Research and Sponsored Projects
Updated 10/10/08
Ali Tabidian and Elena Miranda (Geological Sciences) received $6,500 from the Calleguas Municipal Water District of Ventura County in support of a project entitled “Analysis of Selected Aquifer Characteristics and Hydrostratigraphy of the South Las Posas Basin, Ventura County.”
Updated 10/3/08
Charles Hanson (Educational Psychology and Counseling) has received $532,468 from the Department of Children and Family Services in support of a project entitled “Adoption Promotion and Support Services Program—SPA 2.”
Gang Lu (Physics) has received $87,091 from the Department of Energy in continuing support of a project entitled “Hierarchical Petascale Simulation Framework for Stress Corrosion Cracking.”
Jonah Schlackman (Educational Psychology and Counseling) has received $383,187 from the U.S. Department of Education in support of a project entitled “Assessment and Accountability for Teacher Education Programs: Building a Replicable Database Model.”
MariaElena Zavala and Mike Summers (Biology) received a National Institutes of Health NBRS/Rise supplemental equipment grant for $99,000. The grant will provide the Biology Department with a Tecan HS400 four-slide hybridization station, a Molecular Devices Axon GenePix 4000B microarray scanner and a NoZone ozone scrubber.
Updated 9/24/08
A new study by Robert Krol (Economics), entitled “Trade, Protectionism, and the U.S. Economy: Examining the Evidence,” has been published by the Cato Institute. The study, described as a “comprehensive review of the important empirical studies that quantify the impact of trade on the economy,” examines data dating back to the end of World War II. A Cato Institute news release says the study “unequivocally shows that the expansion of international trade has been a boon for Americans and the U.S. economy.”
Linda Rader Overman (English) is the author of an essay entitled “Goodbye, Rita Hayworth. Hello, Margarita Cansino,” due to appear in “Reflect, Inform, Persuade: College Writing in the 21st Century,” scheduled for publication by Longman in 2009.
Martin Pousson (English) has sold his story, “Wanted Man,” to Epoch. The story is a chapter from “The Nerves,” Pousson’s novel-in-progress.
In an article published by the Cato Institute, Shirley Svorny (Economics) states that state licensing of medical professionals does not assure quality care. Svorny argues that “licensure not only fails to protect consumers from incompetent physicians, but, by raising barriers to entry, makes health care more expensive and less accessible.” Education, credentialing and scope-of-practice decisions are better left to the private sector and the courts, she notes.
Nayereh Tohidi (Gender and Women’s Studies) wrote a commentary for Women’s E News entitled “Iran’s Women’s Rights Activists are Being Smeared.” In the September 17 commentary, Tohidi said Iranian women’s rights activists have faced smears and arrests in their move to stall a bill easing “polygamy, temporary marriage and male-bias in divorce.”
Updated 9/12/08
Javier Hernandez (Outreach/Recruitment) has received $59,169 from the Los Angeles Unified School District/U.S. Department of Education in continuing support of a project entitled “GEAR UP Project STEPS.”
Jerry Nader (College of Education) has received $204,000 from Project GRAD Los Angeles in continuing support of a project entitled “Project GRAD Los Angeles.”
Updated 9/8/08
Robert Carpenter (Biology) has received $90,000 from UCSB in continuing support of a project entitled “LTER: Long-Term Dynamics of a Coral Reef Ecosystem.”
Peter Edmunds (Biology) has received $100,000 from UCSB in continuing support of a project entitled “Long Term Ecological Research: Coral Reefs in Moorea, French Polynesia.”
Sharlene Katz (Electrical & Computer Engineering) has received $97,723 from Edwards Air Force Base in support of a project entitled “Student Design Project Using Software Defined Radio (SDR).”
Maria Elena Zavala (Biology) has received $47,868 from the National Institutes of Health as supplemental support of a project entitled “Rise at CSUN.”
Updated 8/28/08
Ralph Hoskins (Arts, Media, and Communication) has received a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts’ CAREC initiative in support of a project entitled the “Guitar Masters” program, featuring The Romeros, classical guitarists, and slack key guitarist Keola Beamer, all scheduled to perform at Cal State Northridge during the 2008-09 season.
