This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) provides $449,999 to the University of Maryland, College Park to fund an innovative collaboration with Prince George's Community College. The partnership aims to build a research participation pathway for community college students transferring to a four-year university, with the goal of attracting a wider range of students to consider careers in economics research. The funding...
The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded a $797,040 Project Grant to Impact Allies Inc. under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to conduct research examining variances in external grant funding and outcomes at two-year colleges. Through a mixed methods research study combining algorithm-derived meta-data, institutional data, surveys, and interviews, the awardee will analyze factors differentiating colleges with varying levels of external...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to construct a large individual-level dataset of U.S. college students over the past century. The investigators will digitize historical college rosters from the early 1900s to 1950s and link this data to U.S. population censuses to observe students' socioeconomic backgrounds and long-term adult...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research to explore how technological changes are impacting worker skills and employment. The project will analyze future skill demands driven by technological disruption and develop effective, affordable educational approaches to enable workers, especially those without college degrees, to reskill and upskill. The research aims to leverage...
This $120,538 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the Foundation For California Community Colleges to develop and share research on low-income community college student decision-making and pathways in STEM fields from 2023 to 2027. Under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the grantee will conduct research on the decision processes of low-income students regarding staying in and succeeding in STEM programs. It will create a network of community college STEM faculty...
This $378,185 federal Project Grant award was provided 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 research at the University of Chicago to investigate how children's perceptions of others' competence are shaped by the way those individuals are spoken to. Specifically, the project aims to explore how stereotyped beliefs about certain student groups may...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, funded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will provide $2,471,686 to Montgomery College over six years to support the retention and graduation of 90 high-achieving, low-income students pursuing associate degrees in computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, and networking/wireless technologies. The grant will fund an average annual scholarship of $12,000 per student, along with academic, peer, and professional support...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $650,975 to Duke University to expand opportunities for undergraduate students to pursue doctoral programs and careers in the social sciences. The 3-year project immerses students in a 5-week intensive program that includes graduate-level coursework, research methods training, and the completion of original research projects. Successful students present their...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, will provide $239,343 to support the retention and graduation of approximately 115 low-income, high-achieving undergraduate students studying statistics and data science at seven universities in California. At least 65 scholars will receive continued scholarship support over two years of graduate studies. The funding will deliver academic and co-curricular...
This six-year, $1.5 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the Fostering Interdisciplinary Community, Belonging, and Success of Low-Income, High-Achieving Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics Majors project at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The project will provide scholarships and academic support services to 45 low-income, high-achieving undergraduate students majoring in mathematics, computer science,...