Funded Grants/Contracts

SUNY Oswego takes great pride in the exceptional scholarly and creative accomplishments of our faculty, students, and staff. Last year alone, we awarded over 75 external grants/contracts and more than 80 internal grants, underscoring our commitment to fostering academic innovation and research.

These grants and contracts not only support groundbreaking projects but also enhance the professional growth of our community, providing vital resources for research, creative endeavors, and student engagement. We are proud to recognize and celebrate the achievements of our past grant and contract recipients, whose work continues to elevate SUNY Oswego's reputation for excellence. See their contributions below.

Funded External Grants and Contracts

2025 External Awards

Principal Investigator	Department	Award Name	Sponsor Name	Amount
Pippin, Jill	Extended Learning	Professional Development and Training 2025	Oswego County Department of Social Services	up to $199,357
Glidden, Lisa Co-PIs: Haynes, Kristen Scherrer, Benjamin	Political Science Rice Creek Field Station Curriculum & Instruction	Supporting public engagement: A Day in the Life at the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary	The National Marine Sanctuary Foundation	$100,000
Hutcheson, Lowell	ARTSwego	The Spirit of Harriet Tubman	CNY Arts	$3,598
Lopez, April	Dean of Students	Leadership Council Grant: Technology Updates for SHOP	Swipe Out Hunger	$1,000
Skubis, Steven	Atmospheric & Geological Sciences	NAPD - Bennet Bridge Monitoring	WSP	$6,501
Sard, Nicholas	Biological Sciences	Lake Ontario Chinook salmon parentage-based tagging	New York State Department of Conservation - via Memorandum of Understanding	$177,000
Pippin, Jill	Extended Learning	MOU 2024-2026 Oswego Job Skills	NYS and CSEA Partnership for Education and Training	up to $279,594

2024 External Awards

Principal Investigator	Department	Award Name	Sponsor Name	Amount
Islam, Mohammad	Physics	Growth and Characterization of Silicon Nanoparticle - ActivatedCarbon Composite as Anode for High Performance Lithium IonBattery	Constellation	$35,000
Watson, Kathryn Co-PI: Eck, Kristi	RSVP OWIER	RSVP of Oswego County 2024-2025 Support	NYS Office for the Aging	$7,465
Ossa, Alanna	Anthropology	Long-term Market Development in Veracruz: Household Perspectives on Exchange and Economic Organization	National Science Foundation	$180,706
Pippin, Jill	Extended Learning	MGMTRFQ Consultant Services Project 2024	NYS Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance	up to $764,418
Pippin, Jill	Extended Learning	Workforce Skill Building Training Project 2024	NYS Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance	up to $485,322
Bower, Mallory	EXCEL	SUNY Paid Internship Community of Practice	SUNY/OSWD Partnership	$100,000
Drake, William	WRVO	Corporation for Public Broadcasting 2024-2026 Community Service Grant	Corporation for Public Broadcasting	$182,673
Haynes, Kristen	Rice Creek Field Station	Advancing Inclusive Access to Nature at Rice Creek Field Station	The Richard Shineman Foundation	$10,000
Weisman, Sarah	Penfield Library	Coordinated Collection Development Allocation 2024-2025	NYSED	$12,225
Dykas, Matthew	Psychology	COS Parenting Program Support 2025-2027	United Way of Oswego County	up to $3,725 per year for 3 years
Watson, Kathryn Co-PI: Eck, Kristi	RSVP OWIER	Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) of Oswego County	United Way of Oswego County	up to $10,000 per year for 3 years
Hardy, Mark	Technology	Technology Management/Manufacturing Scholarships	Gene Haas Foundation	$10,000
Sard, Nicholas	Biological Sciences	Investigating round goby prey items through metabarcoding and estimating the number of breeding adults through pedigree accumulation analysis	NYS Department of Conservation via Cornell	$92,400
McKeown, Joshua	International Education & Programs	Getting Ready for Micron: How a Rural-Serving Public Regional University and an Urban Community College in Upstate New York Will Prepare Students for Opportunities in the Global Semiconductor Industry	US Department of State via subaward from World Learning, Inc.	$50,000
Sard, Nicholas	Biological Sciences	Identifying Unmarked Lake Sturgeon Stocked in the St. Lawrence River and Other Waterbodies in New York State	National Fish and Wildlife Foundation	$217,383
Princehouse, Patricia	Anthropology	The Topernawi Research Project: Hominoid origins in a unique paleocommunity	National Science Foundation	$194,926
Hutcheson, Lowell	ARTSwego	Squonk Opera- Brouhaha	The Richard Shineman Foundation	$5,000
Kothandaraman, Prabakar Co-PIs: Islam, Mohammad Tajvarpour, Mohammad Thornton, Michele Zhang, Hui	Business Physics Accounting Finance & Law Marketing & Management Electrical & Computer Engineering	Collaborative Research: EPIIC: Cross-Continental Collaboration Coalition (C4)	National Science Foundation	$400,000
Lewandowska, Natalia	Physics	Assistant Editor for NASA's Astronomy of the Day Picture (APOD) website	Subaward from Michigan Technological University/NASA Funded	$10,000
Drake, William Eck, Kristi	WRVO WRVO	Public Broadcasting Operational Aid 2024-2025	NYSED	$58,576
Estrada, Emily	Sociology	RUI: Manufacturing Morality: Legitimacy and the Prison Industrial Complex	National Science Foundation	$165,514
Bandla, Michele	Provost Office	Americorps FAFSA Corps	Americorps via NYS Office of Children and Family Services & SUNY System	$15,001
Hurtado, Roberta co-PI Bishop, Michelle	Penfield Library Penfield Library	Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home	Library of America	$1200
Dykas, Matthew student co-PI VanDamme, Cassandra	Psychology	Parental Secure Base and Safe Haven Support in LGBTQ+ Emerging Adults (Undergraduate Student Research Grant)	Psi Chi The International Honor Society in Psychology	$1,500
Eck, Kristi (current PI) (awarded to: Ingerson, Sarah co-PI Pippin, Jill)	OWIER RSVP Extended Learning	Retired and Senior Volunteer Program	Corporation for National and Community Service/ Americorps	$77,500YR1, $75,000YR2, $75,000YR3
Pippin, Jill	Extended Learning	Professional Development and Training 2024	Oswego County Department of Social Services	up to $199,831
Hodgins, Danielle	Theatre	RE-FASHION: Environmentally Conscious Practice in Wearable Art	CNY Arts	$5,000
Hutcheson, Lowell	ARTSwego	Actors from the London Stage	CNY Arts	$5,000
Barber, Katelyn Wang, Yonggang	Atmo. & Geo. Sci	AGS-FIRP Track 1: The 2024 SUNY Oswego Undergraduate Radar Curriculum Experience (SOURCE)	National Science Foundation	$17,684
Mirjafari, Arsalan	Chemistry	Enhancing Vaccine Thermostability with Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents	National Institutes of Health	$459,551

