This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $255,076 to the University of California Santa Cruz to develop new mechanical models and efficient computational methods for human hair of Type 4 texture. The award aims to address current deficiencies in understanding and simulating Afro-textured or kinky hair, which is the naturally...
This Project Grant award, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, will evaluate the impact of three EHR-optimization interventions on primary care physician (PCP) well-being, EHR time, and patient care quality and utilization. The interventions include: 1) scribes, 2) advanced team-based inbox messaging support, and 3) AI-assisted inbox messaging support. The $1,199,999 award to Brigham...
This Project Grant award of $1,220,412 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support a study to identify predictors of intervention outcomes in students with reading disabilities. The University of Connecticut (UConn) will lead the research, which aims to: 1) establish trajectories and predictors of reading gains in students with reading disabilities at specialized...
The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office (DAO), in collaboration with Uptrust, will develop and implement the Advanced Mobile Technology to Enhance Victim Services (AMTEVS) project through a $750,000 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582). Over three years, the DAO and Uptrust will customize a smartphone mobile application and two-way text messaging platform to improve...
This $750,000 Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215), supports Our Piece Of The Pie, Inc., a non-profit organization in Hartford, Connecticut, in delivering youth development, postsecondary education...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under CFDA 93.310 Trans-NIH Research Support provides $1,177,273 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct research on understanding the principles of phosphene fusion in high-channel-count visual prostheses. The project aims to develop detailed, empirically driven, and behaviorally validated models of neuronal activation during electrical stimulation of the visual cortex to predict the perceptual...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $100,000 supported a conference at the University of Maryland, College Park from September 2022 to February 2023. The goal of the conference was to explore human-centered approaches to developing an ethical framework for integrating considerations and constraints into the design of artificial intelligence solutions from requirements gathering through specification. Specifically, the conference addressed knowledge representation methodologies,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports research to visualize the mechanisms at the intersection of chromatin, transcription, and epigenetics. The $1,525,500 award to Harvard Medical School aims to develop a combinatorial biochemical and structural approach called "Visual Biochemistry" that uses a fully reconstituted chromatin transcription system and time-resolved single-particle...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $275,112 to the University of Pittsburgh for the project "Bayesian Inference of Whole-Brain Directed Networks using Neuroimaging Data." The project will develop new statistical models and computationally efficient algorithms to analyze functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to better...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in generating and evaluating culturally relevant computing resources for Latine students in undergraduate computer science programs. Specifically, UCSD will create a culturally relevant textbook for introductory programming and conduct controlled experiments to compare its effectiveness...