April 2022 Grants and Contracts

We are pleased to share the success of SJSU's principal investigators who were awarded grants and contracts during April 2022:

Monthly Awards at a Glance
17 Awards Received: Valued at $5,348,874.

College of Business

Hilary Nixon, Kezban Yagci Sokat, Business, Dean’s Office
Not on Transit (NoT) Project
Sponsor: Santa Clara Valley Transit – Authority – $159,998.

College of Health and Human Sciences

Peter Allen Lee, Social Work School
BHWET Integrated Behavioral Health MSW Stipend Program
Sponsor: University of California, Berkeley – $70,800.

Jennifer Wolf, Social Work School
Empowering Communities to Reduce Fatal Opioid Overdoses in Rural Ohio
Sponsor: Ohio State University – $21,040.

Jennifer Wolf, Social Work School
Enhancing Permanency in Children and Families (EPIC) Program
Sponsor: Ohio State University – $21,040.

College of Humanities & The Arts

Selena Anderson, English & Comparative Literature
Center for Literary Arts — City of San José Take pART
Sponsor: City of San José – $8,200.

Office of Research

Richard Mocarski, Office of Research
Developing a Toolkit for Transgender and Gender Diverse-Affirming Health Communication: A Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership Approach
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health – $26, 670.

College of Science

Abraham Wolcott, Chemistry
LEAPS-MPS: Electric Field Sensing with Nitrogen Vacancy Centers and Chemical Tuning of the Diamond Host
Sponsor: National Science Foundation – $231,696.

Karen A. Singmaster, Chemistry
Re-establishing Nuclear Science Research at SJSU
Sponsor: Nuclear Regulatory Commission – $300,000.

Dustin Carroll, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO)
Sponsor: Jet Propulsion Laboratory – $11,550.

Scott L. Hamilton, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Evaluating Performance of California's MPA Network through the Lens of Sandy Beach and Surf Zone Ecosystems
Sponsor: University of California, Santa Barbara – $48,058.

College of Social Sciences

Matthew Spangler, Communication Studies
The Immigrant Experience in California through Literature and History
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities – $7,758.

Darwyn Deyo, Economics
Institute for Justice Senior Research Fellow Project
Sponsor: Institute for Justice – $64,244.

Sean P. Laraway, Psychology
Test Subject Recruitment Office - Task Order No. 2
Sponsor: ASRC Management Services – $21,712.

Sean P. Laraway, Psychology
Human Systems Integration: Collaborative Human Factors Research
to Improve Safety, Efficiency, and Reliability of NASA Aeronautics & Space Missions
Sponsor: NASA – $1,913,957.

University Library

Kathryn Blackmer Reyes, University Library
Reviving Humanities Public Programming with East Side Dream: The Untold Story of East San José
Sponsor: Social Science Research Council – $92,152.

Provost & VP Academic and
Student Affairs

Vincent Del Casino, David Parent, Liat Rosenfeld, Provost Office
Project Engineering Success: Increasing Hispanic Student Success in
Engineering at San José State University, San José City College & Gavilan College
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education – $999,999.

Elena Klaw, Undergraduate Studies
CaliforniansForAll College Service Program
Sponsor: CaliforniaVolunteers – $1,350,000.