In This Issue

Meet CSU's New Faculty

Stacey Litam, Counseling, Educational Leadership, and Adult Learning

Dr. Stacey Diane Arañez Litam is an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling, Educational Leadership, and Adult Learning. She joined Cleveland State in August 2019. Dr. Litam’s research centers around topics related to human sexuality, multicultural issues, Asian American concerns, and sex trafficking. Dr. Litam’s work has been published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Counseling & Development, The Professional Counselor, and The Journal of Sexual Aggression.

In the past two years, Dr. Litam was honored with the Outstanding Scholar in Research Award, the Dissertation Excellence Award, and the Outstanding Service to Specialized Populations Award from the National Board for Certified Counselors, and the Herman J. Peters Award from the Ohio Counseling Association. Her current research focuses on mitigating the effects of COVID-19 related racial discrimination in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, preventing moral injury in healthcare workers, supporting mental health care professionals who experience compassion fatigue, and addressing the presence of Bayesian racism in criminal justice and police academy students.

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Featured Researcher Resources Series

The Dan T. Moore MakerSpace

The Dan T. Moore MakerSpace is an innovation and design lab that provides open collaboration space and hands-on fabrication equipment for working with metal, wood and plastic. The MakerSpace is about an experience, not expertise. If you've never used a piece of fabrication equipment before, the MakerSpace is a great place to get trained and give it a try.

Located in the Washkewicz College of Engineering Annex Building, the MakerSpace is led by manager Matthew Johnson.

Federal Research News

Five Grants.gov Resources

Grants.gov is an E-Government initiative, operating under the governance of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), that was chartered to deliver a system that provides a centralized location for grant seekers to find and apply for federal funding opportunities. The Grants.gov system houses information on over 1,000 grant programs and vets grant applications for federal grant-making agencies.

The Grants.gov Community Blog has published a new post with a number of helpful resources for applicants for federal grants. Included are links to training videos, user roles and privileges, the Grants.gov workspace, an overview of federal grants, and an online user guide. For assistance with finding funding or developing your research proposal, contact Ben Ward.

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CSU Scholar News

Chansu Yu, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dr. Chansu Yu is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Dr. Yu was the chair of the EECS Department for seven years. He received his Ph.D. in computer engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1994. Dr. Yu has research expertise in the areas of mobile computing and cybersecurity and has authored more than 120 technical papers and numerous book chapters in those areas.

Dr. Yu’s interests include Wi-Fi-fingerprint-based indoor positioning and hardware-oriented security and trust systems such as side channel attacks. He has co-developed several hands-on curricula such as Mobile Computing, Software Defined Radio, and Computer Security, two of which have been supported by the NSF. For one of his NSF projects, he developed a comprehensive hands-on security curriculum including hardware security experiments. Dr. Yu is affiliated with the CSU Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection and collaborates with other Center faculty to develop innovative interdisciplinary programs. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), serves as an editor of several journals, and serves as a peer reviewer for numerous international conferences.

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Inspired Creativity

Student-Led Public Mural

CSU honors student Rachel Jablonski, a double major in French and international business, was inspired by President Harlan Sands’ “One Thing” campaign to lead the creation of a public art piece on campus. With the support of President Sands, interim CLASS Dean Allyson Robichaud, and Mandel Honors College Dean Elizabeth Lehfeldt, Ms. Jablonski organized students to design and create a mural depicting the Cuyahoga River and the Cleveland skyline with CSU at its center. The mural will be hung on the Science Research Building facing Fenn Tower, and its framing will allow new student-created murals to join it in the future.

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News from the Technology Transfer Office

CSU Startup Wins SBIR Award

The CSU start-up company Bioprinting Laboratories, Inc. (BL) has received an official notice of award for their NIH SBIR Phase II proposal (1R44TR003491) entitled “Pillar and perfusion well plate platforms for reproducible organoid culture from iPSC.” The two-year funded amount totals $838,000. The award will build on miniature organ re-creation via 3D bio-printing, developed by Dr. Moo-Yeal Lee, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (CBE). CSU has licensed the IP portfolio to BL and has assisted previously with an award from the TeCK Fund for the support of BL’s TVSF Phase II award.

Learn IP Basics on August 6

Unfamiliar with patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets?

Join the Midwest Regional USPTO in Detroit, Michigan to learn about intellectual property (IP) basics and potential ways to protect your innovation as you transition from idea to product. This session for aspiring entrepreneurs, innovators, and students is held the first Thursday of each month. This month, the session will be on August 6. Space is limited, so register early for the teleconference. The discussion will cover an overview of intellectual property types: patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets; and why innovators and entrepreneurs should consider protecting their IP.

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Proposal Writing Seminar

NSF/NIH Proposal-Writing Seminar September 17-18

The Office of Research is excited to announce that it will sponsor a proposal-writing seminar for CSU faculty on September 17-18 that will be held online. The seminar will focus on NSF and NIH proposals and will include participants from CSU, KSU, NEOMED, YSU, and UA. The seminar will be conducted by Grant Writers' Seminars & Workshops, LLC. Recent proposal-writing seminars at CSU have received an average participant rating of 4.8 points out of 5 possible, and we expect an equally effective online seminar this year.

This seminar is suited to both early career faculty and senior faculty. Senior faculty who have a successful research program but who want to learn how to be more effective at obtaining funding are especially encouraged to attend. Faculty interested in attending the seminar must obtain approval from their college/school dean prior to attending. The cost is free, but participants must apply ahead of time. Each attendee is required to purchase a workbook for $75, but the Office of Research will pay for the workbooks for the first 20 tenured / tenure-track faculty registrants.

For additional information please contact Dan Simon at d.j.simon@csuohio.edu. The registration deadline is August 24. To apply for seminar attendance, please complete the registration form.

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