Your Project, Our Mission: How ORSP Supports Faculty in Advancing Their Initiatives

This session will provide faculty members with valuable insights into the wide range of ORSP services, initiatives, and opportunities. ORSP faculty fellows and staff will guide participants through key resources, including the Grant Writing Academy, offers three levels of training to CSUF faculty members who seek assistance with writing grant proposals, and intramural funding opportunities to support research initiatives. The session will also cover ORSP’s publication support services, travel grants for academic conferences, and strategies for integrating students into research and mentorship roles. Additionally, faculty will learn about Titans Thinking Together (T³), an ORSP initiative providing seed funding for interdisciplinary projects that address global and regional challenges. This session will ensure faculty understand how ORSP can help them grow, collaborate, and succeed in their academic and research endeavors.

 

Webinar: 
How ORSP Supports Faculty in Advancing Their Initiatives

Monday, April 14, 2025

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. 

Zoom

 

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Panelists

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Lana Dalley, Ph.D., Professor, ORSP Faculty Fellow Grant Writing Academy 

Lana Dalley is a professor in the department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature, feminist literature, writing, and feminist and gender theory. During her time at CSUF, she has served in many different administrative and service capacities, including Department Vice Chair, Department Chair, and Chair of the University Research Committee. Currently, she serves as the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs’ faculty fellow for Grant Writing Academy 101: Beginning Grant Writing. 

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Nicole Bonuso, Ph.D., Professor, Director of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Center (UROC)

Nicole Bonuso is a professor of geological sciences at CSUF. Currently, she serves as the Director for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Center. Dr. Bonuso develops programs and oversees processes that support students’ faculty-driven scholarly and creative activities at Cal State Fullerton to enhance their academic journey. She provides strategic direction for programs that help students participate in experiential learning, develop their academic interests, and reflect on their experiences to increase knowledge, develop skills, and clarify values.

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Natsuki Atagi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, ORSP Faculty Fellow for Scholarly Publication Support

Natsuki Atagi, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Studies (CAS) at CSUF. She is also the Scholarly Publications Faculty Fellow and a Provost’s Faculty Fellow. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from UCLA and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Psychology at UC Riverside. Her research focuses on understanding how variability in early language experiences affect language, literacy, and cognitive development. This scholarly interest extends to her teaching: She enjoys teaching writing to students and has worked with colleagues in her department and college to promote anti-racist writing pedagogy. As Scholarly Publications Faculty Fellow, Natsuki is committed to using her scholarly and pedagogical expertise to support her colleagues across the university with their manuscript writing.

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Kathleen Preston, Ph.D., Faculty Fellow Quantative Research

Kathleen Preston, Ph.D. is a a product of Titans Reaching Higher! She was born and raised in Fullerton and had the opportunity to attend CSUF for her college education. As an undergraduate here, at CSUF, Dr. Preston earned a B.A. as a double-major in Psychology and Music with a vocal emphasis, and an M.A. in Psychological Research. She earned her Ph.D. in 2011 in quantitative psychology from UCLA. Her research interests are in utilizing Item Response Theory, specifically the nominal response model, to develop and refine psychological measurement tools. Dr. Preston is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at where she serves as the Office of Research/FDC Faculty Fellow for Quantitative Research Support and teaches several statistics courses included introductory, advanced, and multivariate statistics, as well as psychometrics, and structural equation modeling.

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Moderator

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Binod Tiwari, Ph.D., Associate Vice President, ORSP

Dr. Binod Tiwari is the Associate Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs/Chief Research Officer at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). He also holds the Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering position at CSUF. He has served at CSUF in different capacities, including department chair, program coordinator, graduate advisor, and academic senate member. He has published over 250 articles in various areas of his research interest, delivered nearly 100 keynote or invited lectures, and supervised over 250 students on their graduate or undergraduate research theses/projects. He has reviewed design reports of dozens of large geotechnical engineering and dam projects in the USA and worldwide as an external panel of experts. He has received over two dozen awards for his research publications and service to higher education and profession, including the ASCE 2022 Edmund Friedman Professional Recognition Award, ASCE 2020 Collingwood Prize, ASCE 2020 Thomas Middlebrooks Award, and CSU Fullerton 2017 Outstanding Professor Award. Dr. Tiwari served as a Vice President of the International Consortium on Landslides, Executive Board Member for the Council on Undergraduate Research, and Chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Geo-Institute Los Angeles Chapter. He is the current chair of the California State University Council of Chief Research Officers (CCRO). Dr. Tiwari serves as an executive editor, associate editor, or editorial board member of various flagship international journals on geotechnical engineering, including ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering, Landslides, and Geo-environmental Disasters, and is an assistant editor-in-chief of ICL Book Series - Progress in Landslide Research and Technology. He is a licensed professional civil engineer in California and is a fellow of ASCE. Dr. Tiwari received his B.Eng. in civil engineering from Tribhuvan University Nepal, M.Sc. in geo and biosphere science from Niigata University Japan, Ph.D. in environmental management science from Niigata University Japan, and post-doctoral fellowship from Virginia Tech USA.