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 October 2018.

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Annette Besnilian (Department of Family and Consumer Sciences) and Merav Efrat (Department of Health Sciences) received $250,000 from the US Department of Agriculture in support of a project entitled “Pathways to Success for Hispanic Students as Registered Dietitians (‘Pathways’).”

Annette Besnilian (Department of Family and Consumer Sciences) and David Boyns (Department of Community Health and Wellbeing) received $15,000 from the LA County Department of Public Health in support of a project entitled “Los Angeles County Sodium Reduction Initiative (LACSRI) – Survey of Sodium Knowledge, Use and Health Related Behaviors.”

Juana Maria Valdivia (Student Outreach and Recruitment) received $275,155 from the US Department of Education in support of a project entitled “Upward Bound San Fernando Valley Northeast.”

Carrie Saetermoe, Gabriela Chavira, Margaret Shiffrar (Department of Psychology) and Crist Khachikian (Research and Graduate Studies) received $5,148,514 from the National Institutes of Health in continued support of a project entitled “BUILD @ CSUN.”

Sloane Burke (Department of Health Sciences) received $550,754 from the US Department of Education in continued support of a project entitled “Charting Access for Hispanics Majoring in Needed Careers and Occupations in Healthcare (CAMINO).”

Peter Edmunds (Department of Biology) received $82,822 from the National Science Foundation in support of a project entitled “Collaborative research: Coral community resilience: testing the role of hidden diversity in Pocilloporid corals at Mo’orea.”

Mariano Loza Coll (Department of Biology) received $130,160 from the National Institutes of Health in support of a project entitled “Genetic co-regulation by master transcription factors in Drosophila intestinal stem cells.”

Gang Lu (Department of Physics and Astronomy) received $599,757 from the US Department of Defense in support of a project entitled “Towards Computational Design of High-Efficiency Non-Fullerene Organic Photovoltaics.”