Awards

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.

Make Math REAL (a partnership between SSU and the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley) will develop and test maker-based math education curriculum for fourth and fifth grades. These Maker Learning Cycles help students see math as a tool for making sense of the world, and to understand their own power to use math to solve authentic problems. Specific goals include increased persistence in STEM among English learner students, and improved ability for teachers to see capacities of their students.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will assist CALFIRE with archaeological, historical, or ethnographic research; archaeological records checks; correspondence with Native American tribes and other Native Americans; archaeological field inspections and surveys; site boundary definition and mapping work; project reviews; impact assessments; resource evaluation excavations; surface collections; site record preparation; development of recommendations for the protection and management of tribal-cultural, archaeological and historical resources; cultural resource monitoring; and preparatio

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will assist CALFIRE with archaeological, historical, or ethnographic research; archaeological records checks; correspondence with Native American tribes and other Native Americans; archaeological field inspections and surveys; site boundary definition and mapping work; project reviews; impact assessments; resource evaluation excavations; surface collections; site record preparation; development of recommendations for the protection and management of tribal-cultural, archaeological and historical resources; cultural resource monitoring; and preparatio

Sonoma State University is participating in a grant sponsored by the Irvine Foundation with five other California State University campuses that are Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) to support the use of chatbots to increase retention, engagement, and career exploration for CSU students, particularly under-represented minority and Pell-eligible students.