June 2026 Grants and Contracts
We are pleased to share the success of SJSU's principal investigators who were awarded grants and contracts during June 2026:
Monthly Awards at a Glance
45 Awards Received: Valued at $13,870,073.
Note: Some industry-sponsored awards are not listed due to their respective non-disclosure terms. The sort below is by College followed by PI's last name.
College of Business
Philbrick, Karen | College of Business, Dean's Office
A Comprehensive Approach to Promoting Railroading Careers and Developing the Current
Rail Industry Workforce
Sponsor: University of South Florida — $365,408.
Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering
Guzun, Gheorghi | Computer Engineering
CAREER: Scalable and Adaptable Sparsity-Driven Methods for More Efficient AI Systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation — $229,971.
Kazemifar, Farzan | Mechanical Engineering
Promoting Housing Affordability through the I-Codes
Sponsor: Clemson University — $15,003
Lee, Hohyun | Mechanical Engineering
Global Centers Track 2: Equitable and User-Centric Energy Market for Resilient Grid-interactive
Communities
Sponsor: President and Board of Trustees of Santa Clara College — $6,225.
Mak, Ron | Computer Engineering
Intelligent Systems Research and Development Support-2 (ISRDS-3)
Sponsor: KBR Wyle Services — $82,844, $50,668.
Oye, Michael | Chemical and Materials Engineering
Community Services '25-'26
Sponsor: City of San José — $100,000.
Parent, David | Electrical Engineering
California-Pacific-Northwest AI Hardware Microelectronics Commons Hub (Northwest-AI-Hub)
Sponsor: Stanford University — $194,327.
Connie L. Lurie College of Education
Briceno, Allison | Teacher Education
Cultivating and Sustaining Biliteracy And Bilingualism in Multilingual Youth
Sponsor: UC Davis — $63,517.
Choi, Eun; Quach, Pei-Tzu Tsai (Wendy) | Communicative Disorders and Sciences
Project INCLUDE: Integrating Neurodiversity and Cultural-Linguistic Understanding
and Differences in Education
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education — $292,714.
Krishnan, Sudha; Golloher, Andrea | Special Education
Project Mosaic
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education — $250,000.
Krishnan, Sudha; Lee, Jihyun | Special Education
SPARTANS ADVANCE
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education — $370,860.
Mena, Dolores | Counselor Education
San Jose GEAR UP Community Achievement Project
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education — $1,524,800.
Middaugh, Ellen | Child & Adolescent Development
Project (Re)defining FAMILISMO: Fostering & Advancing Multiculturally Inclusive &
Linguistically Responsive Implementation of School-based Mental Heath Outreach
Sponsor: West Contra Costa Unified School District — $5,697.
College of Health & Human Sciences
Dawkins, Denise | School of Nursing
California Reproductive Health Service Corps - RN Training Program
Sponsor: Cal State East Bay — $12,056.
Lee, Peter | School of Social Work
San Jose State University BASW Mental Health Scholarship Program (MHSP)
Sponsor: Santa Clara County — $150,000.
Schachner, Jennifer | Kinesiology
Older Americans Act Renewal 26-27
Sponsor: Sourcewise — $61,738.
Schachner, Jennifer | Kinesiology
Older Americans Act Funding- Sourcewise- Timpany Center- San Jose State University
Research Foundation 25-26
Sponsor: Sourcewise — $12,235.
College of Science
Desai, Neel | Meteorology & Climate Science
AGS-FIRP Track 2: Aerosol-Mixed Phase Cloud Interactions Through Cloud Chamber Experiments
Sponsor: National Science Foundation — $374,521.
Feinholz, Michael; Yarbrough, Mark | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Satellite Ocean Color System Vicarious Calibration - Marine Optical BuoY (MOBY) Operations
and Technology Refresh - BASE_CLIN 0001
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Commerce — $3,445,362.
Gardner, Luke | Moss Landing Marine Lab
PCOR Abalone Restoration
Sponsor: The Bay Foundation — $335,095.
Hamilton, Scott | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Pacific Coast Ocean Restoration (PCOR) Initiative
Sponsor: The Nature Conservancy — $532,899.
