SDSU Seed Grant Program

• Keavy McFadden - Schools at the Front Line: Educator Coalitions, Climate Justice, and Urban Governance
• Jess Whatcott - Wounds in the Borderlands: Disability and US Immigration Policy
• Quazi Shahriar - Biased Information and Voter Decision-Making: Understanding How Competition and Regulation Shape the Truth

3 of 9 applications funded (33% funding rate)

• Zeyu Ou - The Effect of Private Equity Investments in Accounting Industry
• Morteza Safaei Pour - Sustaining Assurance Integrity in AI-Augmented Software Development: A Polycentric Framework for Responsible AI
• Ning Tang - Unpacking Corporate Response Strategies to Negative Earnings: An Interdisciplinary Approach
• Chi Wan - The Digital Wordsmith: AI Assisted Disclosures and Crowdfunding Success

4 of 11 applications funded (36% funding rate)

• Hsein-Chang Lin - Social Media Strategies for Shaping Attitudes Towards E-cigarette among Young Adults: An Experimental Study of Message Effects in Competitive Messaging Environment
• Afarin Rajaei - Developing an AI Literacy Curriculum for Graduate Training in Mental Health Professions
• Brittany Glover - Project S.U.P.E.R.V.I.S.E.: Strengthening Understanding, Practice, Equity, and Responsiveness via Inclusive Supervision Education
• Rachel Haine-Schlagel - Building a Bridge: Fostering Individualized and Respectful Communication between Early Childhood Educators and Families about Child Developmental Concerns and Differences

4 of 11 applications funded (36% funding rate)

• Flavio Ponzina - Multi-constraint Hardware-Software co-optimization of In-Memory Hyperdimensional Computing for Edge AI
• Althaf Shaljhan - Semi-Supervised Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Structural Response Prediction and Model Updating
• Ignacio Sepulveda - TRIDENT: Tides and Rivers Influencing the Dynamic Evolution of Nearshore Tsunamis
• Tong Huang - Harnessing Grid-Edge Distributed Energy Resources for Inertia Ancillary Services

4 of 11 applications funded (36% funding rate)

• Claire Kissell - Sympathetic Overactivity in Habitual E-cigarette Users
• Aram Kim - Multidimensional aspects of fatigue during whole-body movements: A feasibility study
• Kaye Wang - Using Nicotinic Therapies to Ameliorate Tinnitus and Related Central Hyperactivities
• Leonardo Nogueira - Prolonged force recovery from fatiguing exercise in a mouse model of chronic pulmonary inflammation
• Daniel Cannon - Exercise-induced muscle damage, the power-velocity relationship, and pulmonary function in people with and without asthma
• Benjamin Aceves - DEVELOPING A COMMUNITY-CLINICAL LINKAGE INTERVENTION LEVERAGING MOBILE HEALTH CLINICS SERVING RURAL COMMUNITY IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY
• Teresa Girolamo - Longitudinal language development in autistic adolescents and young adults: A pilot study
• Frankie Wade - Control of locomotion when exposed to environmental threats
• Corinne McDaniels-Davidson - Implementation Readiness - Cervical Cancer Self Collection in a Primary Care Safety Net Setting

9 of 20 applications funded (45% funding rate)

• Sungjin Lee - From Checkout to Clicks: Digital Transformation of SNAP and Its Impact on Food Security and Nutrition for Older Adults
• Rodolfo Cortes Barragan - Parents’ positive emotions and children’s behavior: An intervention on parents to boost children’s prosociality

2 of 5 applications funded (40% funding rate)

• Katherine Holvoet - SDSU Sustainability Institutional and Educational Materials Repository

1 of 3 applications funded (33% funding rate)

• Carlton Daniel - On-Set Production: A Creative Research Initiative in Experiential Filmmaking
• Valerie Stahl - Planning LAnd use and Neighborhood zoning for young Breast Cancer Prevention (PLANyBCP)
• Kerianne Quick - Electro Fruit Patinas for Non-Ferrous Metals
• Yin Yu - Poly-Kō: The Aesthetics of Perception, Sensation, and Learning

4 of 13 applications funded (31% funding rate)

• Ricky Pope - Scaling the Homebase Approach through Service-Learning & Peer Mentorship: A Pilot to Enhance Mental Health and Well-Being from College to Grades 6–12

