UCR Research and Economic Development Newsletter:  January 21, 2013

Michael Pazzani

Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development

http://research.ucr.edu

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· National Endowment for the Humanities

· Tech Coast Angels:  Feb 11, 4:00PM

· Funding Supplements for Research:  Undergraduates, Teachers, Veterans, Underrepresented

· Heilmeier Catechism

· Workshop: Submitting a Winning NSF Proposal, February 1, 10:10am (Updated)

· Initiating Faculty Collaborations: February Meetings (Updated)

· New Awards: October 1- December 31

· Townsend’s Warbler

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National Endowment for the Humanities

Did you know that in the past three years, UCR has received more NEH grants than Stanford?  Did you know that NEH has a special program for Hispanic Serving Institutions?

Details below:

       NEH Awards in California:  2010-2012

University of California, Berkeley	16
University of California, Los Angeles	15
University of Southern California	11
University of California, Santa Barbara	10
University of California, Riverside	8
University of California, Davis	8
University of California, San Diego	7
University of California, Santa Cruz	7
Stanford University	7
University of California, Irvine	7

These UCR faculty received NEH grants in this time period.

· Christina Schwenkel: Revitalizing the City: Socialist Architecture, Postwar Memory, and Urban Renewal in Vietnam

· Adriana Craciun: An Interdisciplinary Study of British Writing and Arctic Exploration over Four Centuries

· Conrad Rudolph: FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems

· Malcolm Baker: The Marble Index: Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in 18th-Century Britain

· Mark Wrathall: The Heidegger Lexicon

· Robert Patch: The Making of a Colonial Ruling Class: The Hispanic Elite in Merida, Yucatan, 1700-1730

· James  Brennan: Days of Destruction: Political Violence and Its Legacies in Argentina's 'Dirty War'

· Steven Hackel: The Early California Cultural Atlas

The NEH website http://www.neh.gov/ lists many programs including

· Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Deadline: June 27, 2013.  Humanities Initiatives are intended to strengthen and enrich humanities education and scholarship at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. These grants may be used to enhance the humanities content of existing programs, develop new programs, or lay the foundation for more extensive endeavors in the future.  More info and sample proposals are available at http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/humanities-initiatives-hispanic-serving-institutions

· Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions:  Deadline: April 16, 2013. This program supports individual faculty members at Hispanic-Serving Institutions pursuing research of value to humanities scholars, students, or general audiences. Awards are designed to be flexible, allowing applicants to define the audience, type of research, award periods, and administrative arrangements that best fit their projects. More info and sample proposals are available at http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/awards-faculty-hispanic-serving-institutions

· Summer Stipends: Deadline: Sept 2013. Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Summer Stipends support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months. More info and sample proposals are available at http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends

The Research and Economic Development Office and Corporate and Foundation Relations are cooperating to hire a grant writer for federal and foundation grants in the humanities and arts.  Until that person is on board, please contact Randy Black (randall.black@ucr.edu) if you’d like assistance with an NEH proposal.

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Tech Coast Angels:  Feb 11 4:00PM

One way for UCR faculty or students to obtain funding to form a company is from angel investors.  Angels are high-wealth individuals who provide funds in exchange for equity (i.e., stock) in a private business (Occasionally funds are provided as loan, typically converted in equity at a later date).  Angel investors also typically provide advice on entrepreneurship and business. The Tech Coast Angels (TCA) are the largest angel investment organization in the U.S. with over 300 that have invested over $120 million in over 200 companies.  Investors affiliated with TCA funded a company I founded in 1999 (together with investors from a Silicon Valley group).

TCA will be hosting a meeting in the Alumni & Visitor center in which companies pitch for funding on Feb 11 from 4:00-6:00PM.  The goal of UCR hosting this event is not for students or faculty to pitch at this event but rather to watch the process and learn what interests investors and how to ask for funding.    Those attending will have the opportunity to apply for funding at a later date.

If you would like to attend, please inform Rebeccah Goldware (goldware@ucr.edu) by Feb 4.

