John Jay College External Grants

EXTERNAL GRANTS, OCTOBER 2020

As part of a recent initiative, the Office for the Advancement of Research is sharing external grants secured by faculty and staff with the John Jay community, to promote greater awareness of the research and other projects your colleagues are undertaking. OAR hopes these monthly updates will create new opportunities for collaboration and inspiration across disciplines.

The below grants were all received in October 2020. Please join us in congratulating the PIs listed below!

New Awards

PI: David Kennedy

SPONSOR: South Central Chiefs of Police Association Inc.

PROJECT TITLE: FY21 - GVI - Cities of Bridgeport & Hartford, CT

PERIOD: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021

AMOUNT: $75,000

SUMMARY: The recent grant from the South Central Chiefs of Police Association has allowed the National Network for Safe Communities to continue its work on the state of Connecticut's Project Longevity initiative to reduce homicide and gun violence in a number of Connecticut cities.

PI: Hung-En Sung, Yuliya Zabyelina, & Eric Piza

SPONSOR: Bureau of International Narcotics - Law Enforcement

PROJECT TITLE: Western Hemisphere Regional Transnational Crime Assessment and Analysis

PERIOD: 9/26/2020 - 9/30/2021

AMOUNT: $306,720

SUMMARY: Dr. Hung-En Sung is tasked with the assessment of corruption and its control in Latin America and the Caribbean and the creation of a data dashboard to monitor transnational organized crime in the region. Dr. Yuliya Zabyelina and Dr. Eric Piza are co-PIs in the project, whereas investigators from the University of Chile will provide research support.

PI: Anthony Carpi

SPONSOR: Central Washington University & National Science Foundation

PROJECT TITLE: Bringing investigation and design to the undergraduate science classroom to support future teachers

PERIOD: 10/1/2020 - 9/30/2021

AMOUNT: $210,762

SUMMARY: The project seeks to advance the state of science education by targeting the problem at its source - improving the education of future science teachers. Toward this goal, it will: 1) develop curricula to teach future teachers about scientific investigation, and 2) develop new learning materials that convey the nature and process of scientific investigation which these teachers can use in their future classrooms. This second goal will be completed in collaboration with Visionlearning, a science education learning system developed by faculty at John Jay College.

Renewals for Multi-Year Awards

PI: Shu-Yuan Cheng

SPONSOR: New York State Education Department

PROJECT TITLE: Science Technology Entry Program (STEP)

PERIOD: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021

AMOUNT: $213,093

SUMMARY: The John Jay College Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP) is designed to engage, motivate, and prepare minority, economically disadvantaged, and traditionally underrepresented second school students for higher education studies and careers in science, mathematics, computer programming, and health-related or other science professions. With the support of this this 5-year grant ($213K annually), STEP at John Jay provides a wide range of services including academic enrichment, tutoring, career counseling, research mentorship, and laboratory shadowing in STEM disciplines for more than 100 students per year.

Year 30

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