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CSUPERB Newsletter - Issue #29

We're pleased to feature four CSUPERB PIs in our AY 18-19 Annual Report (linked here): Karin Kram (CS
CSUPERB Newsletter - Issue #29
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We’re pleased to feature four CSUPERB PIs in our AY 18-19 Annual Report (linked here): Karin Kram (CSU Dominguez Hills), John Valdovinos (CSU Northridge), Chantal Stieber (Cal Poly Pomona) and Katharine Watts (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo). We’ve also updated our Data Dashboard (available year-round), reporting on the 1086 CSU students we’ve supported since 2000, updated financials, and other grant programs data. And, since even SPC members forget sometimes, remember you can search the CSUPERB Grants Database anytime! Both sets of data can be found year-round at our website (look for the red buttons under Dr. Jayasinghe’s giant photo!).
Last week we received 335 poster abstracts from 22 CSU campuses for the 32nd Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium. They’ve been sent out for review by the hardest-working CSUPERB committee, our 21 poster abstract reviewers. There are lots of other CSUPERB deadlines coming up this fall (see below), so AY 19-20 is rolling here in the program office!
The inaugural 2019 Ideas Lab convened at Fresno State Sept. 12-14. We hosted 27 faculty from 14 campuses to solve problems related to California’s ecosystem-food production-health “trilemma.” The purpose of the Ideas Lab program is to catalyze interdisciplinary research team formation. Between now and February, the teams have time and support to learn from each other, work together, integrate their research strands, and recruit missing expertise for a follow-on grant proposal in 2020. We can’t wait to see what happens next (more below)!

The inaugural CSUPERB Ideas Lab was hosted at CSU Fresno and led by Dr. Christopher Meyer (Dean, College of Science and Mathematics, CSU Fresno).
The inaugural CSUPERB Ideas Lab was hosted at CSU Fresno and led by Dr. Christopher Meyer (Dean, College of Science and Mathematics, CSU Fresno).
Upcoming CSUPERB Webinars
Mark your calendars; the recurring series of one-hour Zoom webinars will be scheduled on Fridays midday going forward.

