Project Grant D43TW010130

This $499,998 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded to Morgan State University under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will evaluate the impact of Morgan's structured Teaching Assistantship Program (MSTAP) on student success and career readiness. MSTAP provides extensive instructional training, mentoring, and professional development for graduate teaching assistants across STEM and non-STEM disciplines. The study will examine outcomes such as retention, time-to-degree,...

This $100,000.00 Project Grant was awarded on October 1, 2024 by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs under the State/African Regional - Other Economic Support Funds (ESF) Projects/Programs (CFDA 19.989) federal grant program. The award supports a diverse range of economic, environmental, governance, and capacity-building initiatives in Nigeria. Typical focus areas for this program include digital governance, media literacy, climate resilience, investigative journalism,...

This federal Project Grant award of $116,748.00, provided by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), aims to enhance the recipient's capability as a leader in patient-oriented cardiovascular research and mentorship at Washington University. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: 1) Conducting new advanced implementation research using the NHLBI-funded Hypertension Treatment in Nigeria...

This $1.5 million National Science Foundation project grant will support Louisiana Tech University in delivering academic and career support services to 40 low-income undergraduate engineering students over five years. Funded under the NSF's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program (CFDA 47.076), the project aims to increase retention and graduation rates in STEM fields by pairing scholarships with discipline-specific faculty mentoring, professional development...

This Project Grant award of $349,999 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports a two-year mixed-methods study investigating the impact of structured student support programs on the academic success, retention, and degree completion of undergraduate engineering students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The research project aims to identify practices that foster community, academic confidence, and positive engineering...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs awarded a $192,900 Project Grant (CFDA 19.040 - Public Diplomacy Programs) to Greenlight Development Centre, a non-profit organization registered in Nigeria, to equip and support programming on STEM, entrepreneurship, American English language series, skills building, and MOOCs. The award, with a performance period from June 13, 2024 to November 30, 2024, will fund Greenlight Development Centre's efforts to provide infrastructure,...

This $120,244 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to enhance the ability of peer mentors to facilitate student learning in university engineering makerspaces. The University of Central Arkansas will design, implement, and investigate the impact of a peer mentor teaching preparation course that leverages high-impact practices such as role-playing, observation, reflection, and shadowing. The research intends to evaluate the impact on...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program will fund Auburn University at Montgomery to implement and assess a multi-tiered mentoring model within introductory undergraduate biology courses from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The $598,786 award will support the development of instructional supports and incentives for faculty to redesign courses incorporating multi-tiered mentoring involving upper division student leaders and paid alumni mentors....

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), through the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research (CFDA 93.855) program, has awarded a $112,943 project grant to the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) in Nigeria. The grant, effective August 2024 through January 2026, aims to build research administration capabilities and develop electronic grant management systems at JUTH and its partner institutions in West Africa. Specifically, the project will train new and junior...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award provides $381,537 to The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation to conduct research on "SUPPORTING STEM ACADEMIC ADVISING FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT". The project, funded under the NSF STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076), aims to identify the motivational beliefs and practices of academic advisors that can enhance motivation and achievement in STEM fields at the...