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Mini-Grant Title: Training and Team Building to Prevent Sexual Harassment in the Field
Project Coordinator: Heather J. Lynch
Department: Ecology & Evolution

Mini-Grant Title: Increasing Diversity in CPR Training on Campus
Project Coordinator: Samantha Warren
Department: Center for Prevention and Outreach, SHWPS

Mini-Grant Title: Establishing a SBU Chapter of National SACNAS Organization
Project Coordinator: Dianna Padilla
Department: Ecology & Evolution

Mini-Grant Title: Enhancing LGBTQ+ Medical Education
Project Coordinator: Joseph Bacchi
Department: Obstetrics & Gynecology

Mini-Grant Title: Faculty as Inclusive Teaching Ambassadors (FITA)
Project Coordinator: Hyunjin Jinna Kim
Department: Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT)

Mini-Grant Title: Building the Africana Studies Digital Archive
Project Coordinator: Abena Asare
Department: Africana Studies

Mini-Grant Title: Pathways to Healthcare: Providing Underrepresented Students with Applied Learning Experience
Project Coordinator: Urszula Zalewski
Department: Career Center

Mini-Grant Title: Seminar Series in Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapy
Project Coordinator: Wilfred H. Farquharson IV
Department: Renaissance School of Medicine

Mini-Grant Title: Power Electronics, Grid Integration, and Solar Engineering for Environmental Justice High Schoolers with Brookhaven National Laboratory
Project Coordinator: Derek O'Connor
Department: Economic Development

Mini-Grant Title: Examining Social Determinants of Health and the Opioid Use Crisis: Educating School of Professions Students and Faculty in Risk Factor Recognition and Equity of Treatment in Patient with Opioid Use Disorders
Project Coordinator: Jillian O’Brien
Department: Dept of Physician Assistant Education, SHP

Mini-Grant Title: Network of Advocates for International Students
Project Coordinator: Katherine D. Johnston
Department: Program for Writing and Rhetoric, Office of Global Affairs and CELT

Mini-Grant Title: AAPI Mentorship Network
Project Coordinator: Caterina Reed
Department: University Libraries

Mini-Grant Title: Healthcare without Borders: Providing Clinical Care for Migrant and Undocumented Children
Project Coordinator: Kimberly Alba
Department: Psychiatry and Behavioral Health

Mini-Grant Title: Partnering with Suffolk County Shelters to Reduce Tobacco Use and Exposure: A Pilot Initiatives
Project Coordinator: Katie Houghton
Department: Pediatrics

Mini-Grant Title: Stony Brook PA Program Diversity Initiative Expanded
Project Coordinator: Lynn-Timko Swain
Department: Dept of Physician Assistant Education, SHP

Mini-Grant Title: Connecting the Drops: Environmental Justice and Stony Brook Community
Project Coordinator: Karen Levitov
Department: Zuccaire Gallery / Staller Center for the Arts

Mini-Grant Title: Integration of Arts: Inclusive Bioengineering Education
Project Coordinator: Mei Lin Chan
Department: Biomedical Engineering

Mini-Grant Title: LGBTQ* Resident Clinical Simulation Curriculum
Project Coordinator: Carly Gomes
Department: Pediatrics

Mini-Grant Title: Learn from Experts in Anti-Racist College Teaching
Project Coordinator: Celia Marshik
Department: English

Mini-Grant Title: Providing Clinical Care for Undocumented Immigrations Educational Series
Project Coordinator: Anna Coward
Department: Psychiatry and Behavioral Health

Mini-Grant Title: Dos Mundos: (Re) Constructing Narratives
Project Coordinator: Karen Levitov
Department: Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at the Staller Center for the Arts

Mini-Grant Title: Spiritual and Mental Health: Building Bridges and Connections
Project Coordinator: Smita Majundar Das
Department: Center for Prevention and Outreach

Mini-Grant Title: Building a College Mindset: High School - College Collaboration to Promote College Readiness
Project Coordinator: Rachelle Germana
Department: Division of Undergraduate Eudcation

Mini-Grant Title: Connecting URM STEM Students to Industry: Providing Access to Diversity Related Professional Associations to SBU Undergraduate Students
Project Coordinator: Kimberly Joy Dixon
Department: Career Center

Mini-Grant Title: Diversifying Psychology Graduate Admissions
Project Coordinator: Kristin Bernard
Department: Psychology

Mini-Grant Title: A Workshop to Discuss Social Disparities among People with Disabilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Project Coordinator: Brooke Ellison
Department: SHTM: Health Sciences; Occupational Therapy

Mini-Grant Title: Increasing Cultural Competency to Address Inequities in Ecology & Evolution
Project Coordinator: Tara Smiley
Department: Ecology & Evolution

Mini-Grant Title: The Chemistry URM Women Professional Mentorship Program
Project Coordinator: Dr. Issac Carrico
Department: Chemistry

Mini-Grant Title: Empowering Students with Disabilities to Advance Accessible Health and Wellness at Stony Brook University
Project Coordinator: Hanna W. Mercier, PhD, OTR/L
Department: Student Accessibility Support Center, SOM, SHTM, SSW and SDM

Mini-Grant Title: Clinical Training with Diverse Populations: Enhancing Trauma Care for Youth from Historically Marginalized Communities
Project Coordinator: Dina Vivian, PhD
Department: Psychology

Mini-Grant Title: Stony Brook PA Program Diversity Initiatives
Project Coordinator: Lynne Timko-Swaim
Department: Dept of Physician Assistant Education

Mini-Grant Title: A STEM Pathway Program for BIPOC Student at SBU
Project Coordinator: Isaiah Nengo
Department: Turkana Basin Institute

Mini-Grant Title: Professional Development for Women in IT
Project Coordinator: Kevin McDonnell
Department: Computer Science

Mini-Grant Title: Enhancing TA Awareness of Classroom Inequities
Project Coordinator: Gena Sbeglia
Department: Ecology and Evolution

Mini-Grant Title: Ignite the Student Leader in You! A Diversity & Inclusion Conference
Project Coordinator: Cheryl Chambers
Department: Office of Multicultural Affairs

