Equitable Calculus for Life Sciences

Serving students who are overwhelmingly low-income, minority, and first-generation, CSUN, LAMC, and LAVC seek $1.16 million over three years to develop, implement, and evaluate a novel calculus for life sciences course that supports the elimination of equity gaps in STEM. The new course will embrace culturally responsive pedagogy, contextualization of mathematical content, active and adaptive learning, gamification, and will identify and integrate factor...

CAREER: Predicting ecosystem metabolism of rocky intertidal communities in warming and acidifying oceans.

The recent devastating impacts of global warming and ocean acidification on rocky intertidal ecosystems are expected to increase as the oceans continue to warm and acidify. Further, loss of critical foundation species as a result of extreme heating events and ocean acidification lead to feedback loops that further alter ecosystem functioning. While there have been several studies on the physi...

Rheological investigation of deep crustal mylonites, San Gabriel Mountains, California

A critical new research objective in the SCEC5 program is the development of the Community Rheologic Model (CRM), whereby key research priorities include building a provisional rheology model around a geologic framework for Southern California. The geologic framework of the CRM is referred to as the Lithotectonic Block Model, where distinct blocks of crust are enclosed between significant faults of the San Andr...

U.S. Science Support Program Office associated with the International Ocean Discovery Program (USSSP-IODP)

I have been nominated to serve as the Science Evaluation Panel, Science Chair, for the International Ocean Discovery Program. This grant is for the first year of a normally three-year commitment.

Perovskite Support

California State University, Northridge (CSUN) will support and supply scientific research support for this project at SRNL for the synthesis and development of perovskite nanomaterials that can be characterized by various steady state and time dependent spectroscopies. CSUN has a unique set of analytical instrumentation that can characterize the proposed perovskite materials. The analytical equipment at CSUN can characterize materials, chemicals, and samples at the nano-, me...

Geochronology of Southern California Plutonic Rocks

We propose to analyze zircon and titanites from igneous rocks in Southern California in partnership with the CA Geological Survey.

Telemetry Analytics to Secure Container-Based Cloud Computing

Containerization, based on operating system virtualization, provides high scalability and mobility and is currently adopted by many cloud service providers to lower infrastructure and maintenance costs. However, container-based cloud computing systems reveal broad and unknown attack surfaces because container servers share vulnerable kernel features between independent, highly scalable services which generate complex network activities...

Upward Bound - San Fernando Valley Northeast

California State University, Northridge (CSUN) proposes to provide Upward Bound services to 60 high school students annually, focusing its support on students enrolled in three high schools. The CSUN Upward Bound program has addressed Competitive Preference Priority (a)(b) Mentoring and how the plan will be implemented within the program. The 2 target schools (Panorama and Monroe high schools) are located near the CSUN campus in the northeast San F...

Domestic Response Abuse Team (DART)- Van Nuys

To implement Domestic Abuse Response Team programming at the Van Nuys Los Angeles Police Division, Valley Bureau.

Proposal for Organizational Development Project for State Council on Developmental Disabilities

Project Goal: The project goal is to improve the organizational climate and effectiveness of SCDD in the near term and the long term. To achieve the goals we will complete the following tasks: ? Assess the organizational climate at SCDD and identify important issues from the employee?s perspective. ? Design a short term and long-term organizational development strategy. ? Design an organiza...

CalFresh Healthy Living on Campus

Funding will support nutrition and health interventions on CSU CFO campuses to help SNAP/CalFresh-eligible students make healthy choices within a limited budget as a means to help prevent obesity-related diseases and food insecurity and to support student success and help eliminate poverty after graduation.

Bridges to the Doctorate Research Training Program at CSUN

We propose cooperative partnerships between California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and five outstanding Ph.D.-granting institutions. The partnerships described in this proposal are a model for establishing a program between a comprehensive Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), CSUN, and several pre-eminent Research Extensive universities (UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, and Stanford University). Students par...