Project Grant 72026324GR00001

This $101,326 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs will sponsor participation by Brazilian high school student winners in the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the largest global pre-university science fair with over 70 participating countries. Funded under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to advance U.S. foreign policy and national interests, the grant will support Brazilian students' attendance at the July 2023 ISEF in...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering, CFDA 47.079, provides $119,867 to support collaborative research between U.S. and Kenyan institutions. The funding enables U.S. undergraduate engineering students from underrepresented groups to conduct community-engaged engineering research abroad from September 2022 to August 2025. Specifically, students from Purdue University and San Francisco State University will work with faculty...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $139,038 to the University of Tulsa to investigate barriers to and design activities and tools for broadening participation in the Tulsa Regional Science Fair among underrepresented students in Northeast Oklahoma. The project aims to (1) examine motivational and structural barriers to science fair participation and (2) develop and study the impact of outreach interventions, primarily...

This $399,251 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to advance the understanding of science centers' engagement of mentors with students. The project will place 60 undergraduates, 75% from underserved populations, in R&D internships at the San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology. Mentors will be recruited from the local chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the students will develop...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) program (CFDA 47.079), provides $450,000 to Southern Methodist University (SMU) to deliver an International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) project. The aim is to give U.S. students from SMU and Colorado School of Mines the opportunity to conduct collaborative research with faculty and students at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia -...

The University of Texas at El Paso received a $119,990 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to organize and host the Third US-Africa Conference on Nanotechnology Convergence for Sustainable Energy, Environment, Climate Change and Health from August 6-11, 2023 in Cairo, Egypt. The conference aims to bring together scientists, engineers, students,...

This Project Grant award of $1,999,581.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the University of Memphis in delivering a multi-year scholarship program for high-achieving, low-income undergraduate engineering students. Over the four-year award period, the project will provide scholarships to a minimum of 60 students, along with academic and psychosocial support to facilitate STEM identity development, self-efficacy, and successful...

This $191,687 National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering grant supports an International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) program at Seoul National University in South Korea. The program aims to expose six U.S. undergraduate and graduate students per year over three years to interdisciplinary research on future mobility for sustainable and smart cities. Students will participate in an eight-week summer research experience exploring data analytics,...

This $749,980 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to support the "IRES: INSPIRING NANOFIBERS INNOVATIONS, INDUSTRY, TECHNOLOGY, AND EDUCATION (IRES-INFINITE)" project. The funding will engage at least 45 Alabama undergraduate students, primarily from underrepresented STEM backgrounds, in cutting-edge international on-site and remote multidisciplinary...

This three-year, $599,776 National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering Project Grant will support research into low-dimensional materials for transducer technologies. The University of Central Florida will engage six undergraduate/graduate students annually through the International Research Experiences for Students program to conduct research at four universities in Korea. Students will work with foreign faculty mentors to innovate transducer technologies...