THE OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND SPONSORED PROJECTS
ANNUAL REPORT Commencement | June 16, 2019 2025-2026
THE OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND SPONSORED PROJECTS
Message from the Provost Dear Colleagues, This has been a year of significant change and opportunity at Seattle University, with initiatives underway that are reshaping how we serve our students, foster academic excellence, and advance our mission. I am especially grateful for the COLead project and the leadership provided by the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects as they engage faculty, staff, and administrators in shaping a shared vision and structure for the future of scholarship and research at Seattle University. As the higher education and research funding landscape becomes increasingly complex, ORSP is responding with innovative services and strategic support, including project management expertise, community-building initiatives such as Cross-Disciplinary Coffee Connections, and dedicated post-award leadership that strengthen the university’s capacity for research and scholarship. The accomplishments highlighted in this report demonstrate the vitality of Seattle University’s scholarly community and the important role scholarship plays in our future. Thank you to the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects and the many faculty and staff who worked with them over the past year to contribute to our growing culture of inquiry and innovation. Sincerely,
Shane P. Martin, PhD Provost
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Cover: top image by David Sundberg, ESTO
Message from the Director Dear Colleagues, Fiscal year 2026 was a year of strategic positioning for Seattle University’s research enterprise. Our office secured over $2 million for the NSF-funded COLead Project (see page 8), and through its launch we have begun building the foundation for the future of research support at Seattle University. We welcomed COLead Project Coordinator, Jecca Bowen, Assistant Director of Post-Award, Cortney Tassone, and Grant Management Specialist, Noelle Purcell, while undertaking a strategic process of internal and external assessment to inform our path forward. As you’ll read in this report, this work will deepen in the coming year as we collaborate across divisions and roles to shape the future of scholarship and sponsored programs at Seattle University. This report highlights the dedication of our faculty and staff, and the ways ORSP is continually innovating to provide responsive services to meet our campus needs. Together, we are strengthening Seattle University’s capacity for scholarship, positioning ourselves for future opportunities, and advancing a culture of scholarship that serves our students, community, and mission.
Research and Sponsored Projects Team Jecca Bowen, PhD COLead Project Coordinator jbowen@seattleu.edu
Sarah Bricknell, MBA, CRA Associate Director bricknellsar@seattleu.edu
Kara Luckey, PhD Associate Director kluckey@seattleu.edu
Noelle Purcell, MSc Grant Management Specialist npurcell@seattleu.edu
Sincerely,
Jenna Isakson, MPA ’17, CRA Associate Vice Provost for Research and Executive Director, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects isaksonj@seattleu.edu
Breena Stoner, MS Academic Safety Officer bstoner@seattleu.edu
Cortney Tassone, MEd Assistant Director of Post–Award tassonec@seattleu.edu
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Five-Year Overview Five-Year Comparison of Funding Requested and Awarded FY 2022–2026 $45,000,000 $40,000,000 $35,000,000 $30,000,000 $25,000,000 $20,000,000 $15,000,000 $10,000,000 $5,000,000 $0
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
FY26
funds requested
$29,012,800
$22,356,370
$19,562,671
$35,020,931
$41,487,583
funds awarded
$6,798,567
$7,948,316
$7,836,655
$10,949,651
$10,917,942
Five-Year Comparison of Proposals Submitted and Awarded FY 2022–2026 120 100 80 60 40 20 0
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FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
FY26
total submissions
87
85
97
104
111
total awards
64
49
57
65
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Three-Year Comparison of Funds Received BY COLLEGE/DIVISION $4,000,000 $3,500,000 $3,000,000 $2,500,000 $2,000,000 $1,500,000 $1,000,000 $500,000 $0 ASBE FY24
CAS FY25
CCE
COE
CNHS
CSE
LAW
Provost/Other
CCA
FY26
ORSP is amazing. They got back to me in a very timely manner and worked with me on a very short deadline to ensure I had a solid application.
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2025-2026 Funding at a Glance FY26 Funding by College/Division CNHS $828,812
CCA $303,736 CAS $2,405,043
CSE $2,078,969
ASBE $234,386 CCE $764,132
COE $1,254,050 Provost/Other $2,172,624
FY26 Funding by Project Type
Basic Research $1,756,927
Curriculum Development $559,741
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Programmatic $8,601,274
LAW $876,190
FY26 Funding by Sponsor Type Private $4,358,432
Local $701,303
State $754,025
Federal $5,104,182
Strategic Positioning to Support Successful Proposals Programmatic funding opportunities, such as those sponsored by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), provide unique scholarship and stipend opportunities for Seattle University students but demand extensive eligibility documentation and rigorous evaluation metrics. Securing and administering these awards relies on intensive, cross-departmental coordination with critical institutional partners, such as Decision Support to determine eligibility, Student Financial Services to track student needs, Payroll to structure student payments procedures, and Alumni Relations to track long-term graduate outcomes. To reduce this administrative burden, the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects provides extensive project management, including weekly PI Team meetings, coordination with partner offices, and compliance oversight. This strategic positioning has enabled faculty from the College of Nursing and Health Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences to successfully navigate these challenging federal requirements to submit five proposals to HRSA since 2022. These efforts have yielded substantial institutional success, resulting in two active awards and two new awards starting in FY27 that enrich our student’s experiences.
