June 2023 Grants and Contracts

We are pleased to share the success of SJSU's principal investigators who were awarded grants and contracts during June 2023:

Monthly Awards at a Glance
29 Awards Received: Valued at $12,104,016.

Note: Some industry-sponsored awards are not listed due to their respective non-disclosure terms.

Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering

Nixon, Hilary K. / Philbrick, Karen E., Business, Dean's Office
San Jose State University/Mineta Transportation Institute NSTI
Sponsor: CA State, Department of Transportation –  $55,522.

Philbrick, Karen E. / Nixon, Hilary K., Business, Dean's Office
MTI Database on Terrorist and Serious Criminal Attacks against Public
Surface Transportation: 2022
Sponsor: Transportation Security Administration – $187,429.

Philbrick, Karen E. / Nixon, Hilary K., Business, Dean's Office
The Mineta Consortium for Equitable, Efficient, and Sustainable
Transportation (MCEEST)
Sponsor: Department of Transportation – $2,000,000.

Connie L. Lurie College of Education 

Maffini-Pham, Cara / Mahendra, Nidhi, Child & Adolescent
Development
Culturally-Responsive Wellness and Communication Interventions:
Healthy Development Community Clinic
Sponsor: Santa Clara Family Health Plan – $250,000.

Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering

Kao, Katy, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Collaborative Research: Deciphering Complex Phenotypes in Bacteria Aided by Continuous Genome Shuffling and High Throughput Analytical Technologies
Sponsor: National Science Foundation – $6,500.

Okamoto, Nicole / Stowe, Mathew, Engineering, Dean's Office
MESA Engineering Program (MEP) - Academic Year 2020-2021
Sponsor: Regents of The University of California –  $80,000.

Oye, Michael, Chemical and Materials Engineering
CommUniverCity: COVID Recovery Outreach Effort
Sponsor: City of San José – $150,000.

College of Health and Human Sciences

Lee, Peter Allen, Social Work
San José State University BASW Mental Health Scholarship Program (MHSP) 2019-2021
Sponsor: Santa Clara County – $150,000.

College of Science

Cargill, Shelley, Science, Dean's Office
MESA College Prep Program for AY 2022-2023
Sponsor: Regents of The University of California – $280,000.

Clements, Craig B. / Stasiewicz, Amanda / Kochanski, Adam / Wilkin, Kate, Meteorology & Climate Science 
IUCRC Phase I: San José State University: Wildfire Interdisciplinary
Research Center (WIRC)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation – $107,622.

Connolly, Thomas / Grand, Maxime / Bowers, Holly A., Moss Landing Marine Lab
CeNCOOS Partnership: Information Solutions to Power Healthy and
Prosperous Oceanic, Coastal and Estuarine Communities
Sponsor: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute – $59,206.

Feinholz, Michael E. / Yarbrough, Mark, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY) Operations and Technology Refresh
Sponsor: University of Miami – $3,226,019.

Harvey, James, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Estuarine Wetland and Nearshore Ecology Studies along the Pacific
Flyway
Sponsor: U.S. Geological Survey – $40,000.

Harvey, James, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Suisun Marsh Waterfowl Science Investigations: Data Synthesis and
Manuscript Preparation
Sponsor: U.S. Geological Survey – $60,000.

Hurst, Hilary, Physics & Astronomy
RUI: Quantum State Control for Ultracold Atoms
Sponsor: National Science Foundation – $180,000.
 
Koev, Plamen S., Mathematics & Statistics
Collaborative Research: An O(n2) Algorithm for Orthogonal
Eigenvectors of Symmetric Tridiagonals
Sponsor: UC, Berkeley – $211,750.

Maloney, Deborah, Moss Landing Marine Lab
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Sponsor: National Science Foundation – $49,000.

Paul, Cassandra A. / Quan, Gina / Kelly, Resa / Avena, Jennifer, Physics & Astronomy
Agents of Change: Investigating How Partnerships Bet Faculty-Learning
Assist. Enable Pathways for Sustainable Inst. & Class. Transformation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation – $1,070,013.

Payumo, Alexander, Biological Sciences
Neurohumoral Interactions Coordinating Mammalian Cardiomyocyte
Size and Proliferation
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health – $183,125.

Prince, Jonathan Mike, Moss Landing Marine Lab
NSF IPA Assignment
Sponsor: National Science Foundation – $104,411.

Singhal, Sonia, Biological Sciences
Effects of The Rate of Environmental Change on Mutational Patterns and
Evolutionary Constraints
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health – $183,125.

Valero, Miguel, Meteorology & Climate Science
Quantitative Measurement of Wildfire Behavior in the Field: Leveraging
Remote Sensing for Reproducible Observation and Improved Understanding
Sponsor: National Science Foundation – $49,017.

Van Wyngarden, Annalise L., Chemistry
American Chemical Society Summer School in Nuclear and
Radiochemistry
Sponsor: City University of New York – $243,867.

Wang, Ningkun, Chemistry
Elucidating the Mechanism for Allosteric Regulation of SIRT1 through
the N-Terminal Region
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health – $142,760.

College of Social Sciences

Laraway, Sean P., Psychology
Human Systems Integration: Coll. Human Factors Research to Improve Safety, Efficiency & Reliability of NASA’s Aeronautics & Space Missions: Phase 2
Sponsor: NASA – $1,184,200.

Snycerski, Susan M., Psychology
SJSURF Support of eVTOL Development
Sponsor: Bell Textron Inc. – $254,236.

Snycerski, Susan M., Psychology
Future Vertical Lift: Collaborative Research on Flight Control, Autonomous Rotorcraft, and Human-Systems Interface Design
Sponsor: NASA – $366,214.

Vice President of the Office of the Provost for Academic and Student Affairs

Klaw, Elena, Undergraduate Studies
CaliforniansForAll College Service Program (Planning)
Sponsor: CaliforniaVolunteers – $1,110,000. and $120,000.