Research Scholarship & Creative Activity (RSCA)

Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) Awards


The Research and Grants Committee is please to announce the RSCA Awards for 2026-27!

Applicant College Application Title
Greathouse, Candice AMC Mapping Erasure: Documenting WWII Comfort Station Sites in the Philippines
Ryoo, Anna AMC Reimagining Outdoor Campus Space as Educational Sites through Community-Based Art
Wang, Meiqin AMC Regenerative Artivism across East Asia: Women-Led Infrastructures of Care in A Research-Based Podcast Season
Byabartta, Debarati AMC Global Tramp: Humor, Resistance, and the Cinematic Underdogs
Kim, Ah-Jeong AMC  AI Theatre Lab: A Practice-Based Inquiry into LLM AI and Theatre-Making
Chang, Mu-Sheng BUS   Does the Use of Captive Insurance Subsidiaries Improve Cash Flow?  An Empirical Analysis of S&P 500 Companies
Grasso, Dominic MDECOE  Early Literacy Innovation in Teacher Education
Wall, Maeve MDECOE Abolish Punishment: Teachers’ Decriminalizing Practices with Black Boys in K-3 Classrooms
Flores, Edward MDECOE Secondary Education History/Social Science Teacher Candidates Experiences Teaching K-12 Ethnic Studies
Maron Sauer, Vinicius ECS Fundamental Modeling of Flame Spread Over Discrete Fuel Arrays: Bridging the Gap Between Wildfire Prediction and Clean Energy
Nemlekar, Heramb ECS Predicting Learned Robot Behaviors based on Data Properties
Pishvar, Maya ECS Tailored Damping in 3D-Printed Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites
Schaal, Natalie ECS Frictional characterization of 3D-printed PLA samples
Golshany, Nasrin HHD Designing for Campus Safety: A Mixed-Methods Study of Human-Centric Outdoor Lighting and Perceived Safety at CSUN
Mimura, Yoko HHD Role of Volunteer Work in Furthering Happiness in an Aging Society
Rogers, Christopher HHD Stress, support, and survival: Better understanding coping and resilience in the face of sociopolitical stress among college students
Toledo-Corral, Claudia HHD Assessing political health and its relationship with generalized depressive symptoms in young adults
Jung, Yeonhak HHD Move with Matadors: A Community-Engaged Evaluation of a School-Based Motor Skill Intervention
Tekkas-Kerman, Kader HHD Reducing Racial and Gender Disparities in Life-Saving Skills: An Inclusive Hands-Only CPR Study with San Fernando Valley Youth
Bhakthavatsalam, Sindhuja HUM Pluralism, Contingentism, and Science Education
Howard, Krystal HUM “…this other girl     bright & alive / mouth full & dripping with language…”: Contrapuntal Form and Caesura in Safia Elhillo’s Cross-Written Poetry
White, Claire HUM Ritual, Resilience, and Belonging in Día de los Muertos:  A Student-Engaged Research Project
Abdelsayed, Michael SCM Discovery of RNA Thermometers
Hong, Ray SCM Characterizing New Regulators of Developmental Plasticity
Ritson-Williams, Raphael SCM Characterizing Californian Algal Diversity
Yoder, Jeremy SCM Building a TARDIS to study plant population health over time and across space
Miao, Maosheng  SCM Machine Learning Enhanced Exploration of New Chemistry and New Materials in an Extended Chemical Space
Han, Xiaolong SCM The Mathematical Theory of Optimal Point Configurations
Pakzad, Ali SCM LEARNING FROM THE BOUNDARY: AI-BASED RECOVERY OF WAVE SOURCES AND SPEEDS
Luchko, Tyler SCM Teaching computers to model water: using synthetic data to train neural networks
Taheri-Araghi, Sattar SCM Quantitative Analysis of Defensive and Transitional Tactics in International Soccer
Rodriguez, Nalya SBS Non-Profits and Modern Day Counterinsurgency Tactics: Understanding the Role of Community Based Organizations in Gang Intervention, Prevention and Suppression in LA
Jenrich, Marissa SBS "I Am Familiar with the Defendant": New York's 1863 Draft Massacres and Black Women's Legal Struggles for Justice
Malmberg, Debra Berry SBS An Evaluation of Interdisciplinary Competencies for Collaborative Professional Practice
Rutchick, Abraham SBS Collaboration with AI and the experience of meaning
Capous-Desyllas, Moshoula SBS Using digital photovoice to explore the relationships between social media content and suicidality among transgender adolescents
Hernandez, Jessennya SBS The Poli-Creative Project: A Student-led and Community-Engaged Podcast

Please direct any questions regarding the RSCA Program to Edgar Lopez or call (818) 677-6776.