2018-19 Faculty Grant Recipients
SJSU RSCA Seed Grant Program
PI Serena Alexander
College of Social Sciences, Urban and Regional Planning
Proposal: Harmonizing Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Oakland, CA
PI Benjamin Anderson
College of Business, Accounting and Finance
Proposal: Financial Analysts' Response to Bank Risk Management Committee Formation
PI Alessandro Bellofiore
College of Engineering, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Proposal: An Experimental Investigation of the Mechanisms of Blood Clotting Caused by Prosthetic Heart Valves
PI Anji Buckner-Capone
College of Health and Human Sciences, Health Science and Recreation
Proposal: Assessing School Climate Assessment Processes in California Public Schools: What Superintendents Tell us About the Collection and Use of School Climate Data in K-12
PI Seung Ho Chang
College of Health and Human Sciences, Kinesiology
Proposal: Promoting Motor Skills and Self-Regulation for Socioeconomically Disadvantaged and Ethnic Minority Children
PI Guangliang Chen
College of Science, Mathematics and Statistics
Proposal: A New Landmark-based Large-scale Spectral Clustering Algorithm using Diffusion Coordinates on Bipartite Graphs
PI Lionel Cheruzel
College of Science, Chemistry
Proposal: Photocatalysis and Light-driven Biocatalysis in Continuous Flow
PI Edward Cohen
College of Health and Human Sciences, Social Work
Proposal: Evaluation of a Prevention Program for Youth and Families in Juvenile Justice
PI Mary Currin-Percival
College of Social Sciences, Political Science
Proposal: Active-Learning and Civic Knowledge in an American Government Course
PI David Daum
College of Health and Human Sciences, Kinesiology
Proposal: Technology Perceptions, Expectations and Usage: Investigating the Alignment Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers
PI Jan English-Leuck
College of Social Sciences, Anthropology
Proposal: Crafting Utopia and Re-engineering Nature in Silicon Valley
PI A. J. Faas
College of Social Sciences, Anthropology
Proposal: Cascading Impacts, Community, and Recovery: Resettlement in Ecuador After Ten Years
PI Maria Fusaro
College of Education, Child & Adolescent Development
Proposal: The Emergence of Questions in Early Communication
PI Deepika Goyal
College of Health and Human Sciences, Nursing
Proposal: Perspectives of Perinatal Depression in Korean American Women: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Co-PI:
- Meekyung Han,College of Health and Human Sciences, Social Work
PI Jooyeon Ha
College of Health and Human Sciences; Hospitality, Tourism, and Event Management
Proposal: Measuring Quality of Service Technology in Restaurants: Scale Development and Validation
PI Crystal Han
College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Proposal: On-chip Pre-concentration Technology for Rapid and Sensitive Immunoassay
PI Benedikt Harrer
College of Science, Physics and Astronomy
Proposal: Using Geometric Algebra to Aid Physics Students' Understanding of Rational Motion
PI Jennifer Hartle
College of Health and Human Sciences; Health Science and Recreation
Proposal: Dietary Exposures to Phenols and Phthalates from Food Packaging: Validation of Dietary Risk Survey
PI Michael Harvey
College of Health and Human Sciences, Health Science and Recreation
Proposal: Examining the Links Between Structural Vulnerability, Health Care Access, and Health Status Among an Indigenous Guatemalan Population in Fruitvale, Oakland
PI Jo Hernandez
College of Humanities and the Arts, Art and Art History
Proposal: Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments (Volume II)
PI Areum Jensen
College of Health and Human Sciences, Kinesiology
Proposal: The Effect of Exercise Training on Vascular Function and Risk Factors in Adults with Cerebral Palsy
PI Lara Kassab
College of Education, Teacher Education
Proposal: Preparing New Teachers to use Educational Technology: Investigating the (In) Equalities of Expectations Between Teacher Educators, administrators, and experienced teachers.
PI Ozgur Keles
College of Engineering; Biomedical, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Proposal: Vibration-assisted Additive Manufacturing of Polymer Matrix Composites: Effects of Dual Vibrations and Printing Speed on Mechanical Reliability
PI Michael Klein
College of Business, Marketing and Decision Sciences
Proposal: Dialysis Facilities: Does location, staffing and mode impact access to care?
