Family Justice Center (FJ) Program

This program is to improve capabilities for established Family Justice Centers

ValleyGO! Adaptive Sports Program

ValleyGO! is an adaptive sports program for veterans and other individuals with disabilities, primarily SCI. Established to address the demand for more and consistent adaptive sports offerings for individuals with SCI in northern Los Angeles County, it consists of adaptive sports training and events in area parks.

Development of a High-Speed and Full-Disk Polarimeter for Solar Synoptic Observations

California State University Northridge (CSUN), in collaboration with NSO and NJIT, seeks NSF support to develop the first sCMOS based high-speed & high-accuracy polarimeter that will be able to acquire a polarization Stokes vector measurement with a speed up to 100 Hz and an accuracy up to ?10-3. The developed instrument will be used for the observations of Solar Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) associated events o...

RUI: Far Ultra-Violet (172 nm) Photolysis of Gaseous Anthropogenic Pollutants

1. OVERVIEW Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted from a range of natural and anthropogenic sources, the latter including electrical power generation, transportation, waste recycling, chemical manufacture, processing and solvents use. VOCs are intricately involved in the photochemical processes in the atmosphere leading to formation of ozone (O3), particulate matter and photochemical smog, all of top concerns r...

Smart Manufacturing (SM) Workforce Development Model Program

Our goal is to develop and imbed an SM workforce model that leverages existing education and workforce training systems in California. It would be a monumental task to develop a single pathway from a K-12 system through to the University level, have it be adopted, and increase demand for that system all at the same time. A more realistic approach would be to develop a system that could be customized and replicated for any region wan...

Establishing Smart Connected Workers Infrastructure for Enabling Advanced Manufacturing: A Pathway to Implement Smart Manufacturing for Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

The Project Goal of this proposed Smart Connected Workers program is to create affordable, scalable, accessible, and portable smart manufacturing systems (A.S.A.P. SM systems) through which advances in Internet of Things (IoT) technologies can be effectively integrated into mobile sensor platforms to augment the intelligen...

Imaging the next great Cascadia earthquake: Optimal design for a seafloor acoustic-GNSS network

Up to 90% of the world?s primary plate boundaries are located in the ocean. This includes the Cascadia subduction zone offshore the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America, which is known to produce magnitude 9.0 earthquakes, and accompanying tsunamis, every ~600 years. An outstanding question in this region, as in most subduction zones, is the degree and spatial extent of strain accumulation...

Family Empowerment Team in Action (FETA)

Introduction The Family Focus Resource Center (FFRC) and the North Los County Regional Center (NLACRC) have identified challenges that underserved families encounter which extend beyond the scope and services of both organizations. Both organizations are keenly aware that when a family has a child or children with disabilities, the family must get their basic needs met before they can effectively utilize services. If the family is primarily consumed wit...

Collaborative research: creating an upper division additive manufacturing course and laboratory for enhancing undergraduate research and innovation

The objectives of this project are to develop, assess, revise, and disseminate an upper division course and laboratory, "MSE 496AM/L Additive Manufacturing and Laboratory", and to advance undergraduate research, innovation, and creative inquiry activities as well as faculty expertise at three participating institutions with unique diversity: Californ...

Measuring Sustainment in Prevention Programs and Initiatives

Sustaining prevention efforts directed at drug and alcohol abuse, HIV, and related mental health problems is currently one of the greatest, yet least understood challenges in the field of implementation science. A large gap in knowledge exists regarding what is meant by the term "sustainment" and what factors predict or even measure sustainability of effective prevention programs and support systems, in continually evolving communities,...

RUI: Partially Observed Curves, and Big-Data Virtual Bootstrap

The PI will consider problems related to statistical prediction and inference in two challenging setups: (i) There may be censored, partially observed, or missing data, and (ii) the training data size may be very large (the big-data challenge). The focus will be on problems related to statistical classification, regression curve estimation, and density estimation.

Development of a CSUN GeoAnalytical Center for Research, Teaching, and Outreach in Earth Systems Science

This project will create a “GeoAnalytical Center” within the Department of Geological Sciences (DGS) at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) with the goal of expanding STEM research and educational opportunities in laboratory and computational settings. The GeoAnalytical Center will consolidate existing CSUN DGS research facilities with the requested instrumentation to create an exce...