August 2026 Grants and Contracts

We are pleased to share the success of SJSU's principal investigators who were awarded grants and contracts during August 2026:

Monthly Awards at a Glance
16 Awards Received: Valued at $6,260,633.

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.

Connie L. Lurie College of Education

Fusaro, Maria | Child & Adolescent Development
TK Teacher Equity Initiative - PK-3 Equity Cohort
Sponsor: FIRST 5 Santa Clara County — $105,143.

Uresti, Aubrey | Counselor Education
Project (Re)defining FAMILISMO: Fostering & Advancing Multiculturally Inclusive & Linguistically Responsive Implementation of School-based Mental Heath Outreach
Sponsor: West Contra Costa Unified School District — $241,710.

Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering

Lee, Sang-Joon; Jurney, Patrick; Qiu, Yunjian; Wang, Yun; Jiang, Lin | Mechanical Engineering
High-Definition Microfluidics 3D Printer 
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health — $30,385.

College of Health & Human Sciences

Grzywacz, Joe | College of Health & Human Sciences, Dean's Office
Integrative Pathways to Health and Illness
Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison — $79,402.

College of Science

Carroll, Dustin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Integrative Pathways to Health and Illness
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration — $103,340.

Carroll, Emma | Chemistry
Mapping biophysical effects of the cellular environment on p53 and PTEN stability and aggregation
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health — $183,125.

Clements, Craig | Meteorology & Climate Science
IUCRC Phase I, San Jose State University: Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation — $149,956.

Feinholz, Michael; Yarbrough, Mark | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Satellite Ocean Color System Vicarious Calibration - Marine Optical BuoY (MOBY) Operations and Technology Refresh
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — $1,200,000.

Kaufman, Michael | College of Science, Dean's Office
Sole Source, Astronomical Infrared Bands as Calibrated Probes of Astrophysical Conditions in the JWST\u2010era with The NASA Ames PAH IR Spectroscopic Database
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration — $109,062.

Khatib, Leila | Biological Sciences
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Regulatory Interventions and New Manure Management Practices in Mitigating the Health Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance on Dairy Farms
Sponsor: UC Irvine — $89,926.

Payumo, Alexander | Biological Sciences
Hormonal contraints limiting mammalian cardiomyocyte cell division
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health — $146,500.

Radlauer, Madalyn | Chemistry
RUI: Small molecule and polymer-supported transition metal catalysts: Investigating reproducibility and metal microenvironment effects
Sponsor: National Science Foundation — $299,855.

Sigala, Marco | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Delta RMP QA Services
Sponsor: MLJ Environmental — $26,656.

College of Social Sciences

Haverfield, Marie | Communication Studies
IPA - Marie Haverfield 25-27
Sponsor: Veterans Admin of Palo Alto — $30,000.

Schuster, David | Psychology
Human Systems Integration: Collaborative Human Factors Research to Improve the Safety, Efficiency, and Reliability of NASA\u2019s Aeronautics and Space Missions: Phase 2  
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration — $2,336,081.

Office of the Provost

Tully, Andrea | Undergraduate Studies
2026-2029 #CaliforniaForAll College Corps program
Sponsor: CaliforniaVolunteers — $1,129,492.