New Grants and Contracts

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

Monthly Awards at a Glance
28 Awards Received: Valued at $8,399,748.

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 Affairs

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

Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering

Kumar, Gautam, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation for Controlling Abnormal Neural Synchronization and Oscillations
Sponsor: NIH — $146,500.

Lew, Christopher, Chemical and Materials Engineering
ERI: Toward New Zeolite Discovery - Role of Non-Aluminum Heteroatoms in Interzeolite Transformation Synthesis
Sponsor: NSF — $200,000.

Oh, Dahyun, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Center for High Precision Patterning Science (CHiPPS)
Sponsor: UC, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab — $115,000.

College of Health and Human Sciences

Davis, E Maxwell, School of Social Work
Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program
Sponsor: HRSA — $118,247.

College of Information, Data & Society

Hofman, Darra; Villagran, Michele; Ghosh, Souvick; Attar, Nada, School of Information
CIRCLE
Sponsor: Mozilla Foundation — $48,978.

College of Science

Kaufman, Michael, Dean's Office
Application for a renewal of the ARC-CREST Cooperative Agreement
Sponsor: Bay Area Environmental Research Institute — $75,000.

Payumo, Alexander, Biological Sciences
Neurohumoral Interactions Coordinating Mammalian Cardiomyocyte Size and Proliferation
Sponsor: NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences — $183,125.

Wilkinson, Katherine, Biological Sciences
Molecular Mediators of Muscle Spindle Mechanosensation
Sponsor: NIH — $14,650.

Wilkinson, Katherine, Biological Sciences
Validation of MAPK14 as a target for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy prevention or treatment
Sponsor: Stanford — $19,095.

Vishal, Kumar, Biological Sciences
Diet promotes muscle stem cell activation and proliferation in Drsosophila
Sponsor: NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences — $183,125.

Tshukudu, Ethel, Computer Science
CRII: EWF: Understanding Conceptual Transfer from Imperative Rule-Based Programming to AI/ML Data-Driven Computation Approaches
Sponsor: National Science Foundation — $174,979.

Clements, Craig, Meteorology and Climate Science
FireSense Implementation Team: Drs. Clements and Gaudinski from the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center at San Jose State University
Sponsor: NASA — $57,414.

Diao, Minghui, Meteorology and Climate Science
Phase Transition in High-Latitude Clouds: Disentangling Effects of Aerosols and Meteorology Using NASA PACE Satellite and In-Situ Observations
Sponsor: NASA — $165,238.

Kochanski, Adam, Meteorology and Climate Science
Technology Development to Integrate Inovative Observation Capabilities into Coupled Wildfire Models for Improved Active Fire Forecasting
Sponsor: Colorado State University — $42,662.

Kochanski, Adam, Meteorology and Climate Science
Fire Risk Analysis for PSE&G New Jersey
Sponsor: Public Service Enterprise Group Inc New Jersey — $137,996.

Thornton, Edward, Meteorology and Climate Science
ROXSI: ROcky shores eXperiments and SImulations
Sponsor: UCSD — $60,000.

Yarbrough, Mark, Meteorology and Climate Science
Implementation of MarONet for Support of PACE Vicarious Calibration
Sponsor: University of Miami — $345,000.

Bowers, Holly, Moss Landing Marine Labs
Delta Regional Monitoring Program Nutrient Reduction Bioassay
Sponsor: Coastal Conservation and Research, Inc. — $77,551.

Carroll, Dustin, Moss Landing Marine Labs
Closing the Carbon Cycle Loop: Quantifying Land-to-Sea Carbon Fluxes
Sponsor: NASA — $220,322.

O'Connor, Kevin, Moss Landing Marine Labs
SJSU CCWG NOAA-NOS-OCM-2023-2008068 Monterey Bay Living Shoreline Program
Sponsor: Groundswell Coastal Ecology — $296,533.

Orescanin, Mara, Moss Landing Marine Labs
Estuary Inlet Evolution & Dynamics - Year 2 Amendment
Sponsor: University of California San Diego — $16,095.

Paul, Cassandra, Physics and Astronomy
Agents of Change: Investigating How Partnerships between Faculty and Learning Assistants Enable Pathways for Sustainable Institutional and Classroom Transformation
Sponsor: NSF — $108,429.

College of Social Sciences

Klaw, Elena, Psychology
SJSU CaliforniansForAll College Corps
Sponsor: California Volunteers — $1,271,256.

Laraway, Sean, 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: NASA — $2,152,675.

Snycerski,Susan, Psychology
Future Vertical Lift: Collaborative Research on Flight Control, Autonomous Rotorcraft, and Human-Systems Interface Design: Phase 2
Sponsor: NASA — $1,809,859.

Connie L. Lurie College of Education

Marx, Robert, Child & Adolescent Development
Building EPIC Health: An Empowerment Program for LGBTQ+ Students in School GSAs
Sponsor: Boston College — $101,394.

Uresti, Aubrey, Counselor Education
Project (Re)defining FAMILISMO: Fostering and Advancing Multiculturally Inclusive and Linguistically Responsive Implementation of School-based Mental Health Outreach
Sponsor: West Contra Costa Unified School District — $205,625.