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Early Career Faculty Development Grant Posters & Reports
2025-2026 Awardees
Each year all early career faculty members are invited to submit applications for the Early Career Faculty Development Grant (formerly Probationary Faculty Development Grant). Seven faculty are selected to receive $500 in professional development funds and 3 units of release time to implement a project that is research related, a creative activity, or some type of pedagogical enhancement.
Dr. Clarissa Ibarra Rosales
College of Arts and Letters
Department of History
Project Title: Afro-Latin Voices Across Campus
Dr. Rebekkah Mulholland
College of Arts and Letters
Department of History
Project Title: "We are not that sort of women": The Life and Times of Frances Thompson during the 1866 Memphis Massacre
Dr. Zahra Aivazpour
College of Business
Department of Management, Information Systems & Business Analytics
Project Title: Cybersecurity Workshop: Expanding Access to Cybersecurity Careers for All Students
Dr. Mei Shen
College of Education
School of Teaching Credentials
Project Title: Writing Motivation and Text Genres as Contributing Factors to Historical Writing
Dr. Rohollah Moghadam
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Project Title: AI-Powered Large Language Model Framework for Natural Language Robot Control (LLM-NLRC)
Dr. Yahaira Núñez Cortés
College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies
Department of Anthropology
Project Title: Rooting ancient plant use: the development of a modern reference collection