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Members of the Ramapo community successfully compete for more than $3 million each year in grants from Federal, State and private sources to support activities that benefit the College.<\/p>\n

Meet some of the successful applicants for Foundation Allocation Grants.<\/p>\n

Recent Awards<\/h3>\n
<\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span>Ramapo College Foundation Grant Allocations 2025-26<\/div>
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Atieh Babakhani<\/strong>–\u00a0 Hijab Laws Study ($3,500)<\/p>\n

Gilad Cohen<\/strong>– Residency of Exponential Ensemble ($4,000)<\/p>\n

Christina Connor<\/strong>– American History Textbook Project Digital ($5,000)<\/p>\n

Larry D’Antonio<\/strong>– Mathematical Association of America New Jersey Section Spring Meeting ($2,000)<\/p>\n

Tufan Ekici<\/strong>– Aspired Workplace Characteristics and Labor Supply Study ($2,585)<\/p>\n

Marc Gidal<\/strong>– Indonesian Gamelan Workshop and Met Museum Visit ($2,000)<\/p>\n

Cathy Hajo<\/strong>– Using Digital Innovation to Expand Community Engagement at the Jane Addams Papers ($2,500)<\/p>\n

Sarah Koenig<\/strong>– The Freedom Museum in Fortnite: Using Virtual Museum Design to Teach Gen Ed History ($4,957)<\/p>\n

Sangha Padhy<\/strong>– Mid-Atlantic Law & Society Association Conference at Ramapo College ($1,000)<\/p>\n

Stephen Rice<\/strong>– Visualizing American County, Parish, and Borough Seals ($2,325)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span>Ramapo College Foundation Grant Allocations 2024-2025<\/div>
\n

Michael Bitz<\/strong>– Establishing a Youth Comics Festival in Kenya ($4,550)<\/p>\n

Jill Brown<\/strong>– Employee Wellness Day ($1,000)<\/p>\n

Peter Campbell<\/strong>– Visiting BIPOC Theater Artists ($4,000)<\/p>\n

Lisa Campbell<\/strong>– Co-curricular Engagement with the Arts\u00a0 ($1,400)<\/p>\n

Yolanda DelAmo<\/strong>– Publication of the photography monograph “Archipelago”\u00a0 ($2,000)<\/p>\n

Jacob Labendz<\/strong>– Creating Virtual Exhibitions with the Unreal Engine ($2,600)<\/p>\n

Sharon Leathers<\/strong>– Teacher Education Resource Hub and Generative AI Student Specialist ($1,000)<\/p>\n

Ann LePore<\/strong>– Animation Expert’s Panel ($1,350)<\/p>\n

Colleen Martinez<\/strong>– The Ramapo College Community Learns About Animal Assisted Play Therapy ($1,900)<\/p>\n

Nathaniel Otjen<\/strong>– How Green is AI?: Teaching Artificial Intelligence in a Climate-Altered World ($750)<\/p>\n

Mihaela Serban<\/strong>– Fluid Memories: Between the Memory and Post-Memory of Communism in Romania\u00a0 ($750)<\/p>\n

Ira Spar<\/strong>– Hats on the Silk Road: Albums of Color\u00a0 ($1,900)<\/p>\n

Ashwani Vasishth<\/strong>– Creating a Self-replicating Process for Student Composter Teams in the Village Apartments ($1,800)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span>Ramapo College Foundation Grant Allocations 2023-2024<\/div>
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Peter Campbell<\/strong>– Visiting BIPOC Theater Artists ($4,500)<\/p>\n

Gilad Cohen<\/strong>– Residency with Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra\u2019s String Quartet ($2,300)<\/p>\n

David Colman<\/strong>– Ramapo College Honors Program \u201cCity as Text\u201d in Englewood, NJ ($1,000)<\/p>\n

Kokila Kota<\/strong>– Comparison of group behaviors in the wild-type and the mutant strains of the bacteria pseudomonas aeruginosa along with the gene expression analysis ($650)<\/p>\n

Catalin Martin<\/strong>– Installation and Testing of Optical Instruments in the Engineering Physics Program ($1,750)<\/p>\n

Stephen Rice<\/strong>– Quarterly Meeting of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey ($636)<\/p>\n

Suma Somasekharan<\/strong>– Identification and characterization of Ligninolytic enzymes and their potential role in degradation of \u201cforever chemicals\u201d ($2,500)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span>Ramapo College Foundation Grant Allocations 2022-2023<\/div>
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Amanda Beecher<\/strong>– Center for Data, Mathematical, and Computational Sciences Lecture Series ($1,300)<\/p>\n

Satarupa Dasgupta<\/strong>– A Speaker Series on Minority Women in Leadership Roles in the Health Sciences Industry ($260)<\/p>\n

Anne Marie Flatekval<\/strong>– Implementation of a Mindfulness Bundle and its Impact on Perceived Stress Levels for Junior Students in Their First Semester in the Nursing Sequence ($935)<\/p>\n

David Gurney<\/strong>– Using Targeted DNA Testing to Increase IGG Solve Rates for Hispanic Does ($5,540)<\/p>\n

Cathy Hajo<\/strong>– Investigating Data Visualizations at the Jane Addams Papers Project ($2,000)<\/p>\n

Zach Layton<\/strong>– Artificial Intelligence Opera Project ($2,000)<\/p>\n

Kat McGee<\/strong>– Focus Groups \u2013 Interpersonal and Sexual Violence (2022-2023) ($2,000)<\/p>\n

Cynthia Michalewski<\/strong>– First-Generation Mentoring Program at Ramapo College of NJ with GlobalMindED ($2,000)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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