Mini-Grant Title: Building a Culture of DEI at the SBU Libraries
Project Coordinator: Claire Payne
Department: University Libraries

Mini-Grant Title: Diversity Recruitment Lunch & Learn Series
Project Coordinator: Kimberly Joy Dixon
Department: Career Center

Mini-Grant Title: LGBTQA+ Workshop Series for Faculty, Staff & Future Healthcare Providers
Project Coordinator: Sean Getty
Department: SHTM Diversity Committee

Mini-Grant Title: Career Ready Seawolves: Teaching Students to Articulate Their Skills
Project Coordinator: Ursula Zalewski
Department: Career Center

Mini-Grant Title: Weight Bias and Stigma Among Healthcare Students
Project Coordinator: Sharon Martino
Department: Physical Therapy

Mini-Grant Title: Inclusive Eats
Project Coordinator: Catherine Duffy
Department: Healthier U

Mini-Grant Title: Early Admitted Students Day/ WISE Preview Day
Project Coordinator: Doreen Aveni
Department: WISE – Women in Science & Engineering

Mini-Grant Title: Use of 3D Printing Technology to Enable those with Physical Limitations to Participate Equally in Meaningful Occupations
Project Coordinator: Marian Blanche Leeman
Department: SHTM – OT

Mini-Grant Title: Using Poverty Simulations in Graduate Medical Education to Introduce Social Determinants of Health and Cultural Competency
Project Coordinator: Nirrani Goolsarran
Department: Internal Medicine

Mini-Grant Title: Establishing Diversity with Interprofessional Practice and Whole Person Care using Telehealth
Project Coordinator: Carmen McCoy
Department: SHTM

Mini-Grant Title: Discover SB- You: graduate Diversity Welcome Weekend
Project Coordinator: Rosalia Davi
Department: Center for Inclusive Education

Mini-Grant Title: Building a Culturally Competent Student Health Service and Reducing Health Disparities: Understanding and Supporting the Unique Health Care Needs of Students Who identify as Sexual Minorites
Project Coordinator: Marisa Bisiani
Department: AVP Student Health, Wellness & Prevention Services

Mini-Grant Title: Global Minds Alliance (GMA): Offering Active Support for International Students (OASIS) to prevent Acculturative Stress and Improve Retention
Project Coordinator: Danielle M. Merolla
Department: Center for Prevention and Outreach

Mini-Grant Title: The View from Here: Contemporary Perspectives from Senegal
Project Coordinator: Karen Levitov / Georgia LaMarra
Department: Paul W. Zucciare Gallery at the Staller Center for the Arts

Mini-Grant Title: LGBTQ Career Awareness Program
Project Coordinator: Kimberly Joy Dixon
Department: Career Center and LGBTQ* Services

Mini-Grant Title: Fostering Inclusive Learning Environments for Graduate Students with Disabilities
Project Coordinator: Katherine Flint Ehm
Department: Graduate School

Mini-Grant Title: Stony Brook University Transgender Health Conference
Project Coordinator: Dr. Adam Gonzalez
Department: Psychiatry & Behavioral Health

Mini-Grant Title: Continued Diversity Funding for Writers Speak Wednesday
Project Coordinator: Tyler Allen Penny
Department: Creative Writing and Film Program

Mini-Grant Title: Forging Intergenerational Links through Life Story Sharing
Project Coordinator: Lauren L. Richmond
Department: Psychology

Mini-Grant Title: Representing Muslim Immigrants: Collaborative Practices in Teaching and Research
Project Coordinator: Simone Brioni
Department: English

Mini-Grant Title: Lecture Series on Indigenous Native American Languages of Long Island
Project Coordinator: Robert Hoberman
Department: Linguistics

Mini-Grant Title: Matwaala: Sought Asian Dispora Poetry Festival
Project Coordinator: Jinyoung Jin
Department: Charles B. Wang Center

Mini-Grant Title: Meeting unique healthcare needs of LGBTQ* client: An interprofessional collaboration
Project Coordinator: Justin M. Waryold
Department: School of Nursing

Title of Mini-Grant: Establishing Diversity with Interprofessional Practice and Whole Person Care Using Telehealth
Project Coordinator: Carmen McCoy
Department: SHTM
Project Description: The goal of this grant is to create a video, through collaboration with a diverse healthcare professional group, to educate the students in HSC on how to improve health outcomes in working with diverse patient populations using telehealth to deliver whole person care.

Title of Mini-Grant: Discover SB-You: Graduate Diversity Welcome Weekend
Project Coordinator: Rosalia Davi
Department: Center for Inclusive Education
Project Description: The goal of the Discover SB-You: Graduate Diversity Welcome Weekend is to increase the number of competitive underrepresented minority (URM) graduate students who visit campus for a preview day and ultimately attend graduate school at SBU.

Title of Mini-Grant: Building a Culturally Competent Student Health Service and Reducing Health Disparities: Understanding and Supporting the Unique Health Care Needs of Students Who Identify as Sexual Minorities
Project Coordinator: Marisa A. Bisiani
Department: AVP, Student Health, Wellness & Prevention Services
Project Description: The aim of this project is to improve the health, safety, and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) students on campus through training and integration of learning with regard to the delivery of care to LGBTQ* students at Student Health Services.

Title of Mini-Grant: Global Minds Alliance (GMA): Offering Active Support for International Students (OASIS) to Prevent Acculturative Stress and Improve Retention
Project Coordinator: Danielle M. Merolla
Department: Center for Prevention and Outreach
Project Description: This proposal seeks to develop a mental and emotional health support network for international students via a peer mentor approach to mitigate transitional stress from becoming acculturative stress and supporting the overall success and retention of our international student body.

Title of Mini-Grant: The View from Here: Contemporary Perspectives from Senegal
Project Coordinator: Karen Levitov
Department: Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at the Staller Center for the Arts
Project Description: The grant will support programming to accompany the exhibition titled, The View from Here: Contemporary Perspectives from Senegal that is on view at the Zuccaire Gallery from July 18 through October 12, 2019.

