July 2025 Grants and Contracts

We are pleased to share the success of SJSU's principal investigators who were awarded grants and contracts during July 2025:

Monthly Awards at a Glance
20 Awards Received: Valued at $9,210,970.

Note: Some industry-sponsored awards are not listed due to their respective non-disclosure terms. The sort below is by College, then department, followed by PI.

Academic Programs

Maloney, Deborah, Academic Programs
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
Sponsor: U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) — $53,000.

Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering

Jurney, Patrick, Biomedical Engineering
Nicotine Induced Gene-Environment Interactions in AAA Disease
Sponsor: Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research — $7,018.

College of Health and Human Sciences

Schachner, Jennifer, Kinesiology
Older Americans Act Renewal Application Instructions Fiscal Year 2025-2026
Sponsor: Sourcewise — $61,512.

Park, Charles Chuwloo, Public Health and Recreation
Language Identity and Mental Health Disparities among Multilingual 1.5 Generation Asian/Asian American Immigrant Young Adults: A Mixed Methods Study
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH) — $549,375.

Davis, E Maxwell, School of Social Work
Aging and Adult Services (AAS) MSW Training Program
Sponsor: California Department of Social Services (CDSS) — $3,345,267.

Lee, Peter, School of Social Work
Title IV-E Child Welfare Training 2026-2028
Sponsor: UC Davis — $2,362,253.

College of Science

Ouverney, Cleber, Biological Sciences
U-RISE Program at San José State University
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH) — $274,458

Wilkin, Kate, Biological Sciences
FireSage: SJSU-NASA SMD Bridge Seed Program Proposal Summary
Sponsor: NASA — $91,781.

Esker, Nicholas, Chemistry
HIPPO: Horizon-broadening Isotope Production Pipeline Opportunities
Sponsor: Texas A&M — $35,491.

Grazioli, Gianmarc, Chemistry
Probing Amyloid Fibril Self-Assembly with Network Hamiltonian Simulations in Explicit Space
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH) — $183,125.

Miller Conrad, Laura, Chemistry
Benchtop Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH) — $205,002

Rios, Andro, Chemistry
Astrobiology Scholars Program Immersive Research Experience (ASPIRE)
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) — $163,645

Lehmkuhl Dakhwe, Virginia, Education
Scaling a Promising Computer Science Supplementary Authorization program
Sponsor: Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE) — $50,000.

Pietsch, Carlie, Geology
Investigating the role of sulfide-oxidizing chemosymbiosis as a driver of animal evolution
Sponsor: Purdue University — $32,623.

Portner, Ryan, Geology
"Collaborative Research: Transport Dynamics and Mobility of Large-Scale Submarine Volcaniclastic Density Currents at Hunga Volcano, Tonga"
Sponsor: U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) — $93,488.

Bering, Edgar, Mathematics and Statistics
LEAPS-MPS: Commensurations and Automorphisms of Free Groups via Topological Models
Sponsor: U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) — $249,988.

Bowers, Holly, Moss Landing Marine Labs
Validating the Aqusens imaging platform to expand networked cell detection capabilities
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — $178,552.

Clements, Craig, Moss Landing Marine Labs
Center: Addition of WPI as a Partner Site to WIRC
Sponsor: Worcester Polytechnic Institute — $96,199.

Hamilton, Scott, Moss Landing Marine Labs
California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program & Groundfish Sampling Pilot Program
Sponsor: California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) | Ocean Protection Council (OPC) — $1,380,000.

Sigala, Marco, Moss Landing Marine Labs
Delta RMP QA Services
Sponsor: MLJ Environmental — $29,597.

Marco, Sigala, Moss Landing Marine Labs
Sierra Pacific Industries BA Services
Sponsor: Sierra Pacific Industries — $276,020.

Betre, Kassahun, Asplund, Curtis, Physics and Astronomy
Transformative Masters Program in HEP
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) — $350,000.

Smith,Sarah, Physics and Astronomy
Do Rhizosolenia mats obtain N from cryptic nitrogen-fixing microbes?
Sponsor: U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) — $167,967.

Romanowsky, Aaron, Physics and Astronomy
A comprehensive study of dwarf galaxies in the era of Euclid
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) — $136,275.

College of Social Sciences

Snycerski, Susan, Psychology
Dragonfly Mobility Support
Sponsor: John Hopkins University, Applied Physics Lab (JHUAPL) — $14,564.