Awards

This award is to support the Green Music Center's Family Day activities in spring 2023 and 2024. These activities, which are curated for TK-6th grade students and their families, will feature performances by Somos Amigos (Sonia De Los Santos and The Okee Dokee Brothers) in 2023 and Las Cafeteras in 2024. Each year's performance will be followed by a variety of interactive performing and visual arts activities for children, offered in English and Spanish, that will be led by local teaching artists and SSU graduate students in education.

Sonoma State University will conduct the Campus Sexual Assault (CT) Program for a fourth year, that offers survivors of sexual violence comprehensive and coordinated services that are survivor/victim-centered, enhances campus safety, provides confidential services to survivors/victims of sexual assault, and includes comprehensive outreach activities that educates and informs all students, staff, and faculty of campus policies and resources regarding sexual assault/ misconduct and increases student awareness, with a focus on underrepresented populations.

SSU will train 15 students as "Reading Rescue Tutors". These students will be tutoring elementary-aged children in local elementary schools. Tutors will enroll in EDUC 295 and receive 1 unit credit for 45 hours of in-person tutoring. They will also be paid for the 10 hours of tutor training. This project is being support by the Benedict Silverman Foundation (BSF) who will provide funding for faculty time, tutor training, travel/mileage, supplies, etc.

The purpose of this funding is to continue to grow the Cinematic Arts & Technology degree at SSU. Specific areas of support include an animation suite, scholarships, a guest speaker series and equipment upgrades and maintenance. The goal of our cinematic arts program is to give our students the potential to learn a wide variety of skill sets they can take into the job market. Because digital animation is a vibrant and growing field, our graduates would have yet another possible career avenue.

This project provides STEM faculty who participate in the XR-FLC cohorts compensation to support their participation in training and professional development. The two-day cohort onboarding workshop provides participants with technology training that familiarize them with XR technology and educational affordance provided by XR. There is also training on instructional design with XR through the XR-FLC's bi-weekly zoom meeting, considering that this modality of teaching is very new for many cohort participants.

The McNair Scholars program is a federally funded TRIO program that serves historically underrepresented students in their pursuit of graduate education through workshops, individual advising, faculty mentoring, and research experiences. With the goal of preparing students for graduate education and guiding them through the application process, the program supports students in a way that will promote their success by helping them to identify graduate programs that are aligned with their individual research interests, as well as their academic and career goals.

The objective of this proposed effort is to determine the metabolic and immune system costs to chronic stress in the bottlenose dolphin. To this end, metabolic hormones and immune function markers are to be measured in concert with experimental manipulations of circulating cortisol and metabolic rate measurements. Dr. Daniel Crocker will provide the laboratory facilities to be used for most hormone and immune system marker. Dr. Crocker will also oversee the laboratory analyses and participate in data analyses and manuscript preparation.

This grant will support a combined format, virtual and in-person, 3-week NEH summer institute for 25 secondary English teachers from across the country. The institute will be held for 2 weeks on SSU's campus and includes field trips to various locations in Northern California. Participants will learn alongside literary scholars, teacher-artists, naturalists, and media literacy scholars. The institute will guide participants through an in-depth inquiry into the human/nature dichotomy and connections through climate futurism.

This project will serve 300 TRIO professionals nation-wide and Focus on proven strategies for recruiting and serving hard-to-reach populations—including students who are limited English proficient, students from groups who are traditionally underrepresented in postsecondary education, students who are individuals with disabilities, students who are homeless children and youth, students who are foster care youth, or other disconnected students. The new methods and strategies introduced in this training are applicable for all students.

This project examines genetic and epigenetic differences associated with maternal fitness to better understand the intrinsic features underlying variation in reproductive success and sensitivity to environmental change.