Formula Grant H908A140001

The Office of Naval Research awarded Rochester Institute of Technology $150,000 on October 1, 2025, under the Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) Education, Outreach and Workforce Program (CFDA 12.330) to support STEM education, collaboration, and placement initiatives bringing deaf and hard of hearing engineers into the Navy STEM workforce. Performance runs through September 30, 2028, with work conducted in New York. The award funds educational programming, workforce...

Rutgers, The State University was awarded a $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop artificial intelligence-based tools to enhance access and opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. Specifically, the grant will fund development of tools for privacy protection for American Sign Language video communication and video search-by-example for accessing multimedia digital...

The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded Rochester Institute of Technology $980,047 on October 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to expand computing and information technology education pathways for middle and high school students, particularly those attending schools for the deaf. The Strengthening Pathways to Information and Computing Education (SPICE) project will develop and deliver dual-credit computer science courses, hands-on...

Federal Grant Award Summary Rochester Institute of Technology received a $278,583 Project Grant awarded September 1, 2025, through the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), Division of Computing and Communication Foundations. The project, "Bridging the Accessible Technology Gap: Connecting Industry and Computing Faculty for the Adoption of Evidence-Based Teaching of Accessibility Concepts," will operate through...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded Rochester Institute of Technology $145,613 under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) on September 1, 2026. RIT will develop computational algorithms and a digital twin system to optimize phonosurgery outcomes by creating participant-specific models of vocal physiology and anatomy. The project integrates physics-informed deep learning, bi-fidelity computer modeling, and...

Federal Grant Award Summary New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) received a $562,856 Project Grant award, dated July 15, 2025, from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award funds collaborative research to develop adaptive artificial intelligence systems that automatically caption non-speech audio information in online video content, including...

This $165,014 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of linguistically-driven sign recognition technologies from continuous American Sign Language (ASL) signing videos. The Rochester Institute of Technology will receive funding under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to advance sign recognition techniques for isolated citations to segmented signs within sentences. The research will create an end-to-end machine learning...

Federal Grant Award Summary Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) received a $286,330 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. The two-year implementation grant supports the arrangement, description, and digitization of key collections housed in RIT's Deaf Studies, Culture, and History Archives (DSA). RIT will hire a...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded the University of Rochester $184,670 on August 17, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to characterize multimodal language input and development in deafblind children through June 30, 2029. The research examines how the quantity and quality of linguistic input predict language outcomes in deafblind children, who have reduced access to both auditory and visual...

Federal Grant Award Summary Northern Illinois University received a $194,500 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services under the Rehabilitation Long-Term Training program (CFDA 84.129) for the period of October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026. The project, titled "Technology Integrated into Employment (TIE): Preparation of O&M Specialists and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists to Prepare Individuals with Visual...