McDonald, Birgitte | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Supporting Stranding Response and Training Future Generations in Wildlife Health
Sponsor: UC Santa Cruz — $24,652.
Menemenlis, Dimitris | Moss Landing Marine Lab
TROPIC-SWOT: Submesoscale ocean currents in the tropical Pacific
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration — $19,420.
Menemenlis, Dimitris | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Exploring the FRESH Arctic: Fate of River Export and Surface Hydrology
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts — $62,520.
Menemenlis, Dimitris; Carroll, Dustin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Mesoscale eddies, internal waves, and solitons in SWOT, global models, and downscaled
regional models
Sponsor: University of Michigan — $20,152.
Metzger, Ellen; Teruya, LeAnne | Geology
Bay Area Environmental STEM Institute (BAESI) - Student and Professional Learning
to Advance Stewardship for H20! (SPLASH!)
Sponsor: Santa Clara County — $30,000.
O'Connor, Kevin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Federally Listed Species Recovery and Dune Habitat Restoration and Monitoring, Naval
Support Activity Monterey, Monterey, California
Sponsor: Cal State Monterey Bay — $35,000.
O'Connor, Kevin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
ZSB Dunes-CDFW Project
Sponsor: Coastal Conservation & Research, Inc. — $123,874.
Portner, Ryan | College of Science
Collaborative Research: Transport Dynamics and Mobility of Large-Scale Submarine VolcaniclasticDensity
Currents at Hunga Volcano, Tonga
Sponsor: National Science Foundation — $94,976.
Portner, Ryan | College of Science
Deepmarine “fire fountaining”? Coast Range Ophiolite: Stonyford 7.5 minute quadrangle,
California
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Interior — $41,424.
Thornton, Edward | Moss Landing Marine Lab
ROXSI: ROcky shores eXperiments and SImulations- Thornton Portion
Sponsor: UC San Diego — $11,303.
VanHoven, Miri | College of Science, Dean's Office
The Effects of Stimulation and Sleep on Neural Circuit Connections
Sponsor: UC San Francisco — $65,450.
Wood, Michael | Moss Landing Marine Lab
22-ICESat2_22-0019, IS2AD: Using ICESat-2 observations to reduce uncertainty in future
ice sheet model projections
Sponsor: Dartmouth College — $23,641.
College of Social Sciences
Carr, Valerie | Psychology
Future Vertical Lift: Collaborative Research on Flight Control, Autonomous Rotorcraft,
and Human-Systems Interface Design: Phase 2
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration — $1,238,678.
Carr, Valerie | Psychology
Implementing Macroergonomics for Increasing the Safe, Effective, and Efficient Operation
of the Entry Systems and Technology Division's High Enthalpy Facilities: Phase 2
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration— $87,482.
Rondilla, Joanne | Scoiology + Inter Social Science
Asian American Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander OHANA Center of Excellence on Empowering
Behavioral Health
Sponsor: San José State University — $546,185.
Schuster, David | Psychology
Human Systems Integration: Collaborative Human Factors Research to Improve the Safety,
Efficiency, and Reliability of NASA’s Aeronautics and Space Missions: Phase 2
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration — $1,384,157.
Schuster, David | Psychology
2025 Fatigue Management Training for San Francisco Bar Pilots
Sponsor: California Maritime Academy — $6,000.
Stevenson, Margaret | Justice Studies
Reentry Support Services for Justice-Involved Individuals -- Service Navigation
Sponsor: Santa Clara County — $735,000.
Department of Counselor Eduation
Fusaro, Maria | Child & Adolescent Development
TK Teacher Equity Initiative - PK-3 Equity Cohort
Sponsor: FIRST 5 Santa Clara County — $295,883.
Uresti, Aubrey | Counselor Education
Upholding the American Experience: Fostering Civic Knowledge & Engagement for the
Next Semiquincentennial
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education — $422,877.
Division of Research & Innovation
Trask, Jessica | Division of Research & Innovation
The Spartan SBDC (CIP) - Year 5
Sponsor: California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt — $65,000.
Trask, Jessica | Division of Research & Innovation
The Spartan SBDC (TAP) - Year 4 Supplement
Sponsor: California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt — $11,000.
