This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $330,305 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to advance methods for sharing environmental health research results in a way that accounts for social-structural factors and supports actionable messages aligned with community values. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Analyzing...
The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office (DAO), in collaboration with Uptrust, will develop and implement the Advanced Mobile Technology to Enhance Victim Services (AMTEVS) project through a $750,000 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582). Over three years, the DAO and Uptrust will customize a smartphone mobile application and two-way text messaging platform to improve...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Medical Library Assistance (CFDA 93.879) program provides $293,978 to support the development of the HERO (Health/Care Environment for Research or Organizations) platform. The HERO platform is a secure, HIPAA-compliant software prototype that will enable the creation, hosting, and maintenance of digital health interventions (DHIs) for research and healthcare implementation. The project...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Career award, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $277,496 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct a longitudinal, multi-method investigation of how specific social media experiences affect body image concerns among adolescent girls. The project utilizes eye-tracking, longitudinal surveys, and ecological momentary assessments to understand the cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal, and emotional factors...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports research to visualize the mechanisms at the intersection of chromatin, transcription, and epigenetics. The $1,525,500 award to Harvard Medical School aims to develop a combinatorial biochemical and structural approach called "Visual Biochemistry" that uses a fully reconstituted chromatin transcription system and time-resolved single-particle...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $100,000 supported a conference at the University of Maryland, College Park from September 2022 to February 2023. The goal of the conference was to explore human-centered approaches to developing an ethical framework for integrating considerations and constraints into the design of artificial intelligence solutions from requirements gathering through specification. Specifically, the conference addressed knowledge representation methodologies,...
This $615,941 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113) supports the development of a community-driven, standards-based informatics infrastructure to enable robust metadata management and data integration for environmental exposure health research. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a logical model to represent diverse sensor metadata and harmonize...
This 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), provides $275,112 to the University of Pittsburgh for the project "Bayesian Inference of Whole-Brain Directed Networks using Neuroimaging Data." The project will develop new statistical models and computationally efficient algorithms to analyze functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to better...
This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at the University of California, Berkeley to develop new methodologies for understanding, visualizing, and controlling the behavior of complex, large-scale AI models that generate both text and images. The project aims to create a systematic framework for tracing how the training data used influences the internal...
This $126,306 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to support the development of a culturally sensitive measure of parental psychological control (PPC) and examine its mechanisms among Mexican immigrant families. The key objectives are to: 1) adapt and refine a PPC questionnaire that captures what Mexican immigrant families consider intrusive...