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$286.3K
VA/DoD Award Count
2
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Total Federal Funding (partial)
$153.1M
Awards Found
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| Awarding Agency | Description | Amount | Fiscal Year | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agency for International Development | PROJECT GOVERNANCE ACTIVITY | $16.1M | FY2021 | Apr 2021 – May 2026 |
| Department of Education | UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC - HEERF - INSTITUTIONAL PORTION | $14.1M | FY2020 | May 2020 – May 2022 |
| Department of Education | UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC APPLICATION FOR CARES COVID-19 RELIEF FUNDS | $11.8M | FY2020 | Apr 2020 – Apr 2022 |
| Department of State | TO SUPPORT THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU GOVERNMENT AND OTHER PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES IN DEVELOPING MARINE SPATIAL PLANS (MSP) INFORMED BY THE BEST SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION AVAILABLE, INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS, PAVING THE WAY TO A SUSTAINABLE, INCLUSIVE, | $5.8M | FY2022 | Sep 2022 – Sep 2026 |
| Department of State | TO CO-FUND WITH THE PARTNERS IN THE BLUE PACIFIC (PBP) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH VESSEL FOR THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY (SPC) THAT WILL BE USED TO CONDUCT OCEANOGRAPHIC SURVEYS TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF ECOSYSTEM CHANGES ON TUNA FISHERIES | $4.8M | FY2024 | Sep 2024 – Jan 2025 |
| Agency for International Development | PIO GRANT TO SPC FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PROGRAM | $4M | FY2011 | Sep 2011 – Feb 2016 |
| Department of Education | PACIFIC AND CENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOLS (PACS) PARTNERSHIP TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS | $3.9M | FY2023 | Apr 2023 – Dec 2026 |
| National Science Foundation | FULL-SCALE DEVELOPMENT: MY SKY TONIGHT: EARLY CHILDHOOD PATHWAYS TO ASTRONOMY | $2.7M | FY2013 | Oct 2012 – Aug 2018 |
| National Science Foundation | ON-THE-SPOT ASSESSMENT TO IMPROVE SCIENTIST ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PUBLIC | $2.7M | FY2018 | Aug 2018 – Jul 2022 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | PACIFIC-STANFORD PRIMED PROGRAM: TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF CLINICAL ORAL HEALTH RESEARCHERS - PACIFIC-STANFORD PRIMED PROGRAM PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT BROAD, LONG-TERM OBJECTIVES. ORAL DISEASES AND DISORDERS IN AND OF THEMSELVES AFFECT HEALTH AND WELL-BEING THROUGHOUT LIFE. RESEARCH IS KEY TO IMPROVING ORAL HEALTH, ELIMINATING HEALTH DISPARITIES, AND FURTHER REDUCING THE BURDEN OF ORAL DISEASES AND DISORDERS. UNFORTUNATELY, A WIDE GAP EXISTS BETWEEN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE. WHILE SCIENTISTS CONSTANTLY PRODUCE NEW KNOWLEDGE RELEVANT TO ORAL DISEASE PREVENTION AND CLINICAL CARE, MUCH OF THEIR WORK IS NEVER INCORPORATED INTO PRACTICE. SIMILARLY, CLINICAL PROBLEMS ARE RARELY TRANSLATED INTO RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND PROJECTS. IN ADDITION, THERE HAVE BEEN GROWING CONCERNS ABOUT THE REDUCTION IN THE CLINICIAN-SCIENTIST WORKFORCE, WHICH MAY IMPACT ORAL HEALTH SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS AS WELL AS THE PIPELINE OF FUTURE ORAL HEALTH LEADERS. THE GOAL OF THE PACIFIC- STANFORD PRIMED PROGRAM IS TO TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION OF CLINICAL ORAL HEALTH RESEARCHERS TO EFFECTIVELY TRANSLATE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH TO ENSURE OPTIMAL ORAL AND GENERAL HEALTH OUTCOMES. THE SPECIFIC AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROGRAM ARE TO: 1. PROVIDE PERSONALIZED EDUCATION IN CLINICAL RESEARCH SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOR CLINICALLY-ORIENTED FACULTY, DENTAL ALUMNI, AND DENTAL STUDENTS/RESIDENTS BY LEVERAGING RESOURCES THROUGH THE STANFORD CTSA PROGRAM. 2. ENGAGE AND SUPPORT RESEARCH FACULTY AND CLINICALLY-ORIENTED FACULTY IN INTRA- AND INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATIONS AT UOP AND STANFORD. 3. CREATE PEER AND STUDENT MENTORING PARTNERSHIPS WITH BIDIRECTIONAL RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN RESEARCH FACULTY, CLINICALLY-ORIENTED FACULTY, AND DENTAL STUDENTS/RESIDENTS AT UOP AND STANFORD. 4. TO CARRY OUT PRACTICE-BASED CLINICAL RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN UOP AND AFFILIATED DENTAL CLINICS WITH CLINICAL FACULTY AND STUDENTS/RESIDENTS PARTICIPATING IN RESEARCH CONDUCTED DURING THE COURSE OF PATIENT CARE. WE WILL ACCOMPLISH THESE GOALS BY: (1) PROVIDING CLINICAL RESEARCH EDUCATION FOR CLINICALLY-ORIENTED FACULTY, DENTAL ALUMNI, AND DENTAL STUDENTS/RESIDENTS BY LEVERAGING STANFORD CTSA PROGRAM RESOURCES; (2) SUPPORTING RESEARCH AND CLINICALLY- ORIENTED FACULTY IN BIDIRECTIONAL INTRA- AND INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATIONS AT UOP AND STANFORD; (3) CREATING MENTORING PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN RESEARCH AND CLINICALLY-ORIENTED FACULTY, AND DENTAL STUDENTS/RESIDENTS AT UOP AND STANFORD; AND (4) CONDUCTING PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH WHERE DATA AND SAMPLE COLLECTION IS INTEGRATED INTO CLINICAL WORKFLOWS, AND IS CARRIED OUT DURING PATIENT CARE IN UOP DENTAL SCHOOL CLINICS, ITS AFFILIATED CLINIC SITES, AND STANFORD CLINICS. | $2.3M | FY2023 | Sep 2023 – Jun 2028 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | IN THE MODERN ERA, NASA SMD MISSIONS AND FACILITIES ARE PRODUCING DATA AT A RATE TOO GREAT FOR THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY TO MAXIMALLY UTILIZE. WHILE SOFT | $2.1M | FY2017 | Jan 2017 – — |
| Agency for International Development | RECOFTC - GREEN MEKONG (GRASSROOTS EQUITY AND ENHANCED NETWORKS IN THE MEKONG) | $2M | FY2013 | Oct 2012 – Dec 2015 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | NURSE EDUCATION, PRACTICE, QUALITY AND RETENTION - WORKFORCE EXPANSION PROGRAM - THE PACIFIC NURSING WORKFORCE EDUCATION PROGRAM (PNWEP) AIMS TO CREATE AN EDUCATIONAL PIPELINE FOR DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS IN THE CENTRAL AND SACRAMENTO VALLEY REGIONS, ADDRESSING HIGHER ATTRITION RATES AND LOWER REPRESENTATION AMONG THESE STUDENTS. IDENTIFIED CHALLENGES INCLUDE THE NEED FOR NAVIGATION AND ORIENTATION TO UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS, FINANCIAL AND ACADEMIC SUPPORT, SOCIAL AND MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES, MENTORSHIP, AND ENHANCED EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES IN ACUTE AND LONG-TERM CARE SETTINGS. THE GOAL OF THE PNWEP PROPOSAL IS TO INCREASE AND STRENGTHEN THE NURSING WORKFORCE IN ACUTE AND LONG-TERM CARE, WITH THE PRIORITY OF ENHANCING OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS FROM POPULATIONS THAT HAVE HISTORICALLY EXPERIENCED DISPARITIES AND A LACK OF ACCESS TO ADVANCED NURSING EDUCATION. THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC, SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES OFFERS A DEPTH OF RESOURCES AND IMPLEMENTS VARIOUS TOOLS AND STRATEGIES TO ENSURE ONGOING FACULTY AND STAFF TRAINING, OUTREACH, COLLABORATIONS, COMMUNICATION, AND INFORMATION SHARING/DISSEMINATION WITH EFFORTS TO INVOLVE COMMUNITIES. THE PROPOSAL SEEKS TO: 1. IMPLEMENT RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION SYSTEMS 2. INCREASE ENROLLMENT 3. IMPLEMENT TRAINING IN ACUTE AND LONG-TERM CARE 4. ESTABLISH PARTNERSHIPS WITH ACUTE AND LONG-TERM SITES 5. PROVIDE STUDENT SUPPORT, INCLUDING STIPENDS, MENTORING, AND WRAPAROUND SERVICES 6. RECRUIT AND RETAIN NURSING FACULTY AND CLINICAL FACULTY/PRECEPTORS 7. EVALUATE THE PROGRAM’S EFFICACY THE PNWEP GRANT PROPOSAL ALIGNS AND SYNERGIZES WITH OUR SCHOOL’S MISSION, VISION, AND VALUES. THE PNWEP PROGRAM WILL SUPPORT NURSING STUDENTS IN VARIOUS WAYS TO ENSURE A ROBUST PATHWAY FOR DIVERSE, TALENTED STUDENTS WITH DEEP ROOTS IN THE COMMUNITY AND THE SUPPORT NEEDED TO ENTER NURSING CAREERS SUCCESSFULLY. GRADUATES PREPARED USING THESE FUNDS WILL BE READY TO MEET THE WORKFORCE NEEDS OF RURAL COMMUNITIES IN ACUTE CARE, LONG-TERM CARE, AND PUBLIC HEALTH SETTINGS. | $2M | FY2024 | Sep 2024 – Sep 2028 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE, COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING, AND MISCELLANEOUS GRANTS | $2M | FY2023 | Feb 2023 – Aug 2031 |
| Agency for International Development | AME REGIONAL PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION GRANT TO SPREP FOR PACIFIC CLIMATE CHANGE PROGRAM | $1.9M | FY2011 | Sep 2011 – Mar 2016 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC CO-INVESTIGATORS AT THE SETI INSTITUTE AND PARTNERS AT THE SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE PROPOSE ECLIPSE AMBASSADORS PREPARE COMMUNITIES OFF THE PATH FOR TWO SOLAR ECLIPSES | $1.8M | FY2022 | Jan 2022 – Dec 2026 |
| Department of Education | THE SUCCESS PROGRAM AT PACIFIC PROVIDES SUPPORT SERVICES TO 200 ELIGIBLE STUDENTS TO ASSIST IN THEIR RETENTION AND GRADUATION AND TO FACILITATE THEIR TRANSITION TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF HIGHER EDUCATION. | $1.7M | FY2020 | Sep 2020 – Aug 2025 |
| National Science Foundation | SHARING THE UNIVERSE | $1.6M | FY2007 | Apr 2007 – Sep 2012 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE INFLUENZA NETWORKS AND RESPONSE TO AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFL | $1.6M | FY2010 | Sep 2010 – Aug 2016 |
| Department of State | TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY AND TRADE BY CAPACITATING THE SRI LANKA PORTS AUTHORITY (SLPA) ON PORTS AND SHIPPING SECTOR DEVELOPMENTS IN LINE WITH GLOBAL STANDARDS AND BEST PRACTICES. | $1.5M | FY2023 | Sep 2023 – Sep 2026 |
| Department of Education | STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM | $1.5M | FY2015 | Sep 2015 – Dec 2020 |
| Department of State | MAINSTREAM GENDER EQUALITY IN THE PACIFIC CLEAN ENERGY SECTOR TO EMPOWER WOMEN WITH INCREASE CAREER AND INCOME GENERATING OPPORTUNITIES AND ENHANCED ACCESS TO CLEAN ENERGY | $1.5M | FY2023 | Sep 2023 – Mar 2025 |
| Department of Education | THE PACIFIC UPWARD BOUND PROJECT WILL PROVIDE FUNDAMENTAL SUPPORT TO 60 LOW-INCOME, POTENTIAL FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS FROM EDISON HIGH SCHOOL TO PREPARE FOR COLLEGE ENTRANCE. | $1.5M | FY2017 | Sep 2017 – Aug 2022 |
| Department of Education | STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM | $1.4M | FY2010 | Sep 2010 – Aug 2015 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | A NOVEL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR THE PREVENTION AND RESCUE OF FENTANYL AND OTHER OPIOID OVERDOSES - OPIOIDS HAVE SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE EFFECTS HIGHLIGHTED BY THE LARGE NUMBER OF PATIENTS WITH OPIOID USE DISORDER (OUD) AND THE INCREASING NUMBER OF OVERDOSE DEATHS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ELSEWHERE. IN JUST THE 12-MONTH PERIOD ENDING IN NOVEMBER 2021, MORE THAN 107,000 AMERICANS DIED FROM DRUG OVERDOSE. AROUND 66% OF THESE DEATHS INVOLVED ILLICIT SYNTHETIC OPIOIDS LIKE FENTANYL (APPROXIMATELY 50 TIMES MORE POTENT THAN HEROIN AND 100 TIMES MORE POTENT THAN MORPHINE), WHICH IS THE PRIMARY DRIVER OF THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC TODAY. MANY OF THE OPIOID OVERDOSE DEATHS ARE ATTRIBUTED TO FENTANYL MIXED WITH OTHER ILLICIT DRUGS LIKE HEROIN, COCAINE, AND METHAMPHETAMINE. THE POTENTIAL LETHAL DOSE OF FENTANYL IS AROUND TWO MILLIGRAMS, AND IT IS PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS FOR OPIOID NAÏVE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE A TOLERANCE TO OPIOIDS. OVERDOSE DEATHS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL-AGED AMERICANS HAVE MORE THAN DOUBLED SINCE 2019, WHICH HAS BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO COUNTERFEIT PILLS (E.G., XANAX, PERCOCET, ADDERALL) LACED WITH A LETHAL AMOUNT OF FENTANYL. SADLY, MANY USERS OFTEN INGEST THE DEADLY DRUG UNKNOWINGLY. UNFORTUNATELY, THERE IS NOT A HAPPY ENDING FOR THIS DEVASTATING STORY AND THERE IS NO EASY SOLUTION TO THE SYNTHETIC OPIOID PROBLEM. THE VULNERABILITY OF OUR NATION TO THE WEAPONIZATION OF HIGHLY POTENT FENTANYL ANALOGS, SUCH AS CARFENTANIL (20-FOLD MORE POTENT THAN FENTANYL), POSES A SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC HEALTH RISK NOT ONLY TO CIVILIANS, BUT ALSO TO FIRST RESPONDERS, LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL, AND THE MILITARY. THE RELATIVELY SHORT DURATION OF ACTION (DOA) OF THE MU-OPIOID RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS, NALOXONE AND NALMEFENE, POSES A MAJOR CHALLENGE FOR ITS EFFICACY AGAINST FENTANYL OVERDOSE. IT IS DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE HOW NALOXONE AND NALMEFENE COULD BE DEPLOYED EFFECTIVELY IN A MASS CASUALTY SITUATION INVOLVING SYNTHETIC OPIOIDS (WHERE DURATION OF OVERDOSE COULD LAST UP TO 24 HR). THE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP A FUNDAMENTALLY NOVEL DRUG DELIVERY APPROACH FOR EXTENDING THE DOA OF CURRENTLY FDA-APPROVED OPIOID OVERDOSE ANTIDOTES (NALOXONE AND NALMEFENE) FOR 24 HR OR MORE. HERE WE REPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW GENERATION OF OPIOID ANTAGONIST PRODRUGS AS A COUNTERMEASURE FOR SYNTHETIC OPIOID OVERDOSE. THE MAIN ADVANTAGES OF OUR SYSTEM INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: (I) USE OF TWO FDA-APPROVED ANTIDOTES, NALOXONE AND NALMEFENE, WITH WELL-ESTABLISHED SAFETY AND EFFICACY PROFILES; (II) POTENTIAL TO REVERSE AND EFFECTIVELY PROTECT AGAINST RE-NARCOTIZATION BY SYNTHETIC OPIOID OVERDOSE; (III) POTENTIAL TO AVOID THE PRECIPITATION OF OPIOID WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS; AND (IV) ABILITY TO ADMINISTER THE PRODRUGS SUBCUTANEOUSLY. THE MAIN HYPOTHESIS OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO TEST WHETHER CONJUGATION OF FDA-APPROVED OPIOID ANTAGONISTS THROUGH A CLEAVABLE ESTER LINKER TO A SELECTIVE LIGAND FOR THE SERUM PROTEIN, TRANSTHYRETIN (TTR), WOULD ALLOW US TO GENERATE OPIOID ANTAGONIST PRODRUGS THAT ARE HYDROPHILIC AND CAN BIND REVERSIBLY TO TTR IN SERUM. THE BALANCED HYDROPHILICITY OF PRODRUG WILL BE IMPORTANT FOR ACHIEVING RAPID ABSORPTION OF THE PRODRUG FROM THE SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE WHILE BINDING TO TTR WOULD EXTEND THE DOA OF THE PRODRUGS. | $1.4M | FY2023 | Apr 2023 – Feb 2028 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN GENERAL, PEDIATRIC, AND PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY AND DENTAL HYGIENE | $1.3M | FY2015 | Jul 2015 – Jun 2020 |
| Department of Education | THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC UPWARD BOUND PROGRAM WILL PROVIDE FUNDAMENTAL SUPPORT TO 60 LOW INCOME POTENTIAL FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS FROM EDISON HIGH SCHOOL TO PREPARE FOR COLLEGE ENTRANCE | $1.2M | FY2022 | Sep 2022 – Aug 2026 |
| Department of Education | EDUCATION OF NATIVE HAWAIIANS | $1.2M | FY2009 | Sep 2009 – Aug 2012 |
| Department of Agriculture | COMMUNITY BASED FIRE MANAGEMENT IN ASIA | $1.2M | FY2022 | Sep 2022 – Sep 2027 |
| National Science Foundation | RECRUITING, PREPARING, AND RETAINING STEM TEACHERS IN SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA | $1.2M | FY2019 | May 2019 – Apr 2026 |
| Department of Education | TRIO - STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES - STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM | $1.1M | FY2006 | Sep 2006 – Aug 2010 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | GHB TOXICOKINETICS: ROLE OF SEX HORMONE DEPENDENT MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER REGULATION AND POTENTIAL FOR ALTERED OVERDOSE RISK IN TRANSGENDER MEN AND WOMEN | $1.1M | FY2020 | Apr 2020 – Mar 2025 |
| Department of Energy | TAS::89 0321::TAS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW SILICA-ALUMINA BASED CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL LARGELY USING COAL REFUSE FOR MINE BACKFILL, MINE S | $1M | FY2010 | Aug 2010 – Mar 2012 |
| Department of State | SCALE UP PROGRAM TO ENHANCE THE UPTAKE OF SUSTAINABLE BIOGAS TECHNOLOGIES IN TUVALU OUTER ISLANDS. | $1M | FY2024 | Sep 2024 – Oct 2027 |
| Department of Justice | TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT | $1M | FY2016 | Oct 2015 – Sep 2022 |
| Agency for International Development | INCLUDE STANDARD PROVISION-HOMELAND SECURITY | $949.5K | FY2006 | Sep 2006 – Jul 2012 |
| Department of State | THIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO ENHANCE CAPACITIES OF ESCAP MEMBER STATES TO PROVIDE ROBUST GOVERNANCE, REGULATORY, AND POLICY ENVIRONMENTS RELATED TO OPEN RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (OPEN RAN) AND OTHER EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES. | $924.1K | FY2025 | Oct 2024 – Sep 2027 |
| Department of Commerce | AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC'S OCEAN SCIENCE CENTER (SOS): OCEAN-EARTH STORIES CONNECTING PEOPLE, THE OCEAN AND CLIMATE CHANGE | $889.2K | FY2010 | Oct 2009 – Sep 2012 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL FACULTY LOAN REPAYMENT | $874K | FY2021 | Sep 2021 – Aug 2026 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DEVELOPMENT OF INFLUENZA SURVEILLANCE NETWORKS | $854.6K | FY2005 | Sep 2005 – Aug 2010 |
| National Science Foundation | S-STEM: CULTIVATING SUCCESS: CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND STUDENT RETENTION THROUGH SCHOLARSHIPS AND ACADEMIC-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS -THIS PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE NATIONAL NEED FOR WELL-EDUCATED SCIENTISTS, MATHEMATICIANS, ENGINEERS, AND TECHNICIANS BY SUPPORTING THE RETENTION AND GRADUATION OF HIGH-ACHIEVING, LOW-INCOME STUDENTS WITH DEMONSTRATED FINANCIAL NEED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC. THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC IS A MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTION (MSI) WITH ASIAN AMERICAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER-SERVING INSTITUTION (AANAPISI) AND HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTION (HSI) STATUS. OVER ITS SIX-YEAR DURATION, THIS TRACK 1 PROJECT WILL FUND SCHOLARSHIPS TO TEN UNIQUE FULL-TIME STUDENTS WHO ARE PURSUING BACHELOR'S DEGREES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT. FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS WILL RECEIVE FOUR-YEAR SCHOLARSHIPS. BY ESTABLISHING PARTNERSHIPS WITH LOCAL EMPLOYERS AND INTEGRATING ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRY EXPERIENCES THROUGH WORK-BASED LEARNING, STUDENTS WILL GAIN RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE EARLY IN THEIR DEGREE PROGRAMS, INCREASING THEIR FUTURE SUCCESS AND CAREER READINESS. THE PROJECT ALSO AIMS TO ENHANCE STUDENT SUCCESS BY IMPLEMENTING ORGANIZED COHORT EXPERIENCES AND OFFERING COMPREHENSIVE ACADEMIC, SOCIAL, AND CAREER READINESS SUPPORTS. GIVEN THAT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC AND ITS SURROUNDING REGION HAVE A HIGH POPULATION OF STUDENTS FROM GROUPS UNDERREPRESENTED IN STEM, THIS PROJECT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BROADEN PARTICIPATION AMONG LOW-INCOME, DIVERSE, AND ACADEMICALLY TALENTED STUDENTS PURSUING THEIR DEGREES. THE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO INCREASE STEM DEGREE COMPLETION OF ACADEMICALLY TALENTED, LOW-INCOME UNDERGRADUATES WITH DEMONSTRATED FINANCIAL NEED. IT WILL STUDY STUDENTS' SENSE OF BELONGING, SELF-EFFICACY, PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY, AND CAREER READINESS WITHIN THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC. THE PROJECT WILL EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF RECRUITMENT AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES AIMED AT ATTRACTING LOW-INCOME, ACADEMICALLY TALENTED STUDENTS TO THE CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS. IT WILL ALSO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF STRUCTURED ACADEMIC AND STUDENT SUPPORT ON STUDENTS' SENSE OF BELONGING, SELF-EFFICACY, AND PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY. ADDITIONALLY, THE PROJECT WILL EXPLORE THE ROLE OF WORK-BASED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES IN ENHANCING ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND POST-GRADUATION EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES. THE PROJECT WILL BE EVALUATED WITH A MIXED METHODS APPROACH THAT RELIES ON VALIDATED SURVEY INSTRUMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN USED IN PRIOR STUDIES AND NARRATIVE INTERVIEWS TO GAIN A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF STUDENTS' PERSPECTIVES. THROUGH ANNUAL DATA COLLECTION THE PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE AN UNDERSTANDING OF STUDENT PERSPECTIVES OVER TIME. RESULTS FROM THIS PROJECT WILL BE DISSEMINATED THROUGH EXISTING NETWORKS, SUCH AS THE MATHEMATICS, ENGINEERING, SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT (MESA) PROGRAM, A DIGITAL SHOWCASE, WORKSHOPS, AND CONFERENCES AND JOURNALS FOR ENGINEERING AND STEM EDUCATION AS WELL AS DISCIPLINARY AREA JOURNALS. THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED BY NSF'S SCHOLARSHIPS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS PROGRAM, WHICH SEEKS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF ACADEMICALLY TALENTED LOW-INCOME STUDENTS WITH DEMONSTRATED FINANCIAL NEED WHO EARN DEGREES IN STEM FIELDS. IT ALSO AIMS TO IMPROVE THE EDUCATION OF FUTURE STEM WORKERS, AND TO GENERATE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ACADEMIC SUCCESS, RETENTION, TRANSFER, GRADUATION, AND ACADEMIC/CAREER PATHWAYS OF LOW-INCOME STUDENTS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD. | $795.7K | FY2025 | Apr 2025 – Mar 2031 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | STRENGTHENING AAPI FAMILIES TO END DOMESTIC/FAMILY VIOLENCE | $756.8K | FY2024 | Sep 2024 – Sep 2026 |
| Department of State | FACILITATE TRAVEL, LOGISTICAL SUPPORT, COMMUNICATION, COORDINATION AND NETWORKING FOR PARTICIPANTS TO THE 13TH FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC ARTS AND CULTURE (FESTPAC) IN HAWAII. | $737.9K | FY2024 | Oct 2023 – Oct 2024 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | STUDIES ON THE AH RECEPTORS SIGNALING MECHANISM | $735.5K | FY2006 | Sep 2006 – Jul 2011 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | INVESTIGATING THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS IN CONTROLLING THE ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPT | $692.8K | FY2014 | Jun 2014 – Jul 2023 |
| National Science Foundation | EDGE CMT: RUI: ROLES OF TOXIN-ANTITOXIN SYSTEMS IN BIOFILM FORMATION AND HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER IN THE GENUS VARIOVORAX | $692.7K | FY2022 | Oct 2021 – Sep 2025 |
| Department of Justice | TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $675K | FY2005 | Sep 2005 – Aug 2011 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | SIDE CHAIN DRIVEN REFINEMENT OF PROTEIN STRUCTURE | $664.8K | FY2007 | Aug 2007 – Jan 2011 |
| Department of Agriculture | PARTICIPATORY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN ASIA | $656K | FY2020 | Sep 2020 – Sep 2025 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | BEHAVIORAL HEALTH WORKFORCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM - THE UNITED STATES CONTINUES TO GRAPPLE WITH SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES RELATED TO MENTAL HEALTH ACCESS, SUPPORT, AND INTERVENTIONS, PARTICULARLY WITHIN MARGINALIZED, OPPRESSED, AND UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA, THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC IS ACUTELY AWARE OF THE REGION'S VAST UNMET BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NEEDS. THE PROPOSED PACIFIC BHWET PROGRAM, FOR WHICH WE SEEK FUNDING, AIMS TO EXPAND THE SUPPLY OF A DIVERSE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH WORKFORCE TRAINED TO DELIVER INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE IN HIGH-NEED AND HIGH-DEMAND AREAS. THIS INITIATIVE AIMS TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING PROGRAMS THAT PREPARE SOCIAL WORKERS AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS TO COLLABORATE EFFECTIVELY IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. BY DOING SO, WE AIM TO INCREASE THE AVAILABILITY OF SKILLED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, ENHANCE ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, AND ULTIMATELY IMPROVE THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS, ESPECIALLY YOUTH IN THESE COMMUNITIES. THE PACIFIC BHWET PROJECT WILL EMPLOY A RESPONSIVE, MULTIFACETED APPROACH TO ADDRESS IDENTIFIED CHALLENGES AND DISPARITIES. OUR STRATEGY INCLUDES PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT THROUGH STIPENDS TO ALLEVIATE THE ECONOMIC BURDEN ON TRAINEES FROM DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS. ADDITIONALLY, WE WILL ESTABLISH MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS THAT PAIR TRAINEES WITH EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS WITH EXPERTISE IN DELIVERING K-12 SCHOOL-BASED CARE TO YOUTH. TO FURTHER ENHANCE ACCESSIBILITY, WE WILL INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGY TO HELP TRAINEES BALANCE THEIR EDUCATION WITH PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES. WE WILL ALSO FUND SPECIALIZED TRAINING IN INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOR YOUTH FOR CLINICAL EDUCATORS TO PREPARE THEM TO TRAIN STUDENTS. BY ADDRESSING THESE SYSTEMIC BARRIERS, WE AIM TO CREATE A PATHWAY FOR DIVERSE AND TALENTED INDIVIDUALS TO SUCCEED IN THEIR EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVORS, ULTIMATELY STRENGTHENING THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH WORKFORCE IN CENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOLS AND SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVING COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTCOMES. | $600K | FY2025 | Jul 2025 – Jun 2029 |
| Department of Justice | BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY TO RESPOND TO ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT | $588.2K | FY2016 | Oct 2015 – Mar 2021 |
| Department of Justice | SUSTAINING AND DIVERSIFYING CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT | $585.5K | FY2017 | Oct 2016 – Sep 2019 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC (ASP; HTTP://WWW.ASTROSOCIETY.ORG/)PROPOSES A THREE-YEAR PARTNERSHIP WITH UC BERKELEY S CENTER FOR SCIENCE ED | $581.9K | FY2010 | Mar 2010 – Jul 2013 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM | $579.6K | FY2021 | Sep 2021 – Mar 2022 |
| National Science Foundation | MRI: ACQUISITION OF MASS SPECTROMETRY TECHNOLOGY FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING | $579.1K | FY2015 | Aug 2015 – Jul 2018 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM | $552.4K | FY2009 | Sep 2009 – Feb 2010 |
| Department of Justice | THE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING PROGRAM (TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAM) IS AUTHORIZED BY 34 U.S.C. § 12351. THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAM IS TO PROVIDE AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING WHO ARE HOMELESS, OR IN NEED OF TRANSITIONAL HOUSING OR OTHER HOUSING ASSISTANCE, AS A RESULT OF THEIR VICTIMIZATION, AND FOR WHOM EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES OR OTHER CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES ARE UNAVAILABLE OR INSUFFICIENT. A HOMELESS INDIVIDUAL IS ONE WHO LACKS A FIXED, REGULAR, AND ADEQUATE NIGHTTIME RESIDENCE, AND INCLUDES AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS SHARING THE HOUSING OF OTHER PERSONS DUE TO LOSS OF HOUSING, ECONOMIC HARDSHIP, OR A SIMILAR REASON. THE PROGRAM SUPPORTS HOLISTIC, SURVIVOR-CENTERED APPROACHES TO PROVIDING TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND SUPPORT SERVICES THAT MOVE INDIVIDUALS INTO PERMANENT HOUSING AND HELP THEM SECURE EMPLOYMENT AND INTEGRATE INTO A COMMUNITY. PROJECTS MUST PROVIDE: 1) TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND 2) SUPPORT SERVICES (TO INCLUDE FOLLOW-UP SERVICES) TO SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, OR STALKING. TRANSITIONAL HOUSING MODELS INCLUDE: COMMUNAL/SHARED FAMILY LIVING SPACES, CLUSTERED/INDIVIDUAL FAMILY CO-LOCATED SPACES AND SCATTERED SITE/INDIVIDUAL FAMILY SPACES INDEPENDENTLY LOCATED. PROJECTS MUST OFFER A MINIMUM OF SIX MONTHS AND MAXIMUM 24 MONTHS OF HOUSING ASSISTANCE. SUPPORT SERVICES CAN BE A WIDE RANGE OF SURVIVOR-CENTERED VOLUNTARY SERVICES FOCUSED ON EMPOWERING SURVIVORS AND ADDRESSING THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES FACED BY UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS BECAUSE OF GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION, RELIGION, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, RACE, ETHNICITY AND SPECIAL NEEDS (SUCH AS LANGUAGE BARRIERS, DISABILITIES, ALIENAGE STATUS, OR AGE). EXAMPLES OF SURVIVOR-CENTERED VOLUNTARY SUPPORT SERVICES INCLUDE: RENTAL AND UTILITY ASSISTANCE, CASE MANAGEMENT, SAFETY PLANNING, CHILDCARE, TRANSPORTATION, CAREER COUNSELING, FINANCIAL AND CREDIT COUNSELING, SUPPORT GROUPS, INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING, JOB TRAINING, EDUCATION ATTAINMENT, LIMITED LEGAL ASSISTANCE (REGARDING HOUSING, PROTECTION ORDERS, AND LIMITED IMMIGRATION MATTERS THAT AFFECT A VICTIM’S ABILITY TO OBTAIN HOUSING), AND OTHER ASSISTANCE. PROJECTS ARE REQUIRED TO MAINTAIN A COMPENSATED PARTNERSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY TO ENSURE CONSISTENT QUALITY OF SERVICE. ONCE PERMANENT HOUSING IS SECURED, SURVIVOR-CENTERED VOLUNTARY FOLLOW-UP SERVICES ARE OFFERED TO SURVIVORS FOR A MINIMUM OF THREE MONTHS AND A MAXIMUM OF 12 MONTHS. | $550K | FY2023 | Oct 2022 – Sep 2026 |
