Project Grant R324A240107

The federal Project Grant award R15MH134195, totaling $443,458.00, was provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). This grant supports the development, delivery, and evaluation of an adapted Mindfulness Awareness Practices (MAPS) intervention for first-year college students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The project aims to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of the...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), provides $165,933 to develop and evaluate two online modules integrating growth mindset and effective learning strategies interventions for introductory and general chemistry courses. The University Corporation will create interactive videos and reflective writing activities to teach growth mindset and effective learning strategies explicitly within the...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, titled "Promoting the Self-Regulated Use of Effective Learning Strategies in Gateway Undergraduate STEM Courses", provides $138,000 to support research investigating the effectiveness of a multi-component strategy training intervention on student learning and achievement in undergraduate chemistry and biology courses. The grant sponsors two large-scale experiments at Texas...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $657,616 project grant under its STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) for the project "Integrating Self-Regulated Learning into STEM Courses: Maximizing Learning Outcomes with the STSRL Framework." This 3-year effort aims to improve postsecondary students' academic success and retention in STEM disciplines by embedding effective self-regulated learning...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded Massachusetts General Hospital a $1.46M Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) on September 15, 2025, to develop and implement a novel therapeutic intervention combining real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) neurofeedback with mindfulness-based training to address repetitive negative thinking (RNT) in adolescents at risk for serious mental illness. The 24-month project will deliver a...

This Project Grant award of $125,026 from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (CFDA 93.213 - Research and Training in Complementary and Integrative Health) will fund research conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to investigate the brain bases of mindfulness. The project aims to: 1) identify reliable brain network connections that predict trait mindfulness using resting-state fMRI data from over 350 adults, and 2) examine state mindfulness and...

PROJECT TEAM-UP, funded by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) under the Special Education - Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program (CFDA 84.325), represents a $187,300 Project Grant awarded to the University of California, Santa Barbara effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. This initiative supports the development and delivery of training and professional development initiatives designed to...

This $246,900 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of reflection exercises and vignettes to promote professional dispositions among undergraduate computing students. Awarded under the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education program (CFDA 47.076), the grant involves faculty from four institutions collaborating over two years to design and study exercises asking students to explain how they have demonstrated behaviors like persistence and...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke awarded the University of Colorado-Denver a K23 Career Development Grant totaling $198,129 (awarded August 18, 2025, with completion by July 31, 2030) to develop a remotely-delivered mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) program for adolescents with migraine. The primary deliverable is a pilot feasibility randomized clinical trial evaluating the adapted virtual group-based MBI, which targets negative...

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....