Project Grant P031A230004

This two-year, $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support Duke University in developing the Flexible Affordable Scalable Technology for Research Storage system. Commonly known as FAST, this shared research storage system utilizes commodity data center hardware and open source Ceph software to provide flexible, high-performance, and...

The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded the University of Delaware a $443,455 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to build a research data storage and management platform. The university is acquiring two 1.6 PB Open Storage Network (OSN) storage pods and co-locating data service nodes to provide a scalable, shareable, and extensible data storage system for collaborative data-intensive research. This platform will enable research...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $174,998 to develop a set of educational modules called "courselets" focused on data systems. The University of California, San Diego will create courselets based on literate programming concepts that allow students to complete hands-on exercises exploring data acquisition,...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totals $198,744 to fund research on student data in the post-pandemic university setting. The grantee, Columbia University, will conduct a qualitative study exploring how students understand and react to institutional data collection practices and how social differences may impact student experiences with educational technology and data surveillance. Through surveys and...

This five-year, $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will fund the development of the Experiments as a Service Infrastructure (EASI). EASI aims to lower barriers for conducting randomized experiments comparing alternative digital learning experiences and analyzing resulting data to improve future student outcomes. Specifically, the University of Alabama will develop an infrastructure supporting...

This $900,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development and evaluation of an AI-based learning support system to provide personalized educational content for large-scale university courses in sustainability science. The key components of the project include: Designing and evaluating a system to interview students about their backgrounds and transform this data into a knowledge graph representation to inform...

The University of Washington will receive $500,000 from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program to develop a novel central data storage, curation, and sharing platform. This two-year project grant will support the creation of a scalable, elastic, low-latency data storage framework to enable interdisciplinary big data research across materials science, particle physics, environmental science, medicine, and health...

This $1.7 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the development of a novel AI-powered student support system to improve metacognitive calibration skills at the University of Illinois from August 2022 to July 2025. The project aims to research methods for enhancing students' ability to accurately estimate their own level of knowledge using short, personalized training exercises delivered through a decentralized AI framework....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $19,116,189 Cooperative Agreement to Rice University to establish SAFEINSIGHTS, a national research infrastructure for large-scale learning science and engineering. The program, funded under the NSF STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) portfolio, aims to enable secure data analysis and controlled research studies within authentic learning environments. By combining learner data from multiple digital learning platforms, SAFEINSIGHTS will support...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) provides $170,000.00 in funding to Cast Inc., a non-profit educational research organization, to develop an enterprise-level platform that integrates extended reality (XR) technologies with traditional learning management systems. The key goals of the 3-year project are to: Integrate single sign-on capabilities and FERPA-compliant encryption to enable seamless interoperability between the XR platform and...