April 2026 Grants and Contracts

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

Monthly Awards at a Glance
18 Awards Received: Valued at $6,322,662.

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.

College of Business

Mattarelli, Elisa | School of Management
Travel: NSF Student Travel Grant for the 2026 Communication, Digital Technology, and Organization (CTO) Doctoral Consortium at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AoM 2026)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation — $12,000.

Philbrick, Karen | Dean's Office, College of Business
Development of a Passenger Railroad Trespassing Mitigation Toolbox, Addressing Built Environment and Human Factors Based on California Railroad Data
Sponsor: UC, San Diego — $1,160,000.

College of Health & Human Sciences

Grzywacz, Joe | College of Health & Human Sciences
Integrated Pathways to Health and Illness
Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison — $64,365.

Lee, Jihyun, Krishnan, Sudha | Kinesiology
SPARTANS OCLS Program
Sponsor: Los Angeles County Office of Education — $75,000.

Yellamsetty, Anusha | Audiology
Clinical Validation of the Samsung over-the-counter (OTC) Self-Fitting Hearing Aid Feature
Sponsor: Samson Semiconductor, Inc. — $36,406.

College of Science

Adams, Walter | Biological Sciences
Mechanism of Toxin Mediated Damage to the Lung Epithelium during S. pneumoniae Infection
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health — $146,500.

Carroll, Dustin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Delivering n ECCO-FORTE Data-Constrained Modeling Framework for Quantifying Land-to Ocean Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Variability Across the North Slope
Sponsor: NASA — $76,151.

Carroll, Dustin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Building a Model for Regenerative Kelp Cultivation in Coastal Oceans
Sponsor: Jet Propulsion Laboratory — $27,000.

Carroll, Dustin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
NSF/NASA Collaborative Research: Probing internal gravity wave dynamics and dissipation using global observations and numerical simulations
Amendment no. 1
Sponsor: NASA —  $135,000.

Carroll, Dustin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Amendment no. 1 - GR21150907093 Dustin Carroll $94,768
Sponsor: NASA —  $94,768.

Clements, Craig | Meteorology & Climate Science
Wildfire Weather Sensing and Modeling Data Academic Task
Sponsor: Crown Innovations, Inc. — $203,408.

O'Connor, Kevin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
22-1509-6613 mod to add $5,275
Sponsor: State Coastal Conservancy — $5,275.

Romanowsky, Aaron | Physics & Astronomy
A Comprehensive Study of Dwarf Galaxies in the Era of Euclid
Sponsor: NASA — $146,748.

Wang, Ningkun | Chemistry
Elucidating the Mechanism for Allosteric Regulation of SIRT1 through the N-terminal Region
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health — $146,500.

Wharton, Kenneth | Physics & Astronomy
Bay Area Accelerator Research Traineeship (BAART)
Sponsor: CSU, East Bay —  $108,283.

Wood, Michael | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Collaborative Human Factors Research to Improve the Safety, Efficiency, and Reliability of NASA’s Aeronautics and Space Missions: Phase 2
Sponsor: Jet Propulsion Laboratory — $50,000.

College of Social Sciences

Schuster, David | Psychology
Collaborative Human Factors Research to Improve the Safety, Efficiency, and Reliability of NASA’s Aeronautics and Space Missions: Phase 2
Sponsor: NASA — $2,659,737., $1,175,521.