Thomas Minehan (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has received $71,500 from the National Institutes of Health in continuing support of a project entitled “Investigating an Environmentally Benign Synthesis of C-aryl Glycosides (SCORE).”
Jerry Nader (College of Education) has received $204,000 from Project GRAD Los Angeles in continuing support of a project entitled “Project GRAD Los Angeles.”
Updated 8/25/08
Sean Murray (Biology) has received $35,750 from the National Institutes of Health in support of a project entitled “Integrating lipid biosynthesis with bacterial cell cycle progression.”
Updated 8/15/08
Ardavan Asef-Vaziri (Systems and Operations Management) has received $5,000 from CSU San Bernardino in support of a project entitled “A Decision Support Tool for Locating an Inland Port in the Inland Empire.”
Hamid Johari (Mechanical Engineering) has received $70,000 from the Office of Naval Research in support of a project entitled “Applications of Hydrofoils with Leader Edge Protuberances.”
Charles Hanson (Educational Psychology and Counseling) has received $180,000 from the Department of Children and Family Services in continuing support of a project entitled “Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention, Intervention and Treatment Program Services.”
Nicholas Kioussis (Physics and Astronomy) has received $107,250 from the National Institutes of Health, in support of a project entitled “Multiscale Simulations of Transport in DNA and DNA-carbon Nanotube Systems.”
Rheem Medh (Biology) has received $107,250 from the National Institutes of Health in continuing support of a project entitled “Role of EfBP4 in Glucocorticoid-Evoked Lymphocyte Apoptosis.”
Dayanthie Weeraratne (Geological Sciences) has received $10,788 from the National Science Foundation as supplemental support of a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Depth Distribution of Anisotropic Fabric in the Ocean Mantel.”
Updated 8/1/08
Na Deng and Debi Choudhary (Physics and Astronomy) have received $111,527 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in support of a project entitled “Exploring the Magnetic Connection and Associated Dynamics from the Photosphere through Chromosphere to the Corona.”
Alan Glassman (Management) has received $300,000 from the City of Los Angeles’ Bureau of Sanitation in support of a project entitled “Baldridge Process for Bureau of Sanitation.”
Donna Sheng (Physics and Astronomy) has received $101,133 from the Department of Energy in continuing support of a project entitled “Numerical Investigations of Novel Charge and Spin Hall Effects in Graphene and Other Spin-Orbit Coupling Electron Systems.”
Updated 7/23/08
Paula Fischhaber (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has received $71,500 from the National Institutes of Health in continuing support of a project entitled “Temporal and Spatial Relationships of Proteins in Yeast NER (SCORE).”
Nicholas Kioussis (Physics and Astronomy) has received $45,000 from UCLA in continuing support of a project entitled “Multiscale Modeling of the Deformaton of Advanced Ferritic Steels for Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems.”
Steven Oppenheimer (Biology) was awarded a National Institutes of Health research grant totaling $99,589 to continue his work on mechanisms of adhesive interactions, an area important in understanding reasons for the spread of cancer. The grant is for the period July 1, 2008 until June 30, 2009.
John Van Arsdale (Recreation and Tourism Management) has received $40,000 from the California Department of Boating and Waterways in continuing support of a project entitled “Boating Safety Grant.”
Maria Elena Zavala (Biology) has received $50,000 from the National Institutes of Health as supplemental support for a project entitled “Administrative Supplement for Evaluation of CSUN MBRS RISE.”
Updated 7/18/08
Alyce Akers and Audrey Clark (Family and Consumer Sciences) have received $149,872 from the Administration for Children and Families in continuing support of a project entitled “Head Start Hispanic Latino Service: Partnership Institution.”
