Faculty Grants

Oidos protegidos: Preventing noise exposure in farmworkers

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2026 - 2030, USD 524,895.00
Geography GREW Fellow

Laura Coco

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 2025 - 2030, USD 211,119.00
GREW Fellow Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Agricultural laborers Industrial hygiene

CARPE D.I.E.M. (Data In Elementary Mathematics): Using data science to understand our communities

Weichen Zhao

The California State Universities: PK-5 PD in Mathematics/Science, sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Instruction in Quantitative Reasoning (CAIQR)., 2026 - 2027, USD 70,000.00
Division of Education - Imperial Valley GREW Fellow

Art in mathematics education Data mining Educational technology Statistics

CSU + Adobe For All

Weichen Zhao

The California State University Academic Affairs., 2026 - 2027, USD 30,000.00
Division of Education - Imperial Valley GREW Fellow

Adobe Systems Colorado State University Computer science Educational technology

Unearthing the Chicana/o Movement in San Diego: Digitizing the Education Movimiento

Erika Esquivel

Council on Library and Information Resources, 2025 - 2027, USD 300,000.00
Library

Archival materials Digital libraries Mexican Americans

Spatiotemporal Changes, Socio-Environmental Impacts, and the Homeless Population

Environmental impact analysis Homelessness Poverty Sociology

Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences, 2024 - 2027, USD 450,000.00
Geography GREW Fellow

SDSU Sustainability Institutional and Educational Materials Repository

Academic libraries Institutional repositories San Diego State University Sustainability

San Diego State University, 2026 - 2026, USD 6,912.50
Library

Enhancing Library Access for Humanities Research

Lucy Campbell; Keven Jeffery

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, 2026 - 2026, USD 12,200.00
Library

Academic libraries Artificial intelligence Humanities Information services Libraries and education

Cold exposures and mental health and pain

Tianying Wu

San Diego State University, 2025 - 2026, USD 20,000.00
GREW Fellow Public Health

Mental health Physical therapy

California State Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) Grant

California Education, Higher Grants-in-aid Open educational resources

California State University Chancellor's Office, 2025 - 2026, USD 8,750.00
Library

Mapping California State University's Evidence Synthesis Output: An Evidence Map

Cat Ellis

California Academic & Research Libraries, 2025 - 2026, USD 339.00
Library

Academic libraries California State University Reference services (Libraries) Systematic reviews (Medical research)

Showcasing SDSU Campus Sustainability Initiatives Through Linked Data on the Web

Sarah Tribelhorn

San Diego State University, 2024 - 2025, USD 6,750.00
Library

California Linked data San Diego State University Semantic Web Sustainability

POSE: Phase I: An Open-Source Ecosystem for the Mimetic Operators Library Enhanced (MOLE)

Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, 2024 - 2025, USD 320,000.00
Mathematics and Statistics GREW Fellow

Artificial intelligence Machine learning Open source software Operator theory

California State Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) Grant

California Education, Higher Grants-in-aid Open educational resources

California State University Chancellor's Office, 2024 - 2025, USD 8,750.00
Library

Using AI Models to Catalog California State Documents

Artificial intelligence California Machine learning Natural language processing

San Diego State University, 2024 - 2025, USD 7,500.00
Library

Artificial intelligence California Cataloging State government publications

Using AI Models to Catalog California State Documents

Nerissa Lindsey

San Diego State University, 2023 - 2025, USD 7,500.00
Library

Comprehensive Analysis of Period Changes in Eclipsing Binaries as a Probe of Stellar Astrophysics

Astronomy Eclipsing binaries

Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, 2022 - 2025, USD 462,848.00
Astronomy

Collaborative Research: CISE-MSI: Active and Passive Internet Measurements for Inferring IoT Maliciousness at Scale

Morteza Safaei Pour

Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering, 2022 - 2025, USD 244,997.00
Management Information Systems GREW Fellow

