Faculty Research and Creative Activity Awards

Inaugurated in AY 2014-2015, the ERFA Faculty Research and Creative Activity Awards of $2500 each (increased to $3000 beginning AY 2025-26) have been granted to faculty members yearly in order to provide funding in support of their scholarly and creative activities.  

2025 - 2026 Award Recipients:

Dr. Edward Cohen - School of Social Work
Dr. Ismaila Diallo - Department of Meteorology and Climate Science
Dr. Scott Shaffer - Department of Biological Sciences

Faculty eligible to apply include tenure-track faculty, tenured faculty, FERP faculty, and senior lecturer faculty with more than 6 years of continuous service to SJSU.  The annual call for proposals goes out in October with a December deadline.  In February awardees are notified and subsequently recognized at SJSU's Research Celebration event.  For more information about these awards and a list of past winners you can download a brief fact sheet [pdf], or visit this Center for Faculty Excellence and Teaching Innovation web page.

These awards are made possible through donations to the ERFA Research and Creative Activity fund.  Please consider making a donation to support the work of our current faculty at SJSU.