Awards

This award will allow for the installation of a new standalone generator to meet the back up power requirements of the EOC in the Schulz Information Center; and associated transformer, panelboard, heat pump and modifications to existing fuel system and controls to accommodate the new generator. The new generator will utilize the existing fuel tank in the facility area.

The Scholarship America fund provides a one-time scholarship award of $379 to students who experienced financial hardship related to the California Wildfires in Fall 2019. The scholarship allows students to use this funding for tuition, fees, books, housing, and other education-related expenses. 

This project will investigate the role of naturally increased endogenous carbon monoxide (CO) in a deep-diving marine mammal. Several species of deep-diving seals have concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO) in their blood that resemble the levels seen in chronic cigarette smokers. The proposed work measures the turnover of red blood cells in marine mammals as a potential source of CO production and examines the effects of elevated CO on the oxygen binding characteristics of blood and the regulation of mitochondrial metabolism during breath-holds.

This project will continue the research started in Phase One on a long-term monitoring network on west coast powerline Rights-of-Ways (ROWs). Vegetation management needed to maintain safety in powerline ROWs has significant effects on local ecosystems.  The main goals of this Phase Two study are 1) To allow all sites at the “West Coast Observing Network” to obtain a full three years of pollinator and vegetation observations, 2) To continue to train students in current environmental issues and 3) To help improve the understanding of ecosystem recovery after wildfires.

The Remote Girls Tinker Academy is a two-week program designed to engage and inspire middle school students through Maker principles to encourage the exploration and development of technical, mathematical, and artistic abilities. For Summer 2020, thirty middle school students from across Sonoma County have been selected by CTEF/CWISE to participate in this hands-on program to be taught remotely by SSU professor and student assistants. They will participate in a variety of activities including coding, modeling, crafting, sewing, and building.

Alongside other CSU campuses, Sonoma State University is participating in a Faculty-Led curriculum redesign program to improve student achievement on a university-wide level. Through a highly integrated structure and a cross-campus learning community, participating programs will share their specific expertise and amplify each other’s efforts resulting in strengthened student engagement and achievement. 

This award contributes to the Seawolf Scholars Critical Needs Fund.  It provides emergency funds to foster youth students for needs such as food, shelter, and health care, as these are the largest barriers to foster youth completing a four-year college degree.  In doing so, it helps to eliminate external stress and burdens so students can focus on thriving in their education.

The co-PI’s, Jennifer and Carmen, will be partnering with chemistry and mathematics colleagues from College of Marin, Diablo Valley College and UC Berkeley to combine adaptive learning technologies with a socio/emotional component to increase student learning and success in chemistry courses for students with limited prior experience.  In this work, a common learning management system, Canvas, will be utilized to develop individualized online educational components that engage students to think and feel like a capable scientist and to provide faculty development to support growth-minds

The purpose of project is to expand "making" across the State of California with four strategic components: supporting leadership activities and expanding the maker space(s) at SSU, convening a higher education maker leadership symposium bringing in makers from across the CSU and other two and four year colleges and universities to create a vision for making in higher education and to identify best practices, allocating resources for the creation of maker face to face course identifying higher education making spaces along with K-12 making spaces to be integrated into the Maker Certificate

Dr. Bentley and Dr. Clark will use new, emergent remote sensing technology (terrestrial laser scanners and unmanned aerial systems, i.e., drones) to acquire detailed measurements of 3-dimensional forest structure in coastal and southern Cascade forests of northern California. These measurements will be used to: 1) rapidly and more accurately estimate aboveground biomass for a range of tree species and 2) estimate crucial fuels parameters to help validate or refine fire probability and behavior models across these diverse forests.