| National Science Foundation | ECLIPSE AMBASSADORS: PREPARING SCIENTISTS AND EDUCATORS TO FACILITATE ENGAGEMENT IN THE 2024 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE -THIS PROJECT FROM THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC (ASP) IS CENTERED ON THE 2024 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE, WHICH WILL TRAVERSE THE US FROM SOUTHWEST TO THE NORTHEAST, PASSING OVER SEVERAL URBAN AREAS. THE ASP?S ECLIPSE AMBASSADORS PROJECT WILL TRAIN 300 TEACHERS AND ASTRONOMERS TO FACILITATE ACTIVITIES IN A SOLAR ECLIPSE KIT TO BE DEVELOPED AS A PART OF THIS PROJECT. THIS PROJECT INCLUDES PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS AND SCIENTISTS. THIS PROJECT PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS FROM GROUPS UNDERREPRESENTED IN STEM. THIS AWARD IS JOINTLY SUPPORTED BY THE SOLAR TERRESTRIAL RESEARCH, THE DISCOVERY RESEARCH IN K-12 (DRK-12), THE ADVANCING INFORMAL STEM LEARNING (AISL), AND THE ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCES EDUCATION AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS. APPROXIMATELY 200 GRADE K-9 SCIENCE TEACHERS AND 100 ASTRONOMERS ARE ESTIMATED TO ENGAGE WITH A MINIMUM OF 20,000 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND AN ADDITIONAL 10,000 SCHOOL STUDENTS. UPON ACCEPTANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN WORKSHOPS, APPROXIMATELY 200 GRADE K-9 SCIENCE TEACHERS AND 100 ASTRONOMERS WILL RECEIVE THE ECLIPSE KITS AND 3 HOURS OF ONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. THEY WILL ALSO RECEIVE PERMANENT ACCESS TO THE LEARN@ASP PORTAL, WHICH PROVIDES ACCESS TO MATERIALS AND OTHER AMBASSADORS, FACILITATING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BEYOND THE ECLIPSE. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA. | $529.5K | FY2023 | Aug 2023 – Nov 2024 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | SINGLE-CELL IMMUNE LANDSCAPE IN THE ORAL DYSPLASIA'S MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION - ABOUT 7.9-27.6% OF ORAL DYSPLASIA, A PREMALIGNANT LESION, TRANSIT TO THE INVASIVE ORAL CAVITY SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA (OCSCC). PROGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS ARE CRITICALLY NEEDED TO DETERMINE PATIENTS WITH ORAL DYSPLASTIC LESIONS AT RISK FOR MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION AND TO GUIDE THE TARGETED DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL THERAPIES. OUR GOAL IS TO ESTABLISH A SINGLE-CELL ATLAS OF PREMALIGNANT IMMUNE MICROENVIRONMENT (PRIME) IN ORAL DYSPLASIA AND TO IDENTIFY IMMUNE FEATURES THAT PREDICT THE MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION TO OCSCC. WE PROPOSE AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH THAT COMBINES HIGH-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING MASS CYTOMETRY (IMC) AND MACHINE LEARNING PREDICTIVE MODELING (IEN) TO ANALYZE A TOTAL OF ~200 FORMALIN-FIXED PARAFFIN-EMBEDDED (FFPE) PATIENT TONGUE BIOPSIES FROM THE ORAL PATHOLOGY ARCHIVE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC (UOP), ARTHUR A. DUGONI SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY. IMC IS A NEW MULTIPLEX IMAGING TECHNOLOGY WHICH COMBINES HIGH- DIMENSIONAL MASS CYTOMETRY WITH MICROSCOPY. IMMUNE ELASTIC NET (IEN) IS A MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM SPECIFICALLY DEVELOPING FOR THE ANALYSIS OF HIGH-DIMENSIONAL MASS CYTOMETRY DATA. WE PLAN TO IDENTIFY IMMUNE FEATURES THAT DIFFERENTIATE ORAL DYSPLASIA SEVERITY (AIM 1) AND PREDICT OCSCC MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION (AIM 2). IN ADDITION, WE WILL ANALYZE THE IEN-SELECTED IMMUNE FEATURES AT UOP HAN’S LAB BY CONDUCTING MULTIPLEX IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE (MIF) STAINING ON THE WHOLE SECTIONS (AIM 1&2) TO VALIDATE AND GENERALIZE THE IMC FINDINGS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL ESTABLISH IMMUNE LANDSCAPE IN ORAL DYSPLASIA AND IDENTIFY BIOMARKERS TO PREDICT THE MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION. IT ALSO PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PREDENTAL OR DENTAL STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND COLLABORATING WITH MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM TO IDENTIFY BIOMARKERS TO IMPROVE ORAL PATHOLOGY DIAGNOSIS. | $526K | FY2023 | Aug 2023 – Jun 2027 |
| National Science Foundation | NON-MINIMUM ENERGY PATHWAYS IN THE DISSOCIATION OF ENERGY-SELECTED IONS -IN THIS PROJECT, FUNDED BY THE CHEMICAL STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS, AND MECHANISMS-A (CSDM-A) PROGRAM OF THE DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY, PROFESSORS B?LINT SZT?RAY AND ANTHONY DUTOI AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC ARE INVESTIGATING THE WAYS THAT MOLECULES BREAK APART AFTER AN ELECTRON IS REMOVED BY ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT. UNTIL RECENTLY, CHEMISTS THOUGHT OF THESE PROCESSES AS BEING CONTROLLED ALMOST ENTIRELY BY THE POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE, AKIN TO LOOKING FOR THE LOWEST PASS THROUGH MOUNTAINS. MORE RECENTLY, IT WAS LEARNED THAT IT IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR THE PARTICIPANT ATOMS TO EXPLORE PREVIOUSLY UNRECOGNIZED REACTION PATHS OR SWITCH BETWEEN LOW-ENERGY PATHS. SOMETIMES THERE IS NOT EVEN A CLEARLY UNIQUE PATH, WITH THE ATOMS SPENDING SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF TIME ?ROAMING? BEFORE THE REACTION COMPLETES. THIS PROJECT COMBINES EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS TO ANSWER SUCH FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS AS HOW ENERGY FLOWS IN THE FRAGMENTING ION, WHAT MOLECULAR-LEVEL PARAMETERS GOVERN OUTCOMES OF REACTIONS, AND HOW/WHEN REACTION MECHANISMS DEFY CONVENTIONAL LOGIC. THE RESEARCH INVOLVES UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS FROM CALIFORNIA?S CENTRAL VALLEY WHO ARE OFTEN THE FIRST IN THE FAMILY TO GET A UNIVERSITY DEGREE. THIS PROJECT PROVIDES THEM WITH ADVANCED EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL SKILLS TO POSITION THEM WELL ON THE HIGH-TECH JOB MARKET. NON-MINIMUM-ENERGY-PATHWAY (NON-MEP) MECHANISMS, SUCH AS NONSTATISTICAL DYNAMIC EFFECTS, REACTION PATH BIFURCATIONS, AND ROAMING, CAN LEAD TO UNUSUAL BRANCHING RATIOS AND UNUSUAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF INTERNAL AND KINETIC ENERGY IN REACTION PRODUCTS. THIS PROJECT USES PHOTOELECTRON PHOTOION COINCIDENCE (PEPICO) SPECTROSCOPY TO INVESTIGATE UNIMOLECULAR DISSOCIATIONS INVOLVING NON-MEP PHENOMENA IN ENERGY-SELECTED GAS-PHASE IONS. THE INSTRUMENTS, BUILT BY PROFESSOR SZT?RAY AND COLLABORATORS, ENABLE MEASUREMENT OF BOTH STABLE AND UNSTABLE, THERMAL AND MOLECULAR-BEAM-COOLED SPECIES, AND ALLOW COLLECTION OF BRANCHING, UNIMOLECULAR RATE, AND KINETIC ENERGY RELEASE DATA WITH MEV RESOLUTION. THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ARE COMPLEMENTED BY PROFESSOR DUTOI?S MOLECULAR DYNAMICS TRAJECTORY CALCULATIONS TO ELUCIDATE THEIR MECHANISMS, FURTHER EXTENDED BY HIGH-LEVEL QUANTUM-CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS AT SELECT POINTS. INTEGRATING EXPERIMENTATION WITH COMPUTATIONAL MODELING AND THEORY FROM THE ONSET ALLOWS EXTRACTION OF PHYSICAL INSIGHTS NOT PREVIOUSLY ATTAINABLE BY EITHER EXPERIMENT OR THEORY ALONE. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA. | $525K | FY2022 | Aug 2022 – Jul 2025 |
| Department of Justice | THE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING PROGRAM (TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAM, AUTHORIZED BY 34 U.S.C. 12351), HAS AS ITS PRIMARY PURPOSE THE PROVISION OF TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND SUPPORT SERVICES TO AID MINORS, ADULTS, AND THEIR DEPENDENTS WHO ARE HOMELESS (AS DEFINED IN 34 U.S.C. 12473(6)) OR IN NEED OF TRANSITIONAL HOUSING OR OTHER HOUSING ASSISTANCE AS A RESULT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, OR STALKING. THE PROGRAM IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS FOR WHOM EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES OR OTHER CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES ARE UNAVAILABLE OR INSUFFICIENT. THE PROGRAM SUPPORTS VICTIM-CENTERED APPROACHES TO PROVIDING TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, SHORT-TERM HOUSING ASSISTANCE, AND VOLUNTARY SUPPORT SERVICES TO ASSIST WITH LOCATING AND SECURING PERMANENT HOUSING, OBTAINING EMPLOYMENT, AND INTEGRATING INTO A COMMUNITY. THE CENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY, INC., A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION LOCATED IN LOS ANGELES, CA, WILL IMPLEMENT THE PATHWAY OF OPPORTUNITY TOWARD INDEPENDENCE, SELF-RELIANCE, AND ECONOMIC STABILITY PROJECT THROUGH THE PROVISION OF VICTIM-CENTERED APPROACHES TO TRANSITIONAL HOUSING NEEDS, IN COLLABORATION WITH LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. THE PROJECT WILL PROVIDE COMMUNAL TRANSITIONAL HOUSING RESIDENCES FOR SURVIVORS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN AN URBAN REGION OF CALIFORNIA. THIS CONTINUATION PROJECT WILL USE FUNDS TO PROVIDE BOTH HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES TO MOVE SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, OR STALKING WHO ARE HOMELESS OR IN NEED OF HOUSING ASSISTANCE TO PERMANENT HOUSING. THE PROJECT WILL ASSIST CLIENTS FOR AN ANTICIPATED MINIMUM OF 6 MONTHS AND A MAXIMUM LENGTH OF 24 MONTHS. THE RANGE OF OPTIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES INCLUDES CASE MANAGEMENT, ECONOMIC STABILIZATION PLANS, FINANCIAL LITERACY, PUBLIC BENEFITS ENROLLMENT, JOB TRAINING, ESL, LIFE SKILLS, AND CAREER COACHING. FOLLOW-UP SERVICES WILL BE PROVIDED FOR AT LEAST 6 MONTHS ONCE PERMANENT HOUSING IS SECURED. | $500K | FY2026 | Oct 2025 – Sep 2028 |
| Department of the Interior | TA-PPEC-2010-6 - PACIFIC POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION COUNCIL | $500K | FY2010 | Mar 2010 – Mar 2012 |
| Department of Justice | COORDINATED COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER YOUTH SURVIVORS | $500K | FY2022 | Oct 2021 – Sep 2024 |
| Department of Justice | THE GRANTS TO ENHANCE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING PROGRAM IS AUTHORIZED BY 34 U.S.C. 20124. THIS PROGRAM SUPPORTS THE MAINTENANCE AND REPLICATION OF EXISTING SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS PROVIDING CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING, AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE ACCESS TO SERVICES AND RESOURCES FOR VICTIMS WHO FACE OBSTACLES TO USING MORE TRADITIONAL PROGRAMS. CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES MEANS COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES THAT INCLUDE CULTURALLY RELEVANT AND LINGUISTICALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES AND RESOURCES TO CULTURALLY SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES WHICH ARE STATUTORILY DEFINED AS AMERICAN INDIANS (INCLUDING ALASKA NATIVES, ESKIMOS, AND ALEUTS); ASIAN AMERICANS; NATIVE HAWAIIANS AND OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDERS; BLACKS; AND HISPANICS. PROJECTS MUST ADDRESS AT LEAST ONE OF THE PROGRAMS STATUTORY PURPOSE AREAS. THROUGH THIS CONTINUATION CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES PROGRAM PROJECT, CENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY, INC. WILL IMPLEMENT A PROJECT ADDRESSING THE FOLLOWING PURPOSE AREAS: PURPOSE AREA 2- INCREASING COMMUNITIES CAPACITY TO PROVIDE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC RESOURCES AND SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING CRIMES AND THEIR FAMILIES; PURPOSE AREA 5- WORKING IN COOPERATION WITH THE COMMUNITY TO DEVELOP EDUCATION AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES HIGHLIGHTING CULTURALLY SPECIFIC ISSUES AND RESOURCES; AND PURPOSE AREA 8: EXAMINING THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON VICTIMIZATION AND HEALING FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT IN LOS ANGELAS COUNTY. THE PROJECT WILL ADDRESS PRIORITY AREA 2: STRENGTHENING EFFORTS TO PREVENT AND END SEXUAL ASSAULT. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES WILL INCLUDE: 1) COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATION; AND 2) HEALING SPACES; AND 3) CULTURE CLUBS. | $475K | FY2025 | Oct 2024 – Sep 2027 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM | $474.2K | FY2019 | Sep 2019 – Mar 2020 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | LOAN GRANT WITH FUNDS FOR NEW BUDGET PERIOD | $460.8K | FY1967 | Jul 1967 – Jun 2079 |
| National Science Foundation | RUI: MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF BLACK WIDOW SPIDER SILKS | $458.7K | FY2010 | Apr 2010 – Mar 2014 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | IN RESPONSE TO THE NEED TO CREATE THE NEXT GENERATION OF NASA EXPLORERS AND PROMOTE A SCIENCE LITERATE POPULACE, SCIENTISTS AND EDUCATORS FROM THE AS | $454K | FY2011 | Apr 2011 – Apr 2015 |
| National Science Foundation | ISOMER SELECTIVE INTERROGATION OF COMBUSTION AND ATMOSPHERIC INTERMEDIATES | $450.7K | FY2017 | Aug 2017 – Jul 2022 |
| Department of Justice | THE SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES CULTURALLY SPECIFIC PROGRAM (SAS CULTURALLY SPECIFIC PROGRAM) WAS CREATED BY THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2005 (VAWA 2005), 34 U.S.C. 12511(C), AND IS PART OF THE FIRST FEDERAL FUNDING STREAM SOLELY DEDICATED TO THE PROVISION OF DIRECT INTERVENTION AND RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT. INTERVENTION AND RELATED ASSISTANCE INCLUDE ADVOCACY, ACCOMPANIMENT (E.G., ACCOMPANYING VICTIMS TO COURT, MEDICAL FACILITIES, POLICE DEPARTMENTS, ETC.), CRISIS INTERVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES, AND REFERRALS, AMONG OTHER SERVICES. UNDER THIS PROGRAM, SUCH SERVICES MAY BE PROVIDED TO ADULT, YOUTH, AND CHILD VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS OF SUCH VICTIMS, AND THOSE COLLATERALLY AFFECTED BY THE VICTIMIZATION. SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT FROM CULTURALLY SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES FREQUENTLY CONFRONT UNIQUE CHALLENGES WHEN SEEKING ASSISTANCE, SUCH AS LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL BARRIERS. CULTURALLY SPECIFIC COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS ARE MORE LIKELY TO UNDERSTAND THESE CHALLENGES BECAUSE THEY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE CULTURE, LANGUAGE, AND BACKGROUND OF VICTIMS FROM THEIR COMMUNITIES, WHO IN TURN ARE MORE INCLINED TO SEEK SERVICES FROM SUCH ORGANIZATIONS. THE GOAL OF THE SAS CULTURALLY SPECIFIC PROGRAM IS TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND EXPAND CULTURALLY SPECIFIC INTERVENTION AND RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, WHICH SERVE A VITAL ROLE IN PROVIDING SERVICES THAT ARE RELEVANT FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES. THROUGH THIS CONTINUATION SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES CULTURALLY SPECIFIC PROGRAM PROJECT, THE CENTER FOR THE PACIFIC ASIAN FAMILY, INC., WILL PROVIDE A MULTI-LINGUAL CHAT PLATFORM AND MULTI-LINGUAL WELLNESS PROGRAM TO ENGLISH, JAPANESE, THAI, KOREAN, AND MANDARIN CHINESE SPEAKING COMMUNITIES OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. | $445K | FY2024 | Oct 2023 – Sep 2027 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM | $435.1K | FY2020 | Sep 2020 – Mar 2021 |
| National Science Foundation | AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO EARLY ELEMENTARY EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE | $431.4K | FY2018 | Sep 2018 – Aug 2020 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | EXPANDED ACCESS TO EFFECTIVE CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE SERVICES FOR AAPI SURVIVORS | $428.6K | FY2023 | Sep 2023 – Sep 2025 |
| National Science Foundation | CHIRALITY EFFECTS ON THE ACID-BASE PROPERTIES AND CONFORMATIONS OF PEPTIDES | $420.6K | FY2020 | Sep 2020 – Feb 2026 |
| Department of State | TO ENHANCE THE CAPACITY OF THE PACIFIC PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE NETWORK (PPHSN) SERVICES TO STRENGTHEN PUBLIC HEALTH SECURITY IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS REGION. | $419.7K | FY2021 | Sep 2021 – Sep 2025 |
| National Science Foundation | HIGH-ACCURACY THERMOCHEMISTRY WITH THRESHOLD AND IMAGING PHOTOELECTRON PHOTOION COINCIDENCE SPECTROSCOPY | $403K | FY2013 | Sep 2013 – May 2016 |
| National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EAR-CLIMATE: ECOHYDROLOGICAL RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE: CHANGING FLOWPATHS, AGING GROUNDWATERS, AND ALTERATIONS TO AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS -THIS PROJECT WILL ADVANCE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW DECREASED GROUNDWATER RECHARGE ASSOCIATED WITH CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTS MOUNTAIN GROUNDWATER SYSTEMS AND GROUNDWATER-DEPENDENT ECOSYSTEMS. MOUNTAIN AQUIFERS ACROSS THE WESTERN UNITED STATES SERVE AS REGIONAL SHORT-TERM STORAGE RESERVOIRS THAT PROVIDE A STABLE WATER SUPPLY FOR AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES, NEARBY CITIES, AND THREATENED ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES. PROJECT ACTIVITIES WILL OCCUR IN THE SIERRA NEVADA SAGEHEN EXPERIMENTAL FOREST (SEF) AND INCLUDE FIELD HYDROLOGICAL, GEOCHEMICAL, ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS OF SPRINGS AND AN ASSESSMENT OF INDICATORS OF ECOSYSTEM STRESS. IN THE SEF, SPRING GROUNDWATER AGE WAS PREVIOUSLY CORRELATED WITH INCREASED CHEMICAL WEATHERING AND ECOSYSTEM RICHNESS. THESE OBSERVATIONS SERVE AS AN IMPORTANT BASELINE OF HYDROLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL HEALTH FOR COMPARISON WITH MODERN OBSERVATIONS. BROADER IMPACTS FROM THIS WORK FOCUS ON THREE AREAS: 1) STRENGTHENING PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT BY SUPPORTING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS AND COLLABORATION BETWEEN TWO EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS; 2) SUPPORTING ONGOING COMMUNITY SCIENCE EFFORTS THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ANNUAL BIOBLITZ EVENT AT THE SEF; AND 3) SUPPORTING K-12 STEM EDUCATION THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A ?GREEN BOX? FOCUSED ON PROJECT DISCOVERIES IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE?S SCIENCE ALIVE TEAM. THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE HOW DECREASED PRECIPITATION AND INCREASED TEMPERATURE IN THE SEF HAVE ALTERED THE DISTRIBUTION OF CONTRIBUTING FLOWPATHS TO SPRINGFLOW GENERATION. THE RESEARCH PLAN INCLUDES TWO YEARS OF SPRING HYDROLOGICAL SAMPLING IN THE SEF FOR A SUITE OF GEOCHEMICAL ANALYTES, GROUNDWATER AGE TRACERS, AND PHYSICAL SPRING CHARACTERISTICS. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO INVESTIGATE HOW BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES (BMI), INCLUDING ENDEMIC AND RELIC SPECIES, IN THE SEF HAVE CHANGED OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS, HOW THESE CHANGES RELATE TO FLOWPATH CHANGES, AND HOW BROADER BMI COMMUNITY STRUCTURES RELATE TO MODERN HYDROLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS. THE RESEARCH WILL USE ECOLOGICAL AND STABLE ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS OF BMI TO REVEAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES AND FOOD WEB DYNAMICS. THIS RESEARCH WILL IDENTIFY INDICATORS THAT REVEAL IMPENDING COLLAPSE (I.E., HYDROECOLOGICAL THRESHOLDS) OF PERENNIAL SPRINGFLOW AND GROUNDWATER-DEPENDENT ECOLOGICAL NICHES IN MOUNTAIN GROUNDWATER SYSTEMS. THIS AWARD IS CO-FUNDED BY THE HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES AND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCES PROGRAMS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA. | $402.5K | FY2022 | Feb 2022 – Jul 2024 |
| National Science Foundation | (RUI) FROM COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS TO UNDERLYING MECHANISMS: A NETWORK APPROACH TO MULTI-TRAIT TRADEOFFS | $402.3K | FY2015 | Jul 2015 – May 2020 |
| National Science Foundation | MRI: TRACK #1: ACQUISITION OF A MALDI-TOF-TOF MASS SPECTROMETER FOR GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION -THIS AWARD IS FUNDED BY THE MAJOR RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM AND THE CHEMISTRY RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM. PROFESSOR ANDREAS FRANZ FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC (STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA), ON BEHALF OF 9 INVESTIGATORS IN 4 DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE UNIVERSITY, IS ACQUIRING A MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION / IONIZATION TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER (MALDI-TOF-MS). MASS SPECTROMETRY (MS) CAN DETECT VERY SMALL AMOUNTS OF SUBSTANCES BY IONIZATION AND IS A CENTRAL ANALYTICAL METHOD IN SCIENCE. MALDI-TOF-MS USES LASER PULSES TO PRODUCE A WIDE RANGE OF IONS, ESPECIALLY FROM HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT BIOMOLECULES SUCH AS PEPTIDES, PROTEINS, OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, CARBOHYDRATES, AND SYNTHETIC POLYMERS. THE TOF DETECTOR IS AKIN TO A RACETRACK WHERE IONS ARE SEPARATED BY MASS-TO-CHARGE RATIO ON THEIR WAY TO THE FINISH LINE (DETECTOR). HIGH-SPEED ELECTRONICS (?PHOTO-FINISH?) CAN DIFFERENTIATE VERY SMALL DIFFERENCES IN ARRIVAL TIME AND, THEREFORE, MASS. THE ACQUISITION STRENGTHENS COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY AND BROADENS PARTICIPATION BY GIVING HANDS-ON ACCESS TO A DIVERSE STUDENT POPULATION. TO ADVANCE THE UNIVERSITY?S OUTREACH ACTIVITIES AND IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, REGIONAL RESEARCH GROUPS AT OTHER UNIVERSITIES AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WILL USE THE INSTRUMENT THROUGH REMOTE-ACCESS PLATFORMS AS WELL AS THROUGH ON-CAMPUS VISITS AND WORKSHOPS. WITH THE NEW INSTRUMENT STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF BIOMACROMOLECULES AND POLYMERS WILL BE STRENGTHENED IN GENERAL, AND MANY EXCITING PROJECTS ARE ENABLED. WE WILL ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: A) GLYCAN ABUNDANCE AND MICROHETEROGENEITY OF PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION AS IT RELATES TO PROTEIN STABILITY AND BIOCHEMICAL FUNCTION; B) USE OF YEAST AS HIGH-QUALITY/HIGH-CAPACITY PROTEIN EXPRESSION SYSTEM; C) DNA QUADRUPLEX STABILITY AS IT RELATES TO AGEING; D) CYTOKINE INHIBITORS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HEART DISEASES; E) RAPID IN-SITU IDENTIFICATION OF MICROBES AND MICROBIAL CELL-CELL COMMUNICATION; F) INHIBITION OF SARS-COV-2. OLIGOSACCHARIDES HAVE MANY COMPLEX FUNCTIONS IN BIOCHEMISTRY, AND GREAT PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE TO UNRAVEL THEIR ROLES IN MANY CENTRAL LIFE PROCESSES RELATED TO HEALTH AND DISEASE. UNAMBIGUOUS STRUCTURE ELUCIDATION IS CRITICAL BEFORE QUANTIFICATION AND CORRELATION TO DISEASE IS POSSIBLE. THE UV-LASER LIGHT SOURCE OF THE INSTRUMENT WILL GENERATE HIGH-ENERGY IONS FROM OLIGOSACCHARIDES WITH A COVALENT PHOTO-SENSITIVE TAG. THE PHOTOSENSITIVE TAG CAUSES MORE EXTENSIVE FRAGMENTATION THAN USUAL FOR RICH STRUCTURE INFORMATION. THE METHOD WILL BE APPLIED TO STUDY GLYCOSYLATION ABERRATIONS IN PROTEINS EXPRESSED IN YEAST AND THUS, SHED LIGHT ON THE BIOCHEMICAL MACHINERY OF THE YEAST CELL. ANOTHER PROJECT WILL GENERATE INSIGHT INTO DNA QUADRUPLEX STABILITY AND ADVANCE THE DISCOVERY OF COVALENT ADDUCTS BETWEEN DNA AND SMALL MOLECULE THERAPEUTICS THAT INDUCE QUADRUPLEX FORMATION TO COMBAT CANCER. IN ANOTHER PROJECT THE INSTRUMENT WILL BE CENTRAL TO SCREENING PROTEINS, PEPTIDES. THE FOCUS IS ON CANCER-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS THAT ARE THOUGHT TO BE ?UNDRUGGABLE?. NEW STRATEGIES FOR TARGETING THESE PROTEINS WILL BE EXPLORED IN WHICH MALDI-TOF-MS SERVES THE PURPOSE OF STRUCTURE CONFIRMATION OF POINT-MUTATED PROTEIN VARIANTS AND THE POSSIBLE DISCOVERY OF STRONGLY BINDING NON-COVALENT LIGANDS BY HIGH-THROUGHPUT METHODS. SIMILAR STRATEGIES BASED ON ION-INTENSITY FADING IN MALDI-TOF-MS WILL BE USED TO DISCOVER PEPTIDES THAT BIND STRONGLY TO VIRAL PROTEINS, SPECIFICALLY THOSE THAT MEDIATE BINDING OF THE SARS-COV-2 VIRUS. LASTLY, MALDI-TOF-MS WILL HELP WITH THE HIGH-THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX NATURAL PRODUCTS FROM MARINE MICROORGANISMS AND PROVIDE INFORMATION ON HOW MICROORGANISMS INTERACT AND COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER. FOR ALL RESEARCHERS, THE INSTRUMENT?S AUTOMATION PLATFORM WILL INCREASE SAMPLE THROUGHPUT FOR QUICK LEAD IDENTIFICATION; WILL MAKE POSSIBLE THE ACCELERATED DISCOVERY OF NEW THERAPEUTICS AGAINST HUMAN DISEASES; WILL AID IN THE DISCOVERY OF THERAPEUTICS AGAINST AGE-RELATED DISEASES. FASTER ACQUISITION OF SPECTRA WILL FREE UP TIME TO MAKE THE INSTRUMENT ACCESSIBLE TO NEARBY INSTITUTIONS AND INCLUDE MALDI-TOF-MS INTO THE ACADEMIC CURRICULUM FOR YOUNG ASPIRING SCIENTISTS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD. | $401.1K | FY2024 | Aug 2024 – Jul 2027 |
| Department of State | TO IDENTIFY NECESSARY ACTIONS AND POLICY INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE EMISSIONS AND ADDRESS SOURCES OF POLLUTION THAT CONTRIBUTE TO COMMON AIRSHEDS, BASED ON CONCENTRATION OF POLLUTANTS. | $400K | FY2023 | Sep 2023 – Feb 2025 |
| National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EPIIC: NSJV RITE -THE NORTH SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY REGIONAL INNOVATION TRANSLATION ECOSYSTEM (NSJV-RITE) PROJECT FOCUSES ON USING THE REGION?S STRENGTHS IN AREAS INCLUDING AGRICULTURE, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, AND CLEAN ENERGY TO SUPPORT BIGGER GOALS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. ITS PURPOSE IS TO CREATE NEW JOBS, HELP SMALL BUSINESSES GROW, AND GIVE MORE PEOPLE ACCESS TO EDUCATION AND JOB TRAINING. BY BRINGING TOGETHER LOCAL BUSINESSES, UNIVERSITIES, AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES, NSJV-RITE ASPIRES TO TURN GOOD IDEAS INTO REAL-WORLD SOLUTIONS THAT MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS AND SHOW HOW COMMUNITIES CAN LEAD THE WAY IN BUILDING A STRONGER, MORE INNOVATIVE ECONOMY. THE PROJECT ALIGNS WITH MAJOR REGIONAL EFFORTS, INCLUDING THE NORTH VALLEY THRIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE AND A COLLABORATIVE WHICH IS ADVANCING CIRCULAR BIOECONOMY TECHNOLOGIES. NSJV-RITE WILL EVALUATE INSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES ACROSS TWO PREDOMINANTLY UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS; DEVELOP SHARED PROTOCOLS AND TECHNICAL SERVICE PACKAGES; AND WORK WITH INDUSTRY PARTNERS TO REFINE OFFERINGS IN ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, CIRCULAR BIOECONOMY, AND OTHER KEY SECTORS. THE INITIATIVE WILL ALSO ESTABLISH STRUCTURED, LONG-TERM COLLABORATIONS WITH EXTERNAL PARTNERS AND STRENGTHEN THE REGION?S CAPACITY FOR APPLIED RESEARCH. THROUGH CONTINUOUS EVALUATION, IMPROVEMENT, AND SHARED LEARNING, NSJV-RITE WILL DELIVER A SCALABLE MODEL FOR REGIONAL INNOVATION THAT DRIVES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCES NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD. | $400K | FY2025 | Sep 2025 – Aug 2028 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM | $399.2K | FY2011 | Sep 2011 – Feb 2012 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM | $388.8K | FY2015 | Jul 2015 – Feb 2016 |
| National Science Foundation | CONFORMATIONAL EFFECTS ON THE GAS-PHASE ACIDITIES OF BIOPOLYMERS | $378.3K | FY2013 | Sep 2013 – Aug 2018 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | A NEW AND IMPROVED DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR TARGETING CANCER | $372.7K | FY2018 | Sep 2018 – Aug 2022 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM | $365.5K | FY2010 | Sep 2010 – Feb 2011 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | KCNE1 AS A MOLECULAR SHIELD OF KV7.1 - PROJECT SUMMARY (ABSTRACT): THE PROPOSED WORK SEEKS TO IDENTIFY THE MOLECULAR BASIS FOR A NOVEL INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO PROTEINS THAT ARE TYPICALLY FOUND IN ELECTRICALLY ACTIVE CELLS SUCH AS NEURONS AND CARDIAC MUSCLES CELLS. ONE OF THE PROTEINS IS KNOWN AS A VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT, POTASSIUM-SELECTIVE KV7.1 CHANNEL. THIS PROTEIN, HEREAFTER KV7.1, IS A MAJOR PLAYER FOR THE TERMINATION OF FAST ELECTRICAL SIGNALS. FOR INSTANCE, KV7.1 IS CRITICAL FOR TERMINATING EACH CYCLE OF THE RHYTHMIC ELECTRICAL SIGNALING IN THE HEART. IN FACT, A FAULTY, LOW-PERFORMING KV7.1 LEADS TO ARRHYTHMIAS THAT, IN SOME CASES, CAN UNCHAIN FIBRILLATIONS THAT RESULT IN DEATH. IN THE AUDITORY SYSTEM, SUCH ALTERATIONS LEAD TO HEARING DISORDERS AND DEAFNESS. THE SECOND PROTEIN IS KNOWN AS NAVSS1. THIS IS AN AUXILIARY SUBUNIT THAT REGULATES THE ACTIVITY OF SODIUM-SELECTIVE, VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT (NAV) CHANNELS WHICH ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR INITIATING FAST ELECTRICAL SIGNALS. NAVSS1 IS AN IMPORTANT POSITIVE REGULATOR OF NAV CHANNELS. IN A FEW WORDS, NAV STARTS AN ELECTRICAL SIGNAL EVENT, AND KV7.1 CONTRIBUTES TO ITS TERMINATION. WHAT IS NOVEL HERE IS THAT NAVSS1 NOT ONLY BOOSTS THE ACTIVITY OF NAV CHANNELS, BUT ALSO DECREASES THE ACTIVITY OF KV7.1 AS WE HAVE RECENTLY FOUND. FURTHERMORE, WE FOUND THAT A FOURTH PROTEIN, KCNE1 CAN PROTECT KV7.1 FROM THE INHIBITORY ACTION OF NAVSS1. LIKE WITH THE PAIR NAVSS1-NAV CHANNEL, KCNE1 CAN INCREASE THE ACTIVITY AND EXPRESSION OF KV7.1 CHANNELS. IN CELLS THAT EXPRESS THESE FOUR PROTEINS, WE WILL FIND NAV CHANNELS ASSOCIATED WITH NAVSS1 AND KV7.1 CHANNELS ASSOCIATED WITH KCNE1. IN THE ABSENCE OF KCNE1, OUR RECENT DATA SUGGEST THAT, WHILE BOOSTING THAT OF NAV CHANNELS, NAVSS1 WILL DECREASE KV7.1 ACTIVITY. IN THIS CASE, THE ON-OFF BALANCE OF EVENTS GENERATING FAST ELECTRICAL SIGNALS WILL BE ALTERED, LEADING TO ABNORMAL ELECTRICAL EVENTS. OUR NOVEL FINDING CONSTITUTES A SHIFT IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW MUTATIONS IN KCNE1 CAN AFFECT CELLULAR ELECTRICAL SIGNALING. IF KCNE1 IS MUTATED, KV7.1 ACTIVITY COULD BE LOWER DUE TO SUCH MUTATION, BUT ALSO COULD BE FURTHER DECREASED BY THE ACTION OF NAVSS1. SOME MUTATIONS IN KCNE1 HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO CAUSE LITTLE ALTERATION IN THE ACTIVITY OF THE KCNE1/KV7.1 COMPLEX WHEN COMPARED WITH THE NON-MUTATED PAIR. YET SUCH MUTATIONS ARE LINKED TO DISEASES. THIS APPARENT DISCONNECT MAY EMERGE FROM NOT CONSIDERING THE ACTION OF NAVSS1, WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN GONE UNDETECTED. THIS PROPOSAL AIMS AT ADDRESSING THIS ISSUE BY EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE EFFECT OF MUTATIONS IN KCNE1 IN TERM OF ITS ABILITY TO SHIELD KV7.1 FROM THE ACTION OF NAVSS1. THE OUTCOMES OF THIS WORK WILL PROVIDE A NOVEL PARADIGM IN WHICH KCNE1 IS NOT ONLY A POSITIVE MODULATOR OF KV7.1 CHANNELS, BUT ALSO A MOLECULAR SHIELD PROTECTING THESE CHANNELS FROM THE ACTION OF OTHER REGULATORY SUBUNITS. | $364.3K | FY2023 | Apr 2023 – Mar 2025 |
