Funded Large Grants Program (CLGP) Proposals

Arts

  • Jonathan Jackson: The Book of Joel
  • Irene Lusztig: Untitled Wendy Clarke Project / Seed Funding
  • Marina Magalhães: Roda: Technologies of the Circle
  • Martin Rizzo-Martinez: Wounded Lee: The Red Power Movement in 1970s California in the Wake of Alcatraz
  • Lisa Marie Rollins: Bending the Stage, Black Women Dramatists and Feminist Worldbuilding

Baskin Engineering

  • Rebecca DuBois: Generation Of Rubella Virus E1/E2 Proteins For Structural Studies And Use In A Protein-Based Mmr Vaccine
  • Daniel Kim: Non-Invasive RNA Liquid Biopsy for Acid Reflux-Induced Barrett’s Esophagus
  • Steve McGuire: Harnessing Machine Learning for Improved Mobility and Science Analysis in Agroecology
  • Ali Shariati: Development of CRISPR-programmed human embryoids for mechanistic studies of early human embryogenesis
  • Ram Sundara Raman: Evaluating Practical Circumvention Against Nation-State Internet Censorship

Humanities

  • Jess H.-K. Law & Pranav Anand: Linking Words And Gestures: Co-Speech Gestures And Utterance Meaning
  • Jennifer Mogannam: Archiving Movement: UC Campus Activism in a Time of Genocide
  • Roumyana Pancheva: Temporal Interpretation In Narratives
  • Juned Shaikh: Adhikari’s Left Turn: An Alternative History of Twentieth Century India
  • Emine Hande Tuna: Imaginative Resistance

Physical and Biological Sciences

  • Melissa Jurica: Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Phoebe Lam: The Aftermath of the Vistra Battery Fire in Moss Landing on the Elkhorn Slough
  • Aide Macias-Muñoz: Investigating Neuron Cell Types, Neurogenesis, And Neuroregeneration In An Eyed Jellyfish
  • Malin Pinsky: Local Climate Adaptation on Mozambique’s Coral Reefs
  • Edgar Shaghoulian: Event Horizons From Quantum Information Theory
  • Aleksandra Skrajna: How Do Histones Die? Illuminating Histone Degradation Pathways In Human Cells
  • Dan Turner-Evans: Predicting The Functions Of Different Types Of Neurons In The Brain
  • Jordan Ward: Illuminating The Secretome

Social Sciences

  • Lily Balloffet: “One Health” Histories of Neglected Tropical Disease in the Americas
  • David Gordon: Through the Looking Glass: Networked Urban Climate Governance as Experienced by Cities of the Global South
  • Camilla Hawthorne: BLACKITALIAN Documentary
  • Rekia Jibrin: Police-free schools: Reconceptualizing School Safety in the Wake of George Floyd
  • Stacy Philpott: Climate, Landscape, And Agricultural Management Impacts On Pollinator Biodiversity, Foraging, And Ecological Interaction Networks In Urban Gardens
  • Alicia Riley: The Costs Of Exclusion: Mortality Inequities By Immigrant Legal Status In California
  • Hannah Waterhouse: A Root’s Eye View: Validating Microdialysis Methods for Measuring Nitrogen Dynamics in Composts

Arts

  • Jon Ayon: Niki Tomo Beto
  • Sharon Daniel: Reasonable Doubts: A media-rich, online archive designed to examine the role of police and prosecutorial misconduct in the wrongful convictions of people of color across the US, and increase awareness of racial bias in the criminal legal system
  • Anna Friz: Children of the Sun
  • Yi Yi Mon Kyo: Wesley Tongson: Singing and Dancing with Brush and Ink
  • Kailani Polzak: Difference Over Distance: Visualizing Contact between Europe and Oceania
  • Susana Ruiz: Data Bodies: An Arab Futuristic Videogame about Liberation

Baskin Engineering

  • Sangwon Hyun: Next-Generation Statistical Gating and Characterization of Immune Cells in Health and Disease
  • Sri Kurniawan: Community-Engaged Culturally-Sensitive Development of Virtual Reality Stories of Fire Management by Karuk Native American Community
  • Katia Obraczka: Towards AI Democratization Through Decentralized Edge Intelligence
  • Alex Pang: VIP Navigation Assistant
  • Dustin Richmond: Repurposing DRAM for Neuromorphic Computation
  • Seyed Shariati: Generation of CRISPR-programmed Human Embryo Models

Humanities

  • Mark Amengual: Visibilizing the Linguistic Practices of Spanish-speaking Communities in California
  • Banu Bargu: Global Maxism Reader
  • Alan Christy: Food History, Sustainability, the Environment, and Adaptability in Okinawa
  • Muriam Davis: Decolonizing Sociology: Indigenous Knowledge and State-Building in the Muslim World
  • Bryan Donaldson: Evolution in Old French Sentential Coordination: Competition Between Et and Si
  • Filippo Gianferrari: Political Charity and Eschatology: Vernacular Visions of the Common Good
  • Elaine Sullivan: Selling Saqqara: Millionaires, Museums and the Commodification of Egypt’s Cultural Heritage

