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The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to host a conference on "Inclusive Collaboration Resources: Enhancing Research Support Infrastructure at Minority Serving Institutions." The goal is to develop best practices and resources to improve equitable research collaboration and retention of diverse STEM researchers. The conference will convene research enterprise...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) will provide $100,000 to Nova Southeastern University in Florida to host a series of conferences focused on supporting early-career faculty and enhancing research infrastructure at emerging research institutions and minority-serving institutions. The conferences will bring together research development professionals, university administrators, and early-career faculty to capture...

This $599,868 National Science Foundation award under the STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program will support research and training to create more inclusive undergraduate research experiences for low socioeconomic students in life sciences. Over a two-year period from September 2022 through August 2024, the awardee Arizona State University will conduct interviews and a nationwide survey to identify factors impacting low-SES student researchers. This research aims to understand...

This $1,568,526 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to identify and address systemic barriers in promotion and tenure processes that disadvantage underrepresented minority (URM) faculty, particularly URM women, in STEM disciplines. The 5-year project, led by a consortium of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and a Historically Black College or University (HBCU), has two key objectives: 1) determine the theoretical...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $103,357 will support a collaborative research effort by Arizona State University to engage STEM leaders in improving diversity among faculty. Led by ASU in partnership with the University of New Mexico and University of Oregon, this NSF Advancing Excellence in Graduate Education program Catalyst Alliance project will pilot an institutional change strategy of broad significance. Over the two-year period from March 2022 to February 2024, the...

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....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) to establish an interdisciplinary graduate training program at the interface of chemistry and biology. The program will train 68 master's and doctoral students, including 23 NSF-funded trainees, to utilize advances in chemistry, genomics, and mathematical modeling to address fundamental questions about the generation and maintenance...

Federal Grant Award Summary GRANTS MADE AT SCALE: Implementing a Regional Research Administration Student Internship Program The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded $1.66 million under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) on September 1, 2025, to develop and implement a comprehensive research administration internship program across five institutions in Maryland and Delaware. This four-year...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities CFDA program to Southern University and A&M College (SUBR), the National Sponsored Programs Administrators Alliance (NSPAA) of HBCUs, Inc., and partnering institutions. The grant will fund a conference and two virtual workshops to address the need for greater historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and minority-serving institutions (MSIs) participation in federally funded...