The University of Maryland Baltimore County was awarded a $125,016 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund research from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024 on linguistic production, perception, and identity in the career mobility of Black faculty in linguistics and language sciences. The project aims to contribute insights on...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $179,857 to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research on the development of non-local syntactic dependency acquisition in infants. The project aims to examine when and how infants represent abstract grammatical dependencies that can occur at a distance, which is a core property of human language syntax. The research will use behavioral...
The University of Maryland, College Park will receive $419,209 under a four-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science to support the "Expanding the History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine: The United States and Its Regional Neighbors" project. The grant was awarded on January 15, 2022 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to contribute to scientific strength and welfare...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $123,618 to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research investigating the impact of experimental language research on participants. The project aims to explore how experimental linguistics studies can be leveraged for public engagement, by examining participants' perceptions of language and linguistics and testing whether improved science...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $842,431 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems. The grant is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) and will support collaborative research using multi-stage learning to prioritize mental health from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to advance the development and use of cyberinfrastructure to accelerate discovery...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $174,983 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The grant supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure. Specifically, the grant funds the "DISCOVERING COMPLEX MIXTURE PATTERNS IN SPATIAL DATA TO ADVANCE RESILIENCE OF COMMUNITIES" project running from...
The University of Maryland, College Park will use a $2.9 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on learning rules in neurons from 2022 to 2026. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to advance biological science knowledge and address major issues facing the nation. Specifically, the grant will fund the "UROL:EN: Learning the Rules of Neuronal Learning" project at the University of Maryland....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) under the NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026, will fund research on the cognitive mechanisms supporting the production of sentences involving recursion and displacement across different languages. The project aims to use structural priming...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from July 2021 through June 2024 related to coding-theoretic methods in discrepancy and energy optimization, with applications. Specifically, the university will support investigator-initiated research in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $480,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to conduct molecular simulations of biological active matter from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. The award is being used to support research under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the university will leverage...