Physical and Biological Sciences

  • Joshua Arribere: Empowering UCSC Researchers to Leverage Novel Machine Learning Tools for Structural Biology
  • Manel Camps: Development of a Shuttle Plasmid for the Bacterium Wolbachia Pipientis
  • Bruce Lyon: The Evolution and Ecology of an Island Giant: the Gray-crowned Rosy-finch of St. Paul Island Alaska
  • Malin Pinsky: Assessing Climate Impacts on Marine Food Webs in the Galapagos Islands with DNA Metabarcoding
  • Shaheen Sikander: Determining the Functional Effects of Pregnancy and Aging on the Mammary Gland
  • Sergey Syzranov: Uncovering a New State of Matter in Magnetic Materials: Quantum Spin Liquids

Social Sciences

  • Hannah Hausman: Improving Problem-Solving, Metacognition, and Mindsets Through Self-Explanation
  • Rene Kissell: School Debt Under Fiscal Surveillance: A Comparative Case Study of State Takeovers of California Districts
  • Nidhi Mahajan: Unruly Infrastructures: Constructing Indigenous Pasts, Presents and Futures in the Indian Ocean
  • Sara Niedzwiecki: Immigrants and the Welfare State in South America
  • Ajay Shenoy: Raising Retail Productivity Through Data Pooling: A Randomized Intervention Using a Mobile Phone App
  • Christopher Wilmers: Pilot project: How Does Fear of Humans Affect African Lion and Leopard Behavior and Structure Their Food Webs?
  • Scott Winton: Sampling and Mapping Colombian Peatlands to Mitigate Soil Carbon Emissions

Arts

  • David Lee Cuthbert: Wireless Performative Lighting Rig for Remote Illumination 
  • Irene Gustafson: Between Disparate Bodies 
  • Dee Hibbert-Jones: Against the Odds: The Birth of the United Workers of America (a documentary film)    
  • Jennifer Horne: Digitization of 35mm Tinted and Toned Film Print by Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam)
  • Yiman Wang: Socialist Environmental Media: From Cold War to Decolonization 

Baskin Engineering

  • Alvaro Cardenas: Ai Agents For Cyber Defense
  • Rebecca DuBois: Mapping of a Dominant Antibody Binding Site on the Norovirus Capsid Surface
  • Daniel Kim: Lung Cancer Diagnosis Via Extracellular Vesicles and Their RNA 
  • Shelbi Russell: Genomic Basis for Endosymbiont Domestication: How Drosophila Simulans and Wolbachia Coevolved Following the Bacterium’s Sweep Across California in the 1980s

Humanities

  • Shelly Chan: The Disappeared Nanyang (South Seas): A Modern History of China and Southeast Asia
  • Grace Delgado: Trafficking in Black and White: Confronting the Troubling History of Contemporary Slavery, 1865-2021
  • Kathleen Gutierrez: Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley — A Public History and Arts Exhibition
  • Jenny Kelly: Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine 
  • Madhavi Murty: Sonic India: Sound and the Making of Folk Nationalisms
  • Amanda Smith: The Nature of Conflict: More-than-Human Victims of Colombia’s Fifty-Year War

Physical and Biological Sciences

  • Alexander Ayzner: Bio-Inspired Optoelectronic Underwater Adhesives via Spontaneous Liquid/Liquid Phase Separation
  • Valerie Cortez: The Secreted Secrets of Intestinal Goblet Cells
  • Yat Li: Materials and Chemical Sciences for Methane Capture
  • Rita Mehta: Does Recruitment to Different Thermal Regimes influence Predation in the California Moray?
  • Susan Schwartz (collaborating with Noah Finnegan): Detecting Seismic Precursors to Catastrophic Landslide Failure
  • Andrew Skemer: Searching for the First Exomoon with the James Webb Space Telescope

Social Sciences

  • Jeffery Erbig: Tracking Indigenous Forced Migration in Southern South America
  • Gregory Gilbert: Fire and Fungi: A Deadly Combination for Central Coast Forests
  • Rekia Gina Jibrin: Ethnic Studies, Race and Gendered Cultures of Violence, and School Safety
  • Flora Lu: Orient(e): China’s growing investment and influence in the Ecuadorian Amazon
  • Carlos Martinez: Examining Asylum Deterrence Policies & Migrant Captivity on the U.S.-Mexico Border
  • Megan Moodie: Resemblance: The Story of 21st Century Hysteria
  • Natalia Ocampo-Penuela: Assessing Current Economic and Conservation Benefits of Birdwatching Tourism to Inform its Potential Growth in Colombia
  • Hannah Raila: Virtual Reality (VR) Discarding to Reduce Subclinical Hoarding Tendencies
  • Jeremy West: Socioeconomic Vulnerability to Mandatory Evacuations
Last modified: Aug 08, 2025