2023 External Awards

Principal Investigator	Department	Award Name	Sponsor Name	Amount
Dykas, Matthew	Psychology	Circle of Security Parenting: Central New York Expansion 2024	Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, Inc.	$150,000
Weisman, Sarah	Penfield Library	Coordinated Collection Development Allocation 2023-2024	NYSED	11,764
Drake, William Eck, Kristi	WRVO WRVO	Corporation for Public Broadcasting 2023-2025 Community Service Grant	Corporation for Public Broadcasting	$166,192
Hardy, Mark	Technology	Technology Management/Manufacturing Scholarships	Gene Haas Foundation	$8,000
Kothandaraman, Prabakar Co-PIs: Scruton, Irene Khan,Raihan	School of Business MBA Program Marketing & Management	Strategic capacity building through new program for not-for-profits	The Richard Shineman Foundation	$34,292
Baker, Mark	Mathematics	Computationally optimized ventilation in the prehospital hospital setting	Subaward from Upstate Medical University - prime sponsor US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity	$20,108
Croyle, Kristin Furlong, Scott	CLAS Provost Office	All Students Count: Advancing equity through intentional peer-to-peer supports and inclusive pedagogies	US Department of Education	$1,895,672.00 over 5 years
Barber, Katelyn	Atmo. & Geo. Sci	NEBP Supplemental Support	NY Space Grant	$1,991
Wang, Yonggang	Atmo. & Geo. Sci	Collaborative Proposal: Mesoscale Predictability Across Climate Regimes	National Science Foundation Texas Tech: lead, Colorado State : collaborator	$183,248
Coman, Ioana	Computer Science	Treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) With N-acetylcysteine (NAC) (SNAC)	NIH via subaward from SUNY Upstate Medical University	$71,219 year1, up to $382,721 over 4 years
Tomascak. Paul	Atmo. & Geo. Sci	Collaborative Research: Integrating fluorspar ages and geophysical models to constrain the timing and mechanisms of the collapse of the Cordillera in SW North America	National Science Foundation	$90,878
Ingerson, Sarah co-PI: Pippin, Jill	RSVP Extended Learning	RSVP of Oswego County 2023-2024 Support	NYS Office for the Aging	$7,465
Pippin, Jill	Extended Learning	Workforce Skill Building Training Project 2023	NYS Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance	Up to $485,322
Pippin, Jill	Extended Learning	MGMTRFQ Consultant Services Project 2023	NYS Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance	Up to $742,153
Hutcheson, Lowell	ARTSwego	San Jose Taiko	Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation	$8,600
Hutcheson, Lowell	ARTSwego	Dupont Brass	Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation	$5,625
Hutcheson, Lowell	ARTSwego	Performance by New York Theatre Ballet	Lake Placid Center for the Arts - The Audience-Building Project	$10,000
Hutcheson, Lowell	ARTSwego	Performance by The Actors from London Stage	Lake Placid Center for the Arts - The Audience-Building Project	$10,000
Sard,Nicholas	Biological Sciences	Sex identification of Atlantic sturgeon samples	Cornell University (NYSDEC)	$4,292
Glidden, Lisa	Political Science	Rebuilding Bridges with the Land of the Rising Sun	USDOE (FY 2023 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad)	$119,033
Drake, William Eck, Kristi	WRVO WRVO	Public Broadcasting Operational Aid 2023-2024	NYSED	$58,576
Islam, Mohamad	Physics	Synthesis of Silicon Nanoparticle–Recycled Activated Carbon Composites as Anode Material for Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Batteries	Syracuse Center of Excellence	$14,999
Deater, Tiffany Co-PIs: Hagadorn, Jarrod Mohamed, Kamal	Cinema & Screen Studies English & Creative Writing Rice Creek Field Station	New Minor in Environmental Humanities and Visual Media	National Endowment for the Humanities	$35,000
Fleming, Sarah	Curriculum & Instruction	Revisioning Assessment in ELA: A Critical Community of Teachers forEquitable Assessment Practices	National Council of Teachers of English	$4,000
Sard, Nicholas	Biological Sciences	Developing experimental research to support Coregonine conservation and restoration in the Laurentian Great Lakes	The United States Geological Survey (a CESU agreement)	$634,546
Hellquist, Eric Co-PIs: Back, Richard Sime, Karen	Biological Sciences	Invasive species mitigation, water quality, and wasp population genetics associated with bog buckmoth habitat, Oswego County Fen	Oswego County Soil and Water Conservation District (with NYSDEC funds)	$53,411.54
Eck, Kristi Co-PIs: McEvoy, Anneke Ogwo, Benjamin	President's Office & CTE	SUNY Oswego Opportunity Partnership: Instructor Bootcamp in Support of Regional Workforce Capacity Building	Office of Strategic Workforce Development, Empire State Development	$340,963
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	Oswego Renaissance Association	Oswego County American Rescue Plan Act funds	$49,999
Li, Amanda	Music	The Solo Songs of Gwyneth Walker	American Musicological Society	$1,200
Wang, Yonggang	Atmo. & Geo. Sci	CAESAR: Characterization of boundary-layer convective precipitation in Arctic cold air outbreaks	National Science Foundation	$234,022
Traudt, Miranda	ARTSwego	Darrah Carr	CNY Arts	$5,000
Thornton, Michele	Marketing & Management	Exploring LGBTQ+ Inclusivity at Worksites and Attitudes toward Tobacco-Free Employer Policies	American Lung Association Rochester Chapter	$14,265
Barber, Katelyn Co-PIs: Kanbur, Shashi Wang, Yonggang Lewandowaska, Natalia	Atmospheric and Geological Sciences & Physics	Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Program 2022-2025	Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP) at University of Montana	$13,000 - $28,000
Barber, Katelyn Co-PIs: Kanbur, Shashi Wang, Yonggang Lewandowaska, Natalia	Atmospheric and Geological Sciences & Physics	Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Program 2022-2025	National Space Grant Foundation/University of Montana	$11,000
Mohamed, Kamal Co-PI: Haynes, Kristen	Rice Creek Field Station	ZBGA General Expense Reimbursement 2021-2026	NYS Parks Recreation & Historic Preservation	$193,744.45 over 5 years

