Cooperative Agreement 80NSSC23M0079

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities, under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $299,000 to the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) to build equitable university-community research collaborations on Chicago's South Side. The key products and services to be delivered under this 2.5-year grant include: Formalizing a partnership between UIC's Earth and Environmental Sciences Department and the Urban Growers...

This $234,639 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate (NSF MPS) will support the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc. (LCO) to develop the USA Sky Partners program. The program aims to expand access to authentic astronomy research experiences for undergraduates at Hispanic-serving and minority-serving institutions. Specifically, LCO will partner with Occidental College and the University of Puerto Rico-Rio...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $136,629 to New York Sun Works Inc. to implement an environmental education program in New York City. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate climate and environmental education practices, methods, and techniques that will serve to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors in over 1,600 K-8th grade students...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) provides $465,000 to Southern Illinois University Carbondale to develop and assess a Remote Engagement and Access to Learning (REAL) field trip model that will allow any school, regardless of location or funding, to actively participate in large-scale scientific events such as the 2024 total solar eclipse. The REAL field trip model will be tested with 6 middle schools, 3 within and...

This Project Grant award of $177,996.00, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, investigates the spatial and temporal patterns of urban heat islands (UHI) and urban pollution islands (UPI) at the neighborhood scale. The project aims to develop geographical methods to better understand how UHI and UPI interact and affect heat and air quality for urban residents. Key activities include: Collecting fine-scale ground...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science program (CFDA 43.001) awarded $764,650 to the University of Illinois on May 1, 2025, for a three-year research initiative addressing the integration of urban land cover and land use dynamics into Earth system modeling. The project aims to overcome three critical barriers in urban climate research: the lack of global high-resolution urban surface data for Earth system models (ESMs), the...

This $385,959 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to improve understanding of the Sun's corona, the hot outer layer of the solar atmosphere, through the analysis of data from five total solar eclipses occurring between 2015 and 2024. Researchers at the Wentworth Institute of Technology will analyze visible and near-infrared imaging data of the corona to study its electron temperature, density, and magnetic field structure. This will...

This Project Grant award, provided by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951), will fund the Children and Teachers Foundation of the Chicago Teachers Union to implement an environmental education program in Chicago, Illinois. The $223,600 award, effective February 1, 2025, will support the design, demonstration, and dissemination of environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental...

This $299,997 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports the development of free and open-source software and a web interface for extracting high-precision brightness measurements of stars from citizen scientist observations collected with color digital cameras. The project aims to greatly expand the pool of citizen scientists able to contribute to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the TIP (Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) program provides $649,999 to The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) to develop prototype decision-making tools for optimizing tree canopy coverage in desert cities. The key deliverables include: Tree selection and distribution tools for urban planners to balance concerns around heat, water use, and environmental justice Use of thermal data to assess water-heat-health...