Educational Modules to Broaden Academic Research Cultures (EMBARC)

Educational Modules to Broaden Academic Research Cultures (EMBARC) innovatively leverages Cultural Mismatch Theory to create high-impact mentoring activities and educational modules powerfully linked to eliminating educational disparities and driving transformation at the individual and institutional level toward inclusion, recruitment, and retention of URM community college (CC) students to the biobehavioral research career field...

SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION (SD) PROGRAM

The purpose of the SD Program is to prevent sexual and domestic violence through primary and secondary prevention efforts, prioritize marginalized/underserved populations within communities, and build the capacity of local organizations.

Bookstein Tax Clinic

The Bookstein Low Income Taxpayer Clinic began offering the tax clinic services under this LITC Program in January 2008 with the purpose of providing (a) free representation to low income taxpayers involved in tax disputes with the IRS; and (b) education on taxpayers' rights and responsibilities to individuals for whom English is a second language or who have limited English proficiency. The initiative to create the Bookstein Tax Clinic was launched in the spring of 2007, fo...

Walls, Weed, and Coal: How Threats to Local Industry Shape Economic Voting

Do threats to local economic industry influence voting behavior? While research has shown that voters backlash against candidates whose policies negatively affect their socio-economic status, relatively little research explores if voters can anticipate whether candidates/direct legislation threaten their local economies. We argue that individuals who are economically embedded within industries that serve as the basis of th...

Spatiotemporal mechanisms of eIF5A1/2-mediated metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer

Transforming Growth Factor Beta (TGFbeta) is a secreted protein and the first member of the TGFbeta superfamily of ligands to be described. However, the molecular mechanisms that govern TGFbeta's ability to switch between its paradoxical growth suppressing and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) promoting functions remain to be fully elucidated. Since TGFbeta elicits pleiotropic functions during normal...

HSI Institutional Transformation Project: Creating Opportunities for Minoritized Students to Participate in Faculty Mentored Research

With our five-year Track 3 Institutional Transformation Project (ITP) at the California State University Northridge (CSUN), we propose to transform how we and other HSIs bolster and scale research as a high-impact practice for all STEM students and faculty mentors. With this ITP grant, we will continue to build institutional capacity to serve our 10,000 STEM underg...

CSUN/Caltech-IQIM Partnership

This proposal requests funds to expand and strengthen the research and educational activities of the multidisciplinary W. M. Keck Computational Materials Theory Center (CMTC) at California State University Northridge (CSUN), a non-Ph.D minority-serving institution, by forming a formal and long-term collaborative relationship with the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM), an NSF-funded Physics Frontiers Center at Caltech.This proposal aims in addressin...

Mapping of chemosensory neuron function to uncover changes in neuronal fates

Nervous systems evolve at the genetic, anatomical, and system levels. Our proposed research addresses both a fundamental question on how nervous systems with limited cell numbers evolve to accommodate new behavior, as well as answer specific questions on how the host-seeking infectious stage of nematodes remodel their chemosensory neurons at the gene expression level. We hypothesize that in the chemosensory neurons of th...

Developing Case Studies for Undergraduates: Valorization of Fruit and Vegetable By products for New Product Development

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimated that one-third of the edible food produced for human consumption is wasted each year, equating to almost 1.3 billion metric tons. In developing and industrialized countries, food losses and waste cost $310 billion and roughly $680 billion each year, respectively. Fruit and vegetable processing industries...

Increasing our Innovation SCOREs: Symbiotic Collaboration of Regional Ecosystems

Resources to engage in science are often inequitably distributed, as described in the recent statement from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) [1]. The OSTP statement noted that ?minority-serving institutions (MSIs), emerging institutions, and community colleges receive only a small fraction of the science and technology research and development funds available each year.? Closing the funding gap to s...

Geogebra Institute Subaward for University of Oregon Western Regional Noyce Network.

GeoGebra is one of the leading tools for investigating mathematics constructs. Topics from simple algebraic and geometric relationships to properties that change over time (e.g. calculus) can be visualized and explored using this free open source software for learning and teaching elementary through university level mathematics. There are thousands of activities posted on the GeoGebra website, from numerous geome...

Equity-Minded Pedagogy Course

Thank you for your interest in the Equity-Minded Pedagogy course and your recruitment efforts to make this fall?s cohort successful. In the interest of understanding more about how the course can impact faculty, students, and classrooms, the Office of IDEAS at Fresno State, where the course was developed, is submitting an IRB proposal. The study aims to review the Canvas course materials and artifacts, participant contributions (i.e., course assignments), and the...