2022 External Awards

Principal Investigator	Department	Award Name	Sponsor Name	Amount
Storie, Michelle Spenceley, Laura	Counceling & Psychological Services Education	Cultivating Representation in School Psychology (CRISP)	US Department of Education	Up to $3,558,809 over 5 years
Mirjafari, Arsalan	Chemistry	AS: RUI: Click Synthesis and Structure-Property-Function Relationships of Amphiphilic Ionic Liquids	National Science Foundation	$194,594
Ingerson, Sarah Pippin, Jill	RSVP Extended Learning	RSVP of Oswego County 2022-2023 Support	NYS Office for the Aging	$6,983
Weisman, Sarah	Penfield Library	Coordinated Collection Development Allocation 2022-2023	NYSED	$11,738
Traudt, Miranda	ARTSwego	ARTSwego: Artist-in-Residence	CNY Arts	$1,000
Dykas, Matthew	Psychology	Circle of Security Parenting: Central New York Expansion 2023	Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, Inc.	$150,000
Drake, William Eck, Kristi	WRVO WRVO	Corporation for Public Broadcasting 2022-2024 Community Service Grant	Corporation for Public Broadcasting	$159,054
Hromalik, Marianne	Electrical & Computer Engineering	New strategies for large-data-volume, data-informed measurements of micromechanical phenomena in structural materials	Office of Naval Research via subaward from Cornell University	Up to $329,351 over 3 years
Rank, Allison	Political Science	Student Success and Civic Engagement	NEO Philanthropy, Students Learn Students Vote fund	$16,969
Hardy, Mark	Technology	Technology Management/Manufacturing Scholarships	Gene Haas Foundation	$8,000
Pippin, Jill	Extended Learning	MGMRFQ Consultant Services Project 2022	NYS Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance	Up to $706,813
Pippin, Jill	Extended Learning	Workforce Skill Building Training Project 2022	NYS Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance	Up to $462,210
Dykas, Matthew	Psychology	COS Parenting Program Support 2023-2024	United Way of Oswego County	$4,000 per year
Palmitese, Erin Pippin, Jill	RSVP Extended Learning	Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) of Oswego County 2023-2024	United Way of Oswego County	$11,700 per year
Hu, Sien	Psychology	Aging hippocampus and cognitive control in health and MCI	National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging	Up to $2,056,608 over 5 years
Mirjafari, Arsalan	Chemistry	Novel organic-ion-based technology for long-term virus preservation at ambient temperature	National Institutes of Health	Up to $313,741
Clabough, Cynthia	Art	My Hometown Project	The Borman Family Foundation	$5,000
Wang, Yonggang	Atmo. & Geo. Sci	Using COMBLE observations to characterize boundary-layer convective precipitation in Arctic cold air outbreaks	U.S. Department of Energy	$129,916.00
Mohamed, Kamal Haynes, Kristen	Rice Creek Rice Creek	Curation and Securing of the SUNY Oswego Herbarium	NSF	$224,784 over 3 years
Sard, Nicholas	Biological Sciences	Survey of native and invasive aquatic species in rivers spanning SLELO and Adirondack PRISM programs	The Nature Conservancy	$19,379
Drake, William Eck, Kristi	WRVO WRVO	Public Broadcasting Operational Aid 2022-2023	NYSED	$58,576 Operational, $32,572 special projects
Schildkraut, Jaclyn	Criminal Justice	Continued Evaluation and Assessment of SRP and SRM Training and Drills, year 5	Syracuse City School District	$50,000
Steiger, Scott Wang, Yonggang	Atmo. & Geo. Sci Atmo. & Geo. Sci	Collaborative Research: AGS-FIRP Track 2: Lake-Effect Electrification(LEE) and the Impacts of Wind Turbines on Electrification East of Lake Ontario	National Science Foundation	$1,059,199 (pending up to $1,269,338)
Suarez, Francisco	Communication Studies	Video Production and Visual Storytelling Summer Camp	CNY Community Foundation	$27,474
Brown, Nichole	Field Placement Office	Teacher Opportunity Corps (TOCII) SUNY Oswego Trust Program	NYS Education Department	$325,000 per year for 5 years
Sard, Nicholas	Biological Sciences	Contributions of sturgeon passage to annual lake sturgeon recruitment in the Upper Menominee River subcontract	Subaward from University of Wisconsin - Green Bay/ Prime award USFWS	$15,295
Islam, Mohammad	Physics	Synthesis of Activated Carbon-Iron Oxide Nanocomposites for Selective Removal of Toxins from Contaminated Water	Syracuse Center of Excellence	$10,707
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	Oswego Renaissance Association	Eben Norfleet	$2.500
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	Oswego Renaissance Association	Eagle Beverage	$2.500
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	Oswego Renaissance Association	22 Crossroads, LLC	$2.500
Pippin, Jill	Extended Learning	Professional Development and Training 2022	Oswego County Department of Social Services	up to $185,848
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	ORA Leadership for the Future	Raby's Ace Homecenter	$2.500
Palmitese, Erin Tucker, Chena Pippin, Jill	OBCR OBCR Extended Learning	RSVP of Oswego County 2021-2022 Support	NYS Office for the Aging	$6,983
Bendinskas, Kestutis	Chemistry	Stress in bone marrow transplant caregivers	H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Service Contract for NIH grant	$24,710
Flanagan, Michael Traudt, Miranda	Tyler Art Gallery ARTSwego	Alberto Rey: Biological Regionalism: Oswego River and Lake Ontario, Western New York	CNY Arts	$4,250
Weisman, Sarah	Penfield Library	Coordinated Collection Development Allocation 2021-2022	NYSED	$11,481

2021 External Awards

Principal Investigator	Department	Award Name	Sponsor Name	Amount
Koeppe, Julia	Chemistry	Collaborative Research: Role of Flexible Design and Instructor Supports in Implementing Sustainable Course-based Research Experiences Across Diverse Institution Types	NSF collaboration with RIT, etc.	$103,897
Zhang, Hui	Electrical & Computer Engineering	A Novel Solution to Enable High-Voltage DC-Links in Electric Vehicles	National Science Foundation	$187,599
Traudt, Miranda	ARTSwego	Monuments	CNY Arts	$5,000
Dykas, Matthew	Psychology	Circle of Security Parenting: Central New York Expansion 2022	Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, Inc.	$150,000
Skubis, Steven	Atmospheric and Geological Sciences	NAPD - Bennet Bridge Monitoring	Wood Environmental & Infrastructure Solutions	$6,487
Drake, William	WRVO	Corporation for Public Broadcasting 2022 Community Service Grant	Corporation for Public Broadcasting	$160,346
Palmitese, Erin Tucker, Chena	RSVP OBCR	COVID-19 Revival - RSVP	City of Oswego (regrant from the American Rescue Plan funding)	$5,000
Sard, Nicholas	Biological Sciences	Molecular sexing of shortnose sturgeon to determine feasibility of PCR-based methodology on higher ploidy sturgeon species	Cornell University (DEC)	$5,311.62
Pippin, Jill (Sep-Dec) Caraccioli, Pamela (Jan-Sep) Tucker, Chena	Extended Learning OBCR OBCR	MGMRFQ Consultant Services Project 2020	NYS Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance	Up to $706,813
Pippin, Jill (Sep-Dec) Caraccioli, Pamela (Jan-Sep) Tucker, Chena	Extended Learning OBCR OBCR	Workforce Skill Building Training Project 2021	NYS Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance	Up to $462,221
Schildkraut, Jaclyn	Criminal Justice	Continued Evaluation and Assessment of SRP and SRM Training and Drills	Syracuse City School District	$40,000
Weinschreider, James Hardy, Mark	Technology Technology	Technology Management/Manufacturing Scholarships	Gene Haas Foundation	$8,000
Traudt, Miranda	ARTSwego	Engagement of Resistance Revival Chorus	Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation - Tours program	$3,000
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	ORA Leadership for the Future	Oswego City Revitalization Corp	$10,214.04
Flanagan, Michael Mushtare, Rebecca Cardone, Seeley	Art Art Art	Recollections: Storytelling Through Mementos 3.0	The Health Foundation of Western and Central New York	$20,980
Flanagan, Michael Seppi, Lisa	Art Art	Native New York	Humanities NY	$5,000
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	ORA City of Oswego Partnership	City of Oswego - American Rescue Plan Funding	$20,000
Traudy, Miranda	ARTSwego	Kinetic Light	Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation	$8,000
Sard, Nicholas	Biological Sciences	Rapid survey for native and invasive Great Lakes fishes using environmental DNA methods	The Nature Conservancy	$16,661
Pagano, James	Chemistry	The Great Lakes Fish Monitoring and Surveillance Program: Building on Success	EPA via subaward with Clarkson	$167,047 yr 1 (over 5yrs up to $1,278,484)
Bendinskas, Kestutis	Chemistry	Hair cortisol, chronic stress, and COVID-19 susceptibility	Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine & Science Service Contract for NIH grant	$56,480
Flanagan, Michael Traudt, Miranda	Art ARTSwego	Alberto Rey: Biological Regionalism: Oswego River and Lake Ontario, Western New York	Center for Instruction Technology & Innovation (CITI)	$1,000
Drake, William	WRVO	Public Broadcasting Operational Aid 2021-2022	NYSED	$58,576
Dykas, Matthew	Psychology	Expanding the Circle of Security	United Way of Oswego County	$6,160
Palmitese, Erin Whelsky, Chad	RSVP	RSVP of Oswego County 2021	United Way of Oswego County	$12,000
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	Novelis support for Oswego Renaissance Association 2021	Novelis	$10,000
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	Oswego Renaissance Association Neighborhood Revitalization Efforts	Operation Oswego County	$2,500
Drake, William Eck, Kristi	WRVO	WRVO FY 2021 American Rescue Act Stabilization Grant	American Rescue Act Stabilization Grant via Corporation for Public Broadcasting Grant Allocation	$162,596
Flanagan, Michael Traudt, Miranda	Art ARTSwego	Alberto Rey: Biological Regionalism: Oswego River and Lake Ontario, Western New York	Oswego College Foundation via The Shineman Foundation Endowment	$5,000
Harris, Jessica	Health Promotion & Wellness	The GO GIRL: Sexual Health Empowerment Program	Oswego College Foundation via The Richard Shineman Endowment	$5,000
Zhang, Qing Schofield, Damian	Computer Science Human Computer Interaction	Build an Augmented Reality Mobile Application to Enhance Historical Inquiry Skills	Oswego College Foundation via The Richard Shineman Endowment	$14,762
Thornton, Michele	Marketing & Management	Exploring Tobacco and Vaping Behaviors and Perspectives in the LGBTQ Population	American Lung Association Rochester Chapter	$14,265
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	ORA Leadership for the Future	Atom Avery	$2.500
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	ORA Leadership for the Future	Raby's Ace Homecenter	$2.500
Glidden, Lisa	Political Science	Fitzhugh Park - Glidden ORA NYS Parks Grant 2016	New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation	$250,000
Pippin, Jill	Extended Learning	Professional Development and Training 2021	Oswego County Department of Social Services	up to $175,195
Bendinskas, Kestutis	Chemistry	Brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for HIV+ hazardous drinkers	National Institute of Health Administrative Supplement via Subaward with Syracuse University	$46,473
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	ORA Community Engagement	Pathfinder Bank	$17,500
Palmitese, Erin Whelsky, Chad	RSVP	Retired and Senior Volunteer Program	Corporation for National and Community Service	$75,000/year for 3 years
Wang, Yonggang	Atmospheric and Geological Sciences	Mixed-phase Convective Clouds in the Polar Marine Boundary Layer	Department of Energy via a subaward with the University of Wyoming	$61,476
Weisman, Sarah	Penfield Library	Coordinated Collection Development Allocation 2020-2021	NYSED	$11,670
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	Shineman Multi-Year (2021-2025) Funding Commitment for ORA	The Shineman Foundation	up to $375,000 over 5 years
Palmitese, Erin Whelsky, Chad	RSVP	Retired and Senior Volunteer Program 2020-2021 (Augmentation)	Corporation for National and Community Service	$5,000
Traudt, Miranda	ARTSwego	Red Sky Performance	MIdAtlantic Arts Foundation	:$7,200
O'Toole, Joanne	Curriculum & Instruction	Standards and Professional Learning Initiative: NYS World Languages in the 21st Century (LOTE)	NYSED	$623,249 over 2 years
Schildkraut, Jaclyn	Criminal Justice	Standard Response Protocol (SRP)	Syracuse City School District	$30,000
Weinschreider, James Hardy, Mark	Technology	Technology Management/Manufacturing Scholarships	Gene Haas Foundation	$10,000
Weisman, Sarah	Penfield Library	Environmental Consulting Services and Monitoring for Archives & Special Collections	NYSED	$12,418