“It would be impossible to apply for a HRSA grant without the support of ORSP. Having their assistance in tracking the timeline and requirements allowed me time and mental space to fully focus on writing the grant programming narrative.” Tam Dinh, Project Director At the end of their project periods, the two active awards, summarized below, will have supported students with $2.6 million in stipends and scholarships. The College of Nursing and Health Sciences’ Thriving under the Evergreens and Big Sky: Optimizing Primary, Mental and Maternal Health Care Options in the Northwest project aims to expand and increase the capacity of the advanced practice nursing workforces in rural areas across the Northwest to substantially benefit underserved populations. Through scholarships and other student financial and academic support, this four-year project will support over 140 students. It is also building and expanding academic-clinical partnerships to create experiential learning opportunities that prepare students to address health equity and social determinants of health for rural, urban, and tribal underserved. Because of this training, students will be more apt to practice in settings that serve these populations. Awarded in 2026, the Achieving Optimal Childhood, Adolescence and Young Adulthood (A-OCAY): An Integrated, Holistic, and Community-Engaged Model for Interprofessional Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training in the Evergreen State project is a four-year interdisciplinary collaboration between the Master of Social Work, Master of Arts in Couples and Family Therapy, and Doctor of Nursing Practice, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner programs. Supporting students with stipends, A-OCAY aims to increase the supply of the behavioral health workforce by recruiting and placing trainees interested in working with children, adolescents, and young adults; implementing interprofessional training for students, supervisors, and faculty; and expanding clinical supervisors’ capacity to support and mentor trainees.
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Sponsored Project Highlight / COLead In Fall 2025, Seattle University’s Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) was awarded and launched Collaborative and Operational Leadership (COLead): Leading from All Levels toward Research Excellence and Sustainability, a five-year project supported by a $2.05 million U.S. National Science Foundation award—the secondlargest NSF award ever received by SU (NSF Award #: 2529584). COLead seeks to develop a sustainable model of research leadership that builds research capacity, streamlines administrative processes, and strengthens the culture of scholarship and grant-seeking across campus. At many teaching-intensive institutions like SU, responsibility for research and grants is distributed across multiple offices and individuals, making it difficult to maintain a coordinated, institution-wide vision for research and grant-seeking. COLead addresses this challenge through a collaborative approach that engages faculty, staff, and campus leaders in building systems that support research excellence, coordination, and long-term sustainability.
FY26: Understanding the Landscape The first year of the project (FY26) focused on assessing Seattle University’s research ecosystem to identify current challenges and opportunities for growth. Key FY26 activities included:
• NEW HIRES The grant establishes two new roles that significantly expands ORSP’s ability to support faculty and staff in grant-seeking and award management. Jecca Bowen joined in December 2025 as the COLead Project Coordinator, and Cortney Tassone joined in May 2026 as ORSP’s Assistant Director of Post-Award.
• EXTERNAL PEER REVIEWS The ORSP team completed two extensive external reviews conducted by the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP) and the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) that engaged more than 100 faculty, staff, and leaders at SU.
• TEAM COACHING Dr. Jennifer Marrone (ASBE) led the COLead team through a series of leadership and team-development coaching sessions.
• PEER BENCHMARKING The COLead team analyzed publicly available information for 28 peer institutions, focusing on data related to research and grant–seeking.
• IINTERVIEWS WITH CAMPUS LEADERS COLead’s external evaluation team from the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) conducted interviews with SU senior leadership about their perspectives on the strategic role of research, scholarship, and grant activity at SU. Across these activities, a consistent theme emerged: Seattle University has strong potential for growth in research and grants, and ORSP is well positioned to serve as a strategic partner in that growth. The assessments also identified opportunities to strengthen post-award administration, research communications, and campus-wide understanding of the role of research and scholarship at SU.
FY27: Establishing Structures and Strategic Plans FY27 will focus on translating the assessment findings from this year into action at SU and beyond. First, the COLead team will deepen its peer analysis through direct outreach to ORSP-equivalent offices at peer institutions and, from that process, establish formal, advisory partnerships with two institutions that excel in areas where we’d like to grow. Second, we will launch two new teams at SU focused on collaboratively developing research strategy and streamlining research administration. Finally, two peer institutions from our network will be invited to participate in the COLead project as pilot schools, leveraging our Organizational Change Toolkit and guidance from our project team to develop and implement collaborative models for research leadership at their own institutions. As the first year of the project comes to a close, the COLead team is grateful to the many SU community members who have supported COLead already, and we’re excited to share more opportunities to get involved in the next phases of the project.
