2022 Grants
$5.3 Million
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
CSUDH WORKFORCE INTEGRATION NETWORK (WIN)
CSUDH’s WIN won a two-year, $5.3 million grant from the NTIA’s Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program. The funds will support efforts to close the digital divide by supplying laptops, MiFi devices, and career-focused training materials to ten local partner organizations for distribution to the community.
$3 Million
State of California
CSUDH
CSUDH was one of five CSU campuses to be awarded part of a four-year, $18 million grant from California’s LA Region K-16 Collaborative. The university will receive a total of approximately $3 million, earmarked for programs and initiatives to encourage underrepresented students to seek out careers in fields which have traditionally been beset by systemic inequality and racism.
$2.571 Million
U.S. Department of Education
PROJECT MEDALLA
The College of Education won a five-year grant in support of Project MEDALLA (Multilingual Educator Development Advancing Language Learning Achievement/Activism), which aims to create a network of certified bilingual educators in the greater Los Angeles area.
$499,857
National Science Foundation
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
This five-year grant will fund programs to improve professional preparedness in Toro biology students. Components of the project include integration of career content into biology courses, matching students to experiential learning opportunities, and adopting an e-portfolio system.
$499,140
U.S. Department of Defense
COLLEGE OF NATURAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
This grant provides funding for the Department of Chemistry to purchase a high-resolution, high-accuracy mass spectrometer to help accelerate small-molecule analysis.
$375,264
U.S. Department of Education
CSUDH CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER (CDC)
This grant provides four years of funding for the CDC to provide fully-subsidized child care for children of Pell-eligible CSUDH students, with a special focus on single parents, as part of its Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program.
$293,517
National Science Foundation
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
CSUDH was one of six CSU campuses chosen to receive funds to establish programs that will integrate socially responsible computing curriculum in early student computing experiences, with the goal of improving retention of Latinx students.
$264,431
U.S. Department of Education
McNAIR SCHOLARS PROGRAM
This grant will allow CSUDH to provide low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students in the McNair Scholars Program with an array of academic and support services to effectively prepare them for entry into PhD programs nationwide.
$190,000
$150,000 – National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
$40,000 – John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
GERTH ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
The university won an NHPRC grant and its third Haynes Foundation grant in five years to support the cataloguing and digitization of the Gerth Archives’ L.A. Free Press collection. The collection contains the entire print run of one of Southern California’s first community newspapers.
$100,000
California State Library
GERTH ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Awarded to the Gerth Archives’ LGBTQ History Access Project, these funds will enable the archives to catalog, arrange, and describe several collections related to the Southern California LGBTQ community, and to stage a related speakers’ series.
Research Grants
$532,936
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
This three-year grant will fund exploration of how wildflower species that bloom later in the growing season could aid in the ecological restoration of grassland ecosystems threatened by human activities.
$441,000
National Institutes of Health
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
This three-year grant will fund research to probe for small molecules found in nature, particularly those produced by fungi cultured from underexplored marine environments, and screen their ability to inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria that have developed resistance to traditional antibiotics.
$250,000
National Science Foundation
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
This grant will allow researchers to investigate how the implementation of culturally responsive practices in afterschool programs can promote math skills and increase motivation for minoritized students, with the goal of getting more Latinx youth into STEM careers.
$125,000
Los Angeles County
MERVYN DYMALLY AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTE
The L.A. County Anti-Racism, Diversity, and Inclusion Initiative provided funds to the Dymally Institute to assist in co-authoring an annual report on the state of Black Los Angeles.