As part of the MBRS SCORE Program from the National Institutes of Health, the following faculty members have received support: Maria Elena de Bellard (Biology), $67,413; Steven Dudgeon (Biology), $110,579; Joseph Hajdu (Chemistry and Biochemistry), $243,400; Eric Kelson (Chemistry and Biochemistry), $146,768; Luciana Lagana (Psychology), $112,983; Jheem Medh (Chemistry and Biochemistry), $149,056; Steven Oppenheimer (Biology), $99,589; Miroslav Peric (Physics and Astronomy), $243,400; Radha Ranganathan (Physics and Astronomy), $139,512; Laleh Razani (Psychology), $100,716; Michael Summers (Biology), $151,780; Virginia Vandergon (Biology), $67,413; Michele Wittig (Psychology), $113,911 and Maria Elena Zavala (Biology), $128,986.
James Decker (Social Work) is principal investigator on two grants to the Department of Social Work beginning July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009. The first, a $967,643 state Title IV-E Training Grant, will train 13 full-time and eight part-time MSW students in child welfare. The second, a $456,709 Los Angeles County IUC Child Welfare Grant, will train eight students in child welfare for the Department of Children and Family Services.
Ivor Weiner (Special Education) has received $73,955 from the North Los Angeles County Regional Center (NLACRC) in continuing support of a project entitled “The Family Focus Resource Center,” and $48,766 from the NLACRC in continuing support of a project entitled “Family Focus Resource Center Antelope Valley.”
Maria Elena Zavala (Biology) has received $481,606 from the National Institutes of Health in continuing support of a project entitled “RISE at CSUN.” Zavala also received $98,981 from the same source, as supplemental support of a project entitled “Administrative Supplement for Equipment for MBRS RISE.”
Updated 7/11/08
Frankie Augustin (Science and Math Student Services Center/EOP Satellite Office) has received $20,000 from the State of California Health and Human Services Agency in support of a project entitled “Student Health Professionals Pre-Entry Program (SHP-PEP)."
Rafi Efrat (Accounting and Information Systems) and Ali Behnezhad (Systems and Operations Management) have received $85,000 from the U.S. Department of Education in continuing support of a project entitled “Service Learning in Global Supply Chain Management and Cross Cultural Understanding in Business.”
Kathleen Marsaglia, Gerry Simila, J. Douglas Yule and Jorge Vazquez (Geological Sciences) have received $205,129 from the National Science Foundation in continuing support of a project entitled “Mentoring Through Research as a Catalyst for Success in the Geosciences (Phase 2): A Track 2 Proposal for High School, Undergraduate and Graduate (MS) Underrepresented Groups at California State University, Northridge.”
Carole Oglesby (Kinesiology) has received $13,992 from the City of Los Angeles in support of a project entitled “Proposition K Maintenance Funds for Brown Center.”
Updated 7/2/08
Sharlene Katz (Electrical and Computer Engineering) has received $10,000 from Edwards Air Force Base/Kenexa in continuing support of a project entitled “Software Defined Radio (SDR) Projects.”
Catherine McLeod (National Center on Deafness) has received $1,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Education in continuing support of a project entitled “Postsecondary Education Programs for Individuals Who Are Deaf.”
Carrie Saetermoe (Psychology) has received $243,045 from the National Institutes of Health in continuing support of a project entitled “Facilitating Advancement in the Social Sciences—COR.”
Merri Whitelock (Center for Innovative and Engaged Learning Opportunities) has received $37,626 from the Corporation for National & Community Service in continuing support of a project entitled “VISTAS for Center for Community Service Learning.”
Updated 6/27/08
Hamid Johari (Mechanical Engineering) has received $7,606 from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in support of a project entitled “XR-50 Engine Performance Testing.”
Donna Sheng (Physics and Astronomy) has received $35,000 from the National Science Foundation in continuing support of a project entitled “RUI: Theoretical (Numerical) Investigations of Novel Transport and Topological Properties of Two-Dimensional Interacting Electron Systems.”
Updated 6/19/08
Barry Cleveland (Theatre) has received $2,500 from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc., in support of a project entitled “Willard F. Bellman Theatre Design and Technology Digital Archive Project.”
Hamid Johari (Mechanical Engineering) has received $22,000 from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc., in support of a project entitled “GUI for Multiple PWR Analysis Tools.”