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Heilmeier Catechism

George H. Heilmeier was director of DARPA in the 1970s.  He developed a set of questions that he expected every proposal for a new research program to answer.  These are referred to as the “Heilmeier Catechism.”  These questions are still in use at DARPA, but I think they are more widely applicable.  These questions are:

1. What are you trying to do? Articulate your objectives using absolutely no jargon.  What is the problem?  Why is it hard?

2. How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice?

3. What's new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful?

4. Who cares?

5. If you're successful, what difference will it make?   What impact will success have?  How will it be measured?

6. What are the risks and the payoffs?

7. How much will it cost?

8. How long will it take?

9. What are the midterm and final "exams" to check for success?  How will progress be measured?

For more info on Dr. Heilmeier, see Joshua Shapiro (1994). George H. Heilmeier IEEE Spectrum, Volume 31, Issue 6, 56 – 59.

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Initiating Faculty Collaborations: February Meetings (Updated)

Feb 1: Big Data: managing, analyzing, visualizing, and extracting useful information from large, diverse, distributed and heterogeneous data sets so as to: accelerate the progress of scientific discovery and innovation. For more information on Big Data see the White House Fact Sheet: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/big_data_fact_sheet_final_1.pdf or the free book: The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/

Example funding programs

· NSF-NIH Interagency Initiative: Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA) http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504767

· NEH: Digging Into Data Challenge http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digging-data-challenge

Feb 15: Health Care Disparities:  Research on population-specific differences in the presence of disease, health outcomes, quality of health care and access to health care services that exist across groups. Example Funding Programs.

· NIH: Behavioral and Social Science Research on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities (R01) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-136.html

· NIH: Effect of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias on Health Care Delivery (R03) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-164.html

· NIH: Reducing Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved Children (R01) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-104.html

· DOD: Health Disparity Research Award http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=157713

Feb 22: Entrepreneurism:  For faculty interested in seeing their research become the foundation for commercial products.

I’m interested in faculty from ANY department proposing additional inter topics that cross colleges.  If you are interested in attending and presenting, send me mail (pazzani@ucr.edu) including a talk title and one of the above themes into which your talk fits.  If fewer than 4 faculty sign up for a topic, the seminar will be canceled.   All seminars will start at noon and be held in University Office Building 210.  Workshops for March and April are listed on the Research and Economic Development web site (http://research.ucr.edu)

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Funding Supplements for Research:  Undergraduates, Underrepresented

Last year, 59 percent of the UCR’s freshmen were the first in their family to go to college.  The majority of our students come from backgrounds that are underrepresented in many positions in society from faculty members to CEOs.  Attending a research university such as UCR is one way for the next generation to become a leader.   The most benefits of a research university are obtained when students work closely with faculty involved in the creation of new knowledge.  The federal government has many programs that encourage faculty to fund students on research projects.  Below, I list some supplemental funding opportunities for faculty that have research grants to add a student (and in some cases a postdoc) to a grant.

NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12569/nsf12569.htm Note: There are actually two programs in the solicitation.  A REU site proposal is a complex program and proposal involving a site with many students.  The REU Supplement can add a one or two students to a grant.  NSF awards approximately 1600 supplements per year.  A supplement is typically a very short proposal, e.g., two pages, requesting additional funds.  They may be submitted at any time, but now is a good time to ask for supplemental funding so that funds may be received by the summer.

An REU Supplement typically provides support for one or two undergraduate students to participate in research as part of a new or ongoing NSF-funded research project. …. High-quality mentoring is important in REU Supplements … and investigators should give serious attention not only to developing students' research skills but also to involving them in the culture of research in the discipline and connecting their research experience with their overall course of study.

Investigators are reminded that support for undergraduate students involved in carrying out research under NSF awards should be included as part of the research proposal itself instead of as a post-award supplement to the research proposal, unless such undergraduate participation was not foreseeable at the time of the original proposal. …  Investigators holding an existing NSF research award may submit a post-award request for supplemental funding. For guidance, contact the cognizant program officer for the NSF grant or cooperative agreement that would be supplemented.