| National Science Foundation | RUI: REGULATION OF 3-DIMENSIONAL CELL MOTILITY DURING VERTEBRATE GASTRULATION | $354.3K | FY2012 | Oct 2011 – Sep 2016 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | ASSESSMENT OF MECHANICAL STIMULATION OF MESENCHYMALLY DERIVED CONSTRUCTS IN AN MRI BIOREACTOR | $353.1K | FY2019 | Sep 2019 – Aug 2022 |
| Department of Education | THE SUCCESS PROGRAM AT PACIFIC PROVIDES SUPPORT SERVICES TO 200 ELIGIBLE STUDENTS TO ASSIST IN THEIR RETENTION AND GRADUATION AND TO FACILITATE THEIR TRANSITION TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF HIGHER EDUCATION. | $352.5K | FY2025 | Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | SKY RANGERS:\NBASED ON A DEMONSTRATED NEED AND DESIRE AMONG NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURE CENTERS TO INC | $351.2K | FY2009 | Jan 2009 – Feb 2013 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | SUSTAINABLE ARCHIVES COLLECTION PRESERVATION AND GROWTH WITH HIGH-DENSITY STORAGE [REDUCE RISK TO ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS BY REPLACING EXISTING BROKEN STORAGE SYSTEMS THAT THREATEN TO DAMAGE THOSE COLLECTIONS, AND PROVIDE NEW SHELVING TO REHOUSE COLLECTIONS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN SUBSTANDARD STORAGE CONDITIONS] | $350K | FY2025 | Dec 2024 – Nov 2025 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DEVELOPMENT OF FLAVONE- AND FLAVONOID-BASED DNA TRIPLEX SPECIFIC BINDING LIGANDS AS ANTIGENE ENHANCERS - PROJECT SUMMARY THE PROPOSED RESEARCH OBJECTIVES ARE TO STUDY THE STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRIPLEX DNA AND A CLASS OF NEWLY DISCOVERED FLAVONOID-BASED TRIPLEX-SPECIFIC BINDING LIGANDS AND USE THE OBTAINED KNOWLEDGE TO DESIGN AND DEVELOP MORE POTENT TRIPLEX BINDING LIGANDS AS ANTIGENE ENHANCERS IN THE ANTIGENE STRATEGY FOR DISEASE TREATMENT. THIS PROPOSAL CAN BE CATEGORIZED INTO THREE PORTIONS, STRUCTURAL MODIFICATION (SYNTHESIS), DETERMINATION OF LIGAND-DNA INTERACTIONS BY BIOPHYSICAL METHODS, AND STUDY OF INHIBITION OF ENZYMATIC ACTIVITIES. THE SYNTHESIS PROJECT INCLUDES CHANGING THE LINKER LENGTH, REMOVING THE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS, AND EXTENDING THE AROMATIC SURFACE. EACH STRUCTURAL MODIFICATION IS INTENDED TO ADDRESS A SPECIFIC INQUIRY ON THE STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP. THE SYNTHESIS PROCEDURES INVOLVE BASIC ORGANIC TECHNIQUES. THE SYNTHESIZED MOLECULES WILL THEN BE USED TO STUDY THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH SEVERAL DNA STRUCTURES BY VARIOUS BIOPHYSICAL METHODS. THE STABILIZATION OF TRIPLEX AND DUPLEX DNA WITH LIGANDS UNDER VARIOUS CONDITIONS (PH, IONIC STRENGTH) WILL BE DETERMINED USING THERMAL DENATURATION MONITORED BY UC. THE CONFORMATION CHANGES OF THE DNA AND BINDING STOICHIOMETRY WILL BE MEASURED USING CIRCULAR DICHROISM. SELECTIVE BINDING TO DNAS WITH SPECIFIC CONFORMATIONS WILL BE DETERMINED USING COMPETITION DIALYSIS IN A RELATIVELY HIGH THROUGHPUT FASHION. THE TRANSITION ENTHALPY OF THE LIGAND-TRIPLEX DNA COMPLEX WILL BE DIRECTLY MEASURED USING DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY (DSC). THE THERMODYNAMICS PARAMETERS, INCLUDING ENTHALPY, ENTROPY, FREE ENERGY, AND BINDING SITE SIZE, WILL BE DETERMINED USING ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY (ITC). NOTABLY, RESULTS FROM BIOPHYSICAL STUDIES WILL BE USED FOR CROSS-INSPECTION TO ENSURE THE ACCURACY OF THE CONCLUSIONS. AFTER COMPLETION OF THE BIOPHYSICAL STUDIES, LIGANDS WITH THE BEST BINDING STRENGTH AND SPECIFICITY WILL BE CHOSEN FOR BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS. A PLASMID DNA CONTAINING A TRIPLEX-FORMING SITE WILL BE USED. IN THIS PLASMID DNA, FOUR RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE DRAI CLEAVAGE SITES ARE PRESENT IN THE PLASMID, ONE OF WHICH RESIDUES EXACTLY AT THE JUNCTION OF THE TRIPLEX HELIX SITE. THE FORMATION OF TRIPLEX DNA SHOULD PROTECT THE DRAI CLEAVAGE SITE, LEADING TO THE DISAPPEARANCE AND APPEARANCE OF PRODUCTS WITH SPECIFIC LENGTHS, WHICH CAN BE READILY DETECTED BY THE AGAROSE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS. THE RESULTS FROM THE PROPOSED WORK WILL BE THE FIRST EFFORT IN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY TO UNDERSTAND THESE NEWLY DISCOVERED TRIPLEX-SPECIFIC BINDING LIGANDS. THE NATURE OF THE RESEARCH IS SUITABLE FOR TRAINING UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE RESEARCHERS AT AN UNDERGRADUATE-FOCUSED INSTITUTION. | $345.8K | FY2022 | Sep 2022 – Aug 2026 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | IDENTIFICATION OF STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS IN KV7 OPEN CHANNEL STABILIZATION | $338.9K | FY2020 | Sep 2020 – Aug 2023 |
| National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: IMPROVED LEARNING FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING PROGRAMS USING FINITE ELEMENT LEARNING MODULES | $337.3K | FY2010 | Sep 2010 – Aug 2013 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | CHARACTERIZATION OF COLONIZATION AND PROTEIN SECRETION BY PICHIA PASTORIS IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT OF MICE - PROJECT SUMMARY RISING EXPENSE ASSOCIATED WITH STABILITY AND DELIVERY ARE SIGNIFICANT OBSTACLES FOR USING THERAPEUTIC PROTEINS TO TREAT DISEASES. TO RESOLVE THESE ISSUES, WE PROPOSE TO HAVE THE SYSTEM THAT IS MAKING THE THERAPEUTIC PROTEIN ALSO BE THE DIRECT DELIVERY SYSTEM. DELIVERING PROTEINS DIRECTLY FROM AN EXPRESSION SYSTEM TO A TARGET TISSUE HAS THE ADVANTAGE OF BYPASSING PURIFICATION AND ELIMINATING STABILITY ISSUES DURING STORAGE. IMPROVEMENTS TO PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND SECRETION IN PICHIA PASTORIS MAKE THIS YEAST A PRIME CANDIDATE FOR THIS PURPOSE. WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED ON P. PASTORIS’S ABILITY TO GROW WITH CULTURED MAMMALIAN CELLS AND SECRETE BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR TO INFLUENCE FIBROBLAST GROWTH. WE HAVE SINCE TESTED P. PASTORIS’S ABILITY TO LIVE IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL (GI) TRACT OF C57BL/6J MICE. THE PRELIMINARY RESULTS SHOWED THAT P. PASTORIS DNA WAS DETECTIBLE IN THE MURINE FECES 24 HOURS AFTER THE LAST TREATMENT, WHILE GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN SECRETED BY THIS STRAIN OF P. PASTORIS WAS DETECTIBLE 72 HOURS AFTER THE LAST TREATMENT. THE FECAL SAMPLES FROM P. PASTORIS-TREATED MICE YIELDED NO MEASURABLE LEVELS OF CALPROTECTIN, A BIOMARKER OF INFLAMMATION. HISTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SMALL INTESTINE, CECUM, AND COLON SHOWED NO OBVIOUS SIGNS OF INFLAMMATION WHILE ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY ANALYSIS OF THE GI TISSUES DETECTED NO INCREASE IN TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA OR INTERFERON GAMMA. FURTHERMORE, P. PASTORIS-TREATED MICE GAINED SIMILAR WEIGHT TO CONTROL MICE AND EXHIBITED NO NOTICEABLE CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR. IN CONTINUING WITH STUDIES IN ANIMALS, THE GOALS OF THIS PROPOSAL ARE TO EXTEND THE DURATION OF WHICH P. PASTORIS CAN REMAIN IN THE MURINE GUT AND TO PROVIDE PROOF OF CONCEPT THAT P. PASTORIS IS CAPABLE OF SURVIVING AND DELIVERING RECOMBINANT PROTEINS IN THE GI TRACT. SPECIFIC AIM 1 WILL DETERMINE IF INCREASING DOSE AND DURATION OF TREATMENT WILL ALLOW P. PASTORIS TO REMAIN IN THE GUT FOR A LONGER TIME. TO FURTHER ENHANCE P. PASTORIS SURVIVAL, WE WILL ENGINEER A NEW STRAIN OF P. PASTORIS THAT WILL HAVE AFFINITY TO MUCIN, AN ABUNDANT PROTEIN IN THE MUCUS LAYER WHICH LINES THE ENTIRE GI TRACT. THE EFFECTS OF THESE TREATMENT STRATEGIES ON THE INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE IN THE MURINE GUT WILL ALSO BE ASSESSED. IN SPECIFIC AIM 2, WE WILL USE A HYPER-LACTOSE FED MOUSE MODEL TO DETERMINE IF P. PASTORIS CAN SECRETE RECOMBINANT PROTEINS INTO THE GUT. A DIET OF 70% LACTOSE CAUSES ADULT MICE TO LOSE WEIGHT DUE TO AN INABILITY TO DIGEST LACTOSE. SINCE LACTASE HYDROLYZES LACTOSE, A B-GALACTOSIDASE (LACTASE)- SECRETING P. PASTORIS STRAIN THAT LIVES IN THE GI TRACT WOULD BE EXPECTED TO ENHANCE LACTOSE DIGESTION. PREVENTION OF WEIGHT LOSS IN HYPER-LACTOSE FED MICE WOULD INDICATE THAT P. PASTORIS IS SECRETING ACTIVE LACTASE, SUGGESTING THAT THE YEAST HAS POTENTIAL OF SECRETING OTHER HETEROLOGOUS PROTEINS IN THE GUT OF MICE AS WELL. THESE STUDIES ESTABLISH A FOUNDATIONAL BASIS, UPON WHICH PROTEINS MADE BY P. PASTORIS CAN BE DIRECTLY ADMINISTERED TO THE GI TRACT OF ANIMALS AS THERAPEUTIC AGENTS FOR TREATING DISEASES. | $334K | FY2024 | Sep 2024 – Aug 2028 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | THE AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC (AQUARIUM) PROPOSES OUR INSTRUMENTED EARTH: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL SYSTEMS AND LOCAL IMPACTSTHROUGH THE EI NINO STORY. THI | $331.3K | FY2012 | Jul 2012 – Dec 2015 |
| National Science Foundation | HELIX CONFORMATIONAL EFFECTS ON THE ACIDITIES OF HELICAL PEPTIDES | $330K | FY2008 | Aug 2008 – Jul 2011 |
| Department of Energy | STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL PARTICLE MIXING STATE AND MORPHOLOGY | $328.2K | FY2015 | Jul 2015 – Jul 2018 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM - N/A | $326.8K | FY2022 | Sep 2022 – Mar 2023 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM | $325.9K | FY2012 | Jul 2012 – Feb 2013 |
| Department of Agriculture | STRENTHENING CAPACITY TO COMBAT TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME RELATES TO ILLEGAL LOGGING | $320K | FY2024 | Mar 2024 – Jun 2026 |
| National Science Foundation | RUI: THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS AND MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF SPIDER GLUE SILKS | $320K | FY2011 | Jul 2011 – Jun 2014 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM | $314.6K | FY2016 | Jul 2016 – Feb 2017 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | MAINTENANCE OF INFLUENZA SURVEILLANCE CAPACITY BY NATIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES. - 2016 | $312.5K | FY2016 | Sep 2016 – Sep 2022 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM | $311.5K | FY2014 | Jul 2014 – Feb 2015 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM | $309.6K | FY2018 | Sep 2018 – Mar 2019 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | REGULATION OF THE UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE BY EIF2 ALPHA PHOSPHATASES | $305.2K | FY2017 | Sep 2017 – Aug 2021 |
| National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TECTONIC AND CLIMATIC FORCING OF HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEMS IN THE SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN: IMPLICATIONS FOR ANCIENT AND FUTURE AQUATI | $304.6K | FY2015 | Aug 2015 – Jul 2019 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DIABETES, ESTROGEN AND ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION | $302.4K | FY2016 | Jul 2016 – Jun 2020 |
| Department of Justice | MULTI-GENERATIONAL TRAINING AND SUPPORT TO ADDRESS SEXUAL ASSAULT IN ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITIES | $300K | FY2021 | Oct 2020 – Sep 2022 |
| Department of Justice | INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITY CAPACITY-BUILDING TO PROVIDE CULTURALLY-SPECIFIC SUPPORT AND SERVICES FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT | $300K | FY2019 | Oct 2018 – Sep 2020 |
| Department of Justice | TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT | $300K | FY2013 | Oct 2012 – Sep 2015 |
| Department of Justice | THE OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (OVW) TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (TA) INITIATIVE PROVIDES OVW GRANTEES AND SUBGRANTEES WITH THE EXPERTISE AND SUPPORT THEY NEED TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT SUCCESSFUL STATE, LOCAL, TRIBAL, AND CAMPUS PROJECTS; INCREASE VICTIM SAFETY; AND BOLSTER OFFENDER ACCOUNTABILITY. THROUGH COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS, OVW SUPPORTS EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES, CONFERENCES, PEER-TO-PEER CONSULTATIONS, AND TARGETED ASSISTANCE THAT ALLOW CURRENT AND POTENTIAL GRANTEES AND SUBGRANTEES TO LEARN FROM EXPERTS AND ONE ANOTHER ABOUT HOW TO OVERCOME OBSTACLES AND INCORPORATE PROMISING PRACTICES IN THEIR EFFORTS TO ADDRESS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. IN ADDITION, OVW IS FOCUSED ON BUILDING THE CAPACITY OF THE CRIMINAL AND CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEMS AND VICTIM SERVICES PROVIDERS TO RESPOND EFFECTIVELY TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING AND TO FOSTER PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE NOT TRADITIONALLY WORKED TOGETHER TO ADDRESS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. THIS AWARD WILL SUPPORT FY 2022 TA INITIATIVE PURPOSE AREA 31, PROVIDE TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO CULTURALLY SPECIFIC COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS IMPLEMENTING TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAMS. THE TIMING FOR PERFORMANCE OF THIS AWARD IS 24 MONTHS. THIS IS A NEW AWARD. | $300K | FY2023 | Oct 2022 – Sep 2026 |
| Department of Justice | THE GRANTS TO ENHANCE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING PROGRAM IS AUTHORIZED BY 34 U.S.C. § 20124. THIS PROGRAM SUPPORTS THE MAINTENANCE AND REPLICATION OF EXISTING SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS PROVIDING CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING, AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE ACCESS TO SERVICES AND RESOURCES FOR VICTIMS WHO FACE OBSTACLES TO USING MORE TRADITIONAL PROGRAMS. CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES MEANS COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES THAT INCLUDE CULTURALLY RELEVANT AND LINGUISTICALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES AND RESOURCES TO CULTURALLY SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES WHICH ARE STATUTORILY DEFINED AS “AMERICAN INDIANS (INCLUDING ALASKA NATIVES, ESKIMOS, AND ALEUTS); ASIAN AMERICANS; NATIVE HAWAIIANS AND OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDERS; BLACKS; AND HISPANICS.” PROJECTS MUST: 1) WORK WITH STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES TO DEVELOP AND ENHANCE EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO PROVIDE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC VICTIM SERVICES ; 2) INCREASE COMMUNITIES’ CAPACITY TO PROVIDE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC RESOURCES AND SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES; 3) STRENGTHEN CRIMINAL JUSTICE INTERVENTIONS BY PROVIDING TRAINING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT, PROSECUTION, COURTS, PROBATION, AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES ON CULTURALLY SPECIFIC RESPONSES; 4) ENHANCE TRADITIONAL SERVICES TO VICTIMS THROUGH THE LEADERSHIP OF CULTURALLY SPECIFIC VICTIM SERVICES PROGRAMS ; 5) WORK IN COOPERATION WITH THE COMMUNITY TO DEVELOP EDUCATION AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES HIGHLIGHTING CULTURALLY SPECIFIC ISSUES AND RESOURCES; 6) PROVIDE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN EXPOSED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING; 7) PROVIDE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC RESOURCES AND SERVICES THAT ADDRESS THE SAFETY, ECONOMIC, HOUSING, AND WORKPLACE NEEDS OF VICTIMS, INCLUDING EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE; AND/OR 8) EXAMINE THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON VICTIMIZATION AND HEALING. | $300K | FY2023 | Oct 2022 – Dec 2024 |
| National Science Foundation | RUI: CHARACTERIZATION OF THE GENE REGULATORY NETWORK PROMOTING HORMOGONIUM DEVELOPMENT IN THE FILAMENTOUS CYANOBACTERIUM NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME | $298.8K | FY2018 | Mar 2018 – Feb 2021 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | ANALYSIS OF SECRETORY MECHANISMS AND HETEROLOGOUS PROTEINS IN PICHIA PASTORIS | $298.4K | FY2018 | Jul 2018 – Jun 2023 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM - PROJECT/PERFORMANCE SITE PRIMARY LOCATION UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC 155 5TH STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103-2919 PROJECT DIRECTOR: DR. HOMAYON ASADI CONTACT PHONE NUMBER (209) 946-7367 EMAIL ADDRESS: OSP@PACIFIC.EDU WEBSITE ADDRESS: HTTPS://DENTAL.PACIFIC.EDU/DENTAL GRANT PROGRAM FUNDS REQUESTED: RYAN WHITE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM PART F DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM ( HRSA-25-051) TOTAL UNREIMBURSED COSTS OF ORAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDED TO PEOPLE WITH HIV FROM JULY 1, 2023, THROUGH JUNE 30, 2024: $625,703. GOAL STATEMENT THE GOAL OF UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC’S DENTAL SERVICES PROGRAM IS TO IMPROVE THE ORAL HEALTH OF ALL ETHNICITIES AND POPULATIONS WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) IN SAN FRANCISCO. TARGET POPULATION UOP WILL SERVE ALL ETHNICITIES AND POPULATIONS WITHIN SAN FRANCISCO WITH FOCUSED EXPERTISE ON THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF PATIENTS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS IN SAN FRANCISCO. THIS INCLUDES GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN, TRANSGENDER CLIENTS, LESBIANS, HETEROSEXUALS, CLIENTS WITH A HISTORY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR ACTIVE USERS, THE HOMELESS, INCARCERATED, FORMERLY INCARCERATED, CLIENTS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS OR CHALLENGES RESULTING FROM HIV/AIDS, ACTIVE OR FORMER SEX PROFESSION WORKERS, CLIENTS WITH MULTIPLE DIAGNOSES, PEOPLE OF COLOR, PARENTS AND THEIR HIV INFECTED CHILDREN, AND THOSE INFECTED BY OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE OR ACCIDENTAL EXPOSURE TO CONTAMINATED MATERIAL OR BLOOD. UOP ASSURES THAT ALL GRANT FUNDS ARE ONLY USED TO PAY FOR SERVICES THAT ARE NOT REIMBURSED BY ANY OTHER FUNDING SOURCE. CLIENT ENROLLMENT PRIORITY IS RESERVED FOR SF RESIDENTS WHO HAVE LOW INCOMES AND ARE UNINSURED. SECONDARY ENROLLMENT IS RESERVED FOR SF RESIDENTS WHO HAVE LOW INCOMES AND ARE UNDERINSURED. LOW INCOME STATUS IS EQUAL TO 500% OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL AS DEFINED BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. CLIENT ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION INCLUDING HIV DIAGNOSIS, RESIDENCY, INCOME, AND INSURANCE STATUS IS CONFIRMED AT INTAKE AND AT 12-MONTH INTERVALS THEREAFTER. DENTISTRY SERVICES PROVIDED SERVICES PROVIDED UNDER THIS CONTRACT INCLUDE A BROAD RANGE OF ORAL HEALTHCARE TREATMENTS, WHICH ARE GENERALLY INTENDED TO: (1) RELIEVE PAIN AND SWELLING, (2) DIAGNOSE DISEASE, (3) PREVENT DISEASE, (4) ELIMINATE DISEASE, AND (5) RESTORE FUNCTION. SPECIFIC SERVICES PROVIDED ARE NOTED BELOW. DENTAL STUDENTS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF LICENSED FACULTY PROVIDE SAID SERVICES IN THE PREDOCTORAL STUDENT CLINIC. URGENT CARE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES INCLUDE PALLIATIVE CARE FOR THE TREATMENT OF PAIN, SWELLING, AND/OR BLEEDING. DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES INCLUDE EXAMINATIONS (INITIAL AND RECALL) AND DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHS. (CONE BEAM IMAGING IS NOT COVERED.) PREVENTATIVE SERVICES INCLUDE ORAL HYGIENE INSTRUCTION AND CAMBRA PROCEDURES AND MEDICATIONS. RESTORATIVE SERVICES INCLUDE: A. ALL AMALGAM AND/OR COMPOSITE FILLINGS B. SINGLE CROWNS: PFM, FVC AND CERAMIC CROWNS AFTER ALL THE DISEASE HAS BEEN TREATED IN THE MOUTH. C. COMPLETE DENTURES D. PARTIAL DENTURES ONLY IF CERTAIN CRITERIA ARE MET NOTE: BRIDGES ARE NOT COVERED SERVICES. PERIODONTAL (GUM) TREATMENT INCLUDE SCALING AND ROOT PLANING AND PERIODIC PERIODONTAL RECALL. PERIODONTAL SURGERY PROCEDURES ARE BENEFITS FOR TEETH THAT FIT ALL THREE OF THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA: 1) REQUIRE ENDODONTICS (ROOT CANAL THERAPY) 2) REQUIRE A CROWN COVERED BY PROGRAM 3) LISTED IN PACIFIC’S FEE SCHEDULE. ENDODONTICS (ROOT CANAL THERAPY) SERVICES INCLUDE ROOT CANAL THERAPY, APICO SURGERIES, AND TOOTH BUILD-UPS. ORAL SURGERY SERVICES INCLUDE PROCEDURES SUCH AS EXTRACTIONS, ALVEOLECTOMIES, ETC. ORAL MEDICINE SERVICES INCLUDE BIOPSIES AND OTHER ORAL MEDICINE PROCEDURES INDICATED IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ORAL MANIFESTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH HIV/AIDS. | $297.1K | FY2025 | Sep 2025 – Mar 2026 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | HARNESSING TRANSTHYRETIN TO EXTEND THE IN VIVO HALF-LIFE OF THERAPEUTIC PEPTIDES | $293.2K | FY2014 | Sep 2014 – Aug 2018 |
| Department of Justice | CENTER FOR THE PACIFIC ASIAN FAMILY - SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES PROGRAM (CPAF-SASP) | $289K | FY2010 | Sep 2010 – Aug 2013 |
| Department of Commerce | CAPACITY BUILDING AND TRAINING SUPPORT TO THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY (SPC) | $282K | FY2020 | Sep 2020 – Dec 2023 |
| Department of Justice | EXPANDING INTERVENTION SERVICES FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT | $274.6K | FY2014 | Oct 2013 – Sep 2016 |
| National Science Foundation | LATTICE GAUGE THEORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC | $270K | FY2013 | Aug 2013 – Jul 2017 |
| National Science Foundation | QCD PHYSICS AND BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL ON THE LATTICE | $270K | FY2011 | Oct 2010 – Sep 2013 |
| Department of Justice | BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY TO RESPOND TO ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT | $268K | FY2014 | Oct 2013 – Sep 2015 |
| National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: UNRAVELING THE LINK BETWEEN WATER AGES AND SILICATE WEATHERING RATES AT THE CATCHMENT SCALE -THE INTERACTION BETWEEN WATER AND MINERALS IS A FUNDAMENTAL PROCESS THAT SHAPES AND RECORDS MEMORIES OF LANDSCAPES, GENERATES WATER QUALITY AND NUTRIENTS TO SUSTAIN ECOSYSTEMS, AND DRAWS DOWN ATMOSPHERIC CO2 OVER LONGER TIMESCALES. IN WATERSHEDS, WATER IS FED INTO THE LANDSCAPE THROUGH RAIN AND SNOW WHERE IT STARTS ITS JOURNEY ALONG VARIOUS PATHS IN THE SUBSURFACE. ALONG THE PATH, WATER ENCOUNTERS AND EXCHANGES WITH MINERALS, INCORPORATING CHEMICALS LIBERATED FROM THE SOLIDS AND TRANSFORMING THEM INTO OTHER FORMS IN A PROCESS TERMED WEATHERING. EVENTUALLY THE WATER WITH ITS UNIQUE CHEMICAL SIGNATURE IS FLUSHED FROM THE SYSTEM INTO NEARBY STREAMS AND GROUNDWATER SPRINGS. THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM IS THAT THE LONGER WATER SPENDS IN CONTACT WITH THE SURROUNDING SUBSURFACE, THE MORE CHEMICALLY EVOLVED IT BECOMES. UNDER THIS FRAMEWORK, THE AMOUNT OF WEATHERING OBSERVED IN A CATCHMENT SHOULD BE INEXTRICABLY LINKED WITH GROUNDWATER AGES. HISTORICALLY, THIS RELATIONSHIP HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO FULLY EVALUATE. THIS PROJECT WILL USE MODERN GEOCHEMICAL TOOLS IN TANDEM WITH ADVANCED MODELING APPROACHES TO ADVANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GROUNDWATER AGES AND WEATHERING FLUXES IN A MONTANE CATCHMENT, SAGEHEN CREEK BASIN, LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS IN CALIFORNIA. THIS COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH EFFORT WILL SUPPORT TWO EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS, ONE PHD STUDENT, A FIELD TECHNICIAN, AND PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH. RESEARCHERS WILL COLLABORATE WITH ESTABLISHED EARTH SCIENCE EDUCATORS TO LAUNCH A SUITE OF EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS AND INITIATIVES TO ENGAGE THE BROADER PUBLIC, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTORS ON HYDROLOGY AND WATER QUALITY THEMES. THIS RESEARCH AIMS TO BETTER CHARACTERIZE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GROUNDWATER AGES AND SILICATE WEATHERING RATES AT THE CATCHMENT-SCALE THROUGH A COMBINED HYDROLOGIC AND GEOCHEMICAL APPROACH. SILICATE WEATHERING REACTIONS ARE UNIQUELY COUPLED TO CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY DUE TO SLOW REACTION KINETICS; THUS, SOLUTE GENERATION IS INHERENTLY DEPENDENT ON THE TIME FLUIDS SPEND EXPOSED TO MINERALS. THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP AND LEVERAGE A NEW, COMPREHENSIVE WATER AGE (CFC, SF6, AND 35S) AND WEATHERING (?30SI, ?44CA, AND GE/SI) TRACER DATASET TO INFORM A COUPLED 2D PHYSICAL TRANSPORT HYDROLOGIC AND ISOTOPE-ENABLED, MULTICOMPONENT REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODEL. THE STUDY WILL BE CONDUCTED AT SAGEHEN CREEK BASIN, A SNOWMELT DRIVEN, IGNEOUS, MONTANE WATERSHED SENSITIVE TO CLIMATIC. SAGEHEN IS A WIDELY STUDIED SITE WITH SEVERAL PRIOR STUDIES DEMONSTRATING A CORRELATION BETWEEN MEASURED WEATHERING-DERIVED SOLUTE FLUXES AND GROUNDWATER RESIDENCE TIMES. THIS HYBRID HYDROLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL APPROACH WILL PROVIDE UNPRECEDENTED INSIGHT INTO THE SYNERGISTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FLUID TRANSIT TIME AND SILICATE WEATHERING. THE RESEARCHERS PLAN TO GENERATE DYNAMIC, CONTINUALLY EVOLVING TRANSIT TIME DISTRIBUTIONS FOR WATER IN RESPONSE TO BOTH SEASONAL AND EVENT FORCING, AND THROUGH THE INCORPORATION OF ?FAST?/SHALLOW AND ?SLOW?/DEEPER GROUNDWATER COMPONENTS. THIS RESEARCH FURTHER PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO EVALUATE THE UTILITY OF STABLE ISOTOPES AND TRACE ELEMENT TRACERS THAT ARE SENSITIVE TO DISTINCT REACTION PATHWAYS, AND TO QUANTIFY HOW THE EXTENT OF REACTIONS CAN SERVE AS ?REACTION CLOCKS?. FINDINGS WILL PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO PERSISTENT QUESTIONS IN CRITICAL ZONE SCIENCE RELATED TO WATERSHED HYDROGEOCHEMICAL RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE. THIS RESEARCH IS CO-FUNDED BY THE DIVISION OF EARTH SCIENCES GEOBIOLOGY AND LOW-TEMPERATURE GEOCHEMISTRY PROGRAM AND HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES PROGRAM. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA. | $267.9K | FY2023 | Aug 2023 – Jul 2026 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM | $264.4K | FY2013 | Jul 2013 – Feb 2014 |
| Department of Energy | RELATING THE CHEMICAL & PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF AEROSOLS TO THE WATER UPTAKE & ICE NUCLEATION POTENTIAL OF PARTICLES COLLECTED DURING THE CARBONACEOUS | $261.1K | FY2012 | Sep 2012 – Aug 2016 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM | $248.9K | FY2017 | Aug 2017 – Feb 2018 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM | $239.9K | FY2023 | Sep 2023 – Mar 2024 |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | THE AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC WILL INCREASE ACCESS TO DIGITAL ASSETS FOR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL USERS BY DEPLOYING A DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT (DAM) SYSTEM. THE AQUARIUM WILL CONTRACT WITH A DIGITAL ASSET MANAGER TO IDENTIFY ASSETS AND NEEDS BEFORE CHOOSING SOFTWARE THAT WILL OPTIMIZE USE OF ITS DIGITAL ASSETS. AN INTERDEPARTMENTAL TEAM WILL PROVIDE FEEDBACK THAT INFORMS THE SELECTION OF THE SOFTWARE AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION. A CONTRACTED METADATA SPECIALIST WILL SUPPORT DATA ENTRY AND ORGANIZATION. PROJECT EVALUATION WILL TRACK STAFF’S PERCEPTION OF THESE OPERATIONAL CHANGES AND NEW EFFICIENCIES. THE RESULTING DAM LIBRARY WILL HAVE COMPREHENSIVE CATEGORIES THAT CAN BE SEARCHED QUICKLY; DETAILED AND ACCURATE ASSET DESCRIPTIONS; AND ORGANIZED WORKFLOW ACCESSIBLE TO ALL USERS. THE PROJECT WILL SUPPORT PROGRAM PRODUCTION BETWEEN CREATIVE TEAMS WHO LEVERAGE MEDIA TO SUPPORT THE AQUARIUM’S CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION GOALS TO REACH NEW AUDIENCES IN ONLINE SPACES. | $228.4K | FY2022 | Sep 2022 – Aug 2025 |
| National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EYE EVOLUTION IN SARSIELLOIDEA (CRUSTACEA: OSTRACODA): AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH BASED ON PHYLOGENETICS, DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS | $219K | FY2012 | Jun 2012 – May 2015 |
| National Science Foundation | ELUCIDATION OF REACTION MECHANISM WITH THE UNIFIED REACTION VALLEY APPROACH: TOWARD THE CONTROL OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS | $216.7K | FY2007 | Aug 2007 – Nov 2009 |
| National Science Foundation | LATTICE GAUGE THEORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC 2016-2019 | $210K | FY2016 | Sep 2016 – Aug 2019 |
