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March 2026 Grants and Contracts

We are pleased to share the success of 91´«Ã½³§'s principal investigators who were awarded grants and contracts during March 2026:

Monthly Awards at a Glance
19 Awards Received: Valued at $2,931,223.

Note: Some industry-sponsored awards are not listed due to their respective non-disclosure terms. The sort below is by College, then department, followed by PI.

College of Engineering

Huang, Gaojian | Industrial & Systems Engineering
Stanford Medicine Center for Longevity and Healthy Aging Research
Sponsor: Leland Sandford Junior University — $50,000.

Jurney, Patrick | Biomedical Engineering
Nicotine Induced Gene-Environment Interactions in AAA Disease
Sponsor: Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research — $8,179.

Liu, Hongrui | Industrial & Systems Engineering
Proposal to Test/Research Market Clearing Systems For ISO New England (2026)
Sponsor: ISO New England — $25,000.

Papadopoulos, Periklis | Aerospace Engineering
Sentinel Bio+: Student Workforce Development for Human Spaceflight Safety Through CubeSat Engineering
Sponsor: UC, San Diego — $10,000.

Rosenfeld, Liat; Parent, David | Chemical and Materials Engineering
SPARTAN SPARK: Stimulating Passion, Advancement, Research, and Knowledge for Nextgeneration Engineers in Advanced Energy Systems
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy — $669,349.            

College of Science

Carroll, Dustin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
ECCO: Connecting NASA Ocean, Cryosphere, and Biogeochemistry Observations to Support National Climate Policy
Sponsor: Jet Propulsion Laboratory — $150,000.

Clements, Craig | Meteorology & Climate Science
Multifrequency Radar Observations for Understanding Pyrocumulonimbus Dynamics
Sponsor: NASA — $317,791.

Connolly, Thomas | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Subaward from UCSD/SIO for graduate student support to participate on a U.S. GO-SHIP cruise
Sponsor: UC, San Diego — $5,542.

Kochanski, Adam | Meteorology & Climate Science
Using thermal infrared imagery to estimate fuel consumption and its relationship to smoke plume development and emissions
Sponsor: U.S. Forest Service — $99,999.

Kochanski, Adam | Meteorology & Climate Science
Coupled Interative Forecasting of Wilkdfire Potential and Active Fire Impacts for Improved Wildland Fire Decision Making
Sponsor: Colorado State University — $64,315.

Lehmkuhl-Dakhwe, Virginia | Dean's Office, College of Science
CS4NorthCal: Scaling an Evidence-based Model for Teacher Preparation and Support to ProvideEquitable and Inclusive CS Education in California High Schools
Sponsor: UC, Santa Cruz — $243,032.

O'Connor, Kevin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Development of a coastal wetland (L3) functional assessment dashboard and toolkit to support project prioritization and evaluation
Sponsor: Southern California Coastal Water Research Project — $48,723.

Tan, Qian | Meteorology & Climate Science
The NOAA Cooperative Science Center in Atmospheric Sciences and Meterology II
Sponsor: Howard University — $78,798.

VanHoven, Miri | Dean's Office, College of Science
The Effects of Stimulation and Sleep on Neural Circuit Connections
Sponsor: UC, San Francisco — $190,585.

Wood, Michael | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Estimating the past, present, and future response of marine primary productivity to Greenland ice sheet melt
Sponsor: NASA — $100,000.

College of Social Sciences

Carr, Valerie | Psychology
Implementing Macroergonomics for Increasing the Safe, Effective, and Efficient Operation of the Entry Systems and Technology Division's High Enthalpy Facilities: Phase 2
Sponsor: NASA — $64,000.

Jopanda, Wayne | Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
The Filipino American History Mural
Sponsor: Santa Clara County — $10,000.

Mulvaney, Dustin | Environmental Studies
Environmental cost-benefit valuation of solar-over-water deployment in California
Sponsor: UC, Merced — $32,765.

Schuster, David | Psychology
Collaborative Human Factors Research to Improve the Safety, Efficiency, and Reliability of NASA’s Aeronautics and Space Missions: Phase 2
Sponsor: NASA — $763,145.