Title of Mini-Grant: LGBTQ Career Awareness Program
Project Coordinator: Kimberly Joy Dixon
Department: Career Center and LGBTQ* Services
Project Description: The goal of this program series is to increase awareness of the support provided in the workplace for individuals who identify with LGBTQ* communities and how to best research companies / organizations to determine if the environment has a deliberate culture of inclusion and support specifically for LGBTQ* communities in the post-college career sector.

Title of Mini-Grant: Fostering Inclusive Learning Environments for Graduate Students with Disabilities
Project Coordinator: Kathleen Flint Ehm
Department: Graduate School
Project Description: A proposal for a series of four workshops for faculty, students, and staff that raise awareness of campus resources, foster dialogue, and provide faculty professional development around accessible graduate education for students with disabilities.

Title of Mini-Grant: Stony Brook University Transgender Health Conference
Project Coordinator: Adam Gonzalez
Department: Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Project Description: The goal of the Transgender Health Conference is to improve the knowledge base needed to provide culturally sensitive care to the transgender community including commonly used terms for effective communication / documentation; unique health needs; common barriers to care and risk factors for disease; health conditions disproportionally faced by the transgender population; and, methods for creating an inclusive and safe environment.

Title of Mini-Grant: Continued Diversity Funding for Writers Speak Wednesday
Project Coordinator: Tyler Allen Penny
Department: Creative Writing and Film Program
Project Description: This program seeks funding to bring prestigious and diverse writers to Writers Speak Wednesdays on SBU’s Southampton Campus, to make visiting writers more accessible to graduate and undergraduate students on both SBU Southampton and main campus, and to continue to promote an inclusive and diverse arts and humanities community at both campuses.

Title of Mini-Grant: Forging Intergenerational Links through Life Story Sharing
Project Coordinator: Lauren L. Richmond
Department: Psychology
Project Description: This grant seeks to create a program with optimal conditions for fostering positive and mutually valuable intergenerational contact between Stony Brook University students and older adults in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI).

Title of Mini-Grant: Representing Muslim Immigrants: Collaborative Practices in Teaching and Research
Project Coordinator: Simone Brioni
Department: English
Project Description: This grant will be used toward the costs of the publication of a peer-reviewed volume in Scrivere di Islam – Raccontare la diaspora [Writing about Islam – Narrating Diaspora] as well as the organization of a symposium in collaboration with the Islamic Society of Stony Brook, and possibly the Muslim Students Association at Stony Brook, that will focus on the main themes of the volume.

Title of Mini-Grant: Lecture Series on Indigenous Native American Languages of Long Island
Project Coordinator: Robert Hoberman
Department: Linguistics
Project Description: The goal is to educate our students, colleagues, and the local community about the richness of the indigenous Algonquian languages and cultures of Long Island, and the strategies that are most successful for language maintenance, documentation and revitalization.

Title of Mini-Grant: Matwaala: South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival
Project Coordinator: Jinyoung Jin
Department: Charles B. Wang Center
Project Description: The voices of the South Asian Diaspora poets are often muted in the literary communities of the US. This festival strives to bring them to the forefront by shining a light on their work to further the goal of diversifying our poetic landscape and educational experiences.

Title of Mini-Grant: Meeting unique healthcare needs of the LGBTQ* client: An interprofessional collaboration
Project Coordinator: Justin Waryold
Department: School of Nursing
Project Description: The program’s goal is to engage the HSC schools in developing interdisciplinary programs to increase the cultural competency of students and clinical faculty so as to decrease healthcare disparities faced by LGBTQ* patients.

Title of Mini-Grant: Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Improving Women’s Salary Negotiation Skills
Project Coordinator: Marianna Savoca
Department: Career Center
Project Description: The goal of this grant is to build capacity among undergraduate and graduate students to confidently and successfully negotiate their salary and benefits after receiving a job offer. The program will use a highly regarded, interactive 2.5-hour salary negotiation workshop developed by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), a fervent advocate for women’s rights.

Title of Mini-Grant: Women in Science and Engineering Speaker Series
Project Coordinator: Angela M. Kelly
Department: Institute for STEM Education
Project Description: Through inviting engaging speakers and presenters, the goal of the project is to recruit and retain more female students (as declared majors) in the fields in which they are underrepresented, such as Physics & Astronomy, Chemistry, and Engineering and Applied Sciences. By encouraging females to declare and retain their majors in physical sciences and engineering, as well as raising school and departmental awareness of issues around gender disparities in STEM fields, the grant also works to help improve cultural environments within the STEM disciplines.

Title of Mini-Grant: “Braceros”, photographed by the Hermanos Mayo
Project Coordinator: Eric Zolov
Department: Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Project Description: This grant will fund the mounting an exhibition of 38 photographs donated by the Mexican Ministry of Culture, and taken by the renown Mexican photojournalist collective, Hermanos Mayo, depicting the lives of hundreds of thousands of Mexican guest-workers, “braceros”, brought to the United States between 1942-1964 to meet labor demand in the agricultural and railroad industries, from the Mexican perspective.

Title of Mini-Grant: Engaging with the Veteran Experience through library programming and collections
Project Coordinators: Kathleen Kasten, Pamela Pfeil, and Laurel Scheinfeld
Departments: University Libraries, in collaboration with the Office of Veteran Affairs
Project Description: The program seeks to provide a platform for discussion and exchange in the field of military studies by inviting one of several combat veterans who has written about their experiences in memoirs or fiction to give a presentation of their work to the University, and larger, community. The grant will also work toward enhancing the library’s collections through the acquisition of books dedicated to helping veteran students make the transition from the military to being a civilian university student.

Title of Mini-Grant: Psychology Diversity Mini-Seminar
Project Coordinator: Aprajita Mohanty
Department: Psychology
Project Description: The goal of the program is to ensure students obtain an in-depth understanding of diversity issues and how to approach them in their roles as culturally competent researchers, teachers, and clinicians. Monthly “diversity mini-seminars” will occur throughout the academic year, focusing on a variety of diversity-related topics through personal awareness training, research, clinical work training, and professional development. Resources collected for the mini-seminars will also be accessible anytime by students and faculty in a “stand-alone library”.