| Department of Commerce | PURPOSE: THROUGH CONSERVATION INITIATIVES THAT DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVING THE HEALTH AND DIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAS COASTAL HABITAT, THE AQUARIUM HAS AN OPPORTUNITY, AND A RESPONSIBILITY, TO PLAY AN ACTIVE ROLE IN RESTORING AND MAINTAINING VALUABLE OCEAN RESOURCES. IN CLOSE ALIGNMENT WITH NOAAS LONGTERM MISSION GOAL, HEALTHY OCEANS, THE WHITE ABALONE CAPTIVE REARING, OUTPLANTING, AND EDUCATION PROJECT SOLIDIFIES THE AQUARIUMS ROLE AS A CONTRIBUTING PARTNER TO THE CONSERVATION EFFORTS OF A STATEWIDE INITIATIVE WHILE PROMOTING STEWARDSHIP OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH STORYTELLING AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT. | $207.4K | FY2025 | Oct 2024 – Sep 2028 |
| Department of Commerce | WHITE ABALONE CAPTIVE REARING, OUTPLANTING, AND EDUCATION PROJECT | $202.2K | FY2016 | Sep 2016 – Aug 2020 |
| Department of Commerce | WHITE ABALONE CAPTIVE REARING, OUTPLANTING, AND EDUCATION PROJECT | $200K | FY2020 | Sep 2020 – Aug 2024 |
| National Science Foundation | ERI: TOWARD EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER IN YOUNG CHILDREN USING WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY -AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) IS A NEUROLOGICAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER AFFECTING COMMUNICATION, LEARNING ABILITY, AND BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE. THE CRITICAL WINDOW OF INTERVENTION IN ASD IS OFTEN MISSED DUE TO THE SIGNIFICANT DELAY BETWEEN THE EMERGENCE OF SYMPTOMS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD AND FORMAL DIAGNOSIS. THIS ENGINEERING RESEARCH INITIATION (ERI) PROJECT SEEKS TO BRIDGE THIS GAP BY LEVERAGING NON-INVASIVE WEARABLES TO COLLECT PHYSIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA DURING EARLY CHILDHOOD, AIMING TO IDENTIFY PHYSIOLOGICAL BIOMARKERS AND EARLY INDICATIONS OF ASD. BY EXAMINING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN STIMULI (LIGHT, SOUND) AND CHILDREN'S PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES, THE PROPOSED RESEARCH AIMS TO DEVELOP A SENSING SYSTEM AND ROBUST MACHINE-LEARNING ALGORITHM FOR EARLY ASD DETECTION. THIS COULD PAVE THE WAY FOR EARLIER DIAGNOSIS AND INTERVENTION, POTENTIALLY IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR CHILDREN WITH ASD. THIS ERI PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP A NOVEL WEARABLE SENSING AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING EARLY MARKERS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER IN YOUNG CHILDREN AND TODDLERS. THE WEARABLE SENSOR IS MINIMALLY INVASIVE AND WILL MONITOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS, SUCH AS LIGHTING AND SOUNDS, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SIGNALS. THE GOAL IS TO UNDERSTAND THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI AND A CHILD?S RESPONSE, FOR EXAMPLE CHANGES IN THE FREQUENCY OF REPETITIVE MOTIONS, HEART RATE, AND REACTION AND RESPONSE TIME TO ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI. LEVERAGING THESE MULTIMODAL BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNALS AND RELIABLE MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS, DIAGNOSTIC MARKERS OF ASD IN YOUNG CHILDREN WILL BE IDENTIFIED. THE OUTCOMES OF THIS RESEARCH CAN CONFIRM FINDINGS SUGGESTING THAT REPETITIVE MOVEMENT IS ONE OF THE IMPORTANT BIOMARKERS AND AT THE SAME TIME INVESTIGATE OTHER BEHAVIORAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL BIOMARKERS TO INCREASE SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY OF ASD DETECTION EARLIER IN CHILDREN?S DEVELOPMENT. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD. | $200K | FY2024 | May 2024 – Apr 2026 |
| National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: THE VIRGO CLUSTER AS A TESTBED FOR THE STUDY OF GALAXY FORMATION AND EVOLUTION -GALAXIES AND CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES ARE VISIBLE BECAUSE OF THE LIGHT EMITTED BY STARS AND HOT GAS. HOWEVER, THE MASS OF STARS AND GAS IN THESE STRUCTURES IS GREATLY EXCEEDED BY THE MASS OF DARK MATTER. DARK MATTER CANNOT BE OBSERVED DIRECTLY, BUT THE GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS OF DARK MATTER CAN BE OBSERVED IN THE DISTRIBUTION AND MOTION OF STARS, GAS, AND STELLAR CLUSTERS SUCH AS GLOBULAR CLUSTERS (GCS). A TEAM FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ WILL USE SPECTROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS OF GCS TO PROBE THE DARK MATTER CONTENT OF THE NEARBY VIRGO CLUSTER OF GALAXIES WITH THE GOAL OF UNDERSTANDING THE ASSEMBLY HISTORY OF MASSIVE GALAXY CLUSTERS. THE TEAM WILL CONTINUE WORKING WITH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THROUGH THE SCIENCE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM (SIP) AT UC SANTA CRUZ. IN ADDITION, THEY WILL INVOLVE UNDERGRADUATES FROM BOTH THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ IN RESEARCH RELATING TO THIS PROJECT. FINALLY, THEY WILL PARTICIPATE IN TRADITIONAL OUTREACH EVENTS SUCH AS PUBLIC TALKS AND WORKSHOPS, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON REACHING HISPANIC AND LATINO COMMUNITIES. THE PROJECT WILL USE GCS TO STUDY THE ASSEMBLY OF STRUCTURES IN THE VIRGO CLUSTER. THIS TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THE LARGE NUMBERS OF GCS, THEIR RELATIVELY HIGH SURFACE BRIGHTNESS, AND THEIR EXTENDED RADIAL DISTRIBUTION. THE MAIN SCIENTIFIC GOALS INCLUDE: (I) DETERMINING THE DARK MATTER CONTENT OF DWARF EARLY-TYPE AND ULTRA-DIFFUSE GALAXIES; (II) TESTING THE DYNAMICAL FRICTION SCENARIO FOR THE FORMATION OF GALAXY NUCLEI FROM MERGERS OF GCS; AND (III) UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF THE CLUSTER ENVIRONMENT THROUGH ANALYSIS OF CLUSTERING, SUBSTRUCTURES, AND ASYMMETRIES FOUND IN THE GC POPULATION, AND THE STUDY OF CLUSTER-CENTRIC RADIAL TRENDS OF THE STELLAR POPULATIONS OF VIRGO DWARF ELLIPTICALS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA. | $199.4K | FY2022 | Sep 2022 – Aug 2025 |
| VA/DoDDepartment of Defense | MOLECULAR INDICATORS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS AND ITS HEALTH EFFECTS IN CETACEANS | $191.3K | FY2023 | Jun 2023 – Aug 2026 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | BLOOD FLOW AND SALIVARY GLAND FUNCTION IN DIABETES | $191.3K | FY2009 | May 2009 – Apr 2012 |
| National Science Foundation | LATTICE QCD AND HIGGS MODELS | $180K | FY2020 | Sep 2020 – Aug 2023 |
| National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: QUANTIFYING HOW GROUNDWATER MODULATES STREAMFLOW RESPONSE TO HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES -MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS ARE THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF WATER FOR MUCH OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. MANY MOUNTAIN STREAMS ARE SUSTAINED BY GROUNDWATER, BUT CONCEPTUAL AND HYDROLOGIC MODELS OFTEN OVERSIMPLIFY GROUNDWATER PROCESSES. AS A RESULT, IT IS CHALLENGING TO PREDICT HOW STREAMFLOW RESPONDS TO CHANGES IN GROUNDWATER RECHARGE AND STORAGE CAUSED BY EXTREME WET AND DRY CONDITIONS. THIS PROJECT IS EVALUATING HOW GROUNDWATER REGULATES STREAM RESPONSES TO HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES BY INTEGRATING HIGH-RESOLUTION STREAM AND GROUNDWATER OBSERVATIONS WITH HYDROLOGIC MODELS. THE KNOWLEDGE GENERATED FROM THIS WORK WILL IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW STORED GROUNDWATER IMPACTS MOUNTAIN STREAMFLOW GENERATION, THEREBY ENHANCING STREAMFLOW PREDICTIONS. BROADER IMPACT ACTIVITIES INCLUDE AN EARLY-CAREER WORKSHOP ON DATA-MODEL INTEGRATION IN EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES, WITH THE GOAL OF FOSTERING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION. ADDITIONALLY, THE PROJECT WILL INTEGRATE FIELD INFRASTRUCTURE AND MODELS INTO UNDERGRADUATE COURSEWORK AT THREE INSTITUTIONS TO EXPOSE MORE STUDENTS TO HYDROLOGIC SCIENCE. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO DETERMINE THE ROLE OF GROUNDWATER IN REGULATING STREAMFLOW RESPONSE TO HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES ACROSS A GROUNDWATER STORAGE GRADIENT USING A DATA-MODEL INTEGRATION APPROACH. FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF STREAM DISCHARGE, SOURCE, AND AGE IN TWO MOUNTAIN WATERSHEDS WILL BE INTEGRATED WITH AN ITERATIVELY CALIBRATED PROCESS-BASED HYDROLOGIC MODEL CAPABLE OF SIMULATING GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS UNDER FUTURE LONG-TERM AND SHORT-TERM HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES AND WITH VARIABLE SUBSURFACE STRUCTURE. STUDY SITES INCLUDE TWO MOUNTAIN WATERSHEDS WITH HIGH- AND LOW-GROUNDWATER STORAGE SETTINGS. THE PROJECT WILL ADDRESS HOW THE STRUCTURE OF THE SUBSURFACE INFLUENCES THE SOURCE, AGE, AND MAGNITUDE OF STREAMFLOW, AS WELL AS THE EXTENT TO WHICH UPSTREAM HETEROGENEITY AFFECT CONDITIONS AT THE WATERSHED OUTLET. THE PROJECT WILL IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW GROUNDWATER STORAGE MODULATES STREAMFLOW DURING HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES. THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A TRANSFERABLE DATA-MODEL INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK TO ADDRESS CRITICAL ZONE SCIENCE QUESTIONS. THE FRAMEWORK WILL BE THE FOCUS OF A BROADER IMPACTS WORKSHOP THAT WILL PROVIDE EARLY-CAREER SCIENTISTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN FIELD DATA OR MODELING TECHNIQUES FROM PEERS, AS WELL AS FOSTER NEW COLLABORATIONS AND CROSS-DISCIPLINARY LEARNING WITHIN THE CRITICAL ZONE COMMUNITY. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD. | $178.4K | FY2025 | Sep 2025 – Aug 2028 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN SECRETION IN PICHIA PASTORIS | $175.4K | FY2002 | Sep 2002 – Aug 2012 |
| Department of Commerce | VISUALIZING CHANGE: TRAINING AND TOOLS TO SUPPORT INFORMAL EDUCATORS | $174.4K | FY2014 | Oct 2013 – Sep 2017 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM - PROJECT/PERFORMANCE SITE PRIMARY LOCATION UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC 155 5TH STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103-2919 PROJECT DIRECTOR: DR. DES GALLAGHER CONTACT PHONE NUMBER (209) 946-7367 EMAIL ADDRESS: OSP@PACIFIC.EDU WEBSITE ADDRESS: HTTPS://DENTAL.PACIFIC.EDU/DENTAL GRANT PROGRAM FUNDS REQUESTED: RYAN WHITE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM PART F DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM (HRSA-23-060) TOTAL UNREIMBURSED COSTS OF ORAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDED TO PEOPLE WITH HIV FROM JULY 1, 2022, THROUGH JUNE 30, 2023: $556,952. GOAL STATEMENT THE GOAL OF UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC’S DENTAL SERVICES PROGRAM IS TO IMPROVE THE ORAL HEALTH OF ALL ETHNICITIES AND POPULATIONS WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) IN SAN FRANCISCO. TARGET POPULATION UOP WILL SERVE ALL ETHNICITIES AND POPULATIONS WITHIN SAN FRANCISCO WITH FOCUSED EXPERTISE ON THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF PATIENTS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS IN SAN FRANCISCO. THIS INCLUDES GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN, TRANSGENDER CLIENTS, LESBIANS, HETEROSEXUALS, CLIENTS WITH A HISTORY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR ACTIVE USERS, THE HOMELESS, INCARCERATED, FORMERLY INCARCERATED, CLIENTS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS OR CHALLENGES RESULTING FROM HIV/AIDS, ACTIVE OR FORMER SEX PROFESSION WORKERS, CLIENTS WITH MULTIPLE DIAGNOSES, PEOPLE OF COLOR, PARENTS AND THEIR HIV INFECTED CHILDREN, AND THOSE INFECTED BY OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE OR ACCIDENTAL EXPOSURE TO CONTAMINATED MATERIAL OR BLOOD. UOP ASSURES THAT ALL GRANT FUNDS ARE ONLY USED TO PAY FOR SERVICES THAT ARE NOT REIMBURSED BY ANY OTHER FUNDING SOURCE. CLIENT ENROLLMENT PRIORITY IS RESERVED FOR SF RESIDENTS WHO HAVE LOW INCOMES AND ARE UNINSURED. SECONDARY ENROLLMENT IS RESERVED FOR SF RESIDENTS WHO HAVE LOW INCOMES AND ARE UNDERINSURED. LOW INCOME STATUS IS EQUAL TO 500% OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL AS DEFINED BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. CLIENT ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION INCLUDING HIV DIAGNOSIS, RESIDENCY, INCOME, AND INSURANCE STATUS IS CONFIRMED AT INTAKE AND AT 12-MONTH INTE RVALS THEREAFTER. DENTISTRY SERVICES PROVIDED SERVICES PROVIDED UNDER THIS CONTRACT INCLUDE A BROAD RANGE OF ORAL HEALTHCARE TREATMENTS, WHICH ARE GENERALLY INTENDED TO: (1) RELIEVE PAIN AND SWELLING, (2) DIAGNOSE DISEASE, (3) PREVENT DISEASE, (4) ELIMINATE DISEASE, AND (5) RESTORE FUNCTION. SPECIFIC SERVICES PROVIDED ARE NOTED BELOW. DENTAL STUDENTS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF LICENSED FACULTY PROVIDE SAID SERVICES IN THE PREDOCTORAL STUDENT CLINIC. URGENT CARE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES INCLUDE PALLIATIVE CARE FOR THE TREATMENT OF PAIN, SWELLING, AND/OR BLEEDING. DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES INCLUDE EXAMINATIONS (INITIAL AND RECALL) AND DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHS. (CONE BEAM IMAGING IS NOT COVERED.) PREVENTATIVE SERVICES INCLUDE ORAL HYGIENE INSTRUCTION AND CAMBRA PROCEDURES AND MEDICATIONS. RESTORATIVE SERVICES INCLUDE: A. ALL AMALGAM AND/OR COMPOSITE FILLINGS B. SINGLE CROWNS: PFM, FVC AND CERAMIC CROWNS AFTER ALL THE DISEASE HAS BEEN TREATED IN THE MOUTH. C. COMPLETE DENTURES D. PARTIAL DENTURES ONLY IF CERTAIN CRITERIA ARE MET NOTE: BRIDGES ARE NOT COVERED SERVICES. PERIODONTAL (GUM) TREATMENT INCLUDE SCALING AND ROOT PLANING AND PERIODIC PERIODONTAL RECALL. PERIODONTAL SURGERY PROCEDURES ARE BENEFITS FOR TEETH THAT FIT ALL THREE OF THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA: 1) REQUIRE ENDODONTICS (ROOT CANAL THERAPY) 2) REQUIRE A CROWN COVERED BY PROGRAM 3) LISTED IN PACIFIC’S FEE SCHEDULE. ENDODONTICS (ROOT CANAL THERAPY) SERVICES INCLUDE ROOT CANAL THERAPY, APICO SURGERIES, AND TOOTH BUILD-UPS. ORAL SURGERY SERVICES INCLUDE PROCEDURES SUCH AS EXTRACTIONS, ALVEOLECTOMIES, ETC. ORAL MEDICINE SERVICES INCLUDE BIOPSIES AND OTHER ORAL MEDICINE PROCEDURES INDICATED IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ORAL MANIFESTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH HIV/AIDS. | $171.9K | FY2024 | Sep 2024 – Mar 2025 |
| Department of Commerce | DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE, LOW-COST COMMUNITY OUTREACH TOOLS FOR FISHERS AND SEAFOOD FARMERS | $170.1K | FY2021 | Sep 2021 – Dec 2022 |
| National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INVESTIGATING THE LINK BETWEEN MODERN SPRING ACTIVITY AND ASSOCIATED PALEOSPRING MOUNDS IN DEATH VALLEY, NP | $152.1K | FY2021 | Jul 2021 – Jun 2027 |
| National Science Foundation | DIMENSIONS: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONNECTING THE PROXIMATE MECHANISMS RESPONSIBLE FOR ORGANISMAL DIVERSITY TO THE ULTIMATE CAUSES OF LATITUDINAL G | $151.3K | FY2014 | Jan 2014 – Dec 2018 |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | MUSEUMS FOR AMERICA | $150K | FY2010 | Aug 2010 – Jul 2013 |
| National Science Foundation | CAN COHORT EXPERIENCES INCREASE INTEREST AND PARTICIPATION IN EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AT AN URBAN UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTION? | $149.7K | FY2008 | Sep 2008 – Aug 2010 |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | MUSEUMS FOR AMERICA | $147.3K | FY2012 | Sep 2012 – Aug 2015 |
| National Science Foundation | MACHINE LEARNING IN LATTICE QCD WITH FIXED POINT ACTIONS -THIS AWARD FUNDS THE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF PROFESSOR KIERAN HOLLAND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC. DECADES OF INTENSIVE EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL WORK IN PARTICLE PHYSICS HAS LED TO A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW NATURE BEHAVES AT THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL, WITH AN INTRICATE MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF OBSERVED EFFECTS BETWEEN SUBATOMIC PARTICLES, AS WELL AS RAISING MANY IMPORTANT AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. MODERN THEORETICAL PHYSICS RESEARCH TAKES ADVANTAGE OF A WIDE VARIETY OF COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES AND ALGORITHMS, WHICH SOMETIMES PROVIDE THE ONLY POSSIBLE WAY TO PRECISELY USE THE UNDERLYING MATHEMATICAL MODEL, THROUGH WHAT ARE KNOWN AS ?SIMULATIONS? OF HOW PARTICLES BEHAVE. IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, THE BOOMING FIELD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR MORE SPECIFICALLY MACHINE LEARNING HAS FOUND NEW APPLICATIONS IN SCIENCE, WHERE ENORMOUS DATASETS CAN BE SCOURED TO GIVE MORE INSIGHT INTO SCIENTIFIC MODELS. THIS RESEARCH IS IMPORTANT FOR THE NATIONAL INTEREST, NOT ONLY BY CONTINUING THE NATION?S LEADING ROLE IN ADVANCING FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE, BUT ALSO BECAUSE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS A COMPLETELY NEW TOOL WHICH HAS ALREADY HAD AN ENORMOUS IMPACT AND COULD REVOLUTIONIZE SOCIETIES, MUCH AS PERSONAL COMPUTING HAS DONE IN THE LAST FORTY YEARS. BY SUPPORTING RESEARCH IN THIS AREA, THE US WILL CONTINUE TO BE ONE OF THE LEADERS OF FUTURE TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATIONS. THERE WILL ALSO BE A BROADER IMPACT OF THE RESEARCH, THROUGH PROFESSOR HOLLAND?S MENTORING OF STUDENTS IN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH, DEVELOPING THEIR COMPUTING SKILLS FOR FUTURE INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIC CAREERS, AND BY SHARING THE RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH THROUGH PUBLIC TALKS. BEING MORE SPECIFIC, PROFESSOR HOLLAND WILL WORK ON MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS OF QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS (QCD), THE FUNDAMENTAL MODEL FOR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN QUARKS AND GLUONS, BINDING THEM TOGETHER TO FORM NUCLEI. SIMULATIONS CAN BE SYSTEMATICALLY IMPROVED, FOR EXAMPLE BY USING VERY HIGH RESOLUTION WHEN DISCRETIZING A PHYSICAL SYSTEM, ANALOGOUS TO PIXELATING AN IMAGE, BUT THE COMPUTATIONAL COST INCREASES VERY RAPIDLY, AND CAN QUICKLY DEMAND MORE COMPUTING POWER THAN ANY SUPERCOMPUTER CAN PROVIDE. AN ALTERNATIVE IS TO FIND A MORE COMPLEX DISCRETIZATION OF A PHYSICAL SYSTEM, WHERE EVEN A COARSE RESOLUTION CAN BE USED TO OBTAIN CORRECT PHYSICAL PREDICTIONS, AN APPROACH KNOWN AS IMPROVED LATTICE ACTIONS. PROFESSOR HOLLAND WILL WORK WITH MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS AND SOFTWARE PLATFORMS TO DESIGN A HIGHLY IMPROVED LATTICE ACTION FOR QCD, WHICH HE WILL ALSO TEST THROUGH MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS, TO COMPARE WITH EXISTING LATTICE ACTIONS IN TERMS OF ACCURACY AND COMPUTING COST. PART OF THE PROJECT INVOLVES PARAMETRIZATION OF AN IMPROVED LATTICE ACTION, A TASK IDEALLY SUITED TO MACHINE LEARNING METHODS. PROFESSOR HOLLAND WILL FIRST WORK ON THE DYNAMICS OF GLUONS WITHOUT QUARKS, KNOWN AS PURE SU(3) YANG-MILLS THEORY, WHERE THE OVERALL COMPUTING COST IS LOWER AND CAN SERVE BOTH AS A TESTBED FOR THE METHOD, AS WELL AS HAVE POSSIBLE PHENOMENOLOGICAL IMPACT FOR PREDICTING THE QCD COUPLING AT THE ELECTROWEAK ENERGY SCALE, WHERE YANG-MILLS THEORY CAN CONNECT TO THE FULL THEORY INCLUDING QUARKS. AS MANY RESEARCH GROUPS PERFORM LATTICE QCD SIMULATIONS, THIS WORK IS BROADLY RELEVANT IN EXPLORING WAYS TO MAXIMIZE EFFICIENCY WHEN USING LARGE-SCALE SUPERCOMPUTERS TO STUDY THE PROPERTIES OF QCD. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD. | $145.9K | FY2024 | Sep 2024 – Aug 2027 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | THE INFLUENCE OF BODY IMAGE ON ADOLESCENT GIRLS' RISK AND PROTECTION BEHAVIORS | $140.6K | FY2008 | Apr 2008 – Mar 2010 |
| National Science Foundation | MRI: ACQUISITION OF AN ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETER FOR STUDYING LIGAND-MACROMOLECULE INTERACTIONS | $140.3K | FY2018 | Aug 2018 – Jul 2021 |
| Department of State | THIS PROJECT BUILDS UPON THE SUCCESSFUL PHASE 1 OF TUVALU BIOGAS PROJECT (2016-2020), AND WOULD EXPAND TO INSTALL 20 DOMESTIC BIOGAS SYSTEMS (DBS) IN FUNAFUTI, THE MAIN ATOLL OF TUVALU. | $100K | FY2023 | Oct 2022 – Apr 2024 |
| National Science Foundation | CSR: SMALL: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ADAPTIVE AND AUTONOMOUS ENERGY MANAGEMENT ON A SENSOR NETWORK USING AERIAL ROBOTS | $100K | FY2012 | Sep 2012 – Aug 2015 |
| Department of Agriculture | PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN COMMUNITY FORESTS | $99.9K | FY2022 | Sep 2022 – Sep 2023 |
| Department of Commerce | REGIONAL ASSESSMENT PROJ | $99.3K | FY2013 | Sep 2013 – Mar 2015 |
| Department of State | TO ENSURE THAT FOOD SECURITY IN THE PACIFIC ISLAND STATES IS NOT PUT AT RISK THROUGH THE LACK OF CROP DIVERSITY ADAPTED TO CLIMATIC EXTREMES. GRANT S | $98.3K | FY2008 | Aug 2008 – Jul 2010 |
| VA/DoDDepartment of Defense | FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES FOR INFRASTRUCTURE APPLICATIONS, FOCUSING ON INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION | $95K | FY2009 | Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 |
| National Science Foundation | RAPID: TEACHING FIELD GEOLOGY WITHOUT CLASSES IN THE FIELD - PROVIDING A ROBUST CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE THROUGH DIGITAL RESOURCES | $89.9K | FY2020 | May 2020 – May 2023 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | DR. JONTOF-HUTTER WILL LEAD THE ANALYSIS OF ORBITAL PERIOD RATIOS AND TESTS FOR ORBITAL STABILITY. HE WILL QUANTIFY THE DETECTION BIASES ON THE MULTIPLICITY OF ULTRA-SHORT PERIOD PLANETS AND THE EVIDENCE THAT SHORT-PERIOD SINGLE PLANETS ARE DRAWN FROM A POPULATION OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS WITH HIGHER MUTUAL INCLINATIONS AND WHETHER SUCH SINGLES CAN BE LINKED TO THE EXPECTED TIDAL PROPERTIES OF THE HOST STARS. | $78.1K | FY2017 | Jun 2017 – Jun 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | COPTIC SCRIPTORIUM: A CORPUS, TOOLS, AND METHODS FOR CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND COMPUTATIONAL HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN ANCIENT EGYP | $60K | FY2014 | May 2014 – Sep 2015 |
| National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF A SUSTAINABLE COMPUTER-BASED TUTORING SYSTEM FOR INTRODUCTORY LINEAR CIRCUIT ANALYSIS | $59.3K | FY2013 | Sep 2013 – Aug 2016 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | THE DISCOVERY OF COMPACT SYSTEMS OF MULTIPLE LOW-MASS LOW-DENSITY PLANETS WITHIN A FRACTION OF 1AU HAS TRIGGERED A WELLSPRING OF PLANET FORMATION THEORIES. SOME OF THESE OFFER TESTABLE PREDICTIONS OF OUTER PLANETARY SYSTEM ARCHIECTURES INCLUDING WHETHER GIANT PLANETS ARE EXPECTED AT DISTANCES BEYOND 1AU. OBERVATIONALLY THE OCCURRENCE RATE OF JOVIAN MASS PLANETS IN SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE MINI-NEPTUNES WITHIN A FRACTION OF 1AU IS UNKNOWN. HENCE CONSTRAINTS ON THE OCCURRENCE RATE OF JOVIANS IN SYSTEMS OF MULTIPLE LOW-MASS CLOSE-IN NEPTUNES IS OF GREAT INTEREST IN PLANET FORMATION THEORY. WE PROPOSE TO RUN DYNAMICAL SIMULATIONS OF COMPACT SYSTEMS OF MULTIPLE PLANETS TO QUANTIFY THE EFFECT OF POTENTIAL UNDETECTED JOVIAN PERTURBERS ON THE ORBITAL CONFIGURATIONS OF THE KNOWN PLANETS. IN PARTICULAR IN ORDER FOR MANY PLANETS IN THE SAME SYSTEM TO BE OBSERVED TRANSITING REQUIRES LOW MUTUAL INCLINATIONS BETWEEN THE KNOWN PLANETS. SUCH A CONDITION WOULD BE EASILY DISTURBED BY A MASSIVE PLANET INCLINED BY JUST A FEW DEGREES TO THE ORBITAL PLANE OF THE TRANSITING PLANETS. WE PROPOSE TO PLACE DYNAMICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE ORBITAL DISTANCES AND INCLINATIONS OF ANY SUCH JOVIAN PLANETS AND COMPARE THESE LIMITS TO THE CONSTRAINTS ON JOVIAN PLANET OCCURRENCE FROM RV SURVEYS. WHILE THERE ARE VARIOUS ESTIMATES OF JOVIAN PLANET OCCURRENCE FROM1-3AU FROM RV (E.G. WITTENMEYER ET AL. 2011 SCHLAUFMAN AND WINN 2016) THE SIZE OF SUB-SAMPLE KNOWN TO HAVE THREE OR MORE MINI- NEPTUNES CLOSE TO THE STAR IS JUST FIVE. OUR PROPOSED STUDY WILL PLACE A DYNAMICAL CONSTRAINT ON THE DISTANCES OUT TO WHICH JOVIAN PLANETS ARE VERY UNLIKELY. THIS WILL ENABLE A STATISTICAL COMPARISON WITH THE RESULTS OF RV SURVEYS TO DETERMINE IF THE COMPACT SYSTEMS OF MULTIPLE MINI-NEPTUNES ARE DRAWN FROM THE SAME POPULATION AS RV DETECTIONS OF JOVIANS GENERALLY. | $54.6K | FY2017 | Jan 2017 – — |
| Department of State | EMPOWER RIGHTS-HOLDERS AND DUTY-BEARERS WHO WORK MORE EFFECTIVELY TO IMPLEMENT PEOPLE-CENTERED RIGHTS-BASED GOVERNANCE | $53.1K | FY2020 | Sep 2020 – Jun 2022 |
| National Science Foundation | FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS TO SUPPORT ENGAGEMENT IN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH | $49K | FY2009 | Oct 2008 – Sep 2010 |
| Department of Education | UOP MSI CARES | $48.4K | FY2020 | Jul 2020 – Jul 2021 |
| Department of Commerce | WHITE ABALONE CAPTIVE REARING AND EDUCATION PROJECT | $48K | FY2014 | Sep 2014 – Aug 2016 |
| National Archives and Records Administration | TO SUPPORT A PROJECT TO PROCESS THE GEORGE MOSCONE PAPERS AND DIGITIZE 250 ITEMS FROM THE COLLECTION. MOSCONE (1929-1978) WAS AN ACTIVIST AND LEGISLATOR, WHO SERVED AS MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO FOR TWO YEARS. IN 1978, HE AND SAN FRANCISCO BOARD SUPERVISOR HARVEY MILK WERE ASSASSINATED. | $47.2K | FY2018 | Oct 2017 – Sep 2018 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | COPTIC SCRIPTORIUM: DIGITIZING A CORPUS FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN | $40K | FY2014 | May 2014 – Aug 2015 |
| National Science Foundation | SUPPORT OF THE ANNUAL BOK AWARDS AT THE INTEL INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR | $39.5K | FY2011 | Jul 2011 – Jun 2016 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | OUR PROPOSED PROGRAM WILL BE CRUCIAL TO PLANNING THE CHARACTERIZATION OF EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERES AT MERCURY TO VENUS-LIKE DISTANCES. | $37.1K | FY2020 | Jun 2020 – Jun 2022 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | EXPANDING THE COSMIC CALENDAR PROJECT FOR 1YA TO WIDER AUDIENCES: THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PA | $35K | FY2008 | Sep 2008 – Nov 2011 |
| National Science Foundation | HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC | $34.6K | FY2013 | Oct 2012 – Sep 2013 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | WE SEEK FUNDING TO CREATE EASILY EXTENSIBLE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY ASTEROIDS AND OTHER TRANSIENT/VARIABLE OBJECTS IN IMAGE SETS. NAMED TRANSIENT TRACKER THIS SOFTWARE WILL PROVIDE: ASTROMETRIC AND PHOTOMETRIC SOLUTIONS IDENTIFICATION OF MOVING/TRANSIENT OBJECTS IDENTIFICATION OF VARIABLE OBJECTS AND LIGHTCURVE ANALYSIS. SOFTWARE OUTPUT WILL BE CONFIGURED TO ALLOW DATA TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE MINOR PLANET CENTER (MPC) AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF VARIABLE STAR OBSERVERS (AAVSO) AND THE IAU CENTRAL BUREAU FOR ASTRONOMICAL TELEGRAMS (IAU CBAT). THE GOAL OF TRANSIENT TRACKER IS TO CREATE EASILY EXTENSIBLE PROFESSIONAL GRADE SOFTWARE WITH A STRAIGHTFORWARD INTERFACE THAT ALLOWS AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS AND LEARNING COMMUNITIES (E.G. CLASSROOMS AND AFTER-SCHOOL GROUPS) TO PARTICIPATE IN DISCOVERING NEW OBJECTS LIKE NEOS AND IN EXTENDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THINGS THAT FLICKER FLARE AND MOVE IN THE NIGHT. THIS PROJECT WILL BE DEVELOPED BY PART OF THE COSMOQUEST TEAM. COSMOQUEST IS A PRIMARILY NASA-FUNDED VIRTUAL RESEARCH FACILITY THAT ENGAGES THE PUBLIC IN FULLY ONLINE CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECTS IN A FRAMEWORK THAT PROVIDES LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND FACILITATES COLLABORATION. IN THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS WE DETAIL: TRANSIENT TRACKER'S CORE FEATURE SET AND HOW NEW FEATURES CAN BE ADDED ( 2); HOW THIS PROJECT WILL BE IMPLEMENTED AND MANAGED ( 3); HOW WE WILL BUILD A USER COMMUNITY THAT INCLUDES SOFTWARE CONTRIBUTORS ( 4); AND OUR SOFTWARE AND COMMUNITY EVALUATION THAT TAKES INTO CONSIDERATION THE MYRIAD NEEDS OF BROAD AUDIENCES ( 5). | $32.4K | FY2017 | May 2017 – — |
| Department of Health and Human Services | LOAN GRANT WITH FUNDS FOR NEW BUDGET PERIOD | $32.3K | FY1967 | Jul 1967 – Jun 2079 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN GENERAL, PEDIATRIC, AND PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY AND DENTAL HYGIENE | $31K | FY2015 | Jul 2015 – Jun 2022 |
| Department of Agriculture | PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN COMMUNITY FORESTS | $30.6K | FY2024 | Sep 2024 – Jul 2025 |
| National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH (SGER): WILDFIRE IMPACTS ON CATCHMENT HYDROCHEMISTRY: METAL AND NUTRIENT TRANSPORT AFTER THE DAY FIRE, 2006 | $30K | FY2007 | Jan 2007 – Dec 2008 |
| Department of State | TO FACILITATE 2 WEEKS OF TRAINING IN TUVALU AND NAURU UNDER THE PACIFIC YOUTH COUNCIL?S PROJECT ENTITLED ?CAPACITY BUILDING OF NAURU & TUVALU NATIONA | $28.8K | FY2010 | May 2010 – Nov 2010 |
| National Science Foundation | FINITE ELEMENT METHOD EXERCISES FOR USE IN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING PROGRAMS | $27K | FY2006 | Mar 2006 – Feb 2009 |
| Department of Agriculture | COMMUNITY FACILITIES - ECONOMIC IMPACT INITIATIVE GRANTS | $25.3K | FY2008 | Sep 2008 – Sep 2008 |
| Department of Commerce | INCREASING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE TO WEATHER-RELATED EVENTS THROUGH PUBLIC EDUCATION | $25K | FY2012 | Sep 2012 – Aug 2013 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | TO SUPPORT AN EXHIBITION AND RELATED ACTIVITIES FOCUSED ON CLIMATE CHANGE PREPAREDNESS. | $20K | FY2016 | Jun 2016 – Jul 2018 |
| Department of Agriculture | PROMOTING NATURE CONSERVATION WITH YOUTH IN CAMBODIA | $16.8K | FY2024 | Jul 2024 – Dec 2025 |
| Department of the Interior | POPULATION GENETICS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE CALLIPPE SILVERSPOT BUTTERFLY | $13.5K | FY2013 | Aug 2013 – Sep 2017 |
