Individual Investigator Awards

  • Time-Dependent Random Effects Poisson Random Field Model for Cancer Gene Detection ($14,000)
    Amei Amei, Department of Mathematical Sciences
  • Indigenizing California History ($25,000)
    William Bauer, Department of History
  • Water as a Cultural Space: Aquatics in Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora ($4,000)
    Kevin Dawson, Department of History
  • Occurrence, Proliferation, and Persistence of Antibiotic Resistance During Wastewater Treatment ($25,000)
    Daniel Gerrity, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction
  • Influence of Foot Strike Pattern on Lower Back Muscle Activation during Running: Clinical Implications for Preventing Lower Back Pain in Runners ($24,268)
    Szu-Ping Lee, Department of Physical Therapy
  • From Victims to Litigants: Domestic Violence, Legal Aid Partnerships with the Courts, and the Politics of Self-Help ($25,000)
    Elizabeth MacDowell, Boyd School of Law
    Emily Troshynski, Department of Criminal Justice
  • Building Toward a Center for the Study of Innovation in Postsecondary Education ($25,000)
    Mario Martinez, Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education
  • Literary Modernism, Immigration, and Jews ($9,361)
    Beth Rosenberg, Department of English
  • Efficient One-Stage and Two-Stage Phase II Clinical Trial Designs Based on Exact Unconditional Tests ($20,000)
    Guogen Shan, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Project Leap: Learning English for Academic Purposes ($24,851)
    Tracy Spies, Department of Educational and Clinical Studies
  • Modeling and Numerical Studies for a Two-Phase Transport Model of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) ($24,460)
    Pengtao Sun, Department of Mathematical Sciences
  • Using Antibiotics to Modulate Vertebrate Organ Regeneration ($25,000)
    Ai-Sun (Kelly) Tseng, School of Life Sciences
  • Super-Hydrophobic Surface Enabled Microfluidic Energy Conversion ($25,000)
    Hui Zhao, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Innovation/Technology Development

  • A New Multiple Access Scheme Based on the Signal Amplitudes ($25,000)
    Yingtao Jiang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Revolutionizing the Authentication Paradigm with an Indirect User ID Mechanism ($24,480)
    Juyeon Jo, Department of Computer Science
    Yoohwan Kim, Department of Computer Science
  • System Minimotif Inhibitor Functional Screening Technology ($25,000)
    Martin Schiller, School of Life Sciences
  • Technology Development of a Robotic Catheter System ($24,853)
    Woosoon Yim, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Kwang Kim, Deprtment of Mechanical Engineering
  • Development of Novel Chemical Inhibitors Targeting Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer/Cancer Stem Cells ($25,000)
    Hui Zhang, Department of Chemistry
    Pradip Bhowmik, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry