Iowa State University of Science and Technology (ISU) received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The award was provided under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support the project "Tapping the Potential: Contribution of Non-Expert Citizens to Expediting the Functional Recovery of Civil Infrastructures Damaged by Extreme Events" from October 1,...
Iowa State University received a $175,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The award was made under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support research titled "GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS: A FEATURE AND STRUCTURE LEARNING APPROACH" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The project aims to advance the development of graph neural networks through investigator-initiated research...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will establish a Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at Iowa State University (ISU) to address the national need for a well-trained cybersecurity workforce, particularly in critical infrastructure protection. The $1,393,257 award, effective January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2029, will prepare students to secure essential systems like energy grids and telecommunications networks...
Iowa State University of Science and Technology (ISU) was awarded a $228,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year grant will support ISU's collaborative research project "Weak Derandomizations in Time and Space Complexity" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The NSF Computer and Information Science and...
This three-year $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support research at Iowa State University on real-time liquid wireless networking for data-intensive rural applications. The university will investigate an RT-LWN framework to enable reliable and timely delivery of data across heterogeneous rural wireless networks, accounting for...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $961,684 awarded on October 1, 2021 will fund research and dissemination activities under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) through October 31, 2023. Iowa State University is the primary awardee and will partner with Education Development Center and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on subawards to study the experiences of successful doctoral students from underrepresented groups in mathematics. Through in-depth interviews...
The University of Northern Iowa received a $898,819 three-year 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 increasing access to computer science teacher preparation across Iowa through partnerships between the University and the state's nine Area Education Agencies. Over the grant period, approximately 18 AEA personnel and...
This $499,867 National Science Foundation Project Grant awarded on October 1, 2023 under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support the creation of sophisticated assessments and data collection efforts to enhance STEM instruction and research across K-16 education. The project, led by Iowa State University, will establish eight working groups to address critical topics for ethical, large-scale data collection and diverse research collaborations. This will enable the expansion of the...
Iowa State University will use a $126,308 project grant from the National Science Foundation to support research titled "Collaborative Research: Rethinking Circle Time: Integrating Computational Thinking into K-2 Literacy." The grant was awarded on September 1, 2021 under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) and will support research through August 31, 2024. The project aims to integrate computational thinking into literacy instruction for kindergarten through second grade...
This $148,732 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program aims to identify catalysts for increasing student diversity in engineering at The University of Iowa. The two-year award running from October 2021 to September 2023 will support research to develop strategies for attracting underrepresented groups to engineering studies at the predominantly white institution. Key products include de-identified data from student interviews, manuscripts presenting research...