NIH: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-149.html

Undergraduate Students: As part of this supplement program, undergraduate students with a demonstrated interest in or desire to pursue research training in health-related sciences, may participate in a research project during the summer months and/or the academic year. This experience is separate from any requirement of the regular academic program. The student may be affiliated with either the applicant institution or another academic institution. Any eligible undergraduate student interested in health-related research is encouraged to participate in this program.

1. Short-term Investigator Research Supplement: This supplement provides short-term support for faculty members to conduct full-time research in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical or social sciences for three to five months each year during the summer or another portion of the academic year, over a maximum period of four years.

2. Long-term Investigator Research Supplement: This supplement provides long-term research support for faculty members to conduct research in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical or social sciences. Support is usually provided for up to two years at a minimum of 9 person months (equivalent to 75% effort) during each 12-month period.

To encourage faculty to write supplement proposals to fund undergraduate students, the Research and Economic Development Office will provide $3600 of funding for undergraduate research (enough to pay a undergraduate $1200 a month for 3 summer months) to each faculty member that submits a supplemental proposal that is declined, provided the proposal is submitted by Feb 28, 2013 and the cognizant program officer is contacted before submission and encourages submission.   This extends to federal agency grant supplements in addition to NIH and NSF, but contact me first to verify the program meets the intent of this offer.

If you’d like help with a REU supplement, or a sample proposal, contact Randy Black(RED), Mitch Boretz (BCOE), or Mike Mueller (CNAS).

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Workshop: Submitting a Winning NSF Proposal, February 1, 10:10am  (Updated)

I’m pleased to announce that Julia Bailey-Serres will join the NSF workshop on Feb 1. (I’ve also corrected the location to the Genomics Auditorium).

On Friday, February 1 at 10:10 in the Genomics Auditorium, a workshop will be held in which UCR faculty discuss strategies for writing a successful NSF proposal.   I served as a division director at NSF for four years and was involved with the review of over 8000 proposals.    I’ve collected lists of common mistakes at NSF and will discuss.  In addition, several faculty will present their insights on NSF including

· Julia Bailey-Serres, Professor of Genetics

· Donna Hoffman, Professor of Marketing, Co-Director, Sloan Center of Internet Retailing

· Cindy Larive, Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry

· Victor Rodgers, Professor and  Chair, Department of Bioengineering

· Jan Stets, Professor of Sociology and former NSF Program Director

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New Awards: October 1- December 31

In the second quarter of FY 12-13, UCR received over $16.5M in funding for sponsored projects.  Below is a list of all projects receiving funding during this time.  The second quarter of the state fiscal year corresponds to the first quarter of the federal fiscal year.  In recent years, this is often the quarter with the lowest funding as the federal agencies don’t have a complete picture of their budgets until later in the year.   (Note:  The data below also include multi-year projects that received additional funding during this period.  In many cases of a new award, only the first year’s funding is shown below).