1 of 1 applications funded (100% funding rate)

• Tao Xie - Developing An In-Storage File System for Computational SSDs
• Kristen Wells - Developing a New Medication Monitoring System for Metastatic Breast Cancer Survivors on Oral Anti-Cancer Medications
• Victoria Delaney - Exploring Information Validity during Mathematical Problem Solving with ChatGPT
• Jianshu Liu - Developing an Agentic Digital Twin Platform to Engage Students in Computer Systems Research and Education
• Dustin Thoman - Understanding faculty science assimilation beliefs

5 of 14 funded (36% funding rate)

• Drew Thomases - Hinduism by Many Other Names: Yoga, Tourism and Appropriation
• Gregory Keating - Who was talking to the bartender? An eye-tracking study of relative clause attachment preferences in heritage Spanish speakers
• Leander Merz - Participatory planning for human-wildlife coexistence in Zambia
• Clark Lundberg - Trade Costs and the Value of Relational Contracts
• Esra Tunc - Automating Relationalities: The Technological Piety of Islamic Finance
• Keith Chan - Dimensions of Revelation: 3D Digitization of Mesoamerican Masks for Equity in Education

• Jeremy Bermerth - Expected and Experienced Daily Justice, Emotions, and Counterproductive Work Behavior
• Jessi Rivin - The Power of Vulnerability: Disclosing Mental Health Challenges at Work
• Tonni Xia - When Faith Fades, New Ventures Arise: Does Local Corporate Fraud Influence Investor Participation in the Cryptocurrency Market?
• Ran Zhao - Information in Disclosing Emerging Technologies: Evidence from AI Disclosure
• Hossein Shirazi - AI-Powered Insights: Utilizing LLMs for Tailored Consultations on ADHD Workplace Challenges

• marcela polanco - Training bilingual supervisors in family therapy: Bilingual and decolonial supervision
• Brittany Marshall - How Making an Honors Course More Equitable Helped Cultivate Black Girl Students’ Positive Mathematics Identity
• Vanessa Placeres - The Implementation and Evaluation of the Black Student Achievement Plan: One Districts Attempt to Close the Opportunity Gap for Black Learners 
• Rachael Stewart - Conscious Inclusion: A Mindful Framework for DEI

• Juhyeon Bae - Semi-automated teleoperation for safer and more precise construction excavation
• Luca Carmignani - Ember Ignition of Coast Live Oak Leaves
• Tong Huang - Towards Fast Decentralized Frequency Regulation for Power-electronics-rich Microgrids: Theoretical Development and Hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) Validation
• Gloria Faraone - Damage characterization of reinforced concrete slabs during earthquakes
• Zahra Nili Ahmadabadi - Collaborative object manipulation on rough terrains using multi-robot teams

• Michelle Weber Rawlins - Concussion care seeking among active-duty military service members: Utilizing a modified Delphi approach for survey development
• Ashleigh Johnson - Examining sports participation among rural youth: A national survey
• Pedro Alonso Colio - Assessing the Incidence of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in Underserved Communities Post-Cryptogenic Stroke: Insights from Internal Loop Recorder Monitoring
• Leonardo Nogueira - Locomotor muscle susceptibility for eccentric exercise-induced muscle injury in cigarette smoke-exposed mice
• Hatun Zengin-Bolatkale - Fight or Flight: Biobehavioral Stress Responses of Children Who Stutter in Everyday Communication
• Susan Driscoll - Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening behaviors, predictors, and disparities among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders living in Hawaii
• Rebecca Mattson - Addressing Disenfranchised Reproductive Grief in the Immigrant Population in San Diego
• Nicolas Lopez-Galvez - Exploring the Path to Wellness: A Comprehensive Health Assessment of Long-Haul Truck Drivers and Associated Risk Factors

• Stephen Jaime - The Lived Experience of Diabetes in a Rural Border Region 
• Weichen Zhao - Validating the Universal Design for Learning – Mathematics Lesson Plan (UDL-MLP) Checklist: Lesson from UDL 3.0
• Eleni Gaveras - Piloting Adapted Life History Calendars to Understand LGBTQIA+ Youth Housing Insecurity Trajectories 
• Vanessa Falcón Orta - Transborder Scholars Thriving Institute: Transforming Border-HSIs By Preparing Critically Conscious Border Educators
• Mara Cota - Community Curated Campus History Exhibit

