CPP INVESTS

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

Dr. Olukemi Sawyerr

Principal Investigator

  • AVP Office of Academic Innovation
  • Professor, Management and Human Resources Department, College of Business Administration

Dr. Alison Baski

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Dean College of Science

Dr. Winny Dong

Co-Principal Investigator, CUREs

  • Senior Director of Innovation and Grants, Office of Academic Innovation
  • Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering

Dr. Claudia Garcia-Des Lauriers

Co-Principal Investigator, Faculty Professional Development

  • Director, Kellogg Honors College
  • Professor, Geography and Anthropology Department, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences

Dr. Nina Abramzon

Co-Principal Investigator, First Year Experiences

  • Professor and Associate Chair, Physics Department, College of Science

Dr. Dora Lee

Senior Personnel, First Year Experiences

  • Assistant Vice President, Academic Engagement and Success, Office of Student Success, Equity, and Innovation

Dr. Ever Barraza

Senior Personnel, Project Learning Assistant

  • Faculty Director, Office of Undergraduate Research

Dr. Victoria Bhavsar

Senior Personnel, Faculty Professional Development

  • Director, Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence

Dr. Preeti Wadhwa

Senior Personnel, Research and Evaluation

  • Professor, Management and Human Resources Department, College of Business Administration

Dr. Viviane Seyranian

Senior Personnel, Research

  • Associate Professor, Psychology

Ericka Olguin

Senior Personnel, Micro-Internship

  • Director, Innovation Incubator

Jesus Bermudez

CPP INVESTS, Micro-Internship

  • Program Manager, Micro-Internship

Debbie Tanaka

CPP INVESTS, Micro-Internship

  • Micro-internships Program Coordinator

Priyatham Sai Chand Bazaru

CPP INVESTS, Alternative Learning Records

  • Digital Credentials Specialists

Won Choi

CPP INVESTS Data Analytics, Research and Evaluation

  • Associate, Office of Undergraduate Research

Dr. Janel Ortiz

CPP INVESTS, CURES Liaison

  • Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Department

Dr. Amy Dao

CPP INVESTS, CURES Liaison

  • Assistant Professor • Geography & Anthropology Department

Courtney Koletar

Program Evaluator, Evaluation

  • Cobblestone Evaluation, Inc.

Mai Tran

Program Manager

  • NSF CPP INVESTS Grant
  • NSF CPP PASSION Grant

Judy Nguyen

Project Coordinator

  • NSF CPP INVESTS Grant
  • NSF I-Corps

Timothy Tsang

CPP INVESTS, Student Assistant

  • Bachelor of Engineering

Advisory Board

Ms. Christina Gonzales

  • VP Student Affairs

Dr. Terri Gomez

  • Provost and Vice President, Academic Affairs

Dr. Paul Beardsley

  • Director, Center for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (CEMaST)
  • NSF CPP PASSION Grant, Principal Investigator
  • Professor, Biological Sciences Department

Dr. Craig LaMunyon

  • AVP Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development