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 September 2018.

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Elizabeth Sussman (Department of Family and Consumer Sciences) and David Boyns (Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing) received $5,000 from the California Mental Health Services Authority in support of a project entitled “Community Engagement.”

MariaElena Zavala (Department of Biology) received $366,470 from the National Science Foundation in support of a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Resource Hub: The GANAS National Resource Hub for Hispanic Serving Institutions.”

Emily Russell (Department of Child and Adolescent Development) received $77,047 from the Jumpstart, Inc. in support of a project entitled “Jumpstart Northridge FY19.”

Miguel Hernandez (Health and Human Development / Student Services Center) received $18,000 from California State University, Channel Islands in support of a project entitled “University Innovation Alliance Summer Challenge Grant.”

Bradley Jackson (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) received $35,000 from the Aerospace Corporation in support of a project entitled “Reconfigurable Small Satellite Antennas.”

Erica Wohldmann (Institute for Sustainability) received $50,000 from The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California in support of a project entitled “Examining ways to conserve irrigation water on turf grass.”

SK Ramesh (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Robert Ryan (Department of Mechanical Engineering) received $1,201,214 from the US Department of Education in support of a project entitled “Bridging the Gap: Enhancing AIMS2 for Student Success.”

Maria-Rita D’Orsogna (Department of Mathematics) received $258,534 from the Regents of the University of California (UCLA) in support of a project entitled “Associate Director- Visiting Researcher (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics).”

Csaba Toth (Department of Mathematics) received $99,966 from the National Science Foundation in support of a project entitled “RUI: Geometric Intersection Graphs.”

Gary Chapman (Department of Physics and Astronomy) received $77,384 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in support of a project entitled “Comparing Spacecraft TSI and SSI with proxies from space- and ground-based images.”

Jessica Vey (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) received $102,900 from the National Institutes of Health in support of a project entitled “Mechanistic studies to enable rational design of isobutylamine N-hydroxylase.”

Yohannes Shiferaw (Department of Physics and Astronomy) received $181,250 from Northwestern University in support of a project entitled “Atrial arrhythmias and Ca2+ waves in HF: simulation and experimental studies.”

Loraine Lundquist (Institute for Sustainability), Matthew d’Alessio (Department of Geological Sciences) and Rosa Rivera Furumoto (Department of Chicana/o Studies) received $70,000 from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in support of a project entitled “Multi-generational school-based Outreach for Energy and Water Efficiency, Underrepresented energy efficiency & water conservation program.”

Wladimir Lyra (Department of Physics and Astronomy) received $110,154 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in support of a project entitled “Origin of Hot Super-Earths and the Vortex-Assisted Mode of Planet Formation.”

Tara Fahmie (Department of Psychology) received $10,692 from the Pacoima Charter School in support of a project entitled “Taking Steps Together Partnership with Pacoima Charter School.”

Julian Lozos (Department of Geological Sciences) received $21,982 from the Southern California Earthquake Center in support of a project entitled “Dynamic Rupture Modeling of Earthquakes at the Intersection of the San Andreas, San Jacinto, and Cucamonga Faults, Cajon Pass, Southern California – Testing the Effects of Intersection Geometry.”

Julian Lozos (Department of Geological Sciences) received $15,000 from the Southern California Earthquake Center in support of a project entitled “Surface Displacement and Ground Motion from Dynamic Rupture Models of Thrust Faults with Variable Dip Angles and Burial Depths.”

Daniel Katz (Department of Mathematics) received $330,887 from the National Science Foundation in support of a project entitled “CIF: Small: RUI: Low Correlation and Highly Nonlinear Structures for Communications and Sensing.”