Project Grant 19116325523

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $122,654 to the University of California, Irvine to document the home and community storytelling practices of Mexican-American bilingual children with developmental language disorder. The key products of this 2-year project include: (1) providing ethnographic documentation of the...

The American Folk Art Museum was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will support the development and enhancement of ongoing virtual programming and the hiring of a new Community Engagement Educator position to better serve local communities. Specifically, the Museum will continue and expand virtual offerings such as...

The federal Project Grant award in the amount of $146,245 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant supports an intergenerational oral history project in Taos, NM that will engage youth aged 14-20 to capture the resilience and cultural knowledge of elders from the region's three land-based cultures. Under the guidance of professional staff and a multi-stakeholder advisory committee, the youth...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service Alaska Region under the Pacific Northwest and Hawaiian Islands Arts program (CFDA 15.071) provides $243,457.40 to the Goldbelt Heritage Foundation to establish programs that promote the scholarly study and instruction of Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian arts and culture. Over 4 years, the grant will fund the creation of two traditional Tlingit dugout canoes by 300 Southeastern Alaskan youth in grades...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program grant, with a total award of $1,730,730, aims to develop and evaluate a culturally responsive STEM education program for 4th grade Hispanic students. The project will revise the existing "Science is Fun" program using a co-design process to incorporate cultural themes and near-peer Hispanic mentors. The revised after-school program will engage students and their families in hands-on science...

The federal Project Grant award of $150,000.00 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services (NANH-L) program (CFDA #45.311) will support the project "I Lea Ka Hula I Ka Hoopaa: Linguistic Ties of Mele and Hula" conducted by Kahuli LEO LE A, a minority-owned, Native Hawaiian non-profit organization. The project aims to preserve and perpetuate the linguistic connection and methodological framework between the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to uncover the core cognitive underpinnings of children's ability to learn and reason about arithmetic and probability across cultures with differential exposure to mathematics education. With $932,679 in funding from September 2024 to August 2029, the project will first characterize indigenous methods for arithmetic and then test Tsimane' children's understanding of...

This Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education provides $275,000 under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) program to support rural outreach partnership programs. The Regents of the University of Colorado receives funding to implement a pre-college program in the San Luis Valley of Colorado for students in grades 10-12. A sub-award of $275,000 is provided to the San Luis Valley Area Health Education Center, Inc. to assign...

This $223,500 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will fund a research project to culturally adapt and evaluate the online delivery of the Family Check-Up (FCU) parenting intervention for use in the Latinx community to reduce youth substance use. The key objectives are to: 1) employ a community-based participatory approach to culturally adapt the FCU online program, 2) assess the feasibility,...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $154,416 to Duke University to develop a training program called the Black or African-American Research Training Pathway to Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences (BAA-POCS). The program aims to increase representation of Black/African-American students in research careers...