PI	Department	Title	Prime Sponsor	Amount
Adaskaveg, Jim	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	Disease Forecasting and Management of Septoria Spot of Citrus	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$49,000
Adaskaveg, Jim	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	Evaluations of New Postharvest Treatments to Reduce Postharvest Decay and Improve Fruit Quality in Citrus Packinghouse Operations	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$59,000
Aguero, Jorge M	Economics	Causal Estimates of the Intangible Costs of Violence Against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean	INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (INTL)	$10,584
Allen, Michael	Ctr for Conservation Biology	Carbon balance in California deserts: Impacts of widespread solar power generation	CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION	$50
Allen, Robert	Earth Sciences	Observed Tropical Expansion: impact on the Hydrological and Energy Cycles	NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER	$106,148
Arpaia, Mary Lu Lu	Botany and Plant Sciences	Assessing factors influencing the postharvest quality of California mandarins	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$76,799
Arpaia, Mary Lu Lu	Botany and Plant Sciences	Enhancement of Avocado Productivity I. Plant Improvement - Selection and Evaluation of Improved Varieties and Rootstocks	CALIFORNIA AVOCADO COMMISSION	$211,354
Arpaia, Mary Lu Lu	Botany and Plant Sciences	Identification of key aroma compounds and optimization of postharvest handling procedures in order to improve sensory quality of mandarins.	U.S.-ISRAEL BINAT'L AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEV FUND	$60,000
Bailey-Serres, Julia	Botany and Plant Sciences	Integrative analysis of plasticity in cell fate determination in plants	NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION	$644,740
Balandin, Alexander A	Electrical Engineering	Advanced structured thermoelectric materials for extreme temperatures (< 200 K)	RTI INTERNATIONAL	$76,338
Barrows, Cameron W	Ctr for Conservation Biology	BLM Rare Plant Modeling Project	BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT	$26,028
Barth, Matthew J	CE-CERT	Phase 2 Research, Development, and Evaluation of ECO-ITS Technology to Support Off-Cycle CO2 Reductions	NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD. (JAPAN)	$109,996
Barth, Matthew J	CE-CERT	The New Grid: Integrating Photovoltaics, Energy Storage, and a Local Utility for Electric Transportation	SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT	$2,000,000
Bazhenov, Maksim V	Cell Biology & Neuroscience	Intrinsic and Synaptic Mechanisms of Epileptogenesis Triggered by Cortical Trauma	SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES	$122,562
Bazhenov, Maksim V	Cell Biology & Neuroscience	Multiresolution Modeling of Human Thalamocortical Upstates and Downstates	NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS	$89,466
Bertrand, Guy	Chemistry	International Collaboration in Chemistry: Carbenes as Stabilizing and Activating Agents in Boron, Carbon and Phosphorus Chemistry	NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION	($10,043)
Bertrand, Guy	Chemistry	International Collaboration in Chemistry: Carbenes as Stabilizing and Activating Agents in Boron, Carbon and Phosphorus Chemistry	NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION	($5,119)
Bhanu, Bir	Ctr for Res in Intelligent Sys	Continuous Learning for Unified Segmentation, Grouping and Recognition	OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH	$115,000
Biggs, David A	History	An Environmental History of Militarization in Central Vietnam, 16th to 20th Centuries	NFAH HUMANITIES, NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE	$50,400
Briggs, John C	University Writing Program	NCLB #9 continued Funding 2012-2013	CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTIO	$34,535
Byrne, Frank	Entomology	Assessment of Systemic Neonicotinoid Insecticides for the Management of ACP	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$100,862
Byrne, Frank	Entomology	Developing a Management Plan for Asian Citrus Psyllid in Retail Nurseries:  Evaluating Uptake and Retention of Systemic Insecticides in Containerized	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$58,894
Canalizo, Gabriela	UNEX-Education	Inland Area Science Project NCLB 9	CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTIO	$38,501
Cardullo, Richard	CNAS Dean's Office	California Science Project Statewide Office	UC CALIFORNIA SCIENCE PROJECT	$4,079
