Recreation Institute for the Lily Academy of Japan

The Recreation Institute for the Lily Academy of Japan provides experiential learning for participants. The Institute plans and delivers a dynamic program that includes team building and challenge experiences, play development, aquatic activities and water safety, and site and facility tours on the CSUN campus and within LA County.

Choose Health LA

This project intends to develop and submit a Jurisdiction Agreement with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH). Agreement will outline the communities and cities to be served within the assigned SPA. Hire and train one (1) full-time Initiative Coordinator and two (2) full-time program staff, ensuring that at least one of the full-time staff has at least a Master?s degree and content expertise in nutrition, to implement the initiative. a) Develop duty statemen...

Work with Northridge Hospital Medical Center as Nursing Research Facilitator

Highfield will serve as the Nursing Research Facilitator at Dignity Health ? Northridge Hospital Medical Center in Northridge, CA. In this capacity, Highfield will facilitate nursing staff education and development that is focused on clinical nursing research and evidence-based practice. Her focus is to identify and implement activities that support scholarly inquiry by NHMC nursing staff.

Program Evaluation and Customer Satisfaction Surveys - Summer Youth Employment Evaluation

The scope of work will consist of activities to be performed in support of the Program Evaluation and Customer Satisfaction Surveys - Summer Youth Employment Evaluation project.

US Forest Service Region 3 National Hydrography (NHD) Spatial Data Update

The Center for Geographical Studies at California State University Northridge (CSUN) is being tasked by USGS and other organizations to complete a comprehensive spatial data update to the NHD watersheds in the Southwestern region. These comprehensive updates are occurring adjacent to National Forest land, and partnering with CSUN to complete spatial data updates on Forest Service land is in line with the priority NHD updat...

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Mitigation Project Monitoring Program, 2016-17: Reproductive output, growth, and food-chain support of fishes on the Wheeler J. North Artificial Reef, 2016-2017

PROJECT SUMMARY As mitigation for the effects of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), Southern California Edison Company (SCE) was required by the California Coastal Commission to construct an artificial reef large enough to sustain 150 acres of kelp forest. Several performance stand...

RUI: Development of Fast Scalable Adaptive High Order Methods for Solving the Boltzmann Equation

This project's goal is to advance one's ability to use computer simulations to address scientific and technological challenges by employing modeling at microscopic scales using the kinetic Boltzmann equation. Applications of this proposal span the dynamics of gas, plasma, self-organizing systems, networks, and bacterial dynamics. The project will focus on a bottleneck issue in kinetic modeling --- the...

Center for Results in Education and Employment for Deaf students: Research and Collaboration for System Change (CREED)

The Center's goals, objectives, and activities have been designed to produce long-term outcomes of reducing the long-standing systemic obstacles for individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, who come from culturally and economically diverse backgrounds, or who have co-occurring disabilities. Through high quality and innovative activities, including technical assistance, personne...

Workability IV

This Cooperative Contract is designed to jointly serve the mutual consumers/students receiving services from the Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) through the Van Nuys/Foothill District and California State University Northridge (CSUN), through the Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES) department. Staff and resources are combined to provide employment services through this cooperative contract. Both DRES and DOR will inform their consumers/students about each other...

The Intel Galileo for Computer Hardware Instruction Enhancement

Dr. Nahapetian leads an interdisciplinary, multiyear grant that addresses the retention of underrepresented students in STEM. Her research interests include wearable computing and mobile health, as well as mobile and hardware security.

Vulnerable Population Analysis Mapping Project

Vulnerable populations have been defined in various ways in differing contexts. A new approach to understanding these populations is through a more comprehensive contextual focus called the whole community approach, which attempts to understand the assets and deficits throughout an entire community and to strengthen the resilience of the entire community in the face of various threats (environmental, health, etc.). Systematically identifying these vu...

Developing a Sustainable Bioenergy System: Paulownia production for Fuel, Chemicals and Materials

Plant cellulose synthases belong to a large family of enzymes known as glucosyltransferases. Cellulose synthase genes are found from wide group of organisms starting from bacteria, fungi, viruses and all the way to plants . Development of lignocellulosic biofuel from biomass depend of understanding of cellulose biosynthesis in plants. The genes responsible for various economically important phenoty...