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PROJECT OVERVIEW PROJECT PERIOD September 15, 2025 – August 31, 2030
AWARD AMOUNT $2,054,179
Project Summary
Benefits to SU
To increase the participation of faculty from teaching-intensive institutions (TIIs) in the nation’s research enterprise, the goal of COLead is to build:
• Hired new Assistant of Post–Award • Unlocks capacity for enhancing research development
• cultural capacity,
• Considerable salary and fringe benefits savings • Nearly $600k in indirect cost recovery
• personnel capacity, and • service and support infrastructure using a replicable, systematic approach guided by collaborative leadership.
• Establishes two collaborative leadership teams that will advance research strategy and guide streamlining of administrative processes
Collaborative & Operational Leadership (COLead): Leading from All Levels Toward Research Excellence & Sustainability Year 1 Timeline
YEAR 1 (FY26) TIMELINE September 2025 December 2025
$2.05M Award Received from NSF New Hire: COLead Project Coordinator Preparation begins for NORDP & NCURA Reviews
January 2026
Peer benchmarking with publicly available data begins
March 31 - April 1, 2026
NORDP Peer Review Site Visit New Hire: ORSP Assistant Director of Post-Award
May 2026
COLead & ORSP Roadshow
May 20 - 22, 2026
NCURA Peer Review Site Visit SERC Interview Study
June 2026
Planning for direct peer outreach begins
STAY IN TOUCH www.seattleu.edu/research/colead-project
colead@seattleu.edu
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Academic Safety In FY26, Academic Safety worked to create and strengthen connections with campus partners, support and align existing safety programs, and identify opportunities for growth. Activities from the year are highlighted below.
FY26 HIGHLIGHTS CONNECTING WITH THE CAMPUS COMMUNITY • Students were engaged through tabling at the fall Involvement Fair and the summer undergraduate research BBQ. • Monthly office hours were hosted during spring quarter at the Research and Scholarly Commons. • Public Safety supervisors were updated about hazards present in campus laboratories. • Chemistry Club questions about safety and safety-related careers were answered in a ChemisTea AMA.
CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS AT SU • Performance and studio spaces were toured, and safety needs were assessed. • Studio technicians and performance managers were onboarded to CampusOptics for chemical inventory,
equipment management, and training recordkeeping.
SAFETY EQUIPMENT FUNDING PROGRAM • Six funding requests were received from five departments. • Over $3,000 in equipment purchases were funded, including:
– Ergonomic improvements (anti-fatigue mats, kneeling pads) – Flammable-safe freezer – Lidded waste funnel – Secondary chemical storage containers • The program will continue into the next fiscal year and is
available to all academic departments.
Distribution of Funded Safety Equipment Requests n Safety Finding n Self-identified n Incident Follow-up n New Procedure
SAFETY TRAINING • Self-paced safety training modules were moved to Workday. • Lab Safety training was provided to 38 summer researchers and to 7 Aerospace and Aeronautics Club members. • Bloodborne pathogens training was provided to CNHS and CSE students, staff, and faculty.
RESPIRATORY PROTECTION PROGRAM • Department- and area-specific respirator programs were combined into a university-wide Respiratory
Protection Program. • Self-paced online modules were prepared for required and voluntary respirator use. • Supporting tools and documents were created to facilitate program administration.
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ORSP ENGAGEMENT WITH FACULTY AND GRANT-SEEKERS ORSP continues to meet growing demand for support in articulating research goals, developing proposals, and managing grants through steady increases in consultations with faculty and staff.
FY23
66
FY24
88
FY25
85
FY26
98
Consultations with faculty and staff to discuss their scholarship and possible funding opportunities
283
FY24
361
FY25
457
FY26
434
In FY26, Seattle University’s sponsored projects spending was just under $8.3 million. While sponsored projects’ budgets cover a wide range of expenditures, nearly twothirds went to personnel and student aid, supporting our researchers, program leaders, and students. Here is a breakdown of our FY26 expenditures: 39% | Salary and Benefits: Comprised of faculty and staff compensation, including summer salaries, course releases, staff salary subvention, and over $400,000 in student wages. 26% | Direct Program and Research Expenses: Funded essential travel, faculty and staff professional development, research supplies and materials, subscriptions, printing, and contracted costs. 25% | Student Aid: Provided direct support to our students through scholarships, stipends and other crucial financial assistance.
