The University of Texas at Austin was awarded an $801,438 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to research brain changes related to learning loss in children. The grant, awarded February 15, 2021, will fund research through January 31, 2024 examining how the brain is impacted by learning loss and how those changes can be addressed. As the largest federal supporter of basic research in the social, behavioral...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a three-year, $725,673 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund research understanding task- and resting-state neural activation in relation to real-world social behavior through May 2024. As part of the SBE Sciences program, which supports basic research and education in social, behavioral and economic sciences, this project aims to contribute insights on...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $390,536 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by February 28, 2025. The grant is funded through the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to support basic research and education in these fields as well as monitor science resources. Specifically, the University will conduct an artificial language...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $154,231 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The two-year award will support research to develop a generative deep learning framework for approximating human decision-making processes on social networks when structural network data is unavailable. Specifically, the university researchers will...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $3 million Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to support the NRT-AI: Convergent, Responsible, and Ethical Artificial Intelligence Training Experience for Roboticists project from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2026. The grant funds the development of an interdisciplinary training program that brings together graduate students studying robotics, computer science, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Texas State University under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to expand AI curriculum and infrastructure on the university's campus. The project aims to significantly expand access to AI education, infrastructure, and research opportunities across non-AI disciplines like criminal justice, psychology, firefighting, and agriculture. This four-year initiative will enhance instructional and curricular capacity by...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $195,360 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports an experimental investigation into syllabification in an unspecified language through a series of five native speaker experiments. The first four experiments will track speech production movements through acoustic and airflow...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $1,368,414 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to conduct research from June 2023 through May 2028. The research aims to improve technological equity by investigating the lack of diverse, representative datasets and insights in technology development. The university will examine how to best engage marginalized groups in data-centric research through culturally relevant and ethically...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $175,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The award is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) and will fund research using linguistic variation to understand deep neural models of language from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. As part of the grant, the University will conduct investigator-initiated research exploring how...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $363,384 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year grant, awarded August 1, 2021 and concluding July 31, 2024, will support the Political Leaders Through Time research project. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to contribute to basic research and education in these fields...
The University of Texas at Austin received a three-year, $250,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds the development of an interdisciplinary global network focusing on aspects of learning, development, and culture to address global education needs. Key activities include leveraging technology, social science, and data science to create collaborative resources that elevate the global science of learning. The network involves researchers from fields including social science, neuroscience, psychology, data science, engineering, and education to tackle challenges in the science of learning and meet global education needs. Subawards were provided to the University of California, San Diego totaling an estimated $4.5 million to develop an artificial intelligence program through the Environment-Driven Conceptual Learning project that applies cognitive science, computer science, and neuroscience to advance AI capabilities.