2024-2025 Awardees

Each year all probationary faculty members are invited to submit applications for the 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. Ryan Murray

College of Arts and Letters

Department of Music

Project Title: String Day: An Outreach and Education Event for Young Mucisians and Their Teachers

Murray's Poster Murray's Report

Dr. Ramakrishna Dantu

College of Business

Department of Information Systems & Business Analytics

Project Title: Redesigning MIS140: Business Data Communication and Networking through Active Learning

Dantu's Poster Dantu's Report

Dr. Riana Pella

College of Education

Department of Education

Project Title: A Campus Mentoring Program Case Study: Engaging Male Students in Violence Prevention

Pella's Poster Pella's Report

Dr. Maria Jose Echeverria

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Department of Civil Engineering

Project Title: Establishing the Structural Learning Lab: Enhancing Engagement and Understanding in Civil Engineering Education

Echeverria's Poster Echeverria's Report

Dr. Meghann Costa

College of Health and Human Services

School of Nursing

Project Title: Enhancing Pediatric Simulation: Integrating Standards, Realism, Innovation, and Inclusive Learning in Undergraduate Nursing

Costa's Poster Costa's Report

Dr. Erik Haroldson

College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Department of Geology

Project Title: Using Pb Isotopes to Investigate Critical Metals in Northern California Gold Deposits

Haroldson's Poster Haroldson's Report

Dr. Melina Juarez Perez

College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies

Department of Ethnic Studies

Project Title: LatinX: Feeling the Margins