The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,895 Research Initiation Award to Clark Atlanta University under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076). The project aims to advance topological data analysis and train undergraduate students at the historically Black university in computer programming and data science. The research has the potential to improve health outcomes and produce educational modules for STEM courses. Additionally, the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) project grant award of $396,897 to Clark Atlanta University aims to develop curricular modules that integrate data science into the undergraduate social work curriculum. The project will create course materials for three core social work classes and redesign three elective courses to build data analysis skills among approximately 60 junior and senior social work students. Key project objectives include evaluating the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) provides a $299,923 research initiation grant to Clark Atlanta University (CAU), a private, historically Black university located in Atlanta, Georgia. The project aims to advance the study of partially ordered sets (posets) and structures that do not contain them, with a focus on Turán-type problems. Key objectives include conducting research to resolve the...
This $400,000 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, supports Elizabeth City State University (ECSU), a Historically Black College and University (HBCU), in integrating Python-based computing skills into its undergraduate social science curricula. The key goals of the 3-year project are to: 1) improve students' critical thinking and scientific reasoning skills, 2) increase recruitment and retention in social science...
This $349,602 federal project grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports research at Clark Atlanta University to evaluate the effectiveness of integrating scientific literacy curricula, peer mentoring, and supplemental instruction for first-year biology majors. The goal is to enhance retention, graduation rates, and gateway course pass rates for this student population. The 3-year project employs a randomized controlled trial design,...
This $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) will support the development of a geospatial big data infrastructure and services. Led by researchers at North Carolina Central University in partnership with three other minority-serving institutions, the award will coordinate the creation and sharing of new GIS data layers according to FAIR data principles. Standardized...
This $320,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and delivery of ten data science courses to over 200 undergraduates from a consortium of eleven diverse universities. Led by Florida A&M University, the consortium will leverage distributed learning technologies to provide data science instruction and research experiences traditionally unavailable at smaller or minority-serving institutions. Through an...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $221,344 Project Grant to Dillard University, a private historically Black university in New Orleans, Louisiana, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund an 8-week pre-freshman Earth science summer program that aims to expose, motivate, and encourage students from structurally excluded groups to pursue degrees and careers in the geosciences. The program will engage students in four courses with hands-on activities, including...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $400,000 to Albany State University to enhance the educational framework of the biology and forensic science programs by infusing data science competencies. The key activities include: Training faculty in data science techniques to enable them to implement data science modules in existing courses and develop new upper-level courses. Engaging students in course-based and mentored...
This award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $449,695 to Clark Atlanta University to support a research project titled "Deriving Gene Function from Three-Dimensional Gene Clustering". The project aims to identify functional gene clustering and coordinated gene expression in a green alga, A. protothecoides, by integrating multiple sequencing data to map the three-dimensional genome architecture. The research will explore...