Project Grant P031A210159

The Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA) received a $1.5 million cooperative agreement award from the Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration under the Technical Assistance and Workforce Development program (CFDA 20.531) to operate the National Center for Applied Transit Technology (N-CATT) from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022. N-CATT will provide practical resources and targeted technical assistance to help rural, small urban, and tribal transit...

The National Science Foundation awarded $304,558 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program to the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, Inc. to design and implement an eight-week entrepreneurial training program. The program will provide approximately 100 educational and learning technology research teams with resources and tools to advance their innovations from the lab to the market. Specifically, the grantee will offer curriculum based on...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) aims to support and study the 2024 Advancing Research Translation (ART) awardee institutions and their mentor institutions. The $1,564,645 project seeks to enable these institutions to better value and support faculty innovation and entrepreneurship, including through changes to promotion and tenure processes. The award will fund site...

This $2,933,494 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) is funding the "Collaborative Research: Tri-Alliance for Post-Award Innovation" project. The objective is to transform post-award support for faculty at Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs) by: 1) building capacity for post-award service structures, 2) developing shared education and training resources, and 3) piloting innovative cross-divisional support roles....

This $1,168,047 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to develop a deeper understanding of the complex problems and needs that drive technology innovation. The project involves: Collecting comprehensive datasets on technical problems, solutions, and organizations across three selected domains; 2) Applying AI/machine learning techniques to analyze this data and identify predictive...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $286,418 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant to Academic Web Pages, Inc. under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The project aims to develop an innovative, AI-assisted mentoring platform that will enhance peer mentoring programs in higher education institutions. The platform will leverage large language models and retrieval-augmented generation technology to provide personalized,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 to Nd-Diagenomix, Inc. (DBA Adapta Education, Inc.) will develop a web-based formative assessment system for high school math education. The system will utilize innovative machine learning and large language models to provide highly efficient and personalized assessments that are easily customizable by teachers. This aims to address critical classroom challenges, such...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $399,592 Project Grant under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, to redesign, implement, and evaluate a training program for computer science teaching assistants (TAs) to help motivate student engagement in large CS courses. The project aims to use evidence-based practices to train about 80 CS TAs per semester on inclusive teaching...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $601,075 Project Grant on March 1, 2024 to Hillsborough Community College, a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution, for the NAVIGATE project. This project aims to significantly expand the outreach and visibility of the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program by disseminating the ATE Impacts book and other relevant materials to showcase the cumulative impact of ATE projects and centers. The goal is to help establish a long-standing...

The federal Formula Grant award of $701,387.00, provided by the Administration for Community Living (CFDA 93.464 - ACL Assistive Technology), supports comprehensive statewide initiatives by the District of Columbia Government's Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to improve access to assistive technology devices and services for individuals with disabilities across their lifespan. The two-year grant, running from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, will fund a variety of services and...