Humboldt ERFSA Faculty Awards
The Humboldt Emeritus & Retired Faculty & Staff Association accepts applications for cash awards to support the professional development of junior faculty who have demonstrated outstanding promise. These awards, which are intended to supplement other assistance, are open to lecturers and tenure track faculty.
Preference will be given to applicants who have not received an award before.
Humboldt ERFSA Faculty Awards 2022 Application Packet
Applications are due FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2022 @ 2 PM.
Please submit application materials in a single pdf electronically to mary.watson@humboldt.edu.
If you have questions about the application process, you may contact ERFSA Co-Chairs, Emeritus Professor Marshelle Thobaben (mt1@humboldt.edu) and Emeritus Professor Kenneth Fulgham (kof1@humboldt.edu).
Awards will be announced at the ERFSA Fall Social whenever scheduled.
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2020 ERFSA Faculty Award Recipients:
From the Times Standard, July 15, 2020: Humboldt junior faculty members receive support:
The Emeritus and Retired Faculty and Staff Association (ERFSA) of Cal Poly Humboldt is pleased to announce its selection of faculty who applied for cash awards to support the professional development of junior faculty who have demonstrated outstanding promise. These awards, which are intended to supplement other assistance, are open to lecturers and tenure track faculty. The Coordinating Committee of the ERFSA reviewed a number of applications and selected the following individuals for the awards. The title of each project is listed below the faculty member’s name and department.
1. Kaitlin Reed, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies
From Gold Rush to Green Rush Book Project
2. Jose Marin Jarrin, Assistant Professor of Fisheries Biology
Verification of species identification of Galapagos octopus using genetic techniques
3. Jorge Monteiro, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Hybrid Systems to Produce Persistent Luminescence and Generate Singlet Oxygen in the Dark
4. Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Tracking microbial nitrogen metabolism in microbiology research and education
5. Cydny Phillips, Lecturer English
Humboldt County Plein Air Book Creation
6. Buddhika Madurapperma, Lecturer of Forestry and Wildland Resources and Environmental Science and Management
Capacity building in unmanned aerial vehicle technology outreach and to solve environmental research questions
Congratulations to these excellent scholars and to Humboldt for selecting such excellent faculty to work with its students.
If you have questions about the annual ERFSA Faculty Awards, please contact ERFSA Co-Chairs, Emeritus Professor Marshelle Thobaben and Emeritus Professor Kenneth Fulgham.