This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) provides $199,708 to Carleton College to develop new statistical methodology for analyzing complex spatial data. The key products and services to be delivered include: Methods to account for spatial uncertainty in datasets, including those with privacy constraints or geocoding errors. This will involve developing software to implement a constrained spatial...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $505,149 to the University of South Florida to develop and scale a new model for strengthening the research enterprise at predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs). The "PRIMER - Primarily Undergraduate Institution Management Excellence in Research" project aims to upskill research administrators at PUIs so they can better assist researchers in managing...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to improve inclusivity in academic geoscience departments. The $1,265,746 award to Carleton College, spanning September 2024 to April 2025, will create a network of faculty change agents empowered to make incremental, positive cultural shifts within their home geoscience departments. Key activities include: 1) Facilitating professional development for geoscience faculty to foster evidence-based...
This $2,361,186 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program aims to transform post-award activities at three Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs) - Loyola Marymount University, Santa Clara University, and the University of San Francisco. The "Tri-Alliance Consortium" project will: 1) build capacity for post-award service structures, functions, and data collection; 2) develop shared education, training, and resource...
This Project Grant award of $112,441 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will support a collaborative effort by Ithaka S+R, Montclair State University, and Chapman University to facilitate the establishment of regional hubs for implementing AI tools in research and research administration at emerging research institutions (ERIs). The key objectives are to: a) explore opportunities for co-funding software and computing infrastructure,...
This $143,126 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at Macalester College to study how the growing scale and organization of scientific knowledge impacts the pace of scientific discovery. The project will apply topological data analysis techniques to bibliometric and grant payment data to examine concept...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $242,570 to the President and Board of Trustees of Santa Clara College to conduct research on differences in co-authorship patterns across a global landscape. The study aims to understand how the collaborative context affects scientific outcomes differently for scientists in various categories, focusing on the role of network structure in scientific...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota, through its Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, was awarded a $545,740 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. This 3-year grant, starting on September 1, 2023, aims to create a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) that fosters connections between early career faculty or postdoctoral fellows at minority-serving, teaching-intensive institutions and faculty mentors at research-intensive...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to host a conference on "Inclusive Collaboration Resources: Enhancing Research Support Infrastructure at Minority Serving Institutions." The goal is to develop best practices and resources to improve equitable research collaboration and retention of diverse STEM researchers. The conference will convene research enterprise...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,947,801 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to the President and Board of Trustees of Santa Clara College. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TRI-ALLIANCE FOR POST-AWARD INNOVATION," aims to transform post-award activities at emerging research institutions (ERIs) to reduce administrative burden, better support faculty in their research, and increase grant activity. The project, which runs from...