2021-2023         

Advancing Faculty Diversity Grant, 2021-2023. University of California Office of the President (UCOP). “Developing and Implementing Equity Advocate Programs at UC Santa Cruz and UC Merced.” Merced team: Valdez (PI), with Co-PIs Dania Matos and Tanya Golash-Boza, $90,000

2020-2021           

Advancing Faculty Diversity Grant, 2020-2021. University of California Office of the President (UCOP). “DEI Excellence and Hiring a Diverse Faculty at UC Santa Cruz and UC Merced: DEI Faculty Working Group and “First Round” Diversity and Research Statements.” Merced team: Valdez (PI), with Co-PIs Dania Matos and Teenie Matlock, $499,787.20

2019-2021           

Advancing Faculty Diversity Grant, 2019-2021. University of California Office of the President (UCOP). “Improving Climate and Retention for STEM Faculty through Inclusive Communities at UC Merced,” Valdez (PI), with Co-PIs Teenie Matlock, Dania Matos, Tanya Golash-Boza, $138,874.10

2019-2020         

Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI), University of California Office of the President (UCOP). “UC Collaborative to Promote Immigrant and Student Equity,” Laura Enriquez (PI), Zulema Valdez (co-PI), Jennifer Najera (co-PI), Robert Teranishi (co-PI), Lisa Garcia Bedolla (co-PI), Cecilia Ayon (co-investigator), Annie Ro (co-investigator), $300,000

2018-2019           

Advancing Faculty Diversity Grant, 2018-2019. University of California Office of the President (UCOP). “Pathways to the Professoriate: Advancing Faculty Diversity in the Schools of Natural Sciences and Engineering at UC Merced,” Valdez (PI), with Teenie Matlock (co-PI), Gregg Camfield (co-PI), Marjorie Zatz (co-PI), Tanya Golash-Boza (co-PI), and Jill Robbins (co-PI), $498,052

2018-2022           

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. “UC Merced Program in Support of Faculty Diversity and Career Enhancement,” Marjorie Zatz (PI), Zulema Valdez (co-PI), Teenie Matlock (co-PI). $500,000

2014-2017         

National Institute for Health. “A CBPR Initiative to Address Obesity Disparities for Latinos in the San Joaquin Valley,” Jan Wallander (PI), Robin Delugan(co-PI), Valdez (co-investigator), Steve Russos (co-investigator), Susana Ramirez (co-investigator), $90,000