Extramural research awards total $1,284,953 to date for FY25 with grants from several prestigious organizations.

October 1, 2024

Extramural research awards total $1,284,953 to date for FY25 with grants from several prestigious organizations. One such grant comes from the Arnold Ventures Fund LLC to Dr. Katherine Bollman, Assistant Professor, SPP, to report on the causal effects of eviction on criminal justice outcomes.

Additionally, Dr. Mark Edwards, Professor, SPP, continues to support the important work of OPAL through a contract with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

A collaboration with COE supports Dr. Hilary Boudet, Professor, SPP, under the Department of Energy’s Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Bill.

Carly Lettero continues the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word with support of the Shotpuch Foundation.

Dr. Jessica Dietch, Assistant Professor, SPS, is continuing work on sleep health interventions for shift workers with support of the National Institutes of Health. Furthermore, Dietch is in the second year of funding through the Valley Fellows Program.

Dr. Yanni Ma, Assistant Professor, SOC, is supported through a collaboration with COF, with funding from the National Science Foundation, to leverage diversity of wild Agrobacterium to enhance woody plant transformation and regeneration.

A transdisciplinary research project led by Dr. Patricia Fifita, Assistant Professor, SLCS, with Dr. Lori Cramer, Professor, SPP, and external stakeholders, has received a grant under the Lenfest Ocean Program of the Pew Charitable Trust to evoke the memories and ancestral knowledge of Anahola as a place and a community living in relationship to the ancestral land and seascapes.

Dr. Susan Shaw, Professor, SLCS continues to receive support from the National Science Foundation for the ADVANCE Journal.

Additionally, the Mellon Foundation has recognized the important work of the Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies program and allocated funds to Dr. Mehra Shirazi, Professor, SLCS to expand those efforts.

Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr, Professor, SLCS, was awarded a research grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for her project, “Nuclear Stories: Fallout, Scientific Truths, and the Half-Life of Memory.”

The Tieger Foundation, through the OSUF, has provided support for the PRAx visual arts galleries under the direction of Ashley Stull-Myers.

Previous Yearly Research Metrics

FY24 Grant Awards July 1 - June 30, 2024

Dr. Elizabeth Barstow, School of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, received an award from Interfaith Youth Core to facilitate panels of student and interfaith leaders across socially pressured topics. To begin August 1, 2024, the total award amount: $4,000.  

Dr. Molly Carney, School of Language, Culture and Society, received an award from the Research Equipment Reserve Fund through the OSU Division of Research and Innovation, for her project "Tracing Past Pacific Northwest Foodways and Biodiversity Using Microbotanical (Starch and Phytolith) Analyses." To begin May 1, 2024, the total award amount: $8,380.  

Dr. Shana Carpenter, School of Psychological Science, received a sub contract from Iowa State University, James S. McDonnell Foundation prime sponsor, for "Implementing Principles from the Science of Learning within Educational Practice." Total award amount: $282,839.

Dr. Sharyn Clough, School of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, received contractual support from the Peace Literacy Institute to lead an on-line educational training project for educators at public schools serving youth placed at risk in Orange County California. To begin January 2, 2024, the total award amount: $18,762.

Dr. Loren Davis, School of Language, Culture and Society, received an award from the USDA and the Forest Service to engage in a Siuslaw National Forest - OSU Anthropology Cooperative Archaeology Project over a one-year project period to begin June 1, 2024. Total award amount: $50,000.

Dr. Loren Davis, School of Language, Culture and Society, received an additional award from the Desert Research Institute to continue the Archaeological Research Portland District Willamette Valley Project, which began September 1, 2020. The total award amount, $19,261, supplements the work through March 2024.

Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr, School of Language, Culture and Society, received an award from the South Dakota Humanities Council in support of archival research into the cultural history of nuclear fallout in Sully County, South Dakota in the 1950s to document an untold story about how a farming community understood the effects of atomic weapon experiments on their lives. The project began December 1, 2023, and continues through October, 2024. Total award amount: $8,432.

