Cooperative Agreement SINLEC24CA5102

This $140,101 National Science Foundation project grant supports research examining women's access to powerful cabinet-level positions focused on security policymaking. Specifically, the award to Washington University will fund a collaborative research project analyzing causes and consequences of women's exclusion from or appointment to the defense, interior/home affairs, and foreign affairs cabinets. The research aims to test hypotheses about how women gain access to traditionally masculine...

This $114,410 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund research by Colorado State University to explore potential barriers to women speaking up in work teams. The project aims to understand why and when women are less likely than men to express ideas, emerge as leaders, and participate in work team discussions, which can impact their career advancement and workforce contributions....

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $300,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Women's Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620). The purpose of this 2-year project is to develop an initiative that empowers underserved and underrepresented populations, including women and minorities, to explore careers in the cybersecurity industry. The key activities include coordinating with community...

This Project Grant award of $943,061 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to address gender equity and diversity issues in community college computing programs. The University of Colorado Boulder, in partnership with the National Center for Women & IT and the County College of Morris, will adapt existing research-based resources, develop new resources, and facilitate professional development for faculty at nine community colleges. The goal is to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) award of $160,000 provides funding for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to study ways to motivate allyship behaviors to broaden participation in STEM fields. Under the sponsorship of Drs. Tiffany Ito and Evava Pietri at the University of Colorado Boulder, the research will examine tactics to encourage allyship behaviors and the mechanisms that underpin these tactics, as...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Project Grant of $276,000 will fund the development of an implicit bias training product by Virtual Apprentice LLC. The product aims to promote diversity in the workplace through an immersive virtual reality experience that allows users to experience encounters from the perspectives of their coworkers and clients. The training tool is intended to heighten users' understanding of their own implicit biases and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations provides $300,000 to the University of California, Los Angeles under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. The award will support collecting enrollment and degree attainment data in undergraduate computing programs disaggregated by gender and race/ethnicity for three to five institutions with...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program will fund the ADVANCEGEO Partnership for Transforming Workplace Climate. The $333,561 award will support the development of a workplace climate intervention program and train-the-trainers certification program for academic departments and future faculty. It will also create online public resources for broader engagement in workplace climate interventions and a plan for sustained national impact across STEM fields...

The City of Durham was awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. The funding will be used by the Durham Police Department to promote leadership development among current sworn female officers through participation in local, state, and national law enforcement leadership conferences. Additionally, the department will aim to...

This Project Grant award of $100,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) supports a project led by Bryn Mawr College to develop recommendations for enhancing research development support at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs). The project will convene a series of regional workshops involving approximately 16 PUI representatives per workshop to examine the unique challenges and strengths of research development functions at PUIs....