Title of Mini-Grant: Disability and Human Rights Justice: a panel discussion and clinical guidelines
Project Coordinators: Dr. Brooke Ellison and Dr. Ghenet Weldeslassie
Department: School of Health Technology and Management
Project Description: People with disabilities are marginalized and underrepresented in many aspects of social life, yet little attention is placed on the human rights and justice deficits that these people face (“justice” implying the issues specified, in Goal #16 of the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals, as human trafficking, rule of law, criminal justice, and identity). This project will address how disability intersects these important human rights issues through a panel discussion including experts in various human rights matters.

Title of Mini-Grant: Team Jeopardy: What is Innovative, Patient-centered and Engaging? Answer: InterProfessional Education at Stony Brook Medicine
Project Coordinator: Lynette Dias, PhD
Department: Stony Brook Medicine
Project Description: Lack of knowledge of roles and responsibilities of healthcare professionals from areas besides one’s own can lead to miscommunication and conflict, and adversely impact the quality of patient care. Building on the successful recent inaugural Interprofessional Education (IPE) Faculty Summit at Stony Brook Medicine, this program will be a mandatory session during the Transition to Professional School course, attended jointly by incoming medical and dental students, with additional invitations sent to students of the Schools of Nursing, Social Welfare, and Health Technology and Management. Students will form interprofessional teams to compete in a fun, interactive game while learning about the scope, roles, and responsibilities of various healthcare professions.

Title of Mini-Grant: Creating Diversity and Inclusion Professional Development Opportunities for Student Affairs Professionals and Graduate Students
Project Coordinators: Jarvis Watson, Jennifer Rossler, and Antonio Ferrantino
Departments: Office of Multicultural Affairs, Human Resource Services and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity
Project Description: In order to address issues and challenges associated with structural diversity, racial microaggressions, acts of discrimination, isolation, and upward mobility faced by black and Latino administrators and higher education professions, the Student Affairs Diversity Leadership Development Initiative (DLDI), with the support of this grant, aims to provide six diversity workshops in the 2018-2019 academic year, providing professional development and competency training opportunities for student affairs professionals and graduate students.

Title of Mini-Grant: Stony Brook Flu Vaccination Campaign
Project Coordinators: George Chen and Dr. Jedan Phillips
Department: Family Population, and Preventative Medicine
Project Description: Stony Brook medical students currently lack the opportunity to interact with a diverse patient population in the pre-clinical phase of the medical curriculum. Through the project implementation centered on administering flu vaccinations, the goal of the initiative is to teach first-year medical students how to care for a diverse patient population -- ranging from college students to uninsured, Spanish-speaking patients -- while expanding access to flu vaccinations both on campus and in local communities.

Title of Mini-Grant: Food with Meaning
Project Coordinators: Joan Dickinson and Cohen Miles-Rath
Department: Government and Community Relations
Project Description: As spoken about in Governor Cuomo’s 2018 State of the State Address, there is a stigma against the usage of food pantries at SUNY campuses. Stigma can interfere with the effort of the service and its goal of reducing food insecurity among members of universities. By implementing a “Food Drive with Meaning” (focusing on gathering diverse non-perishable healthy items from various cuisines) and developing content for online and on-campus, The “Food with Meaning” program will work towards its goal of reducing user stigma through diversity, human connection and value.

Title of Mini-Grant: Transforming Civic Engagement through the Empowerment of Marginalized Communities
Project Coordinators: Steven Adelson and Ellen Driscoll
Department: Office of the Dean of Students and the Center for Civic Justice
Project Description: Despite the historic 86% voter turnout rate of all registered on-campus students during the 2016 Presidential Election, there is still significant civic engagement apathy, particularly among college-aged people (18-29). Through the program, awardees will work towards identifying causes for the apathy that area among students through research, develop an action plan based on findings, and empower students to create and implement necessary change.

Title of Mini-Grant: Dress for Success Career Closet
Project Coordinator: Jennifer Green
Department: Graduate School
Project Description: Attaining professional attires is daunting for any student, especially first-generation students and those in financial need. Students require not only resources but also guidance as they take this crucial next step. The Dress for Success Career Closet Program will provide gently used clothing donations and mentoring on professional dress norms, enabling SBU students to enter any work environment with the confidence to display their unique talents and skills.

Title of Mini-Grant: Promoting Diversity and Inclusion at the School of Social Welfare
Project Coordinator: SSW Diversity and Inclusion Standing Committee
Department: School of Social Welfare
Project Description: For this project, the awardees will complete a comprehensive diversity scan to identify attitudes and experiences towards and about diversity and inclusion within the School of Social Welfare, the broader University, and local communities from students, staff, faculty and a select number of outside stakeholders. With expert consultation from the Long Island non-profit organization, ERASE Racism, a series of workshops will be developed looking at implicit bias and structural racism to be attended by students, staff, adjuncts, and faculty.

Title of Mini-Grant: Empowering Students With Disabilities and Creating A More Inclusive Environment Using Participatory Action Research
Project Coordinator: Rebecca F. Reed
Department: Counseling and Psychological Services
Project Description: The purpose and goal of the project is to engage students with disabilities, to increase a sense of belongingness and empowerment for these students, and to raise awareness of disability-related issues in the broader Stony Brook community. By using PAR methodology, the project coordinators will begin to explore and identify ways to address the often invisible differences, difficulties, and challenges faced by students with disabilities at Stony Brook University.

Title of Mini-Grant: Minority Health Symposium
Project Coordinator: Inel J. Lewis, MPA
Department: School of Medicine: Diversity Initiatives
Project Description: The Minority Health Symposium will be a week-long forum to showcase not only the diversity of the School of Medicine faculty, but the diversity of their research and clinical efforts, from educating the community regarding the treatment of cardiovascular disease in women to addressing LGBT health issues and making recommendations for cultural sensitivity in the medical treatment of those who are LGBT.

Title of Mini-Grant: Mentoring Experiences Among Muslim College Students
Project Coordinator: Harriet Waters, Ph.D.
Department: Psychology
Project Description: This project will use the newly validated Religion-RSQ (rejection sensitivity questionnaire) to study how attachment status and sensitivity to rejection as a Muslim can/does impact Muslim-American college students (Stony Brook University students), specifically their mentoring relationships or lack thereof, their overall academic experiences and facilitate the creation of intervention programs in colleges to bring forward the success of the Muslim community.

