Project Grant S184G190247

The City of Starkville, MS was awarded a $585,600.00 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration under the Safe Streets and Roads for All (CFDA 20.939) program. The grant is intended to support the implementation of the city's comprehensive roadway safety action plan to prevent fatalities and serious injuries across Starkville's transportation system. The award period runs from July 18, 2025 through March 31, 2028. The project will fund...

This $394,768 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to strengthen the adaptability and resilience of underserved communities to climate uncertainty through interdisciplinary research and training. The key activities include: Training minority students from underserved regions on climate change adaptation and resilience, equipping them with skills to address environmental challenges and serve the future workforce....

This $189,938.24 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program aims to develop strategies for assessing and mitigating social-ecological vulnerability in communities surrounding large protected areas in the Southeast U.S. The project, led by North Carolina State University with sub-awards to the University of South Carolina and University of Tennessee Knoxville, has three main...

This $150,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4, under the Adaptive Science federal grant program (CFDA 15.670), will support Mississippi State University in partnership with the Service to identify and implement social science methods and tools to address key regional priorities through September 2027. Key priorities include enhancing public perception of habitat and species conservation decisions, effectively engaging private...

The Union County School District was awarded a $495,753 project grant from the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services Office under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program. The grant period runs from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. Funding will support the School Violence Prevention Program, which aims to improve school security and foster a positive learning environment through evidence-based programs. Specifically, the district will...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $19,889,515 project grant under the Inflation Reduction Act's Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program (CFDA 66.616) to 2C Mississippi: Towards Sustainable, Educated and Empowered Mississippi. The grant funds will be used to construct the first Resiliency Hub in Jackson, Mississippi, which will provide shelter, drinking water, electricity, and social services during system failures, while also serving as a...

This Project Grant award of $494,611 from the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Program (CFDA #16.525) will enable Central State University, a historically black university in Wilberforce, Ohio, to strengthen its institutional response to addressing these crimes on campus. The grant will support Central State in developing culturally relevant strategies, response...

The Mississippi State University was awarded a $299,860 cooperative agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 under the Geographic Programs – Gulf of Mexico Program (CFDA 66.475). The award will support expansion of MSU's established Plan-It Marsh educational training program on growing native plants for habitat restoration and development of a new Plan-It Dunes program. At least four new educational modules will be developed for the programs to provide skills training to...

This $297,801 National Science Foundation project grant will support the San Francisco State University in expanding its Science, Technology, and Society Hub to establish a research community focused on cross-campus collaboration between social science and STEM faculty and graduate students. Over three years, the Hub will seed interdisciplinary research programs centered on social and environmental justice themes like the COVID-19 pandemic, alternative energy, and automation/artificial...

This five-year, $224,915 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities' Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund research exploring combined climate intervention strategies for stakeholder use. A team of experts from climate science, engineering, behavioral science and ecology at Louisiana State University will advance the state of science on climate intervention scenarios that keep warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius. The researchers will...