| Department of the Interior | UOP CA-SJO-91 NAGPRA REPATRIATION | $12.2K | FY2020 | Jul 2020 – Nov 2022 |
| Department of State | IDENTIFYING AREAS FOR SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND MARINE PROTECTED AREAS IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. | $11.8K | FY2010 | Oct 2009 – Oct 2010 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | TO SUPPORT THE PACIFIC MUSIC CAMP. | $10K | FY2017 | Jun 2017 – Jul 2017 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | TO SUPPORT THE BRUBECK INSTITUTE SUMMER JAZZ COLONY. | $10K | FY2016 | Jun 2016 – Aug 2016 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | TO SUPPORT THE BRUBECK INSTITUTE'S SUMMER JAZZ COLONY. | $10K | FY2014 | Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | TO SUPPORT "DELTAFUSION," A MULTICULTURAL CELEBRATION OF THE CITY OF STOCKTON'S DIVERSITY, PRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS AND VISUAL ART | $10K | FY2011 | Jan 2011 – Nov 2011 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | TO SUPPORT PACIFIC MUSIC CAMP FOR GIFTED MUSIC STUDENTS OF ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL AGE. | $10K | FY2011 | Oct 2010 – Jul 2011 |
| National Science Foundation | "OCEAN ON THE EDGE": FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC OCEAN LITERACY | $10K | FY2009 | Aug 2009 – Jul 2010 |
| Department of State | TO PRINT AND DISTRIBUTE PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP TO DEVELOP A BIOCONTROL STRATEGY FOR THE PACIFIC. | $5,000 | FY2009 | Sep 2009 – Sep 2010 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | THIS YEAR'S MEETING WILL SERVE A SECOND TARGET AUDIENCE OF INTEREST TO NASA: INTRODUCTORY ASTRONOMY INSTRUCTORS FROM COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND | $5,000 | FY2010 | May 2010 – Dec 2010 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFICASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 2009 CONFERENCETHE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC (ASP) REQUEST SUPPORT | $5,000 | FY2009 | Aug 2009 – Aug 2010 |
| Department of Agriculture | CONSERVATION TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE - GE | $875 | FY2012 | Mar 2012 – Sep 2013 |
Agency for International Development
$16.1M
PROJECT GOVERNANCE ACTIVITY
Department of Education
$14.1M
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC - HEERF - INSTITUTIONAL PORTION
Department of Education
$11.8M
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC APPLICATION FOR CARES COVID-19 RELIEF FUNDS
Department of State
$5.8M
TO SUPPORT THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU GOVERNMENT AND OTHER PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES IN DEVELOPING MARINE SPATIAL PLANS (MSP) INFORMED BY THE BEST SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION AVAILABLE, INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS, PAVING THE WAY TO A SUSTAINABLE, INCLUSIVE,
Department of State
$4.8M
TO CO-FUND WITH THE PARTNERS IN THE BLUE PACIFIC (PBP) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH VESSEL FOR THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY (SPC) THAT WILL BE USED TO CONDUCT OCEANOGRAPHIC SURVEYS TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF ECOSYSTEM CHANGES ON TUNA FISHERIES
Agency for International Development
$4M
PIO GRANT TO SPC FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PROGRAM
Department of Education
$3.9M
PACIFIC AND CENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOLS (PACS) PARTNERSHIP TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS
National Science Foundation
$2.7M
FULL-SCALE DEVELOPMENT: MY SKY TONIGHT: EARLY CHILDHOOD PATHWAYS TO ASTRONOMY
National Science Foundation
$2.7M
ON-THE-SPOT ASSESSMENT TO IMPROVE SCIENTIST ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PUBLIC
Department of Health and Human Services
$2.3M
PACIFIC-STANFORD PRIMED PROGRAM: TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF CLINICAL ORAL HEALTH RESEARCHERS - PACIFIC-STANFORD PRIMED PROGRAM PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT BROAD, LONG-TERM OBJECTIVES. ORAL DISEASES AND DISORDERS IN AND OF THEMSELVES AFFECT HEALTH AND WELL-BEING THROUGHOUT LIFE. RESEARCH IS KEY TO IMPROVING ORAL HEALTH, ELIMINATING HEALTH DISPARITIES, AND FURTHER REDUCING THE BURDEN OF ORAL DISEASES AND DISORDERS. UNFORTUNATELY, A WIDE GAP EXISTS BETWEEN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE. WHILE SCIENTISTS CONSTANTLY PRODUCE NEW KNOWLEDGE RELEVANT TO ORAL DISEASE PREVENTION AND CLINICAL CARE, MUCH OF THEIR WORK IS NEVER INCORPORATED INTO PRACTICE. SIMILARLY, CLINICAL PROBLEMS ARE RARELY TRANSLATED INTO RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND PROJECTS. IN ADDITION, THERE HAVE BEEN GROWING CONCERNS ABOUT THE REDUCTION IN THE CLINICIAN-SCIENTIST WORKFORCE, WHICH MAY IMPACT ORAL HEALTH SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS AS WELL AS THE PIPELINE OF FUTURE ORAL HEALTH LEADERS. THE GOAL OF THE PACIFIC- STANFORD PRIMED PROGRAM IS TO TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION OF CLINICAL ORAL HEALTH RESEARCHERS TO EFFECTIVELY TRANSLATE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH TO ENSURE OPTIMAL ORAL AND GENERAL HEALTH OUTCOMES. THE SPECIFIC AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROGRAM ARE TO: 1. PROVIDE PERSONALIZED EDUCATION IN CLINICAL RESEARCH SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOR CLINICALLY-ORIENTED FACULTY, DENTAL ALUMNI, AND DENTAL STUDENTS/RESIDENTS BY LEVERAGING RESOURCES THROUGH THE STANFORD CTSA PROGRAM. 2. ENGAGE AND SUPPORT RESEARCH FACULTY AND CLINICALLY-ORIENTED FACULTY IN INTRA- AND INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATIONS AT UOP AND STANFORD. 3. CREATE PEER AND STUDENT MENTORING PARTNERSHIPS WITH BIDIRECTIONAL RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN RESEARCH FACULTY, CLINICALLY-ORIENTED FACULTY, AND DENTAL STUDENTS/RESIDENTS AT UOP AND STANFORD. 4. TO CARRY OUT PRACTICE-BASED CLINICAL RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN UOP AND AFFILIATED DENTAL CLINICS WITH CLINICAL FACULTY AND STUDENTS/RESIDENTS PARTICIPATING IN RESEARCH CONDUCTED DURING THE COURSE OF PATIENT CARE. WE WILL ACCOMPLISH THESE GOALS BY: (1) PROVIDING CLINICAL RESEARCH EDUCATION FOR CLINICALLY-ORIENTED FACULTY, DENTAL ALUMNI, AND DENTAL STUDENTS/RESIDENTS BY LEVERAGING STANFORD CTSA PROGRAM RESOURCES; (2) SUPPORTING RESEARCH AND CLINICALLY- ORIENTED FACULTY IN BIDIRECTIONAL INTRA- AND INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATIONS AT UOP AND STANFORD; (3) CREATING MENTORING PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN RESEARCH AND CLINICALLY-ORIENTED FACULTY, AND DENTAL STUDENTS/RESIDENTS AT UOP AND STANFORD; AND (4) CONDUCTING PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH WHERE DATA AND SAMPLE COLLECTION IS INTEGRATED INTO CLINICAL WORKFLOWS, AND IS CARRIED OUT DURING PATIENT CARE IN UOP DENTAL SCHOOL CLINICS, ITS AFFILIATED CLINIC SITES, AND STANFORD CLINICS.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$2.1M
IN THE MODERN ERA, NASA SMD MISSIONS AND FACILITIES ARE PRODUCING DATA AT A RATE TOO GREAT FOR THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY TO MAXIMALLY UTILIZE. WHILE SOFT
Agency for International Development
$2M
RECOFTC - GREEN MEKONG (GRASSROOTS EQUITY AND ENHANCED NETWORKS IN THE MEKONG)
Department of Health and Human Services
$2M
NURSE EDUCATION, PRACTICE, QUALITY AND RETENTION - WORKFORCE EXPANSION PROGRAM - THE PACIFIC NURSING WORKFORCE EDUCATION PROGRAM (PNWEP) AIMS TO CREATE AN EDUCATIONAL PIPELINE FOR DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS IN THE CENTRAL AND SACRAMENTO VALLEY REGIONS, ADDRESSING HIGHER ATTRITION RATES AND LOWER REPRESENTATION AMONG THESE STUDENTS. IDENTIFIED CHALLENGES INCLUDE THE NEED FOR NAVIGATION AND ORIENTATION TO UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS, FINANCIAL AND ACADEMIC SUPPORT, SOCIAL AND MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES, MENTORSHIP, AND ENHANCED EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES IN ACUTE AND LONG-TERM CARE SETTINGS. THE GOAL OF THE PNWEP PROPOSAL IS TO INCREASE AND STRENGTHEN THE NURSING WORKFORCE IN ACUTE AND LONG-TERM CARE, WITH THE PRIORITY OF ENHANCING OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS FROM POPULATIONS THAT HAVE HISTORICALLY EXPERIENCED DISPARITIES AND A LACK OF ACCESS TO ADVANCED NURSING EDUCATION. THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC, SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES OFFERS A DEPTH OF RESOURCES AND IMPLEMENTS VARIOUS TOOLS AND STRATEGIES TO ENSURE ONGOING FACULTY AND STAFF TRAINING, OUTREACH, COLLABORATIONS, COMMUNICATION, AND INFORMATION SHARING/DISSEMINATION WITH EFFORTS TO INVOLVE COMMUNITIES. THE PROPOSAL SEEKS TO: 1. IMPLEMENT RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION SYSTEMS 2. INCREASE ENROLLMENT 3. IMPLEMENT TRAINING IN ACUTE AND LONG-TERM CARE 4. ESTABLISH PARTNERSHIPS WITH ACUTE AND LONG-TERM SITES 5. PROVIDE STUDENT SUPPORT, INCLUDING STIPENDS, MENTORING, AND WRAPAROUND SERVICES 6. RECRUIT AND RETAIN NURSING FACULTY AND CLINICAL FACULTY/PRECEPTORS 7. EVALUATE THE PROGRAM’S EFFICACY THE PNWEP GRANT PROPOSAL ALIGNS AND SYNERGIZES WITH OUR SCHOOL’S MISSION, VISION, AND VALUES. THE PNWEP PROGRAM WILL SUPPORT NURSING STUDENTS IN VARIOUS WAYS TO ENSURE A ROBUST PATHWAY FOR DIVERSE, TALENTED STUDENTS WITH DEEP ROOTS IN THE COMMUNITY AND THE SUPPORT NEEDED TO ENTER NURSING CAREERS SUCCESSFULLY. GRADUATES PREPARED USING THESE FUNDS WILL BE READY TO MEET THE WORKFORCE NEEDS OF RURAL COMMUNITIES IN ACUTE CARE, LONG-TERM CARE, AND PUBLIC HEALTH SETTINGS.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
$2M
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE, COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING, AND MISCELLANEOUS GRANTS
Agency for International Development
$1.9M
AME REGIONAL PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION GRANT TO SPREP FOR PACIFIC CLIMATE CHANGE PROGRAM
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$1.8M
THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC CO-INVESTIGATORS AT THE SETI INSTITUTE AND PARTNERS AT THE SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE PROPOSE ECLIPSE AMBASSADORS PREPARE COMMUNITIES OFF THE PATH FOR TWO SOLAR ECLIPSES
Department of Education
$1.7M
THE SUCCESS PROGRAM AT PACIFIC PROVIDES SUPPORT SERVICES TO 200 ELIGIBLE STUDENTS TO ASSIST IN THEIR RETENTION AND GRADUATION AND TO FACILITATE THEIR TRANSITION TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
National Science Foundation
$1.6M
SHARING THE UNIVERSE
Department of Health and Human Services
$1.6M
DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE INFLUENZA NETWORKS AND RESPONSE TO AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFL
Department of State
$1.5M
TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY AND TRADE BY CAPACITATING THE SRI LANKA PORTS AUTHORITY (SLPA) ON PORTS AND SHIPPING SECTOR DEVELOPMENTS IN LINE WITH GLOBAL STANDARDS AND BEST PRACTICES.
Department of Education
$1.5M
STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM
Department of State
$1.5M
MAINSTREAM GENDER EQUALITY IN THE PACIFIC CLEAN ENERGY SECTOR TO EMPOWER WOMEN WITH INCREASE CAREER AND INCOME GENERATING OPPORTUNITIES AND ENHANCED ACCESS TO CLEAN ENERGY
Department of Education
$1.5M
THE PACIFIC UPWARD BOUND PROJECT WILL PROVIDE FUNDAMENTAL SUPPORT TO 60 LOW-INCOME, POTENTIAL FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS FROM EDISON HIGH SCHOOL TO PREPARE FOR COLLEGE ENTRANCE.
Department of Education
$1.4M
STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM
Department of Health and Human Services
$1.4M
A NOVEL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR THE PREVENTION AND RESCUE OF FENTANYL AND OTHER OPIOID OVERDOSES - OPIOIDS HAVE SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE EFFECTS HIGHLIGHTED BY THE LARGE NUMBER OF PATIENTS WITH OPIOID USE DISORDER (OUD) AND THE INCREASING NUMBER OF OVERDOSE DEATHS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ELSEWHERE. IN JUST THE 12-MONTH PERIOD ENDING IN NOVEMBER 2021, MORE THAN 107,000 AMERICANS DIED FROM DRUG OVERDOSE. AROUND 66% OF THESE DEATHS INVOLVED ILLICIT SYNTHETIC OPIOIDS LIKE FENTANYL (APPROXIMATELY 50 TIMES MORE POTENT THAN HEROIN AND 100 TIMES MORE POTENT THAN MORPHINE), WHICH IS THE PRIMARY DRIVER OF THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC TODAY. MANY OF THE OPIOID OVERDOSE DEATHS ARE ATTRIBUTED TO FENTANYL MIXED WITH OTHER ILLICIT DRUGS LIKE HEROIN, COCAINE, AND METHAMPHETAMINE. THE POTENTIAL LETHAL DOSE OF FENTANYL IS AROUND TWO MILLIGRAMS, AND IT IS PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS FOR OPIOID NAÏVE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE A TOLERANCE TO OPIOIDS. OVERDOSE DEATHS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL-AGED AMERICANS HAVE MORE THAN DOUBLED SINCE 2019, WHICH HAS BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO COUNTERFEIT PILLS (E.G., XANAX, PERCOCET, ADDERALL) LACED WITH A LETHAL AMOUNT OF FENTANYL. SADLY, MANY USERS OFTEN INGEST THE DEADLY DRUG UNKNOWINGLY. UNFORTUNATELY, THERE IS NOT A HAPPY ENDING FOR THIS DEVASTATING STORY AND THERE IS NO EASY SOLUTION TO THE SYNTHETIC OPIOID PROBLEM. THE VULNERABILITY OF OUR NATION TO THE WEAPONIZATION OF HIGHLY POTENT FENTANYL ANALOGS, SUCH AS CARFENTANIL (20-FOLD MORE POTENT THAN FENTANYL), POSES A SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC HEALTH RISK NOT ONLY TO CIVILIANS, BUT ALSO TO FIRST RESPONDERS, LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL, AND THE MILITARY. THE RELATIVELY SHORT DURATION OF ACTION (DOA) OF THE MU-OPIOID RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS, NALOXONE AND NALMEFENE, POSES A MAJOR CHALLENGE FOR ITS EFFICACY AGAINST FENTANYL OVERDOSE. IT IS DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE HOW NALOXONE AND NALMEFENE COULD BE DEPLOYED EFFECTIVELY IN A MASS CASUALTY SITUATION INVOLVING SYNTHETIC OPIOIDS (WHERE DURATION OF OVERDOSE COULD LAST UP TO 24 HR). THE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP A FUNDAMENTALLY NOVEL DRUG DELIVERY APPROACH FOR EXTENDING THE DOA OF CURRENTLY FDA-APPROVED OPIOID OVERDOSE ANTIDOTES (NALOXONE AND NALMEFENE) FOR 24 HR OR MORE. HERE WE REPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW GENERATION OF OPIOID ANTAGONIST PRODRUGS AS A COUNTERMEASURE FOR SYNTHETIC OPIOID OVERDOSE. THE MAIN ADVANTAGES OF OUR SYSTEM INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: (I) USE OF TWO FDA-APPROVED ANTIDOTES, NALOXONE AND NALMEFENE, WITH WELL-ESTABLISHED SAFETY AND EFFICACY PROFILES; (II) POTENTIAL TO REVERSE AND EFFECTIVELY PROTECT AGAINST RE-NARCOTIZATION BY SYNTHETIC OPIOID OVERDOSE; (III) POTENTIAL TO AVOID THE PRECIPITATION OF OPIOID WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS; AND (IV) ABILITY TO ADMINISTER THE PRODRUGS SUBCUTANEOUSLY. THE MAIN HYPOTHESIS OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO TEST WHETHER CONJUGATION OF FDA-APPROVED OPIOID ANTAGONISTS THROUGH A CLEAVABLE ESTER LINKER TO A SELECTIVE LIGAND FOR THE SERUM PROTEIN, TRANSTHYRETIN (TTR), WOULD ALLOW US TO GENERATE OPIOID ANTAGONIST PRODRUGS THAT ARE HYDROPHILIC AND CAN BIND REVERSIBLY TO TTR IN SERUM. THE BALANCED HYDROPHILICITY OF PRODRUG WILL BE IMPORTANT FOR ACHIEVING RAPID ABSORPTION OF THE PRODRUG FROM THE SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE WHILE BINDING TO TTR WOULD EXTEND THE DOA OF THE PRODRUGS.
Department of Health and Human Services
$1.3M
PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN GENERAL, PEDIATRIC, AND PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY AND DENTAL HYGIENE
Department of Education
$1.2M
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC UPWARD BOUND PROGRAM WILL PROVIDE FUNDAMENTAL SUPPORT TO 60 LOW INCOME POTENTIAL FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS FROM EDISON HIGH SCHOOL TO PREPARE FOR COLLEGE ENTRANCE
Department of Education
$1.2M
EDUCATION OF NATIVE HAWAIIANS
Department of Agriculture
$1.2M
COMMUNITY BASED FIRE MANAGEMENT IN ASIA
National Science Foundation
$1.2M
RECRUITING, PREPARING, AND RETAINING STEM TEACHERS IN SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Department of Education
$1.1M
TRIO - STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES - STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM
Department of Health and Human Services
$1.1M
GHB TOXICOKINETICS: ROLE OF SEX HORMONE DEPENDENT MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER REGULATION AND POTENTIAL FOR ALTERED OVERDOSE RISK IN TRANSGENDER MEN AND WOMEN
Department of Energy
$1M
TAS::89 0321::TAS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW SILICA-ALUMINA BASED CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL LARGELY USING COAL REFUSE FOR MINE BACKFILL, MINE S
Department of State
$1M
SCALE UP PROGRAM TO ENHANCE THE UPTAKE OF SUSTAINABLE BIOGAS TECHNOLOGIES IN TUVALU OUTER ISLANDS.
Department of Justice
$1M
TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
Agency for International Development
$949.5K
INCLUDE STANDARD PROVISION-HOMELAND SECURITY
Department of State
$924.1K
THIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO ENHANCE CAPACITIES OF ESCAP MEMBER STATES TO PROVIDE ROBUST GOVERNANCE, REGULATORY, AND POLICY ENVIRONMENTS RELATED TO OPEN RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (OPEN RAN) AND OTHER EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES.
Department of Commerce
$889.2K
AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC'S OCEAN SCIENCE CENTER (SOS): OCEAN-EARTH STORIES CONNECTING PEOPLE, THE OCEAN AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Department of Health and Human Services
$874K
DENTAL FACULTY LOAN REPAYMENT
Department of Health and Human Services
$854.6K
DEVELOPMENT OF INFLUENZA SURVEILLANCE NETWORKS
National Science Foundation
$795.7K
S-STEM: CULTIVATING SUCCESS: CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND STUDENT RETENTION THROUGH SCHOLARSHIPS AND ACADEMIC-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS -THIS PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE NATIONAL NEED FOR WELL-EDUCATED SCIENTISTS, MATHEMATICIANS, ENGINEERS, AND TECHNICIANS BY SUPPORTING THE RETENTION AND GRADUATION OF HIGH-ACHIEVING, LOW-INCOME STUDENTS WITH DEMONSTRATED FINANCIAL NEED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC. THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC IS A MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTION (MSI) WITH ASIAN AMERICAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER-SERVING INSTITUTION (AANAPISI) AND HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTION (HSI) STATUS. OVER ITS SIX-YEAR DURATION, THIS TRACK 1 PROJECT WILL FUND SCHOLARSHIPS TO TEN UNIQUE FULL-TIME STUDENTS WHO ARE PURSUING BACHELOR'S DEGREES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT. FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS WILL RECEIVE FOUR-YEAR SCHOLARSHIPS. BY ESTABLISHING PARTNERSHIPS WITH LOCAL EMPLOYERS AND INTEGRATING ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRY EXPERIENCES THROUGH WORK-BASED LEARNING, STUDENTS WILL GAIN RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE EARLY IN THEIR DEGREE PROGRAMS, INCREASING THEIR FUTURE SUCCESS AND CAREER READINESS. THE PROJECT ALSO AIMS TO ENHANCE STUDENT SUCCESS BY IMPLEMENTING ORGANIZED COHORT EXPERIENCES AND OFFERING COMPREHENSIVE ACADEMIC, SOCIAL, AND CAREER READINESS SUPPORTS. GIVEN THAT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC AND ITS SURROUNDING REGION HAVE A HIGH POPULATION OF STUDENTS FROM GROUPS UNDERREPRESENTED IN STEM, THIS PROJECT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BROADEN PARTICIPATION AMONG LOW-INCOME, DIVERSE, AND ACADEMICALLY TALENTED STUDENTS PURSUING THEIR DEGREES. THE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO INCREASE STEM DEGREE COMPLETION OF ACADEMICALLY TALENTED, LOW-INCOME UNDERGRADUATES WITH DEMONSTRATED FINANCIAL NEED. IT WILL STUDY STUDENTS' SENSE OF BELONGING, SELF-EFFICACY, PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY, AND CAREER READINESS WITHIN THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC. THE PROJECT WILL EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF RECRUITMENT AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES AIMED AT ATTRACTING LOW-INCOME, ACADEMICALLY TALENTED STUDENTS TO THE CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS. IT WILL ALSO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF STRUCTURED ACADEMIC AND STUDENT SUPPORT ON STUDENTS' SENSE OF BELONGING, SELF-EFFICACY, AND PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY. ADDITIONALLY, THE PROJECT WILL EXPLORE THE ROLE OF WORK-BASED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES IN ENHANCING ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND POST-GRADUATION EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES. THE PROJECT WILL BE EVALUATED WITH A MIXED METHODS APPROACH THAT RELIES ON VALIDATED SURVEY INSTRUMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN USED IN PRIOR STUDIES AND NARRATIVE INTERVIEWS TO GAIN A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF STUDENTS' PERSPECTIVES. THROUGH ANNUAL DATA COLLECTION THE PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE AN UNDERSTANDING OF STUDENT PERSPECTIVES OVER TIME. RESULTS FROM THIS PROJECT WILL BE DISSEMINATED THROUGH EXISTING NETWORKS, SUCH AS THE MATHEMATICS, ENGINEERING, SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT (MESA) PROGRAM, A DIGITAL SHOWCASE, WORKSHOPS, AND CONFERENCES AND JOURNALS FOR ENGINEERING AND STEM EDUCATION AS WELL AS DISCIPLINARY AREA JOURNALS. THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED BY NSF'S SCHOLARSHIPS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS PROGRAM, WHICH SEEKS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF ACADEMICALLY TALENTED LOW-INCOME STUDENTS WITH DEMONSTRATED FINANCIAL NEED WHO EARN DEGREES IN STEM FIELDS. IT ALSO AIMS TO IMPROVE THE EDUCATION OF FUTURE STEM WORKERS, AND TO GENERATE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ACADEMIC SUCCESS, RETENTION, TRANSFER, GRADUATION, AND ACADEMIC/CAREER PATHWAYS OF LOW-INCOME STUDENTS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Department of Health and Human Services
$756.8K
STRENGTHENING AAPI FAMILIES TO END DOMESTIC/FAMILY VIOLENCE
Department of State
$737.9K
FACILITATE TRAVEL, LOGISTICAL SUPPORT, COMMUNICATION, COORDINATION AND NETWORKING FOR PARTICIPANTS TO THE 13TH FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC ARTS AND CULTURE (FESTPAC) IN HAWAII.
Department of Health and Human Services
$735.5K
STUDIES ON THE AH RECEPTORS SIGNALING MECHANISM
Department of Health and Human Services
$692.8K
INVESTIGATING THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS IN CONTROLLING THE ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPT
National Science Foundation
$692.7K
EDGE CMT: RUI: ROLES OF TOXIN-ANTITOXIN SYSTEMS IN BIOFILM FORMATION AND HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER IN THE GENUS VARIOVORAX
Department of Justice
$675K
TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Department of Health and Human Services
$664.8K
SIDE CHAIN DRIVEN REFINEMENT OF PROTEIN STRUCTURE
Department of Agriculture
$656K
PARTICIPATORY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN ASIA
Department of Health and Human Services
$600K
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH WORKFORCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM - THE UNITED STATES CONTINUES TO GRAPPLE WITH SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES RELATED TO MENTAL HEALTH ACCESS, SUPPORT, AND INTERVENTIONS, PARTICULARLY WITHIN MARGINALIZED, OPPRESSED, AND UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA, THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC IS ACUTELY AWARE OF THE REGION'S VAST UNMET BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NEEDS. THE PROPOSED PACIFIC BHWET PROGRAM, FOR WHICH WE SEEK FUNDING, AIMS TO EXPAND THE SUPPLY OF A DIVERSE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH WORKFORCE TRAINED TO DELIVER INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE IN HIGH-NEED AND HIGH-DEMAND AREAS. THIS INITIATIVE AIMS TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING PROGRAMS THAT PREPARE SOCIAL WORKERS AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS TO COLLABORATE EFFECTIVELY IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. BY DOING SO, WE AIM TO INCREASE THE AVAILABILITY OF SKILLED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, ENHANCE ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, AND ULTIMATELY IMPROVE THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS, ESPECIALLY YOUTH IN THESE COMMUNITIES. THE PACIFIC BHWET PROJECT WILL EMPLOY A RESPONSIVE, MULTIFACETED APPROACH TO ADDRESS IDENTIFIED CHALLENGES AND DISPARITIES. OUR STRATEGY INCLUDES PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT THROUGH STIPENDS TO ALLEVIATE THE ECONOMIC BURDEN ON TRAINEES FROM DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS. ADDITIONALLY, WE WILL ESTABLISH MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS THAT PAIR TRAINEES WITH EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS WITH EXPERTISE IN DELIVERING K-12 SCHOOL-BASED CARE TO YOUTH. TO FURTHER ENHANCE ACCESSIBILITY, WE WILL INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGY TO HELP TRAINEES BALANCE THEIR EDUCATION WITH PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES. WE WILL ALSO FUND SPECIALIZED TRAINING IN INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOR YOUTH FOR CLINICAL EDUCATORS TO PREPARE THEM TO TRAIN STUDENTS. BY ADDRESSING THESE SYSTEMIC BARRIERS, WE AIM TO CREATE A PATHWAY FOR DIVERSE AND TALENTED INDIVIDUALS TO SUCCEED IN THEIR EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVORS, ULTIMATELY STRENGTHENING THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH WORKFORCE IN CENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOLS AND SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVING COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTCOMES.
Department of Justice
$588.2K
BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY TO RESPOND TO ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
Department of Justice
$585.5K
SUSTAINING AND DIVERSIFYING CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$581.9K
THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC (ASP; HTTP://WWW.ASTROSOCIETY.ORG/)PROPOSES A THREE-YEAR PARTNERSHIP WITH UC BERKELEY S CENTER FOR SCIENCE ED
Department of Health and Human Services
$579.6K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
National Science Foundation
$579.1K
MRI: ACQUISITION OF MASS SPECTROMETRY TECHNOLOGY FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING
Department of Health and Human Services
$552.4K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Justice
$550K
THE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING PROGRAM (TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAM) IS AUTHORIZED BY 34 U.S.C. § 12351. THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAM IS TO PROVIDE AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING WHO ARE HOMELESS, OR IN NEED OF TRANSITIONAL HOUSING OR OTHER HOUSING ASSISTANCE, AS A RESULT OF THEIR VICTIMIZATION, AND FOR WHOM EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES OR OTHER CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES ARE UNAVAILABLE OR INSUFFICIENT. A HOMELESS INDIVIDUAL IS ONE WHO LACKS A FIXED, REGULAR, AND ADEQUATE NIGHTTIME RESIDENCE, AND INCLUDES AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS SHARING THE HOUSING OF OTHER PERSONS DUE TO LOSS OF HOUSING, ECONOMIC HARDSHIP, OR A SIMILAR REASON. THE PROGRAM SUPPORTS HOLISTIC, SURVIVOR-CENTERED APPROACHES TO PROVIDING TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND SUPPORT SERVICES THAT MOVE INDIVIDUALS INTO PERMANENT HOUSING AND HELP THEM SECURE EMPLOYMENT AND INTEGRATE INTO A COMMUNITY. PROJECTS MUST PROVIDE: 1) TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND 2) SUPPORT SERVICES (TO INCLUDE FOLLOW-UP SERVICES) TO SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, OR STALKING. TRANSITIONAL HOUSING MODELS INCLUDE: COMMUNAL/SHARED FAMILY LIVING SPACES, CLUSTERED/INDIVIDUAL FAMILY CO-LOCATED SPACES AND SCATTERED SITE/INDIVIDUAL FAMILY SPACES INDEPENDENTLY LOCATED. PROJECTS MUST OFFER A MINIMUM OF SIX MONTHS AND MAXIMUM 24 MONTHS OF HOUSING ASSISTANCE. SUPPORT SERVICES CAN BE A WIDE RANGE OF SURVIVOR-CENTERED VOLUNTARY SERVICES FOCUSED ON EMPOWERING SURVIVORS AND ADDRESSING THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES FACED BY UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS BECAUSE OF GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION, RELIGION, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, RACE, ETHNICITY AND SPECIAL NEEDS (SUCH AS LANGUAGE BARRIERS, DISABILITIES, ALIENAGE STATUS, OR AGE). EXAMPLES OF SURVIVOR-CENTERED VOLUNTARY SUPPORT SERVICES INCLUDE: RENTAL AND UTILITY ASSISTANCE, CASE MANAGEMENT, SAFETY PLANNING, CHILDCARE, TRANSPORTATION, CAREER COUNSELING, FINANCIAL AND CREDIT COUNSELING, SUPPORT GROUPS, INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING, JOB TRAINING, EDUCATION ATTAINMENT, LIMITED LEGAL ASSISTANCE (REGARDING HOUSING, PROTECTION ORDERS, AND LIMITED IMMIGRATION MATTERS THAT AFFECT A VICTIM’S ABILITY TO OBTAIN HOUSING), AND OTHER ASSISTANCE. PROJECTS ARE REQUIRED TO MAINTAIN A COMPENSATED PARTNERSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY TO ENSURE CONSISTENT QUALITY OF SERVICE. ONCE PERMANENT HOUSING IS SECURED, SURVIVOR-CENTERED VOLUNTARY FOLLOW-UP SERVICES ARE OFFERED TO SURVIVORS FOR A MINIMUM OF THREE MONTHS AND A MAXIMUM OF 12 MONTHS.
