Cal Poly Humboldt grant winners announced

Cal Poly Humboldt Emeritus and Retired Faculty and Staff Association announced the winners of small grant awards supporting professional development.

Award winners include:

• Sintana E. Vergara, assistant professor of environmental resources engineering, received funding for “A drop in the bucket? Greenhouse gas emissions from stored food waste prior to composting” The award will go toward purchasing a Valco Flowpath Selector1 to measure emissions from 16 different sources.

• Silvia E. Pavan, assistant professor, department of biological sciences, received funding for curation and installation of Timothy Lawlor’s Peromyscine Legacy Collection at the Cal Poly’s Vertebrate Museum.

• Rouhollah Aghasaleh, assistant professor, school of education, received funding for “COmmunity REsponsive Computational Thinking with Latinx Youth (CORECTLY): Taking Teacher Education to Rural Areas” by connecting pre-service teachers and Latino youth through culturally, linguistically, and community responsive learning experiences.

• Amy K. Conley, lecturer in education, received funding for “Translanguaging in K-12 Public Schools” by bringing Yurok, Hupa, Karuk, and Spanish into Trinity Valley Elementary classrooms as greetings to students with names for local animals.

• Stefanie Israel De Souza, assistant professor, sociology and criminology & justice studies received funding to investigate “Comparative War on Drugs” to place The United States’ war on drugs in a comparative perspective by looking at the forms and consequences of drug wars in other countries.

• Marcos Hernandez, lecturer and Toyon staff member, received funding for “Toyon Volume 69Literary Translation Project.” The award covers only printing costs.