Computer networks Computer science Information technology Internet of things

The Spectrum of Data: Visualizing Autism Statistics

Cat Ellis

Network of the National Library of Medicine, 2024 - 2024, USD 500.00
Library

Autism Information visualization Public health Statistics

State Grants for Libraries

Randyn Heisserer-Miller

Colorado Department of Education, 2023 - 2024, USD 11,049.00
Library

Government aid to libraries Grants-in-aid Library finance Public libraries

Using Comics to Teach Social Justice

Big data Education Libraries San Diego State University

National Endowment for the Humanities, 2023 - 2024, USD 175,000.00
Library

Comics Brew Graphic novels in education Social justice and education Social justice in comics

All of Us Data Training Through SDSU Library

Margaret Henderson

Oak Ridge Associated Universities, 2023 - 2024, USD 44,500.00
Library

TESS' royal road to stellar astrophysics — uniform analysis of hundreds of thousands of eclipsing binaries

Astronomy Eclipsing binaries Space telescopes

NAS, 2021 - 2024, USD 21,750.00
Astronomy

Mentored Pathways from Community College to Graduate School and Chemistry Careers

Regis Komperda

Directorate for Education & Human Resources, 2019 - 2024, USD 1,768,107.00
Chemistry and Biochemistry GREW Fellow

Career development Community colleges Education, Higher

California State Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) Grant

California Education, Higher Grants-in-aid Open educational resources

California State University Chancellor's Office, 2022 - 2023, USD 14,000.00
Library

Building A Comics And Social Justice Curriculum At SDSU

Comic books, strips, etc. Curriculum planning San Diego State University Social justice in comics

National Endowment for the Humanities, 2022 - 2023, USD 149,998.00
Library

Training Health Sciences Students to Find Data for Local and Global Research and Service Projects

Margaret Henderson

U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2022 - 2023, USD 14,685.00
Library

Information literacy Medical education Public health Research methods

State Grants to Libraires

Randyn Heisserer-Miller

Colorado Department of Education, 2022 - 2023, USD 11,081.00
Library

Government aid to libraries Libraries Library finance U.S. states

Collaborative Research: Encoding Geography - Scaling up an RPP to achieve inclusive geocomputational education

Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering, 2021 - 2023, USD 400,000.00
Geography GREW Fellow

Collaborative Research in the Economics of Environment and Development Geographic information science Geography Inclusive education

Building Capacity for Research and Teaching with Comics and Graphic Art

Mass and Age Standard Stars - Studying Timing Reliability in Cluster Territory (MASS-STRICT)

Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2021 - 2023, USD 149,305.00
Library

Arts in education Comic books, strips, etc. Education Graphic arts

Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, 2018 - 2023, USD 401,639.00
Astronomy

Astronomy Astrophysical Research Consortium Mass Stars

Discovering Circumbinary Planets with TESS

Astronomy Astrophysics Exploration of outer space Telescopes

NASA Headquarters, 2021 - 2022, USD 10,000.00
Astronomy

California State Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) Grant

California Education, Higher Grants-in-aid Open educational resources

California State University Chancellor’s Office, 2021 - 2022, USD 15,000.00
Library

Collaborative Research: Building Assessment Capacity in Chemistry Education - The CHemistry Instrument Review and Assessment Library (CHIRAL) Project

Regis Komperda

Directorate for Education & Human Resources, 2019 - 2022, USD 249,316.00
Chemistry and Biochemistry GREW Fellow

Chemistry Collaborative Research Support Program Educational evaluation Science and education

California State Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) Grant

California Education, Higher Grants-in-aid Open educational resources

California State University Chancellor's Office, 2020 - 2021, USD 15,000.00
Library

Ne‘epapa Ka Hana 2.0

Kaveh Abhari

Department for Education, 2018 - 2021, USD 950,000.00
Management Information Systems GREW Fellow

Cultural property Digital humanities Hawaii Hawaiian language

Hoʻokuʻi III: Na Kumu Alakaʻi

Kaveh Abhari

US Department of Education, 2018 - 2021, USD 2,500,000.00
Management Information Systems GREW Fellow

Education Hawaii Hawaiians Leadership

Community Health Workers and teleaudiology as a culturally-relevant approach to improving access to hearing health care

Laura Coco

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 2018 - 2021, USD 240,090.00
GREW Fellow Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Audiologists Health services accessibility Public health Rural health services