Dr. Mark Edwards, School of Public Policy, received an additional award from the Oregon Health Authority to continue the “Supportive Housing Resource Allocation Project” over a two-year project period begun January 1, 2023. The total award amount, $141,546, supplements the work through December 2024.

Dr. Patricia Fifita, School of Language, Culture and Society, with Dr. Lori Cramer, School of Public Policy, received an award through the Pew Charitable Trust Lenfest competitive grant opportunity for “Indigenous (Re)envisioning and Restoration of Anahola Seascapes” a project that will develop an Indigenous-led research protocol incorporating traditional knowledge of the Anahola community on the island of Kauaʻi that can be utilized to guide the (re)envisioning and restoration of ancestral relationships of the Anahola coastal zones. The first year of support $55,089 supports work through December 2024.

Dr. David Kerr, School of Psychological Science, received an award from the National Institutes of Health R21 PA-20-195 opportunity for his project entitled "Implications of state alcohol policy for college students’ binge drinking, suicidal behavior, and sexual assault victimization." Dr. Kerr works in collaboration with Dr. Harold Bae in the School of Public Health over a two-year project period begun August 2, 2023. Total award amount: $383,376.

Todd Kesterson, School of Communication, received an award from the State of Oregon, Oregon Parks and Recreation, from the 2023 Heritage Grant Opportunity. Kesterson will 3D scan historic buildings in Silver Falls State Park in Marion County and make the scans available to the public online. The project began January 1, 2024. Total award amount: $14,163. 

Dr. Hannah Lawrence, School of Psychological Sciences, received support from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for "Understanding Suicide Risk in Adolescents: The Unique Role of Imagery." Total award amount: $28,022

Carly Lettero, Spring Creek Project, received an award from the Shotpouch Foundation to support Shotpouch Cabin Residencies and Workshops over a fifteen-month project period begun July 1, 2023. Total award amount: $120,000.

Drs. Dwaine Plaza and Ana Spalding, School of Public Policy, are in receipt of an award for their part as senior personnel on a large collaborative entitled, “Large-Scale CoPe: The Cascadia Coastlines and People Hazards Research,” led by OAS’s Dr. Peter Ruggiero. The award from the National Science Foundation “will inform and enable integrated hazard assessment, mitigation, and adaptation including comprehensive planning, policy making, and engineering through targeted scientific advances in collaboration with…” Pacific Northwest at-risk coastlines over a five-year project period begun July 1, 2021. Total FY24 award amount to Drs. Plaza and Spalding: $610,282.

Dr. Steven Sanders, School of Psychological Sciences, received support from the Veteran Rural Health Center, through an intergovernmental personnel agreement to help inform treatment and resource management of Black women veterans in rural areas. The work began August 1, 2023 and extends through September, 2024. Total award: $37,334.

Dr. Susan Shaw, School of Language, Culture and Society, received an award from the NSF to continue the work of the ADVANCE Journal which "... provide[s] a forum in which to publish peer-reviewed scholarship related to institutional transformation concerning inclusion, equity, and justice in higher education." Total award amount $655,013 is within the total intended award that will exceed $1.5M through 2028.

Dr. Ana Spalding, School of Public Policy, received support from the Nippon Foundation for the dissertation work by doctoral student Ricardo A. de Ycaza  for "Dissertation title: The Blue Economy in Panama: Exploring the Implications for Marine Policy and the Fisheries Sector." Total award amount $51,000

Dr. Megan Ward, School of Writing, Literature, and Film, leads an Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the Center for Archaeology, Art, and Material Culture and Virtual Museum which will support the creation of two labs for 3D scanning and artifact analysis, and support collections facilities for the Indigenous Studies program. The total award amount $333,333 from the NEH is to be matched 2:1 in gift pledges with support concluding February 2025.

Fiscal Year 2023 Research Total

FY23 awards into CLA totaled for $2,474,506.00.