2020 External Awards

Principal Investigator	Department	Award Name	Sponsor Name	Amount
Palmitese, Erin Whelsky, Chad	RSVP	RSVP of Oswego County 2020-2021 Support	NYS Office for the Aging	$6,368
Drake, William Eck, Kristi	WRVO	Corporation for Public Broadcasting 2021 Community Service Grant	Corporation for Public Broadcasting	$155,391
Flanagan, Michael Mushtare, Rebecca	Art	Recollections 3: Storytelling Through Mementos	Leon J. Goldberg Charitable Trust	$8,889
Rank, Allison	Political Science	NYS Voter Engagement Summit	Young Invincibles	$3,000
Croyle, Kristin	CLAS	CSTEP:Pathway to Success	NYSED	Up to $199,488 per year for 5 years
Traudt, Miranda	ARTSwego	Cirque Kalabante	MidAtlantic Arts Foundation	$6,400
Rank, Allison	Political Science	Vote Oswego: Campus Takeover	Alliance for Youth Organizing	$500
Rank, Allison Mushtare, Rebecca	Political Science Art	Vote Oswego Designs for Socially Distanced Civic Engagement	Ask Every Student (NCoC)	$1,000
Clabough, Cynthia	Art	At the Art Studio	CNY Arts	$2,750
Traudt, Miranda	ARTSwego	Compagnie Hervé KOUBI’s – What the Day Owes to the Night	CNY Arts	$3,250
Skubis, Steven	Atmospheric and Geological Sciences	NAPD - Bennet Bridge Monitoring	Wood Environmental & Infrastructure Solutions (formerly Amec Foster Wheeler)	$6,984
Drake, William Eck, Kristi	WRVO	Public Broadcasting Operational Aid 2020-2021	NYSED	$58,471
Clabough, Cynthia	Art	At the Art Studio: Workshop Program (2020-2021)	The Borman Family Foundation	$5,000
Caraccioli, Pamela Tucker, Chena	OBCR	Workforce Skill Building Training Project 2020	NYS Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance	Up to $478,525
Caraccioli, Pamela Tucker, Chena	OBCR	MGMRFQ Consultant Services Project 2020	NYS Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance	Up to $758,361
Rank, Allison	Political Science	Vote Oswego Designs for Socially Distanced Civic Engagement	National Conference on Citizenship (SLSV)	$450
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	ORA: Adaptation and Change	The Shineman Foundation	$150,000
Drake,William Eck, Kristi	WRVO	WRVO FY 2020 Stabilization Funds	CARES Act via Corporation for Public Broadcasting	$75,000
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	ORA & Community Bank Partnership	Community Bank	$15,000 over 3yrs
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	ORA Community Engagement	Pathfinder Bank	$20,000
Islam, Mohammad	Physics	Synthesis of Silicon, Tin and Phosphorus Nanoparticles as Anode Materials for High Performance Sodium Ion Battery for Grid Scale Energy Storage	Syracuse Center of Excellence	$10,000
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	ORA & Oswego FCU Partnership in community investment	Oswego County Federal Credit Union	$5,000
Hutcheson, Lowell	Music	Oswego Youth Conservatory Scholarships	Stewart's Shops/Dake Family	$2,500
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	Oswego Renaissance Association Neighborhood Revitalization Effort	Operation Oswego County	$2,500
Sard,Nicholas	Biological Sciences	Simulation based assessment of a large scale genetic tagging study to identify adult lamprey natal streams	Great Lakes Fisheries Commission	$22,245
Stewart, Paul	Psychology	Oswego Renaissance	Richard Shineman Foundation	$3,000
Wolfe-Lyga, Katherine	Counseling Services Center	SUNY Oswego Campus Mental Health Development Project	Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration	$85,568 yr1 up to $278k/3yrs
Pippin, Jill	Extended Learning	Professional Development and Training 2020	Oswego County Department of Social Services	up to $199,996

