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Grant Program for Tenure-track Faculty, Lecturers, and Staff
Small Grant Program for Tenure-track Faculty, Lecturers, and Staff
Applications are due by Thursday March 27, 2025, at 3 p.m. PST. Late applications will not be reviewed.
Sponsored by the Humboldt-Emeritus and Retired Faculty and Staff Association, grant awards are intended to help tenured-track faculty, lecturers, and staff with less than 5 years employment at Cal Poly Humboldt seeking to expand professional qualifications.
Proposals must relate to teaching effectiveness, scholarly or creative activity, and/or service to the University, profession, or the community.
The grant awards are intended to supplement other assistance, including in-kind (self-funded) support.
Awards up to $1,000 will be made upon evaluations of the applicant’s prior work and on the relationship of the proposal to further professional development. Funding can be requested for services, fees, materials, or travel. Humboldt-ERFSA will not award grants to pay for wages, work-for-hire, stipends or tuition.
Applications may be up to three [3] pages long and should include all the items indicated in the instructions on the application: contact information, name of project, project proposal, itemized budget, project benefits, and resume.
Please submit your application in a single pdf electronically to Kumi Watanabe-Schock at kw1@humboldt.edu.
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Even small grant awards are competitive. Preference will be given to applicants who have not received a prior Humboldt-ERFSA grant award. They are also generally given to work that applies to two or more aspects of your retention or tenure evaluation or staff step increases. For example, proposals including the submission of papers with student involvement, or requests for teaching materials or creative projects and equipment interacting directly with students, are often given preference over a faculty or staff member’s individual performance or solo presentation of a paper at a professional conference.
You will be notified by mid-April of the status of your grant proposal. You will be invited to the Humboldt-ERFSA Emeritus Status retirees’ reception in April and the Office of Academic Affairs/University Senate Awards Ceremony where you will be acknowledged by ERFSA in early May.
If you have questions about the application process, you may contact ERFSA President Emerita Professor Marshelle Thobaben (mt1@humboldt.edu).
2025 Faculty and Staff Award Recipients
Benjamin Anjewierden: Lecturer, Psychology
Project: Knowing Who Are and We Are Not: Impacts of (Inter) Group Composition on Deriving Epistemic Fulfillment from Groups
Jason Hockaday: Lecturer, Native American Studies
Project: Designing a Tribal Funeral Home for Northwest California
Nicole Kita: Lecturer, Art + Film
Project: Participant in the Stone Lithography Workshop at the Grafik House Print Studio & Maker Goods Studio Letterpress Printmaking Workshop in Kansas City, Missouri
Roberto Mónico: Assistant Professor, Critical Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project: Teaching Research Methods in Pelican Bay
Pedro Peloso: Lecturer & Research Associate, Biological Sciences
Project: Determining the Identity of Cryptic Salamander Species in the California Floristic Province
Tess Weathers: Assistant Professor, Environmental Resources Engineering Program, School of Engineering
Project: Impacts on Soil Microbial and Fungal Communities and Biofilm Formation during Meadow Restoration using Beaver Dams Analogs
2024 Faculty and Staff Award Recipients
Sponsored by the Humboldt-Emeritus and Retired Faculty and Staff Association, grant awards are intended to help tenured-track faculty, lecturers, and staff with less than 5 years employment at Cal Poly Humboldt seeking to expand professional qualifications.