 

2023 Research Highlights

Dr. Kathryn Becker-Blease, "Collaborative Research: Northwest Psychology Partnership and Pathways for Talented Low-Income Psychology Students" National Science Foundation S-STEM grant opportunity, received $100,000 to build and strengthen a collaboration among psychology programs across RI and minority-serving psychology programs in the Pacific Northwest. The collaboration engages Oregon State University’s School of Psychological Sciences with Heritage University and Western Oregon University. Dr. Becker-Blease is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the School of Psychological Sciences.

Dr. David Bernell is a coPI/Partner on a project led by the College of Agricultural Sciences, “Expands markets for climate-smart potatoes in ID, OR, WA, Tribal areas and supports farmer implementation and monitoring of climate-smart practices,” United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). This multidisciplinary effort will engage Dr. Bernell for three years and has initially provided Bernell with $119,508 to collaborate on Objective 3 Develop Markets. Dr. Bernell is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Public Policy.

Dr. Hilary Boudet is a coPI on a project led by the College of Engineering, “Applied Research and Development to Support Open-Water Testing at PacWave,” Department of Energy. This 36-month interdisciplinary effort provided $125,000 to Boudet to oversee Task 6: Human Dimensions of Marine Renewable Energy in Oregon and at PacWave.  Dr. Boudet is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Public Policy.

Dr. Loren Davis, “Ancient Landforms and Archaeological Potential off the Washington Coast,” Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) grant opportunity, received $550,000 over three years to develop a methodology for engaging and consulting with the Quinault Indian Nation. A schedule of workshops for Tribes to discuss and compile traditional knowledge and oral histories will incorporate traditional knowledge and archaeological site(s) information into a submerged paleos landscapes and archaeological site model for the Washington coast. This model has strong potential to inform offshore marine geophysical surveys to find submerged landforms and any sites they may contain. Dr. Davis is Executive Director of KARF (Anthropology) in the School of Language, Culture and Society.

Dr. Mark Edwards, “ORHA Supportive Housing Resource Al,” Oregon Health Authority (OHA) contract opportunity. OHA has been granted $130 million to allocate to community partners around the state to enhance and grow housing for people with behavioral health issues (often these are homeless people) and Dr. Edwards received $115,330 to assist with identifying amounts to issue and which office can be designated to disperse funding. Student researchers and the PI will evaluate partner requests and notes from focus groups and other data requiring deeper evaluation and synthesis. Dr. Edwards is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Oregon State University Policy Analysis Laboratory (OPAL) in the School of Public Policy.

Dr. Jason McCarley, “Collaborative Research: Understanding Why Vigilance Declines Over Time”, National Science Foundation, Division of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, received $215,347 over two years in basic research that will lead to new directions in sustained attention research to improve human performance in applied professional environments that require human operators to maintain vigilance for extended periods of time. Dr. McCarley is a Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences.

Fiscal Year 2022 Research Total

CLA awards for FY22 totaled $2.18 million in external funds for 22 projects.

2022 Research Highlights

Todd Pugatch (Public Policy) received $508,982 from the Republic of Cameroon for impact evaluation of performance-based financing in the context of the education support program in Cameroon.

Ana Spalding and Dwaine Plaza (Public Policy) are co-principal investigators on the multi-million dollar National Science Foundation funded Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Hazards Research Hub (Cascadia CoPes Hub) led by Peter Ruggiero in OSU’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.

Kristin MacCuga (Psychological Sciences) is a co-principal investigator on a $310,000 project led by David Hurwitz (Civil & Construction Engineering, Kiewit Center) from toXel and US Department of Transportation researching ways to make ADS vehicles accessible for all road users.

Paul Thompson (Public Policy), in collaboration with Katherine Gunter and John Schuna in the College of Health, was awarded $290,594 from the National Institutes of Health for work with Montana State University on evaluating the effects of four-day school weeks on child and family health, wellbeing, and socioeconomic factors.

Jessee Dietch (Psychological Sciences) received $250,000 from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine for piloting an adaption of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia for shift workers. 

