Project Grant P047A170437

The University of Texas at Dallas was awarded a $3,000,000 project grant from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) program. The grant will support the North Texas Semiconductor Workforce Consortium, an industry-based workforce development initiative aimed at increasing the number of technicians needed to support major expansions of semiconductor manufacturing facilities in North Texas. Under the...

The U.S. Department of Education's TRIO Upward Bound program has awarded a $343,441 Project Grant to Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida. The grant, which runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, will support the college's efforts to develop the academic skills and motivation necessary for low-income and potential first-generation college students, including veterans, to succeed in postsecondary education. The Upward Bound program provides comprehensive services such as academic...

This federal Project Grant award of $1,000,000.00, provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Economic Development Initiative, Community Project Funding/Congressional Directed Spending program (CFDA 14.251), supports a wide range of economic development and community development activities to be carried out by the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). The grant is intended to fund a congressionally directed project in Richardson, Texas, with the goal of creating jobs,...

This $468,821 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). The award will train 30 students over 3 years to conduct culturally responsive research on underserved and underrepresented populations in developmental science. Students will gain hands-on research experience through UTD's "Play with...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education awarded a $401,900 Project Grant under the TRIO Upward Bound program (CFDA 84.047) to Lake Michigan College. The grant funds will support an Upward Bound program to serve students in the Benton Harbor, Michigan area. The Upward Bound program provides academic instruction, tutoring, counseling, mentoring, and other services to low-income and potential first-generation college students to improve their academic performance and...

The Greater Hartford Consortium for Higher Education, Inc., doing business as Career Beginnings, received a $287,537 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the TRIO Upward Bound federal grant program (CFDA 84.047). The grant period runs from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023. Under this award, Career Beginnings will deliver TRIO Upward Bound services in Hartford, Connecticut focused on generating the skills and motivation...

This $500,000 Project Grant award was made on August 13, 2024 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Economic Development Initiative, Community Project Funding, and Miscellaneous Grants program (CFDA 14.251). The grant supports a wide range of economic development and community development activities in Dallas, TX to be performed by the University of North Texas at Dallas (UNT Dallas) over an 8-year period until August 31, 2032. While the full scope of activities...

The University of Texas at Dallas was awarded a $400,000 project grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) federal grant program. The grant will support research examining changes in course delivery and student enrollment and completion outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas from September 2022 through August 2024. As the prime awardee, UT Dallas will analyze how different...

The University of Texas at Dallas was awarded a $441,000 Project Grant by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports research on "CONTROL, ESTIMATION, AND LEARNING IN MULTI-TEAM DYNAMIC NETWORK GAMES WITH ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION" from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The university has extensive experience delivering research, engineering, modeling, and analysis...

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) received a $679,450 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence—Teacher Preparation and Development program (CFDA 84.428). The grant supports UTSA's "Culturally Efficacious Signature Teacher Residency (CESTR) Project", which aims to strengthen the teacher preparation pipeline by increasing the recruitment, preparation, support, placement,...