Title of Mini-Grant: The Lives of Migrant Workers and Refugees: A Human Rights Film Festival
Project Coordinator: Mireille Rebeiz
Department: Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
Project Description: Through this grant, the Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature intends on creating a human rights film festival focusing on migrants and refugees’ rights from around the world, including China, Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Liberia, Ghana, Italy, Ireland and Norway.With the belief that film is a powerful tool used to educate, inspire, and motivate communities to advocate for human rights and social justice.

Title of Mini-Grant: Using Diversity to Bridge the Barriers Between Academic Disciplines
Project Coordinator: Jay Levenson
Department: Stony Brook Library
Project Description: This proposal is for the development of a two-part program that would make use of cultural diversity as an aid in spanning the academic gap formed by the artificial barricades that often separate disciplines. The program would differ from one conducting research within departments, disciplines, and institutions and instead necessitate partnerships across departments, disciplines, and institutions. The first part would be to develop an Interdepartmental and SUNY-wide Conference on Native American Culture and History; the second part would be a program addressing the barriers between disciplines.

Title of Mini-Grant: Race, Love and Labor: Dialogue through Photography
Project Coordinator: Karen Levitov
Department: Staller Center for the Arts
Project Description: The initiative "Race, Love and Labor: Dialogue through Photography" seeks to involve a diverse cross-section of departments, disciplines, faculty, students and community members to engage with the photographs by artists of color that capture the diversity, joys and challenges of American society in an environment that facilitates discussion and personal involvement with students, faculty, community members and visiting artists and guest curators.

Title of Mini-Grant: Bridging the Gap Between Red Watch Band and Chinese International Students
Project Coordinator: Kerri Mahoney
Department: Center for Prevention and Outreach
Project Description: In collaboration with the International Student Organization, CPO will conduct a mixed-method survey through “Bubble Tea Talks” to gather data to determine the involvement of international students in the Red Watch Band bystander intervention training program. The program will focus on Chinese international students for a few reasons - the highest percentage of international students hail from China, the World Health Organization stating that China’s alcohol consumption is increasing faster than other parts of the world, and the culture of drinking has shifted from a more celebratory meaning to a common method of stress relief.

Title of Mini-Grant: Band Together - Microaggressions Video
Project Coordinator: Chris Parks
Department: Athletic Bands
Project Description: In the Fall of 2016, the diversity committee of the Spirit of Stony Brook Marching Band - Band Together - developed and performed an educational skit about microaggressions, addressing racism, biracialism, sexual orientation and mental health to all of the Stony Brook Marching Band members. Through this grant, Band Together will record the skit in order to share the educational and entertaining performance with the wider campus community.

Title of Mini-Grant: Bringing Diverse Authors to Writers Speak to the Undergraduate Creative Writing Minor
Project Coordinator: Emily Gilbert
Department: Southampton Graduate Arts
Project Description: This project seeks to diversify Writers Speak Wednesday (WSW) - Southampton campus’s best attended student event - by providing the resources needed to attract and ensure the opportunity for diverse authors to visit Stony Brook University’s Southampton Campus, as well as Main Campus, increasing access to both graduate and undergraduate students.

Title of Mini-Grant: Fostering Peer Mentoring Relationships between the Center of Inclusive Education and the Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) Honors Program
Project Coordinator: Karian Wright
Department: Center for Inclusive Education
Project Description: Through this grant, the Center for Inclusive Education (ICE), in collaboration with the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Honors program, intends to design and implement a holistic and comprehensive peer mentoring program connecting advanced WISE scholars with near-peer female mentors from the graduate student community.

Title of Mini-Grant: Stony Brook University Art Crawl
Project Coordinator: Janice Costanzo
Department: Student Engagement and Activities
Project Description: The Art Crawl project are guided tours led by curators and staff across Stony Brook University to highlight artists and themes from diverse ethnic, cultural, religious, political, scientific and socioeconomic backgrounds. Uniting university galleries through a collaborative program, students and community members can take a free tour through the art galleries on campus, engaging in conversations about the issues reflected in the art and collections.

Title of Mini-Grant: sheReads-to-Earn
Project Coordinator: Alfreda James
Department: Career Center
Project Description: The project seeks to implement a new workshop series aimed to connect female students to career counselors in a small group setting, creating a more supportive environment through a guided book club focusing on two aspects of professional development: communication and salary negotiation. Data shows there is a gap with more male than female students participating in professional development activity, and this program looks to address that gap.

Title of Mini-Grant: Development of Selective Course on Gender-Based Medicine
Project Coordinator: Anat Biegon
Department: Neurology

Title of Mini-Grant: Diversity Advancement through STEM (DA-STEM) Workshops and Industry Series
Project Coordinator: Meilin Ete Chan
Department: Biomedical Engineering

Title of Mini-Grant: Diversity Professional Leadership Network Program: Mentorship and Professional Development
Project Coordinator: Kimberly Dixon
Department: Career Center

Title of Mini-Grant: Using Student Success to Increase Student Success: Improving the Writing Skills of Non-Native English Speakers
Project Coordinator: Peter H. Khost
Department: Program in Writing and Rhetoric

Title of Mini-Grant: Native American Heritage Awareness Program
Project Coordinator: Jay Levenson
Department: Melville Library

Title of Mini-Grant: Recruiting Future Teachers of Color
Project Coordinator: Ken Lindblom, Tracey Walters and Cheryl Hamilton
Department: English , Africana Studies, Educational Opportunity Program

Title of Mini-Grant: Documentaries and Discussions
Project Coordinator: Jeffrey MiWe
Department: Campus Residences

Title of Mini-Grant: Engaging Male Students of Color in Campus Violence Prevention
Project Coordinator: Smita Majumdar Das
Department: Center for Prevention and Outreach

Title of Mini-Grant: Diversity and Medical Career Development Program: Pre-Medical Access to the Clinical Experiences (PACE)
Project Coordinator: Barbara Nemesure
Department: Family, Population and Preventive Medicine

