Project Grant SID32022GR0018

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $262,900 to Portland State University over the period of October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025. The goal of this project is to redesign security education curricula to better integrate and leverage the use of large language models (LLMs) in addressing modern cybersecurity challenges. The key objectives are to create new educational content and lab...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $499,620 to Elmhurst University in Elmhurst, Illinois to conduct faculty development workshops aimed at improving cybersecurity education for high school teachers. The goal is to empower high school teachers with cybersecurity knowledge so they can inspire and guide students towards considering cybersecurity degrees and careers, fostering a new generation of cybersecurity...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (47.076) program provides $240,000 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to develop a cybersecurity education framework for computer science students. The project aims to build a "cybersecurity mindset" by integrating threat-driven cybersecurity modules into non-cybersecurity computer science courses, allowing students to build, break, and fix...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education aims to enhance undergraduate cybersecurity education through a mission-based learning model. With $292,359 in funding from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025, Boise State University will develop instructor and student lesson plans for a set of cybersecurity missions in an existing computer science course. Senior undergraduate and graduate computer science students will be trained to coach younger...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the development of an on-demand, research-based innovation to provide help-seeking assistance for learners in virtual and recorded training programs. The $256,000 award made under the NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support Learningclues, LLC from January 2023 through December 2023. The company will build an engine that automatically identifies course disciplines and important learning terms from spoken...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $318,850 will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles from May 2022 to April 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The research aims to improve speech technology and develop automated oral literacy assessments to better support learning outcomes for young African American English-speaking children. Specifically, the university researchers will develop data augmentation and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program totaling $222,353 will fund research at Wichita State University from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024. The grant aims to study how language and linguistic features impact refugee populations' perceptions and responses to social engineering threats like phishing and vishing attacks. Key deliverables will include preliminary results on the effect of refugees' linguistic traits on...

This three-year, $621,352 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop novel natural language processing and artificial intelligence tools to augment scientific writing instruction. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will build machine learning models for fact-checking student writing, knowledge tracing to measure concept mastery over time, and generating narrative progressions associated...

Summary California State University Long Beach Research Foundation received a $374,998 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028. The award supports development of comprehensive, hands-on virtual learning materials for teaching data science applications in cybersecurity. These materials address a critical...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) for $199,299 provides funding to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), to develop and evaluate novel AI-based methods for student modeling and tailored large language models (LLMs) to enhance personalized learning in computer science education. The key objectives are to: (1) integrate...