Growth FY23 to FY26 = 98%
FY23
FY26 SPONSORED PROJECTS SPENDING
9% | Indirect Costs: Covered institutional overhead, including building maintenance, operational salaries, and administrative costs. Consultations with faculty and staff about their proposals
1% | Capital Purchases: Dedicated to major equipment purchases.
Growth FY23 to FY26 = 53%
Salary and Benefits
Direct Program and Research Expenses
39%
FY23
212
FY24
362
FY25
319
FY26
322
26%
Consultations with faculty and staff about their award management
Growth FY23 to FY26 = 53%
Student Aid
25%
Indirect Costs Capital Purchases
9%
1%
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2025-2026 Funding Breakdown
*Indicates first-time proposer
The table below details new awards in FY26, as well as previously funded awards that received additional funding to continue their projects. Principal Investigators (PIs) are from all areas on campus and include administrators; staff; and term, tenure-track, and tenured faculty. Principal Investigator
Sponsor
Project Title
$ Award Amount
Albers School of Business and Economics Mathew Isaac
American Marketing Association
The Donation Option Effect: Sellers’ Receptivity to Lowball Offers Increases when the Opportunity to Donate is Salient
$1,500
Janie Ng
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
Resource Amplification & Management Program – urban prosperity Chinatown International District (RAMP-up CID)
$125,000
Janie Ng
City of Seattle Office of Economic Development
Liberty Project
$97,886
Valentina Zamora & the Department of Accounting
Internal Audit Foundation
Internal Audit Education Program 2025-2026
$10,000
Center for Community Engagement LaKesha Kimbrough
Seattle Public Schools Families, Education, Preschool and Promise Levy
Seattle University Youth Initiative Washington Middle School Redhawk Academic Mentoring
$25,000
Kent Koth
Seattle Housing Authority and Seattle Foundation
Yesler Terrace Legacy Project
$594,132
Kent Koth
Bainum Family Foundation
Support for the Redhawks RISE Program
$100,000
Kent Koth
Shinnyo-en Foundation
Student Leadership and Community Engagement Project
$20,000
Aileah Slepski
The Stocker Foundation
Redhawks RISE (Read, Inspire, Support, Educate) Pre-K program
$25,000
College of Arts and Sciences
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Eva Dicker*
Mental Research Institute
Daily Emotion Regulation Strategies and Depression in Dementia Caregivers: A Multimodal Approach
$25,000
Tam Dinh
Kaiser Permanente National Community Benefit Fund at The East Bay Community Foundation (National Council for Mental Wellbeing)
Kaiser Permanente Mental Health Career Accelerator
$104,150
Tam Dinh, Christie Eppler & Jonnae Tillman (CNHS)
Health Resources and Services Administration Achieving Optimal Childhood, Adolescence and Young Adulthood (A-OCAY): An integrated, holistic, and community-engaged model for interprofessional behavioral health workforce education and training in the Evergreen State
$583,197
Tam Dinh
The Ballmer Group
Behavioral Health Workforce Development Initiative
$753,415
Jacqueline Helfgott, Brooke Gialopsos*, Elaine Gunnison, Li Huang* & Bridget Joyner-Carpanini
Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities
SU-PERR: Seattle University Prison Education for Rehabilitation and Reentry
$39,941
Jacqueline Helfgott
City of Seattle
Rainier Beach – A Beautiful, Safe Place for Youth Initiative
$27,475
Principal Investigator
Sponsor
Project Title
$ Award Amount
Jacqueline Helfgott
City of Seattle
“Before the Badge” (BTB) Longitudinal Evaluation
$37,817
Jacqueline Helfgott
City of Seattle
Micro-Community Policing Plans (MCPP) Before the Badge (BTB) Community & Police Dialogues - Research Assistants
$25,627
Jacqueline Helfgott
City of Seattle
Micro-Community Policing Plans (MCPP) Little Saigon
$41,327
Jacqueline Helfgott
City of Seattle
Seattle Police Department Micro-Community Policing Plans (MCPP)
$137,435
Matt Hickman
Washington State University (Office of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office)
Washington State Law Enforcement Use of Force Data Program
$72,476
Felipe Murtinho & Tanya Hayes
Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (Tinker Foundation)
Enhancing Rural Water Management Networks in Colombia and Costa Rica
$22,075
Michael Ng*
ASIANetwork
Chinatown Family Associations: Past and Future
$5,250
Kimberly Riley*
The Ballmer Group
Ballmer Health Workforce Development Initiative
$30,100
Eric Severson, Lydia Cooper & Hilary Hawley
Wake Forest University (Lilly Endowment, Inc.)
