2020-2021 Junior/Senior Faculty Grant Recipients

COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
Maria Glaudini, Theatre and Dance
WOMEN OF  ZALONGO, Original Play Development Opportunity

COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATIONS
Min Jung Kim, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Speech  sound assessment of children with and without speech sound disorders using an automated speech analysis program

Ari Posner, Cinema and Television Arts
"U ltimate Meditation": A Comedy Podcast Series

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Alison Dover, Secondary Education
Ebacting Culturally and  Linguistically Sustaining Teaching in Orange County

Calli Lewis Chiu, Special Education
Examining Implicit Bias

Rosario Ordonez-Jasis, Literacy and Reading Education
Leadership in Literacy: Centering the Voices of Teachers of Color (TOC)

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Rekeshkumar Mahto, Computer Engineering
Smart and Adaptable Solar Powered Drones

Salvador Mayoral, Mechanical Engineering
Increasing fuel efficiency in semitrucks by utilizing underbody diffusers

Siheng Su , Mechanical Engineering
Minimizing Cage Subsidence with 3D Printed Stand-alone Lumbar Fusion Cages

COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Natsuki Atagi, Child and Adolecent Studies
The Role of Early Language Environments in Bilingual Toddlers’ Language Development

Gordon Capp, Social Work
School Climate and School Discipline: The hidden role of school nurses within school contexts

John Gleaves, Kinesiology
Doping Prevalence in Competitive Sport: Evidence Synthesis With Best Practice Recommendations and Reporting Guidelines 

Sean Hogan , Social Work
Foster Youth in Higher Education: The Relationship Between Social Capital and Academic Success at a Four-Year University

Erica Lizano, Social Work
Building a Healthier and More Stable Human Service Workforce: Examining Work Engagement’s Correlates among Social Workers in the U.S.

COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Ahmed Afzal, Anthropology
Ethnographic Study of the Uses of Mobile Social Networking Apps in Urban Pakistan

Miriam Ashtiani, Sociology
Racial Disparities in the Effect of Juvenile Drug Arrests on Adult Crime

Margie Brown-Coronel, History
"Visions of Justice, Voices of Change: Women and Political Activism in California since 1960 "

Russel Espinoza, Psychology
An Examination of Immigrants Interaction within the U.S. Legal System

Sarah Hill, Politics, Administration, and Justice
The Plural Executive: Who Is Serving the States?

Juan Ryusuke Ishikawam, Modern Languages and Literatures
Contemporary Latin American Literature Translation Project

Carrie Lane, American Studies
Not about the Stuff: Organizing Better Work and Better Lives in Uncertain Times

Stacy Mallicoat, Politics, Administration, and Justice
Eliminating Opportunity Gaps for First Generation/ Underrepresented Students in Criminal Justice with Peer Mentors

Angela MinhTu Nguyen, Psychology
Biculturalism, the Model Minority Stereotype, and Adjustment for Southeast Asian American College Students

Yuko Okado,  Phychology
MentorPsych: A Virtual Mentoring Platform to Increase Student Retention and Advancement in Psychology

Irena Praitis, English, Comparativve Literature, and Linguistics
Cage of Bone: A Poetry Collection

Nancy Segal, Psychology
Chinese Twins Adopted Apart: Follow-Up Study of Behavioral Development in Real Time

Terri Snyder, American Studies
Claiming Freedom: Gender, Race, and Antislavery Politics in Early North America

Saul Tobias, Liberal Studies
Buddhist Nationalism

David Traven, Politics, Administration, and Justice
Malicious Motives or Innocent Intentions: How Moral Intuitions Shape Perceptions of Intent in Wartime Conduct

J. Chris Westgate, English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics
“’Da Real Ting’: The Bowery Boy on Stage from Mose the Fireman to the Mayor of Chinatown”

Jidong Wu, Geography and the Environment 
Quantifying the Spatial Patterns of Wildfire Burn Severity with High-Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing

MIHAYLO COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Adrian Fleissig, Economics
Monetary Policy, Consumption and Income Inequality

Yi Jian, Finance
Price Asymmetries in the US Airline Industry

Walied Keshk, Accounting
Graduate Business Student Perceptions about their Study Programs and Future Careers

Kristen Kleinjans, Economics
The Colombian Pension System 25 Years After Its Reform: A Critical Assessment

Sinjini Mitra, Information Systems and Decision Sciences
Impact of wearable fitness trackers on personal health and wellness management

Shaun Pichler, Management
The Virtuous Cycle of Diversity

Ofir Turel, Information Systems and Decision Sciences
Reducing Unsafe Information Systems Security Behaviors with Non-Invasive Brain Interventions

 COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
Alain Bourget, Mathematics
Eigenvalues Distribution of Hankel Matrices

Gulhan Bourget, Mathematics
Expected Maximization Method To Impute Microarray Data

Catherine Brennan, Biological Science
Functional analysis of Inflammatory Lipid Accumulation in Macrophages

Esther Chen, Biological Science
Identifying conditions that influence small RNA gene expression in Sinorhizobium meliloti

Allyson Fry-Petit, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Creating Minerals That Can Efficiently Move Oxygen Gas

Paula Hudson, Chemistry and Biochemistry
A Laboratory Study to Examine the Effect of Wildfires on Cloud Formation, Rainfall and Climate Change

Kathryn Metcalf, Geological Sciences
Evolution of a subduction zone preserved in the Klamath Mountains, northern California

Alison Miyamoto, Biological Sciences
Development of a real-time, live-cell tracking system for the cell signaling receptor, Notch

Thomas Murphy, Mathematics
Solving Einstein's Equations: A Student Led Approach

Gina Pissante, Physics
Student-generated visual representations in introductory physics

Stevan Pecic, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Development of Dual Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase/Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Inhibitors as a Promising Therapeutic Strategy for the Treatment of Acute and Chronic Pain

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Jie Tian, Pollack Library
How to Love this Earth