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