Funded Internal Grants

Spring 2025 Internal Grants

Faculty-Student Challenge Grant Spring 2025

Four Proposals Funded: $17,418.18

Student Collaborator(s)	Faculty Mentor(s)	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Juziyana Fortuna	Yulia Artemenko	Biological Sciences	Challenge	Testing the mechanisms of shear flow-induced responses in neutrophil-like HL-60 cells	$4,407.00
Samantha Gonzalez	Peter Newell	Biological Sciences	Challenge	Investigating genetic regulation of indigoidine production	$4,000.00
Kamayani Richhariya	Natalia Lewandowska	Physics and Astronomy	Challenge	High time resolution radio studies of the Crab pulsar	$5,000.00
Hudson Miller	Priyanka Rupasinghe	Physics and Astronomy	Challenge	Investigating slow light characteristics in cesium atomic system using electromagnetically induced transparency	$4,011.18

Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant Spring 2025

Eight Proposals Funded: $23,833.00

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Jordan Dalton	Anthropology	Faculty SCA	The Development of the Chincha Polity (AD 600-1100)	$3,000.00
Amanda Campbell	Atmospheric and Geological Sciences	Faculty SCA	Initial Petrography of Silurian-Devonian Rocks at Chrysler’s Glen	$2,835.00
M. Neelika Jayawardane	English and Creative Writing	Faculty SCA	Archival Research: Afrapix Photographers’ Partnerships with Duke University & Impact Visuals	$3,000.00
Bella Poynton	Theatre	Faculty SCA	The Girl in the Washroom: Supporting LGBTQ+ Narratives through the New Play Development Process	$3,000.00
Renqian Yang	Art and Design	Faculty SCA	Resilience in Clay: Shaping Identity Through Porcelain	$3,000.00
Timothy Dacey	Sociology	Faculty SCA	Climate Change Anxiety and Religion Survey (CCARS)	$3,000.00
Natalia Lewandowska	Physics and Astronomy	Faculty SCA	Mode changing studies of recycled pulsar PSR J1909 - 3744	$3,000.00
Mohammad Islam	Physics and Astronomy	Faculty SCA	Mid-Infrared Mercury Telluride Quantum Dot Photodetectors	$2,998.00

Student Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant Spring 2025

Four Proposals Funded: $3,919.43

Student Name(s)	Faculty Mentor	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Muhammad Musozoda	Arsalan Mirjafari	Chemistry	Student SCA	Tetraarylphosphonium-Based Task-Specific Ionic Liquids with Exceptional Thermal Stability-Phase 2	$1,000.00
Sky Minkoff	Alex Hong-Lun Yeung	Curriculum and Instruction	Student SCA	Reclaiming the Onondaga language through linguistic documentation, digital archiving, and educational resource design	$999.43
Micah Shahoud	Gwen Kay	History	Student SCA	Richard Nixon and the Signing of S.A.L.T I: A Look Back at an Authoritative Foreign Policy that is Mirrored Today	$970.00
Elizabeth Kobylak	Jacob Dodd	Cinema and Screen Studies	Student SCA	Moderation	$950.00

Fall 2024 Internal Grants

Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant Fall 2024

Eleven Proposals Funded: $31,749.80

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Peter Newell	Biological Sciences	Faculty SCA	Blue Pigment Production by Vogesella	$2,997.10
Jon Fox	Atmospheric and Geological Sciences	Faculty SCA	Isotope Stratigraphy of the Silurian-Devonian Boundary at Chrysler's Glen	$2,475.00
Poongodi Geetha-Loganathan	Biological Sciences	Faculty SCA	Quantification of Pigments in the Eggshells of Passerine Birds	$3,000.00
Alex Hong-Lun Yeung	Curriculum and Instruction	Faculty SCA	Investigating Cross-linguistic Perceptibility and Learnability of Amodal Phonation Cues	$3,000.00
Helen Lee	Psychological Sciences	Faculty SCA	Development of EmoSense: A Computer-based App to Teach Emotional Recognition and Regulation in Children with Autism	$3,000.00
Danielle Hodgins	Theatre	Faculty SCA	Fashion, Costume, History & Culture: Connection through Fashion Art	$3,000.00
Manish Singh	Chemistry	Faculty SCA	Towards the Development of a New, Selective, and Reliable Presumptive Test to Distinguish Marijuana and Hemp	$3,000.00
Lindsay Ruckel	Psychological Sciences	Faculty SCA	The Roles of Contextual Factors and Individual Differences in Sexual Interest Perception	$2,880.00
Dan Tryon Andrei Shilikov	Technology	Faculty SCA	Development of an Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (UROV) Prototype	$3,000.00
Benjamin Scherrer	Curriculum and Instruction	Faculty SCA	Flood Stories: Cultivating Relational Approaches to Climate Change Curriculum with Rural Communities in the Great Lakes Region	$2,397.70
Jarrod Hagadorn	Cinema and Screen Studies	Faculty SCA	AASCU, American Democracy Project, Stewardship of Public Lands, 2025	$3,000.00

Student Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant Fall 2024

Nine Proposals Funded: $8,896.83

Student Name(s)	Faculty Mentor	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Cameron Bashaw	Kestutis Bendinskas	Chemistry	Student SCA	Artificial DNA Aging and Protection Study	$980.00
Janayah Tolbert	Arsalan Mirjafari	Chemistry	Student SCA	Assessment of Transfection Efficacy and Cytotoxicity of Lipid-Like Ionic Liquids for Gene Delivery	$982.39
Shaylynn Schumacher	Daniel Baldassare	Biological Sciences	Student SCA	Using point counts, acoustic monitoring, and banding to track Northern Saw-whet Owls migration at Rice Creek Field Station	$1,000.00
Sage Garcia	Theo Rhodes Yuheon Seo	Psychological Sciences	Student SCA	Multilingual Repeated Free Recall	$1,000.00
Barnaby Hurst	Katie Fisher	Biological Sciences	Student SCA	Molecular Identification of Wild Yeast Isolates For Intraspecies Comparison of Antifungal Resistance	$1,000.00
Muhammad Musozoda	Arsalan Mirjafari	Chemistry	Student SCA	Tetraarylphosphonium-Based Task-Specific Ionic Liquids with Exceptional Thermal Stability	$993.65
Christopher Butch	Arsalan Mirjafari	Chemistry	Student SCA	Cyclopropanated Lipid-like Ionic Liquids for Energy Demanding Applications	$958.79
Devon Seale	Kestutis Bendinskas	Chemistry	Student SCA	Cortisol Analysis and Receptor Genotyping in the Oswego Student Meditation Study	$982.00
Emma Wood	Roseli Rojo	Modern Languages and Literatures	Student SCA	Supporting Children Visiting Jail and The Department of Social Services Through Books	$1,000.00

Spring 2024 Internal Grants

The Shineman Endowed Fund Spring 2024

One Proposal Funded: $27,500.00

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Haynes, Kristen Co-PIs: Brosch, Cory Flanagan, Michael Mohamed, Kamal	Rice Creek Field Station Counseling Services	Shineman Endowed Fund	Advancing inclusivity in the outdoors through an accessible trail at Rice Creek Field Station	$27,500.00

Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant Spring 2024

Five Proposals Funded : $12,091.51

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Mahdi Hesari	Chemistry	Faculty SCA	Conversion of Methane-to-Methanol Using Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters	$3,000.00
Margaret Schmuhl	Criminal Justice	Faculty SCA	Observations of Rural Justice Courts in NYS	$3,000.00
Jed Locquiao	Curriculum and Instruction	Faculty SCA	Letters from veteran special educators: The motivational contours to starting and staying with the work of SPED	$2,500.00
Joshua Plencner	Politics	Faculty SCA	Imperialism Underground: The Political Imagination of White Wimmen and Jungle Girls	$712.51
Mohammad Islam	Physics and Astronomy	Faculty SCA	Mid-Infrared Quantum Dot Photodetectors	$2,879.00

