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Recent Awards

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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.

Meet some of the successful applicants for Foundation Allocation Grants.

Recent Awards

Ramapo College Foundation Grant Allocations 2024-2025

Michael Bitz– Establishing a Youth Comics Festival in Kenya ($4,550)

Jill Brown– Employee Wellness Day ($1,000)

Peter Campbell– Visiting BIPOC Theater Artists ($4,000)

Lisa Campbell– Co-curricular Engagement with the Arts  ($1,400)

Yolanda DelAmo– Publication of the photography monograph “Archipelago”  ($2,000)

Jacob Labendz– Creating Virtual Exhibitions with the Unreal Engine ($2,600)

Sharon Leathers– Teacher Education Resource Hub and Generative AI Student Specialist ($1,000)

Ann LePore– Animation Expert’s Panel ($1,350)

Colleen Martinez– The Ramapo College Community Learns About Animal Assisted Play Therapy ($1,900)

Nathaniel Otjen– How Green is AI?: Teaching Artificial Intelligence in a Climate-Altered World ($750)

Mihaela Serban– Fluid Memories: Between the Memory and Post-Memory of Communism in Romania  ($750)

Ira Spar– Hats on the Silk Road: Albums of Color  ($1,900)

Ashwani Vasishth– Creating a Self-replicating Process for Student Composter Teams in the Village Apartments ($1,800)

Ramapo College Foundation Grant Allocations 2023-2024

Peter Campbell– Visiting BIPOC Theater Artists ($4,500)

Gilad Cohen– Residency with Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra’s String Quartet ($2,300)

David Colman– Ramapo College Honors Program “City as Text” in Englewood, NJ ($1,000)

Kokila Kota– Comparison of group behaviors in the wild-type and the mutant strains of the bacteria pseudomonas aeruginosa along with the gene expression analysis ($650)

Catalin Martin– Installation and Testing of Optical Instruments in the Engineering Physics Program ($1,750)

Stephen Rice– Quarterly Meeting of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey ($636)

Suma Somasekharan– Identification and characterization of Ligninolytic enzymes and their potential role in degradation of “forever chemicals” ($2,500)

Ramapo College Foundation Grant Allocations 2022-2023

Amanda Beecher– Center for Data, Mathematical, and Computational Sciences Lecture Series ($1,300)

Satarupa Dasgupta– A Speaker Series on Minority Women in Leadership Roles in the Health Sciences Industry ($260)

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

David Gurney– Using Targeted DNA Testing to Increase IGG Solve Rates for Hispanic Does ($5,540)

Cathy Hajo– Investigating Data Visualizations at the Jane Addams Papers Project ($2,000)

Zach Layton– Artificial Intelligence Opera Project ($2,000)

Kat McGee– Focus Groups – Interpersonal and Sexual Violence (2022-2023) ($2,000)

Cynthia Michalewski– First-Generation Mentoring Program at Ramapo College of NJ with GlobalMindED ($2,000)