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Research & Creative Activity Program

RCA Subcommittee

The Research and Creative Activity Awards Subcommittee, a subcommittee of the Faculty Policies Committee (FPC), administers the Research and Creative Activity Awards program, the University Award for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity for Early-Career Faculty, and the University Award for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity for Senior Faculty.

23/24 Voting Members

  • Sadaf Ashtari, College of Business (Chair)
  • Nikolaos Lazaridis, College of Arts & Letters
  • Mei Shen, College of Education
  • Rohollah Moghadam, College of Engineering & Computer Science
  • Susanna Curry, College of Health & Human Services
  • Anna Patterson, College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics
  • Clara Scarry, College of Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Samantha McClellan, Library
  • Vacant, At-Large Member
  • Vacant, Faculty Policies Committee Member

Non-Voting/Ex-Officio Members

  • Adam Rechs, Faculty Senate
  • Mariappan Jawaharlal, Offices of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development

RCA Faculty Awards Program

The purpose of the RCA Awards Program is to support faculty research, scholarly, and creative activity, and to encourage faculty contributions to their disciplines. This program is funded in part through the CSU Chancellor's Office and Academic Affairs. It is administered by the RCA Subcommittee with support from the Offices of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development.

In most cases, award recipients will produce a peer-reviewed and/or discipline or field-specific scholarly outcome, such as an article or manuscript submitted for publication, grant proposal, exhibition, performance, prototype, data collection and/or analysis for a grant proposal or publication, etc. Award recipients must also submit a required project report documenting the results of their work at the conclusion of the funding period.

All Unit 3 faculty are eligible and encouraged to apply (including full-time faculty, part-time faculty, temporary faculty, probationary and tenured faculty, lecturers, coaches, librarians, and counselors, as outlined in the Unit 3 Bargaining Agreement).

2024-25 Call for Proposals
Submission Deadline: December 4, 2023.

RCA Awardees

Award for Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity for Early Career

University Award for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity for Early-Career Faculty

This award was established in 1989 and is given each year to recognize a colleague in the first ten years of their faculty appointment who has made significant contributions to his or her discipline through scholarly activity, research and publication, or creative and artistic endeavors. The award includes $2,500 in professional development funds and three units of release time from the Offices of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development.

Faculty who are eligible for the award must be tenured or tenure-track faculty within the first ten years of their appointment (including tenure and tenure-track appointments at other universities), and must have been employed at Sacramento State for the past three academic years.

The 2022/23 Early-Career Award Winner

Nicole Fox Awardee Poster - Coming Soon!

Nicole Fox, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Criminal Justice)

Coming Soon!

Award for Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Senior Faculty

University Award for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity for Senior Faculty

This award was established in 1989 and is given each year to recognize a colleague in the first ten years of their faculty appointment who has made significant contributions to his or her discipline through scholarly activity, research and publication, or creative and artistic endeavors. The award includes $2,500 in professional development funds and three units of release time from the Offices of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development.

Faculty who are eligible for the award must be tenured or tenure-track faculty within the first ten years of their appointment (including tenure and tenure-track appointments at other universities), and must have been employed at Sacramento State for the past three academic years.

The 2022/23 Award Winner

Katherine McReynolds Awardee Poster - Coming Soon!

Katherine Mc Reynolds, Ph.D. (Professor of Chemistry)

Coming Soon!