Kathleen Bogart (Psychological Sciences) received $98,495 from Fanconi Anemia Research Fund to study the psychological experiences of adults with Fanconi anemia.

Humanities

CLA faculty received several notable awards for in the humanities this year:

Joel Zapata (History, Philosophy, & Religion) was awarded a $50,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Latinx Studies from the School of Advanced Research for his work tracing the social and cultural worlds of ethnic Mexicans in the Southern Great Plains.

Christopher Nichols (Center for the Humanities), Susan Rodgers (Writing, Literature, & Film/Honors College), and Kevin Stoller (Honors College) received $75,000 in total in two separate awards from the Lamfrom Foundation in support of a summer mentored internship program for undergraduate scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.

Aimee Hisey (History, Philosophy and Religion), with advisor Nicole von Germeten, received $18,563 in support of dissertation work on Nations, Networks, and Knowledge: Circulating Knowledge of Crypto-Jewish Medical Practitioners in the Spanish Viceroyalties.

Carly Lettero (Spring Creek Project/Environmental Humanities) received $115,000 from the Shotpouch Foundation for the renewal of the Spring Creek Project, which offers several residencies and programs for campus and community outreach.

Fiscal Year 2021 Research Total

  CLA awards for 2021 totaled $1.6 million in external funds for 23 projects.

2021 Research Highlights

  Paul Thompson (School of Public Policy), in collaboration with Katherine Gunter and John Schuna in the College of Health, received $373,517 from the Spencer Foundation to study effects of four-day school weeks on student achievement and child and family wellbeing.

  Ana Spalding and Erika Wolters (School of Public Policy) received $368,857 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to assess community vulnerability to ocean acidification across the California Current Ecosystem.

  Paul Thompson (School of Public Policy) received a $140,946 subaward to Montana State University as part of a NICHD Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant for evaluating the effects of four-day school weeks on child and family health, wellbeing, and socioeconomic factors.

  Hilary Boudet (School of Public Policy) received $124,689 from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Energy and Environment Program to study how communities assess, perceive and/or respond to proposals for microgrids and what regulatory and/or policy environments facilitate their implementation.

  Carly Lettero (Spring Creek Project/Environmental Humanities) received $115,000 from the Shotpouch Foundation for the renewal of the Spring Creek Project, which offers several residencies and programs for campus and community outreach.  In addition, the Ronald W. Naito MD Foundation provided $15,000 to restructure the Long-Term Ecological Reflections (LTER) residency program with the goal of overcoming structural inequities so the program is more accessible to writers and artists of color.

  Kathryn Becker Blease (School of Psychological Sciences) received $110,199 from the National Science Foundation for her collaborative project “Broaden and Build: Promoting Access to Graduate Education in Social Sciences (PAGES)” which seeks to catalyze greater communication about graduate admissions, shared undergraduate research opportunities, and research collaborations among minority-serving institutions (MSIs), and PhD-granting R1 universities in the Pacific Northwest.

  Nana Osei-Kofi (School of Language, Culture & Society) received $108,607 as part of collaboration with Change Matrix to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion in support of faculty from underrepresented backgrounds.  The work is part of a 1.6 million dollar grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

  Kathleen Bogart (School of Psychological Sciences) received $24,344 from Moebius Syndrome Foundation for her research entitled “Disclosing Moebius Syndrome and Other Facial Differences”.  Jessee Dietch (School of Psychological Sciences) and Kathleen Bogart received an additional $30,000 from Moebius Syndrome Foundation to study sleep health of children and adults with Moebius Syndrome.

  Loren Davis (School of Language, Culture, and Society), in collaboration with the Desert Research Institute, received $40,164 from the US Army Corps of Engineers to form a partnership to meet USACE objectives for development of new methods and practices for archaeological research and cultural resources management at the Willamette Project reservoirs.

    Fiscal Year 2020 Research Total

    CLA awards for 2020 totaled $6.5 million in external funds for 22 projects.

