Internal Funding Opportunities

Congratulations to the 2025-26 RSCA Awardees!

Faculty Name	College	Department	Project Title
Miriam Hernandez Martinez	CAH	Communications	Resisting Erasure: Latinx Professors, DEI Backlash, and the Future of Communication Education
Md Zubair Zuven	CBAPP	Accounting, Finance & Economics	Climate Risk and Financial Transparency: The Impact of Firm-Level Climate Exposure on Financial Reporting Quality
Hui Li (with Rui Sun)	CBAPP	School of Public Service & Justice	Solar Justice on the Roof: Disparities, Barriers, and Policy Interventions
Zheng Yang	CBAPP	School of Public Service & Justice	Lessons From January 2025 LA Wildfires: What Have We Learned about Inter-Organizational Collaboration and Network Governance in Disaster Response?
Heather Clark	COE	Teacher Education	Studying teachers’ design capacity and self-efficacy in climate justice education
Kara Kogachi	CHHSN	Child Development	Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Adolescent Friendship Networks: Effects on Collective Action and Support for Social Change
Courtney Rago	CHHSN	Marital & Family Therapy	Transgender & Gender Expansive Students Experience of Safety on College Campuses
Lauren Newhouse (with Sheryl Ryan)	CHHSN	Occupational Therapy	Enhancing Well-Being Through Mental Health Metrics: Can Therapeutic Self-monitoring Improve Graduate Student Wellness?
Christina Coyle	CHHSN	School of Nursing	Attachment Style and Leadership Effectiveness in Nursing Leadership Students
Adriana Aldana	CHHSN	Social Work	Strengthening Community-Academic Partnerships for Climate Justice
Karina Sanchez	CNBS	Biology	The Effects of Urbanization on Songbird Nesting Behaviors
Sonal Singhal	CNBS	Biology	Why are the tropics home to so many species? A test of the Evolutionary Speed Hypothesis in Lizards & Snakes
Song (Ted) Wang	CNBS	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Identifying Systemic Barriers to Student Success in High Attrition Rate First-Year General Chemistry Courses
Ali Jalooli	CNBS	Computer Science	Towards a Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Authentication Framework for IoT Healthcare
Amlan Chatterjee	CNBS	Computer Science	Early Detection of Cardiovascular Health Risks in Underrepresented Communities Through Machine Learning on Social Media and Mobile Health Data
Liudong Zuo	CNBS	Computer Science	Dynamic Multi-Path Routing for Large-Scale Data Transfers Under Fluctuating Bandwidth Demands in High-Performance Networks
Parveen Chhetri	CNBS	Earth Science	Exploring Temporal and Spatial Patterns of MPO-Level Vehicle Miles Traveled in California
Jessalyn Bolkema	CNBS	Mathematics	Community Detection As Error Correction: A Communication-Theoretic Approach to Graph Clustering
Irene Tung	CNBS	Psychology	Co-Designing a Mobile Health App to Promote Emotional Awareness and Emotion Regulation During the Transition to Parenthood
Kathleen Conner	CNBS	Psychology	Altered Pathways: The Impact of Prenatal Cocaine Exposure on Brain Gene Expression
Kelin Li	CNBS	Sociology	Social Determinants of Vaccine Attitudes and Behaviors in the United States

Internal Grants

Internal Funding Opportunities

Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (RSCA) Awards Program