Meet the Project Team
CPP INVESTS is led by a diverse team of faculty and staff. The team, along with the advisory board, is constituted with institutional capacity building and sustainability as a priority. Team members have the necessary disciplinary expertise and responsibilities within CPP to ensure that best-practices developed by CPP INVESTS can be institutionalized.
Project Team
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Dr. Olukemi Sawyerr
Principal Investigator
- AVP Office of Academic Innovation
- Professor, Management and Human Resources Department, College of Business Administration
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Dr. Alison Baski
Co-Principal Investigator
- Dean College of Science
- Interim Dean College of Engineering
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Dr. Winny Dong
Co-Principal Investigator, CUREs
- Director, Office of Undergraduate Research Director, Learn Through Discovery Initiative
- Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering
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Dr. Claudia Garcia-Des Lauriers
Co-Principal Investigator, Faculty Professional Development
- Director, Kellogg Honors College
- Associate Professor, Geography and Anthropology Department, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
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Dr. Nina Abramzon
Co-Principal Investigator, First Year Experiences
- Professor and Associate Chair, Physics Department, College of Science
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Dr. Dora Lee
Senior Personnel, First Year Experiences
- Director, Academic Support and Learning Services, Office of Student Success, Equity, and Innovation
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Dr. Ever Barraza
Senior Personnel, Project Learning Assistant
- Student Services Specialist, Office of Undergraduate Research
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Dr. Victoria Bhavsar
Senior Personnel, Faculty Professional Development
- Director, Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence
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Dr. Preeti Wadhwa
Senior Personnel, Research and Evaluation
- Associate Professor, Management and Human Resources Department, College of Business Administration
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Ericka Olguin
Senior Personnel, Micro-Internship
- Director, Innovation Incubator
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Jesus Bermudez
CPP INVESTS, Micro-Internship
- Program Manager, Micro-Internship
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Debbie Tanaka
CPP INVESTS, Micro-Internship
- Micro-internships Program Coordinator
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Priyatham Sai Chand Bazaru
CPP INVESTS, Alternative Learning Records
- Digital Credentials Specialists
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Won Choi
CPP INVESTS Data Analytics, Research and Evaluation
- Academic Coordinator, Kellogg Honors College
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Dr. Janel Ortiz
CPP INVESTS, CURES Liaison
- Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Department
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Dr. Amy Dao
CPP INVESTS, CURES Liaison
- Assistant Professor • Geography & Anthropology Department
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Courtney Koletar
Program Evaluator, Evaluation
- Cobblestone Evaluation, Inc.
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Mai Tran
Program Manager
- NSF CPP INVESTS Grant
- NSF CPP PASSION Grant
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Judy Nguyen
Project Coordinator
- NSF CPP INVESTS Grant
- NSF I-Corps
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Timothy Tsang
CPP INVESTS, Student Assistant
- Bachelor of Engineering
Advisory Board
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Ms. Christina Gonzales
- VP Student Affairs
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Dr. Terri Gomez
- Associate Provost, Office of Student Success, Equity, and Innovation
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Dr. Paul Beardsley
- Director, Center for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (CEMaST)
- NSF CPP PASSION Grant, Principal Investigator
- Professor, Biological Sciences Department
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Dr. Craig LaMunyon
- AVP Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development
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Dr. Teshia Roby
- AVP Learning and Research Technologies