Project Grant DESC0026397

This $599,868 National Science Foundation award under the STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program will support research and training to create more inclusive undergraduate research experiences for low socioeconomic students in life sciences. Over a two-year period from September 2022 through August 2024, the awardee Arizona State University will conduct interviews and a nationwide survey to identify factors impacting low-SES student researchers. This research aims to understand...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $268,066 from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to support collaborative research on tropical plant-pollinator interactions. The project will engage 15 U.S. students, particularly from underrepresented groups, in an 8-week international research program in Colombia to investigate the impacts of climate and landscape changes on plant-pollinator relationships....

This Project Grant award of $120,910 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support a hybrid conference on "MEE HUBS: A Hybrid Conference in Microbial Ecology and Evolution" to be held from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The conference will integrate microbiology, evolutionary ecology, physics, and mathematics to drive innovation in fundamental and applied research questions related to microbiomes. The project will develop a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) will provide $100,000 to Nova Southeastern University in Florida to host a series of conferences focused on supporting early-career faculty and enhancing research infrastructure at emerging research institutions and minority-serving institutions. The conferences will bring together research development professionals, university administrators, and early-career faculty to capture...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science provides $101,000 to support graduate student travel awards through the Society for Social Studies of Science's (4S) annual professional conference. The funding falls under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The travel awards will allow 4S to fund graduate student participation in its annual conference from June 2023 through May 2028. The conference is a...

This $368,007 National Science Foundation project grant supports conference logistics and planning for two 2022 events hosted by Stars Computing Corps. The events are the CISE Education and Workforce Principal Investigator Meeting and the CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site New Principal Investigator Workshop. Both convenings will provide opportunities for principal investigators of projects funded by the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070)...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, provides $172,794 to Oregon State University (OSU) to host a two-day conference for NSF Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) CAREER awardees on November 21-22, 2024. The conference aims to create formal and informal opportunities for interaction between current IOS CAREER awardees, enabling them to share successes and challenges of their ongoing projects, stimulate discussion...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $333,831 supports the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites program at the University of New Mexico Sevilleta Field Station from March 2023 through February 2026. The grant funds research training for 30 undergraduate students over three summers in the areas of dryland ecology and biodiversity in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Students conduct high-quality research projects within the context of the Sevilleta Long Term Ecological...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program Project Grant award of $100,000 to James Madison University (JMU) will initiate a travel grant program to enable up to 50 early-to-mid career faculty from under-resourced institutions, such as emerging research institutions (ERIs), minority-serving institutions (MSIs), and community colleges, to attend the 2024 Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting. In addition to a travel stipend, the awardees will participate in...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, provides $100,000 to support student travel to the Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) conference and the co-located Verification Mentoring Workshop (VMW) in 2024-2026. The goal is to encourage early-stage graduate students to pursue research careers in computer-aided verification, a critical area of computer science. The funding will cover...