Grants and Contracts Awarded in March, 2012

Listed by College, Department and PI


Agriculture, Food & Env Sciences
Architecture & Env Design
Business
Engineering
Liberal Arts
Science & Mathematics
Student Affairs
Other


College of Agriculture, Food & Env Sciences

BioResource and Agricultural Engineering

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Gaudi, Franklin
Agricultural consulting services at Lancaster Eastern Agricultural Sites (EAS) and Palmdale Effluent Management Site (EMS)
Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County
09-119
$55,300
02/01/09 - 06/30/12

College of Agriculture

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Wehner, David J
Food Systems Leadership Institute
W. K. Kellogg Foundation via Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities via North Carolina State University
12-098
$25,000
10/01/11 - 09/30/12

Horticulture & Crop Science

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Costello, Michael J
Genetics of plant defense responses to pesticides and spider mites on grapes
University of California/California State University/Community College Collaborations
12-163
$10,000
01/01/12 - 12/31/12

College of Architecture & Env Design

City & Regional Planning

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Toker, Umut
Downtown Carpinteria Visioning Plan
City of Carpinteria
12-248
$5,222
03/26/12 - 06/15/12

College of Business

Accounting

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Sperow, Elisabeth
Cal Poly Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (2012-2014)
Internal Revenue Service - (LITC)
12-002
$5,000
01/01/12 - 12/31/12

Economics

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Shafran, Aric
Experiments on the WTP-WTA Gap
W.K. Kellogg Foundation via Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc.
12-225
$4,180
02/22/12 - 06/30/12

College of Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Abercromby, Kira
Orbital object optical characteristic research
NASA via Jacobs Technology
12-272
$39,103
03/30/12 - 09/30/12
Puig-Suari, Jordi
Confidential
Confidential
11-293
$258,258
01/01/11 - 06/30/12
Puig-Suari, Jordi
Cal Poly CubeSat telemetry system for Analex
NASA via a.i. solutions
12-065
$47,814
10/03/11 - 05/31/12

Biomedical and General Engineering

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Cardinal, Trevor
Master's of Science Specialization in Stem Cell Technology
CA Institute for Regenerative Medicine
09-007
$1,601,148
07/01/12 - 06/30/15

Civil & Environmental Engineering

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Moss, Robb
ROA: Shear wave velocity testing in support of the “Performance of deep and wide excavations in congested urban areas” GOALI award.
National Science Foundation via University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11-296
$23,069
04/15/11 - 03/31/14

College of Liberal Arts

Graphic Communication

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Levenson, Harvey
Confidential
Confidential
11-158
$39,650
11/01/10 - 06/30/13

Social Sciences

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Jones, Terry
Los Osos Waste Water Facility Archaeological Construction Phase
San Luis Obispo County via Far Western Anthropological Research Group
12-215
$34,543
05/07/12 - 06/15/16

College of Science & Mathematics

Biological Sciences

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Keil, David
Collaborative Proposal: Harnessing the Power of Herbarium Specimens to Understand the Changing Flora of a Biodiversity Hotspot in Peril
National Science Foundation (BRC) via University of California Santa Barbara
09-332
$-26,151
09/01/10 - 08/31/12

College of Science & Mathematics

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Wendt, Dean
Comprehensive assessment of marine coatings
U.S. Dept of the Navy, Office of Naval Research
12-136
$128,987
01/01/12 - 12/31/13
Wendt, Dean
Investigations into the Settlement and Attachment of Biofouling Marine Invertebrates
U.S. Dept of the Navy, Office of Naval Research
12-137
$57,156
02/01/12 - 01/31/13

Physics

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Bennert, Vardha
The Co-Evolution of Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies
NASA via Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) via Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
11-373
$7,485
10/01/11 - 09/30/14
Gutierrez, Thomas
RUI: Analysis, simulation, and onsite activities contributing to the search for neutrinoless double beta decay in tellurium using the CUORE detector
National Science Foundation (RUI)
10-069
$75,854
05/01/11 - 04/30/14

College of Student Affairs

Student Life & Leadership

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Torrey, Jesse
California's VIP (Volunteer Infrastructure Program) Fellows and Leaders 2011-12
Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) via Napa County Office of Education
12-020
$-11,472
08/22/11 - 10/31/12
Torrey, Jesse
Cal Poly's VIP (Volunteer Infrastructure Program) - Community Partners 2011-12
Various Non-Profit Organizations
12-067
$26,000
08/22/11 - 10/31/12

Total Awards in March, 2012: 20 Projects, $2,406,146