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This $165,488 National Science Foundation project grant supports the 28th and 29th Dissertations Symposium in Chemical Oceanography (DISCO XXVIII and DISCO XXIX). The University of Hawaii at Manoa will organize DISCO XXVIII in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii in October 2022. The biennial conference provides recent and soon-to-be Ph.D. graduates in chemical oceanography an opportunity to present dissertation research results and participate in professional development activities. Symposium attendees will...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $186,000 under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the Society for Classical Studies from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The award funds an annual fellowship for an American scholar to conduct lexicographical research at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Institute in Munich, Germany. Fellows contribute to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, an encyclopedic lexicon of the Latin language. Through their work on this major...

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of New Mexico (UNM) to host a two-day conference titled "Improving the Research and Innovation Enterprise Across the Southwest Region". The conference aims to (1) enhance the collective understanding of challenges facing the research enterprise in the Southwest U.S., (2) formulate next steps for individual and collective action to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EPIIC:INCREASING OUR INNOVATION SCORES: SYMBIOTIC COLLABORATION OF REGIONAL ECOSYSTEMS," provides $394,470 to establish an innovation ecosystem in a cohort-based model for primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs). The primary goals are to (1) develop innovation capacity within the cohort institutions and (2) collectively...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), provides $132,758 to The Colorado College to support research on distributed and fragmented software design meetings. The research will document issues encountered in remote software design meetings and their impact on projects, and will design, implement and evaluate new tools and practices...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $600,000 in funding to support the Sustainability Research and Innovation (SRI) Congress to be held in Chicago, IL from June 16-20, 2025. The SRI Congress is the world's largest annual event focused on sustainability science and innovation, bringing together research, government, business, and civil society leaders from over 100 countries to advance progress toward sustainability...

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The Leland Stanford Junior University received a $241,811 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce the "WISE WOMEN: A PHILOSOPHY TALK SERIES ON FEMALE PHILOSOPHERS THROUGH THE AGES" radio program and podcast. The series will celebrate overlooked female philosophers from antiquity to the 20th century through 16 episodes produced under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) between May 1, 2023 and April 30, 2025. Each episode...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems provides $300,000 to the University of Illinois from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CNS CORE: MEDIUM: MIVIRTUALSEAT: SEMANTICS-AWARE CONTENT DISTRIBUTION FOR IMMERSIVE MEETING ENVIRONMENTS." The research aims to develop semantics-aware content distribution techniques for immersive virtual meeting environments under the NSF's...

The College of Charleston received a $320,502 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to conduct a project titled "SELF-KNOWLEDGE IN EASTERN AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHIES" from October 1, 2017 to June 30, 2019. The project aims to promote better teaching and research in the humanities for higher education faculty through examining concepts of self-knowledge in Eastern and...