Character at the Core: Building Capacity and Community at Seattle University
$499,758
Colleen Loranger* & Carmen Medina*
College Spark Washington
Culturally Sustaining Equity Pedagogies in SPED Teacher Preparation: Building Leaders for Change
$170,000
Elaine Marcinek
Washington State Office of Superintendent of 2025-2026 Inclusionary Practices Technical Public Instruction (OSPI) Assistance Network Project
$473,979
Jason Parkin, David Fainstein & Mary Graham
U.S. Department of Education
Puget Sound Partnership to Expand and Diversify the Mental Health Service Professional Pipeline
$429,300
Shane Pisani
Professional Educator Standards Board
Professional Education Advisory Boards
$1,339
Manivong Ratts
The Ballmer Group
Behavioral Health Workforce Development Initiative
$171,432
Nursing Simulation Lab Modernization Grant
$105,231
College of Education
College of Nursing and Health Sciences Heather Bissmeyer
Washington Student Achievement Council
Bonnie Bowie
Health Resources and Services Administration Thriving under the Evergreens and Big Sky: Optimizing Primary, Mental and Maternal Health Care Options in the Northwest
$648,131
Fatemeh Choupani* & Mo-Kyung Sin
Healthy Americas Foundation
AI in AD/ADRD: Leveraging Machine Learning to Investigate the Interplay of Lifestyle, Environment, and Genetics for Precision Health
$10,000
Amanda Heffernan*
Engagement Scholarship Consortium
Constrained Choices and Community Care in the Sierra Huasteca: Traditional Midwives, Government Obstetric Services, and the Indigenous Families Caught Between
$5,000
Brittany Heintz Walters The Biomechanics Initiative, Inc. & Brenda Dunston (graduate student)
2026 National Biomechanics Day
Jonnae Tillman*
Expanding Community Access to Whole Person Care by Strengthening Clinical Training for Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNPs)
Cambia Health Foundation
$450
$60,000
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Principal Investigator
Project Title
Sponsor
$ Award Amount
College of Science and Engineering Jeff Boersema
American Mathematical Society - Simons Foundation
Real C*-algebras and K-theory
$10,800
Braxton Cuneo
National Nuclear Security Administration (Oregon State University)
CARRE: Center for Advancing the Radiation Resilience of Electronics: A PSAAP-IV Focused Investigatory Center
$80,108
Brian Fischer
National Institutes of Health (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Coding of auditory space in the avian brain
$17,266
Brian Fischer
National Institutes of Health (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
CRCNS: US-Israel Research Proposal: To Elucidate Fundamental Mechanisms of Transformed Saliency Map to Non-Topographic Neural Coding in the Ascending Visual-Auditory Pathways of Barn Owls
$67,782
Brett Kaiser
National Institutes of Health
Characterization of the Bacterial BREX Phage Restriction System
$536,250
Jennifer Loertscher, Jennifer Sorensen & Lindsay Whitlow
Henry Luce Foundation
Seattle University Clare Boothe Luce STEM Community Planning Grant
$50,000
Henry Luce Foundation Jennifer Loertscher, Kristin Hultgren, Sheila Oh & Christopher Whidbey
2025 Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in STEM
$700,000
Christopher Whidbey
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Lynwood W. Swanson Promise for Scientific Research Award
$10,000
Christopher Whidbey
National Institutes of Health
Activity-based protein profiling of the vaginal microbiome
$511,763
Se Yeun Lee & Amin Riazi
Environmental Protection Agency (Snohomish County)
Snohomish County Critical Area Monitoring and Adaptive Management Planning and Implementation Project
$95,000
Cornish College of the Arts Pinky Estell
4Culture
2025 Arts Sustained Support
$113,700
Pinky Estell
4Culture
Public Free Access 2025
$24,500
Brian Harlan
4Culture
Cornish Public Free Access 2026
$20,000
Brian Harlan
4Culture
2026 Sustained Support
$145,536
Grace Elizabeth Dy*
Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
Jewish Life at Seattle University: Building Community, Culture, and Continuity
$12,000
Jenna Isakson*, Sarah Bricknell* & Kara Luckey
National Science Foundation
Collaborative and Operational Leadership (COLead): Leading from All Levels toward Research Excellence and Sustainability
$2,054,179
Sharon Leary* & Kiyana Higa*
Council of Independent Colleges
WorkPlus @ Seattle University
$74,466
Kara Markell
Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Testamentary Trust
Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement (CEIE) Interfaith Intiative
$27,000
Donna Teevan, Catherine PunsalanManlimos & Colette Taylor
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
Faculty Seminar on Seattle University’s Jesuit and Catholic Educational Mission
$4,983
Provost/Other
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Principal Investigator
Project Title
Sponsor
$ Award Amount
Steven Bender
Law School Admissions Council
Central Washington Hybrid Hub LSAT Support
Steven Bender
AccessLex
Central Washington Hybrid Hub Pipeline Initiative
$375,000
Deirdre Bowen
Children’s Research Institute (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Preventing firearm-related harm through Domestic Violence Protection Order firearm prohibitions and relinquishment