• Iren Tete - TOO____/NOT____ENOUGH - Research and Sculptures Leading to a Solo Exhibition
• Lourdes Miriam Cueva Chacon - Reportes from the South Bay: Chronicling Latinx Newsmaking
• Yin Yu - Develop a Mockup Structure of Multisensory Accessibility Design for Improving Inclusion and Equity of Human Sensory Experience in Built Environments
• Kimberly Kras - Redefining Accountability: Assessing a New Circles of Support and Accountability Model for Sexual Offenders in San Diego
• sondra sherman - An Innocent Abroad_Exhibition + Catalog
• Jessica McGaugh - Womanhood: The Series Season 2, Women in STEM
• Alana Dillette - Rooted: Reclaiming Stories of Black History Through Travel
• Matthew Savage - Nutrition lifestyle intervention for Hispanic & Latino Men with Prostate Cancer
• Sandra Sun-Ah Ponting - Working towards new beginnings
• Carlos Castro - Carlos Castro Retrospective in Spain

• Victoria Delaney - Can Students Struggle Productively on Mathematics Tasks with Generative AI?
• Naveen Vaidya - Math-Model Informed Neural Network (MINN) for Dynamics of the Cystic Fibrosis Airway Microbiome
• Kinsey Brock - Species from feces: training students in genetic data generation and analysis to create compelling preliminary data for a NSF grant
• Juan Hu - Investigating Membrane Composition in Liposomal Permeation Measurement Assays
• Carrie House - Obesogens in adipocyte function and breast cancer progression
• Hajar Homayouni - Advanced Analysis of Cardiovascular Research Using Large Language Models
• Tristen Inagaki - Exploring the effect of support-giving on health and educational attainment: a skindeep resilience perspective
• Shangping Ren - Develop an AI-Powered Personalized System for Real-Time Monitoring and Assessment of Raynaud’s Syndrome Severity

• Lashon Daley - Coming of (R)age: Charting Black Girl Lit Studies
• Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley - The Wartime Dismantling of China’s City Walls as Event, Experience, and Memory, 1938-2023
• Annika Frieberg - The Letters from Poland: Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarianism in Polish-Swedish Relations, 1982-1989
• Amanda Kearney - What is the future of Anthropology? Modeling a post-conventional anthropology through the prioritizing of graduate aspirations, multi-sector
• Matthew Lauer - Human-fish relations in San Diego’s spearfishing community
• Yang Liang - More Robots, More Crime?

• Kaveh Abhari - Augmented Coaching Systems: A Paradigm Shift in Talent Management and Employee Development in Knowledge-Based Enterprises
• Gabi Eissa - Examining bottom-line mentality in the workplace
• Amy Randel - Mattering at Work and its Relationship with Inclusion
• Taekjin Shin - Women and racial minorities on the board: How board diversity and group faultlines affect firm outcomes
• Nita Umashankar - Drivers of Employability: The person, the skill, or the need?
• Alex Yao - Crowdfunding Activism: Impact on Backers and Success
• Aner Zhou - Internal Connectedness and Accounting Quality: Evidence from Employee LinkedIn Connections

• Mary Baker-Ericzen - Feasibility and Effects of Long-term Employment Outcomes in Evidence-Based Community Vocational Training Program for Autistic Adults
• Monica Baldonado-Ruiz - Cuentos, Testimonio, and Oral History: A Community Writing Workshop
• Brittany Glover - Preparing School Counseling Students to Serve Children with Special Needs

• Sara Adibi - SMART Tissues: Advancing Tissue Engineering through Machine Learning-Enhanced Scaffold Design
• Naim Ahmed - Integrated Semiconductor Laser Advancements: TFLN-Based Hybrid Laser Design
• Reza Akhavian - 3D Worker-Robot Collaboration Simulator Using BIM-Rich Environments
• Baris Aksanli - Multi-layered Defense for Machine Learning Against Adversarial Attacks in the Internet of Things
• Hassan Davani - Ultrasonic Homogenization of Stormwater Microplastic Pollutions to Quantify the Removal Efficiency of Green Infrastructure
• Gloria Faraone - Developing inclusive resilience in natural hazard preparedness in the San Diego - Tijuana transborder region
• Tong Huang - Accelerating Transient Stability Assessment of Large-scale Power Electronics-interfaced Microgrids Using Machine Learning
• Lingping Kong - Grain Boundary Engineering for Safe Solid-State Batteries