Triple-star dynamics and the internal structure of low-mass stars

CAREER: Designing Learning Environments to Foster Productive and Powerful Discussions among Linguistically Diverse Students in Secondary Mathematics

Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, 2016 - 2021, USD 333,750.00
Astronomy

Education, Secondary Educational technology Inclusive education Student-centered learning

National Science Foundation - Directorate for Education and Human Resources, 2016 - 2021, USD 168,486.00
Mathematics and Statistics GREW Fellow

California State Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) Grant

California Education, Higher Grants-in-aid Open educational resources

California State University Chancellor's Office, 2019 - 2020, USD 15,000.00
Library

Encoding Geography: Building Capacity for Inclusive Geo-Computational Thinking with Geospatial Technologies

Computer science Geographic information systems Inclusive education Spatial analysis (Statistics)

Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering, 2018 - 2020, USD 299,989.00
Geography GREW Fellow

California State Assembly Bill (AB) 798 College Textbook Affordability Act of 2015 Grant

Integrated Stage-based Evacuation with Social Perception Analysis and Dynamic Population Estimation

California State University Chancellor's Office, 2018 - 2020, USD 49,000.00
Library

California College costs Grants-in-aid Legislation Open educational resources

Recorded Interviews with Postmodern and Contemporary American Writers from the Larry McCaffery Papers

Amanda Lanthorne

Council on Library and Information Resources, 2018 - 2020, USD 28,866.00
Library

American literature Authors Postmodernism (Literature) Writing

Computer simulation Crowdsourcing Emergency management Risk assessment

Directorate for Engineering, 2016 - 2020, USD 465,189.00
Geography GREW Fellow

Early Career Travel Award from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Applied mathematics Awards Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

National Science Foundation, 2019 - 2019, USD 2,500.00
Mathematics and Statistics GREW Fellow

Early Career Travel Award from the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Applied mathematics Awards Career development Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

National Science Foundation, 2018 - 2019, USD 650.00
Mathematics and Statistics GREW Fellow

CDS&E/Collaborative Research: Investigation of Zinc-Coating of Advanced High Strength Steels Directed by Multiscale Modeling and Experiments.

Sara Adibi

Directorate for Engineering, 2015 - 2019, USD 289,037.00
Mechanical Engineering GREW Fellow

Metallurgy Multiscale modeling Steel alloys Zinc coating

Ahluwalia Doctoral Fellowship Award

New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2017 - 2018, USD 1,000.00
Mathematics and Statistics GREW Fellow

Ahluwalia, H. P. S. Awards Scholarships

Partnering for Success: The Sweetwater/SDSU Mathematics Readiness Challenge

Academic achievement Education Mathematics Universities and colleges

California Department of Education, 2016 - 2018, USD 1,280,000.00
Mathematics and Statistics GREW Fellow

Collaborative Research: Investigating How English Language Learners Use Dynamic Representational Technology to Participate in Middle School Mathematical Practices

Awards Education Teaching Universities and colleges

National Science Foundation - Directorate for Education and Human Resources, 2015 - 2018, USD 1,078,378.00
Mathematics and Statistics GREW Fellow

Educational technology Middle school education

Common Experience Faculty Award

Keven Jeffery

San Diego State University, Division of Undergraduate Studies, 2016 - 2017, USD 1,975.00
Library

Ne‘epapa Ka Hana

Kaveh Abhari

Department for Education, 2014 - 2017, USD 996,000.00
Management Information Systems GREW Fellow

Hawaii Oral tradition Performance art

Expansion of build IT @SDSU Library

Jenny Wong-Welch

San Diego State University, 2015 - 2016, USD 11,713.00
Library

Academic libraries Information technology Libraries San Diego State University. Library

A SEARCH FOR BLACK HOLES AND NEUTRON STARS IN THE KEPLER FIELD BLACK HOLES ARE THE ULTIMATE END STATE OF GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE, AND MANIFEST BOTH STRONG GENERAL RELATIVITY AND QUANTUM EFFECTS. UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE OF BLACK HOLES IS NASAS STRATEGIC GO

Black holes (Astronomy) General relativity (Physics) Neutron stars United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2013 - 2016, USD 72,821.00
Astronomy

