Project Grant H982301410046

Arizona State University was awarded a $102,734 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Overseas Programs - Group Projects Abroad federal grant program (CFDA 84.021). The grant will support educational exchanges between southern borderlands from July 2021 through July 2023. The Overseas Programs - Group Projects Abroad program aims to contribute to the development and improvement of modern foreign language and area studies in the U.S....

Arizona State University was awarded a $1.3 million project grant from the National Science Foundation under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and test culturally situated immersive virtual and hands-on learning environments for middle school students in the Navajo Nation. The goal is to engage Diné youth in place-based virtual scientific investigations, physical experiments, and engineering design projects related to energy and water resources. Arizona State University...

Arizona State University received a $1.19 million Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the American History and Civics Education federal grant program (CFDA 84.422). The grant aims to support the establishment of the GEOCIVICS professional development program to integrate geography across the social sciences and improve instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse K-12 student populations in Tempe, Arizona. The...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $174,862 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Arizona State University's Division, doing business as Orspa. The two-week institute focuses on literary and cultural contact between China, Japan, and Korea from the 17th century to the present, using the lens of translation to examine issues in East Asian literary studies. Participants will discuss scholarship on translation...

Arizona State University was awarded a $313,082 Project Grant from the Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research under the Program for Study of Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (CFDA 19.300) federal grant program. The grant will fund efforts from September 2021 through September 2022 to develop U.S. expertise in the countries and languages of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Specifically, the university will work to increase American proficiency in...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education has awarded a $529,351 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (CFDA 84.021) Block Grant to American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, Inc. The grant will fund 30 fellowships for participants in the organization's Taiwan Intensive Summer and Semester Language Programs (TISLP). This project aims to enhance modern foreign language and area studies education in the United States by supporting overseas training,...

The University of Arizona, through its Arizona Board of Regents, received a $364,852 Block Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education to support the Center for Arabic Study Abroad's advanced Arabic language and culture training program at the Qasid Institute in Jordan. The two-year project, funded through the Overseas Programs - Group Projects Abroad federal grant program (CFDA #84.021), will contribute to improved Arabic language instruction and area...

The Asia Foundation received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs to organize a program titled "2030 Climate Champions: Young Leaders for a Brighter U.S.-China Future." The one-year award period is from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2024. The funding supports the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) which aims to inform and influence foreign publics to strengthen relationships and advance U.S. foreign policy goals and...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services (DHS USCIS) under CFDA 97.010 - Citizenship Education and Training program provides $269,999.00 to the Chinese American Service League, Inc. (Casl) to deliver citizenship preparation services to the Chinese American community in Chicago. The funding supports citizenship instruction, naturalization application assistance, English language classes, civics education, and other...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded a $600,000 cooperative agreement to The Asia Foundation to support implementation of the Cambodia YSEALI Summit 2022 under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) federal grant program. The Asia Foundation will plan and organize the Cambodia YSEALI Summit in December 2023 to advance the program's goals of informing and influencing foreign publics and expanding relationships between people to support U.S. foreign...