Project Grant AH27417420

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $300,000 to Rutgers, The State University to lay the groundwork for new paradigms of responsible design, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered writing tools. The key products and services to be delivered include: Clear and accessible articulations of the research methods and challenges for design-oriented AI as it applies to writing...

This $471,322 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.305 - Education Research, Development and Dissemination) will fund a meta-analysis of college writing interventions and their impact on writing and learning outcomes. The principal investigator is from the University of California, Irvine, and the project will involve co-investigators from Arizona State University and the University of Iowa. The goal is to identify...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $216,218 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. This 1-year grant, running from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, will fund the "AI & Digital Literacy: Toward an Inclusive and Empowering Teaching Practice" institute. The institute will explore how to teach writing, research, and critical inquiry in the face...

Kalamazoo College received a $498,391 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) to address impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on its language and study abroad programs. The award will fund hiring of part-time instructors in seven languages to sustain course offerings and allow tenure-track faculty to focus on research. Student teaching assistants and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $175,000 supports research by Calvin University to develop interactive natural language technology to help writers structure and revise documents. The project, funded under NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), aims to create features that can be integrated into word processing applications to assist writers in organizing their thoughts and structuring their writing. The research team will...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities will fund the creation of a digital resource bank and related programming to facilitate teaching and learning of health narratives in English and Spanish at the postsecondary level. Provided through the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program, the $149,999 award to The University of Iowa will support development of an online repository and journal to share...

This Project Grant award of $137,266.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.162 - Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development) supports a project by the University of Arizona to revise the required course in the humanities for Spanish majors and minors titled "Readings in the Literary Genres". The revised course will explore the theme of life as a road or journey through four geo-cultural modules covering the Iberian...

This Project Grant award of $199,585 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund a three-week combined virtual and in-person institute for 25-30 secondary English Language Arts teachers. The institute, titled "Hip Hop as Humanities: Counterstories for the Canon, Classroom, and Country," will be held from July 7 to August 1, 2025. Through readings, guest lectures, workshops, collaborative...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $349,931 Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access grant (CFDA 45.149) to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to support the "Bilingual Voices in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Phase 2" project. This 3-year project aims to preserve 240 bilingual sociolinguistic interviews, expand the collection by 50 new interviews, and enhance the project website with data visualizations and metadata to provide...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) provides $149,700 to Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. over a 2-year period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026. The funding supports the continued development, assessment, and scaling of a general education course for entering freshmen focused on metro Atlanta content, including memoirs,...