The University of Texas at El Paso received a $300,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems to support the CAHSI-GREAT MINDS IN STEM CONFERENCE TRAVEL from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The funding will support the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program's goal of advancing computing, communications, and information science education. Specifically, the grant will help cover travel costs for the...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science provides $101,000 to support graduate student travel awards through the Society for Social Studies of Science's (4S) annual professional conference. The funding falls under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The travel awards will allow 4S to fund graduate student participation in its annual conference from June 2023 through May 2028. The conference is a...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $100,000 in funding to the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, Inc. (doing business as Venturewell) to host a conference focused on reimagining science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) innovation and entrepreneurship through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The conference will bring together a...
This $220,453 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a conference organized by Saint Edward's University to support the Hispanic-Serving Institutions Principal Investigators community. The conference, taking place in Austin, Texas from September 2022 through August 2023, aims to bring together current and potential principal investigator teams engaged in NSF's Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $106,050 to the Quality Education For Minorities Network (QEM) to support a conference and collaborative research community for researchers in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The key objectives are to: (1) conduct a proposal development workshop for 50 researchers to demystify NSF funding mechanisms and the review process, (2) develop an online community to support...
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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education grant (CFDA 47.076) provides $2,219,872 to Southern Methodist University (SMU) to conduct the "Amplifying Diverse Voices in STEM Education" (ADVISE) project. The goal of this collaborative, 5-year project is to better understand and compare the individual- and group-level psychological and sociological processes, such as student belonging, stereotype threat, classroom climate, and instructor pedagogy, that occur when racially...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to develop a visual tool to promote inclusivity in STEM environments. The $623,267 award will fund research using an iterative design process to create a tool for countering racial microaggressions experienced by underrepresented minority students in STEM settings. The tool, called the STEM Educator Series on Student Interactions (SESSI), will be grounded in psychological...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education Program (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $143,028 aims to investigate structural, systemic, and social barriers impacting participation of underrepresented STEM students in innovation competitions and programs (ICPs). The collaborative research project between Pennsylvania State University and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) has three goals: (i) advance understanding of barriers limiting ICP...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $500,000 to the University of Houston to implement an undergraduate research training program in biology and biochemistry. The project will engage cohorts of financially disadvantaged students, including those from underrepresented populations, in a two-semester capstone course to develop scientific and workforce skills, followed by research placements with mentors. The primary goals are...