The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), awarded a $792,646 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) on January 1, 2024. The award supports a collaborative research effort to transform the molecular sciences research workforce by integrating programming, data, and computational skills into university curricula. The key products and services to be delivered...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $333,028 under the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) funds a collaborative research initiative led by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The project aims to address the challenge of training students, researchers, and instructors in computational tools and techniques at the chemistry, physics, and materials science interface. The four-year project will establish a robust...
The University of Colorado at Boulder received a $104,845 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to establish a sustainable ecosystem for computational molecular science training and education. The award, made under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, will support the development of cybertraining initiatives and implementation of medium for computational molecular science education from October 1, 2021 to...
This $466,012 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to establish a nationwide community of chemistry laboratory curriculum developers. The primary objectives are to: Provide a comprehensive year-long professional development program to equip up to 126 chemistry instructors and 42 teaching assistants with evidence-based teaching practices for chemistry laboratory courses. This includes training on curriculum reform,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $178,031 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Massachusetts for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH:CYBERTRAINING:IMPLEMENTATION:MEDIUM: MODERN COURSE EXEMPLARS INFUSED WITH PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING FOR THE INTRODUCTORY COMPUTING COURSE SEQUENCE". The project aims to design and evaluate a modernized first-year introductory computer science course sequence...
The University Corporation was awarded a $455,237 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund the acquisition of a GPU/CPU computing cluster for research and education in computational chemistry and materials from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports investigator-initiated research and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, provides $333,621.00 to Boise State University for a collaborative research project focused on training users, developers, and instructors at the chemistry/physics/materials science interface. The project aims to establish a robust community of materials modeling developers and enhance computational...
This $370,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to implement and study evidence-based teaching practices that promote equitable collaboration in undergraduate data science courses at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and California State University, Monterey Bay. The project will investigate students' experiences when collaborating on pair programming tasks in the data science classroom, with a focus...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to develop scalable software to enable "data polymorphism" - a novel paradigm for fast and adaptable scientific data retrieval. The $500,000 award, effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030, will fund research to create a generic framework for progressive data representations, rigorous error control methods, and a...
The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $333,333.00 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CYBERTRAINING: IMPLEMENTATION: MEDIUM: TRAINING USERS, DEVELOPERS, AND INSTRUCTORS AT THE CHEMISTRY/PHYSICS/MATERIALS SCIENCE INTERFACE". The goal of this 4-year project is to establish a robust U.S.-based...