Nicholas Kioussis, Gang Lu and Donna Sheng (Physics and Astronomy) have received $410,000 from the National Science Foundation, in continuing support of a project entitled “PREM—Multidisciplinary Research and Education in Computational Materials Science.”
Updated 6/13/08
Annette Besnilian (Family and Consumer Sciences) has received $27,543 from the California Department of Public Health, in support of a project entitled “Maternal PKU Camp Conference.”
Nancy Burstein and Ashley Skylar (Special Education) have received $200,000 from the U.S. Department of Education, in continuing support of a project entitled “Technology Enhanced Culturally-Responsive (TEC) Intern Program for Secondary Special Educators.”
Jan Tolan (Recreation and Tourism Management) has received $28,350 from the Lily Academy of Japan, in continuing support of a project entitled “2008 Lily Academy of Japan Institute.”
Updated 6/06/08
Deborah Chen and Michele Haney (Special Education) have received $200,000 from the U.S. Department of Education, in continuing support of a project entitled “CULTURE in ECSE.”
Teresa Madden (Sociology) has received $195,000 from the Corporation for National and Community Service, in continuing support of a project entitled “University/Community Partnership to Reduce Gang Activity-MOSAIC.”
Gerry Simila (Geological Sciences), Virginia Vandergon (Biology) and David Kretschmer (Elementary Education) have received $100,000 from the UC Regents, in continuing support of a project entitled “San Fernando Valley Science Project—Teacher Retention Initiative.”
Maria Elena Zavala (Biology) has received $589,004 from the National Institutes of Health, in continuing support of a project entitled “MARC U-STAR.”
Updated 5/29/08
Javier Hernandez (Student Outreach and Recruitment) has received $800 from the U.S. Department of Education, as supplemental support of a project entitled “Upward Bound.”
Updated 5/22/08
Paula Fischhaber (Chemistry & Biochemistry) received $4,022 from the National Institutes of Health, as supplemental support of a project entitled "Temporal and Spatial Relationships of Proteins in Yeast NER."
M. Helena Noronha, Alberto Candel, Rabia Djellouli and Werner Horn (Mathematics) received $372,307 from the National Science Foundation, in continuing support of a project entitled "PUMP: Preparing Undergraduates Through Mentoring Toward Ph.D.’s."
Roslyn Rosen (National Center on Deafness) received $261,623 from the Department of Rehabilitation, as supplemental support of a project entitled "California Assistive Loan Program."
Updated 5/16/08
Yolanda Chassiakos (Klotz Student Health Center) received $40,000 from the CSU Chancellor’s Office in support of a project entitled "Improving California State University Health Professions Pathways and Best Practices: Increasing Numbers and Diversity of Health Professionals in California.”
Jussi Eloranta (Chemistry & Biochemistry) received $50,000 from the ACS-PRF, in support of a project entitled "Spectroscopy of polycyclic hydrocarbons in bulk superfluid 4He."
M. Helena Noronha (Mathematics) received $9,716 from the National Science Foundation, as supplemental support of a project entitled "IRES: A US-Brazil Collaboration for Mathematical Research Experiences for Students."
Dayanthie Weeraratne (Geological Sciences) received $82,824 from the National Science Foundation, in support of a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Depth Distribution of Anisotropic Fabric in the Ocean Mantle."
Updated 5/9/08
James Decker (Social Work) is the principal investigator for two grants starting in July 2008 through June 2009. The first, an award for $967, 405, was received from CalSWEC to support 13 students with stipends for $18,500, and tuition and fees for eight additional students in the three-year part-time MSW program to work in child welfare in California. The second, an award for $456,709, was received from the County of Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services Inter-University Consortium Training Services (IUC) to train eight MSW students to work in child welfare in the County of Los Angeles.
Updated 4/25/08
James David Ballard (Sociology) received a $12,000 Haynes Foundation Fellowship, a summer fellowship for initial study of the transportation of nuclear waste in Southern California counties.
