The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded Brookdale Community College Inc. a $633,935 Project Grant under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to support the APPLYING STUDENT KNOWLEDGE FOR SUCCESS IN CYBERSECURITY AND DATA SCIENCE project. The grant will fund Brookdale Community College's delivery of products and services from Oct 15, 2021 through Sep 30, 2026 aimed at applying student knowledge for...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to County College of Morris (CCM) to establish a Data Science Institute. This project will build upon a previous NSF-funded initiative to create educational pathways and enhance data science skills across New Jersey, from high school to four-year institutions and employers. The Data Science Institute will offer workshops, training sessions, degree programs,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded Fairleigh Dickinson University a $999,987 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) federal grant program. The grant will support Fairleigh Dickinson University's APPLYING STUDENT KNOWLEDGE FOR SUCCESS IN CYBERSECURITY AND DATA SCIENCE project from October 2021 through September 2026. The university will deliver cybersecurity and data science educational programs and services to help ensure the vitality of the...
The National Science Foundation awarded Kean University a $1.6 million project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to support the university's APPLYING STUDENT KNOWLEDGE FOR SUCCESS IN CYBERSECURITY AND DATA SCIENCE initiative. The five-year award, issued on October 15, 2021, will fund the development and delivery of educational programs and services to strengthen student knowledge and skills in cybersecurity and data science. As the place of performance for the grant, Kean...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $160,000 Project Grant to California State University San Marcos Corp under the NSF's STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) on July 15, 2023. This 3-year project aims to develop cybersecurity educational modules that can be integrated into existing computer science courses, promoting a "cybersecurity mindset" among students. The project will create a transferable laboratory framework with hands-on...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $129,549 project grant to the New Jersey Institute of Technology under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The grant funds the ADVANCE PARTNERSHIP: NEW JERSEY EQUITY IN COMMERCIALIZATION COLLECTIVE (NJECC) project from September 1, 2021 through December 31, 2022. The project aims to provide leadership and ensure the vitality of the Nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics education enterprise through the development of the NJECC, a...
The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded a $545,733 Project Grant to the Contra Costa Community College District to increase diversity in the cybersecurity talent pool through cyber camps and competitions from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. Under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076), which supports developing the vitality of the nation's STEM education enterprise, the Contra Costa Community College District will conduct cyber camps and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded a $199,999 Project Grant to the New Jersey Institute of Technology under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will support the New Jersey Institute of Technology's collaborative research project "Facilitating Engineering Faculty's Adoption of Evidence-Based Instructional Practices" from June 2021 through May 2024. The project aims to provide leadership and...
This $539,574 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports Nash Community College in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The project aims to integrate cybersecurity principles into the college's Information Technology/Information Systems (IT/IS) associate degree program, producing skilled technicians equipped with essential cybersecurity knowledge. Key products and services of the 3-year...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to investigate the identification and mitigation of shortcut features in deep learning models. The project aims to develop data-centric mechanisms to facilitate the generalization of deep neural networks, which can suffer from poor predictive performance when data distributions change or there...