Grants and Contracts Awarded in November, 2011

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
Burt, Charles
Professional services for Orchard Mesa Irrigation District
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
12-112
$200,000
10/17/11 - 09/30/15

Food Science & Nutrition

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Ritchie, Gerry
Decreasing Air Pollution from Ethanol Vapor Emissions during Grape Fermentation
CSU - Agricultural Research Institute
11-115
$20,000
07/01/10 - 06/30/12

College of Architecture & Env Design

Architecture

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
McDonald, Margot
Education software for workforce development
CA Energy Commission via Institute for Sustainable Performance of Buildings (SuPerB)
11-379
$50,000
07/01/11 - 01/24/13

City & Regional Planning

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Del Rio Nascimento, Vicente
Illustrative design model based on strategic growth principles in San Luis Obispo County
San Luis Obispo County
12-051
$17,905
11/10/11 - 05/31/12

College of Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Puig-Suari, Jordi
Cubesat/Collaborative Research: Composition variations in the exosphere, thermosphere, and topside ionosphere (EXOCUBE)
National Science Foundation via Scientific Solutions Inc.
10-297
$476,000
10/01/11 - 09/30/14
Puig-Suari, Jordi
Interplanetary cubesats: opening the solar system to a broad community at lower cost
NASA via Jet Propulsion Laboratory
12-094
$10,000
10/10/11 - 07/09/12

Electrical Engineering

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Slivovsky, Lynne
Organic Twittering: Building Green Economic Capacity
Corporation for National and Community Service (Learn and Serve) via CA Campus Compact
10-196
$50,000
07/01/10 - 06/30/12

Mechanical Engineering

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Keller, Melinda
Ultra low-cost dual purpose, compact linear fresnel reflector (CLFR) / heat exchanger
CA Energy Commission PIER Program via Advanced Lab Group
11-176
$12,000
04/01/11 - 03/31/12

College of Science & Mathematics

Physics

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Bennert, Vardha
Giant Ionized Clouds Around Local AGN - Obscuration and History
NASA via Assoc. of Univ. for Res. in Astronomy (AURA) via Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
11-372
$11,568
11/01/11 - 10/31/14
Bennert, Vardha
The Co-Evolution of Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies
NASA via Assoc. of Univ. for Res. in Astronomy (AURA) via Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
11-373
$16,788
10/01/11 - 09/30/14
Johnston, Scott
The paleogeographic origin of the Nacimiento Block, central California coast
American Chemical Society - Petroleum Research Fund
11-280
$50,000
01/01/12 - 08/31/14

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
$11,185
08/22/11 - 08/20/12

Other

Research & Graduate Programs

PI
Project Title
Sponsor
GDO #
Amount Awarded
Project Dates
Opava, Susan
NSF Graduate research fellowship (for Kevin Yamauchi)
National Science Foundation
11-311
$21,850
06/01/11 - 05/31/12

Totals for November, 2011: 13 Projects, $947,296