    2020 Research Highlights

    Brent Steel and Dwaine Plaza (School of Public Policy) received $1,590,861 from Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems: National Science Foundation 2019-23 to study developing adaptive capacity in wildfire-prone regions.

    Ana Spalding and Erika Allen Wolters (School of Public Policy) received $1,040,662 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association Ocean (NOAA) to study and assess community vulnerability to ocean acidification across the California current ecosystem.

    Marta Maldonado (School of Language, Culture and Society) and Lori Cramer (School of Public Policy) received a Sea Grant from the NOAA for $249,992 to study enhancing community resilience and seafood sustainability through a diverse seafood processing workforce.

    Kenny Maes (Anthropology) is a co-principal investigator on a $150,000 grant for “Developing Common Indicators to Advance the Community Health Worker Workforce” from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD).

    Peter Betjemann (School of Writing, Literature, and Film) is a co-principal investigator for National Science Foundation funding totaling $147,490 for a project “Using Historic Art to Explore Legacies and Lost Function in Eastern US Forests.”

    Carly Lettero (School of History, Philosophy and Religion) received $115,000 from the Shotpouch Foundation for the Spring Creek Project, which offers several residencies and programs for campus and community outreach.

    Fiscal Year 2019 Research Total

    CLA awards for 2019 totaled $1.3 million in external funds for 22 projects.

    2019 Research Highlights

  •  Kristin Macuga (School of Psychological Science) received $39,667 from the Army Corps of Engineers to study the influence of visual cues on collective behavior in crowds. 
  •  Melissa Cheyney (School of Language, Culture and Society) received a total $181,232 from the American Institutes for Research for a project on improving patients' experience of respect and autonomy during maternity care. 
  •  Loren Davis (School of Language, Culture and Society) received $74,854 from the San Diego State Foundation for his study "Archaeological and Biological Assessment of Submerged Landforms in the Pacific Coast. 
  • Drew Gerkey (School of Language, Culture and Society) received a total of $82,661 from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to research subsistence salmon networks in Yukon River communities.  
  •   Jake Hamblin (School of History, Philosophy and Religion) received $89,538 from the NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences for his project "Reconstructing Radiation: Nuclear Environments and the Downwinders Case." 
  •  Christopher Stout (School of Public Policy) received $33,526 from the Russell Sage Foundation to study how accusations of racism influence partisanship and voting behavior in 21st century America. 

    Fiscal Year 2018 Research Total

    In 2018, OSU CLA faculty submitted 48 proposals for $6.6 million in grant applications. CLA awards for 2018 added up to $2.5 million in external funds for 18 projects.

    2018 Highlights

  • Hillary Boudet (School of Public Policy) received an NSF “Smart & Connected Kids for Sustainable Energy Communities” that partners with Stanford and The Girl Scouts for $999,951.
  • Marta Maldonado (School of Language, Culture, & Society) received $200,082 from Oregon Sea Grant to study demographic changes in Oregon’s seafood processing industry.
  • Colin Hesse (School of Arts & Communication) helped MAIS graduate student Madelaine Coffmann win an $18,000 grant from the Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation to study how song writing can help patients cope with depression caused by illness.
  •  Paul Thompson (School of Public Policy) received a coveted Spencer Foundation grant for $45,664 that studies “The Effects of Four-day School Weeks on Student Achievement across Racial, Socioeconomic, and Special Education Subgroups.”
  •  Loren Davis (School of Language, Culture, & Society) received 2 grants in 2018 from the Bureau of Land Management totaling $111,724.
  •  Sarah Dermody (School of Psychological Sciences) submitted 7 grant proposals in 2018, totaling $528,302.

    A Brief History of CLA Research at OSU

    The CLA Research office put together a presentation that highlighted data collected by the OSU Research Office.  The report presented data on proposals and funded projects from 2004 to 2014 by funding year, by college, and by agency.  Click cla_research_stats.pdf (563.43 KB) to download the presentation.  If you have further questions, please feel free to contact CLA Research Program Manager.