$16,976
Maggie Chon
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Washington State/TILE Patent Pro Bono Program
$23,834
Amanda Elyse*
Animal Legal Defense Fund
Animal Law and Advocacy Course
$5,000
Margaret Fisher
Seattle Municipal Court
2025-2026 Youth Traffic Court
$5,000
Margaret Fisher
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
2025-2026 Judicial Institute
$40,400
Paul Holland
Washington State Office of Public Defense
Family Defense Practice Internship Program
$80,000
Brooke Pinkham*
First Nations Development Institute
The Tribal Estate Planning Fellowship at Seattle University School of Law
$300,000
Lily Su
Washington State Office of Civil Legal Aid
Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) Scholarship Program for King County Bar Association Housing Justice Project and Tacomaprobono
$21,000
School of Law $8,980
64 AWARDS = TOTAL NEW FUNDING: $10,917,942
2026 PROVOST FACULTY FELLOWS Congratulations to the 2026 Provost’s Faculty Fellowship recipients! • Jon Bottema, PhD (College of Arts and Sciences), Patterns of Poison: Understanding Fatal Overdose Trends in King County, WA • Fatemeh Choupani, PhD (College of Nursing and Health Sciences), Uncovering Novel Associations Between Genetic, Inflammatory, and Pathological Biomarkers in AD using AI/ML • Lydia Cooper, PhD (College of Arts and Sciences), Queer Cli-Fi in the Age of Eco-Disaster • Fade Eadeh, PhD (College of Arts and Sciences), When the alarm is coming from inside of the house: the threat of domestic terrorism on political preferences and racial identity • Victor Evans, PhD (College of Arts and Sciences), “Gimme a V” a graphic novel memoir • Jennifer Gess, PhD & Carlee Pendleton-Cole, PhD (College of Education), Framework for Justice: Collaborative Online Program Development
• Julie Homchick Crowe, PhD (College of Arts and Sciences), Free Speech, Bodily Autonomy and National Identity in the Health Freedom Movement in the US • Mathew Isaac, PhD (Albers School of Business and Economics), The Effect of Socioeconomic Status and Psychological Factors on Susceptibility to “Small-Ticket” Insurance Offers • Kumhee Ro, PhD (College of Nursing and Health Sciences), From Exploration to Confirmation: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of a Self-Efficacy Instrument for High School Students in Healthcare Career Pathway Programs • Enyu Zhang, PhD (College of Arts and Sciences), US-China Normative Coopetition in the UN Development Governance • Thank you to the Faculty Fellowship and Awards Committee — John Carter, Amelia Derr, Diane Fuller Switzer, Kristin Hultgren, Sarah Springer, Ron Slye, Erin Vernon, and Zach Wood — for their thoughtful consideration of the FY26 proposals.
• Andrea Holtan, MBA (Albers School of Business and Economics), Strategic Project Management Textbook
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2025-2026 Proposals The list below details new proposals submitted, as well as Letters of Intent requiring institutional approval. Albers School of Business and Economics • Marc Cohen* — Carnegie Corporation of New York • Maylon Hanold* and Dawn Meyer* (CAS) — The Aspen Institute • Mathew Isaac — Russell Sage Foundation • Mathew Isaac — American Marketing Association • Janie Ng — Bank of America • Janie Ng — City of Seattle, Office of Economic Development • Janie Ng — City of Seattle, Office of Economic Development • Peter Rowan, Janie Ng and Wan Bae (CSE) — National Science Foundation Valentina Zamora — Internal Audit Foundation • Center for Community Engagement • LaKesha Kimbrough — City of Seattle Public Schools • LaKesha Kimbrough — Garneau-Nicon Family Foundation • Gia Gillis Ledesma* — The Olson Foundation • Kent Koth — Bainum Family Foundation • Kent Koth — Shinnyo-en Foundation • Aileah Slepski — The Stocker Foundation College of Arts and Sciences • Byron Au Yong* — Artists Make Technology • Onur Bakiner, Julie Homchick Crowe, Eric Severson and Vera Sotirovska (COE) — Spencer Foundation • Marina Carcamo-Garcia* — Esperantic Studies Foundation • Monica Casper, Sharon Suh and Darozyl Touch* — The Aspen Institute • Monica Casper and Alexandra Romanshyn* — Mellon Foundation • Eva Dicker — American Psychological Foundation • Eva Dicker — American Psychological Foundation • Eva Dicker — RRF Foundation for Aging • Eva Dicker — Mental Research Institute • Tam Dinh — Robert Wood Johnson Foundation • Victor D’Shawn Evans — The Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication at Villanova University • Robert Efird — ASIANetwork
*Indicates first-time proposer