Cardullo, Richard	CNAS Dean's Office	California Science Project Statewide Office	UC CALIFORNIA SCIENCE PROJECT	$217,586
Cardullo, Richard	CNAS Dean's Office	California Science Project Statewide Office	UC CALIFORNIA SCIENCE PROJECT	$26,947
Chen, Zizhong	Computer Science & Engineering	CAREER: Dependable High Performance Scientific Computing at Extreme Scale via Algorithmic Fault Tolerance	NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION	$454,497
Chen, Zizhong	Computer Science & Engineering	CSR:Small:FTLA:Fault-Tolerant Linear Algebra Softwrae for Masively Parallel Architectures	NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION	$324,913
Chen, Zizhong	Computer Science & Engineering	CSR:Small:FTLA:Fault-Tolerant Linear Algebra Softwrae for Masively Parallel Architectures	NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION	$16,000
Cutler, Sean	Botany and Plant Sciences	Improving plant stress tolerance with PYR/PYL genes and ligands	SYNGENTA AG	$63,840
Cutler, Sean	Botany and Plant Sciences	Improving plant stress tolerance with PYR/PYL genes and ligands	SYNGENTA AG	$643,389
Daugherty, Matt	Entomology	Developing a management plan for Asian citrus psyllid in retail nurseries.	CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE	$245,938
Dinar, Ariel	Environmental Sciences	Allocative Inefficiency, Tenure Systems and Poverty in Irrigated Agriculture in Pakistan	U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT	$40,000
Douhan, Greg W	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	Screening and Evaluation of New Rootstocks with Resistance to Phytophtora Cinnamomi	CALIFORNIA AVOCADO COMMISSION	$150,000
Eskalen, Akif	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	Identification and managment of Fusarium Dieback Disease on Avocado in California	CALIFORNIA AVOCADO COMMISSION	$94,588
Eskalen, Akif	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	Investigating important diseases of citrus in California	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$60,000
Ezcurra, Exequiel	UC MEXUS	Science, Management, and conservation of Fish Spawning Aggregations in the Gulf of California	UC SAN DIEGO	$10,539
Ghosh, Abhijit	Earth Sciences	Systematic focused search for very low frequency earthquakes	NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION	$82,653
Gonehal, Venugopala Reddy	Botany and Plant Sciences	Spatio-temporal regulation of hormonal interactions in Arabidopsis shoot apex: Live imaging and cell type-specific analysis	NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION	$200,000
Grafton-Cardwell, Elizabeth	Entomology	Evaluating the effects of repeated oil treatments for Asian citrus psyllid on navel orange tree health, fruit production and fruit quality	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$1,500
Grafton-Cardwell, Elizabeth	Entomology	Integrated Pest Management (CORE Program) - Elizabeth Grafton-Cardwell	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$284,103
Greenstein, Jacob	Mathematics	Quantum folding and categorical methods	SIMONS FOUNDATION	$35,000
Haddon, Robert C	Ctr for Nano Sci & Engr	Short [N,N] Carbon Nanotubes of Uniform Diameter by Chemical Synthesis and Tests of Methods for their Elongation.	NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION	$45,000
Hanson, Gail G	Physics and Astronomy	Muon Accelerator Program (MAP)	DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY CHICAGO FIELD OFFICE	$10,000
Hanson, Gail G	Physics and Astronomy	Muon Accelerator Program (MAP)	DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY CHICAGO FIELD OFFICE	$15,000
Hayashi, Cheryl	Biology	Functional Genomics of Spider Silk Glands:  Integration of Gene Discovery, Expression Profiles, and Biomaterial Production	U.S. ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY	$59,431
Hoddle, Mark	Entomology	Host Specificity Testing of Diaphorencyrtus aligarhensis Sourced from the Punjab of Pakistan for Classical Biological Control of Asian Citrus Psyllid	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$99,969
Hoddle, Mark	Entomology	Identification of Predatory Mites Associated with Persea Mite in Mexico and Genetic Analyses of Native and Invasive Persea Mite Populations	CALIFORNIA AVOCADO COMMISSION	$45,000
Hoddle, Mark	Entomology	Realease and Monitoring of Tamarixia radiata in Southern California	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$115,668
Hua, Yingbo	Electrical Engineering	Broadband Full-Duplex Radio	PROOF OF CONCEPT PROGRAM: COMMERCIALIZATION GAP GRANTS	$125,000
