The ERFSA grant awards are designed to support tenured-track faculty, lecturers, and staff with less than five years of employment at Cal Poly Humboldt.
The goal of the grants is to assist recipients in expanding their professional qualifications. Thanks to generous donations, ERFSA continues its long-standing tradition of providing these grants to junior faculty and staff.
This year’s recipients include:
Benjamin Anjewierden, lecturer, Psychology Department. 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 Department. Project: Designing a Tribal Funeral Home for Northwest California.
Nicole Kita, lecturer, Art + Film Department. 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 & Sexuality Studies Department. Project: Teaching Research Methods in Pelican Bay.
Pedro Peloso, lecturer and research associate, Biological Sciences Department. 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.
ERFSA seeks proposals for innovative projects from new faculty and staff within the first five years of their employment at Cal Poly Humboldt to promote their careers.
Newly retired Cal Poly Humboldt faculty and staff are encouraged to join ERFSA. More information can be found at erfsa.humboldt.edu.