• Antoinette Domingo - Electrical spinal stimulation and activity based therapies in Parkinson’s Disease to improve gait
• Elana Elkin - Effects of tris(4-chlorophenyl)methane (TCPM) and tris(4-chlorophenyl)methanol (TCPMOH) on exposure and cytotoxicity
• Teresa Girolamo - A feasibility study of strategic scoring for grammar in diverse autistic youth
• Jennifer Green - A pilot study testing the feasibility of a prenatal yoga app in African American women
• Danisha Jenkins - A Descriptive Study of Medically Fragile Persons Experiencing Houselessness
• Melanie Nicholls - Understanding the Needs of Mental Health Practitioners Who Work with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) in San Diego County
• Sasha Reschechtko - Insights into finger force control with high-resolution fingertip imaging
• Frankie Wade - Assessing the influence of neighborhood environment on walking adaptability

• Tingting Tang - Comparing and Examining Different Methods of Determining Structural and Practical Identifiability of a Vector-Host Model

• Lisa Lamont - Collections without borders: promoting international cooperation through our shared interests in preserving indigenous languages
• Nerissa Lindsey - Using AI Models to Catalog California State Documents
• Sarah Tribelhorn - Showcasing SDSU Campus Sustainability Initiatives Through Linked Data on the Web

• Ava Avnisan - 1-800-trans*missions
• Denitsa Bliznakova - SDSU/Timken Museum Touch and See Project
• Yea-Wen Chen - Belonging and Identity Negotiations of International Students in U.S. Academia: A Case Study with Taiwanese Students
• Rati Kumar - Rohingya Narratives of Health and Displacement in the Cox's Bazar Refugee Camp
• Scott Lipscomb - BubbleMachine
• Jessica McGaugh - Grown Up: An Original Film Project
• Randy Reinholz - Development and production of Desire
• Gillian Sneed - "The Imaginary Amazon" Exhibition

• Lacie Barber - Understanding Optimal Work Availability Strategies in Work Teams
• Bryan Donyanavard - Enabling Flexible Autonomous Systems
• Matthew Edwards - Growing kelps in tumble tanks: developing land-based aquaculture for large seaweeds at SDSU
• Christopher Harrison - Electrophoretic Separations in Deep Eutectic Solvents
• Teresa Monkkonen - Unbiased Assessment of Autophagy in Lactation
• Mauro Tambasco - Developing and Optimizing a Novel Transportable Cell Culture Platform (TCCP) to Assess Relative Biological Effectiveness of Radiotherapy Beams
• William Welsh - Developing the Resonance Correlation Function

• Rebecca Bartel - Rites and Rituals of Protection: Cultural Production and Territorial Peacebuilding in Colombia
• Todd Braje - Understanding the Past, Present and Future Resilience and Sustainability of Pacific Islands
• Yang Liang - Have Recreational Marijuana Laws Hurt Workplace Safety?
• Efren Lopez - Nuestra Historias - Digital Humanities Project
• Oliver Paine - The Nylsvley Hominin Dietary Ecology Project
• Charmane Perry - Bringing down the wall: Black Philadelphia and the desegregation of Girard College
• Amy Quandt - Feasibility of agroforestry for climate change adaptation in San Diego County, California
• Lauren Schmidt - Spanish San Diego Corpus
• Stephen Suh - Korean American Culinary Entrepreneurs in South Korea and the U.S.
• Kimberly Twist - Mainstreaming the Far Right

• Parisa Haim Faridian - From Open Source Community to Open Innovation: Seeking Strategic Advantages and Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Ecosystems
• Carlos Paternina-Arboleda - Smart Optimization of Port Operations
• Lin Wang - Audit Committee Board Connections and Firm Cybersecurity Resilience
• Justin Wiegand - Fit Matters: A re-examination of skills fit, interest fit, and job performance
• Shengjie Xu - Towards robust and secure AI for learning-based cybersecurity systems