Jackson, Ruth	University Library	8th Annual Tuskegee Airmen Celebration (2012)	RIVERSIDE, CITY OF	$1,500
Jackson, Ruth	University Library	Uncovering California's Environmental Collections: A Collaborative Approach - The UCR Section	COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES	$12,149
Jin, Hailing	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	Identification and characterization of HLB-induced small RNAs and mRNAs - towards the understanding of natural defense mechanisms against HLB	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$113,000
Jin, Hailing	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	Investigating the mechanisms of pathogenesis and natural defense responses of citrus greening by characterizing host small RNAs and mRNAs	US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE	$232,788
Johnson, Kent	CE-CERT	Analysis and Testing of the EmiSense Electronic PM Sensor on various Heavy Duty Diesel Vehicles	EMISENSE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC	$19,166
Jung, Heejung	CE-CERT	Very Low PM Mass Measurement	COORDINATING RESEARCH COUNCIL	$137,884
Kahn, Tracy L	Botany and Plant Sciences	Integrated Citrus Breeding and Evaluation for California	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$96,464
Kahn, Tracy L	Botany and Plant Sciences	Unforbidden Fruits: Preventing Citrus Smuggling by Introducing Varieties Culturally Significant to Ethnic Communities	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$14,393
Kawakami, Roland	Physics and Astronomy	Center for Emergent Materials	NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION	$88,027
Kawakami, Roland	Physics and Astronomy	Spin Dependent Phenomena in Graphene	OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH	$23,187
Kawakami, Roland	Physics and Astronomy	Spin Dependent Phenomena in Graphene	OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH	$50,000
Korotkov, Alexander	Electrical Engineering	Theory for Multi-Qubit Algorithms in Josephson Phase Qubits	DEPARTMENT OF ARMY RESEARCH, DURHAM, N.C. OFFICE	$109,203
Larive, Cynthia K	Chemistry	Development of E-Learning Modules for Analytical Chemistry	NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION	$14,397
Lundgren, LaRae	Financial Aid	Molly Adams Endowed Scholarship Fund	COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING RIVERSIDE AND SAN BERNARDINO CO	$6,683
Lundgren, LaRae	Financial Aid	Pathways to Success Scholarship	COACHELLA VALLEY ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP	$25,000
Ma, Wenbo	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	Detection of Huanglongbing using secreted proteins of Candidatus Liberibacter	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$117,960
Maher, Joshua	Univ Eastside Community Collab	University Eastside Community Collaborative (UECC) Partnership City of Riverside 2012-2015	RIVERSIDE, CITY OF	$165,000
Maher, Joshua	Univ Eastside Community Collab	University Eastside Community Collaborative (UECC) Partnership Riverside Unified School District 2012-2015	RIVERSIDE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT	$165,000
Maher, Joshua	Univ Eastside Community Collab	University eastside Community Collaborative / AmeriCorps (UECC/AmeriCorps)	CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE	$278,354
Matsumoto, Mark R	Chemical/Environ. Engineering	The Pasteurization Using a Lens and Solar Energy (PULSE) Method	US DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES	$10,000
Mauk, Peggy	Agricultural Operations	Acquistion of Goods and Services	US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE (	$41,542
Mauk, Peggy	Agricultural Operations	Acquistion of Goods and Services	US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE (	$19,609
McKibben, Michael A	CNAS-Unallocated Resources	The Myron M. Winslow Award	COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING RIVERSIDE AND SAN BERNARDINO CO	$4,988
Miller, J Wayne	CE-CERT	Development of Emission Factors for Repowered Towboat for MARAD Project	DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION MARITIME ADMINISTRATION	$117,612
Miller, J Wayne	CE-CERT	Measurement of Criteria Pollutant Emissions from Vessels Operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers and using Advanced Fuels	ARMY ENGINEERS/COASTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER, CORPS OF	$89,664
Miller, Thomas A	Entomology	Host Range Testing of the Olive Psylla Parasitoid	US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE	$87,062
Morse, Joseph G	Entomology	Integrated Pest Management (CORE Program) - Joseph Morse	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$111,979
