Project Grant SCS80022GR0036

This Project Grant award of $174,511, provided by the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training), supports the development of an adaptive e-learning intervention called PACE to improve newborn and pediatric admission care outcomes in Mwanza, Tanzania. The key objectives are to: 1) Determine if the addition of tailored skills training increases refresher knowledge assignment completion above 60% and 2) Establish a...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services under CFDA 84.325 - Special Education - Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities - provides $132,691 to the University of New Mexico (UNM) for the "PROJECT MESA: MULTILINGUAL, CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EARLY CHILDHOOD SOCIAL COMMUNICATION APPROACHES" initiative. This 12-month project aims to enhance the preparation of...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $118,334 National Leadership Grant (CFDA 45.312) to the Consortium of Metropolitan Libraries (COBIMET) to conduct a digital preservation needs assessment for public libraries and municipal archives in Puerto Rico's metropolitan area. The project will develop and implement a bilingual, publicly accessible online database using the Digital Preservation Coalition's Rapid Assessment Model. Key deliverables include a comprehensive needs...

This Project Grant award of $443,720 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA #93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) is funding a study on the impact of Mexico's mandatory pre-primary education reform on learning outcomes in primary school. The study will use nationwide longitudinal data from the Mexican education system to: Examine the effects of mandatory pre-primary on primary school entry ages, grade retention, and student achievement...

The Project Grant award of $369,400 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313) will support Old Dominion University Research Foundation (ODURF) and Texas Woman's University in developing a model of information literacy (IL) instruction. The project will investigate how library and information science (LIS) faculty and secondary school library practitioners currently address psychosocial, emotional, and cultural...

This federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA #45.313), provides $142,419 to the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus to develop and deliver capacity-building workshops on digital collections management for memory workers (e.g., staff at galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) across Puerto Rico. The key objectives are to strengthen a community of practice in the region and...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to design the blueprint and initial prototype for a gamified, personalized virtual experience to provide essential scientific research skills training to undergraduate students at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. The $500,000 award, with a performance period from September 2024 to August 2027, will develop an interactive system that offers Spanish-speaking STEM students...

The Regents of the University of Minnesota, through its Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, was awarded a $249,892 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. The grant will fund a 2-year project to increase educational equity in higher education by developing models and guidance to help academic libraries formalize programs that support open education initiatives. The project will focus on improving...

The U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $248,235 National Leadership Grant (CFDA 45.312) to George Mason University and its partners, the Virginia Academic Library Consortium, Scientist.com, and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. This 2-year project, with an end date of July 31, 2026, will scale the development of an open-source, learning management system-integrated open educational resources repository. The key products and services to be...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, provides $349,994 to Arizona State University to implement a research project and professional development plan aimed at empowering children of migratory and seasonal farmworkers through culturally responsive gamification and engineering design instruction. Specifically, the investigator will conduct a qualitative study using critical agency framework to collect...