Each month, California State University, Northridge faculty and staff receive funding from outside organizations to support unique programs and cutting-edge research facilitated on campus. Below are a list of the individuals who received awards in August 2017.

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Sharlene Katz and James Flynn (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) received $15,000 from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in support of a project entitled “Model Verification for In-Space Hybrid CubeSat, CSUNSat1.”

Paula Fischhaber (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) received $87,145 from the National Institutes of Health in continuing support of a project entitled “Recruitment of Rad 10 in Double-strand Break Repair.”

Rachel Friedman-Narr and Ellen Schneiderman (Department of Special Education) received $250,000 from the US Department of Education in support of a project entitled “IDEP: Interdisciplinary Deaf Education Teacher Preparation”. 

Steven Loy (Department of Kinesiology) received $70,000 from the American Council on Exercise in support of a project entitled “3 WINS ACE.” 

Luciana Lagana (Department of Psychology) received $108,750 from the NIH in support of a project entitled “A Preliminary Model of Physical Pain among community-dwelling multiethnic older women.” 

Richard Moore (Department of Management) received $267,490 from the City of Los Angeles in support of a project entitled “L.A. City Gang Injunction Settlement Evaluation.” 

Yann Schrodi (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) received $108,750 from the National Institutes of Health in continuing support of a project entitled “New Robust Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Based on Non-Toxic and Abundant Low-Valent Molybdenum.”

Debi Prasad Choudhary (Department of Physics and Astronomy) received $96,135 from the National Science Foundation in continuing support of a project entitled “Three-dimensional thermal and magnetic structure of sunspots and active regions.”

Deqing Ren (Department of Physics and Astronomy) received $159,537 from the National Science Foundation in continuing support of a project entitled “Development of a device for measuring turbulence in the air above telescopes that observe the sun.” 

Ivor Weiner (Department of Special Education) received $115,413 from the North Los Angeles County Regional Center-NLACRC in support of a project entitled “Family Focus Resource Center.”

Kathryn Peckham-Hardin (Department of Special Education) received $249,611 from the US Department of Education in support of a project entitled “Project I-PREP: Inclusive Preparation for Resourceful and Effective Professionals.”

Sattar Taheri-Araghi (Department of Physics and Astronomy) received $435,000 from the National Institutes of Health in support of a project entitled “Dynamics of the Activity of Antimicrobial Peptides at the Population and the Single-Cell Levels.” 

Shari Tarver-Behring (Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling) received $514,922 from the California Victim Compensation Board in support of a project entitled “CalVCB California Trauma Recovery Center Grant.”  

Steven Dudgeon (Department of Biology) received $268,726 from the National Science Foundation in continuing support of a project entitled “LTREB Renewal: Experimental tests of alternative states on rocky intertidal shores.” 

Debi Prasad Choudhary (Department of Physics and Astronomy) received $39,602 from the National Science Foundation in continuing support of a project entitled “Collaborative Research: SHINE: Study of Long-Term Variability of Solar Chromospheric Activity in Multiple Solar Cycles.” 

Sloane Burke (Department of Health Sciences) received $428,158 from the US Department of Education in support of a project entitled “Charting Access for Hispanics Majoring in Needed Careers and Occupations in Healthcare (CAMINO).” 

Karin Crowhurst (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) received $108,750 from the National Institutes of Health in continuing support of a project entitled “In vitro and in-cell investigation of the acid-stress chaperone HdeA.” 

Nicholas Kioussis (Department of Physics and Astronomy) received $53,283 from the US Army in continuing support of a project entitled “Identification of Surface Defect Candidates and their passivation in Strained-Layer Type-II Superlattices for Infrared Detectors.” 

Li Gao (Department of Physics and Astronomy) received $410,791 from the US Army in support of a project entitled “Acquisition of an Ultrahigh Vacuum X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer for Research and Education in Materials and Catalysis.” 

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