• Ana Duenas - Exploring Barriers to Culturally Responsive Practice in the Applied Behavior Analysis Workforce
• Tanya Gaxiola Serrano - Resisting White Supremacy: Chicanx/Latinx Student and Faculty Leaders and Activist Plight for the Establishment of Ethnic Studies Requirements in California's Community Colleges
• Vicki Park - Principal Life Histories in Relation to Reform
• Patricia Sanchez Lizardi - Global perspectives on teachers' wellbeing and mental health following the COVID-19 pandemic: The cases of Tijuana and San Diego

• Sara Adibi - Applying Artificial Intelligence in Material Discovery and Design
• Alicia Kinoshita - The impact of structure loss on water quality and supply after wildlife in California
• Hanyang Li - Continuous monitoring of air toxics and assessment of pollution sources in Imperial Valley
• Santosh Nagaraj - Communication channel modeling for UAV-to-Ground links
• Ignacio Sepulveda - On the modeling and assessment of atmospheric-induced tsunami hazards
• Elisa Torresani - Developing of a machine learning method predicting shape evolution for the integrated 3D-Printing - Spark-Plasma Sintering Manufacturing Technology
• Junfei Xie - Decentralized Onboard-Offboard Collaborative Computing for In-Time UAS Traffic Management

• Laura Coco - Hearing Aid DIY
• Stacy Dunkerley - Effective Implementation of a Family Finding Program: Participant, Program, Personnel, and Leadership Perspectives
• Elana Elkin - Effects of S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-L-cysteine (DCVC) exposure on Cytotoxicity and invasion capacity in the placenta cell line HTR-8/SVneo
• Shira Goldenberg - Community-Engaged Research Evaluating Socio-Economic Determinants of Maternal and Infant Health Inequities faced by the Refugee and Asylum-Seeking WOmen at the Mexico-U.S. border
• Jochen Kressler - Short, simple exercise to improve circadian dependent postprandial glycemic responses
• Nicolas Lopez - Assessing the exposure to air pollutants produced from unregulated open burning of solid waste in the U.S.-Mexico border region
• Leonardo Nogueira - Cigarette smoke exposure effects on diaphragm's susceptibility for ventilator-induced diaphragm dysfunction
• Jing Zhao - Flavor characterization and improvement of algae proteins

• Linda Abarbanell - Cultural differences in the experience of endometriosis
• Helina Hoyt - Project BSN Immersion: Using eXtended Reality to Prepare Baccalaureate Nurses
• Huan Qin - Apply Multi-Output LASSO to Regressions and Time Series
• Shiloh Williams - Evaluation of Health Literacy and Access in Low Income, Diverse Communities Living in a Rural Border Region

• Ashley WIlson - Content notice? Examining the efficacy of content warnings in library discovery systems: A case study

• Ji Yoon (Karen) Han - Moderating Role of Network SImilarity: Social Network Effects of Mobile Health (mHealth) Applications for Patients with Cancer
• Justina Jose - The impact of water-sewer financial conditions on credit ratings
• Brandon Mastromartino - Gendered Socialization in Sport Fandom
• Jessica McGaugh - Narrative Film Project: "Tina"
• Chuyun Oh - K-pop Dance Education
• Mary Posatko - The Wandering Lepidoptera
• Madison Swayne - Developing and pilot-testing a smartphone application to increase public restroom access in San Diego County
• Tereza Trejbalova - An Exploration of the Needs of Individuals Living in the Las Vegas Storm Tunnels and the Services Available to Them

• Ricky Pope - A Special Project: Telling Our Stories

• Hyunjong Choi - Context-Adaptive Asynchronous Accelerated Computation Pipeline for Resource Scalable Autonomous System Design
• Yuezhi Mao - Machine-Learning Assisted SImulation of Photochemical Processes in Complex Environments
• Miranda Parker - Training Spatial Skills to Improve Outcomes in Computer Science
• Gena Sbeglia - Development of the SEE Instrument: Measuring TAs Ability to See Equity in Education
• Jessica Whiteside - Unexplored threats from pesticides and herbicides in the sediments of the modern Salton Sea
• Cristal Zuniga - Genome-scale metabolic modeling of the opportunistic pathogen Achromobacter xylosoxidians