Grant Report: August 2010
Title: Ag Opeartions
Agency: USDA
Project director: Ganesan Srinivasan
Amount of Award: $28,448
Purpose: Funding for on-going research support
within the Ag Operations Department.
College/School: Jordan College of Agricultural
Sciences and Technology/Ag Operations
Title: Monitoring Fairmead Landfill (Year 4 of 5)
Agency: Madera County
Project director: Robert Dundas
Amount of Award: $175,404
Purpose: Funding to perform paleontological
monitoring and fossil salvage services.
College/School: Science and Mathematics/EES
Title: Specialized Foster Parent Training 2011
Agency: Fresno County, Department of Social
Services
Project director: Barbara Foster/E. Jane Middleton
Amount of Award: $436,358
Purpose: Funding for specialized foster parent
training which will include beginning and intermediate sessions,
along with MTFC training, CPR/First Aid and Special Health Care
Needs training.
College/School: Health and Human Services/Social
Work Education
Title: CCTA-Fresno County Mentoring Services
Agency: Fresno County, Department of Social
Services 2010-2011
Project director: David Foster/E. Jane Middleton
Amount of Award: $100,677
Purpose: Funding to assist social work supervisors
in the further development of their role as educator and trainer to
new and/or transitioning social workers.
College/School: Health and Human Services/Social
Work Education
Title: Multi-Site Off-Campus RN-to-BSN Program
(Year 1 of 3)
Agency: US Department of Health and Human
Services/HRSA
Project director: Mary Barakzai
Amount of Award: $90,021
Purpose: Funding to provide a Bachelor of Science
in Nursing in the RN-to-BSN track at multiple sites throughout the
Central San Joaquin Valley.
College/School: Health and Human
Services/CCCEN
Title: College Assistance Migrant Program CAMP
2010-2011
Agency: US Department of Education – Office
of Migrant Education
Project director: Ofelia Gamez
Amount of Award: $425,000
Purpose: Funding to provide support to migrant
students through programs that provide recruitment, academic,
personal, career, cultural, leadership and retention services.
College/School: Administration/Student
Affairs/CAMP
Title: Stanislaus County Grievance Review Officer
2011
Agency: Stanislaus County Community Services
Agency
Project director: Barbara Foster
Amount of Award: $13,000
Purpose: Funding for the Grievance Review Officer
for the Stanislaus County for the Child Welfare Services.
College/School: Health and Human Services/Social
Work Education
Title: Paleontology Sensitivity Mapping
Agency: The Trustees of the California State
University (Caltrans pass-through)
Project director: Robert Dundas
Amount of Award: $195,724
Purpose: Funding to provide professional and
technical services required to indentify sensitive paleontology
resources in accordance with professional standards and
requirements.
College/School: Science and Mathematics/EES
Title: CA-MSP (August start)
Agency: Fresno Unified School District (federal
pass-through)
Project director: Rajee Amarsinghe
Amount of Award: $9,936.50
Purpose: Funding for Saturday workshops and
professional learning communities.
College/School: Science and
Mathematics/Mathematics
Title: San Joaquin Valley Mathematics Project STIR
Agency: The Regents of University of California
(State of California pass through)
Project director: Karen Arth/Carol Fry Bohlin
Amount of Award: $24,000
Purpose: Fourth year funding for the STIR program
to support teachers to increase retention.
College/School: Kremen School of Education and
Human Development/Curriculum and Instruction
Title: Long Term Training – Vocational
Evaluation (CFDA 84.129F)
Agency: US Department of Education
Project director: Charles Arokiasamy/John Lloyd
Amount of Award: $100,000
Purpose: First year funding for the Vocational
Evaluation Long Term Training program for student support.
College/School: Kremen School of Education and
Human Development/CSER
Title: Rehabilitation Counseling (CFDA 84.129B)
Agency: US Department of Education
Project director: Charles Arokiasamy
Amount of Award: $150,000
Purpose: Second year funding for the
Rehabilitation Counseling Training program for student support.
College/School: Kremen School of Education and
Human Development/CSER
Title: Business Support in Blue Technology
2010-2011
Agency: Central Valley Business Incubator
Project director: David Zoldoske
Amount of Award: $146,003
Purpose: Funding for water tech subcontract for
the programmatic support for the adult and dislocated worker
programs.
College/School: Jordan College of Agricultural
Sciences and Technology/ICWT
Title: CSU Fresno English Language Acquisition
Program
Agency: US Department of Education
Project director: Anne Murphy
Amount of Award: $298,278
Purpose: Fourth year funding for the English
Language Acquisition Program.
College/School: Kremen School of Education and
Human Development/Office of Teacher Recruitment
Title: Central California Child Welfare Training
Academy 2011
Agency: State of California, Department of Social
Services (federal pass through)
Project director: Jane Middleton/David Foster
Amount of Award: $1,876,291
Purpose: Funding to train county child welfare and
probation staffs that are responsible for children and families in
the foster care program.
College/School: Health and Human
Services/DSWE/CCTA
Title: Convention and Entertainment Center Cost
Survey
Agency: Fresno Convention and Entertainment
CenterProject director: Michael Mahoney
Amount of Award: $4,501
Purpose: Funding to support development of a
survey benchmark key rates at convention centers, arenas,
auditoriums, theaters and other venues in the Southwestern Region
of the United States.
College/School: Health and Human
Services/Recreation Administration
Title: Pesticide and Gene Interactions in Latina
Farm Workers
Agency: The Regents of University of California
Project director: Jason Bush
Amount of Award: $17,300
Purpose: Coordination and achieving of saliva
samples as well as coordinate outsourcing of amplicon gene
sequencing.
College/School: Science and
Mathematics/Biology
Title: RIG: Integrated Research and Class Teaching
on a Family of Bacterial Transcription Factors (Year 1 of 2)
Agency: National Science Foundation
Project director: He Youn
Amount of Award: $115,753
Purpose: To understand the diverse functions of
CRP homologs. This will serve as a valuable groundwork for the
elucidation of physiological functions of the targeted regulators.
College/School: Science and Mathematics/Biology
Title: Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment
(Year 2 of 5)
Agency: US Department of Education
Project director: Charles Arokiasamy /John Lloyd
Amount of Award: 99,360
Purpose: Funding to support student activities for
the second year of the Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment
program.
College/School: Kremen School of Education and
Human Development/CSER
Title: Radio-Frequency Interference Analysis
Agency: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Project director: Peter Kinman/Ram Nunna
Amount of Award: 69,880
Purpose: Funding for technical studies and
analyses to investigate potential radio frequency interference to
the deep-space network caused by terrestrial systems and satellite
systems operating in and near the DSN frequency bands.
College/School: Lyles College of
Engineering/Electrical Engineering
Title: Workforce Development in Mechatronics
Agency: University of California, San Diego
Project director: Ram Nunna
Amount of Award: 10,000
Purpose: Funding to develop projects in
mechatronics; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the Lowell Neighborhood
Project.
College/School: Lyles College of Engineering