Alan Glassman (Management) received $143,000 from Stonefield Josephson, Inc., in support of a project entitled "SJ University."
Charles Hanson (Educational Psychology & Counseling) has received $40,400 from the California Office of Emergency Services, as supplemental support of a project entitled "Valley Trauma Center."
Hamid Johari (Mechanical Engineering) received $40,000 from the Department of the Army, in support of a project entitled "Aerodynamic Performance of High Glide Ram-Air Parachutes."
Marianne Link (Klotz Student Health Center) received $63,811 from the California State University, Fresno Foundation, in support of a project entitled “CSU Alcohol and Traffic Safety Grant.”
Mary Ann Cummins Prager (Center on Disabilities) received $653,466 from the California Department of Rehabilitation, in continuing support of a project entitled “Workability IV Contract with California Department of Rehabilitation Services.”
Updated 4/18/08
Alyce Akers (Family and Consumer Sciences) received $149,872 from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, in continuing support of a project entitled “Head Start Hispanic Latino Service: Partnership Institutions.”
Raul Aragon (EOP Admissions and Partnership Programs) received $302,646 from the Los Angeles Unified School District, in continuing support of a project entitled “GEAR UP LASSO Monroe School Complex.” He also received $100,000 from the Los Angeles Unified School District, as supplemental support of a project entitled “GEAR UP LASSO Monroe School Complex.”
James Ballard (Sociology) received $56,986 from the Foundation for CSU San Bernardino, in continuing support of a project entitled “Intelligence Studies Program.”
Donald Bleich (Finance, Real Estate and Insurance) received $9,000 from the CSU Real Estate & Land Use Institute, in continuing support of a project entitled “Real Estate Program Improvement Grant.”
Patrick Boudreault (Deaf Studies) received $82,745 from the University of California, Los Angeles, in continuing support of a project entitled “Outcomes of Cx26 Testing in Deaf/Hard of Hearing Adults.”
David Boyns (Sociology) received $40,000 from UC Riverside, in continuing support of a project entitled “Copernicus Project Evaluation.”
Nancy Burstein and Sue Sears (Special Education) received $681,025 from the Los Angeles County Office of Education, in continuing support of a project entitled “SPED Intern Program–Program Improvement Plan.” They also received $86,513 from the Los Angeles County Office of Education, as supplemental support of a project entitled “Special Education Interim Program (CAIP).”
Robert Carpenter (Biology) received $90,000 from UC Santa Barbara, in continuing support of a project entitled “LTER: Long-Term Dynamics of a Coral Reef Ecosystem.”
Gary Chapman (Physics and Astronomy) received $71,080 from the National Science Foundation, in continuing support of a project entitled “RUI: A Study of the Sources of Solar Total and Spectral Variability.”
Debi Prasad Choudhary (Physics and Astronomy) received $70,335 from the National Science Foundation, in support of a project entitled “CAREER: Magnetic Tomography of Emerging Sunspots (MATES).”
Robert Dale Conner (Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management) received $14,999 from the California Institute of Technology, in support of a project entitled “Cellular Amorphous Metallic Structures for Energy Absorption.”
Irene Cota and Elaine Adelman (Elementary Education) received $67,948 from the Los Angeles Unified School District, in continuing support of a project entitled “Multiple Subject Internship Program.”
Maria D’Orsogna (Mathematics) received $10,000 from UCLA, in support of a project entitled “Participation in an Optimal Transport Program.”
Shawna Dark and James Craine (Geography) received $92,614 from the San Francisco Estuary Institute, in support of a project entitled “Ventura County Historical Ecology Project.”
James Decker (Social Work) received $541,442 from the Regents of the University of California, in continuing support of a project entitled “CalSWEC Title IV-E Funding Stipend Program.”
Cynthia Desrochers (Elementary Education) received $20,000 from the Trustees of the California State University, in support of a project entitled “The MERLOT Faculty ELIXR Project.”
Fred Dukes (Administration and Finance) received $4,200 from Washington State University, as supplemental support of a project entitled “Afghan Equality Alliances–Participant Training.”
