Grants
Principal investigator, co-principal investigator, project director, or lead
National Institute of Health: Families for STEM Success ($0.575M), under review, 2019.
Purpose: To investigate using workshops for parents of Latino/a STEM students, as a means to increase the students’ explicit and implicit STEM identity.
National Science Foundation: Families for STEM Success ($0.876M), under review, 2019.
Purpose: To investigate using workshops for parents of Latino/a STEM students, as a means to increase the students’ explicit and implicit STEM identity.
Department of Education: “¡Si Se Puede!” to Close the Equity Gap in Engineering Degree Completion, lead, ($6M), 2016. Purpose: To start software engineering and electrical engineering programs at CSUSM.
Department of Finance: Innovation in Higher Education, co-PI, ($2.5M), 2015. Purpose: Award for increasing success of CSUSM students using measures such as retention and graduation rates, HIP's and Student Communities.
CSU Chancellor's Office: “Predictors Project”, lead, ($250,000), 2014. Purpose: An action research grant on identifying parameters that predict student academic success and struggle.
National Science Foundation: STEM Expansion at CSU, Bakersfield, PI, (IUES solicitation) ($999,812), 2014.
Purpose: A team approach to teaching calculus, between math and science
faculty, which promotes an inter-disciplinary approach in addressing the problem of low success rates in the calculus sequence.
Fab Lab Foundation, lead, ($914,475), 2013.
Purpose: To establish a Fab Lab at CSUB.
Toyota Foundation: Families for STEM, PI, ($184,600) 2012.
Purpose: To set up a partnership
with the Parent Institute for Quality Education to plan and deliver a set of workshops for parents of first-generation Latino STEM students.
California State University: Math and Science Teacher Initiative, PI, ($125,000), 2005, renewed for $125,000 in each of 2006, 2007 and $200,000 in each of 2008, 2009, 2010 2011 and 2012.
Purpose: Scholarships, advisement and tutoring for prospective math or science high school teachers and Subject Matter Authorization preparation. Creation of a blended program in mathematics with a single subject matter credential.
National Science Foundation: CSUB Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program - Phase I, DMS-0934944, co-PI, ($897,931), 2009.
Purpose: Scholarships and advisement for prospective math
or science high school teachers.
Department of Defense: Equipment Grant W911NF-04-1-0003, PI, ($183,111) 2003. Purpose: To plan and implement a computer laboratory for mathematics.
National Science Foundation: CBMS Grant DMS-9414535, PI, ($20,000). Purpose: Organize and run a CBMS conference with principal speaker Benjamin Weiss, 1995.
University Research Council Awards (CSUB), PI, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996. Purpose: Travel and release time for research on topics in topological dynamics.