PI Susan Lambrecht
College of Science, Biological Sciences
Proposal: Rapid Evolution in a Native Plant in Response to California’s Recent Drought
PI Matthew Leineweber
College of Engineering; Biomedical, Chemical, and Materials Engineering
Proposal: Developing a 3D Gait Model for Simulating Motor Control Strategies in Individuals Using Above-knee Prostheses
PI Zongchao Li
College of Health and Human Sciences, Journalism and Mass Communications
Proposal: To Love or to Hate? Relationship Norm, Interactional Fairness, and Controllability on Consumer Responses to A Failure Situation
PI Laura Long
College of Humanities and the Arts, Film and Theatre
Proposal: Indieland, a Six Episode Mockumentary Web Series
PI Shishir Mathur
College of Social Sciences, Urban and Regional Planning
Proposal: Urban Growth Boundary's Impact Across the Entire House Price Spectrum
PI Kevin Moore
College of Humanities and the Arts, Linguistics and Language Development
Proposal: Conference Travel to Present "'Following' in Ego-centered Moving Time and fictive motion"
PI Elizabeth Mullen
College of Business, Management
Proposal: Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility
PI Mary Pickering
College of Social Sciences, History
Proposal: Siege of Paris
PI Carlie Pietsch
College of Science, Geology
Proposal: Business As Usual or a New Normal? Investigating the Recovery from the End-Permian Mass Extinction
PI Katerina Potika
College of Science, Computer Science
Proposal: Local Community Detection in Online Graphs
PI Colette Rabin
College of Education, Teacher Education
Proposal: Improving Teacher Preparation through Co-Teaching
PI Madalyn Radlauer
College of Science, Chemistry
Proposal: Iridium Catalysis in Polymers in Pursuit of Efficient Liquid Fuel Production
PI Ferdinand Rivera
College of Science, Mathematics and Statistics
Proposal: Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Formative Assessment-Driven Classrooms
PI Liat Rosenfield
College of Engineering; Biomedical, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Proposal: Incorporating Janus silica Nanoparticles in PDMS - Toward a New Era in Microfluidic Based Biosensors
PI Cheyla Samuelson
College of Humanities and the Arts, World Languages and Literatures
Proposal: Beyond the Narconovela: Alternative Narratives of Violence in Contemporary Mexico
PI Virginia San Fratello
College of Humanities and the Arts, Design
Proposal: House of Clay/House of Snow
PI Carlos Sanchez
College of Humanities and the Arts, Philosophy
Proposal: Translation of Emilio Uranga's Analisis Del Ser Del Mexicano
PI Elizabeth Sibilia
College of Social Sciences, Geography
Proposal: Myth and Method: the Political-economic, Social and Environmental Imperatives of Demystifying the 'Origin' of Shipbreaking in Bangladesh
PI Steven Silver
College of Business, Marketing and Decision Sciences
Proposal: Discriminating Charismatic Leadership in the US Presidency from the Value Content of Press Conferences
PI Melinda Simon
College of Engineering; Biomedical, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Proposal: Improving the Physiological Relevance of Drug Testing for Drug-Loaded Nanoparticles using 3D Tumor Spheroids
PI Ryan Skinnell
College of Humanities and the Arts, English and Comparative Literature
Proposal: Rhetoric and Demagoguery
PI Elizabeth Skrovan
College of Science, Biological Sciences
Proposal: The Role of a LysR-type Transcriptional Regulator in Carbon Distribution, Stress Response, and Bioplastic Production in Methylobacterium extroquens
PI Julia Swan
College of Humanities and the Arts, Linguistics & Language Development
Proposal: Linguistic Innovation in Multi-Ethnic San Jose
PI Elizabeth Sweet
College of Social Sciences, Sociology & Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Proposal: "She's a Dream Come True..." Femininity and the Emergence of the Fantasy Princess in 20th Century Toy Advertisements
PI Shaonan Tian
College of Business, Marketing and Decision Sciences
Proposal: Can Textual Disclosures Predict Bankruptcy? Applications of Deep Learning Models
PI Cristina Tortora
College of Science, Mathematics and Statistics
Proposal: Probabilistic Distance Clustering for Frequency Data
PI Pei-Tzu Tsai
College of Education, Communicative Disorders & Sciences
Proposal: The Impact of Pitch on Transgender Voice Perception
PI Ningkun Wang
College of Science, Chemistry
Proposal: Defining Internal Interactions that Affect the Activity of SIRT1, a Deacetylase Enzyme
PI David Whitenack
College of Education, Teacher Education
Proposal: Preparing Teachers For All Students: Comparative Case Studies