Title of Mini-Grant: WINGs: Women in Geosciences— Nurturing Opportunities, Effectiveness, Satisfaction and Leadership
Project Coordinator: Anne McElroy
Department: School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

Title of Mini-Grant: Nothing About Us Without Us: Challenging Albeism Through Social Work Advocacy
Project Coordinator: Stephen Rabeno
Department: School of Social Welfare

Title of Mini-Grant: Building a Culturally Competent Healthcare Workforce through Mentorship of Diverse Students
Project Coordinator: Annie Rohan, Lori Escallier
Department: School of Nursing

Title of Mini-Grant: STEM Disability Mentoring Day
Project Coordinator: Thomas Woodson
Department: Technology and Society

Title of Mini-Grant: Accessibility From College to Employment: A Career Training Program for Students with Disabilities
Project Coordinator: Casey Savin
Department: Career Center

Title of Mini-Grant: One Stop Culture Shop
Project Coordinator: Jessica Raphael, Michelle Schenke, Tricia Simons Figuero
Department: Visa and Immigration Services

Title of Mini-Grant: Dialogues on Race and Justice in New York
Project Coordinator: Susan Scheckel
Department: English

Title of Mini-Grant: Recognizing Diversity: The LBGTQ Experience in Communities of Color
Project Coordinator: Associate Professor Tracey Walters
Department: Africana Studies

Title of Mini-Grant: Cross-Cultural Studies of Asian & Asian American Groups on Long Island
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Peggy Spitzer Christoff
Department: Asian & Asian American Studies

Title of Mini-Grant: Initiate Success in the American Workplace (Isaw) (a career development project for international students)
Project Coordinator: Dr. Alfreda S. James
Department: Career Center

Title of Mini-Grant: Performing Musical Diversity
Project Coordinator: Assistant Professor Margarethe Adams
Department: Music

Title of Mini-Grant: The First Available Dental Appointment is Next Year…
Project Coordinator: Dr. Annie Rohan
Department: School of Nursing

Title of Mini-Grant: Mentoring African Americal Male PhD Scholars in STEM: lessons learned from 15 years of community support through the Center for Inclusive Education
Project Coordinator: Ms. Toni Sperzel
Department: The Center for Inclusive Education

Title of Mini-Grant: FLEX: Formative Learning Experiences
Project Coordinator: Francisco Colon
Department: EOP/AIM

Title of Mini-Grant: Interactive Musical Concerts for US Military Veterans in LIS Veterans Home
Project Coordinator: Assistant Professor Keith Johnston
Department: Health Sciences, Music, Psychology Departments

Title of Mini-Grant: You Can Play Initiative
Project Coordinator: Donna M. Woodruff
Department: Athletics

Title of Mini-Grant: Mindfulness and Diversity: A Research Forum to Enhance Awareness and Improve Minority Health at Stony Brook and Beyond
Project Coordinator: Assistant Professor Crystal M. Fleming
Department: Sociology

Title of Mini-Grant: Diversity Certificate Program: Developing Student, Faculty and Staff Multicultural Competency
Project Coordinator: Jeffrey Barnett
Department: Office of the Dean of Students ODAA, SSW, Multicultural Affairs

Title of Mini-Grant: Mysterious Lake
Project Coordinator: Asst. Professor Izumi Ashizawa
Department: Theatre Arts

Title of Mini-Grant: New Latino Cinema
Project Coordinator: Madeline Del Toro Cherney
Department: Anthropology

Title of Mini-Grant: An Oral History Archive of Africana Studies At SUNY: A "Political Education" in the Empire State
Project Coordinator: Asst. Professor Abena Asare
Department: Africana Studies

Title of Mini-Grant: Colloquium Series on African-American Vernacular English (AAVE)
Project Coordinator: Professor Lori Repetti
Department: Linguistics

Title of Mini-Grant: Activism & Leadership Against the Oppression of Women
Project Coordinator: Clinical Assoc. Professor Carolyn Peabody, Ph.D.
Department: School of Social Welfare

Title of Mini-Grant: Increasing Diversity in Health Care through Community Engagement
Project Coordinator: Assoc. Professor Carlos Vidal
Department: School of Health Technology & Management

Title of Mini-Grant: Bridging the Gap: Interethnic Vision in Asian American and European American Migratory Narratives
Project Coordinators: Professor Mary Jo Bona & Assoc. Professor E.K. Tan
Department: Cultural Analysis and Theory

Title of Mini-Grant: Promoting Diversity in Health Professions through Awareness and Mentorship with Underserved High School Students
Project Coordinator: Clinical Asst. Professor Mary G. Flanagan
Department: Physician Assistant Education

Title of Mini-Grant: Seawolves Step Up
Project Coordinator: Christine Szaras, MS
Department: Center for Prevention and Outreach

Title of Mini-Grant: Explore History: Objects from Asia
Project Coordinator: Jinyoung Jin
Department: Conferences & Special Events

Title of Mini-Grant: Giving Voice to the Veteran Experience
Project Coordinator: Assoc. Professor Roger Thompson
Department: Writing and Rhetoric

Title of Mini-Grant: Project Crossroads: iCafe - Developing a Shared Space for Providing and Promoting Support Toward More Effective Transition and Success for International Students
Project Coordinators: Zorammawii Ralte & Katherine Kaiser
Department: Student Orientation and Family Programs & Undergraduate Colleges

Title of Mini-Grant: PWR Reading Series
Project Coordinator: Kevin Clouther
Department: Writing and Rhetoric

Title of Mini-Grant: Exploring Clinical Laboratory Sciences through Hands-on Experience for HCARE students (formerly HCOP) during the 2013 Summer Academy
Project Coordinator: Clinical Asst. Professor Jeannie Guglielmo
Department: Clinical Laboratory Sciences

Title of Mini-Grant: Diversity Needed in Healthcare Professions
Project Coordinator: Clinical Assoc. Professor Kathleen Finnegan
Department: Clinical Laboratory Sciences