Research and Evaluation: Boston University's Noyce Scholarship Programs

Boston University Evaluation Research Scholarships

National Science Foundation - Directorate for Education and Human Resources, 2014 - 2015, USD 99,563.00
Mathematics and Statistics GREW Fellow

Discovery and Characterization of Kepler Circumbinary Planets

Astronomy Extrasolar planets Kepler, Johannes Planetary science

NASA Headquarters, 2013 - 2015, USD 307,877.00
Astronomy

Stellar Astrophysics Via Exoplanet Transits

Astronomy Astrophysics Extrasolar planets

Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, 2011 - 2015, USD 379,884.00
Astronomy

Research and Evaluation: Boston University's Noyce Scholarship Programs

Boston University Education Research Scholarships

National Science Foundation - Directorate for Education and Human Resources, 2012 - 2014, USD 200,000.00
Mathematics and Statistics GREW Fellow

The Comic-Con Kids: Finding and Defining Fandom

California Council for the Humanities (NEH Partner), 2012 - 2014
Library

Comic books, strips, etc. Fans Popular culture San Diego Comic-Con

Age-Sensitive Detached Eclipsing Binaries in Open Star Clusters NGC 6791 and NGC 6819

Astronomy Astrophysics Double stars Eclipsing binaries

NASA Headquarters, 2013 - 2013, USD 81,694.00
Astronomy

Exploring the Online Information-seeking Strategies of Education Graduate Students.

Wil Weston

SDSU Foundation University Grant Program, 2011 - 2013, USD 1,200.00
Library

Digital libraries Education Graduate students Information behavior

California State University Undergraduate Research Experiences (CSUURE) in Astronomy

Astronomy California State University Education, Higher Universities and colleges

Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, 2009 - 2013, USD 278,432.00
Astronomy

Precise Ages for Open Star Clusters from Known Detached Eclipsing Binaries

Astronomy Cosmochronology Double stars Eclipsing binaries

Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, 2009 - 2013, USD 302,757.00
Astronomy

HIGH-PRECISION MASSES AND RADII OF LOW-MASS ECLIPSING BINARY STARSWE PROPOSE TO OBTAIN KEPLER LIGHT CURVES OF 7 LONG-PERIOD LOW-MASS ECLIPSING BINARY (EB) TARGETS. BY MAKING HIGH-PRECISION OBSERVATIONS DURING THE ECLIPSES OF THESE BINARIES WE AIM TO RESO

Astrometry Astronomy Eclipsing binaries Stars

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2011 - 2012, USD 49,706.00
Astronomy

Fundamental Properties of Low Mass Stars in Eclipsing Binaries

Astrophysics Eclipsing binaries Low mass stars

Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, 2008 - 2012, USD 264,748.00
Astronomy

Collaborative Research: Stellar Physics from Cluster-Wide Samples in Globular Star Clusters

Astrophysics Physics Space sciences

Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, 2005 - 2010, USD 225,213.00
Astronomy

California State University Undergraduate Research Experiences (CSUURE) in Astronomy

Astronomy California State University Education, Higher Universities and colleges

Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, 2005 - 2010, USD 278,385.00
Astronomy

Transforming Mount Laguna Observatory into a Regional Astronomical Research Facility

Jerome Orosz; Eric Sandquist

Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, 2005 - 2010, USD 379,640.00
Astronomy

Astronomy California Observatories

Collaborative Research: Fundamental Stellar Physics from Large-sample Globular Cluster Photometry

Astrophysics Physical sciences Space sciences

Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, 2001 - 2005, USD 170,588.00
Astronomy

Building Resources for Women in Engineering at UNO

Wil Weston

University of New Orleans, 2004 - 2004, USD 5,000.00
Library

Career education--Information services Universities and colleges University of New Orleans Women in engineering

Southeastern Library Association Early Career Profesional Grant

Wil Weston

Southeastern Library Association GALE/SELA Continuing Education and Professional Development Committee Professional Grant, 2002 - 2002, USD 500.00
Library

Grants-in-aid Library science

Detection and Characterization of Circumbinary Planets Around TESS Eclipsing Binaries