New Grants Awarded 2022
Office of Academic Affairs
Micro-Credential Development
New York Jobs CEO Council
Art & Design Department
Prof. Kebedech Tekleab
Blue & Gray: This Era of Exile
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional B
Biological Sciences & Geology Department
Dr. Rondi Davies
The Provenance and Ages of Glacial Sediments on Long Island
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Dr. Sarbani Ghoshal
Adropin transgenesis protects against cognitive impairment due to metabolic dysregulation
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 A
Dr. Susan McLaughlin
Implementation of RNA interference to explore the role of polycystins and calcium sensing receptors in Hydra feeding behaviors
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Dr. Andrew Nguyen
Examining the functions of STAT3 in modulating the redux potential and apoptosis
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Dr. Amos Orlofsky
Regulation of host amino acid transporters by an intracellular parasite
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Dr. Christopher Roblodowski
Functional Characterization of the Actin-binding domain of the Drosophila Protein Dunc115
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Trapping and Concentrating Viruses from Wastewater
CUNY Office of Research - Interdisciplinary Research Grant (IRG)
Business Department
Theoretical Examination of Voting Strategies in Electronic Refverendum Mechanisms
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Chemistry Department
The Design and Synthesis of Novel BODIPY Derivatives as the n-Type Materials in Organic Solares Cells
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Dr. Zhou Zhou
Synthesis of Cyanine Dyes with Double Activation Sites
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Communications, Theatre, & Media Production Department
Dr. Christina Saindon
We've Never Met, but Let's be Friends: An Airbnb Superhost Story
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Engineering Technology Department
Personality Recognition using Big-Five model and MBTI model
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Dr. Raymond Lam
Temperature Effects on Tensile Mechanical Properties and Microstructures of Three-Dimensional (3D) Printed Thermoplastics
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
English Department
Dr. Raquel Corona
Measuring the Impact of the Common Read at Queensborough Community College
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional B
Documenting Dominican Women’s Sexual Resistance: Building a Digital Repository for Their Stories
Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
Dr. Melissa Dennihy
Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning During and After COVID-19
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional B
Dr. Vartan Messier
Errancies of Desire: Monstrous Masculinities Across the Atlantic - Preparation Costs
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Dr. Cara Murray
Technological Insecurity at the Bombay Mechanics' Institute: 1857-1897
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Dr. Angela Ridinger-Dotterman
Casting Representations of Disability in The 9 Fridas and Frida: Stroke of Passion
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Dr. William Ryan
"Act of Humanity": Black Suffering, Black Caregiving, and the Medical Case Study in the Yellow Fever Debate"
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Dr. Ilse Schrynemakers
Developing a QCC Academic E-Handbook for College Success
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Dr. Elizabeth Toohey
Reporting from Queens: Why Our Students Need Journalism and Why Journalism Needs Our Students
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional B
Prof. Irvin Weathersby
In Open Contempt: Engaging Expressions of White Supremacy in Art and Public Space
Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
Foreign Languages & Literatures Department
Josefa Acevedo de Gómez: A Biography
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Health, Physical Education & Dance
Dr. Parisa Assassi (Biological Sciences & Geology)
IPE Curricula Integration Effort
CUNY - University Dean for Health & Human Services
History Department
Suburbs in Black and White: Struggling to Live and Work in Postwar Long Island
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
The Kurt R. Schmeller Library
STEM Faculty and the ACRL Framework: A CUNY Wide Study
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional B
Mathematics and Computer Science Department
Dr. Wenjian Liu
Bayesian Reconstruction of Asymmetric Models on Two Dimensional Regular Grids
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Dr. Susana Pinheiro
On a model for two competing pathogen strains with infection history
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional B
Dr. Biao Wang
Minimal surfaces of Riemann type in hyperbolic space
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Music Department
Creating the Smooth Jazz Sound: An Exploration of Popular Music
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 52 Traditional B
Physics Department
Dr. Jillian Bellovary (on behalf of the CUNY Graduate Center)
CUNY Masters in Astrophysics Bridge Program
Simons Foundation
Verifying a New Method to Discover AGN in Dwarf Galaxies
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) - CHANDRA General Observer Program
Dr. M. Chantale Damas (In collaboration with the City College of New York)
AISat: AN Artificial Intelligence (AI) Satellite Imagery powered CubeSat for science applications
CUNY Office of Research - Interdisciplinary Research Grant (IRG)
Dr. Kimberly Riegel
Dr. Tak Cheung
Dr. David Lieberman
A Community College REU Site for Physics Applications in Astronomy/Biology and Physics Education Research
National Science Foundation - Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU)
Social Sciences Department
Dr. Gabriel Lataianu
Flores Agreement under Siege - The Implications of Weaking the Flores Agreement for Immigrant Children in the US (2018-2020)
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
Dr. Jody Resko
Reimagining OUr Campus After COVID: A Community College Service-Learning Project
Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) 53 Traditional A
