This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop personalized secure programming learning projects motivated by real-world security vulnerabilities. The Research Foundation of the City University of New York at Brooklyn College will work with faculty to map secure programming topics to categories of vulnerabilities, build easy-to-use learning projects from selected vulnerabilities, and develop a personalized project delivery...
This $1,997,177 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income computer science students with demonstrated financial need at Virginia Commonwealth University. Over the six-year award period, the project will provide scholarships to 54 full-time computer science transfer students and equip them with a holistic model of support, including a scholars retreat,...
Virginia Commonwealth University was awarded a $295,004 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will fund research to build a STEM ecosystem for underrepresented middle school students in the Tri-City area of Virginia through profiling analyses, asset mapping, and ecosystem assessments from 2023 to 2025. Specifically, the University will apply latent profile analysis and social network analysis to investigate STEM efforts among...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $330,000 Project Grant through its STEM Education (47.076) program to the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The grant supports the development of advanced teaching modules on software security, focusing on memory corruption attack and defense techniques for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Key objectives include: Innovating the Armitage open-source software vulnerability identification tool. Developing teaching content on Windows exploit...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (47.076) program provides $240,000 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to develop a cybersecurity education framework for computer science students. The project aims to build a "cybersecurity mindset" by integrating threat-driven cybersecurity modules into non-cybersecurity computer science courses, allowing students to build, break, and fix...
This $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will enable Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to develop an undergraduate program of study using a "living lab" approach to train students in creating and maintaining intelligent systems for the health domain. The living lab will be integrated into VCU's Computer Science undergraduate program, allowing students to complete a one-year curriculum focused on...
This $160,976 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The grant was awarded to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) on April 15, 2025 and is scheduled for completion by March 31, 2029. The project aims to develop and implement interdisciplinary STEM courses that help undergraduate students apply mathematical knowledge to other disciplines. Specifically, the grant supports VCU's work with approximately...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $477,340 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076). The grant will support the collaborative research project "Improving Students' Computational Thinking Skills in Construction Engineering and Management" between June 1, 2021 and May 31, 2024. The project aims to develop new curriculum and teaching methods to...
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...
George Mason University was awarded a $119,625 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings to develop integrated computer science curricula for linguistically diverse classrooms in grades 3-5. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2021 under the STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076), with work expected to be completed by August 31, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The STEM Education program aims to ensure the vitality of the...