This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $106,000 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to conduct research on designing smart environments to enhance collective learning and creativity. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing large-scale online experiments and computational models to investigate how technological...
This $492,200 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), will fund a 2-year research project to evaluate the impact of trauma-informed art workshops for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated survivors of gender-based violence. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will conduct fidelity assessments, focus groups, and a waitlist randomized controlled trial to examine outcomes related to self-efficacy, hope, problem-solving,...
This Project Grant award of $104,825, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports a multi-year research study on mechanisms of integration in U.S. communities. The study uses a mixed-method, multi-scalar approach to map and explore stably integrated neighborhoods, identify their key characteristics, and investigate the factors contributing to their emergence and persistence. Researchers will define and map...
This $181,302 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative archaeological research at the University of South Alabama from May 2022 to April 2025. The research will investigate how communities form and cultural traditions develop through migration and settlement in new ecological contexts. Researchers will examine social relationships and networks formed through the production and use of pottery in a coastal region, some by recent migrants. They will employ social network...
This $106,623 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support collaborative research to understand how neighborhoods at the geographical margins of a city may or may not be socially peripheral to that city, and how that affects the historical trajectory of the city. The research team will use archaeological methods including geophysical survey, soil coring, and targeted excavation to compare two...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $400,000 to New York University (NYU) to research neighborhood mobility patterns and their relationship to community well-being. The key products and services to be delivered include: Identifying biases in large-scale mobility data and developing methods to correct them; modeling neighborhood connectedness networks using mobility data and analyzing how...
This Project Grant award, valued at $136,727, is funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The award supports a collaborative research project to understand how geographic contexts shape attitude formation and the quality of interpersonal interactions at different spatial scales, such as on a person's block, in their neighborhood, and across their city or town. The research will test three key questions derived from an...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $500,000 to Georgia TECH Research Corp to create and evaluate a toolkit that supports youth-led civic engagement and builds social cohesion within local communities. The project aims to develop data-driven technologies, including software tools for community data collection, visualization, and storytelling, to enable youth to access civic data, engage...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $1,736,866 to Michigan State University to conduct a multi-year qualitative research study exploring how multiethnic and immigrant youth enact critical, community-situated data practices (CCDPs) in youth participatory action research (YPAR) projects. The project aims to broaden STEM research and education by centering the cultural epistemologies and lived experiences of racially,...
This $261,336 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) under the Nursing Research program (CFDA 93.361) aims to refine and evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a photo-elicitation intervention called "Photo-Experiencing and Reflective Listening (PEARL)" for promoting healing engagement among cisgender heterosexual, sexual minority, and transgender women survivors of gender-based violence. The key objectives are to 1) collaborate with a...