September 2024 New Grants and Contracts

We are pleased to share the success of SJSU's principal investigators who were awarded grants and contracts during September 2024:

Monthly Awards at a Glance
25 Awards Received: Valued at $32,262,021.

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

Lucas College and Graduate School of Business

Philbrick, Karen E. / Nixon, Hilary K., Business, Dean's Office
The Mineta Consortium for Equitable, Efficient, and Sustainable Transportation (MCEEST)
Sponsor: Department of Transportation – $1,965,180.

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 Admin. – $195,067.

Curriculum and Assessment

Klaw, Elena / Tully, Andrea, Undergraduate Studies
2024 #CaliforniansForAll College Corps (Non-AB 540)
Sponsor: CaliforniaVolunteers – $1,203,738. + $130,470.

Division of Research & Innovation

Queale, Abby, Div. of Research & Innovation
CoGenerate Encore Fellowship
Sponsor: Fedcap Group – $25,000.

Connie L. Lurie College of Education

Krishnan, Sudha V. / Golloher, Andrea N., Special Education
Project Mosaic
Sponsor: U.S.Department of Education – $250,000.

Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering

Kumar, Anil R., Industrial & Systems Engineering
Respiratory Protection for Wildland Firefighters 
Sponsor: UC, Los Angeles – $108,588.

Lee, Hohyun, Mechanical Engineering
Effect of Distributed Energy Resources on Fairness of Utility Rate for Grid-Interactive Residential Buildings
Sponsor: Department of Commerce – $138,779.

Su, Xiao, Engineering, Dean's Office
Longevity, Equity, and Aging Research Network (L.E.A.R.N) Institute
Sponsor: Stanford University – $16,436.

College of Health and Human Sciences

Lee, Peter Allen, Social Work
Behavioral Health Social Work Training and Fellowship Program (PBH)
Sponsor: California Department of Health Care Access and Information – $24,945,165.

College of Science

Blisniuk, Kimberly, Geology
IPA
Sponsor: IPA – $268,452.

Carroll, Dustin, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Closing the Carbon Cycle Loop: Quantifying Land-to-Sea Carbon Fluxes
Sponsor: NASA – $100,633.

Clements, Craig B., Meteorology & Climate Science
Fire Weather and Plume Dynamics Data Collection during FASMEE
Sponsor: U.S. Forest Service – $199,905.

Diao, Minghui, Meteorology & Climate
Science
Examining Climate Impacts of Cirrus Clouds through Past, Present and Future NASA Airborne Campaigns
Sponsor: NASA – $80,498.

Gardner, Luke, Moss Landing Marine Lab
White Abalone Restoration Production and Research
Sponsor: NASA – $60,000.

Grillo-Hill, Bree, Biological Sciences
Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health – $248,443.

Kaufman, Michael J., Science, Dean's Office
Astronomical Infrared Bands as Calibrated Probes of Astrophysical Conditions in the JWST-era with The NASA Ames PAH IR Spectroscopic Database
Sponsor: NASA – $242,360.

Kaufman, Michael J. / Carroll, Dustin, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Sub-Project: Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (via Application for a renewal of the ARC-CREST Cooperative Agreement M0230)
Sponsor: Bay Area Environmental Research Institute – $63,293.

Quan, Gina, Physics & Astronomy
Transfer Advocacy Groups: Transforming Culture to Support Transfer Students of Color in Undergraduate Physics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation – $276,335.

Sigala, Marco A., Moss Landing Marine Lab
Delta RMP QA Services
Sponsor: MLJ Environmental – $4,048.

College of Social Sciences

Beresford, Melissa, Anthropology
CAREER: Moral Economies in Water Markets: Implications for Understanding Human Responses to Water Insecurity in Market-Driven Economies
Sponsor: National Science Foundation – $112,983.

Hilditch, Cassie J., Psychology
2024 Fatigue Management Training for San Francisco Bar Pilots
Sponsor: California Maritime Academy – $6,000.

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 – $1,034,991.

Snycerski, Susan M., Psychology
Future Vertical Lift: Collaborative Research on Flight Control,
Autonomous Rotorcraft, and Human-Systems Interface Design: Phase 2
Sponsor: NASA – $413,881.

Spangler, Matthew / Chakrabarti, Sukanya, Communication Studies
The Immigrant Experience in California through Literature and History
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities – $171,776.