Scholarly and Creative Activity Committee

The purpose of the committee is to:

  • promote and encourage scholarly and creative activity including enhancement of the climate, resources, opportunity, and recognition for faculty, staff, and students.conducting scholarly and creative activities;
  • assist the Associate Provost for Research Development and Administration and act as an advisory committee for this office;
  • advise the president and provost in matters relating to scholarly and creative activity and assist them with recognizing and supporting scholarly and creative activity and grant development by faculty, staff, and students.

Membership: As there are many types of scholarly and creative activities expressive of different areas of study, the committee should have a large and diverse membership. The group meets once a month on Wednesday mornings.


Membership for 2024-2025
Yulia Artemenko co-chair, Biological Sciences
Matthew Baker co-chair, Chemistry
Christopher Chandler Biological Sciences
Ioana Coman Computer Science
Dean Crawford Accounting Finance and Law
Arvind Diddi Communication Studies
Amy Dumas Extended Learning
Nathan Eaton Art and Design
Adam Fay Psychology
Poongodi Geetha-Loganathan Biological Sciences
Lenuta Giukin Modern Languages and Literatures
Tiphanie Gonzalez Counseling and Psychological Services
Sien Hu Psychology
Lowell Hutcheson ARTSwego
Khairul Islam Communication Studies
Sungeun Kim Electrical and Computer Engineering
Weihua (Daisy) Liu Computer Science
Grace Maxon-Clarke Educational Opportunity Program
David McLain Marketing and Management
Matthew McLeskey Criminal Justice
Cleane Medeiros Advisement Center
Alanna Ossa Anthropology
Rebecca Peters Anthropology
Joshua Plencner Political Science
JR Slosson Atmospheric and Geological Sciences
Mohammad Tajvarpour Accounting Finance and Law
Christina Vasquez CSTEP
Alex Yeung Curriculum and Instruction
Hui Zhang Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ryan Stiles Student Representative (Graduate)
ex officio:
William Bowers ORSP / Associate Provost for Research Development and Administration
Kristin Sotak Student ORCA (interim director)
Meeting Dates for Fall 2024
Advisoy Full SCAC
  Wednesday 04-SEP-2024
Wednesday 25-SEP-2024 Wednesday 09-OCT-2024
Wednesday 06-NOV-2024 Wednesday 13-NOV-2024
  Wednesday 04-DEC-2024
Meeting Dates for Spring 2025
Advisoy Full SCAC
Wednesday 05-FEB-2025
Wednesday 12-FEB-2025
Wednesday 05-MAR-2025
Wednesday 12-MAR-2025
Wednesday 02-APR-2025
Wednesday 09-APR-2025
Wednesday 30-APR-2025
Wednesday 07-MAY-2025

Campus Grant Programs Reviewed by SCAC

SCAC reviews a large selection of the internal grants provided on campus. The guidelines and information for all grant programs peer-reviewed by SCAC can be found on ORSP's "Internal Grants" page. 

Information for Members

The following links are accessible to SCAC members only when signed into their oswego.edu email account.