The University of Detroit Mercy received a three-year, $672,181 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support the university's "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MOVING BEYOND ACCESS, INCREASING TEACHER KNOWLEDGE TO TEACH RIGOROUS EQUITY-FOCUSED HIGH SCHOOL COMPUTING" project. Over the three-year period ending September 2024,...
The Michigan State University was awarded a $382,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The grant funding will support MSU's Mobile Technology to Improve Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) College and Career Awareness for Underserved High School Students project. The project aims to enhance STEM college and career...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), will fund a 3-year, $454,873 program called "REU SITE: ACRES: ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR STUDENTS" at Michigan State University (MSU). The program aims to provide undergraduate students, particularly those from underrepresented groups, with a 10-week summer research experience focused on computational...
The National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program awarded a $1,999,941 project grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration. The grant, awarded on October 15, 2023, will fund a partnership between the National Center for CS Education at the College of Saint Scholastica, Hermantown Community School, Fond du Lac Ojibwe School, St. Louis County Public Schools, and Duluth...
Michigan State University was awarded a $557,879 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The university will deliver a comprehensive framework for robust learning over graphs to identify and mitigate outliers, adversarial attacks, and errors in graph structure from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. Specifically, the university will conduct...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to the University of Michigan under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award will support research into a new paradigm for distributed information processing, simulation and inference in networks through application of the "law of small numbers." The University of Michigan will leverage its expertise in computing and communications foundations to...
The Regents of the University of Michigan, through its Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, received a $1,181,311 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.076) STEM Education program. This 4-year longitudinal project aims to develop and research a practical framework to orient teacher education towards preparing early career elementary science teachers capable of advancing racial, economic, and social justice within their classrooms. The project will iteratively refine...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $298,450 Project Grant on January 1, 2024 to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc., a non-profit organization, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. Through this grant, the researchers at Georgia State University aim to develop a method to identify areas in Georgia school districts that are at higher risk for lack of access to computer...
Michigan State University was awarded a $300,259 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to investigate children's understanding of racial diversity cues in STEM-focused educational television. The University will conduct qualitative research with parents and children to explore how children interpret depictions of diversity in STEM media programming and perceive who belongs in STEM fields. Quantitative content analysis and interviews will...
This $360,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports a research-practice partnership between New Mexico State University (NMSU), the New Mexico Public Education Department, and other regional stakeholders. The goal is to develop and study a professional development program that prepares high school teachers in rural New Mexico to teach a culturally responsive, rigorous computer...