Project Grant ORIIR200066

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems will fund $123,946 for research into understanding and mitigating bias in artificial intelligence models for predicting infectious disease spread. The award is part of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically,...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $195,381 Project Grant to Washington State University under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant aims to fund the RAPID project "Curtailing Nosocomial Amplification of COVID-19," which seeks to develop epidemiological models to better understand and mitigate the transmission of COVID-19 in healthcare settings. As part of the grant, Research Triangle Institute will...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $373,667 to Emory University for research on understanding and mitigating bias in artificial intelligence models for infectious disease spread prediction. Over a three-year period from April 2023 through March 2026, the grantee will develop an AI system to predict the spatial and temporal spread of...

This $251,493 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop optimized pooled testing strategies for efficient prevalence tracking and accurate COVID-19 infection diagnosis. The key products and services to be delivered include: Designing effective sampling and testing algorithms to estimate community prevalence under resource constraints (Thrust 1); developing optimized pooling and decoding algorithms for...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $182,797 Project Grant to the University of Colorado Boulder under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of April 15, 2021 through December 31, 2021. The grant funds a research project titled "RAPID: The Rise and Propagation of Anti-Vax and Anti-Access Social Media Campaigns Targeted at Disadvantaged and Minority Populations During the COVID19 Pandemic." The University of Colorado Boulder will...

The National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program awarded $199,516 to The George Washington University under a Project Grant titled "Pandemic Communication in Time of Populism: Building Resilient Media and Ensuring Effective Pandemic Communication in Divided Societies." The two-year project, running from May 2022 to April 2024, will conduct the first comprehensive comparative study of health crisis communication in the context of populist politics...

The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the University of Florida Division of Sponsored Research under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support the project "RAPID: STATISTICAL INFERENCE OF INCIDENCE OF SARS-COV-2 IN THE US USING MULTIPLE DATA STREAMS TO IDENTIFY LEVELS OF IMMUNITY AND THE IMPACT OF NON-PHARMACEUTICAL INTERVENTIONS." The one-year project beginning April 1, 2022 will integrate...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded a $148,824 Project Grant under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to conduct research examining the interplay of COVID-19 and HIV and its impacts on HIV care, disparities, and long-term outcomes. The study aims to: 1) compare clinical risk factors for post-COVID condition (PCC)-related comorbidities by HIV status, 2)...

The Georgia Tech Research Corporation was awarded a $178,288 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology to model the spread of COVID-19 on cruise ships and evaluate mitigation measures. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), this project will develop mathematical models to analyze COVID-19 transmission dynamics among passengers and crew on cruise ships. Researchers will evaluate the effectiveness of interventions such as masking...

The National Science Foundation awarded Indiana University a $370,093 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to develop strategies for effective science communication using social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant will fund a mixed-methods study examining how scientists have used Twitter and Reddit to interact with the public on COVID-19 topics and identify best practices for two-way online engagement. Researchers will analyze social media...