Project Grant H79SM080835

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will develop and validate a diversity intervention focused on training employees specific skills to be allies for one another and for marginalized others. The $308,978 award to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) will assess the long-term effectiveness of this type of allyship training and create an online version for broad dissemination. The project will...

This $350,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research at Michigan State University from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024 examining board composition and firm effectiveness as it relates to diversity as an organizational capability. A subaward of $50,000 will support related research at the University of Florida assessing how board diversity...

This federal Project Grant award of $403,103 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.305 - Education Research, Development and Dissemination) supports a research project titled "School Diversity and Long-Term Student Outcomes" led by the University of Oklahoma's Office of Research Administration. The project aims to examine the long-term impacts of school diversity policies on student outcomes. Key activities include data collection, analysis,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) grant, awarded to Washington State University (WSU), supports a 5-year research project to study the impacts of a strengths-based approach to communities. The project aims to develop and test a community-driven measurement tool to assess community strength, as well as create a curriculum on strengths-based approaches for use in medical and public health contexts. Through a mixed-methods...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, provides $133,617 to Temple University to address preparation gaps and promote culturally relevant teaching to support diverse groups in computing courses. The university will expand its Bridges system of learning materials to better serve underrepresented student populations in foundational data structures and algorithms courses. Key products and services include...

This $117,053 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and evaluation of interventions to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scientific peer review process. The awardee, a consortium led by Indiana University including Columbia University and California State University San Bernardino, will design and deliver training to both graduate students navigating peer review and the reviewers/editors who...

This $280,566 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to address the lack of diversity in the geosciences field through a unique and inclusive approach. The "Developing Champions of Diversity with Appreciative Inquiry and Computational Simulation (CHAMPIONS)" project will implement a three-step process: 1) Convening an Appreciative Inquiry Summit to engage geosciences faculty in identifying challenges and desired...

The University of Houston received a two-year, $251,981 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports research to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the contextual factors impacting psychological safety for members of underrepresented demographic groups in the workplace. Through three studies involving interviews with employees and their managers, the university investigators aim to gain...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $932,314 to the University of Washington to investigate and develop solutions to enable the success and advancement of neurodivergent professionals in the technology workplace. The key products of this 3-year project include: A comprehensive "Neuroinclusive Success Enablers Toolkit" that compiles evidence-based interventions to empower neurodivergent technology...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $103,357 will support a collaborative research effort by Arizona State University to engage STEM leaders in improving diversity among faculty. Led by ASU in partnership with the University of New Mexico and University of Oregon, this NSF Advancing Excellence in Graduate Education program Catalyst Alliance project will pilot an institutional change strategy of broad significance. Over the two-year period from March 2022 to February 2024, the...