Janice Eckmier and Carolyn Burch (Secondary Education)received $495,050 from the Los Angeles Unified School District, in continuing support of a project entitled “Single Subject University Intern Program.”
Peter Edmunds (Biology) received $157,923 from the National Science Foundation, in support of a project entitled “Homeostasis, stoichiometry and dynamic energy budgets at multiple levels of biological organization.” He received $100,000 from UC Santa Barbara, in continuing support of a project entitled “Long Term Ecological Research: Coral Reefs in Moorea, French Polynesia.” Edmunds also received $5,975 from the National Science Foundation as supplemental support of a project entitled "RUI: Long-Term Coral Reef Dynamics in the U.S. Virgin Islands: 1987-2008."
Rafi Efrat (Accounting and Information Systems) received $45,000 from the Internal Revenue Service, in support of a project entitled “The Tax Clinic.”
Xiaojun Geng (Electrical and Computer Engineering) received $30,088 from the National Science Foundation, in support of a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Gaming and Interactive Visualization for Education.”
Alan Glassman (Management) received $53,049 from the L.A. County Superior Court, in continuing support of a project entitled "Superior Court Manager Development Program," and $47,150 from the City of Los Angeles, in continuing support of a project entitled “Bureau of Sanitation LEAD Program.” He also received $20,826 from the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, in continuing support of a project entitled “Superior Court Managing People #2.”
Anne Glavin (Public Safety) received $20,000 from the CSU Trustees, in support of a project entitled “Homeland Security Grant.”
Charles Hanson (Educational Psychology and Counseling) received $284,905 from the California Department of Public Health, in continuing support of a project entitled “Northwestern Los Angeles County Rape Crisis Center Rape Prevention Education.” He also received $244,742 from the State of California Office of Emergency Services, in continuing support of a project entitled “Valley Trauma Center” and $134,996 from the State of California Office of Emergency Services, in continuing support of a project entitled “Northwestern Los Angeles County Rape Crisis Center.” Hanson also received $25,000 from Catholic Healthcare West, in continuing support of a project entitled "SART Case Manager."
Javier Hernandez (Student Outreach and Recruitment) received $250,000 from the U.S. Department of Education, in support of a project entitled “Upward Bound.” He also received $181,600 from the U.S. Department of Education, in continuing support of a project entitled “Talent Search Program Region I”; $61,829 from the LAUSD, in continuing support of a project entitled “GEAR UP Project STEPS”; $60,000 from the LAUSD in continuing support of a project entitled “GEAR UP Project LASSO” and $23,530 from the LAUSD, in support of a project entitled “GEAR UP Southgate College Partnership.”
Nhut Ho (Mechanical Engineering) received $150,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Establishing a CDIO Franework to Improve Learning and Retention in a Diverse Undergraduate Engineering Student Population." Ho also received $75,000 from the California State University Long Beach Foundation, in continuing support of a project entitled “Metrics for Operator Situation Awareness, Workload, and Performance in Automated Separation Assurance Systems.”
Hamid Johari (Mechanical Engineering) has received $12,000 from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, as supplemental support for a project entitled "Performance of Hydrofoils with Leading Edge Protruberances."
Karla Johnson-Majedi (Engineering and Computer Science, Student Services Center/EOP Satellite) received $102,156 from University Enterprises Inc., CSU Sacramento, in continuing support of a project entitled “CSU Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, Phase III.”
Sharlene Katz (Electrical and Computer Engineering) received $10,000 from Edwards Air Force Base/Kenexa, in support of a project entitled “Software Defined Radio (SDR) Projects.”
David Klein (Mathematics) received $5,000 from the Fordham Foundation, in support of a project entitled “An Evaluation of High School Math Programs.”
Deborah Leidner and Richard Castallo (Educational Leadership and Policy Studies) received $103,161 from the U.S. Department of Education, as supplemental support of a project entitled “PROJECT CHANGE: A Partnership to Prepare Tomorrow’s Leaders.”