  • Friday, October 11, 2019 (1 - 2 pm) - 1st CSUPERB CUREs Network Webinar. Paula Fischhaber (Northridge), Kelly McDonald (Sacramento), and Aparna Sreenivasan (Monterey Bay) will share an overview of the CUREs Network and cover the “How-to Basics of a CURE.” Join the Zoom webinar using this weblink: https://SDSU.zoom.us/j/685115848
  • Friday, November 15, 2019 (noon - 1 pm) - CSUPERB Proposal Writing Webinar. Susan Baxter and James Schmitt (CSUPERB) will give a shorter, webinar-based version of the in-person workshop always offered during the annual symposium in January. If you’re itching to get started on New Investigator, Research Development or Curriculum Development seed grant proposals due Feb.3, 2020 (good instinct!), join the Zoom webinar using this weblink: https://SDSU.zoom.us/j/466428917
Open CSUPERB Calls and Deadlines
Links to all requests for proposals (RFPs) and nominations can be found at the CSUPERB home page (www.calstate.edu/csuperb). All deadlines are at 5 p.m. pacific time.
  • Student Travel Grants – Deadline: October 7, 2019
  • Faculty Travel Grants – Deadline: October 7, 2019
  • Howell-CSUPERB (Undergraduate) Research Scholarships – Deadline: Tuesday, October 15, 2019
  • Andreoli Faculty Service, Pauling Student Teaching, and Faculty Research Award Nominations - Deadline: October 21, 2019
  • Curriculum Development Grants – Deadline: February 3, 2020
  • New Investigator Grants – Deadline: February 3, 2020
  • Research Development Grants – Deadline: February 3, 2020
CSUPERB News
Lionel Cheruzel (San Jose State University) Receives 2019 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Lionel Cheruzel (San Jose State University) Receives 2019 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
“Nominated by his department chair Prof. Karen Singmaster, Cheruzel is one of eight faculty members nationwide to receive the prestigious award. The honor recognizes the accomplishments of faculty in scholarly research with undergraduates.” Kudos & congratulations from CSUPERB, Lionel (and to Dr. Singmaster for shouting out the great mentoring faculty are providing CSU undergraduates)!
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David Puerta: Forging a Path in Biotechnology
David Puerta: Forging a Path in Biotechnology
“When Forge Therapeutics COO and VP of Discovery David Puerta first set foot on the CSUDH campus, he wasn’t sure what kind of career he wanted to pursue. As a first-generation college student, his (and his parents’) initial goal had been to just get to college.” Dr. Puerta shared his story and perspectives at the Summer 2019 FCG meeting celebrating CSU biotech alums.
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The 2019 Ideas Lab Trilemma Challenge
The 2019 Ideas Lab Trilemma Challenge
The first CSUPERB Ideas Lab was held at Fresno State Sept 12-14 and involved 27 CSU faculty from 14 CSU campuses. The purpose of the Ideas Lab program is to catalyze interdisciplinary research team formation and exciting new science and engineering research. Many thanks to NSF for funding the in-person phase of the program and, especially to Dr. Parag Chitnis from NIFA for attending and working with Cal State teams. Little known fact: Dr. Chitnis pushed/encouraged CSUPERB to apply for our first I-Corps grant!
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H. Howard Xu is 2019 Outstanding Professor Award Winner at CSU Los Angeles
H. Howard Xu is 2019 Outstanding Professor Award Winner at CSU Los Angeles
The campus recorded a cool video to celebrate Howard! Dr. Xu is one of only a handful of faculty members who have been selected for both of CSUPERB’s system-wide faculty awards: the Faculty Research Award and the Andreoli Faculty Service Award. Congratulations, Howard!
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Deborah Won was also selected as 2019 Outstanding Professor Award Winner at CSU Los Angeles!
Deborah Won was also selected as 2019 Outstanding Professor Award Winner at CSU Los Angeles!
Dr. Won is a campus representative on the CSUPERB Faculty Consensus Group. Congratulations, Debbie!
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What We're Reading, Attending, and Listening To
Live Webcast October 10, 2019 from 10:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. Presented by CSU STEM-NET, Chancellor’s Office, Department of Research. Speakers include: Benjamin Van Dusen (CSU Chico), David Gillespie (CSU Channel Islands), Kimberly Costino and Kirsten Fleming (CSU Dominguez Hills), Christopher Meyer (CSU Fresno) and Marina Shapiro (CSU Bakersfield).
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“The authors determined four areas in which training and support were needed: training in the “informal curriculum” (skills not covered in traditional…courses), protected time for research training, opportunities to create career-advancing work products, and networking opportunities.”
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Water Your ORCID
Water Your ORCID
Still putting off claiming your ORCID ID? Here’s motivation: NIH begins requiring an ORCID ID linked to eRA Commons profile for those on training grants October 1. More @ORCID_Org
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Never thought I’d see an article with this title in US News and World Report - but here it is!
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“The C-Accel program represents a new effort within NSF to encourage partnerships, especially public-private partnerships, drawing participants from academia, foundations, government, nonprofits and industry to advance ideas from concepts to tangible deliverables.” The C-Accel program goals sounds awfully similar to CSUPERB/I-Corps/Ideas Lab goals!
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“Providing a mechanism to connect students’ design education to the research conducted in NSF-funded laboratories will create a bridge between the discovery of research and the translational potential of design.” Again, we’re seeing an emphasis on making I-Corps concepts available to students.
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Small changes, big gains: A curriculum-wide study of teaching practices and student learning in undergraduate biology
Small changes, big gains: A curriculum-wide study of teaching practices and student learning in undergraduate biology
“Strikingly, we found that the addition of worksheets as an active learning tool for in-class group activities had the strongest impact on diagnostic test scores. This particular low-tech activity promotes student collaboration, develops problem solving skills, and can be used to inform the instructor about what students are struggling with, thus providing opportunities for valuable and timely feedback.” - HT Terry McGlynn CSU Dominguez Hills
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How important are college majors to future careers? The alumni attending the summer FCG meeting talked openly about how little time post-graduation they stayed “at the bench.”
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Lilliputian Evolution: Bacterial Evolution with Stanley Maloy
Lilliputian Evolution: Bacterial Evolution with Stanley Maloy
“How thinking about bacterial pathogens from the bug’s point of view provides new insight into pathogen evolution.” (1 hour podcast)
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The Fall 2019 NIH Regional Seminar in Phoenix, Arizona, November 6-8, 2019.
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“We show that this negative correlation is caused in part by the increased cognitive effort required during active learning. Faculty who adopt active learning are encouraged to intervene and address this misperception, and we describe a successful example of such an intervention.”
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Free Online Courses for Commercializing Science
Free Online Courses for Commercializing Science
Did you miss the opportunity to join the CSU I-Corps Summer Sprint in June and can’t wait for next June? If so, one of our CSU I-Corps external evaluators, Lily Kim, has a list of free online courses for curious, nascent academic entrepreneurs.
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The CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology provides grant funding to seed research projects and curriculum redesign efforts. We also run CSU I-Corps to help researchers investigate biotechnology commercialization. We organize the annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium. The CSUPERB newsletter publishes the fourth Friday of each month. CSUPERB Data Dashboard: https://csuperb.org/grants/csuperb-data-dashboard/

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