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 28, 2024, 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 $1000 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: a completed cover sheet (page two of the above document); a brief account of past professional work; a short description of how a proposed project will contribute to further professional development.
Please submit your application in a single pdf electronically to senate@humboldt.edu.
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 May 1, 2024, of the status of your grant proposal. Awards will be presented at the University Senate reception held in May.
If you have questions about the application process, you may contact ERFSA President Emeritus Professor Marshelle Thobaben (mt1@humboldt.edu).
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 Department. Project: “Certified Management Accountant Certification.”
TANI SEBRO, Assistant Professor, Politics and International Studies. Project: “Scholars and Activists at Risk in Burma Studies.”
HO 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:
1. Rouhollah Aghasaleh, Assistant Professor, School of Education,“COmmunity REsponsive Computational Thinking with Latinx Youth: Taking Teacher Education to Rural Areas (CORECTLY)”
2. Amy K Conley, Lecturer in Education, “Translanguaging in K-12 Public Schools”
Stefanie Israel De Souza, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminology & Justice Studies, To investigate “Comparative War on Drugs”
3. Marcos Hernandez, Lecturer and Toyon staff member, “Toyon Volume 69 Literary Translation Project.”
4. Silvia E Pavan, Assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences, “Curation and Installation of Timothy Lawlor’s Peromyscine Legacy Collection” at the Cal Poly’s Vertebrate Museum
5. Sintana E. Vergara, Assistant Professor of Environmental Resources Engineering, “A drop in the bucket? Greenhouse gas emissions from stored food waste prior to composting”
2021 ERFSA Faculty Award Recipients:
1. Stefani Brandt, Biological Sciences - “Plant Tax Kits"
2. Allison Bronson, Biological Sciences - "What Can We Learn from the Brain Cavity of Fossil and Living Cartilaginous Fishes?"
3. Karen Davy, Music - "Humboldt’s Hispanic-Supporting Institution Initiative Humboldt’s Arcata Bay String Quartet"
4. Benjamin Funke, Art - "Researching Facilities in the CSU System-Sculpture and Fabrication Labs"
5. Berit Potter, Art - "Widely Curious: Grace McCann Morley and the Origins of Global Contemporary Art Book Project"
6. Elizabeth Rivera, Theater and Dance - "Bringing Danza Azteca to Humboldt"
7. Christopher E. Slay, Biological Sciences - "Plasticity of Gas Transport in the Lungless Arboreal Salamander (Aneides lugubris)"
8. Gordon Lewis Ulmer, Anthropology - "Socioecologies of Human-Wildlife Interactions in Northern California"
9. Oscar M. Vargas, Biological Sciences - "Population Genetics of the California Pitcher Plant Darlingtonia Californica"
2020 ERFSA Faculty Award Recipients:
1. Kaitlin Reed, Native American Studies – “From Gold Rush to Green Rush Book Project”
2. Jose Marin Jarrin, Fisheries Biology – “Verification of species identification of Galapagos octopus using genetic techniques”
3. Jorge Monteiro, Chemistry – “Hybrid Systems to Produce Persistent Luminescence and Generate Singlet Oxygen in the Dark”
4. Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, Biological Sciences – “Tracking microbial nitrogen metabolism in microbiology research and education”
5. Cydny Phillips, English – “Humboldt County Plein Air Book Creation”
6. Buddhika Madurapperuma, Forestry and Wildland Resources & Environmental Science and Management – “Capacity building in unmanned aerial vehicle technology outreach and to solve environmental research questions”