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
  • Interim Dean College of Engineering

Dr. Winny Dong

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Director, Office of Undergraduate Research Director, Learn Through Discovery Initiative
  • Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering

Dr. Claudia Garcia-Des Lauriers

Co-Principal Investigator

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

Dr. Nina Abramzon

Co-Principal Investigator

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

Dr. Kenneth Lamb

Senior Personnel

  • Director, Student Innovation Idea Labs
  • Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering

Dr. Dora Lee

Senior Personnel

  • Director, Academic Support and Learning Services, Office of Student Success, Equity, and Innovation

Bryant Fairley

Senior Personnel

  • Director, Center for Community Engagement

Dr. Ever Barraza

Senior Personnel

  • Student Services Specialist, Office of Undergraduate Research

Dr. Victoria Bhavsar

Senior Personnel

  • Director, Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence

Ericka Olguin

Senior Personnel

  • Innovation Incubator

Dr. Preeti Wadhwa

Senior Personnel

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

Dr. Monique Matelski

Program Evaluator

  • 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

Won Choi

CPP INVESTS Data Analytics

  • Academic Coordinator, Kellogg Honors College

Jesus Bermudez

CPP INVESTS Alternative Learning Records

  • ASC Student Innovation Idea Labs

Dr. Keith Forward

CPP INVESTS CURES Liaison

  • Faculty Dir. of Undergraduate Studies and Gen. Edu of Academic Programs

Janel Ortiz

CPP INVESTS CURES Liaison

  • Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Department

Advisory Board

Dr. Iris Levine

  • Provost and VP of Academic Affairs

Ms. Christina Gonzales

  • VP Student Affairs

Dr. Terri Gomez

  • Associate Provost, Office of Student Success, Equity, and Innovation

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

Dr. Teshia Roby

  • AVP Learning and Research Technologies