Morse, Joseph G	Entomology	Optimizing Chemical Control of Asian Citrus Pysllid in California	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$29,439
Morse, Joseph G	Entomology	Sustained Chemical Control of Avocado Arthropod Pests	CALIFORNIA AVOCADO COMMISSION	$473,529
Mulchandani, Ashok	Chemical/Environ. Engineering	DNA-FUCNTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES GAS SENSORS	NANOSENSE	$50,388
Myung, Nosang V	CE-CERT	Economic Progress through Sustainability: A Feasibility Study for California's Inland Empire	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION	$96,541
Myung, Nosang V	Chemical/Environ. Engineering	National Space Grant College Fellowship Program	NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER	$30,000
Nikolakopoulou, Angeliki	Biomedical Sciences	EphrinB/EphB Interactions in Multiple Sclerosis	NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY	$44,000
O'Connor, Rollanda	School of Education	BRIDGES: Teaching Reading Through U.S. History	SPECIAL EDUCATION & REHABILITATION SERVS, ASSISTANT SECRETAR	$456,384
Paine, Timothy D	Entomology	Development of a biological control agent for snail and slug pests of nursery plants in California	CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE	$384,706
Pakozdi, Klara	Child Development Center	Child and Adult Care Food Program	CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION	$75,000
Pakozdi, Klara	Child Development Center	GENERAL CHILD CARE & DEV PROGRAMS.  CONTINUED FUNDING APPLICATION FY 2012-2013.	CALIFORNIA CHILD DEVELOPMENT DIVISION	$19,572
Park, Boris Hyle	Bioengineering	OCT imaging arterial catheterization needle	HAIDER BIOLOGICS, LLC	$35,000
Park, Chan Seung	CE-CERT	Investigation of a New Process for SNG Production using Steam Hydrogasification	CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION	$94,516
Parvin, Bahram	Electrical Engineering	Identifying Motility Indices of Mutations and Stress Conditions	NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS	($49,840)
Ramakrishnan, Subramanian K	Political Science	2012 Survey of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders	CARNEGIE CORPORATION	$50,000
Ramakrishnan, Subramanian K	Political Science	For Party and Nation: The Politicization of U.S. Immigration at the State and Local Level	SMITHSONIAN/WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS	($2,000)
Rao, Masaru P	Mechanical Engineering	CAREER: Titanium microelectromechanical systems: Strength and strengthenability	NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION	$400,000
Rapoport, Amnon	School of Business Administrat	Cost-sharing Allocation in Networks: An Experimental Study on the Choice of Mode of Transportation	INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN EXPERIMENTAL ECONOM	$7,000
Ravishankar, Chinya	Engineering - Dean's Office	MESA MSP Program Plan (MPP)Academic Year 2011-2014	UC MESA (MATHEMATICS, ENGINEERING, SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT) PROG	$140,000
Ray, Anandasankar	Entomology	Southeast Asia Malaria Research Center	NATIONAL INST OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES	$65,971
Regan, Helen May	Biology	Post-fire Vegetation Growth of Riversidean Coastal Sage Scrub	Riverside County Habitat Conservation Agency	$8,942
Reznick, David	Biology	Experimental evolution in natural populations of guppies	NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION	$338,329
Roose, Mikeal L	Botany and Plant Sciences	Integrated Citrus Breeding and Evaluation for California	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$275,142
Santiago, Louis S	Botany and Plant Sciences	Effects of vegetation change on exotic species invasion and water availability in southern California wilderness	BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT	$13,000
Schlenk, Daniel	Environmental Sciences	The Effect of a Commonly Used Pyrethroid, Bifenthrin, Under Hypersaline Conditions on the Reproductive Health and Embryonic Development of Oncorhynchu	CALIFORNIA DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL	($31,329)
Schwabe, Kurt	Environmental Sciences	Are Water Conservation Programs Effective?	BUREAU OF RECLAMATION	$10,000
Scott, Thomas	Earth Sciences	Goldspotted Oak Borer Coordinator Postion	US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE	$95,000
Scott, Thomas	Earth Sciences	Southern California Goldspotted Oak Borer (GSOB) Detection, Monitoring and Outreach	US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE	$267,258
