Six faculty members have received CSU research, scholarship and creative activity awards.

The awards fall into two categories: mini-grants and fellowships. Money is allocated by the Chancellor’s Office to fund the awards, which faculty members must use during the summer and fall of 2011.

Mini-grants are intended as seed money to initiate, advance or complete work that leads to a publication, exhibit, performance or significant grant proposal.

Fellowships provide needed time to work on a project of creative scholarship or research. Fellowship awards went to: • Luis Camara, TAT, "Silencio" • Judith Canner, Math, "The effects of climate change on the interactions between ants and plants" • Ilene Feinman, Humanities and Communication, "Spiritual Politics and political spiritualists: What moves the movements?" Mini-grants were awarded to: • Babita Gupta, Business, "Environmental Sustainability: Developing a Model for IT-enabled Organizational Transformation" • Estella Porras, Humanities and Communication, "News Media Coverage of Youth Violence in the Tri-County Region" • Gerald Shenk, Social, Behavioral and Global Studies, "Teaching for Social Transformation: The Filipinization of an American Ideal, 1901-2011"