Curriculum Innovation Grant Spring 2024

Five Proposals Funded: $11,600.00

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Christopher D. Hromalik Marthinus C. Koen	Modern Languages and Literatures Criminal Justice	Curriculum Innovation	Elementary Spanish for First Responders	$3,600.00
Khairul Islam	Communication Studies	Curriculum Innovation	Generative AI in Public Relations	$2,000.00
Michael Chaness	Anthropology	Curriculum Innovation	The Study of World Religions at SUNY Oswego	$2,000.00
Doreen Mazzye	Curriculum and Instruction	Curriculum Innovation	Science of Reading Analysis and Revision	$2,000.00
Ashlee Moore	Psychology	Curriculum Innovation	Culture, Identity, & K-Pop	$2,000.00

Student Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant Spring 2024

Five Proposals Funded: $4,773.00

Student Name(s)	Faculty Mentor	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Dan Rafferty Miranda Smith	Cynthia Clabough	Art and Design	Student SCA	Positivity Through Art; 2D Mural Project	$1,000.00
Griffin Kutny	Daniel Baldassarre	Biological Sciences	Student SCA	Comparing Machine Learning of Acoustic Data and Manual Point Counts for Bird Surveys on the SUNY Oswego Campus	$1,000.00
Joy Zientara	Nicholas Sard	Biological Sciences	Student SCA	Surveying host-pathogen-environment interactions in amphibian populations of Oswego County	$996.00
Tyler Lucia	Yonggang Wang	Atmospheric and Geological Sciences	Student SCA	The Effect of Lake Surface Temperatures on Warm-Season Convection on the Great Lakes	$1,000.00
Tyler Ziobro	Thomas Brown	Chemistry	Student SCA	Investigations of Cu(I)-Centered Photosensitizers	$777.00

Rice Creek Field Station Small Grant Spring 2024

Six Proposals Funded: $15,958.00

Faculty Name(s)	Student Name(s)	Department(s)	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Kaitlin Fisher	Casey Hiller Zane Hiller	Biological Sciences Zoology	RCA Grant	Comparing cloacal mycobiomes of migratory and residential passerine birds at Rice Creek Field Station using next-generation sequencing	$2,235.00
Mike Holy Karen Sime		Biological Sciences	RCA Grant	Butterfly Diversity at Rice Creek Field Station: Student Training in Field Survey and Database Entry for National Pollard Base Butterfly Network	$3,000.00
Jennifer Olori Nicholas Sard Susan Hammerly	Joy Zientara	Biological Sciences	RCA Grant	Continuation of a Long term Survey of Two Global Amphibian Diseases in Rice Creek Populations	$2,888.00
Kristen Haynes Daniel Baldassarre Jennifer Olori Maria Sagot		Rice Creek Field Station Biological Sciences	RCA Grant	Assessing the response of wildlife to the 2024 total solar eclipse in Oswego, NY using remote biological monitoring methods	$3,000.00
Daniel Baldassarre	Nikki Knecht	Biological Sciences	RCA Grant	Status of Bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) in low-maintenance hayfields on the SUNY Oswego campus	$3,000.00
Vanessa Maike		Computer Science	RCA Grant	Using Robots to Teach Animal Food Chains and Computer Programming to Early Learners	$1,835.00

Faculty-Student Challenge Grant Spring 2024

Eleven Proposals Funded: $49,023.50

Student Collaborator(s)	Faculty Mentor(s)	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Jane Bush	Liz Lange	Biological Sciences	Challenge	Project Assessing Female Round Goby Behavior to Predict the Spread of Invasive Species	$4,858.50
Molly Metcalf	Alanna Ossa	Anthropology	Challenge	Van Buren Inn and Tavern Historic Preservation Field School (Research Assistant)	$3,875.00
Nikki Knecht Griffin Kutny	Daniel Baldassarre	Biological Sciences	Challenge	Monitoring the response of imperiled grassland birds to restored habitat on campus	$4,800.00
Dylan Webber	Julia Koeppe	Chemistry	Challenge	Protein Interactions that Regulate Complement Activation	$5,000.00
Alex Fiorentino	Natalia Lewandowska	Physics and Astronomy	Challenge	Examination of radio emission changes in pulsar PSR J1713+0747	$3,000.00
Pranjal Manchanda	Priyanka M Rupasinghe	Physics and Astronomy	Challenge	Pulse delay measurement in cesium using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT)	$5,000.00
Tindake Kourouma	Jed Locquiao	Curriculum and Instruction	Challenge	Letters from veteran special educators: The motivational contours to starting and staying with the work of SPED	$2,490.00
Sebastian Tauriello	Amy Shore	Cinema & Screen Studies	Challenge	History of The Academy of Motion Pictures & Sciences	$5,000.00
Layla Sprague	David Dunn	Biological Sciences	Challenge	Data Acquisition in a Low Cost Flow Cytometer	$5,000.00
Brian Pond	Mahdi Hesari	Chemistry	Challenge	A Novel Approach to Chemically Link Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters	$5,000.00
Sean McCoy	Mahdi Hesari	Chemistry	Challenge	Synthesis and single particle photoluminescence microscopy of semiconductor nanocrystals	$5,000.00

Fall 2023 Internal Grants

The Shineman Endowed Fund Fall 2023

Eight Proposals Funded: $72,497.97

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Islam, Mohammad Co-PIs: Barber, Katelyn Kanbur, Shashi Wang, Yongang Lewandowska, Natalia	Physics/AGS	Shineman Endowed Fund	The Great Oswego Total Solar Eclipse	$38,500.00
Lewandowska, Natalia	Physics	Shineman Endowed Fund	A radio telescope for the Rice Creek field station	$10,197.97
Jones, Kelsey Co-PIs: Dailey, Ashley Taylor, Vanessa	Student Engagement and Leadership	Shineman Endowed Fund	MLK Day of Service and Annual Celebration	$5,000.00
Hutcheson, Lowell	ARTSwego	Shineman Endowed Fund	SUNY Oswego Artist-in-Residence Program	$4,999.00
Seo, Minjung	Health Promotion & Wellness	Shineman Endowed Fund	Sharp Brain Zestful Living Health Promotion Program	$3,941.00
Bryne, Frank	History	Shineman Endowed Fund	A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates	$1,100.00
Frazier, Soma	English and Creative Writing	Shineman Endowed Fund	Subnivean: Spreading Our Roots	$4,760.00
Wade, Erik Co-PI: Curtin, Maureen	English and Creative Writing	Shineman Endowed Fund	LGBT Oral History Workshop	$4,000.00

Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant Fall 2023

Seven Proposals Funded: $18,949.82

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Yulia Artemenko	Biological Sciences	Faculty SCA	Establishment of a mammalian system to study directed cell migration	$3,000.00
Isabelle Bichindaritz	Computer Science	Faculty SCA	Explainable Analogical Learning for Cancer Survival Prediction	$3,000.00
Michelle Storie	Counseling and Psychological Services	Faculty SCA	Effects of an Intensive Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Intervention on Older, Struggling Readers	$1,564.82
Roseli Rojo	Modern Languages and Literatures	Faculty SCA	Caribbean Poetics of Mobility: The Gendered and Racial Hierarchies of Transportation	$3,000.00
J.R. Slosson	Atmospheric and Geological Sciences	Faculty SCA	Fluvial Chloride Transport from Road Deicer in the Semi-Arid, Western United States	$3,000.00
Vadoud Niri Co-PI: Arsalan Mirjafari	Chemistry	Faculty SCA	Investigation of Electrochemical Behavior of Ionic Liquids with a Sulfonyl Fluoride Motif for Lithium Metal Batteries	$2,385.00
Jonah Shulman	Curriculum and Instruction	Faculty SCA	Training Handbook for Effective Math Educators (THEME)	$3,000.00