National Science Foundation
$529.5K
ECLIPSE AMBASSADORS: PREPARING SCIENTISTS AND EDUCATORS TO FACILITATE ENGAGEMENT IN THE 2024 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE -THIS PROJECT FROM THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC (ASP) IS CENTERED ON THE 2024 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE, WHICH WILL TRAVERSE THE US FROM SOUTHWEST TO THE NORTHEAST, PASSING OVER SEVERAL URBAN AREAS. THE ASP?S ECLIPSE AMBASSADORS PROJECT WILL TRAIN 300 TEACHERS AND ASTRONOMERS TO FACILITATE ACTIVITIES IN A SOLAR ECLIPSE KIT TO BE DEVELOPED AS A PART OF THIS PROJECT. THIS PROJECT INCLUDES PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS AND SCIENTISTS. THIS PROJECT PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS FROM GROUPS UNDERREPRESENTED IN STEM. THIS AWARD IS JOINTLY SUPPORTED BY THE SOLAR TERRESTRIAL RESEARCH, THE DISCOVERY RESEARCH IN K-12 (DRK-12), THE ADVANCING INFORMAL STEM LEARNING (AISL), AND THE ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCES EDUCATION AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS. APPROXIMATELY 200 GRADE K-9 SCIENCE TEACHERS AND 100 ASTRONOMERS ARE ESTIMATED TO ENGAGE WITH A MINIMUM OF 20,000 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND AN ADDITIONAL 10,000 SCHOOL STUDENTS. UPON ACCEPTANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN WORKSHOPS, APPROXIMATELY 200 GRADE K-9 SCIENCE TEACHERS AND 100 ASTRONOMERS WILL RECEIVE THE ECLIPSE KITS AND 3 HOURS OF ONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. THEY WILL ALSO RECEIVE PERMANENT ACCESS TO THE LEARN@ASP PORTAL, WHICH PROVIDES ACCESS TO MATERIALS AND OTHER AMBASSADORS, FACILITATING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BEYOND THE ECLIPSE. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.
Department of Health and Human Services
$526K
SINGLE-CELL IMMUNE LANDSCAPE IN THE ORAL DYSPLASIA'S MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION - ABOUT 7.9-27.6% OF ORAL DYSPLASIA, A PREMALIGNANT LESION, TRANSIT TO THE INVASIVE ORAL CAVITY SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA (OCSCC). PROGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS ARE CRITICALLY NEEDED TO DETERMINE PATIENTS WITH ORAL DYSPLASTIC LESIONS AT RISK FOR MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION AND TO GUIDE THE TARGETED DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL THERAPIES. OUR GOAL IS TO ESTABLISH A SINGLE-CELL ATLAS OF PREMALIGNANT IMMUNE MICROENVIRONMENT (PRIME) IN ORAL DYSPLASIA AND TO IDENTIFY IMMUNE FEATURES THAT PREDICT THE MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION TO OCSCC. WE PROPOSE AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH THAT COMBINES HIGH-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING MASS CYTOMETRY (IMC) AND MACHINE LEARNING PREDICTIVE MODELING (IEN) TO ANALYZE A TOTAL OF ~200 FORMALIN-FIXED PARAFFIN-EMBEDDED (FFPE) PATIENT TONGUE BIOPSIES FROM THE ORAL PATHOLOGY ARCHIVE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC (UOP), ARTHUR A. DUGONI SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY. IMC IS A NEW MULTIPLEX IMAGING TECHNOLOGY WHICH COMBINES HIGH- DIMENSIONAL MASS CYTOMETRY WITH MICROSCOPY. IMMUNE ELASTIC NET (IEN) IS A MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM SPECIFICALLY DEVELOPING FOR THE ANALYSIS OF HIGH-DIMENSIONAL MASS CYTOMETRY DATA. WE PLAN TO IDENTIFY IMMUNE FEATURES THAT DIFFERENTIATE ORAL DYSPLASIA SEVERITY (AIM 1) AND PREDICT OCSCC MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION (AIM 2). IN ADDITION, WE WILL ANALYZE THE IEN-SELECTED IMMUNE FEATURES AT UOP HAN’S LAB BY CONDUCTING MULTIPLEX IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE (MIF) STAINING ON THE WHOLE SECTIONS (AIM 1&2) TO VALIDATE AND GENERALIZE THE IMC FINDINGS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL ESTABLISH IMMUNE LANDSCAPE IN ORAL DYSPLASIA AND IDENTIFY BIOMARKERS TO PREDICT THE MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION. IT ALSO PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PREDENTAL OR DENTAL STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND COLLABORATING WITH MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM TO IDENTIFY BIOMARKERS TO IMPROVE ORAL PATHOLOGY DIAGNOSIS.
National Science Foundation
$525K
NON-MINIMUM ENERGY PATHWAYS IN THE DISSOCIATION OF ENERGY-SELECTED IONS -IN THIS PROJECT, FUNDED BY THE CHEMICAL STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS, AND MECHANISMS-A (CSDM-A) PROGRAM OF THE DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY, PROFESSORS B?LINT SZT?RAY AND ANTHONY DUTOI AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC ARE INVESTIGATING THE WAYS THAT MOLECULES BREAK APART AFTER AN ELECTRON IS REMOVED BY ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT. UNTIL RECENTLY, CHEMISTS THOUGHT OF THESE PROCESSES AS BEING CONTROLLED ALMOST ENTIRELY BY THE POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE, AKIN TO LOOKING FOR THE LOWEST PASS THROUGH MOUNTAINS. MORE RECENTLY, IT WAS LEARNED THAT IT IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR THE PARTICIPANT ATOMS TO EXPLORE PREVIOUSLY UNRECOGNIZED REACTION PATHS OR SWITCH BETWEEN LOW-ENERGY PATHS. SOMETIMES THERE IS NOT EVEN A CLEARLY UNIQUE PATH, WITH THE ATOMS SPENDING SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF TIME ?ROAMING? BEFORE THE REACTION COMPLETES. THIS PROJECT COMBINES EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS TO ANSWER SUCH FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS AS HOW ENERGY FLOWS IN THE FRAGMENTING ION, WHAT MOLECULAR-LEVEL PARAMETERS GOVERN OUTCOMES OF REACTIONS, AND HOW/WHEN REACTION MECHANISMS DEFY CONVENTIONAL LOGIC. THE RESEARCH INVOLVES UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS FROM CALIFORNIA?S CENTRAL VALLEY WHO ARE OFTEN THE FIRST IN THE FAMILY TO GET A UNIVERSITY DEGREE. THIS PROJECT PROVIDES THEM WITH ADVANCED EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL SKILLS TO POSITION THEM WELL ON THE HIGH-TECH JOB MARKET. NON-MINIMUM-ENERGY-PATHWAY (NON-MEP) MECHANISMS, SUCH AS NONSTATISTICAL DYNAMIC EFFECTS, REACTION PATH BIFURCATIONS, AND ROAMING, CAN LEAD TO UNUSUAL BRANCHING RATIOS AND UNUSUAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF INTERNAL AND KINETIC ENERGY IN REACTION PRODUCTS. THIS PROJECT USES PHOTOELECTRON PHOTOION COINCIDENCE (PEPICO) SPECTROSCOPY TO INVESTIGATE UNIMOLECULAR DISSOCIATIONS INVOLVING NON-MEP PHENOMENA IN ENERGY-SELECTED GAS-PHASE IONS. THE INSTRUMENTS, BUILT BY PROFESSOR SZT?RAY AND COLLABORATORS, ENABLE MEASUREMENT OF BOTH STABLE AND UNSTABLE, THERMAL AND MOLECULAR-BEAM-COOLED SPECIES, AND ALLOW COLLECTION OF BRANCHING, UNIMOLECULAR RATE, AND KINETIC ENERGY RELEASE DATA WITH MEV RESOLUTION. THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ARE COMPLEMENTED BY PROFESSOR DUTOI?S MOLECULAR DYNAMICS TRAJECTORY CALCULATIONS TO ELUCIDATE THEIR MECHANISMS, FURTHER EXTENDED BY HIGH-LEVEL QUANTUM-CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS AT SELECT POINTS. INTEGRATING EXPERIMENTATION WITH COMPUTATIONAL MODELING AND THEORY FROM THE ONSET ALLOWS EXTRACTION OF PHYSICAL INSIGHTS NOT PREVIOUSLY ATTAINABLE BY EITHER EXPERIMENT OR THEORY ALONE. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.
Department of Justice
$500K
THE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING PROGRAM (TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAM, AUTHORIZED BY 34 U.S.C. 12351), HAS AS ITS PRIMARY PURPOSE THE PROVISION OF TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND SUPPORT SERVICES TO AID MINORS, ADULTS, AND THEIR DEPENDENTS WHO ARE HOMELESS (AS DEFINED IN 34 U.S.C. 12473(6)) OR IN NEED OF TRANSITIONAL HOUSING OR OTHER HOUSING ASSISTANCE AS A RESULT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, OR STALKING. THE PROGRAM IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS FOR WHOM EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES OR OTHER CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES ARE UNAVAILABLE OR INSUFFICIENT. THE PROGRAM SUPPORTS VICTIM-CENTERED APPROACHES TO PROVIDING TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, SHORT-TERM HOUSING ASSISTANCE, AND VOLUNTARY SUPPORT SERVICES TO ASSIST WITH LOCATING AND SECURING PERMANENT HOUSING, OBTAINING EMPLOYMENT, AND INTEGRATING INTO A COMMUNITY. THE CENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY, INC., A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION LOCATED IN LOS ANGELES, CA, WILL IMPLEMENT THE PATHWAY OF OPPORTUNITY TOWARD INDEPENDENCE, SELF-RELIANCE, AND ECONOMIC STABILITY PROJECT THROUGH THE PROVISION OF VICTIM-CENTERED APPROACHES TO TRANSITIONAL HOUSING NEEDS, IN COLLABORATION WITH LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. THE PROJECT WILL PROVIDE COMMUNAL TRANSITIONAL HOUSING RESIDENCES FOR SURVIVORS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN AN URBAN REGION OF CALIFORNIA. THIS CONTINUATION PROJECT WILL USE FUNDS TO PROVIDE BOTH HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES TO MOVE SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, OR STALKING WHO ARE HOMELESS OR IN NEED OF HOUSING ASSISTANCE TO PERMANENT HOUSING. THE PROJECT WILL ASSIST CLIENTS FOR AN ANTICIPATED MINIMUM OF 6 MONTHS AND A MAXIMUM LENGTH OF 24 MONTHS. THE RANGE OF OPTIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES INCLUDES CASE MANAGEMENT, ECONOMIC STABILIZATION PLANS, FINANCIAL LITERACY, PUBLIC BENEFITS ENROLLMENT, JOB TRAINING, ESL, LIFE SKILLS, AND CAREER COACHING. FOLLOW-UP SERVICES WILL BE PROVIDED FOR AT LEAST 6 MONTHS ONCE PERMANENT HOUSING IS SECURED.
Department of the Interior
$500K
TA-PPEC-2010-6 - PACIFIC POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION COUNCIL
Department of Justice
$500K
COORDINATED COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER YOUTH SURVIVORS
Department of Justice
$475K
THE GRANTS TO ENHANCE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING PROGRAM IS AUTHORIZED BY 34 U.S.C. 20124. THIS PROGRAM SUPPORTS THE MAINTENANCE AND REPLICATION OF EXISTING SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS PROVIDING CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING, AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE ACCESS TO SERVICES AND RESOURCES FOR VICTIMS WHO FACE OBSTACLES TO USING MORE TRADITIONAL PROGRAMS. CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES MEANS COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES THAT INCLUDE CULTURALLY RELEVANT AND LINGUISTICALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES AND RESOURCES TO CULTURALLY SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES WHICH ARE STATUTORILY DEFINED AS AMERICAN INDIANS (INCLUDING ALASKA NATIVES, ESKIMOS, AND ALEUTS); ASIAN AMERICANS; NATIVE HAWAIIANS AND OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDERS; BLACKS; AND HISPANICS. PROJECTS MUST ADDRESS AT LEAST ONE OF THE PROGRAMS STATUTORY PURPOSE AREAS. THROUGH THIS CONTINUATION CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES PROGRAM PROJECT, CENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY, INC. WILL IMPLEMENT A PROJECT ADDRESSING THE FOLLOWING PURPOSE AREAS: PURPOSE AREA 2- INCREASING COMMUNITIES CAPACITY TO PROVIDE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC RESOURCES AND SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING CRIMES AND THEIR FAMILIES; PURPOSE AREA 5- WORKING IN COOPERATION WITH THE COMMUNITY TO DEVELOP EDUCATION AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES HIGHLIGHTING CULTURALLY SPECIFIC ISSUES AND RESOURCES; AND PURPOSE AREA 8: EXAMINING THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON VICTIMIZATION AND HEALING FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT IN LOS ANGELAS COUNTY. THE PROJECT WILL ADDRESS PRIORITY AREA 2: STRENGTHENING EFFORTS TO PREVENT AND END SEXUAL ASSAULT. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES WILL INCLUDE: 1) COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATION; AND 2) HEALING SPACES; AND 3) CULTURE CLUBS.
Department of Health and Human Services
$474.2K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Health and Human Services
$460.8K
LOAN GRANT WITH FUNDS FOR NEW BUDGET PERIOD
National Science Foundation
$458.7K
RUI: MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF BLACK WIDOW SPIDER SILKS
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$454K
IN RESPONSE TO THE NEED TO CREATE THE NEXT GENERATION OF NASA EXPLORERS AND PROMOTE A SCIENCE LITERATE POPULACE, SCIENTISTS AND EDUCATORS FROM THE AS
National Science Foundation
$450.7K
ISOMER SELECTIVE INTERROGATION OF COMBUSTION AND ATMOSPHERIC INTERMEDIATES
Department of Justice
$445K
THE SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES CULTURALLY SPECIFIC PROGRAM (SAS CULTURALLY SPECIFIC PROGRAM) WAS CREATED BY THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2005 (VAWA 2005), 34 U.S.C. 12511(C), AND IS PART OF THE FIRST FEDERAL FUNDING STREAM SOLELY DEDICATED TO THE PROVISION OF DIRECT INTERVENTION AND RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT. INTERVENTION AND RELATED ASSISTANCE INCLUDE ADVOCACY, ACCOMPANIMENT (E.G., ACCOMPANYING VICTIMS TO COURT, MEDICAL FACILITIES, POLICE DEPARTMENTS, ETC.), CRISIS INTERVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES, AND REFERRALS, AMONG OTHER SERVICES. UNDER THIS PROGRAM, SUCH SERVICES MAY BE PROVIDED TO ADULT, YOUTH, AND CHILD VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS OF SUCH VICTIMS, AND THOSE COLLATERALLY AFFECTED BY THE VICTIMIZATION. SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT FROM CULTURALLY SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES FREQUENTLY CONFRONT UNIQUE CHALLENGES WHEN SEEKING ASSISTANCE, SUCH AS LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL BARRIERS. CULTURALLY SPECIFIC COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS ARE MORE LIKELY TO UNDERSTAND THESE CHALLENGES BECAUSE THEY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE CULTURE, LANGUAGE, AND BACKGROUND OF VICTIMS FROM THEIR COMMUNITIES, WHO IN TURN ARE MORE INCLINED TO SEEK SERVICES FROM SUCH ORGANIZATIONS. THE GOAL OF THE SAS CULTURALLY SPECIFIC PROGRAM IS TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND EXPAND CULTURALLY SPECIFIC INTERVENTION AND RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, WHICH SERVE A VITAL ROLE IN PROVIDING SERVICES THAT ARE RELEVANT FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES. THROUGH THIS CONTINUATION SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES CULTURALLY SPECIFIC PROGRAM PROJECT, THE CENTER FOR THE PACIFIC ASIAN FAMILY, INC., WILL PROVIDE A MULTI-LINGUAL CHAT PLATFORM AND MULTI-LINGUAL WELLNESS PROGRAM TO ENGLISH, JAPANESE, THAI, KOREAN, AND MANDARIN CHINESE SPEAKING COMMUNITIES OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
Department of Health and Human Services
$435.1K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
National Science Foundation
$431.4K
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO EARLY ELEMENTARY EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
Department of Health and Human Services
$428.6K
EXPANDED ACCESS TO EFFECTIVE CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE SERVICES FOR AAPI SURVIVORS
National Science Foundation
$420.6K
CHIRALITY EFFECTS ON THE ACID-BASE PROPERTIES AND CONFORMATIONS OF PEPTIDES
Department of State
$419.7K
TO ENHANCE THE CAPACITY OF THE PACIFIC PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE NETWORK (PPHSN) SERVICES TO STRENGTHEN PUBLIC HEALTH SECURITY IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS REGION.
National Science Foundation
$403K
HIGH-ACCURACY THERMOCHEMISTRY WITH THRESHOLD AND IMAGING PHOTOELECTRON PHOTOION COINCIDENCE SPECTROSCOPY
National Science Foundation
$402.5K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EAR-CLIMATE: ECOHYDROLOGICAL RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE: CHANGING FLOWPATHS, AGING GROUNDWATERS, AND ALTERATIONS TO AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS -THIS PROJECT WILL ADVANCE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW DECREASED GROUNDWATER RECHARGE ASSOCIATED WITH CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTS MOUNTAIN GROUNDWATER SYSTEMS AND GROUNDWATER-DEPENDENT ECOSYSTEMS. MOUNTAIN AQUIFERS ACROSS THE WESTERN UNITED STATES SERVE AS REGIONAL SHORT-TERM STORAGE RESERVOIRS THAT PROVIDE A STABLE WATER SUPPLY FOR AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES, NEARBY CITIES, AND THREATENED ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES. PROJECT ACTIVITIES WILL OCCUR IN THE SIERRA NEVADA SAGEHEN EXPERIMENTAL FOREST (SEF) AND INCLUDE FIELD HYDROLOGICAL, GEOCHEMICAL, ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS OF SPRINGS AND AN ASSESSMENT OF INDICATORS OF ECOSYSTEM STRESS. IN THE SEF, SPRING GROUNDWATER AGE WAS PREVIOUSLY CORRELATED WITH INCREASED CHEMICAL WEATHERING AND ECOSYSTEM RICHNESS. THESE OBSERVATIONS SERVE AS AN IMPORTANT BASELINE OF HYDROLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL HEALTH FOR COMPARISON WITH MODERN OBSERVATIONS. BROADER IMPACTS FROM THIS WORK FOCUS ON THREE AREAS: 1) STRENGTHENING PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT BY SUPPORTING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS AND COLLABORATION BETWEEN TWO EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS; 2) SUPPORTING ONGOING COMMUNITY SCIENCE EFFORTS THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ANNUAL BIOBLITZ EVENT AT THE SEF; AND 3) SUPPORTING K-12 STEM EDUCATION THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A ?GREEN BOX? FOCUSED ON PROJECT DISCOVERIES IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE?S SCIENCE ALIVE TEAM. THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE HOW DECREASED PRECIPITATION AND INCREASED TEMPERATURE IN THE SEF HAVE ALTERED THE DISTRIBUTION OF CONTRIBUTING FLOWPATHS TO SPRINGFLOW GENERATION. THE RESEARCH PLAN INCLUDES TWO YEARS OF SPRING HYDROLOGICAL SAMPLING IN THE SEF FOR A SUITE OF GEOCHEMICAL ANALYTES, GROUNDWATER AGE TRACERS, AND PHYSICAL SPRING CHARACTERISTICS. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO INVESTIGATE HOW BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES (BMI), INCLUDING ENDEMIC AND RELIC SPECIES, IN THE SEF HAVE CHANGED OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS, HOW THESE CHANGES RELATE TO FLOWPATH CHANGES, AND HOW BROADER BMI COMMUNITY STRUCTURES RELATE TO MODERN HYDROLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS. THE RESEARCH WILL USE ECOLOGICAL AND STABLE ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS OF BMI TO REVEAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES AND FOOD WEB DYNAMICS. THIS RESEARCH WILL IDENTIFY INDICATORS THAT REVEAL IMPENDING COLLAPSE (I.E., HYDROECOLOGICAL THRESHOLDS) OF PERENNIAL SPRINGFLOW AND GROUNDWATER-DEPENDENT ECOLOGICAL NICHES IN MOUNTAIN GROUNDWATER SYSTEMS. THIS AWARD IS CO-FUNDED BY THE HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES AND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCES PROGRAMS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.
National Science Foundation
$402.3K
(RUI) FROM COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS TO UNDERLYING MECHANISMS: A NETWORK APPROACH TO MULTI-TRAIT TRADEOFFS
National Science Foundation
$401.1K
MRI: TRACK #1: ACQUISITION OF A MALDI-TOF-TOF MASS SPECTROMETER FOR GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION -THIS AWARD IS FUNDED BY THE MAJOR RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM AND THE CHEMISTRY RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM. PROFESSOR ANDREAS FRANZ FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC (STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA), ON BEHALF OF 9 INVESTIGATORS IN 4 DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE UNIVERSITY, IS ACQUIRING A MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION / IONIZATION TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER (MALDI-TOF-MS). MASS SPECTROMETRY (MS) CAN DETECT VERY SMALL AMOUNTS OF SUBSTANCES BY IONIZATION AND IS A CENTRAL ANALYTICAL METHOD IN SCIENCE. MALDI-TOF-MS USES LASER PULSES TO PRODUCE A WIDE RANGE OF IONS, ESPECIALLY FROM HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT BIOMOLECULES SUCH AS PEPTIDES, PROTEINS, OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, CARBOHYDRATES, AND SYNTHETIC POLYMERS. THE TOF DETECTOR IS AKIN TO A RACETRACK WHERE IONS ARE SEPARATED BY MASS-TO-CHARGE RATIO ON THEIR WAY TO THE FINISH LINE (DETECTOR). HIGH-SPEED ELECTRONICS (?PHOTO-FINISH?) CAN DIFFERENTIATE VERY SMALL DIFFERENCES IN ARRIVAL TIME AND, THEREFORE, MASS. THE ACQUISITION STRENGTHENS COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY AND BROADENS PARTICIPATION BY GIVING HANDS-ON ACCESS TO A DIVERSE STUDENT POPULATION. TO ADVANCE THE UNIVERSITY?S OUTREACH ACTIVITIES AND IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, REGIONAL RESEARCH GROUPS AT OTHER UNIVERSITIES AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WILL USE THE INSTRUMENT THROUGH REMOTE-ACCESS PLATFORMS AS WELL AS THROUGH ON-CAMPUS VISITS AND WORKSHOPS. WITH THE NEW INSTRUMENT STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF BIOMACROMOLECULES AND POLYMERS WILL BE STRENGTHENED IN GENERAL, AND MANY EXCITING PROJECTS ARE ENABLED. WE WILL ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: A) GLYCAN ABUNDANCE AND MICROHETEROGENEITY OF PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION AS IT RELATES TO PROTEIN STABILITY AND BIOCHEMICAL FUNCTION; B) USE OF YEAST AS HIGH-QUALITY/HIGH-CAPACITY PROTEIN EXPRESSION SYSTEM; C) DNA QUADRUPLEX STABILITY AS IT RELATES TO AGEING; D) CYTOKINE INHIBITORS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HEART DISEASES; E) RAPID IN-SITU IDENTIFICATION OF MICROBES AND MICROBIAL CELL-CELL COMMUNICATION; F) INHIBITION OF SARS-COV-2. OLIGOSACCHARIDES HAVE MANY COMPLEX FUNCTIONS IN BIOCHEMISTRY, AND GREAT PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE TO UNRAVEL THEIR ROLES IN MANY CENTRAL LIFE PROCESSES RELATED TO HEALTH AND DISEASE. UNAMBIGUOUS STRUCTURE ELUCIDATION IS CRITICAL BEFORE QUANTIFICATION AND CORRELATION TO DISEASE IS POSSIBLE. THE UV-LASER LIGHT SOURCE OF THE INSTRUMENT WILL GENERATE HIGH-ENERGY IONS FROM OLIGOSACCHARIDES WITH A COVALENT PHOTO-SENSITIVE TAG. THE PHOTOSENSITIVE TAG CAUSES MORE EXTENSIVE FRAGMENTATION THAN USUAL FOR RICH STRUCTURE INFORMATION. THE METHOD WILL BE APPLIED TO STUDY GLYCOSYLATION ABERRATIONS IN PROTEINS EXPRESSED IN YEAST AND THUS, SHED LIGHT ON THE BIOCHEMICAL MACHINERY OF THE YEAST CELL. ANOTHER PROJECT WILL GENERATE INSIGHT INTO DNA QUADRUPLEX STABILITY AND ADVANCE THE DISCOVERY OF COVALENT ADDUCTS BETWEEN DNA AND SMALL MOLECULE THERAPEUTICS THAT INDUCE QUADRUPLEX FORMATION TO COMBAT CANCER. IN ANOTHER PROJECT THE INSTRUMENT WILL BE CENTRAL TO SCREENING PROTEINS, PEPTIDES. THE FOCUS IS ON CANCER-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS THAT ARE THOUGHT TO BE ?UNDRUGGABLE?. NEW STRATEGIES FOR TARGETING THESE PROTEINS WILL BE EXPLORED IN WHICH MALDI-TOF-MS SERVES THE PURPOSE OF STRUCTURE CONFIRMATION OF POINT-MUTATED PROTEIN VARIANTS AND THE POSSIBLE DISCOVERY OF STRONGLY BINDING NON-COVALENT LIGANDS BY HIGH-THROUGHPUT METHODS. SIMILAR STRATEGIES BASED ON ION-INTENSITY FADING IN MALDI-TOF-MS WILL BE USED TO DISCOVER PEPTIDES THAT BIND STRONGLY TO VIRAL PROTEINS, SPECIFICALLY THOSE THAT MEDIATE BINDING OF THE SARS-COV-2 VIRUS. LASTLY, MALDI-TOF-MS WILL HELP WITH THE HIGH-THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX NATURAL PRODUCTS FROM MARINE MICROORGANISMS AND PROVIDE INFORMATION ON HOW MICROORGANISMS INTERACT AND COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER. FOR ALL RESEARCHERS, THE INSTRUMENT?S AUTOMATION PLATFORM WILL INCREASE SAMPLE THROUGHPUT FOR QUICK LEAD IDENTIFICATION; WILL MAKE POSSIBLE THE ACCELERATED DISCOVERY OF NEW THERAPEUTICS AGAINST HUMAN DISEASES; WILL AID IN THE DISCOVERY OF THERAPEUTICS AGAINST AGE-RELATED DISEASES. FASTER ACQUISITION OF SPECTRA WILL FREE UP TIME TO MAKE THE INSTRUMENT ACCESSIBLE TO NEARBY INSTITUTIONS AND INCLUDE MALDI-TOF-MS INTO THE ACADEMIC CURRICULUM FOR YOUNG ASPIRING SCIENTISTS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Department of State
$400K
TO IDENTIFY NECESSARY ACTIONS AND POLICY INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE EMISSIONS AND ADDRESS SOURCES OF POLLUTION THAT CONTRIBUTE TO COMMON AIRSHEDS, BASED ON CONCENTRATION OF POLLUTANTS.
National Science Foundation
$400K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EPIIC: NSJV RITE -THE NORTH SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY REGIONAL INNOVATION TRANSLATION ECOSYSTEM (NSJV-RITE) PROJECT FOCUSES ON USING THE REGION?S STRENGTHS IN AREAS INCLUDING AGRICULTURE, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, AND CLEAN ENERGY TO SUPPORT BIGGER GOALS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. ITS PURPOSE IS TO CREATE NEW JOBS, HELP SMALL BUSINESSES GROW, AND GIVE MORE PEOPLE ACCESS TO EDUCATION AND JOB TRAINING. BY BRINGING TOGETHER LOCAL BUSINESSES, UNIVERSITIES, AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES, NSJV-RITE ASPIRES TO TURN GOOD IDEAS INTO REAL-WORLD SOLUTIONS THAT MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS AND SHOW HOW COMMUNITIES CAN LEAD THE WAY IN BUILDING A STRONGER, MORE INNOVATIVE ECONOMY. THE PROJECT ALIGNS WITH MAJOR REGIONAL EFFORTS, INCLUDING THE NORTH VALLEY THRIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE AND A COLLABORATIVE WHICH IS ADVANCING CIRCULAR BIOECONOMY TECHNOLOGIES. NSJV-RITE WILL EVALUATE INSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES ACROSS TWO PREDOMINANTLY UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS; DEVELOP SHARED PROTOCOLS AND TECHNICAL SERVICE PACKAGES; AND WORK WITH INDUSTRY PARTNERS TO REFINE OFFERINGS IN ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, CIRCULAR BIOECONOMY, AND OTHER KEY SECTORS. THE INITIATIVE WILL ALSO ESTABLISH STRUCTURED, LONG-TERM COLLABORATIONS WITH EXTERNAL PARTNERS AND STRENGTHEN THE REGION?S CAPACITY FOR APPLIED RESEARCH. THROUGH CONTINUOUS EVALUATION, IMPROVEMENT, AND SHARED LEARNING, NSJV-RITE WILL DELIVER A SCALABLE MODEL FOR REGIONAL INNOVATION THAT DRIVES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCES NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Department of Health and Human Services
$399.2K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Health and Human Services
$388.8K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
National Science Foundation
$378.3K
CONFORMATIONAL EFFECTS ON THE GAS-PHASE ACIDITIES OF BIOPOLYMERS
Department of Health and Human Services
$372.7K
A NEW AND IMPROVED DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR TARGETING CANCER
Department of Health and Human Services
$365.5K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Health and Human Services
$364.3K
KCNE1 AS A MOLECULAR SHIELD OF KV7.1 - PROJECT SUMMARY (ABSTRACT): THE PROPOSED WORK SEEKS TO IDENTIFY THE MOLECULAR BASIS FOR A NOVEL INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO PROTEINS THAT ARE TYPICALLY FOUND IN ELECTRICALLY ACTIVE CELLS SUCH AS NEURONS AND CARDIAC MUSCLES CELLS. ONE OF THE PROTEINS IS KNOWN AS A VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT, POTASSIUM-SELECTIVE KV7.1 CHANNEL. THIS PROTEIN, HEREAFTER KV7.1, IS A MAJOR PLAYER FOR THE TERMINATION OF FAST ELECTRICAL SIGNALS. FOR INSTANCE, KV7.1 IS CRITICAL FOR TERMINATING EACH CYCLE OF THE RHYTHMIC ELECTRICAL SIGNALING IN THE HEART. IN FACT, A FAULTY, LOW-PERFORMING KV7.1 LEADS TO ARRHYTHMIAS THAT, IN SOME CASES, CAN UNCHAIN FIBRILLATIONS THAT RESULT IN DEATH. IN THE AUDITORY SYSTEM, SUCH ALTERATIONS LEAD TO HEARING DISORDERS AND DEAFNESS. THE SECOND PROTEIN IS KNOWN AS NAVSS1. THIS IS AN AUXILIARY SUBUNIT THAT REGULATES THE ACTIVITY OF SODIUM-SELECTIVE, VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT (NAV) CHANNELS WHICH ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR INITIATING FAST ELECTRICAL SIGNALS. NAVSS1 IS AN IMPORTANT POSITIVE REGULATOR OF NAV CHANNELS. IN A FEW WORDS, NAV STARTS AN ELECTRICAL SIGNAL EVENT, AND KV7.1 CONTRIBUTES TO ITS TERMINATION. WHAT IS NOVEL HERE IS THAT NAVSS1 NOT ONLY BOOSTS THE ACTIVITY OF NAV CHANNELS, BUT ALSO DECREASES THE ACTIVITY OF KV7.1 AS WE HAVE RECENTLY FOUND. FURTHERMORE, WE FOUND THAT A FOURTH PROTEIN, KCNE1 CAN PROTECT KV7.1 FROM THE INHIBITORY ACTION OF NAVSS1. LIKE WITH THE PAIR NAVSS1-NAV CHANNEL, KCNE1 CAN INCREASE THE ACTIVITY AND EXPRESSION OF KV7.1 CHANNELS. IN CELLS THAT EXPRESS THESE FOUR PROTEINS, WE WILL FIND NAV CHANNELS ASSOCIATED WITH NAVSS1 AND KV7.1 CHANNELS ASSOCIATED WITH KCNE1. IN THE ABSENCE OF KCNE1, OUR RECENT DATA SUGGEST THAT, WHILE BOOSTING THAT OF NAV CHANNELS, NAVSS1 WILL DECREASE KV7.1 ACTIVITY. IN THIS CASE, THE ON-OFF BALANCE OF EVENTS GENERATING FAST ELECTRICAL SIGNALS WILL BE ALTERED, LEADING TO ABNORMAL ELECTRICAL EVENTS. OUR NOVEL FINDING CONSTITUTES A SHIFT IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW MUTATIONS IN KCNE1 CAN AFFECT CELLULAR ELECTRICAL SIGNALING. IF KCNE1 IS MUTATED, KV7.1 ACTIVITY COULD BE LOWER DUE TO SUCH MUTATION, BUT ALSO COULD BE FURTHER DECREASED BY THE ACTION OF NAVSS1. SOME MUTATIONS IN KCNE1 HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO CAUSE LITTLE ALTERATION IN THE ACTIVITY OF THE KCNE1/KV7.1 COMPLEX WHEN COMPARED WITH THE NON-MUTATED PAIR. YET SUCH MUTATIONS ARE LINKED TO DISEASES. THIS APPARENT DISCONNECT MAY EMERGE FROM NOT CONSIDERING THE ACTION OF NAVSS1, WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN GONE UNDETECTED. THIS PROPOSAL AIMS AT ADDRESSING THIS ISSUE BY EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE EFFECT OF MUTATIONS IN KCNE1 IN TERM OF ITS ABILITY TO SHIELD KV7.1 FROM THE ACTION OF NAVSS1. THE OUTCOMES OF THIS WORK WILL PROVIDE A NOVEL PARADIGM IN WHICH KCNE1 IS NOT ONLY A POSITIVE MODULATOR OF KV7.1 CHANNELS, BUT ALSO A MOLECULAR SHIELD PROTECTING THESE CHANNELS FROM THE ACTION OF OTHER REGULATORY SUBUNITS.
