Energy & Appliance Standards for Plug Loads: Assessing Current Needs and Future Opportunities

Analyze and Test Total Energy Consumption of Plug Load Devices to Support Codes and Standards for Non-covered Products. This research will analyze the devices not currently covered by California or US Standards, determine their total energy consumption (standby and active modes) and identify those with the most potential for consideration in future codes and standards. We plan focusing major testing with...

Ultrafast Dynamics of the Formation of Organic Radicals at Organometallic Interfaces

Fossil fuels have been the major energy resource during the last century, and they will likely remain an important energy mean for the next few decades. Nanotechnology has already made its way into this industry in many ways. For instance, silica-based nanoparticles (NPs) are good candidates for enhanced oil recovery, and metal nanoparticles (MNPs) possessing localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) are emplo...

Collaborative Research: RUI: Glacier resilience during the Holocene and late Pleistocene in northern California

Global temperature rise since 20 ka and during the last century has caused glaciers to retreat and disappear throughout the world. Some glaciers, however, continue to persist today, and highlight the importance of precipitation on maintaining glaciers in a warming climate. The Trinity Alps Wilderness in the Klamath Mountains, northern California provides evidence for multiple glacial ad...

CIAO WIC Community Innovation and Outreach

Northeast Valley Health Corporation (NEVHC) plans to partner with California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Marilyn Magaram Center (MMC) to conduct outreach to our priority populations: 1) CSUN students, staff and faculty, and 2) African American population, both on campus and in the NEVHC?s service area (SPA 2). Our goals are to: 1) Increase WIC enrollment and retention in the priority population, 2) Increase awareness of the WIC Program and lactat...

AT - Child Abuse Treatment Program

The purpose of the AT Program is to provide comprehensive psychotherapy services to children victimized by abuse and/or neglect. Psychotherapy services for family members and/or caregivers of child victims are also available to help with the treatment of the child.

An Investigation of Synergistic Effects of Discipline-based Growth Mindset and Effective Learning Strategies Interventions in Gateway Chemistry Courses

Social-psychological interventions have been shown to be powerful tools to promote student success in postsecondary education. Meta-analysis studies have also found that the effectivenesses of social-psychological interventions are context-dependent and more pronounced for at-risk student groups such as Underrepresented Minority Students (URM). Ho...

CIF: Small: RUI: Highly Nonlinear and Uncorrelated Structures for Communications and Sensing

This project concerns the creation and analysis of structures such as Boolean functions with high nonlinearity and sequences with low correlation. These structures are used in many areas of information theory, such as information security, communications, coding, and sensing. Boolean functions and finite field permutations that are highly ordered from one point of view, but which appear random from an...

Improving Design of Materials by Exploring and Utilizing Novel Chemistry

My achievements in both research and teaching at CSUN make me a very competitive candidate for this prestigious award. Since started working at CSUN in 2015, I have published 59 papers in high impact journals including Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Chemistry, Physical Review Letters, JACS, Angewandte Chemie, etc.; I have secured two major NSF grants including the CAREER award and the MRI grant; I have mentored more t...

The Persistence of Wild Religious Traditions: How the Handling of Misfortune Influences the Dynamics of Folk Religions

Please see attached proposal