The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville is the prime recipient of a $270,994 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant supports research to understand the impact of prior familiarity on eyewitness identification accuracy through a series of laboratory and field experiments. Key objectives include providing a theoretical framework for familiar face recognition in eyewitness...
The University of Arkansas was awarded a $246,214 project grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice under the National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program. The grant will fund a research and evaluation project focused on the Crisis Intervention Trained Police and Social Work co-response program implemented in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The project incorporates a mixed methods research design to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) project grant award of $148,800 supports an 8-week summer REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) program for 12 undergraduate students at the University of Texas at Austin. The program aims to cultivate a new generation of scholars to conduct research on the demography of the criminal justice system. Through a combination of classroom learning, research skill development workshops,...
The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded $170,925 under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) to the University of Arkansas to operate a Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site from April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2026. The award will support hands-on research experiences in physics for undergraduate students, primarily from institutions in the Ozark region and surrounding states with limited research infrastructure. Each summer, a...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $166,162 provides funding from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026 to support an undergraduate Research Experiences for Undergraduates site at Washington State University. The site aims to study race and policing through the scientific method by engaging students in three interrelated research projects examining: 1) race and police use of force; 2) race and de-escalation tactics; and 3) race and procedurally just policing. Students will...
The University of Arkansas was awarded a $484,828 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year grant will support research titled "III:SMALL: COUNTERFACTUALLY FAIR MACHINE LEARNING THROUGH CAUSAL MODELING" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The grant aims to advance the development of machine learning techniques that employ causal modeling to achieve counterfactual...
The University of Arkansas was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The two-year grant will support the university's research project "EAGER: Towards Fair Regression under Sample Selection Bias" from September 2021 through August 2023. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and information sciences through...
The University of Mississippi received a $413,813 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to operate an interdisciplinary Research Experiences for Undergraduates site from May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2026. Through this award, the University will immerse undergraduate students in a 10-week summer research experience using interdisciplinary methods to study the politics of place in the American South. Students...
Wayne State University was awarded a $291,385 project grant from the National Science Foundation on March 15, 2021 to establish an Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site titled "Communities, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Detroit (C3JD)." The grant is part of NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to support basic research and education in social, behavioral and economic sciences. Under the award, Wayne State University will...
The University of Arkansas was awarded a $402,533 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to support the renewal of its REU Site: Renewal of Summer Internships in Nanomaterials, Nanomechanics, and Leadership Training in Engineering project. The grant will fund the continuation of the University's program providing undergraduate students hands-on research internships and professional development training in nanomaterials and...