Student Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant Fall 2023

Eight Proposals Funded: $7,895.46

Student Name(s)	Faculty Mentor	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Cassandra VanDamme	Matthew Dykas	Psychology	Student SCA	Parental Secure Base and Safe Haven Support in LGBTQ+ Emerging Adults	$1,000.00
John Yeboah	Arsalan Mirjafari	Chemistry	Student SCA	Synthetic Cationic Lipids as Effective Gene Delivery Vectors	$998.46
Karissa Tinsley	Ashlee Moore	Psychology	Student SCA	Psychophysiological Responses to Trauma-Related Visual and Auditory Stimuli	$897.00
Clinton Adu	Arsalan Mirjafari	Chemistry	Student SCA	Electrochemistry of Novel Ionic Liquids Toward Li-ion Batteries	$1,000.00
Nikki Knecht	Daniel Baldassarre	Biological Sciences	Student SCA	Status of Bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) in low-maintenance hayfields on the SUNY Oswego campus	$1,000.00
Param Rajguru	Weihua Liu	Computer Science	Student SCA	Autonomous Driving Simulation Using Carla	$1,000.00
Baye Massene Diallo	Glenn Graham	Economics	Student SCA	Assessing the Effectiveness and Implementation Challenges of Payments for Ecosystem Services in the Democratic Republic of Congo	$1,000.00
Sean McCoy	Mahdi Hesari	Chemistry	Student SCA	Mapping Charge Carrier Distribution of Single Semiconductor Nanocrystals	$1,000.00

Spring 2023 Internal Grants

The Shineman Endowed Fund Spring 2023

Three Proposals Funded: $14,788.00

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Laura Donnelly Co-PIs: Tiffany Deater Jarrod Hagadorn	English	Shineman Endowed Fund	Sterling Nature Center Documentary	$4,952.00
Jonel Langenfeld-Rial	Theatre	Shineman Endowed Fund	Oswego Town Rural Cemetery Ghost and History Storytelling Tour	$4,850.00
Matthew Dykas	Psychology	Shineman Endowed Fund	Circle of Security Case-Based Programs for High-Risk Families	$4,986.00

Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant Spring 2023

Three Proposals Funded: $7,625.00

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Stacey Ann Reid Karen Wolford	Psychology	Faculty SCA	Efficacy of mindfulness-based programming on undergraduate student self-compassion and stress	$3,000.00
Kestutis Bendinskas	Chemistry	Faculty SCA	Testing Ionic Liquids for Their Ability to Store Nucleic Acids	$3,000.00
Thomas Brown	Chemistry	Faculty SCA	Modeling Excited State Dynamics in Copper(I) Complexes	$1,625.00

Curriculum Innovation Grant Spring 2023

Two Proposals Funded: $4,064.80

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Mohammad Tajvarpour	Marketing and Management	Curriculum Innovation	Introduction to ChatGPT for Business	$2,064.80
Sarah Hanusch	Mathematics	Curriculum Innovation	Fundamental Math Ideas for Grades 5-9	$2,000.00

Faculty-Student Challenge Grant Spring 2023

Twelve Proposals Funded: $52,192.91

Student Collaborator(s)	Faculty Mentor(s)	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Quinn Jones	Yulia Artemenko	Biological Sciences	Challenge	Identification of novel partners of adhesion regulator Kinase Responsive to Stress B (KrsB) in a Mutagenesis Screen in Dictyostelium discoideum	$4,500.00
Caitlin Marx	Benjamin Entner	Art and Design	Challenge	Strands That Unite	$3,360.00
Najiyah Williamson	Nicholas Sard	Biological Sciences	Challenge	A Comparative Study of PCR-based Assays: Surveying for Ranavirus in Oswego County	$4,498.16
Selim Kalici Hugh Riley Randall	Shashi Kanbur	Physics	Challenge	Ultra-Long Period Cepheids and RR Lyraes: Challenges for Pulsation Physics	$4,000.00
Devon Seale	Kestutis Bendinskas	Chemistry	Challenge	Method Development for Genotype Affecting Body's Reaction to Cortisol	$4,500.00
John Yeboah	Arsalan Mirjafari	Chemistry	Challenge	Development of novel synthetic cationic lipids as gene delivery agents via click chemistry	$4,499.75
Rebecca Connors Griffin Kutny	Daniel Baldassarre	Biological Sciences	Challenge	Monitoring wild birds on campus and at Rice Creek using banding and acoustic data	$4,500.00
Joel Turallo	Mohammad Islam	Physics	Challenge	Development of High Performance Lithium Ion Battery Anode from Activated Carbon and Silicon Remnants	$4,355.00
Emma Lutz Lisa Glidden Evelyn Benavides		Political Science Sociology	Challenge	Barriers to readiness for the Buffalo Blizzard	$4,480.00
Caryn Nabrizny Catherine Walsh	Richard Metzgar	Art and Design	Challenge	Templates to Promote Knowing: Mapping Place across Satterly Hill, Hsinchu, and Kofu	$4,500.00
TBD	Natalia Lewandowska	Physics	Challenge	A multiwavelength study of some of the fastest pulsars known	$4,500.00
Trevin Ostheller Wells Liscomb Lauren Smith	Tiffany Deater Jarrod Hagadorn	Cinema and Screen Studies	Challenge	Nature and Us: Understanding the Relationship between Nature, Experience, and Humanities Education	$4,500.00

Student Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant Spring 2023

Two Proposals Funded: $1,033.30

Student Name(s)	Faculty Mentor	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Danielle Marichal	Karen Sime	Biological Sciences	Student SCA	Surveys of Emerald Ash Borer and Its Introduced Parasitoids in Oswego, NY	$293.30
Infiniti Robinson	Emily Estrada	Sociology	Student SCA	How does art representing Non-White races or cultures inform White students’ perspective of other cultural identities?	$740.00

Fall 2022 Internal Grants

The Shineman Endowed Fund Fall 2022

Five Proposals Funded: $102,859.00

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Kristin Gublo Peter Newell	Chemistry Biological Sciences	Shineman Endowed Fund	Science Field Trips for Elementary Students	$2,120.00
Michael Riecke	Communication Studies	Shineman Endowed Fund	Renewable CNY	$4,650.00
Daniel Baldassarre Kristen Haynes	Biological Sciences Rice Creek Field Station	Shineman Endowed Fund	Establishing a long-term bird banding station for research and outreach at Rice Creek Field Station	$11,980.00
Natalia Lewandowska Shashi Kanbur	Physics	Shineman Endowed Fund	A major upgrade to the Shineman Planetarium	$74,050.00
Jacob Dodd	Cinema and Screen Studies	Shineman Endowed Fund	Creation of a Media Archeology Laboratory	$10,059.00

Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant Fall 2022

Five Proposals Funded: $12,984.18

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Natalia Lewandowska	Physics	Faculty SCA	A multiwavelength study of an extragalactic pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud	$3,000.00
Marianne Hromalik	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Faculty SCA	Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-Based Correlator (FBC)	$2,985.00
Mario Bkassiny Mustafa Ayad	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Faculty SCA	Antenna Design and Testing for Wireless Systems and 5G Applications	$999.18
Mohammad Islam	Physics	Faculty SCA	Synthesis of Silicon Nanoparticles – Recycled Activated Carbon Composites as Anode for Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Batteries	$3,000.00
M. Neelika Jayawardane	English and Creative Writing	Faculty SCA	Durban’s Afrapix Photographers: Forging Relations in the Detritus of Natal’s Plantation Culture	$3,000.00

Student Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant Fall 2022

Seven Proposals Funded: $6,759.85

Student Name(s)	Faculty Mentor	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Bailey Maier	Benjamin Entner	Art and Design	Student SCA	Reimagining Sculpture: A Conversation on Extinction	$929.85
Najiyah Williamson Grace Cordon	Nicholas Sard	Biological Sciences	Student SCA	Surveying for a Global Amphibian Pathogen: Ranavirus in Oswego County	$923.00
Sylvia Thompson Katherine Gilligan	Julia Koeppe	Chemistry	Student SCA	Confirming Function in Enzymes of Unknown Function	$1,000.00
Mackenzie Mahony	Serenity Sutherland	Communication Studies	Student SCA	Women in Science Visualization Network	$907.00
Rachel Dibble	Juan Perdiguero	Art and Design	Student SCA	A Personal Interpretation of Prelapsarian Symbolism Through Monotype and Drawing	$1,000.00
Griffin Kutney	Daniel Baldassarre	Biological Sciences	Student SCA	Tracking the Presence and Timing of Bird Species on the SUNY Oswego Campus	$1,000.00
David Menzies	Julia Koeppe	Chemistry	Student SCA	Interactions between Compliment Factor H and C3 in the Innate Immune System	$1,000.00

Spring 2022 Internal Grants

The Shineman Endowed Fund Spring 2022

Six Proposals Funded: $77,587.00

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Sandy Bargainnier	Health Promotion and Wellness	Shineman Endowed Fund	Welcoming and Working with New Americans	$2,131.00
Rebecca Peters	Anthropology	Shineman Endowed Fund	Anthropology in Practice Visitors Series	$4,500.00
Candis Haak	History, Sociology and Anthropology	Shineman Endowed Fund	Digital Humanities Laboratory	$19,500.00
Vadoud Niri	Chemistry	Shineman Endowed Fund	Chemistry Summer Research Program for High School Students	$4,860.00
Prabakar Kothandaraman	School of Business	Shineman Endowed Fund	Stakeholder Partnership for Excellence in Equity, Diversity and Inclusiveness (SPEEDI)	$40,000.00
Kestutis Bendinskas	Research and Individualized Student Experience (RISE)	Shineman Endowed Fund	Summer Scholarly and Creative Activities Student Housing	$4,996.00

Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant Spring 2022

Five Proposals Funded: $12,973.54

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Matthew Baker	Chemistry	Faculty SCA	Development of a Depolymerizable Polymer with Diagnostic Capabilities	$2,973.54
Lisa Seppi	Art and Design	Faculty SCA	Not Just Our Corner of the World	$3,000.00
John Lindstedt Damian Schofield	Computer Science	Faculty SCA	Collecting Data to Verify Perceived Gender Stereotypes in Final Fantasy Games	$3,000.00
Shashi Kanbur	Physics	Faculty SCA	Period-Color and Amplitude-Color Relations in Delta Scuti Variables	$3,000.00
David McLain	Marketing and Management	Faculty SCA	Research Adaptation of Measures of Cognitive Health	$1,000.00

Curriculum Innovation Grant Spring 2022

Three Proposals Funded: $7,700.00

Name	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Michael Murphy, Stephanie Pritchard, Ken Nichols, and Amanda Trainham	English and Creative Writing	Curriculum Innovation	Resources for Writers Online	$3,600.00
Fehmi Damkaci	Chemistry	Curriculum Innovation	DEI in STEM and the Workplace	$2,100.00
Lindsay McCluskey	Communication Studies	Curriculum Innovation	Lifestyle, Beauty, and Fashion Public Relations	$2,000.00

Faculty-Student Challenge Grant Spring 2022

Fourteen Proposals Funded: $59,678.00

Student Collaborator(s)	Faculty Mentor(s)	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Bronson Bukowski Nicholas DiFrancesco		Atmospheric and Geological Sciences	Challenge	Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Source of Igneous and Metamorphic Sediment in Oswego County	$4,400.00
Danielle Ross	Peter Newell	Biological Sciences	Challenge	Niche Partitioning Between Gut Bacteria	$4,500.00
Rhiannon Bonawitz	Alanna Ossa	Anthropology	Challenge	Richardson Bates House Historic Preservation Field School	$3,000.00
Amanda Streeter	David Dunn	Biological Sciences	Challenge	Developing a Simple Flow Cytometer Utilizing 3D Printing Technology	$4,500.00
Thao Nguyen	Poongodi Geetha-Loganathan	Biological Sciences	Challenge	Developmental Effects of Warfarin on Chicken Embryos	$4,500.00
TBD	Rachel Lee David Valentino	Atmospheric and Geological Sciences	Challenge	Mapping Fracture Patterns at Robert Wehle State Park and Nearby Islands, Henderson, NY	$3,780.00
Sylvia Thompson	Shokouh Haddadi	Chemistry	Challenge	Exploring the Use of Latent Fingerprint Analysis to Differentiate Female Subjects from Male Subjects	$4,500.00
John-Kaarli Rentof	Nicholas Sard Jennifer Olori	Biological Sciences	Challenge	Surveying for Gray Tree Frogs (Hyla versicolor) using environmental DNA sampling methods	$4,499.00
Valeriia Tarallo	Yulia Artemenko	Biological Sciences	Challenge	The Role of the Sugar Coating in Shear Flow-Directed Cell Migration	$4,499.00
Fishel Connors Talyn Faulkner	Daniel Baldassarre	Biological Sciences	Challenge	The effect of urbanization on aggression and neophobia in Northern Cardinals	$4,500.00
Aron Rezene Fatou Ndiaye	Priyanka Rupasinghe	Physics	Challenge	Precision atomic structure measurement of cesium using laser spectroscopy	$4,500.00
Liam Tovey	Shokouh Haddadi	Chemistry	Challenge	Analysis of Diphenhydramine and N-desmethyldiphenhydramine in Urine Using Dispersive Liquid-Liquid Microextraction (DLLME) and Gas Chromatography-Mass spectrometry (GC-MS)	$4,500.00
Anh Do	Whalmany Ounkham	Chemistry	Challenge	The Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Water-soluble Ruthenium Complexes for Water Catalysis	$4,000.00
Navya Amaratunga	Elizabeth Wilcox Kamal Jnawali	Mathematics Computer Science	Challenge	Modeling the U.S. AIDS Epidemic with Markov Chains	$4,000.00

Student Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant Spring 2022

Three Proposals Funded: $2,687.75

Student Name(s)	Faculty Mentor	Department	Grant Type	Project Title	Amount
Garrett Statum	Yonggang Wang	Atmospheric and Geological Sciences	Student SCA	Variability of Cold Season Tornado Outbreaks in the United States: 1950-2021	$1,000.00
Shea McCarthy	Chris McEvoy	Art and Design	Student SCA	What Shapes Us: A Mural	$1,000.00
Dylan Murphy	Karen Sime	Biological Sciences	Student SCA	Responses of the flesh fly Sarcophaga bullata to formalin exposure in pig meat	$687.75

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