Project Grant W911NF2310135

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will provide $330,000 over 3 years to support an annual conference for the NSF CREST/HBCU-RISE/PRP program community. The conference will bring together principal investigators, directors, faculty, staff, and students to discuss relevant topics, share best practices, and network. Key components include NSF personnel briefings, PI sessions on program-related issues, and workshops for early career...

This Project Grant award of $100,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the "Thriving Not Just Surviving" conference organized by the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust (PRSTRT). The conference aims to: Train at least 40 faculty from public and private universities in Puerto Rico's southeast region on grant writing skills focused on STEM workforce development. Facilitate collaborations among Hispanic-Serving...

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of New Mexico (UNM) to host a two-day conference titled "Improving the Research and Innovation Enterprise Across the Southwest Region". The conference aims to (1) enhance the collective understanding of challenges facing the research enterprise in the Southwest U.S., (2) formulate next steps for individual and collective action to...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, provides $100,000 to support student travel to the Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) conference and the co-located Verification Mentoring Workshop (VMW) in 2024-2026. The goal is to encourage early-stage graduate students to pursue research careers in computer-aided verification, a critical area of computer science. The funding will cover...

This Project Grant award of $142,783.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports the organization and hosting of the NSF Spectrum Week 2024 conference in Arlington, Virginia from May 13-17, 2024. The event brings together three major programs funded through the NSF Spectrum Innovation Initiative (SWIFT, NRDZ, and SPECTRUMX) to hold collaborative meetings and social events. New elements for 2024 include co-location and coordination with the IEEE DySPAN 2024 conference, participation...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $162,843 project grant to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support UNC-G in hosting the 2023 NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Grantees Conference, an annual two-day in-person and virtual event. This conference will bring together researchers, educators, and industry experts in nanotechnology and nanobiology to highlight NSF-funded research, foster...

This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems supports student travel to attend the Fifth Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSYS 2022) from August 29 to September 1, 2022 in Santa Clara, California. The grant will fund selected graduate and undergraduate student attendance at MLSYS 2022, which focuses on research at the intersection of machine learning and systems. The conference aims to foster technical,...

This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support student travel to two 2022 USENIX conferences. Specifically, the grant will fund approximately 20 students to attend the 18th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS '22) and 20 students to attend the 31st USENIX Security Symposium (Security '22). These conferences bring together academic, government, and industry researchers to foster...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), supports a conference that aims to address the persistent lack of integration of local ecological knowledge with Western STEM education. The $100,000 award, effective from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2024, will enable WestEd, a non-profit education research and service agency, to convene a group of Indigenous academic, community, and education leaders. Over three phases, the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $765,465 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, doing business as the University of Nebraska, to host the 28th NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) National Conference from October 2023 to September 2025. The conference will engage audiences from different research areas and geographic jurisdictions, including state legislators, congressional representatives, federal employees, project...