Provost's 2021 Grant Recipient and Author Honorees

  • Rose Aslan – from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her research on art, spirituality and culture in Turkey; and from the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World at Shenandoah University for her research on Muslim prayer in the United States.
  • Regina Biddings-Muro and Kelly Owens – from the Amgen Foundation for the Community Scholars for Black Lives program.
  • Chia-Li Chien – from the CBC Credit Union to offer a financial literacy non-credit course to CBC employees and Cal Lutheran faculty and staff.
  • Brian Collins – from Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization for the Summer Philosophy Institute.
  • Jamshid Damooei – from the Ventura County Office of Government to prepare the Socio-Economic Profile of Ventura County.
  • Cynthia Duarte, Adrianne Sarreal, and Matthew Ward – from California Volunteers and the Corporation for National and Community Service for the AmeriCorps program.
  • Matthew Fienup and Dan Hamilton – from Ventura County Community Foundation to lead the research design for a COVID-19 antibody test; from Southern California Association of Governments to serve as on-call economic advisors for the Annual Ventura County Economic Outlook Report; from The Nature Conservancy to support the Fox Canyon Water Market; from CoBank to support the Fox Canyon Water Market; from Latino Donors Collaborative to produce the state-level Latino GDP Report; and from Bank of America Charitable Foundation to produce the state-level Latino GDP Report.
  • Molly George, Jamshid Damooei and Lisa Abell – from Ventura Council of Governments to evaluate the Ventura County Family Justice Center.
  • Haco Hoang and Amanda ElBassiouny – from the American Political Science Association to examine Cal Lutheran’s Title IX program.
  • Richard Holigrocki – from the City of Thousand Oaks for the counseling services for low-income residents of Thousand Oaks.
  • Andrea Huvard – from the PADI Foundation to study the accumulation of microfibers in sediment and filter feeders.
  • Elena Jaloma – from the U.S. Department of Education to fund the Support Services program for the next five years.
  • Dena Jenson – from the Amgen Foundation to support the Board Equity in Governance Initiative; and from the Smith-Hobson Fund at Ventura County Community Foundation to underwrite organizational memberships for arts and cultural organizations.
  • Daniel Kuntz and Matthew Ward – from the NCAA, Division III to partially support a new Assistant Director of Athletics position.
  • Cindy Lewis – from Bank of America Charitable Foundation for the 4 A Cause Internship program.
  • Jacqueline Lyons and Cindy Keitel – from California Humanities for the Voices of a Nation poetry series.
  • Nancy Myers – from University of California, San Diego to develop a cadre of Results mentor teachers at school sites in the Rio School District.
  • Ray Pickett – from the Lilly Foundation to engage in planning for a certificate program equipping leaders to address racism.
  • Michaela Reaves – from the California State Library to create an online K-12 curriculum on civil liberties.
  • Yvonne Wilber – from the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium to purchase equipment from the library to improve virtual instruction.
  • Sheridan Wigginton – from the Dominican Studies Institute at the City University of New York for a fellowship to research Dominican representation in introductory-level Spanish textbooks in the U.S.
  • Sheridan Wigginton, Kirstie Hettinga and Laverne Seales – from Gannett Foundation to create a Spanish Media Minor.
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