This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $999,942 in funding to Learn Collaborate Inc., a minority-owned small business, to develop an AI-powered collaborative project-based learning (CPBL) software platform. The platform is designed to address the workforce skills gap by enabling project-based learning activities that seamlessly integrate real-world projects with academic...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $137,071 to support the EXPANDAI Leadership Workshop (EXAIL) in Pittsburgh, PA in October 2024. The EXAIL workshop is the first program-wide principal investigator meeting for the NSF EXPANDAI program, which supports minority-serving institutions in building new capacity in AI research and education. The workshop aims to...
This Project Grant award of $200,000 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (47.076) program aims to promote AI readiness and democratize AI technologies for a broad spectrum of advanced cyberinfrastructure users and researchers. The key products and services provided under this 4-year award, which began on September 1, 2023, include: Developing a comprehensive suite of experiential learning modules, including flexible micro-modules and immersive extended reality experiences, to...
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to establish an experiential learning pathway in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for diverse learners. The award, totaling $1,000,000, will enable the University of Cincinnati to enroll 180 EXLAI scholars over 3 years in an 8-week summer program that provides hands-on AI research and development experience. The program will partner with 4...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $299,587 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of California, Merced. This 2-year project aims to provide comprehensive cross-layer training on high-performance deep learning (HPC-DL) technologies and applications for a diverse research workforce in California's Central Valley region. The key products and services to be delivered...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) totaling $300,000 will support a partnership between the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez (UPRM) and the AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI). The project aims to develop AI techniques to enhance data transformation and analysis for high-energy physics experiments, with a focus on areas such as optimal transport in deep...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the Lab for Applied Artificial Intelligence (LAI) at Loyola University Chicago in broadening participation in data science research, education, and workforce development among undergraduate students. The key initiatives include offering five paid faculty-supervised research projects annually, expanding enrollment in an existing data science course, and developing a new...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $600,000 to the Computing Research Association (CRA) to develop strategies for increasing capacity and inclusion in artificial intelligence (AI) education. The project, titled "CUE-M: LEVEL UP AI," involves convening a series of virtual roundtables and in-person workshops to gather multiple perspectives and build consensus on expanding AI curriculum, infrastructure, and access....
This is a $1,058,522 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant, titled "CUE-P: Integrating Artificial Intelligence Literacy into Community College Programs," is a collaboration between the Education Development Center (EDC) and five community colleges to develop pathways from 2-year to 4-year computer science degrees, increase AI literacy among faculty and students, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $552,607 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Saint Louis University (SLU) to modernize its campus cyberinfrastructure to support artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced research and education. The grant will establish a new high-performance computing (HPC) cluster with advanced CPU and GPU nodes to enable data-intensive AI research across key scientific domains, including biology,...