August 2023 Grants and Contracts
We are pleased to share the success of 91ÁÔÆæ's principal investigators who were awarded grants and contracts during August 2023:
Monthly Awards at a Glance
24 Awards Received: Valued at $5,273,707.
Note: Some industry-sponsored awards are not listed due to their respective non-disclosure terms.
Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering
Katy Kao, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Adaptive Evolution of Candida Biofilms
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health – $146,500.
Dahyun Oh, Christopher Smallwood, Abraham Wolcott, Ozgur Keles, Chemical and Materials Engineering
MRI Track #1 Acquisition of Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Research and Education
at San José State University
Sponsor: National Science Foundation – $550,000.
Facilities Development & Operations
Aaron Klemm, Facilities Development & Operations
Recycling/Reuse Hotline and Website for San Mateo County
Sponsor: San Mateo County – $50,000. and $25,000.
Aaron Klemm, Facilities Development & Operations
Recycling/Reuse Hotline and Website for City of Morgan Hill
Sponsor: City of Morgan Hill – $118,000.
College of Health and Human Sciences
Laurie Drabble, CHHS, Dean's Office
A Unified Protocol to Address Sexual Minority Women's Minority Stress, Mental Health
and Hazardous Drinking
Sponsor: Yale University – $21,645.
Chulwood Charles Park, Public Health and Recreation
Language Identity and Mental Health Disparities among Multilingual 1.5 Generation
Asian/Asian American Immigrant Young Adults: A Mixed Methods Study
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health – $183,125.
College of Professional and Global Education
Anthony Chow, José Aguinaga, School of Information
iLead: Preparing Tomorrow’s Library Leaders
Sponsor: Inst of Museum & Library Serve – $146,770.
College of Science
Faranak Abri, Computer Science
Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Analytical Models for Conversational Social
Engineering Attacks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation – $200,000.
Curtis Asplund, Younghee Park, Physics & Astronomy
USC-91ÁÔÆæ ICCAE Consortium's National Security & Intelligence Scholars Research Program
Sponsor: University of Southern California – $25,000.
Minghui Diao, Meteorology & Climate Science
Aerosol Indirect Effects on Cirrus Clouds Based on NASA Flight Campaigns and Global
Climate Models
Sponsor: NASA – $102,162.
Gianmarc Grazioli, Chemistry
Probing Amyloid Fibril Self-Assembly with Network Hamiltonian Simulations in Explicit
Space
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health – $168,818.
Scott L. Hamilton, Moss Landing Marine Lab
California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program – Monitoring and Evaluation of
California Marine Protected Areas
Sponsor: San José State University – $534,000.
Adam Kochanski, Meteorology & Climate Science
Coupled Interactive Forecasting of Weather, Fire Behavior, and Smoke Impact for Improved
Wildland Fire Decision Making
Sponsor: Colorado State University – $24,501.
Adam Kochanski, Meteorology & Climate Science
Predictive PhysicsBased Modeling Framework For Biomass Combustions in Wildfire Conditions
Sponsor: Lawrence Livermore National Lab – $60,406.
Adam Kochanski, Meteorology & Climate Science
Towards a NU-WRF based Mega Wildfire Digital Twin: Smoke Transport Impact Scenarios
on Air Quality, Cardiopulmonary Disease and Regional Deforestation
Sponsor: University of Maryland Baltimore County – $32,130.
Timothy P. Stanton, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Analysis of Arctic Ocean Fluxes
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research – $56,863.
Qing Wang, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Airborne Instruments to Quantify Optical Turbulence, Aerosol, and Surface Wave Impact
on Optical Propagation in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layers
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research – $854,723.
Qing Wang, Thomas Connolly, Moss Landing Marine Lab
A Radio Frequency Path Characterization System for Research on Quantifying Electromagnetic
Wave Propagation Through the Lower Atmosphere
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research – $518,622.
College of Social Sciences
Katherine Kao Cushing, Environmental Studies
CommUniverCity 91ÁÔÆæ: Growing by Gardening
Sponsor: Open Space Authority of SC Valley – $100,000.
Marie Haverfield, Communication Studies
IPA
Sponsor: IPA – $30,000.
Randall Mumaw, Psychology
Autoflight Issue Analysis and Design Recommendations
Sponsor: Boeing North American, Inc. – $126,614.
Susan M. Snycerski, Psychology
Future Vertical Lift: Collaborative Research on Flight Control, Autonomous Rotorcraft,
and Human-Systems Interface Design: Phase 2
Sponsor: NASA – $842,742.
Bo Yang, Kerry Rohrmeier, Urban & Regional Planning
Building a STEM Research and Education Network of GIS and Drone Mapping for Coastal
Seagrass Monitoring
Sponsor: National Science Foundation – $356,086.
