January 2026 Grants and Contracts

We are pleased to share the success of SJSU's principal investigators who were awarded grants and contracts during January 2026:

Monthly Awards at a Glance
15 Awards Received: Valued at $5,821,011.

Note: Some industry-sponsored awards are not listed due to their respective non-disclosure terms. The sort below is by College, then department, followed by PI.

Lucas College and Graduate School of Business

Karen Philbrick, Hilary Nixon, College of Business
Task Order Master Agreement for Mineta Transportation Institute's Caltrans Research, Technology Transfer, and Workforce Development
Sponsor: CA State, Dept of Transportation — $2,000,000.

Karen Philbrick, Hilary Nixon, College of Business
Center for Multi-Modal Mobility in Urban, Rural, and Tribal Areas (CMMM)
Sponsor: University of Maryland (U.S. Department of Transportation) — $244,000.

Karen Philbrick, Hilary Nixon, College of Business
Tier-1 UTC Research and Education in Promoting Safety (REPS)
Sponsor: Howard University (U.S. Department of Transportation) — $442,000.

Karen Philbrick, College of Business
CSUTC: Transportation Research and Transportation-Related Workforce Education, Training and Development- (2023 Renewal: Year 3 of 3) 
Sponsor: The California State University, Office Of The Chancellor — $2,000,000.

Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering

Akthem Al-Manaseer, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Feasibility of Incorporating Different Sizes of Crumb Rubber into Concrete as a Supplementary Cementitious Material
Sponsor: California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery — $374,999.

Christopher Lew, Chemical and Materials Engeering
LEAPS-MPS: Elucidating the Role of Seed Chemical Composition in Interzeolite Transformation Synthesis
Sponsor: National Science Foundation — $249,999.

Yue Luo, Industrial & Systems Engineering
From Data to Diagnosis: Leveraging Large Language Models and Deep Learning for Alzheimer Detection and Risk Attribution
Sponsor: Healthy Americas Foundation (National Institutes of Health) — $10,000.

College of Health and Human Sciences

Michael Dao, Kinesiology
SIREN Immigration Study: Understanding immigrant community members perceptions on politics and policies
Sponsor: SIREN — $30,000.

College of Science

Thomas Connolly, Moss Landing Marine Lab
NPS Amendment no. 4 21-1509-6740 - PI Thomas P. Connolly
Sponsor: Naval Postgraduate School — $30,071.

Wesley Heim, Moss Landing Marine Lab
22-1509-6953 PI Wes Heim from SWRCB - amendment no. 2 CA St
Sponsor: California State Water Resources Control Board — $203,796.

Wesley Heim, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Analysis of Heavy Metals in biotic samples from Elkhorn Slough
Sponsor: California State, Department of Fish & Wildlife — $100,000.

Miri VanHoven, Dean's Office College of Science
Probing sleep and memory as targets for rejuvenation
Sponsor: UC, San Francisco (National Institutes of Health) — $100,646.

College of Social Sciences

Matthew Capriotti, Janene Perez, Psychology
Future Healers SJ
Sponsor: CA Department, Health Care Access & Information — $20,000.

Lynne Trulio, Environmental Studies
RCN-UBE: San Francisco Bay Research Coordination Network for Student Opportunities in Avian Research to enhance STEM education and assess human impacts on avian biodiversity
Sponsor: Leland Sandford Junior University — $8,100.

Division of Research & Innovation

Jessica Trask, Division of Research & Innovation
The SBDC Federal SBA Supplement 
Sponsor: Cal Poly Humboldt, Sponsored Programs Foundation (HSSPF US Small Business Administration) — $7,400.