Grants and Contracts

The following is a list of some of the grants and contracts awarded on campus during the second half of 2010: 

Bill Hoese and Darren Sandquist, Biological Sciences: $846,348 National Science Foundation grant for “Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in Biology: Research Experiences in a Changing World: Preparing Underrepresented Students for Graduate Programs Through Research in Environmental Biology.” Related story.

Murtadha Khakoo, Physics: $307,000 National Science Foundation award for “RUI: Electron Impact Ionization of Argon & Krypton and Excitation of Resonance Transitions in Neon, Xenon and Molecular Hydrogen.” Khakoo also received a $61,227 Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Prime NASA grant — third year of the award — for “Electron Impact Cross Section of Atmospheric Species.” Related story. 

Kiran George, Computer Engineering: $174,745 National Science Foundation grant for “BRIGE: Implementation of a Multi-Signal Real-Time Digital Receiver With High Resolution Spectral Estimation Capability on a Hybrid High Performance Computing Platform.”

Joshua Smith, Physics: $35,000 Research Corporation award for “Extending the Astronomical Reach of Gravitation-Wave Detectors With Interferometry.” 

Christopher Meyer and Chandra Srinivasan, Chemistry and Biochemistry: $28,466 in additional funds from the National Science Foundation in support of “Regulation of Diverse Bacterial ADP-Glucose Pyrophsophorylases.” Total award to date is $851,599. Related story. 

Jared Rubin, Economics: $13,563 Chapman University contract to serve as executive director of the university's Association for the Study of Economics, Religion and Culture Center. Rubin will run the organization’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. 

Christopher Meyer, Chemistry and Biochemistry: $120,067 National Science Foundation grant for “NSF-Asilomar Photosynthesis Ideas Conference.”

David Pagni, Mathematics: $79,387 contract from University of California Office of the President for “Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project 10/11.” Total two-year grant is $151,420. 

Hope Johnson, Biological Sciences: $199,969 National Science Foundation and $35,000 Research Corporation for Science Achievement awards for “Bacterial Mn (II) Oxidation and its Role in Oxidative Protection.” Related story. 

Steven Murray, Biological Science: $492,501 National Science Foundation funding for “Talent Expansion in Science and Technology: An Urban Partnership.”

Maria Linder, Chemistry and Biochemistry: $284,100 third-year Howard Hughes Medical Institute funding for “HHMI Research Scholars Program@CSUF.” Total award: $1,523,000. 

Matthew Kirby, Geological Sciences: $74,923 National Science Foundation grant for “4,500 years of Hydrologic Variability From Zaca Lake, Close to the Santa Barbara Basin.” Related story. 

Sora Park Tanjasiri, Health Science: $122,857 Science Applications International Corp. — Frederick  grant  for “Healthcare Disparities: Partnerships with NCCCP and the Community Networks Program Institutions to Increase Screening in Racial/Ethnic Minority and Other Underserved”; $819,718 first-year National Institutes of Health  grant — National Cancer Institute funding for “WINCART: Weaving an Islander Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training”; and $557,000 first-year National Institutes of Health - National Cancer Institute funding for “A Pap Test Intervention to Enhance Decision Making Among Pacific Islander Women.”

Raymond Rast, History: $44,651 U.S. first-year Department of the Interior — National Park Service  award for “Cesar Chavez Special Resource Study.” Total Award: $89,651.

Claire Palmerino and Connie DeCapite, both College of Humanities and Social Sciences: $45,000 second-year funding from Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District and the U.S. Department of Education for “Promise of Democracy: Teaching American History.” Total Award: $85,000.

Christine L. Latham, Nursing: $262,530 second-year U.S. Department of Education funding for “Clinical Teaching and Research Scholars Program — GAANN.” Related story.

Sergio Guerra, Engineering: $20,500 U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration/National Highway Institute grant to fund five 2010 Eisenhower Fellowships on campus.

Steve Murray, Biological Sciences: $106,108 USC/California Coastal Conservancy grant for “Distributions, Abundances and Feeding Interactions  With Native Consumers of Non-Indigenous Seaweeds on Urban So Cal Shores.”

Fu-ming Tao, Chemistry and Biochemistry: $270,000 National Science Foundation grant for “CHE-1012994, RUI: Theoretical Investigation of the Gas-Phase Reaction of NO2(g)+H2O(g)+NH3(g): A new source of HONO Gas and NH4NO3(s) Aerosols.” Related Story.

Joshua Smith, Physics: $35,000 Research Corporation for Science Advancement award for “Extending the Astronomical Reach of Gravitational-Wave Detectors with All-Reflective Interferometry.”

David Pagni and Margaret Kidd, both Mathematics: $28,350 University California Office of the President/U.S. Department of Education award for “Orange County Math Program @FULLERTON 10/11.” Cal State Fullerton is one of 19 sites throughout the state that help schools with low California Standards Test scores; during the summer, the OCMP offers a weeklong workshop of instructional aid for teachers in low-performing elementary schools.

Marcelo Tolmasky, Biological Science: $241,560 National Institutes of Health grant for “L.A. Basin California State University Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training Program.”

Dec. 21, 2010