2025-2026 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. Clarissa Ibarra Rosales

College of Arts and Letters

Department of History

Project Title: Afro-Latin Voices Across Campus

Rosales's Poster Rosales's Report

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

Mulholland's Poster Mulholland's Report

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

Aivazpour's Poster Aivazpour's Report

Dr. Mei Shen

College of Education

School of Teaching Credentials

Project Title: Writing Motivation and Text Genres as Contributing Factors to Historical Writing

Shen's Poster Shen's Report

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)

Moghadam's Poster Moghadam's Report

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

Cortés's Poster Cortés' Report