Title of Mini-Grant: Module in Interprofessional Skills Training in Diversity (MIST-D)
Project Coordinators: Dr. Lee Anne Xippolitos & Dr. Latha Chandran
Department: School of Nursing, School of Medicine

Title of Mini-Grant: Vets-4-Vets
Project Coordinator: Ismael Rodriguez
Department: Office of Veterans Affairs

Title of Mini-Grant: Recruitment of Women in BME through Mentored
Project Coordinator: Asst. Professor Christine DeLorenzo
Department: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

Title of Mini-Grant: Interschool Council on Undoing Racism Skill and Theory Labs for the Social Work Profession: Organizing for a Stronger Anti-Racist Lens in Our Education
Project Coordinator: Bertha Murphy
Department: School of Social Welfare

Title of Mini-Grant: Stony Brook FORWARD - Focus on Resources for Women's Advancement, Retention, and Development
Project Coordinator: Patricia Aceves
Department: The Faculty Center, TLT

Title of Mini-Grant: Broadening the Scope of Student Support and Development for Under-represented and Minority Students in the School of Nursing: A Collaborative Effort
Project Coordinator: Heather-Ayn Indelicato
Department: Counseling and Psychological Sciences and School of Nursing

Title of Mini-Grant: Improving Translation Services for Spanish-Speaking Patients at SBUH
Project Coordinator: Clinical Asst. Professor Eva Swoboda
Department: Obstetrics & Gynecology and Emergency Medicine

Title of Mini-Grant: Racialized Representation of Genger in Spain and Latin America
Project Coordinator: Asst. Professor Lena Burgos-Lafuente
Department: Hispanic Languages and Literature

Title of Mini-Grant: Use of Clinical Training Videos to Promote Cultural Competence and Patient Sensitivity among Medical and Other Health Professional Students
Project Coordinator: Perrilynn Baldelli
Department: Office of Minority and Students Affairs, School of Medicine

Title of Mini-Grant: Marvels and Monsters: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics and Graphic Novels, 1942-1986
Project Coordinator: Janet H. Clarke
Department: Libraries

Title of Mini-Grant: Chemistry: A Bridge to Medicine
Project Coordinator: Professor Roy Lacey
Department: Chemistry

Title of Mini-Grant: Communication Interprofessional Teamwork Initiative (CITI): New Health Professional Cultural Competency Interdisciplinary Curriculum Model
Project Coordinator: Howard Schneider, Dean
Department: School of Journalism

Title of Mini-Grant: Academic and Social Experiences of SBU students across their First Year of College
Project Coordinator: Professor Sheri R. Levy
Department: Psychology in collaboration with the Career Center and Academic Advising

Title of Mini-Grant: Paul Robeson: A celebration in tragedy
Project Coordinator: Professor Nicholas Rzhevsky; Professor Stephen Marsh
Department: Theater Arts and Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Title of Mini-Grant: Creating an LGBTQ - Friendly Educational Experience for Students: Development of an online awareness Training Program
Project Coordinator: Professor Joanne Davila
Department: Psychology

Title of Mini-Grant: Passing Along Dare to Care
Project Coordinator: Cheryl D. Hamilton and Stephanie Jarrett
Department: EOP/AIM

Title of Mini-Grant: "Open Yuh Mout' an' (S)tory Jump Out:" Narratives & Perceptions of Caribbean Immigrants and their Descendants in the Context of Stony Brook University and New York
Project Coordinator: Professor Dawn Harris
Department: Africana Studies

Title of Mini-Grant: Girl Power in Science and Engineering
Project Coordinator: Professor Monica F. Bugallo
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Title of Mini-Grant: Teaching and Assessing Cultural Competency Using Objective Structured Teaching Exercises: Training the Trainer
Project Coordinator: Professor Elza Mylona
Department: Preventive and Internal Medicine

Title of Mini-Grant: Center for Inclusive Education Research Symposium: Celebrating Diversity and Academic Excellence in Graduate Education
Project Coordinator: Professor David L. Ferguson
Department: Center for Inclusive Education, a division of the Graduate School and member of STEM SMART in the Department of Technology & Society

Title of Mini-Grant: Engineering Boot Camp
Project Coordinator: Professor Imin Kao
Department: College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS)

Title of Mini-Grant: A Career Path for African American Students from HBCUs to Brookhaven National Laboratory
Project Coordinator: Professor Robert C. Liebermann, Gabriel Gwanmesia and Professor Lars Ehm
Department: Geosciences and Mineral Physics Institute

Title of Mini-Grant: Enhancing Recruitment and Retention of Female Students in BE programs in Engineering Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Project Coordinator: Professor Gary P. Halada
Department: Materials Science and Engineering

Title of Mini-Grant: Gateway to the Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences
Project Coordinator: Professor Marvin H. O'Neal III
Department: Undergraduate Biology

Title of Mini-Grant: Students Empowered by Embracing Diversity
Project Coordinator: Professor Aldustus E. Jordan, III
Department: School of Medicine

Title of Mini-Grant: Stony Brook University Campus Pride Initiative: Creating a Safe and Caring Learning Environment for Stony Brook's LGBTQ Community
Project Coordinator: Chris Tanaka
Department: Center for Prevention and Outreach

Title of Mini-Grant: WISE - Mentor Program
Project Coordinator: Carrie Anne Miller
Department: WISE Program

Title of Mini-Grant: Adapted Aquatics Inclusion Initiative
Project Coordinator: Professor Peter Angelo
Department: ATEP, Adapted Aquatics, and ER Program

Title of Mini-Grant: Addressing Diversity Dialogues Across Disciplines
Project Coordinator: Professor Dorit Kaufman & Professor Ximena Zate
Department: Linguistics

Title of Mini-Grant: Medical Students Learning Spanish: A Follow-Up Study
Project Coordinator: Professor Catherine Belling w/ Dr. Jack Coulehan
Department: Preventive Medicine

Title of Mini-Grant: Web-based Curriculum Resource Center for Multicultural Diversity Requested for Academic Year-2003-2004
Project Coordinator: Professor Dorit Kaufman, Janice Grackin, Professor Elaine Hoffman & Paul St. Denis
Department: Professional Education Program, CELT and Library