National Science Foundation
$354.3K
RUI: REGULATION OF 3-DIMENSIONAL CELL MOTILITY DURING VERTEBRATE GASTRULATION
Department of Health and Human Services
$353.1K
ASSESSMENT OF MECHANICAL STIMULATION OF MESENCHYMALLY DERIVED CONSTRUCTS IN AN MRI BIOREACTOR
Department of Education
$352.5K
THE SUCCESS PROGRAM AT PACIFIC PROVIDES SUPPORT SERVICES TO 200 ELIGIBLE STUDENTS TO ASSIST IN THEIR RETENTION AND GRADUATION AND TO FACILITATE THEIR TRANSITION TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$351.2K
SKY RANGERS:\NBASED ON A DEMONSTRATED NEED AND DESIRE AMONG NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURE CENTERS TO INC
National Endowment for the Humanities
$350K
SUSTAINABLE ARCHIVES COLLECTION PRESERVATION AND GROWTH WITH HIGH-DENSITY STORAGE [REDUCE RISK TO ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS BY REPLACING EXISTING BROKEN STORAGE SYSTEMS THAT THREATEN TO DAMAGE THOSE COLLECTIONS, AND PROVIDE NEW SHELVING TO REHOUSE COLLECTIONS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN SUBSTANDARD STORAGE CONDITIONS]
Department of Health and Human Services
$345.8K
DEVELOPMENT OF FLAVONE- AND FLAVONOID-BASED DNA TRIPLEX SPECIFIC BINDING LIGANDS AS ANTIGENE ENHANCERS - PROJECT SUMMARY THE PROPOSED RESEARCH OBJECTIVES ARE TO STUDY THE STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRIPLEX DNA AND A CLASS OF NEWLY DISCOVERED FLAVONOID-BASED TRIPLEX-SPECIFIC BINDING LIGANDS AND USE THE OBTAINED KNOWLEDGE TO DESIGN AND DEVELOP MORE POTENT TRIPLEX BINDING LIGANDS AS ANTIGENE ENHANCERS IN THE ANTIGENE STRATEGY FOR DISEASE TREATMENT. THIS PROPOSAL CAN BE CATEGORIZED INTO THREE PORTIONS, STRUCTURAL MODIFICATION (SYNTHESIS), DETERMINATION OF LIGAND-DNA INTERACTIONS BY BIOPHYSICAL METHODS, AND STUDY OF INHIBITION OF ENZYMATIC ACTIVITIES. THE SYNTHESIS PROJECT INCLUDES CHANGING THE LINKER LENGTH, REMOVING THE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS, AND EXTENDING THE AROMATIC SURFACE. EACH STRUCTURAL MODIFICATION IS INTENDED TO ADDRESS A SPECIFIC INQUIRY ON THE STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP. THE SYNTHESIS PROCEDURES INVOLVE BASIC ORGANIC TECHNIQUES. THE SYNTHESIZED MOLECULES WILL THEN BE USED TO STUDY THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH SEVERAL DNA STRUCTURES BY VARIOUS BIOPHYSICAL METHODS. THE STABILIZATION OF TRIPLEX AND DUPLEX DNA WITH LIGANDS UNDER VARIOUS CONDITIONS (PH, IONIC STRENGTH) WILL BE DETERMINED USING THERMAL DENATURATION MONITORED BY UC. THE CONFORMATION CHANGES OF THE DNA AND BINDING STOICHIOMETRY WILL BE MEASURED USING CIRCULAR DICHROISM. SELECTIVE BINDING TO DNAS WITH SPECIFIC CONFORMATIONS WILL BE DETERMINED USING COMPETITION DIALYSIS IN A RELATIVELY HIGH THROUGHPUT FASHION. THE TRANSITION ENTHALPY OF THE LIGAND-TRIPLEX DNA COMPLEX WILL BE DIRECTLY MEASURED USING DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY (DSC). THE THERMODYNAMICS PARAMETERS, INCLUDING ENTHALPY, ENTROPY, FREE ENERGY, AND BINDING SITE SIZE, WILL BE DETERMINED USING ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY (ITC). NOTABLY, RESULTS FROM BIOPHYSICAL STUDIES WILL BE USED FOR CROSS-INSPECTION TO ENSURE THE ACCURACY OF THE CONCLUSIONS. AFTER COMPLETION OF THE BIOPHYSICAL STUDIES, LIGANDS WITH THE BEST BINDING STRENGTH AND SPECIFICITY WILL BE CHOSEN FOR BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS. A PLASMID DNA CONTAINING A TRIPLEX-FORMING SITE WILL BE USED. IN THIS PLASMID DNA, FOUR RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE DRAI CLEAVAGE SITES ARE PRESENT IN THE PLASMID, ONE OF WHICH RESIDUES EXACTLY AT THE JUNCTION OF THE TRIPLEX HELIX SITE. THE FORMATION OF TRIPLEX DNA SHOULD PROTECT THE DRAI CLEAVAGE SITE, LEADING TO THE DISAPPEARANCE AND APPEARANCE OF PRODUCTS WITH SPECIFIC LENGTHS, WHICH CAN BE READILY DETECTED BY THE AGAROSE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS. THE RESULTS FROM THE PROPOSED WORK WILL BE THE FIRST EFFORT IN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY TO UNDERSTAND THESE NEWLY DISCOVERED TRIPLEX-SPECIFIC BINDING LIGANDS. THE NATURE OF THE RESEARCH IS SUITABLE FOR TRAINING UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE RESEARCHERS AT AN UNDERGRADUATE-FOCUSED INSTITUTION.
Department of Health and Human Services
$338.9K
IDENTIFICATION OF STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS IN KV7 OPEN CHANNEL STABILIZATION
National Science Foundation
$337.3K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: IMPROVED LEARNING FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING PROGRAMS USING FINITE ELEMENT LEARNING MODULES
Department of Health and Human Services
$334K
CHARACTERIZATION OF COLONIZATION AND PROTEIN SECRETION BY PICHIA PASTORIS IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT OF MICE - PROJECT SUMMARY RISING EXPENSE ASSOCIATED WITH STABILITY AND DELIVERY ARE SIGNIFICANT OBSTACLES FOR USING THERAPEUTIC PROTEINS TO TREAT DISEASES. TO RESOLVE THESE ISSUES, WE PROPOSE TO HAVE THE SYSTEM THAT IS MAKING THE THERAPEUTIC PROTEIN ALSO BE THE DIRECT DELIVERY SYSTEM. DELIVERING PROTEINS DIRECTLY FROM AN EXPRESSION SYSTEM TO A TARGET TISSUE HAS THE ADVANTAGE OF BYPASSING PURIFICATION AND ELIMINATING STABILITY ISSUES DURING STORAGE. IMPROVEMENTS TO PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND SECRETION IN PICHIA PASTORIS MAKE THIS YEAST A PRIME CANDIDATE FOR THIS PURPOSE. WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED ON P. PASTORIS’S ABILITY TO GROW WITH CULTURED MAMMALIAN CELLS AND SECRETE BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR TO INFLUENCE FIBROBLAST GROWTH. WE HAVE SINCE TESTED P. PASTORIS’S ABILITY TO LIVE IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL (GI) TRACT OF C57BL/6J MICE. THE PRELIMINARY RESULTS SHOWED THAT P. PASTORIS DNA WAS DETECTIBLE IN THE MURINE FECES 24 HOURS AFTER THE LAST TREATMENT, WHILE GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN SECRETED BY THIS STRAIN OF P. PASTORIS WAS DETECTIBLE 72 HOURS AFTER THE LAST TREATMENT. THE FECAL SAMPLES FROM P. PASTORIS-TREATED MICE YIELDED NO MEASURABLE LEVELS OF CALPROTECTIN, A BIOMARKER OF INFLAMMATION. HISTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SMALL INTESTINE, CECUM, AND COLON SHOWED NO OBVIOUS SIGNS OF INFLAMMATION WHILE ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY ANALYSIS OF THE GI TISSUES DETECTED NO INCREASE IN TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA OR INTERFERON GAMMA. FURTHERMORE, P. PASTORIS-TREATED MICE GAINED SIMILAR WEIGHT TO CONTROL MICE AND EXHIBITED NO NOTICEABLE CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR. IN CONTINUING WITH STUDIES IN ANIMALS, THE GOALS OF THIS PROPOSAL ARE TO EXTEND THE DURATION OF WHICH P. PASTORIS CAN REMAIN IN THE MURINE GUT AND TO PROVIDE PROOF OF CONCEPT THAT P. PASTORIS IS CAPABLE OF SURVIVING AND DELIVERING RECOMBINANT PROTEINS IN THE GI TRACT. SPECIFIC AIM 1 WILL DETERMINE IF INCREASING DOSE AND DURATION OF TREATMENT WILL ALLOW P. PASTORIS TO REMAIN IN THE GUT FOR A LONGER TIME. TO FURTHER ENHANCE P. PASTORIS SURVIVAL, WE WILL ENGINEER A NEW STRAIN OF P. PASTORIS THAT WILL HAVE AFFINITY TO MUCIN, AN ABUNDANT PROTEIN IN THE MUCUS LAYER WHICH LINES THE ENTIRE GI TRACT. THE EFFECTS OF THESE TREATMENT STRATEGIES ON THE INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE IN THE MURINE GUT WILL ALSO BE ASSESSED. IN SPECIFIC AIM 2, WE WILL USE A HYPER-LACTOSE FED MOUSE MODEL TO DETERMINE IF P. PASTORIS CAN SECRETE RECOMBINANT PROTEINS INTO THE GUT. A DIET OF 70% LACTOSE CAUSES ADULT MICE TO LOSE WEIGHT DUE TO AN INABILITY TO DIGEST LACTOSE. SINCE LACTASE HYDROLYZES LACTOSE, A B-GALACTOSIDASE (LACTASE)- SECRETING P. PASTORIS STRAIN THAT LIVES IN THE GI TRACT WOULD BE EXPECTED TO ENHANCE LACTOSE DIGESTION. PREVENTION OF WEIGHT LOSS IN HYPER-LACTOSE FED MICE WOULD INDICATE THAT P. PASTORIS IS SECRETING ACTIVE LACTASE, SUGGESTING THAT THE YEAST HAS POTENTIAL OF SECRETING OTHER HETEROLOGOUS PROTEINS IN THE GUT OF MICE AS WELL. THESE STUDIES ESTABLISH A FOUNDATIONAL BASIS, UPON WHICH PROTEINS MADE BY P. PASTORIS CAN BE DIRECTLY ADMINISTERED TO THE GI TRACT OF ANIMALS AS THERAPEUTIC AGENTS FOR TREATING DISEASES.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$331.3K
THE AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC (AQUARIUM) PROPOSES OUR INSTRUMENTED EARTH: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL SYSTEMS AND LOCAL IMPACTSTHROUGH THE EI NINO STORY. THI
National Science Foundation
$330K
HELIX CONFORMATIONAL EFFECTS ON THE ACIDITIES OF HELICAL PEPTIDES
Department of Energy
$328.2K
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL PARTICLE MIXING STATE AND MORPHOLOGY
Department of Health and Human Services
$326.8K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM - N/A
Department of Health and Human Services
$325.9K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Agriculture
$320K
STRENTHENING CAPACITY TO COMBAT TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME RELATES TO ILLEGAL LOGGING
National Science Foundation
$320K
RUI: THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS AND MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF SPIDER GLUE SILKS
Department of Health and Human Services
$314.6K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Health and Human Services
$312.5K
MAINTENANCE OF INFLUENZA SURVEILLANCE CAPACITY BY NATIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES. - 2016
Department of Health and Human Services
$311.5K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Health and Human Services
$309.6K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Health and Human Services
$305.2K
REGULATION OF THE UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE BY EIF2 ALPHA PHOSPHATASES
National Science Foundation
$304.6K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TECTONIC AND CLIMATIC FORCING OF HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEMS IN THE SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN: IMPLICATIONS FOR ANCIENT AND FUTURE AQUATI
Department of Health and Human Services
$302.4K
DIABETES, ESTROGEN AND ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION
Department of Justice
$300K
MULTI-GENERATIONAL TRAINING AND SUPPORT TO ADDRESS SEXUAL ASSAULT IN ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITIES
Department of Justice
$300K
INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITY CAPACITY-BUILDING TO PROVIDE CULTURALLY-SPECIFIC SUPPORT AND SERVICES FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
Department of Justice
$300K
TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
Department of Justice
$300K
THE OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (OVW) TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (TA) INITIATIVE PROVIDES OVW GRANTEES AND SUBGRANTEES WITH THE EXPERTISE AND SUPPORT THEY NEED TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT SUCCESSFUL STATE, LOCAL, TRIBAL, AND CAMPUS PROJECTS; INCREASE VICTIM SAFETY; AND BOLSTER OFFENDER ACCOUNTABILITY. THROUGH COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS, OVW SUPPORTS EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES, CONFERENCES, PEER-TO-PEER CONSULTATIONS, AND TARGETED ASSISTANCE THAT ALLOW CURRENT AND POTENTIAL GRANTEES AND SUBGRANTEES TO LEARN FROM EXPERTS AND ONE ANOTHER ABOUT HOW TO OVERCOME OBSTACLES AND INCORPORATE PROMISING PRACTICES IN THEIR EFFORTS TO ADDRESS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. IN ADDITION, OVW IS FOCUSED ON BUILDING THE CAPACITY OF THE CRIMINAL AND CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEMS AND VICTIM SERVICES PROVIDERS TO RESPOND EFFECTIVELY TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING AND TO FOSTER PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE NOT TRADITIONALLY WORKED TOGETHER TO ADDRESS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. THIS AWARD WILL SUPPORT FY 2022 TA INITIATIVE PURPOSE AREA 31, PROVIDE TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO CULTURALLY SPECIFIC COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS IMPLEMENTING TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAMS. THE TIMING FOR PERFORMANCE OF THIS AWARD IS 24 MONTHS. THIS IS A NEW AWARD.
Department of Justice
$300K
THE GRANTS TO ENHANCE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING PROGRAM IS AUTHORIZED BY 34 U.S.C. § 20124. THIS PROGRAM SUPPORTS THE MAINTENANCE AND REPLICATION OF EXISTING SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS PROVIDING CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING, AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE ACCESS TO SERVICES AND RESOURCES FOR VICTIMS WHO FACE OBSTACLES TO USING MORE TRADITIONAL PROGRAMS. CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES MEANS COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES THAT INCLUDE CULTURALLY RELEVANT AND LINGUISTICALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES AND RESOURCES TO CULTURALLY SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES WHICH ARE STATUTORILY DEFINED AS “AMERICAN INDIANS (INCLUDING ALASKA NATIVES, ESKIMOS, AND ALEUTS); ASIAN AMERICANS; NATIVE HAWAIIANS AND OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDERS; BLACKS; AND HISPANICS.” PROJECTS MUST: 1) WORK WITH STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES TO DEVELOP AND ENHANCE EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO PROVIDE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC VICTIM SERVICES ; 2) INCREASE COMMUNITIES’ CAPACITY TO PROVIDE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC RESOURCES AND SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES; 3) STRENGTHEN CRIMINAL JUSTICE INTERVENTIONS BY PROVIDING TRAINING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT, PROSECUTION, COURTS, PROBATION, AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES ON CULTURALLY SPECIFIC RESPONSES; 4) ENHANCE TRADITIONAL SERVICES TO VICTIMS THROUGH THE LEADERSHIP OF CULTURALLY SPECIFIC VICTIM SERVICES PROGRAMS ; 5) WORK IN COOPERATION WITH THE COMMUNITY TO DEVELOP EDUCATION AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES HIGHLIGHTING CULTURALLY SPECIFIC ISSUES AND RESOURCES; 6) PROVIDE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN EXPOSED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING; 7) PROVIDE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC RESOURCES AND SERVICES THAT ADDRESS THE SAFETY, ECONOMIC, HOUSING, AND WORKPLACE NEEDS OF VICTIMS, INCLUDING EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE; AND/OR 8) EXAMINE THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON VICTIMIZATION AND HEALING.
National Science Foundation
$298.8K
RUI: CHARACTERIZATION OF THE GENE REGULATORY NETWORK PROMOTING HORMOGONIUM DEVELOPMENT IN THE FILAMENTOUS CYANOBACTERIUM NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME
Department of Health and Human Services
$298.4K
ANALYSIS OF SECRETORY MECHANISMS AND HETEROLOGOUS PROTEINS IN PICHIA PASTORIS
Department of Health and Human Services
$297.1K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM - PROJECT/PERFORMANCE SITE PRIMARY LOCATION UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC 155 5TH STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103-2919 PROJECT DIRECTOR: DR. HOMAYON ASADI CONTACT PHONE NUMBER (209) 946-7367 EMAIL ADDRESS: OSP@PACIFIC.EDU WEBSITE ADDRESS: HTTPS://DENTAL.PACIFIC.EDU/DENTAL GRANT PROGRAM FUNDS REQUESTED: RYAN WHITE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM PART F DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM ( HRSA-25-051) TOTAL UNREIMBURSED COSTS OF ORAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDED TO PEOPLE WITH HIV FROM JULY 1, 2023, THROUGH JUNE 30, 2024: $625,703. GOAL STATEMENT THE GOAL OF UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC’S DENTAL SERVICES PROGRAM IS TO IMPROVE THE ORAL HEALTH OF ALL ETHNICITIES AND POPULATIONS WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) IN SAN FRANCISCO. TARGET POPULATION UOP WILL SERVE ALL ETHNICITIES AND POPULATIONS WITHIN SAN FRANCISCO WITH FOCUSED EXPERTISE ON THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF PATIENTS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS IN SAN FRANCISCO. THIS INCLUDES GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN, TRANSGENDER CLIENTS, LESBIANS, HETEROSEXUALS, CLIENTS WITH A HISTORY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR ACTIVE USERS, THE HOMELESS, INCARCERATED, FORMERLY INCARCERATED, CLIENTS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS OR CHALLENGES RESULTING FROM HIV/AIDS, ACTIVE OR FORMER SEX PROFESSION WORKERS, CLIENTS WITH MULTIPLE DIAGNOSES, PEOPLE OF COLOR, PARENTS AND THEIR HIV INFECTED CHILDREN, AND THOSE INFECTED BY OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE OR ACCIDENTAL EXPOSURE TO CONTAMINATED MATERIAL OR BLOOD. UOP ASSURES THAT ALL GRANT FUNDS ARE ONLY USED TO PAY FOR SERVICES THAT ARE NOT REIMBURSED BY ANY OTHER FUNDING SOURCE. CLIENT ENROLLMENT PRIORITY IS RESERVED FOR SF RESIDENTS WHO HAVE LOW INCOMES AND ARE UNINSURED. SECONDARY ENROLLMENT IS RESERVED FOR SF RESIDENTS WHO HAVE LOW INCOMES AND ARE UNDERINSURED. LOW INCOME STATUS IS EQUAL TO 500% OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL AS DEFINED BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. CLIENT ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION INCLUDING HIV DIAGNOSIS, RESIDENCY, INCOME, AND INSURANCE STATUS IS CONFIRMED AT INTAKE AND AT 12-MONTH INTERVALS THEREAFTER. DENTISTRY SERVICES PROVIDED SERVICES PROVIDED UNDER THIS CONTRACT INCLUDE A BROAD RANGE OF ORAL HEALTHCARE TREATMENTS, WHICH ARE GENERALLY INTENDED TO: (1) RELIEVE PAIN AND SWELLING, (2) DIAGNOSE DISEASE, (3) PREVENT DISEASE, (4) ELIMINATE DISEASE, AND (5) RESTORE FUNCTION. SPECIFIC SERVICES PROVIDED ARE NOTED BELOW. DENTAL STUDENTS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF LICENSED FACULTY PROVIDE SAID SERVICES IN THE PREDOCTORAL STUDENT CLINIC. URGENT CARE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES INCLUDE PALLIATIVE CARE FOR THE TREATMENT OF PAIN, SWELLING, AND/OR BLEEDING. DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES INCLUDE EXAMINATIONS (INITIAL AND RECALL) AND DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHS. (CONE BEAM IMAGING IS NOT COVERED.) PREVENTATIVE SERVICES INCLUDE ORAL HYGIENE INSTRUCTION AND CAMBRA PROCEDURES AND MEDICATIONS. RESTORATIVE SERVICES INCLUDE: A. ALL AMALGAM AND/OR COMPOSITE FILLINGS B. SINGLE CROWNS: PFM, FVC AND CERAMIC CROWNS AFTER ALL THE DISEASE HAS BEEN TREATED IN THE MOUTH. C. COMPLETE DENTURES D. PARTIAL DENTURES ONLY IF CERTAIN CRITERIA ARE MET NOTE: BRIDGES ARE NOT COVERED SERVICES. PERIODONTAL (GUM) TREATMENT INCLUDE SCALING AND ROOT PLANING AND PERIODIC PERIODONTAL RECALL. PERIODONTAL SURGERY PROCEDURES ARE BENEFITS FOR TEETH THAT FIT ALL THREE OF THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA: 1) REQUIRE ENDODONTICS (ROOT CANAL THERAPY) 2) REQUIRE A CROWN COVERED BY PROGRAM 3) LISTED IN PACIFIC’S FEE SCHEDULE. ENDODONTICS (ROOT CANAL THERAPY) SERVICES INCLUDE ROOT CANAL THERAPY, APICO SURGERIES, AND TOOTH BUILD-UPS. ORAL SURGERY SERVICES INCLUDE PROCEDURES SUCH AS EXTRACTIONS, ALVEOLECTOMIES, ETC. ORAL MEDICINE SERVICES INCLUDE BIOPSIES AND OTHER ORAL MEDICINE PROCEDURES INDICATED IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ORAL MANIFESTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH HIV/AIDS.
Department of Health and Human Services
$293.2K
HARNESSING TRANSTHYRETIN TO EXTEND THE IN VIVO HALF-LIFE OF THERAPEUTIC PEPTIDES
Department of Justice
$289K
CENTER FOR THE PACIFIC ASIAN FAMILY - SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES PROGRAM (CPAF-SASP)
Department of Commerce
$282K
CAPACITY BUILDING AND TRAINING SUPPORT TO THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY (SPC)
Department of Justice
$274.6K
EXPANDING INTERVENTION SERVICES FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
National Science Foundation
$270K
LATTICE GAUGE THEORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC
National Science Foundation
$270K
QCD PHYSICS AND BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL ON THE LATTICE
Department of Justice
$268K
BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY TO RESPOND TO ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
National Science Foundation
$267.9K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: UNRAVELING THE LINK BETWEEN WATER AGES AND SILICATE WEATHERING RATES AT THE CATCHMENT SCALE -THE INTERACTION BETWEEN WATER AND MINERALS IS A FUNDAMENTAL PROCESS THAT SHAPES AND RECORDS MEMORIES OF LANDSCAPES, GENERATES WATER QUALITY AND NUTRIENTS TO SUSTAIN ECOSYSTEMS, AND DRAWS DOWN ATMOSPHERIC CO2 OVER LONGER TIMESCALES. IN WATERSHEDS, WATER IS FED INTO THE LANDSCAPE THROUGH RAIN AND SNOW WHERE IT STARTS ITS JOURNEY ALONG VARIOUS PATHS IN THE SUBSURFACE. ALONG THE PATH, WATER ENCOUNTERS AND EXCHANGES WITH MINERALS, INCORPORATING CHEMICALS LIBERATED FROM THE SOLIDS AND TRANSFORMING THEM INTO OTHER FORMS IN A PROCESS TERMED WEATHERING. EVENTUALLY THE WATER WITH ITS UNIQUE CHEMICAL SIGNATURE IS FLUSHED FROM THE SYSTEM INTO NEARBY STREAMS AND GROUNDWATER SPRINGS. THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM IS THAT THE LONGER WATER SPENDS IN CONTACT WITH THE SURROUNDING SUBSURFACE, THE MORE CHEMICALLY EVOLVED IT BECOMES. UNDER THIS FRAMEWORK, THE AMOUNT OF WEATHERING OBSERVED IN A CATCHMENT SHOULD BE INEXTRICABLY LINKED WITH GROUNDWATER AGES. HISTORICALLY, THIS RELATIONSHIP HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO FULLY EVALUATE. THIS PROJECT WILL USE MODERN GEOCHEMICAL TOOLS IN TANDEM WITH ADVANCED MODELING APPROACHES TO ADVANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GROUNDWATER AGES AND WEATHERING FLUXES IN A MONTANE CATCHMENT, SAGEHEN CREEK BASIN, LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS IN CALIFORNIA. THIS COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH EFFORT WILL SUPPORT TWO EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS, ONE PHD STUDENT, A FIELD TECHNICIAN, AND PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH. RESEARCHERS WILL COLLABORATE WITH ESTABLISHED EARTH SCIENCE EDUCATORS TO LAUNCH A SUITE OF EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS AND INITIATIVES TO ENGAGE THE BROADER PUBLIC, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTORS ON HYDROLOGY AND WATER QUALITY THEMES. THIS RESEARCH AIMS TO BETTER CHARACTERIZE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GROUNDWATER AGES AND SILICATE WEATHERING RATES AT THE CATCHMENT-SCALE THROUGH A COMBINED HYDROLOGIC AND GEOCHEMICAL APPROACH. SILICATE WEATHERING REACTIONS ARE UNIQUELY COUPLED TO CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY DUE TO SLOW REACTION KINETICS; THUS, SOLUTE GENERATION IS INHERENTLY DEPENDENT ON THE TIME FLUIDS SPEND EXPOSED TO MINERALS. THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP AND LEVERAGE A NEW, COMPREHENSIVE WATER AGE (CFC, SF6, AND 35S) AND WEATHERING (?30SI, ?44CA, AND GE/SI) TRACER DATASET TO INFORM A COUPLED 2D PHYSICAL TRANSPORT HYDROLOGIC AND ISOTOPE-ENABLED, MULTICOMPONENT REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODEL. THE STUDY WILL BE CONDUCTED AT SAGEHEN CREEK BASIN, A SNOWMELT DRIVEN, IGNEOUS, MONTANE WATERSHED SENSITIVE TO CLIMATIC. SAGEHEN IS A WIDELY STUDIED SITE WITH SEVERAL PRIOR STUDIES DEMONSTRATING A CORRELATION BETWEEN MEASURED WEATHERING-DERIVED SOLUTE FLUXES AND GROUNDWATER RESIDENCE TIMES. THIS HYBRID HYDROLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL APPROACH WILL PROVIDE UNPRECEDENTED INSIGHT INTO THE SYNERGISTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FLUID TRANSIT TIME AND SILICATE WEATHERING. THE RESEARCHERS PLAN TO GENERATE DYNAMIC, CONTINUALLY EVOLVING TRANSIT TIME DISTRIBUTIONS FOR WATER IN RESPONSE TO BOTH SEASONAL AND EVENT FORCING, AND THROUGH THE INCORPORATION OF ?FAST?/SHALLOW AND ?SLOW?/DEEPER GROUNDWATER COMPONENTS. THIS RESEARCH FURTHER PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO EVALUATE THE UTILITY OF STABLE ISOTOPES AND TRACE ELEMENT TRACERS THAT ARE SENSITIVE TO DISTINCT REACTION PATHWAYS, AND TO QUANTIFY HOW THE EXTENT OF REACTIONS CAN SERVE AS ?REACTION CLOCKS?. FINDINGS WILL PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO PERSISTENT QUESTIONS IN CRITICAL ZONE SCIENCE RELATED TO WATERSHED HYDROGEOCHEMICAL RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE. THIS RESEARCH IS CO-FUNDED BY THE DIVISION OF EARTH SCIENCES GEOBIOLOGY AND LOW-TEMPERATURE GEOCHEMISTRY PROGRAM AND HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES PROGRAM. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.
Department of Health and Human Services
$264.4K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Energy
$261.1K
RELATING THE CHEMICAL & PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF AEROSOLS TO THE WATER UPTAKE & ICE NUCLEATION POTENTIAL OF PARTICLES COLLECTED DURING THE CARBONACEOUS
Department of Health and Human Services
$248.9K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Health and Human Services
$239.9K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
Institute of Museum and Library Services
$228.4K
THE AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC WILL INCREASE ACCESS TO DIGITAL ASSETS FOR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL USERS BY DEPLOYING A DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT (DAM) SYSTEM. THE AQUARIUM WILL CONTRACT WITH A DIGITAL ASSET MANAGER TO IDENTIFY ASSETS AND NEEDS BEFORE CHOOSING SOFTWARE THAT WILL OPTIMIZE USE OF ITS DIGITAL ASSETS. AN INTERDEPARTMENTAL TEAM WILL PROVIDE FEEDBACK THAT INFORMS THE SELECTION OF THE SOFTWARE AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION. A CONTRACTED METADATA SPECIALIST WILL SUPPORT DATA ENTRY AND ORGANIZATION. PROJECT EVALUATION WILL TRACK STAFF’S PERCEPTION OF THESE OPERATIONAL CHANGES AND NEW EFFICIENCIES. THE RESULTING DAM LIBRARY WILL HAVE COMPREHENSIVE CATEGORIES THAT CAN BE SEARCHED QUICKLY; DETAILED AND ACCURATE ASSET DESCRIPTIONS; AND ORGANIZED WORKFLOW ACCESSIBLE TO ALL USERS. THE PROJECT WILL SUPPORT PROGRAM PRODUCTION BETWEEN CREATIVE TEAMS WHO LEVERAGE MEDIA TO SUPPORT THE AQUARIUM’S CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION GOALS TO REACH NEW AUDIENCES IN ONLINE SPACES.
National Science Foundation
$219K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EYE EVOLUTION IN SARSIELLOIDEA (CRUSTACEA: OSTRACODA): AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH BASED ON PHYLOGENETICS, DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS
National Science Foundation
$216.7K
ELUCIDATION OF REACTION MECHANISM WITH THE UNIFIED REACTION VALLEY APPROACH: TOWARD THE CONTROL OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS
National Science Foundation
$210K
LATTICE GAUGE THEORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC 2016-2019
Department of Commerce
$207.4K
PURPOSE: THROUGH CONSERVATION INITIATIVES THAT DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVING THE HEALTH AND DIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAS COASTAL HABITAT, THE AQUARIUM HAS AN OPPORTUNITY, AND A RESPONSIBILITY, TO PLAY AN ACTIVE ROLE IN RESTORING AND MAINTAINING VALUABLE OCEAN RESOURCES. IN CLOSE ALIGNMENT WITH NOAAS LONGTERM MISSION GOAL, HEALTHY OCEANS, THE WHITE ABALONE CAPTIVE REARING, OUTPLANTING, AND EDUCATION PROJECT SOLIDIFIES THE AQUARIUMS ROLE AS A CONTRIBUTING PARTNER TO THE CONSERVATION EFFORTS OF A STATEWIDE INITIATIVE WHILE PROMOTING STEWARDSHIP OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH STORYTELLING AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.
