July 2026 Grants and Contracts
We are pleased to share the success of 黑瓜吃料网's principal investigators who were awarded grants and contracts during July 2026:
Monthly Awards at a Glance
27 Awards Received: Valued at $7,470,916.
Note: Some industry-sponsored awards are not listed due to their respective non-disclosure terms. The sort below is by College, then department, followed by PI.
Lucas College and Graduate School of Business
Philbrick, Karen | College of Business
BART Leadership Academy: 2026-27
Sponsor: Bay Area Rapid Transit-BART 鈥� $99,000.
Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering
Al-Manaseer, Akthem | Civil & Environmental Engineering
黑瓜吃料网\/CSULB Research and Certification Program for Asphalt and Aggregate in California
Sponsor: CSU, Long Beach Foundation 鈥� $102,470.
Kumar, Gautam | Chemical and Materials Engineering
Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation for Controlling Abnormal Neural Synchronization
and Oscillations
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health 鈥� $146,500.
Lee, Sang-Joon | Mechanical Engineering
NNME Pacific-Intermountain Network for Education in Semiconductors (PINES) Node
Sponsor: Boise State University 鈥� $175,308.
Mak, Ron | Computer Engineering
Intelligent Systems Research and Development Support-2 (ISRDS-3) Sponsor: KBR Wyle Services 鈥� $10,414.
College of Health & Human Sciences
Widaman, Adrianne | Nutrition & Food Science
Tele-Nutrition to Improve Cardiometabolic Health and Quality of Life Among Individuals
with Spinal Cord Injury\u201D Project being Submitted for the SCI Model Systems
Sponsor: Santa Clara County 鈥� $2,850.
College of Information, Data and Society
Hofman, Darra | School of Information
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program
Institute of Intl Education-IIE
Sponsor: Institute of Inational Education 鈥� $60,000.
College of Science
Carroll, Dustin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Delivering n ECCO-FORTE Data-Constrained Modeling Framework for Quantifying Land-to
Ocean Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Variability Across the North Slope
Sponsor: NASA 鈥� $62,534.
Diao, Minghui | Meteorology and Climate Science
Phase Transition in High-Latitude Clouds: Disentangling Effects of Aerosols and Meteorology
Using NASA PACE Satellite and In-Situ Observations
Sponsor: NASA 鈥� $153,759.
Grand, Maxime | Moss Landing Marine Lab
A Versatile Programmable Flow Injection Platform for Shipboard and Autonomous Analysis
of Nutrients and Trace Metals
Sponsor: National Science Foundation 鈥� $ 606,009.
Grazioli, Gianmarc | Chemistry
Probing Amyloid Fibril Self-Assembly with Network Hamiltonian Simulations in Explicit
Space
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health 鈥� $183,125.
Heim, Wesley | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Mercury Study (2027-2031)
Sponsor: Delta Regional Monitoring Program 鈥� $1,024,874.
Khatami, Ehsan | Physics & Astronomy
AI and data science enabled predictive modeling of collective phenomena in strongly
correlated quantum materials
Sponsor: University of Tennessee 鈥� $109,576.
Madden, Elizabeth | Geology
USGS IPA - Elizabeth Madden
Sponsor: United States Geological Survey 鈥� $20,000.
Menemenlis, Dimitris; Carroll, Dustin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Mesoscale eddies, internal waves, and solitons in SWOT, global models, and downscaled
regional models
Sponsor: University of Michigan 鈥� $64,632.
Menemenlis, Dimitris | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Exploring the FRESH Arctic: Fate of River Export and Surface Hydrology
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts 鈥� $37,211.
Menemenlis, Dimitris | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Impact of changes in sea level and ocean stratification on tides and lunar orbital
parameters
Sponsor: University of Michigan 鈥� $48,348.
Moh, Melody | Computer Science
Collaborative Research: CUE-T: Expanding the undergraduate AI talent pipeline by democratizing
access to instructional capabilities across institutions of higher education (IHEs)
Sponsor: Cornell University 鈥� $152,169.
Portner, Ryan | Geology
Collaborative Research: Transport Dynamics and Mobility of Large-Scale Submarine VolcaniclasticDensity
Currents at Hunga Volcano, Tonga
Sponsor: National Science Foundation 鈥� $34,682.
Smith, Sarah | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Collaborative Research: Do 鈥渁symbiotic鈥� Rhizosolenia mats obtain N from cryptic co-occurring
diazotrophs?
Sponsor: National Science Foundation 鈥� $112,045.
Vishal, Kumar | Biological Sciences
Diet promotes muscle stem cell activation and proliferation in Drsosophila
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health 鈥� $183,125.
Wilkinson, Katherine | Biological Sciences
The Electrical Basis of Proprioceptive Signaling
Sponsor: UC, Davis 鈥� $74,707.
Yarbrough, Mark | Moss Landing Marine Lab
MarONet operations to support PACE OCI System Vicarious Calibration
Sponsor: University of Miami 鈥� $23,315.
College of Social Sciences
Carr, Valerie | Psychology
Future Vertical Lift: Collaborative Research on Flight Control, Autonomous Rotorcraft,
and Human-Systems Interface Design: Phase 2
Sponsor: NASA 鈥� $1,555,694.
Schuster, David | Psychology
Human Systems Integration: Collaborative Human Factors Research to Improve the Safety,
Efficiency, and Reliability of NASA\u2019s Aeronautics and Space Missions: Phase 2
Sponsor: NASA 鈥� $1,342,681. and 1,032,888.
Division of Research & Innovation
Maloney, Deborah | Office of Sponsored Programs
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Sponsor: National Science Foundation 鈥� $53,000.
