Cooperative Agreement NU2GGH002405

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) under CFDA 93.433 will fund the development and pilot testing of the "ATA3 Toolkit for AT Awareness and Anywhere Access to Computers". The five-year project aims to address barriers faced by people with disabilities who need assistive technologies (AT) to use computers in schools, libraries, government services, and other public settings. The key...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Nearabl, Inc. focuses on innovating mobile-based 4D progression of indoor spaces through dynamic 3D mapping and reconstruction. The proposed research aims to develop an attention-based modeling and reconstruction mechanism to enhance 3D reconstruction, coupled with an AI-enhanced mixed reality guide to improve data collection and achieve precise 3D modeling from mobile...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) under CFDA 93.433, will support the University of Massachusetts Boston in expanding implementation of the Rapid Engagement Team Approach (RETA), an evidence-based practice for improving employment and wage outcomes for individuals receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). The $1,000,000 award will be used to: 1) package the RETA technology transfer...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $299,022 to DePaul University aims to develop a community-centered design and development framework for an AI-powered platform that will improve support services for transplanted populations. The key objectives are to: Engage stakeholders across various spheres to assess needs and develop a personalized recommendation system to match migrants with appropriate services and...

This Project Grant award for $210,000.00, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), supports the development of an automated framework to generate textual annotations for multimodal medical image segmentation. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award (10/1/2025 - 9/30/2028) include: (1) an auto-prompting mechanism driven by graph-based reasoning to produce...

This federal Project Grant award, in the amount of $250,000.00, was provided by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) to the University of Texas at Arlington to conduct a three-year, quasi-experimental study on the effectiveness of a specialized court model (the Permanent Managing Conservatorship (PMC) Court) in improving outcomes for youth in long-term foster care, many of whom have disabilities. The key objectives of the study are...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports planning activities to better understand and address challenges faced by emerging research institutions (ERIs) and predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs) in the federal grant resubmission process. Specifically, the grant aims to: (1) gather insights on resubmission challenges and support needs across the broader research community; (2) conceptualize...

This Project Grant award, titled "MODEL-BY-NUMBERS: AN INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL TOOL FOR SOFTWARE MODELS", is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The project aims to develop and implement an interactive software modeling education tool, "Model-By-Numbers", to improve undergraduate computing curricula and cultivate students' software modeling skills. The $399,608 award, effective October 15, 2025 through September...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program is intended to improve undergraduate computing education by developing an innovative inquiry-based learning tool called TD-Tutor to help students recognize, evaluate, and manage technical debt in software systems. The $192,197 award to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), with a period of performance from June 15, 2025 to May 31, 2028, aims to integrate technical debt...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $254,022.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Washington State University. The award will fund the development of a novel teaching and assessment approach for evaluating individual student contributions within team-based software development projects in undergraduate computing education. The project aims to create a framework that allows students to compile individual portfolios documenting their...