College of Education • Colleen Loranger* and Carmen Medinae — College Spark Washington • Elaine Marcinek — Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction • College of Nursing and Health Sciences • Heather Bissmeyer — Washington Student Achievement Council • Fatemeh Choupani — American Heart Association • Fatemeh Choupani — American Heart Association • Fatemeh Choupani — American Heart Association • Fatemeh Choupani and Kumhee Ro — American Association of Colleges of Nursing • Fatemeh Choupani and Mo-Kyung Sin — Healthy Americas Foundation • Jenny Curwen*, Melissa Owen, Diala Ezzeddine* (CSE), Elizabeth Gallagher*, Kate McCusker* and Teresa van Winkle* — Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation • Amanda Heffernan — Engagement Scholarship Consortium • Amanda Heffernan* and Audrey Hudgins — Latin American Studies Association • Brittany Heintz Walters — The Biomechanics Initiative, Inc. • Kumhee Ro and Misuk Lee* (ASBE) — American Association of Nurse Practitioners • Kumhee Ro — American Association of Colleges of Nursing • Alic Shook — Sigma Foundation • Mo-Kyung Sin — National Institutes of Health • Mo-Kyung Sin — National Institutes of Health • Mo-Kyung Sin — Coins for Alzheimer’s Research Trust (CART) Fund • Jonnae Tillman — Cambia Health Foundation College of Science and Engineering • Eric Bahuaud — American Mathematical Society - Simons Foundation • Eric Bahuaud — Simons Foundation • Jeff Boersema — American Mathematical Society - Simons Foundation • Yueting Chen* — National Science Foundation • Brian Fischer — National Institutes of Health • Yen-Lin Han — Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium
• Samantha Hoang* — National Science Foundation • Jacqueline Helfgott and Matt Hickman — Seattle Human Services Department • Joanne Hughes Clark — M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust • Jacqueline Helfgott, Li Huang and Elaine Gunnison — City of Seattle • Kristin Hultgren — National Science Foundation Police Department • Brett Kaiser — National Institutes of Health • Julie Homchick Crowe and Charlene Brecevic — Mellon Foundation
• Bridget Joyner-Carpanini and Jon Bottema — Russell Sage Foundation • James Miles* — National Endowment for the Humanities • Michael Ng* — ASIANetwork • Robin Reich — National Endowment for the Humanities • Eric Severson, Sharon Suh and Onur Bakiner — Mellon Foundation • Chengxin Xu — William T. Grant Foundation •
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• Nate Kremer-Herman — Coefficient Giving • Katherine Kuder, Ariana Mendible, Nate Inglis and Xin Zhao — National Science Foundation • J. Wesley Lauer and Se Yeun Lee — Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe • J. Wesley Lauer, Shiny Abraham, Teodora Rutar Shuman and Kathleen Cook (CAS) — National Science Foundation • J. Wesley Lauer, Shiny Abraham and Teodora Rutar Shuman — United Engineering Foundation
• Se Yeun Lee & Amin Riazi — Environmental Protection Agency • Zy Li* — National Science Foundation • Jennifer Loertscher, Jennifer Sorensen and Lindsay Whitlow — Henry Luce Foundation • Jennifer Loertscher, Kristin Hultgren, Sheila Oh and Christopher Whidbey — Henry Luce Foundation • Shen Ren — American Heart Association • Shen Ren — Institute for Translational Health Sciences • Shen Ren and Mo-Kyung Sin (CNHS) — Institute for Translational Health Sciences • Shen Ren — Kuni Foundation • Shen Ren — National Science Foundation • Amin Riazi and J. Wesley Lauer — U.S. Department of Energy (Metrolla) • Amit Shukla, Peter Rowan (ASBE) and Jodi O’Brien (Provost) — National Science Foundation • Amit Shukla and Peter Rowan (ASBE) — National Science Foundation • Christopher Whidbey — Gates Foundation • Xin Zhao & Ruohan Liu (COE) — National Science Foundation • Cornish College of the Arts • Brian Harlan — 4Culture • Marc Mixon* — 4Culture • Provost/Other • Shawn Dodge* — Milbank Foundation • Grace Elizabeth Dy* — Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle • Jill La Pointe* — University District Rotary Club • Sharon Leary* — Council of Independent Colleges • Kara Markell — Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Testamentary Trust • Shane Martin — 4Culture • Shane Martin, Onur Bakiner, David Green and Carol Lwali* — U.S. Department of Education • Colleen Montoya Barbano — Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Testamentary Trust • Elijah Nerger — Washington State Department of Commerce • Jeremy Peña* — TIAA • Jeremy Peña — TIAA • Jeremy Peña — Jesuit Association of Student Personnel Administrators • Kevin Sutton — Alterra Mountain Company • Colette Taylor — Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) • Donna Teevan, Colette Taylor and Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos — Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion • Michael Trice, Kara Markell and Luke Lavin — Lilly Endowment, Inc. • School of Law • Steven Bender — Law School Admissions Council • Maggie Chon — U.S. Patent and Trademark Office • Amanda Elyse* — Animal Legal Defense Fund • Margaret Fisher — U.S. District Court for the Western District • Paul Holland — Washington State Office of Public Defense • Nikkita Oliver* — Washington State Department of Commerce • Brooke Pinkham — First Nations Development Institute • Lily Su — Tacomaprobono Community Lawyers
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2025-2026 / ORSP Events
2026 ORSP ADVISORY COUNCIL
SUMMER QUARTER
Many thanks to the 2025-26 ORSP Advisory Council members, who have provided critical support and insight to guide ORSP initiatives and programs and who have worked to advance scholarship more broadly at Seattle University.
