This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $123,442 to the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) to host an annual Tribal College and University Cyberinfrastructure Workshop. The workshop aims to bring together IT directors, CIOs, administrators, staff, and faculty from Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) across the United States to share best practices,...
This $1,103,549 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will extend high-speed, reliable networking infrastructure to connect Colorado's Western Slope small institutions of higher education to the Front Range gigabit regional research and education (R&E) network. The project partners with a regional nonprofit middle-mile network provider to create a virtual routing and forwarding network...
This $293,353 EAGER grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund a two-year pilot project called "Regional Cyberinfrastructure Connect Days" conducted by The Quilt, Inc., a non-profit national consortium of research and education networks. The project aims to enhance the capabilities of smaller, under-resourced institutions to utilize advanced cyberinfrastructure technologies that...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $824,999 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH). The 5-year grant, awarded on May 1, 2024, supports the "TCUP Cyber Consortium Advancing Computer Science Education (TCACSE)" project. This collaborative effort aims to improve computer science and cybersecurity training for regional workforces served by several Tribal Colleges and Universities, including Turtle Mountain...
This two-year, $999,970 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure will support the University of Southern California's Center for Advanced Research Computing in building cyberinfrastructure and expanding high-performance computing access and services to under-resourced universities in Southern California. Specifically, the University of Southern California will implement a new high-performance computing system and corresponding user support...
This $250,000 Project Grant awarded on October 1, 2023 by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support cyberinfrastructure upgrades at Aaniiih Nakoda College, a tribal college in Harlem, Montana. The project aims to enhance the college's IT resources and cybersecurity capabilities to facilitate STEM instruction, research, and data management. Specifically, the funding will enable upgrades to the college's network, cybersecurity, and STEM-related IT...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities provides $100,000 to Montana State University to support planning activities from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023. The planning efforts are being conducted under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) to analyze Montana's research capacity and infrastructure, develop a framework for an unspecified research topic of importance to the state, and identify workforce development...
This $999,668 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports a collaboration between the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to create a "cybercollaboratory" that will integrate cyber infrastructure (CI) expertise with environmental science research. The key...
The Montana Department of Administration, through its Information Technology Services Division, was awarded a $6,938,534.64 Project Grant by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the State Digital Equity Planning and Capacity Grant Program (CFDA 11.032). The grant aims to implement Montana's Digital Equity Plan and support the following key initiatives: Providing over-the-phone and video remote interpretation services to underserved populations across...
This $237,666 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support a collaborative research project to assess the connectivity and performance of anchor institution networks (AIDs). The primary awardee is the University of California, Davis, which will work with researchers from Northeastern University and the University of California, Santa Barbara on this effort. The project aims to...