Project Grant 90BISA0080

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program provides $200,000 to support a time-sensitive project that aims to empower teachers to harness the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to create interactive, personalized STEM learning resources. The project team, led by the Regents of the University of Michigan, will partner with WGBH Educational Foundation to develop a teacher-AI...

This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under CFDA Program 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, aims to develop and evaluate a culturally and linguistically adapted treatment program for Latino young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and co-occurring mental health conditions. The $132,033 award will fund a research plan to: 1) finalize the Iniciando! LA ADULTEZ treatment...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $300,809 to Saint Louis University to explore the integration of reconfigurable sensorimotor interfaces into educational STEM simulations for digital learning platforms. The goal is to develop low-cost, reconfigurable "teletangible" haptic devices that can be used to embody STEM concepts and support the learning of both sighted students and those with blindness or low...

The Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) awarded a $540,825 Project Grant (CFDA 84.324, Research in Special Education) to the University of Oregon (UO) to develop a technology-supported adaptive intervention for young children with language disorders and their Spanish-speaking caregivers. The project runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. UO has subcontracted with the Oregon Research Institute (ORI) and Western Washington University (WWU) to assist with this...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $509,388 to Arizona State University to develop and study approaches for equipping 4th and 5th grade general and special education teachers with effective instructional strategies to teach computer science (CS) to students with disabilities. The project aims to improve accessibility, accommodations, and the role of paraeducators to increase participation and learning in...

The University of California, Santa Barbara will use a $301,709 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to develop an artificial intelligence framework for transforming online introductory STEM video lectures. The framework will extract gestures and voice from existing instructor-led videos and reconfigure them into agent-based presentations delivered by a diverse set of emotionally and socially sensitive animated on-screen...

This $239,973 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support the development of a new artificial intelligence-based tool to improve collaborative learning experiences and outcomes for deaf students in university-level science courses. The project aims to address challenges around the lack of standard American Sign Language (ASL) terminology for many scientific concepts, which can hinder deaf...

This $260,027 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support the development of a new artificial intelligence tool designed to improve collaborative learning experiences for deaf students in university-level science courses. The project aims to address challenges around the lack of standardized American Sign Language (ASL) signs for many scientific concepts, which can hinder deaf students'...

Articulate.ai Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop adaptive dialog systems as second language learning partners. The grant will fund an innovative effort to integrate state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies into conversational systems for language education. Key deliverables include user-adaptive algorithms and datasets for dialog policy training on language learning tasks. The...

This federal Project Grant award of $187,772 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), will support a study to characterize patterns of caregiver engagement among Latino families in early intervention services for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The key objectives are to: (1) examine multidimensional caregiver engagement (attitudinal and behavioral dimensions) by ethnicity,...