• Summer Research Coffee Breaks
FALL QUARTER • Provost’s Faculty Fellowship Lightning Talks and Information
Session featuring John Carter (CSE), Rebecca Cobb (CAS), Vera Sotirovska (COE), Maureen Feit (CAS), and Alic Shook (CNHS) • Research @ SU 101
Deborah Ahrens | School of Law David Fainstein | College of Education Yen-Lin Han | College of Science and Engineering
WINTER QUARTER • Faculty Scholarship Symposium featuring Mathew Issac (ASBE),
Zach Woods (CAS), Henry Louie (CSE), Diane K. Fuller Switzer (CNHS), Felipe Murtinho (CAS), and Sharon Suh (CAS)
Brittany Heintz Walters | College of Arts and Sciences Brett Kaiser | College of Science and Engineering Henry Louie | College of Science and Engineering Eunice Rhee | Albers School of Business and Economics
SPRING QUARTER • Global Engagement at SU: Lightning Talks and Panel Discussion
featuring Amanda Heffernan (CNHS), Serena Cosgrove (CAS), Henry Louie (CSE), and Michael Kern (CAS)
Nova Robinson | College of Arts and Sciences Alic Shook | College of Nursing and Health Sciences Randy Souza | College of Arts and Sciences Yen Tran | Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons Benjamin White | College of Nursing and Health Sciences
I wanted to thank ORSP for their exceptional leadership, project management, and editing throughout the proposal process. They were instrumental in helping us navigate this large, complex grant application under a tight timeline ... our team really benefited from the time and expertise ORSP brought to this work.
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2026 ORSP AWARDS • JOB WELL DONE AWARD • Hazel Hahn
Congratula tions to the FY2 6 ORSP Aw a r d e e s !
Professor of History
For outstanding contributions made through her leadership on the Mellon Foundation funded project, Race, Racialization, and Resistance in the United States, concluding in December of 2026. The project has supported the development of 54 new and revised courses, 21 departmental or program retreats, 9 conference travel grants, 8 honoraria for external speakers, 8 inclusive pedagogy workshops, the nationally-attended Conference on Race, Racialization and Resistance: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Humanities, and an edited volume.
• PERSISTENT PROPOSER • Eva Dicker
Assistant Professor of Psychology For her persistence to advance her research on the effects of and potential interventions for chronic stress and depression for family dementia caregivers by submitting nine grant proposals in the last three years.
• ALL AROUND GRANTS CHAMP • HRSA A-OCAY Team Tam Dinh, Professor of Social Work / Jonnae Tillman, Director of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program / Christie Eppler, Professor of Couples and Family Therapy For capably leading the “Achieving Optimal Childhood, Adolescence and Young Adulthood (A-OCAY): An Integrated, Holistic, and Community-Engaged Model for Interprofessional Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training in the Evergreen State” program, funded through the Health Resources and Services Administration. Dr. Dinh and team have been exemplary grant stewards thanks to their exceptional organizational skills, fiscal responsibility, and strategic oversight, which have maximized the impact of the program.
• EMBODYING THE MISSION • Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in STEM Jenny Loertscher, Professor of Chemistry and Interim Dean of College of Science and Engineering / Professors Kristin Hultgren, Biology / Sheila Oh, Computer Science / Christopher Whidbey, Chemistry For embodying the mission of Seattle University and the College of Science and Engineering (CSE) by leading this prestigious award aimed at reducing systemic barriers for women and all students in pursuing and persisting in STEM fields. The team is leveraging funds to expand opportunities for career-relevant experiential learning (CREL) by developing and running 20 new and/or redesigned courses that incorporate CREL elements across all fields of study in the CSE. Funds from the CBL Program for Women in STEM promise to be transformational and critical to advancing both university-wide initiatives around redesigning curriculum and the CSE strategic plan.
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THE OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND SPONSORED PROJECTS
ORSP@seattleu.edu www.seattleu.edu/research/