Project Grant 24A60YB000141

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will provide $168,722 to the University of California, Davis to examine the developmental trajectories of "absent reference" - a mechanism thought to be important for early language learning - in infants at elevated likelihood for autism and ADHD. The two-year study will leverage a longitudinal sample of 163 infants and use...

This $313,949.40 federal Cooperative Agreement award was provided by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) under the BOEM Environmental Studies (ES) program (CFDA 15.423) to support research and environmental monitoring related to offshore energy and mineral development. The award will fund the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), a non-profit organization, to conduct research on national Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil spill occurrence rates. ABS will serve as the prime awardee, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $448,060 to Felician University, a private nonprofit university in New Jersey, to further the understanding of how first-generation and continuing-generation university students meet and overcome academic barriers. The key products and services delivered through this funding include: 1) a rigorous...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $170,000 Project Grant to Central Coast Salmon Enhancement, Inc. under the Unallied Management Projects program (CFDA 11.454). The two-year award running from September 2021 through August 2023 will support the organization's "DIVING CATCH 2: SAVING WHITE AND BLACK ABALONE THROUGH CONSERVATION AQUACULTURE" project. This project aims to provide economic, sociological, public policy, and other...

This $1,001,561 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the NIJ Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560) will fund a multi-phased evaluation of the Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) training program. The CNA Corporation, a non-profit research organization, will conduct a randomized control trial with agencies receiving ABLE training in 2025 as well as a quasi-experimental retrospective analysis of agencies that have...

This $248,746 Project Grant from the Department of Justice's Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program (CFDA 16.738) will enable The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (SUNY), on behalf of SUNY Geneseo, to implement the "Empowering First Responders Serving Students with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities at SUNY Geneseo" project. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing and implementing a Collaborative Crisis...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $294,986 Project Grant to the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant aims to identify the genetic basis of disease resistance in the critically endangered black abalone (Haliotis cracherodii) through a multi-pronged research approach. Specifically, the project will: 1) use ancient DNA from abalone shells to pinpoint genetic loci under selection in response to...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $130,768 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation to develop a multi-user database of Freedom of Information Act litigation in federal district courts from 2001 through 2016. The database will compile court decisions on FOIA exemption cases to allow for analysis of judicial monitoring of agency decision-making regarding public access to government...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, made under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, provides $221,580 to fund a series of three annual conferences on major issues in macroeconomics and monetary economics. The conferences, titled the "CARNEGIE-NYU-ROCHESTER CONFERENCE ON PUBLIC POLICY," will be hosted in rotation by Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, and the University of Rochester from 2023-2026. The conferences...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program is investigating the relationships between human activities, place attachments, and environmental factors. The $100,608 project, awarded on August 15, 2025, will run through July 31, 2028. The research aims to develop a generalizable theory on how environmental conditions influence the psychology of place connections. This mixed-methods study will map geographic...