Department of Commerce
$202.2K
WHITE ABALONE CAPTIVE REARING, OUTPLANTING, AND EDUCATION PROJECT
Department of Commerce
$200K
WHITE ABALONE CAPTIVE REARING, OUTPLANTING, AND EDUCATION PROJECT
National Science Foundation
$200K
ERI: TOWARD EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER IN YOUNG CHILDREN USING WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY -AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) IS A NEUROLOGICAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER AFFECTING COMMUNICATION, LEARNING ABILITY, AND BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE. THE CRITICAL WINDOW OF INTERVENTION IN ASD IS OFTEN MISSED DUE TO THE SIGNIFICANT DELAY BETWEEN THE EMERGENCE OF SYMPTOMS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD AND FORMAL DIAGNOSIS. THIS ENGINEERING RESEARCH INITIATION (ERI) PROJECT SEEKS TO BRIDGE THIS GAP BY LEVERAGING NON-INVASIVE WEARABLES TO COLLECT PHYSIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA DURING EARLY CHILDHOOD, AIMING TO IDENTIFY PHYSIOLOGICAL BIOMARKERS AND EARLY INDICATIONS OF ASD. BY EXAMINING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN STIMULI (LIGHT, SOUND) AND CHILDREN'S PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES, THE PROPOSED RESEARCH AIMS TO DEVELOP A SENSING SYSTEM AND ROBUST MACHINE-LEARNING ALGORITHM FOR EARLY ASD DETECTION. THIS COULD PAVE THE WAY FOR EARLIER DIAGNOSIS AND INTERVENTION, POTENTIALLY IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR CHILDREN WITH ASD. THIS ERI PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP A NOVEL WEARABLE SENSING AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING EARLY MARKERS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER IN YOUNG CHILDREN AND TODDLERS. THE WEARABLE SENSOR IS MINIMALLY INVASIVE AND WILL MONITOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS, SUCH AS LIGHTING AND SOUNDS, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SIGNALS. THE GOAL IS TO UNDERSTAND THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI AND A CHILD?S RESPONSE, FOR EXAMPLE CHANGES IN THE FREQUENCY OF REPETITIVE MOTIONS, HEART RATE, AND REACTION AND RESPONSE TIME TO ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI. LEVERAGING THESE MULTIMODAL BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNALS AND RELIABLE MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS, DIAGNOSTIC MARKERS OF ASD IN YOUNG CHILDREN WILL BE IDENTIFIED. THE OUTCOMES OF THIS RESEARCH CAN CONFIRM FINDINGS SUGGESTING THAT REPETITIVE MOVEMENT IS ONE OF THE IMPORTANT BIOMARKERS AND AT THE SAME TIME INVESTIGATE OTHER BEHAVIORAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL BIOMARKERS TO INCREASE SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY OF ASD DETECTION EARLIER IN CHILDREN?S DEVELOPMENT. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
National Science Foundation
$199.4K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: THE VIRGO CLUSTER AS A TESTBED FOR THE STUDY OF GALAXY FORMATION AND EVOLUTION -GALAXIES AND CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES ARE VISIBLE BECAUSE OF THE LIGHT EMITTED BY STARS AND HOT GAS. HOWEVER, THE MASS OF STARS AND GAS IN THESE STRUCTURES IS GREATLY EXCEEDED BY THE MASS OF DARK MATTER. DARK MATTER CANNOT BE OBSERVED DIRECTLY, BUT THE GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS OF DARK MATTER CAN BE OBSERVED IN THE DISTRIBUTION AND MOTION OF STARS, GAS, AND STELLAR CLUSTERS SUCH AS GLOBULAR CLUSTERS (GCS). A TEAM FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ WILL USE SPECTROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS OF GCS TO PROBE THE DARK MATTER CONTENT OF THE NEARBY VIRGO CLUSTER OF GALAXIES WITH THE GOAL OF UNDERSTANDING THE ASSEMBLY HISTORY OF MASSIVE GALAXY CLUSTERS. THE TEAM WILL CONTINUE WORKING WITH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THROUGH THE SCIENCE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM (SIP) AT UC SANTA CRUZ. IN ADDITION, THEY WILL INVOLVE UNDERGRADUATES FROM BOTH THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ IN RESEARCH RELATING TO THIS PROJECT. FINALLY, THEY WILL PARTICIPATE IN TRADITIONAL OUTREACH EVENTS SUCH AS PUBLIC TALKS AND WORKSHOPS, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON REACHING HISPANIC AND LATINO COMMUNITIES. THE PROJECT WILL USE GCS TO STUDY THE ASSEMBLY OF STRUCTURES IN THE VIRGO CLUSTER. THIS TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THE LARGE NUMBERS OF GCS, THEIR RELATIVELY HIGH SURFACE BRIGHTNESS, AND THEIR EXTENDED RADIAL DISTRIBUTION. THE MAIN SCIENTIFIC GOALS INCLUDE: (I) DETERMINING THE DARK MATTER CONTENT OF DWARF EARLY-TYPE AND ULTRA-DIFFUSE GALAXIES; (II) TESTING THE DYNAMICAL FRICTION SCENARIO FOR THE FORMATION OF GALAXY NUCLEI FROM MERGERS OF GCS; AND (III) UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF THE CLUSTER ENVIRONMENT THROUGH ANALYSIS OF CLUSTERING, SUBSTRUCTURES, AND ASYMMETRIES FOUND IN THE GC POPULATION, AND THE STUDY OF CLUSTER-CENTRIC RADIAL TRENDS OF THE STELLAR POPULATIONS OF VIRGO DWARF ELLIPTICALS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.
Department of Defense
$191.3K
MOLECULAR INDICATORS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS AND ITS HEALTH EFFECTS IN CETACEANS
Department of Health and Human Services
$191.3K
BLOOD FLOW AND SALIVARY GLAND FUNCTION IN DIABETES
National Science Foundation
$180K
LATTICE QCD AND HIGGS MODELS
National Science Foundation
$178.4K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: QUANTIFYING HOW GROUNDWATER MODULATES STREAMFLOW RESPONSE TO HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES -MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS ARE THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF WATER FOR MUCH OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. MANY MOUNTAIN STREAMS ARE SUSTAINED BY GROUNDWATER, BUT CONCEPTUAL AND HYDROLOGIC MODELS OFTEN OVERSIMPLIFY GROUNDWATER PROCESSES. AS A RESULT, IT IS CHALLENGING TO PREDICT HOW STREAMFLOW RESPONDS TO CHANGES IN GROUNDWATER RECHARGE AND STORAGE CAUSED BY EXTREME WET AND DRY CONDITIONS. THIS PROJECT IS EVALUATING HOW GROUNDWATER REGULATES STREAM RESPONSES TO HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES BY INTEGRATING HIGH-RESOLUTION STREAM AND GROUNDWATER OBSERVATIONS WITH HYDROLOGIC MODELS. THE KNOWLEDGE GENERATED FROM THIS WORK WILL IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW STORED GROUNDWATER IMPACTS MOUNTAIN STREAMFLOW GENERATION, THEREBY ENHANCING STREAMFLOW PREDICTIONS. BROADER IMPACT ACTIVITIES INCLUDE AN EARLY-CAREER WORKSHOP ON DATA-MODEL INTEGRATION IN EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES, WITH THE GOAL OF FOSTERING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION. ADDITIONALLY, THE PROJECT WILL INTEGRATE FIELD INFRASTRUCTURE AND MODELS INTO UNDERGRADUATE COURSEWORK AT THREE INSTITUTIONS TO EXPOSE MORE STUDENTS TO HYDROLOGIC SCIENCE. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO DETERMINE THE ROLE OF GROUNDWATER IN REGULATING STREAMFLOW RESPONSE TO HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES ACROSS A GROUNDWATER STORAGE GRADIENT USING A DATA-MODEL INTEGRATION APPROACH. FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF STREAM DISCHARGE, SOURCE, AND AGE IN TWO MOUNTAIN WATERSHEDS WILL BE INTEGRATED WITH AN ITERATIVELY CALIBRATED PROCESS-BASED HYDROLOGIC MODEL CAPABLE OF SIMULATING GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS UNDER FUTURE LONG-TERM AND SHORT-TERM HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES AND WITH VARIABLE SUBSURFACE STRUCTURE. STUDY SITES INCLUDE TWO MOUNTAIN WATERSHEDS WITH HIGH- AND LOW-GROUNDWATER STORAGE SETTINGS. THE PROJECT WILL ADDRESS HOW THE STRUCTURE OF THE SUBSURFACE INFLUENCES THE SOURCE, AGE, AND MAGNITUDE OF STREAMFLOW, AS WELL AS THE EXTENT TO WHICH UPSTREAM HETEROGENEITY AFFECT CONDITIONS AT THE WATERSHED OUTLET. THE PROJECT WILL IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW GROUNDWATER STORAGE MODULATES STREAMFLOW DURING HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES. THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A TRANSFERABLE DATA-MODEL INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK TO ADDRESS CRITICAL ZONE SCIENCE QUESTIONS. THE FRAMEWORK WILL BE THE FOCUS OF A BROADER IMPACTS WORKSHOP THAT WILL PROVIDE EARLY-CAREER SCIENTISTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN FIELD DATA OR MODELING TECHNIQUES FROM PEERS, AS WELL AS FOSTER NEW COLLABORATIONS AND CROSS-DISCIPLINARY LEARNING WITHIN THE CRITICAL ZONE COMMUNITY. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Department of Health and Human Services
$175.4K
ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN SECRETION IN PICHIA PASTORIS
Department of Commerce
$174.4K
VISUALIZING CHANGE: TRAINING AND TOOLS TO SUPPORT INFORMAL EDUCATORS
Department of Health and Human Services
$171.9K
DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM - PROJECT/PERFORMANCE SITE PRIMARY LOCATION UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC 155 5TH STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103-2919 PROJECT DIRECTOR: DR. DES GALLAGHER CONTACT PHONE NUMBER (209) 946-7367 EMAIL ADDRESS: OSP@PACIFIC.EDU WEBSITE ADDRESS: HTTPS://DENTAL.PACIFIC.EDU/DENTAL GRANT PROGRAM FUNDS REQUESTED: RYAN WHITE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM PART F DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM (HRSA-23-060) TOTAL UNREIMBURSED COSTS OF ORAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDED TO PEOPLE WITH HIV FROM JULY 1, 2022, THROUGH JUNE 30, 2023: $556,952. GOAL STATEMENT THE GOAL OF UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC’S DENTAL SERVICES PROGRAM IS TO IMPROVE THE ORAL HEALTH OF ALL ETHNICITIES AND POPULATIONS WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) IN SAN FRANCISCO. TARGET POPULATION UOP WILL SERVE ALL ETHNICITIES AND POPULATIONS WITHIN SAN FRANCISCO WITH FOCUSED EXPERTISE ON THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF PATIENTS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS IN SAN FRANCISCO. THIS INCLUDES GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN, TRANSGENDER CLIENTS, LESBIANS, HETEROSEXUALS, CLIENTS WITH A HISTORY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR ACTIVE USERS, THE HOMELESS, INCARCERATED, FORMERLY INCARCERATED, CLIENTS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS OR CHALLENGES RESULTING FROM HIV/AIDS, ACTIVE OR FORMER SEX PROFESSION WORKERS, CLIENTS WITH MULTIPLE DIAGNOSES, PEOPLE OF COLOR, PARENTS AND THEIR HIV INFECTED CHILDREN, AND THOSE INFECTED BY OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE OR ACCIDENTAL EXPOSURE TO CONTAMINATED MATERIAL OR BLOOD. UOP ASSURES THAT ALL GRANT FUNDS ARE ONLY USED TO PAY FOR SERVICES THAT ARE NOT REIMBURSED BY ANY OTHER FUNDING SOURCE. CLIENT ENROLLMENT PRIORITY IS RESERVED FOR SF RESIDENTS WHO HAVE LOW INCOMES AND ARE UNINSURED. SECONDARY ENROLLMENT IS RESERVED FOR SF RESIDENTS WHO HAVE LOW INCOMES AND ARE UNDERINSURED. LOW INCOME STATUS IS EQUAL TO 500% OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL AS DEFINED BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. CLIENT ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION INCLUDING HIV DIAGNOSIS, RESIDENCY, INCOME, AND INSURANCE STATUS IS CONFIRMED AT INTAKE AND AT 12-MONTH INTE RVALS THEREAFTER. DENTISTRY SERVICES PROVIDED SERVICES PROVIDED UNDER THIS CONTRACT INCLUDE A BROAD RANGE OF ORAL HEALTHCARE TREATMENTS, WHICH ARE GENERALLY INTENDED TO: (1) RELIEVE PAIN AND SWELLING, (2) DIAGNOSE DISEASE, (3) PREVENT DISEASE, (4) ELIMINATE DISEASE, AND (5) RESTORE FUNCTION. SPECIFIC SERVICES PROVIDED ARE NOTED BELOW. DENTAL STUDENTS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF LICENSED FACULTY PROVIDE SAID SERVICES IN THE PREDOCTORAL STUDENT CLINIC. URGENT CARE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES INCLUDE PALLIATIVE CARE FOR THE TREATMENT OF PAIN, SWELLING, AND/OR BLEEDING. DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES INCLUDE EXAMINATIONS (INITIAL AND RECALL) AND DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHS. (CONE BEAM IMAGING IS NOT COVERED.) PREVENTATIVE SERVICES INCLUDE ORAL HYGIENE INSTRUCTION AND CAMBRA PROCEDURES AND MEDICATIONS. RESTORATIVE SERVICES INCLUDE: A. ALL AMALGAM AND/OR COMPOSITE FILLINGS B. SINGLE CROWNS: PFM, FVC AND CERAMIC CROWNS AFTER ALL THE DISEASE HAS BEEN TREATED IN THE MOUTH. C. COMPLETE DENTURES D. PARTIAL DENTURES ONLY IF CERTAIN CRITERIA ARE MET NOTE: BRIDGES ARE NOT COVERED SERVICES. PERIODONTAL (GUM) TREATMENT INCLUDE SCALING AND ROOT PLANING AND PERIODIC PERIODONTAL RECALL. PERIODONTAL SURGERY PROCEDURES ARE BENEFITS FOR TEETH THAT FIT ALL THREE OF THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA: 1) REQUIRE ENDODONTICS (ROOT CANAL THERAPY) 2) REQUIRE A CROWN COVERED BY PROGRAM 3) LISTED IN PACIFIC’S FEE SCHEDULE. ENDODONTICS (ROOT CANAL THERAPY) SERVICES INCLUDE ROOT CANAL THERAPY, APICO SURGERIES, AND TOOTH BUILD-UPS. ORAL SURGERY SERVICES INCLUDE PROCEDURES SUCH AS EXTRACTIONS, ALVEOLECTOMIES, ETC. ORAL MEDICINE SERVICES INCLUDE BIOPSIES AND OTHER ORAL MEDICINE PROCEDURES INDICATED IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ORAL MANIFESTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH HIV/AIDS.
Department of Commerce
$170.1K
DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE, LOW-COST COMMUNITY OUTREACH TOOLS FOR FISHERS AND SEAFOOD FARMERS
National Science Foundation
$152.1K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INVESTIGATING THE LINK BETWEEN MODERN SPRING ACTIVITY AND ASSOCIATED PALEOSPRING MOUNDS IN DEATH VALLEY, NP
National Science Foundation
$151.3K
DIMENSIONS: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONNECTING THE PROXIMATE MECHANISMS RESPONSIBLE FOR ORGANISMAL DIVERSITY TO THE ULTIMATE CAUSES OF LATITUDINAL G
Institute of Museum and Library Services
$150K
MUSEUMS FOR AMERICA
National Science Foundation
$149.7K
CAN COHORT EXPERIENCES INCREASE INTEREST AND PARTICIPATION IN EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AT AN URBAN UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTION?
Institute of Museum and Library Services
$147.3K
MUSEUMS FOR AMERICA
National Science Foundation
$145.9K
MACHINE LEARNING IN LATTICE QCD WITH FIXED POINT ACTIONS -THIS AWARD FUNDS THE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF PROFESSOR KIERAN HOLLAND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC. DECADES OF INTENSIVE EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL WORK IN PARTICLE PHYSICS HAS LED TO A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW NATURE BEHAVES AT THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL, WITH AN INTRICATE MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF OBSERVED EFFECTS BETWEEN SUBATOMIC PARTICLES, AS WELL AS RAISING MANY IMPORTANT AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. MODERN THEORETICAL PHYSICS RESEARCH TAKES ADVANTAGE OF A WIDE VARIETY OF COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES AND ALGORITHMS, WHICH SOMETIMES PROVIDE THE ONLY POSSIBLE WAY TO PRECISELY USE THE UNDERLYING MATHEMATICAL MODEL, THROUGH WHAT ARE KNOWN AS ?SIMULATIONS? OF HOW PARTICLES BEHAVE. IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, THE BOOMING FIELD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR MORE SPECIFICALLY MACHINE LEARNING HAS FOUND NEW APPLICATIONS IN SCIENCE, WHERE ENORMOUS DATASETS CAN BE SCOURED TO GIVE MORE INSIGHT INTO SCIENTIFIC MODELS. THIS RESEARCH IS IMPORTANT FOR THE NATIONAL INTEREST, NOT ONLY BY CONTINUING THE NATION?S LEADING ROLE IN ADVANCING FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE, BUT ALSO BECAUSE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS A COMPLETELY NEW TOOL WHICH HAS ALREADY HAD AN ENORMOUS IMPACT AND COULD REVOLUTIONIZE SOCIETIES, MUCH AS PERSONAL COMPUTING HAS DONE IN THE LAST FORTY YEARS. BY SUPPORTING RESEARCH IN THIS AREA, THE US WILL CONTINUE TO BE ONE OF THE LEADERS OF FUTURE TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATIONS. THERE WILL ALSO BE A BROADER IMPACT OF THE RESEARCH, THROUGH PROFESSOR HOLLAND?S MENTORING OF STUDENTS IN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH, DEVELOPING THEIR COMPUTING SKILLS FOR FUTURE INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIC CAREERS, AND BY SHARING THE RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH THROUGH PUBLIC TALKS. BEING MORE SPECIFIC, PROFESSOR HOLLAND WILL WORK ON MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS OF QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS (QCD), THE FUNDAMENTAL MODEL FOR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN QUARKS AND GLUONS, BINDING THEM TOGETHER TO FORM NUCLEI. SIMULATIONS CAN BE SYSTEMATICALLY IMPROVED, FOR EXAMPLE BY USING VERY HIGH RESOLUTION WHEN DISCRETIZING A PHYSICAL SYSTEM, ANALOGOUS TO PIXELATING AN IMAGE, BUT THE COMPUTATIONAL COST INCREASES VERY RAPIDLY, AND CAN QUICKLY DEMAND MORE COMPUTING POWER THAN ANY SUPERCOMPUTER CAN PROVIDE. AN ALTERNATIVE IS TO FIND A MORE COMPLEX DISCRETIZATION OF A PHYSICAL SYSTEM, WHERE EVEN A COARSE RESOLUTION CAN BE USED TO OBTAIN CORRECT PHYSICAL PREDICTIONS, AN APPROACH KNOWN AS IMPROVED LATTICE ACTIONS. PROFESSOR HOLLAND WILL WORK WITH MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS AND SOFTWARE PLATFORMS TO DESIGN A HIGHLY IMPROVED LATTICE ACTION FOR QCD, WHICH HE WILL ALSO TEST THROUGH MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS, TO COMPARE WITH EXISTING LATTICE ACTIONS IN TERMS OF ACCURACY AND COMPUTING COST. PART OF THE PROJECT INVOLVES PARAMETRIZATION OF AN IMPROVED LATTICE ACTION, A TASK IDEALLY SUITED TO MACHINE LEARNING METHODS. PROFESSOR HOLLAND WILL FIRST WORK ON THE DYNAMICS OF GLUONS WITHOUT QUARKS, KNOWN AS PURE SU(3) YANG-MILLS THEORY, WHERE THE OVERALL COMPUTING COST IS LOWER AND CAN SERVE BOTH AS A TESTBED FOR THE METHOD, AS WELL AS HAVE POSSIBLE PHENOMENOLOGICAL IMPACT FOR PREDICTING THE QCD COUPLING AT THE ELECTROWEAK ENERGY SCALE, WHERE YANG-MILLS THEORY CAN CONNECT TO THE FULL THEORY INCLUDING QUARKS. AS MANY RESEARCH GROUPS PERFORM LATTICE QCD SIMULATIONS, THIS WORK IS BROADLY RELEVANT IN EXPLORING WAYS TO MAXIMIZE EFFICIENCY WHEN USING LARGE-SCALE SUPERCOMPUTERS TO STUDY THE PROPERTIES OF QCD. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Department of Health and Human Services
$140.6K
THE INFLUENCE OF BODY IMAGE ON ADOLESCENT GIRLS' RISK AND PROTECTION BEHAVIORS
National Science Foundation
$140.3K
MRI: ACQUISITION OF AN ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETER FOR STUDYING LIGAND-MACROMOLECULE INTERACTIONS
Department of State
$100K
THIS PROJECT BUILDS UPON THE SUCCESSFUL PHASE 1 OF TUVALU BIOGAS PROJECT (2016-2020), AND WOULD EXPAND TO INSTALL 20 DOMESTIC BIOGAS SYSTEMS (DBS) IN FUNAFUTI, THE MAIN ATOLL OF TUVALU.
National Science Foundation
$100K
CSR: SMALL: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ADAPTIVE AND AUTONOMOUS ENERGY MANAGEMENT ON A SENSOR NETWORK USING AERIAL ROBOTS
Department of Agriculture
$99.9K
PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN COMMUNITY FORESTS
Department of Commerce
$99.3K
REGIONAL ASSESSMENT PROJ
Department of State
$98.3K
TO ENSURE THAT FOOD SECURITY IN THE PACIFIC ISLAND STATES IS NOT PUT AT RISK THROUGH THE LACK OF CROP DIVERSITY ADAPTED TO CLIMATIC EXTREMES. GRANT S
Department of Defense
$95K
FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES FOR INFRASTRUCTURE APPLICATIONS, FOCUSING ON INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION
National Science Foundation
$89.9K
RAPID: TEACHING FIELD GEOLOGY WITHOUT CLASSES IN THE FIELD - PROVIDING A ROBUST CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE THROUGH DIGITAL RESOURCES
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$78.1K
DR. JONTOF-HUTTER WILL LEAD THE ANALYSIS OF ORBITAL PERIOD RATIOS AND TESTS FOR ORBITAL STABILITY. HE WILL QUANTIFY THE DETECTION BIASES ON THE MULTIPLICITY OF ULTRA-SHORT PERIOD PLANETS AND THE EVIDENCE THAT SHORT-PERIOD SINGLE PLANETS ARE DRAWN FROM A POPULATION OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS WITH HIGHER MUTUAL INCLINATIONS AND WHETHER SUCH SINGLES CAN BE LINKED TO THE EXPECTED TIDAL PROPERTIES OF THE HOST STARS.
National Endowment for the Humanities
$60K
COPTIC SCRIPTORIUM: A CORPUS, TOOLS, AND METHODS FOR CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND COMPUTATIONAL HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN ANCIENT EGYP
National Science Foundation
$59.3K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF A SUSTAINABLE COMPUTER-BASED TUTORING SYSTEM FOR INTRODUCTORY LINEAR CIRCUIT ANALYSIS
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$54.6K
THE DISCOVERY OF COMPACT SYSTEMS OF MULTIPLE LOW-MASS LOW-DENSITY PLANETS WITHIN A FRACTION OF 1AU HAS TRIGGERED A WELLSPRING OF PLANET FORMATION THEORIES. SOME OF THESE OFFER TESTABLE PREDICTIONS OF OUTER PLANETARY SYSTEM ARCHIECTURES INCLUDING WHETHER GIANT PLANETS ARE EXPECTED AT DISTANCES BEYOND 1AU. OBERVATIONALLY THE OCCURRENCE RATE OF JOVIAN MASS PLANETS IN SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE MINI-NEPTUNES WITHIN A FRACTION OF 1AU IS UNKNOWN. HENCE CONSTRAINTS ON THE OCCURRENCE RATE OF JOVIANS IN SYSTEMS OF MULTIPLE LOW-MASS CLOSE-IN NEPTUNES IS OF GREAT INTEREST IN PLANET FORMATION THEORY. WE PROPOSE TO RUN DYNAMICAL SIMULATIONS OF COMPACT SYSTEMS OF MULTIPLE PLANETS TO QUANTIFY THE EFFECT OF POTENTIAL UNDETECTED JOVIAN PERTURBERS ON THE ORBITAL CONFIGURATIONS OF THE KNOWN PLANETS. IN PARTICULAR IN ORDER FOR MANY PLANETS IN THE SAME SYSTEM TO BE OBSERVED TRANSITING REQUIRES LOW MUTUAL INCLINATIONS BETWEEN THE KNOWN PLANETS. SUCH A CONDITION WOULD BE EASILY DISTURBED BY A MASSIVE PLANET INCLINED BY JUST A FEW DEGREES TO THE ORBITAL PLANE OF THE TRANSITING PLANETS. WE PROPOSE TO PLACE DYNAMICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE ORBITAL DISTANCES AND INCLINATIONS OF ANY SUCH JOVIAN PLANETS AND COMPARE THESE LIMITS TO THE CONSTRAINTS ON JOVIAN PLANET OCCURRENCE FROM RV SURVEYS. WHILE THERE ARE VARIOUS ESTIMATES OF JOVIAN PLANET OCCURRENCE FROM1-3AU FROM RV (E.G. WITTENMEYER ET AL. 2011 SCHLAUFMAN AND WINN 2016) THE SIZE OF SUB-SAMPLE KNOWN TO HAVE THREE OR MORE MINI- NEPTUNES CLOSE TO THE STAR IS JUST FIVE. OUR PROPOSED STUDY WILL PLACE A DYNAMICAL CONSTRAINT ON THE DISTANCES OUT TO WHICH JOVIAN PLANETS ARE VERY UNLIKELY. THIS WILL ENABLE A STATISTICAL COMPARISON WITH THE RESULTS OF RV SURVEYS TO DETERMINE IF THE COMPACT SYSTEMS OF MULTIPLE MINI-NEPTUNES ARE DRAWN FROM THE SAME POPULATION AS RV DETECTIONS OF JOVIANS GENERALLY.
Department of State
$53.1K
EMPOWER RIGHTS-HOLDERS AND DUTY-BEARERS WHO WORK MORE EFFECTIVELY TO IMPLEMENT PEOPLE-CENTERED RIGHTS-BASED GOVERNANCE
National Science Foundation
$49K
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS TO SUPPORT ENGAGEMENT IN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
Department of Education
$48.4K
UOP MSI CARES
Department of Commerce
$48K
WHITE ABALONE CAPTIVE REARING AND EDUCATION PROJECT
National Archives and Records Administration
$47.2K
TO SUPPORT A PROJECT TO PROCESS THE GEORGE MOSCONE PAPERS AND DIGITIZE 250 ITEMS FROM THE COLLECTION. MOSCONE (1929-1978) WAS AN ACTIVIST AND LEGISLATOR, WHO SERVED AS MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO FOR TWO YEARS. IN 1978, HE AND SAN FRANCISCO BOARD SUPERVISOR HARVEY MILK WERE ASSASSINATED.
National Endowment for the Humanities
$40K
COPTIC SCRIPTORIUM: DIGITIZING A CORPUS FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
National Science Foundation
$39.5K
SUPPORT OF THE ANNUAL BOK AWARDS AT THE INTEL INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$37.1K
OUR PROPOSED PROGRAM WILL BE CRUCIAL TO PLANNING THE CHARACTERIZATION OF EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERES AT MERCURY TO VENUS-LIKE DISTANCES.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$35K
EXPANDING THE COSMIC CALENDAR PROJECT FOR 1YA TO WIDER AUDIENCES: THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PA
National Science Foundation
$34.6K
HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$32.4K
WE SEEK FUNDING TO CREATE EASILY EXTENSIBLE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY ASTEROIDS AND OTHER TRANSIENT/VARIABLE OBJECTS IN IMAGE SETS. NAMED TRANSIENT TRACKER THIS SOFTWARE WILL PROVIDE: ASTROMETRIC AND PHOTOMETRIC SOLUTIONS IDENTIFICATION OF MOVING/TRANSIENT OBJECTS IDENTIFICATION OF VARIABLE OBJECTS AND LIGHTCURVE ANALYSIS. SOFTWARE OUTPUT WILL BE CONFIGURED TO ALLOW DATA TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE MINOR PLANET CENTER (MPC) AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF VARIABLE STAR OBSERVERS (AAVSO) AND THE IAU CENTRAL BUREAU FOR ASTRONOMICAL TELEGRAMS (IAU CBAT). THE GOAL OF TRANSIENT TRACKER IS TO CREATE EASILY EXTENSIBLE PROFESSIONAL GRADE SOFTWARE WITH A STRAIGHTFORWARD INTERFACE THAT ALLOWS AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS AND LEARNING COMMUNITIES (E.G. CLASSROOMS AND AFTER-SCHOOL GROUPS) TO PARTICIPATE IN DISCOVERING NEW OBJECTS LIKE NEOS AND IN EXTENDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THINGS THAT FLICKER FLARE AND MOVE IN THE NIGHT. THIS PROJECT WILL BE DEVELOPED BY PART OF THE COSMOQUEST TEAM. COSMOQUEST IS A PRIMARILY NASA-FUNDED VIRTUAL RESEARCH FACILITY THAT ENGAGES THE PUBLIC IN FULLY ONLINE CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECTS IN A FRAMEWORK THAT PROVIDES LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND FACILITATES COLLABORATION. IN THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS WE DETAIL: TRANSIENT TRACKER'S CORE FEATURE SET AND HOW NEW FEATURES CAN BE ADDED ( 2); HOW THIS PROJECT WILL BE IMPLEMENTED AND MANAGED ( 3); HOW WE WILL BUILD A USER COMMUNITY THAT INCLUDES SOFTWARE CONTRIBUTORS ( 4); AND OUR SOFTWARE AND COMMUNITY EVALUATION THAT TAKES INTO CONSIDERATION THE MYRIAD NEEDS OF BROAD AUDIENCES ( 5).
Department of Health and Human Services
$32.3K
LOAN GRANT WITH FUNDS FOR NEW BUDGET PERIOD
Department of Health and Human Services
$31K
PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN GENERAL, PEDIATRIC, AND PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY AND DENTAL HYGIENE
Department of Agriculture
$30.6K
PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN COMMUNITY FORESTS
National Science Foundation
$30K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH (SGER): WILDFIRE IMPACTS ON CATCHMENT HYDROCHEMISTRY: METAL AND NUTRIENT TRANSPORT AFTER THE DAY FIRE, 2006
Department of State
$28.8K
TO FACILITATE 2 WEEKS OF TRAINING IN TUVALU AND NAURU UNDER THE PACIFIC YOUTH COUNCIL?S PROJECT ENTITLED ?CAPACITY BUILDING OF NAURU & TUVALU NATIONA
National Science Foundation
$27K
FINITE ELEMENT METHOD EXERCISES FOR USE IN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING PROGRAMS
Department of Agriculture
$25.3K
COMMUNITY FACILITIES - ECONOMIC IMPACT INITIATIVE GRANTS
Department of Commerce
$25K
INCREASING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE TO WEATHER-RELATED EVENTS THROUGH PUBLIC EDUCATION
National Endowment for the Arts
$20K
TO SUPPORT AN EXHIBITION AND RELATED ACTIVITIES FOCUSED ON CLIMATE CHANGE PREPAREDNESS.
Department of Agriculture
$16.8K
PROMOTING NATURE CONSERVATION WITH YOUTH IN CAMBODIA
Department of the Interior
$13.5K
POPULATION GENETICS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE CALLIPPE SILVERSPOT BUTTERFLY
Department of the Interior
$12.2K
UOP CA-SJO-91 NAGPRA REPATRIATION
Department of State
$11.8K
IDENTIFYING AREAS FOR SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND MARINE PROTECTED AREAS IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.
National Endowment for the Arts
$10K
TO SUPPORT THE PACIFIC MUSIC CAMP.
National Endowment for the Arts
$10K
TO SUPPORT THE BRUBECK INSTITUTE SUMMER JAZZ COLONY.
National Endowment for the Arts
$10K
TO SUPPORT THE BRUBECK INSTITUTE'S SUMMER JAZZ COLONY.
National Endowment for the Arts
$10K
TO SUPPORT "DELTAFUSION," A MULTICULTURAL CELEBRATION OF THE CITY OF STOCKTON'S DIVERSITY, PRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS AND VISUAL ART
National Endowment for the Arts
$10K
TO SUPPORT PACIFIC MUSIC CAMP FOR GIFTED MUSIC STUDENTS OF ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL AGE.
National Science Foundation
$10K
"OCEAN ON THE EDGE": FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC OCEAN LITERACY
Department of State
$5,000
TO PRINT AND DISTRIBUTE PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP TO DEVELOP A BIOCONTROL STRATEGY FOR THE PACIFIC.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$5,000
THIS YEAR'S MEETING WILL SERVE A SECOND TARGET AUDIENCE OF INTEREST TO NASA: INTRODUCTORY ASTRONOMY INSTRUCTORS FROM COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$5,000
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFICASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 2009 CONFERENCETHE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC (ASP) REQUEST SUPPORT
Department of Agriculture
$875
CONSERVATION TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE - GE
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