Marta Lopez-Garza (Women’s Studies, Chicana/o Studies) received $10,000 from the California Council for the Humanities, in support of a project entitled “’When Will Punishment End? Stories by Formerly Incarcerated Women.”
David Miller (Accounting and Information Systems) received $19,900 from the National Science Foundation, in support of a project entitled “Regional Information Systems Security Center.”
Jerry Nader (Education) received $204,000 from Project GRAD Los Angeles, as supplemental support of a project entitled “Project GRAD Los Angeles.”
Peter Nwosu (Human Relations) received $24,500 from El Proyecto del Barrio, in support of a project entitled “Youth Leadership Skills and Career Pathway Development Program.”
Miroslav Peric (Physics and Astronomy) received $7,800 from JPL, as supplemental support of a project entitled “Atmosphere Aerosol Studies From MSIR: Researching Aerosols and Pollution in Mexico City.”
Scott Plunkett (Family and Consumer Sciences) and two colleagues from North Carolina State University and Oklahoma State University received $457,278 ($114,693 to CSUN) from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, in support of a project entitled “Fathers Count.” Plunkett also received $121,685 from North Carolina State University in support of the "Fathers Count" project.
Dora Preminger and Gary Chapman (Physics and Astronomy) received $22,952 from NASA, in support of a project entitled “Magnetic Origins of Solar Irradiance Variations.”
Ramin Roosta (Electrical and Computer Engineering) received $20,000 from the Northrop Grumman Corporation, in support of a project entitled “Power-aware design planning and physical implementation for effective power reduction.”
Robert Ryan (Mechanical Engineering) received $19,856 from DMJM Harris, in support of a project entitled “Fume Hood Exhaust System for Science 3 and 4.”
Mark Sergi (Psychology) received $26,597 from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & Depression, in continuing support of a project entitled “Improving Skill Acquisition in Schizophrenia: Neurocognitive Prediction of Effective Instruction.”
Debra Sheets (Health Sciences) received $20,171 from UCLA, in support of a project entitled “California Geriatric Education Center.”
Yohannes Shiferaw (Physics and Astronomy) received $75,087 from the American Heart Association, in support of a project entitled “Stochastic Calcium Signaling and Cardiac Arrhythmia.”
Gerry Simila (Geological Sciences), Virginia Vandergon (Biology) and Steve Oppenheimer (Biology) have received $24,612 from the UC Regents, in support of a project entitled “San Fernando Valley Science Project” and $20,000 in additional funding for the “San Fernando Valley Science Project—Supplement.”
Mark Steele and Larry Allen (Biology) have received $175,670 from the California Coastal Commission, in continuing support of a project entitled "SONGS Mitigation Monitoring Program (2008-2009)."
Yifei Sun (Geography) has received $18,937 from the National Science Foundation, in continuing support of a project entitled "Collaborative Research: A Comparative Study of ICT Industry Development in Beijing, Shanghi-Suzhou Corridor and Pearl River Delta in China."
John Van Arsdale (Recreation and Tourism Management) has received $40,000 fom the California Department of Boating and Waterways, in connection with the CSUN Aquatic Center at Castaic Lake. The center acts as a learning center for CSUN students, and a community program outreach center focusing on water safety and aquatics for communities in the Santa Clarita valley
Ann Watkins (Mathematics) received $30,975 from Western Michigan University, in continuing support of a project entitled “Core-Plus Mathematics Revision Project.”
Ivor Weiner (Special Education) received $209,351 from the California Department of Education, in continuing support of a project entitled “Family Focus Center–Family Empowerment.” He also received $73,955 from the North Los Angeles County Regional Center, Inc., in continuing support of a project entitled “The Family Focus Resource Center” and $48,766 from the North Los Angeles County Regional Center, Inc., in continuing support of a project entitled “Family Focus Resource Center Antelope Valley.”
Doug Yule (Geological Sciences) received $117,493 from the National Science Foundation, in continuing support of a project entitled “Earthquake Geology of the Pakistani Himalaya: Characterizing Slip Rates and Recurrence of Potentially Devastating Earthquake Sources.”
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