Project Grant 1824566

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...

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 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....

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 one-year $199,995 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) supports a conference series focused on integrating the use of high-quality instructional materials with the benefits of localizing these materials to better address students' contexts and backgrounds in K-12 science education. The project will organize an in-person conference followed by four virtual follow-up meetings involving 50 participants, including teachers, district leaders,...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $106,050 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports a conference and related activities to increase proposal development capacity at institutions of higher education (IHEs) in the EPSCoR jurisdictions of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The key products and services to be delivered include: (1) conducting a 50-participant proposal development workshop to demystify NSF funding mechanisms and the...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $100,000 to the University of Texas at El Paso to organize an Inclusion Alliance Community Workshop. The workshop aims to bring together representatives from the first three cohorts of NSF Inclusion Alliances to leverage collective knowledge on broadening participation in STEM. Over two days, virtually, the workshop will facilitate discussion of lessons learned and specific activities to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of New Mexico (UNM) to host a two-day conference titled "Improving the Research and Innovation Enterprise Across the Southwest Region". The conference aims to (1) enhance the collective understanding of challenges facing the research enterprise in the Southwest U.S., (2) formulate next steps for individual and collective action to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program award to the University of Pittsburgh will create and validate a Personalized Learning Model (PLM) for graduate STEM education. The $500,000 award, effective October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2026, aims to break the traditional "one-size-fits-all" approach to graduate STEM training by developing a model that addresses issues of inclusivity and removes barriers to participation by underrepresented...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $137,071 to support the EXPANDAI Leadership Workshop (EXAIL) in Pittsburgh, PA in October 2024. The EXAIL workshop is the first program-wide principal investigator meeting for the NSF EXPANDAI program, which supports minority-serving institutions in building new capacity in AI research and education. The workshop aims to...