science & Engineering)
• “Split Britches: Fifty Years On (book)”, Benjamin Gillespie (Theatre & Dance)
• “The Road To Trantor (CD)”, Carl Schultz (Music)
• “Identity Centrality as a Double-Edged Sword: Mental Health Mechanisms Among Lesbian/Gay and Bisexual University Students in China”, Chongzheng Wei (Counseling Psychology)
• “The Limits of Laughter: Black Millennials and the New Pop Culture”, Danielle Morgan (English)
• “Mindfulness and hope: distinct yet complementary relationships with psychological well-being”, David Feldman (Counseling Psychology)
• “Paradise Lost (Novel)”, Juan Velasco-Moreno (English)
• “California Red Hummingbird Flowers: Color Convergence Across Four Biochemical Categories”, Justen Whithall (Biology)
• “How do Financial Crises Redistribute Risk?”, Kris Mitchener (Economics)
• “E/I imbalance and internal noise cause weak neural representations and face recognition challenges in ASD”, Lang Chen (Psychology)
• “We Will Receive Justice: Native Histories of the Collapse of the California Missions”, Lee Panich (Anthropology)
• “Structured and Unstructured Speech2Action Frameworks for Human-Robot Collaboration: A User Study”, Maria Kyrarini (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
• “Fashioning Ethnic Pride: Women of Color and the Outfit Transition Trend on TikTok”, Melissa Brown (Communication)
• “Where From : Where To?”, Miah Jeffra (English)
• “HyCoViT: Hybrid Convolution Vision Transformer with Dynamic Dropout for Enhanced Medical Chest X-Ray Classification”, Nam Ling (Computer Science & Engineering)
• “Categorizing Tasks Around a Break Reduces Rumination and Improves Task Performance”, Rebecca Chae (Marketing)
• “Conscripted Martyrdom: Jose Rizal's Secular Martyrdom in Filipino Colonial Narratives”, Roberto Mata (Religious Studies)
• “Proceedings of Machine Learning Research Conference, (IEEE) SVCC2026 conference”, Sean Choi (Computer Science & Engineering)
• “Flourishing Families: Promoting Public Health and Reproductive Justice for All by Protecting & Supporting LGBTQ+ Families in Policy and Practice”, Sonja Mackenzie (Public Health)
• “A Dual Power Grid Cascading Failure Model for the Vulnerability Analysis”, Xiang Li (Computer Science & Engineering)
• “It’s because of me – I made myself get here”: First-generation college students in STEM motivations for, and experiences with, academic advising”, Desiree Forsythe (Biology)
• “Divine Meets Digital: Tech Workers and Religion in the U.S. and China”, Di Di (Sociology)
• “For Times and Seasons: A Theology of the Liturgical Calendar for Pastoral Ministers”, Eugene Schlesinger, (Religious Studies)
• “An Optimization-Based Framework to Dynamically Schedule Hospital Beds in a Pandemic”, Hussein El Hajj (Information Systems & Analytics)
• “Towards the human right to water for vulnerable communities: The effectiveness of stakeholder processes to control regional shallow groundwater contamination by nitrates”, Iris Stewart-Frey (Environmental Studies and Sciences)
• "California Cult Busters: The West Coast Origins of the Modern Anticult Movement,” in Empire and Care: Religion in the American West Since 1848, edited by Brandi Denison and Brett Hendrickson”, James Bennett (Religious Studies)
• “The Battle for Belonging: The Historical and Contemporary Politics of Asian Americans”, James Lai (Ethnic Studies)
• “Arboreal Figures in Marcel Proust, John Ruskin, and Dénètem Touam Bona”, Jeffrey Burkholder (Modern Languages and Literatures)

• Adrien Bouguen, Economics
• Ahmed Amer, Computer Science & Engineering
• Alexandria Meyer, Counseling Psychology
• Alice Villatoro, Public Health
• Andrew Ishak, Communication
• Anthony Hazard, Ethnic Studies
• Audrey Guo, Economics
• Birgit Koopmann-Holm, Psychology
• Brita Bookser, Child Studies
• David Feldman, Counseling Psychology
• Desiree Forsythe, Biology
• Erick Ramirez, Philosophy
• Fatemeh Davoudi Kakhki, Mechanical Engineering
• Gangshu Cai, Information Systems & Analytics
• Iris Stewart-Frey, Environmental Studies and Sciences
• Jasmin Llamas, Councelling Psychology
• Jeremiah Coogan, JST
• Jesica Fernandez, Ethnic Studies  Total
• Jingbo Hou, Information Systems and Analytics
• Jun Wang, Mechanical Engineering
• Justin Clardy, Philosophy
• Karen Peterson-Iyer, Religious Studies
• Kirsten Read, Psychology
• Kristin Kusanovich, Theatre & Dance
• Maia Dedrick, Anthropology
• Maria Kyrarini, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Micah Lattaner, Public Health
• Michelle McCully, Biology
• Omar Davila, Child Studies
• Panthea Seperhband, Mechanical Engineering
• Pascale Guiton, Biology
• Paul Shutz, Theology
• Rebecca Chae, Marketing
• Shan Wu, Physics and Engineering Physics
• Shunyao Yan, Marketing
• Smita Ghosh, Math & CS
• Sonja Mackenzie, Public Health
• Stacey Ritter, Accounting
• Tim Urdan, Psychology
• Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Vivian Tamkin, Counseling Psychology
• Wenxin (Victoria) Xie, Economics
• William Rush, Environmental Studies and Sciences
• Xiao Li, Computer Science and Engineering
• Xiaochen Luo, Counselling Psychology
• Xiaojin Dong, Marketing
• Xiaoou Yang, Mechanical Engineering
• Younghyun Cho Computer Science & Engineering