Title of Mini-Grant: Expanding NYC University/High School Partnerships
Project Coordinator: Professor Helen Lemay
Department: History

Title of Mini-Grant: Two-Day Conference on Bodies, Languages and Memory
Project Coordinator: Dr. Benigno Trigo
Department: Hispanic Languages and Literature

Title of Mini-Grant: ESL Tutoring Center
Project Coordinator: Professor Marianne Catalano & Professor Barbara Brownworth
Department: Linguistics

Title of Mini-Grant: Promoting Cultural Competency Utilizing Practitioner, Client & Student Interactive Forums
Project Coordinator: Professor Beverly P. Horowitz
Department: Occupational Therapy

Title of Mini-Grant: Creating a Mindful & Emotionally Competent Community
Project Coordinator: Professor Daniel Klein & Dr. JoAnn Rosen & Dr. Cheryl Kurash
Department: Psychology and University Counseling Center

Title of Mini-Grant: Making New Mirrors for Reclaiming the Public History of Angel Island by Publishing a Multi-Media Research Project in a Museum Kiosk Bridging Asian American Studies from San Francisco to Long Island
Project Coordinator: Professor Gary Mar
Department: Philosophy

Title of Mini-Grant: Diversity Education Library
Project Coordinator: Professor William McAdoo & David Scarzella
Department: Africana Studies and Campus Residences

Title of Mini-Grant: Acculturation & Interculturation of a New Pluralist Drama
Project Coordinator: Professor Phillip Baldwin
Department: Theatre Arts

Title of Mini-Grant: Integrating Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Issues into Mainstream Psychology Teaching
Project Coordinator: Professor Marvin R. Goldfried
Department: Psychology

Title of Mini-Grant: Proposal for a Retreat on Cross-Cultural Relations
Project Coordinator: Professor Norman Goodman & Cheryl Chambers
Department: Sociology and Office of the Dean of Students

Title of Mini-Grant: Promoting Student Leadership & Social Responsibility through Service Learning
Project Coordinator: Professor Gregory A. Ruf
Department: SSI and Anthropology

Title of Mini-Grant: The Theatre Arts Encounters and Cultural Diversity Project
Project Coordinator: Professor Michael X. Zelenak
Department: Theatre Arts

Title of Mini-Grant: Advocacy in Action for Children & Family
Project Coordinator: Professor Joan F. Kuchner
Department: SSI

Title of Mini-Grant: Partners in Health and Higher Education
Project Coordinator: Professor Helen Lemay
Department: History

Title of Mini-Grant: Lecture Series on Diversity, Intergroup Relations, & Prejudice: Psychological Perspective
Project Coordinator: Professor Sheri R. Levy w/ Professor Arthur Aron
Department: Psychology

Title of Mini-Grant: Arts of the Atlantic World
Project Coordinator: Professor Nicholas D. Mirzoeff
Department: Art

Title of Mini-Grant: Increasing Cultural Awareness Through Faculty/Student Role Modeling
Project Coordinator: Professor Kenneth Axton Jr.
Department: Respiratory Sciences and Engineering

Title of Mini-Grant: Opportunities in Thermal Spray Technology to Encourage Diversity
Project Coordinator: Tyrone Bennett w/ Dr. Herb Herman
Department: Materials Sciences and Engineering

Title of Mini-Grant: Dialogues on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Co-Sponsored Curriculum-Based Undergraduate Lecture/Performance Arts Series
Project Coordinator: Professor Harvey Cormier w/ Professor Gary Mar
Department: Philosophy

Title of Mini-Grant: A Multicultural Training Project in Mauritius
Project Coordinator: Professor Donna Costa
Department: Occupational Therapy (SHTM)

Title of Mini-Grant: Opportunities for Minority Students to Learn Phlebotomy An Entry Level Health Care Profession
Project Coordinator: Professor Kathleen Finnegan
Department: Clinical Laboratory Sciences (SHTM)

Title of Mini-Grant: Women's Studies Pilot Project for the Academic Component of a Youth Leadership Institute
Project Coordinator: Professor Temma Kaplan
Department: Women's Studies

Title of Mini-Grant: Spanish for Medical Students
Project Coordinator: Professor John L. Coulehan w/ Catherine Belling
Department: Preventive Medicine

Title of Mini-Grant: PROJECT ODED-Opportunities in Dentistry to Encourage Diversity
Project Coordinator: Professor Jonathan Garlick
Department: School of Dental Medicine

Title of Mini-Grant: A Safe Place
Project Coordinator: Joanna Harris
Department: Disabled Student Services

Title of Mini-Grant: Ocean & Atmospheric Science Summer Fellows Program
Project Coordinator: Dr. Sergio Sanudo-Wilhelmy
Department: Marine Sciences Research Center

Title of Mini-Grant: Stony Brook Union Art Gallery - Celebration of Diversity Exhibitions
Project Coordinator: Marcia Wiener
Department: Student Union and Student Activities

Title of Mini-Grant: Contemporary African Art & Criticism
Project Coordinator: Professor Barbara E. Frank
Department: Art

Title of Mini-Grant: Stimson College International Studies Living Learning Center
Project Coordinator: Becky Verzinski
Department: Residential Programs

Title of Mini-Grant: Dept. Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Summer Apprenticeship
Project Coordinator: Professor Eckard Wimmer
Department: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Title of Mini-Grant: Supporting Diversity Through Computer Based Peer Tutorials
Project Coordinator: Professor Michael Zweig
Department: Economics

Title of Mini-Grant: Organizing a Cultural Diversity Program at the Harriman School
Project Coordinator: Professor Subimal Chatterjee w/ Ms. Laura Courtney
Department: Harriman School for Management and Policy

Title of Mini-Grant: Latin Americanist Undergraduates: From Lounge into Community
Project Coordinator: Professor Paul Gootenberg
Department: History

Title of Mini-Grant: Retheorizing Classical Theory
Project Coordinator: Professor Michael Kimmel
Department: Sociology

Title of Mini-Grant: Diversity Peer Education
Project Coordinator: Lisa A. Pierce
Department: Residential Programs