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 June 2018.

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MariaElena Zavala (Department of Biology) received $456,838 from the National Institutes of Health in continuing support of a project entitled “MARC U-STAR at CSUN: Preparing Scientists Holistically.”

Julie Coveney and Bev Cabello (Center for Assessment, Research and Evaluation) received $60,000 from the City of Los Angeles in support of a project entitled “FamilySource Center Program Evaluation.”

Joseph Teprovich (Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry) received $24,996 from Savannah River National Laboratory in support of a project entitled “Material Development and Characterization for Energy Storage and Conversion Devices”

Kim Roth (Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling) received $25,000 from the City of Los Angeles in support of a project entitled “Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Program- 2017-2018 Arrest Policies.”

Bev Cabello (Center for Assessment, Research, and Evaluation) received $12,000 from the Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles in support of a project entitled “Evaluation of PEACH Project.”

Debbie Ma and Justin Kantner (Department of Psychology) received $367,126 from the National Science Foundation in support of a project entitled “RUI: Methodological and theoretical advances in the perception of multiracial individuals.”

Rachel Mackelprang (Department of Biology) received $248,491 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in continuing support of a project entitled “Life in the Ancient Permafrost: A model for Exobiology.”

Rachel Mackelprang (Department of Biology) received $20,000 from Jet Propulsion Laboratory in support of a project entitled “Multi-Institutional Cooperation for Research Opportunities (MICRO): Engaging Undergraduate students in Planetary Protection research.”

Gilberto Flores (Department of Biology) received $145,000 from the National Institutes of Health in continuing support of a project entitled “Integrated studies into the genomic, metabolic, and cultivable diversity of the human gut symbiont Akkermansia muciniphila.”

Shari Tarver-Behring, Kim Roth and Sheri Strahl (Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling) received $258,733 from the California Office of Emergency Services in support of a project entitled “CalOES (XY) Underserved Unserved Child and Youth Advocacy.”

Mark Steele (Department of Biology) received $580,762 from UC Santa Barbara in support of a project entitled “San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Mitigation Project Monitoring Program, 2018-2019.”

Hendrik Postma (Department of Physics and Astronomy) received $189,500 from the National Institutes of Health in support of a project entitled “Improving read length, accuracy, and availability of single-molecule DNA sequencing.”

Virginia Oberholzer Vandergon (Department of Biology) received $39,984 from Ten Strands in continuing support of a project entitled “California Science Project Environmental Literacy Institutes 2017-2019.”

Nicholas Kioussis (Department of Physics & Astronomy) received $40,220 from Toshiba in support of a project entitled “Voltage Controlled Magnetic Anisotropy of Heavy Metal/FeCo/MgO heterostructures”

Wladimir Lyra (Department of Physics & Astronomy) received $35,000 from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in support of a project entitled “The migration of small solids in a young brown dwarf disks”

Judith DeBonis (Department of Social Work) received $5,000 from the California Mental Health Services Authority in support of a project entitled “Creating a Team of Gatekeeper Trainers to Promote Suicide Prevention on Campus.”