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This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $100,000 in funding to the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, Inc. (doing business as Venturewell) to host a conference focused on reimagining science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) innovation and entrepreneurship through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The conference will bring together a...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (NSF ENG) provides $696,080 to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for collaborative research from October 2022 through September 2026. The award supports development of a community tool to mobilize nonprofit resources and talents. Researchers are iteratively designing, assessing, and refining a platform that allows small-to-medium nonprofits to obtain necessary resources and talents to support their missions....

This Project Grant award, valued at $1,262,948.00 and funded by the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079), will establish the "Movement, Music and BrainHealth ACCELNET" - a global research network to accelerate convergent, mechanistic, and translational research on the coupled relationship between brain activity, expressive movement, and music. The primary objectives are to: 1) Understand the mechanisms by which practicing music and...

This $386,139 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of an ecosystem to empower musicians through artificial intelligence-enabled music production tools. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the four-year award to Northwestern University will create an open-source software framework and initiatives allowing musicians and AI researchers to collaborate on improving AI music creation tools. The framework will facilitate deployment of new AI models...

This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the LIGHT UP collaborative research project. The collaborative consists of six institutions - State University of New York College of Technology at Canton, Rowan College of Burlington County, Marymount University, Alvernia University, Kean University, and Bowie State University - representing the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $149,433 to the University of Rhode Island to cultivate partnerships between community leaders and informal STEM learning institutions in New Orleans, LA and St. Louis, MO. The project seeks to use films that address anti-racism, science, and environmental justice to support reflection, dialogue, and relationship building between these groups. The partners will screen film excerpts,...

This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports a multi-institution collaborative effort to develop a research and innovation ecosystem that leverages external partnerships to shape the STEM talent pipeline and workforce development. The "LIGHT UP" collaborative, comprised of six higher education institutions in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, aims to establish a...

This $563,190 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support the development of a community-driven roadmap to advance broadening participation goals in the geoscience community over the next 50 years. The University of Texas at Austin will convene a conference for stakeholders from academia, industry, professional organizations, and government agencies to reflect on past efforts and cultivate new partnerships to support diversity, equity and...

This $733,043 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to engage Latinx families as design partners to develop equitable informal engineering learning opportunities for young children. The project, titled "From Stories to Solutions", is a collaboration between community leaders at Palenque LSNA, educators at the Chicago Children's Museum, and researchers at Loyola University Chicago. Over 90 Latinx caregivers and their 5- to...

This $3,057,609 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to highlight the stories and STEM identities of historically marginalized communities in local contexts. The "STEM in Your Neighborhood" (SIYN) project will: 1) establish equitable community engagement processes, 2) engage residents in participatory STEM-story sharing, 3) develop community-authored STEM narratives, and 4) broadly disseminate the findings....