Project Grant DESC0019695

This $600,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of a first-of-its-kind open-source measurement infrastructure platform. The University of Chicago will design, develop, and deploy this platform to enable new classes of research on digital infrastructure access across U.S. populations. Specifically, the platform aims to facilitate studies on the national digital divide challenge by...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of Chicago. The grant will fund the development of an open-source ecosystem around the Gen3 data platform, which enables researchers to manage, analyze, and share large scientific datasets. The project aims to expand the reach of Gen3 to smaller research organizations, making it easier to set up, maintain, and contribute to the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $389,385 to the University of California, San Diego to facilitate audience interaction and engagement in real-time social media. The research aims to develop tools that help community leaders in real-time social media platforms identify and guide participant behaviors to align with community norms. The project also plans to create auditing...

This $322,812 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), supports research to advance the understanding of how people engage with news online and how their behaviors evolve over time. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing computational models to identify different types of news engagement behaviors and their progression stages, using advanced language and user modeling...

The National Science Foundation awarded Atel, LLC a $299,957 Project Grant under the Office of International Science and Engineering program to develop a Synchronized Cloud-Based Collaborative Platform. The platform will enable international scientific collaboration by strengthening partnerships to advance discovery and contribute to global scientific strength from May 2021 to April 2023. The Office of International Science and Engineering aims to maintain U.S. leadership in science through...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $949,282 to Michigan State University to develop the Discipline-Based Education Research Plus (DBER+) Commons. The DBER+ Commons will extend the existing Humanities Commons system to establish open science best practices, including FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and CARE (Collective...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $100,000 to Tulane University to conduct collaborative research on understanding the long-term dynamics of news engagement in online media. The research aims to develop computational models to identify news engagement behaviors and progression stages, establish a framework for estimating causal relationships between engagement behaviors, and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) federal Project Grant award under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) provides $615,628 to Emory University to implement a preprint and peer review platform called "eirXiv" (Emerging Investigators Archive) to engage high school students in authentic science communication. The goal is to empower students to share their scientific research, receive feedback from scientists, and participate in a peer...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $710,411 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to build an inclusive geoscience community through accessible, reusable, and reproducible scientific workflows. This project builds upon the Pangeo and Project Pythia community-driven open geoscience efforts to reduce barriers to scientific progress. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing,...

This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to enhance the accessibility and functionality of the arXiv open-access research repository. The key products and services being delivered include: Developing new search and recommendation capabilities to improve discovery and utilization of arXiv's over 2 million scientific papers across disciplines like computer science, mathematics, and...