The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) helps faculty and administrators compete for and win grants that strengthen the intellectual climate and improve the learning environment at City Tech. The office provides notices of grant opportunities and works with faculty and administrators over the life-cycle of a grant – from concept development through close-out.
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Laura Westenguard (English) is pleased to announce that City Tech has been awarded $35,000 for AY 24-25 to support LGBTQIA+ programming and initiatives – the third year in a row that we have received funding!
Marzieh Azarderakhsh (Construction Management & Civil Engineering Technology) is pleased to announce the award of $150,000 for City Tech as part of a multi-institutional/agency collaborative for the project, Monitoring Harmful Algal Blooms in the Delaware River Watershed Using Drones and Spatial Analysis, funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation – Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund. The project will develop algorithms to predict the development of benthic and planktonic HABs under various hydrologic/seasonal conditions to inform decision-making for habitat management and restoration initiatives, particularly related to drinking water quality, wildlife conservation, and recreation activities.
Sara Gómez Woolley (Communication Design) was interviewed for the PW podcast, More to Come, where she discussed ‘Comics As a Second Language’, an anthology of student work that came out of a course she developed and taught last fall at the CUNY Graduate Center, The Art of Visual Memory: Exploring and Creating Biography and Memoir in the Graphic Novel Format.
Christopher Swift (Humanities) has won this year’s Bevington Prize from the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS) for his book, Ritual, Spectacle, and Theatre in Late Medieval Seville: Performing Empire. The committee of judges wrote, “Swift’s impressive monograph brings Iberian theater out of the blind-spot of the field of early drama studies and teaches us something new about medieval theatrical traditions that have gone overlooked and understudied while also making important and exciting contributions to current theories of performance and performativity. The committee found Swift’s book innovative, engaging, and beautifully expressed.”
Sarah Ann Standing (Humanities) has issued two new books in her book series, Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance (STEP) for Routledge Press, for AY 2023-2024: Angenette Spalink, Choreographing Dirt: Movement, Performance, and Ecology in the Anthropocene (2023) and Sondra Fraleigh and Shannon Rose Riley (eds.) Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages (2024). Four additional books are in contract with the series at this time.
Diana Samaroo (Chemistry), David Sanchez-Jimenez (Humanities), and Melanie Villatoro (Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology) recently received a three-year award of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a project on “Enriching the Humanities Curriculum to Embrace Cultural Relevance.” Read more . . .
Akm Rahman and Ozlem Yasar (Mechanical Engineering Technology) were awarded a grant from NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) Partnership Learning Annual Notification (MPLAN) for a research project, “Polyethylene Glycol Diacrylate for Seed Growth: Microgreens in Space,” to address the challenges of microgreen cultivation using a minimum amount of water in space, thereby providing vital nutrition to astronauts. Read more . . .
Robert Polchinski (Environmental Control Technology) was interviewed for an August article in the Guardian “From A to C: how to get the most out of your window air conditioner.”
