Awards

This project will produce a report on e-bike safety as commissioned by the California state legislature in Senate Bill 381 (2023). The team will explore existing research on e-bike safety and conduct data analysis on crashes, injuries, fatalities, and the factors behind those events. The team will also look at e-bike policies around the country and world, particularly in places with stronger bike safety performance.

This project will explore public perceptions on “micromobility” transportation, such as e-scooters, e-bikes, and motorized skateboards, which have emerged in cities around the world in recent years. The research team will conduct a survey of US adults. Survey topics will include perceptions of safety for both micromobility riders and pedestrians, the potential for micromobility as a first/last mile solution for public transit riders, and road management issues.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will assist with cultural resources work in downtown Sacramento during replacement of an electrical substation. ASC anticipates providing an unspecified mix of professional services over the duration of the field recovery and laboratory processing. 

The project is meant to provide an economic model that provides an estimate of what earnings capacity individuals have based on their current or most recent job, the evolution of worker gains in each of the 58 counties, and the wage forecast looking toward 2030. The core outcome of this project is to provide an algorithm that connects the local labor market in California’s counties and regions to determine how someone that needs to pay child support may be able to pay it in the current market and also looking forward over the next five years.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will provide an archaeological survey in support of the California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection, Sonoma-Lake-Napa (LNU)’s Las Posadas Demonstration State Forest Vegetation Treatment Plan (VTP).

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will provide professional archaeological inventory services for ongoing fire management projects on an on-call basis with specified scopes and budgets developed as warranted.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will be responsible for executing the development and installation of interpretation of the Amache Recreation Hall. This will be done by following and implementing the Amache Recreation Hall Exhibit Concept Plan (authored by the ASC) which will include developing content for the interpretive signs based on the Plan's themes and stakeholder and former internee input. The ASC will direct a graphic designer for the signage and will also select, purchase, and oversee installment of the furnishings, objects, and materials.

This project entails training 172 new directors annually from all TRIO programs.

Dr. Lisa Bentley is the faculty-lead Principal Investigator (PI) alongside graduate student PI, Monica Delmartini.  In the western U.S., more than a century of fire suppression, logging, and cessation of Indigenous burning has led to significantly altered forest stand conditions. Utilizing 3D data derived from terrestrial laser scanning and a physics-based fire model, this project will investigate if thinning prescriptions in mixed hardwood and hardwood/conifer vegetation communities lead to decreased future fire intensity.

An interdisciplinary team of faculty and staff will be creating workshops and guides to support faculty in accessing, interpreting, and using disaggregated student success data. This data will be obtained primarily from the CSU Course Equity Portal, the CSU Student Success Dashboard, and Canvas analytics. This is part of larger work by the SSU Middle Leadership Academy that focuses on creating a series of professional growth opportunities for SSU faculty to increase course pass rates and eliminate equity gaps.