| Bakersfield | Lance Talbert | Designing Assessments for a Graph First Introductory Chemistry Curriculum and Assessment (GráFICA) model |
| Chico | Italo Lima | Smart Grazing and Virtual Reality to Improve Organic Dairy Farming and Student Learning |
| Chico | Deserea Langley | Engaging Indigenous Food Sovereignty, TEK education, and undergraduate research pathways |
| East Bay | Ram Kandasamy | A multi-campus student-driven pipeline for developing non-opioid therapies for inflammatory pain |
| Fresno | Masaki Uchida | Elucidating calcium phosphate biomineralization within enzyme-confined protein vesicles |
| Fullerton | Nikolas Nikolaidis | Stress-Induced HSPA1A Surface Localization and Immune Recognition of Cancer Cells |
| Fullerton | Ryan Cammarota | Data Science Guided Design of Nickel Catalysts for Remediating Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances |
| Humboldt | Tesfayohanes Yacob | UAVs for Rural Wildfire Resilience: Environmental Sensing, Emergency Response, and Undergraduate Research |
| Long Beach | Melawhy Garcia | Harvesting Healthy Habits in Long Beach: Training the Next Generation of Nutrition and Public Health Researchers |
| Los Angeles | Jingjing Li | AI-Driven Prediction of Post-Fire Water Hazards: A Multi-Campus Research and Training Initiative |
| Los Angeles | Susan Cohen | Elucidating the Molecular Details of the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock |
| Monterey Bay | Arun Jani | Linking Soil Health, Microbial Diversity, and Insect Communities to Sustainable Cacao Production in Costa Rica |
| Monterey Bay | Caetano Pereira Pedroso De Albuquerque | Establishing a High-Throughput Gravimetric Phenotyping Platform to Quantify Water-Use Efficiency and Nitrate Leaching in Romaine Lettuce |
| Northridge | Abhishek Verma | Next-generation Workforce Development for AI-Based Audits of Civil Infrastructure |
| Northridge | Melissa Tindage | Engineering Group Identity: Initial Scale Development for Equity-Centered Group Work |
| Northridge | Rashida Hasan | Deep Learning Applications to Satellite and Ground Data Integration for Decision Makers |
| Pomona | Reza Baghaei Lakeh | Low-Cost Thermal Energy Storage for Decarbonized Food Drying and Data Center Cooling |
| San Bernardino | Qingquan Sun | AI-Powered Multimodal Sensing for Micro-Behavioral Signatures of Cognitive Decline in Older Adults |
| San Bernardino | Samantha Juan | C.A.R.E.-AI: Communication Avatars for Realistic Engagement using Artificial Intelligence |
| San Bernardino | Jennifer Alford | From Field to Future: Scaling FLOWS for Student Success, Equity, & Environmental Leadership |
| San Diego | Wenwu Xu | AI-JUDGE: Cultivating Computational Judgment in Undergraduate STEM via Intentionally Fallible Generative AI |
| San Francisco | Xiaorong Zhang | Exploring AI-Assisted Firmware Engineering Workflows: Toward an Industry-Informed Experiential Learning Framework |
| San Jose | Marcella McCollum | Building Equitable Undergraduate Pathways in Communication Sciences and Disorders |
| San Luis Obispo | Long Wang | Data-Driven Prosthetic Care: Multimodal Sensing and Machine Learning for Real-Time Socket Fit Assessment |
| San Marcos | Mallory Rice | From Classroom to Career: Connecting Course Content to Real Scientists Through Undergraduate Research Stories |
| Sonoma | Matty Mookerjee | Linking Fluid-Stress Interactions to Microstructural Signatures in Calcite |