Project Grant HC29702723

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $216,218 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. The grant, titled "AI & Digital Literacy: Toward an Inclusive and Empowering Teaching Practice," will fund an institute that explores how to teach writing, research, and critical inquiry in the face of developing generative AI technology. Designed for secondary school,...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), awarded a $141,252 project grant to the Dominguez Hills Foundation at California State University, Dominguez Hills. The goal of this 2-year project, starting June 1, 2024, is to understand the implications and interactions of generative artificial intelligence (AI), specifically ChatGPT, on the identities and practices of pre-service teachers from diverse...

This Project Grant award, made by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will provide $300,000 to Rutgers, The State University to lay the groundwork for new paradigms of responsible design, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered writing tools for the college writing domain. The project will connect instructors, learners, natural language processing researchers, and domain experts to set an agenda for generative AI research with the...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.162 - Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development) provides $149,574.00 to West Virginia University to develop interdisciplinary approaches to the ethical use of AI across humanities curricula. The key components of the project include: Hosting a two-week summer institute for humanities scholars and technical experts to form a learning community and explore...

This $550,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered products that enable humans to interact and converse with books and other documents. The key products being developed include: Technology to represent the informational content of books and document discussions as a knowledge graph, which will then be used to ground large...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to Rutgers, The State University located in New Jersey. The Design Justice Labs project will establish an international and interdisciplinary digital network to conduct community-centered research on the use of "generative AI" for modeling human languages, communication, arts, and cultures. Key activities include: Rutgers will focus on...

This federal Project Grant award for $149,991.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169). The project, titled "Machine Listening in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," will bring together a multidisciplinary and international group of scholars to advance research on the dangers and opportunities of machine listening from a humanistic perspective. The project aims to explore how...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program provides $200,000 to support a time-sensitive project that aims to empower teachers to harness the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to create interactive, personalized STEM learning resources. The project team, led by the Regents of the University of Michigan, will partner with WGBH Educational Foundation to develop a teacher-AI...

This federal Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.161 - Promotion of the Humanities Research) provides $491,863 to the University of Richmond to establish the Center for Liberal Arts and AI (CLAAI). The project aims to (1) develop collaborative research through fellowships, (2) expand course offerings on ethical AI issues and using AI to address social problems through course transformation and professional development, (3) expand access to AI methods...

This $2,083,321 federal Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.305 - Education Research, Development and Dissemination program) on September 1, 2024. The grant is funding the "Using Generative AI for Reading R&D Center," which will focus on advancing educational innovations and improving learning outcomes through research, technology integration, and policy development related to the use of generative AI in reading...