Justin Luong: Assistant Professor, Forestry, Fire and Rangeland Management
Project: Assessing solar panel grid impacts on coastal prairies to guide regenerative agrivoltaics
Christa L. Meingast: Assistant Professor, Engineering
Project: Biochar Soil Remediation Study in Distributed Environment
Silvia E. Pavan: Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Project: Presenting research with students at the 2024 Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists
Rachael M. Wade: Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Project: Ecologically-driven morphological plasticity in coralline algae (not pictured)
2023 Faculty and Staff Award Recipients
Morgan Barker: Sustainability Librarian, University Library
Project: Sustainable Libraries Initiative Certification for Cal Poly Humboldt
Stephanie Corigliano: Lecturer, Religious Studies
Project: Research and Study of Tibetan Buddhism at Gomde California’s Buddhist Studies Summer Program
Caglar Dolek: Assistant Professor, Sociology
Project: Marginalized Poor & Radical Imagination: A Teaching Development Project
Tawanda Gara: Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Management
Project: Retrieving tree species diversity via leaf functional traits using remote sensing
Anna E. Goldman: Museum Curator, Wildlife
Project: Borneo Field Course: the importance of natural history and how it incorporates ecology and conservation
Sarah Lasley: Assistant Professor, Art + Film
Project: Climate Control – an experimental documentary on climate anxiety/dissonance and its intersection with recent advancements in the use of AI chatbots
Jennifer Marlow: Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Management
Project: 44 Feet: Vulnerabilities, Opportunities, and Strategies for Managing Risk from Sea-Level Rise to Humboldt Bay’s Spent Nuclear Fuel Site
Samantha Puentes: Senior Accountant & Financial Analyst, Accounting
Project: Certified Management Accountant Certification
Tani Sebro: Assistant Professor, Politics and International Studies
Project: Scholars and Activists at Risk in Burma Studies
Hi Yi Wan: Assistant Professor, Wildlife
Project: Increasing the use of trail cameras and spatial data to improve undergraduate and graduate education and research in wildlife science
2022 ERFSA Faculty Award Recipients
Rouhollah Aghasaleh: Assistant Professor, School of Education
Project: COmmunity REsponsive Computational Thinking with Latinx Youth: Taking Teacher Education to Rural Areas (CORECTLY)
Amy K. Conley: Lecturer, Education
Project: Translanguaging in K-12 Public Schools
Stefanie Israel De Souza: Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminology & Justice Studies
Project: To investigate “Comparative War on Drugs”
Marcos Hernandez: Lecturer and Toyon staff member
Project: Toyon Volume 69 Literary Translation Project
Silvia E. Pavan: Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Project: Curation and Installation of Timothy Lawlor’s Peromyscine Legacy Collection” at the Cal Poly’s Vertebrate Museum
Sintana E. Vergara: Assistant Professor, Environmental Resources Engineering
Project: A drop in the bucket? Greenhouse gas emissions from stored food waste prior to composting
2021 ERFSA Faculty Award Recipients
Stefani Brandt: Biological Sciences
Project: Plant Tax Kits
Allison Bronson: Biological Sciences
Project: What Can We Learn from the Brain Cavity of Fossil and Living Cartilaginous Fishes?
Karen Davy: Music
Project: Humboldt’s Hispanic-Supporting Institution Initiative Humboldt’s Arcata Bay String Quartet
Benjamin Funke: Art
Project: Researching Facilities in the CSU System-Sculpture and Fabrication Labs
Berit Potter: Art
Project: Widely Curious: Grace McCann Morley and the Origins of Global Contemporary Art Book Project
Elizabeth Rivera: Theater and Dance
Project: Bringing Danza Azteca to Humboldt
Christopher E. Slay: Biological Sciences
Project: Plasticity of Gas Transport in the Lungless Arboreal Salamander (Aneides lugubris)
Gordon Lewis Ulmer: Anthropology
Project: Socioecologies of Human-Wildlife Interactions in Northern California
Oscar M. Vargas: Biological Sciences
Project: Population Genetics of the California Pitcher Plant Darlingtonia Californica
2020 ERFSA Faculty Award Recipients
Kaitlin Reed: Native American Studies
Project: From Gold Rush to Green Rush Book Project
Jose Marin Jarrin: Fisheries Biology
Project: Verification of species identification of Galapagos octopus using genetic techniques
Jorge Monteiro: Chemistry
Project: Hybrid Systems to Produce Persistent Luminescence and Generate Singlet Oxygen in the Dark
Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler: Biological Sciences
Project: Tracking microbial nitrogen metabolism in microbiology research and education
Cydny Phillips: English
Project: Humboldt County Plein Air Book Creation
Buddhika Madurapperuma: Forestry and Wildland Resources & Environmental Science and Management
Project: Capacity building in unmanned aerial vehicle technology outreach and to solve environmental research questions