Stephanie August, National Science Foundation
Seaver College for Science and Engineering
The Teaching Artificial Intelligence as a Laboratory Science (TAILS) project will develop a new paradigm for teaching artificial intelligence concepts. TAILS will develop materials for teaching artificial intelligence (AI) through an experimental approach modeled after the lab sciences. Our materials will place an emphasis on structured design, exemplars, and structured exercises and provide students hands-on experience with AI concepts. TAILS draws on the PI's current research projects and complements the NSF-funded project titled "Cultivating an Open Source Software Culture Among Computer Science Undergraduate Students" (award no. 0511732). Work will be completed by PI, graduate assistant, and undergraduate students. LMU students and faculty from other schools will be invited to workshops that introduce and review materials developed on the project.

Ben Fitzpatrick, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Seaver College of Science and Engineering
Dr. Fitzpatrick’s scope of work will include discussion of plans, progress, and task refinement; conduction of basic research into human communication and adversarial action modeling; development of simulations in support of the basic research; integration of human models into component structures of the overall adversarial network models; development of mathematical modeling and analysis of hypergames; mathematical modeling and analysis of deception; and provision of support in report writing and briefing delivery as sponsor needs require. 

Holli Levitsky, The Taube Foundation
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Summer course on the Holocaust with colleague/class at CSUN in which is embedded a 2-week trip to Poland. Student projects will use an array of new and rich media, and an instructional technology analyst will accompany group to Poland to assist with the technology and compile student work into documentary. Funding will be used for student tours of local Polish sites.

Edmundo Litton, California Commission on Teacher Credentialing
School of Education
The Intern Program is a collaborative partnership between various public school districts, including Los Angeles and Lennox. It serves to recruit and prepare new teachers so they can promote high achievement and social justice. The areas they serve are schools with some of the most diverse students in the community and those with exceptional needs.

The grant will be used to support new teachers by providing funds for instructional supplies, professional development and support from mentors or university personnel. Interns teach in under-resourced K-12 schools in Los Angeles.

Curtiss Takada Rooks, Asian American Justice Center
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
The Asian American Justice Center (AAJC) seeks to ensure Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) participation in the 2010 U.S. Census by conducting outreach and education to underrepresented populations on a national scale. AAJC will join with its three Regional Affiliates agencies to implement the project, in addition to a Community Partner Network of over 100 Sub-Grantees in 24 states. In addition, AAJC will increase national coordination of Census outreach and education work with organizations that are not apart of this project. The Loyola Marymount University (LMU) Evaluation Team has been approached to assess AAJC's 2010 Census Project. This evaluation study will assess:

1. How the national network structure functioned:
   a. Between the Census Bureau and community-based organizations
   b. Between the Census Bureau and ethnic media
   c. Between the Regional Affiliates and community based organizations
   
2. The value and effectiveness of both the Census Bureau and the network’s materials and outreach activities. The ways in which the Network’s activities supplemented the Census Bureau’s efforts
   
3. How both the Census Bureau and the AAJC might improve upon their outreach efforts.

 

Curtiss Takada Rooks, Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
The Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) seeks to ensure Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) participation in the 2010 U.S. Census by implementing a statewide California outreach, education and advocacy project. APALC will join with seven Regional Partner agencies to implement the project, and will serve as a liaison with California Regional Census Offices to ensure that the Census specialists’ workplans reflect community priorities.

The project has a seven region geographic focus where 96% of Asian Americans and 85% of Pacific Islanders in California reside, and will target cities and census tracts within each county that are disproportionately AAPI in population.

Marshall Sauceda and Norma Romero, Department of Education
Student Affairs Administration
The Upward Bound program provides tutoring and mentoring services during the summer and academic year for Westchester High School students from low-income families; from families in which neither parent holds a bachelor's degree; and low-income, first-generation military veterans who are preparing to enter postsecondary education. The program provides outreach and creates a pipeline for the community to attend college.

Kala Seal, Fulbright
College of Business Administration
In my research under the Fulbright grant, I propose to carry out an exploratory study through collection of empirical data to understand the current state of mobile usage patterns, factors driving such usage, and their impact on the micro and small enterprises operating both in the rural and urban segments of India and develop a comparative analysis based on that data.

Stephen Shepherd, NEH
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Shepherd is the Associate Director of the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (PPEA), and works with the University of Virginia on this project. Piers Plowman is arguably the most influential religious poem written in English before the Protestant Reformation. The work of Chaucer’s visionary contemporary, William Langland, the poem survives in nearly 60 medieval manuscripts and several early printed editions. The complexity of its textual record, often reflecting authorial revisions, as well as the diverse responses of medieval scribes and annotators, is comparable to that of the Greek New Testament. In attempting to come to terms with this deep but largely unexplored resource for literary critics, cultural historians, and theological scholars, the PPEA has begun publishing fully marked-up, searchable, and finely-imaged digital editions of every medieval witness to the poem. The LMU portion of the grant will be used to support an LMU graduate student in assisting Prof. Shepherd to proofread his transcription and digital markup of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Manuscript Douce 104. This is the only Piers Plowman codex known to have an original series of illuminated illustrations of characters and other figures from the poem.