Shi, Jing	Physics and Astronomy	Study of Materials and Interface Properties for High-Efficiency Spin Injection	DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY CHICAGO FIELD OFFICE	$130,000
Stouthamer, Richard	Entomology	Biological Control of Asian Citrus Psyllid in California	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$222,467
Stouthamer, Richard	Entomology	Impact of resident predator species on control of Asian Citrus Psyllid populations: conservation biocontrol and selection of candidates for mass relea	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$68,932
Talbot, Prudence	Stem Cell Center	A Stem Cell Core Facility for Studying Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE	$862,880
Talbot, Prudence	Cell Biology & Neuroscience	Stem Cell Training Program at CSU Fullerton - A Bridge to Stem Cell Research	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE	$6,350
Talbot, Prudence	Cell Biology & Neuroscience	Thirdhand Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Health Risk Assessment	UC TOBACCO-RELATED DISEASE RESEARCH PROGRAM	$79,057
Teele, Sue	UNEX-Education	South Region Teacher-Based Reform Initiative	ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY EDUCATION, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR	$62,139
Trumble, John T	Entomology	Integrated Pest Management on Celery	CALIFORNIA CELERY RESEARCH ADVISORY BOARD	$49,500
Trumble, John T	Entomology	IPM and Plant resistance for the Potato Psyllid	CALIFORNIA POTATO RESEARCH ADVISORY BOARD	$20,000
Trumble, John T	Entomology	Management of Zebra Chip to Enhance Profitability and Sustainability of US Potato Production	NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE	$120,001
Tsapin, Alexandre	Environmental Sciences	Aerogel volatile detector	NASA HEADQUARTERS	$79,972
Vidalakis, Georgios	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	Avoiding Economic Losses in California Citrus Crop from Citrus Tristeze Virus (CTV) Stem Pitting	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$6,500
Vidalakis, Georgios	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	Citrus Clonal Protection Program	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$390,587
Vidalakis, Georgios	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	Citrus Clonal Protection Program	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$43,116
Waines, J Giles	Botany and Plant Sciences	Determination Of Optimum Root And Shoot Size In Bread Wheat For Better Water And Nutrient-Use Efficiency And Higher Grain Yield.	CALIFORNIA WHEAT COMMISSION	$50,000
Walker, Sharon	Chemical/Environ. Engineering	Center for the Environmental Impact of Nanotechnology (CEIN)	NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION	$96,076
Wang, Jinbo	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	High Throughput QuantiGene Plex Based Assay for Rapid and Accurate Multiplex Detection of Citrus Pathogens	CITRUS RESEARCH PROGRAM	$99,986
Wang, Yinsheng	Chemistry	Cross-links at Abasic Sites in Duplex DNA	ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF	$129,200
Wilson, Gillian	Physics and Astronomy	Constraining the Star-formation Activity in 10 SpARCS Clusters:  Star Formation in the Densest Regions at z=1	NASA/MISCELLANEOUS CENTERS	$35,000
Wu, Guoyuan	CE-CERT	Eco-Routing Navigation System for Electric Vehicles	CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION	$94,714
Wu, Jianzhong	Chemical/Environ. Engineering	Multiscale Modeling of Ion Transport	DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY/MISCELLANEOUS OFFICES AND PROGRAMS	$42,000
Wyman, Charles	CE-CERT	Identification of Optimal Pretreatment and Conversion Conditions (Activity leader: C. Wyman, UCR)	DOE OAKRIDGE OPERATIONS OFFICE	$105,000
Wyman, Charles	CE-CERT	Identification of Optimal Pretreatment and Conversion Conditions (Activity leader: C. Wyman, UCR)	DOE OAKRIDGE OPERATIONS OFFICE	$209,667
Xu, Zhengyuan	Electrical Engineering	UC-Light: Center for Ubiquitous Communication by Light	UC DIRECTED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT	$328,236
Yin, Yadong	Chemistry	Highly Fluorescent Magnetic Nanoclusters for Effective and Multiplexed Separation of Rare Cells	GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF	$37,997
Zaera, Francisco	Chemistry	Molecular-Level Design of Heterogeneous Chiral Catalysts	DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY WASHINGTON, D.C.	$161,050

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Townsend’s Warbler

Here’s a photo of a Townsend’s warbler from Lacy Park in San Marino, CA.

(click to enlarge)