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Task areas include: 1) administrative management and technical support including training and workshops, and quality oversight and management (site visits, critical stage audits, and final study report audits), 2) development, qualification and validation of immune assays, 3) immunogenicity and efficacy testing, 4) non-clinical and clinical sample testing, and 5) safety/toxicology studies. These services will facilitate the development and introduction of new vaccine candidates and biologics (regulated by CBER) against potential agents of bioterrorism and emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.", "keywords": [ "2019-nCoV", "Area", "Biological", "Bioterrorism", "COVID-19", "Clinical", "Communicable Diseases", "Contracts", "Coronavirus", "Development", "Educational workshop", "Emerging Communicable Diseases", "Feasibility Studies", "Immunology procedure", "Investigational New Drug Application", "Licensing", "Office of Administrative Management", "Reagent", "Reporting", "Safety", "Sampling", "Services", "Site Visit", "Testing", "Toxicology", "Training", "Vaccines", "Validation", "assay development", "efficacy testing", "evaluation/testing", "immunogenicity", "novel coronavirus", "novel vaccines", "product development", "testing services", "vaccine candidate", "vaccine development" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4370", "attributes": { "award_id": "1449617", "title": "NRT: Education Model Program on Water-Energy Research (EMPOWER) at Syracuse University", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Education and Human Resources (EHR)", "NSF Research Traineeship (NRT)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 14879, "first_name": "Vinod", "last_name": "Lohani", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2015-04-01", "end_date": "2022-03-31", "award_amount": 2965339, "principal_investigator": { "id": 14884, "first_name": "Charles", "last_name": "Driscoll", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 579, "ror": "https://ror.org/025r5qe02", "name": "Syracuse University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 14880, "first_name": "Christopher A", "last_name": "Scholz", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 14881, "first_name": "Tara F", "last_name": "Kahan", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 14882, "first_name": "Donald", "last_name": "Torrance", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 14883, "first_name": "Christa A", "last_name": "Kelleher", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 579, "ror": "https://ror.org/025r5qe02", "name": "Syracuse University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Research at the interface of water and energy cycles is critical to inform solutions to meet human needs for water and energy. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award will prepare master?s and doctoral students at Syracuse University with the tools needed to advance understanding of hydrocarbons, the primary energy source for current societies, and linkages to water quality and availability. The domestic and international field components of this program promote integrated technical training and global awareness of research with significant societal impact. In addition to technical knowledge, students will develop the professional skills in communication, public policy, management, and law that will prepare them to share the science and engineering discoveries with diverse audiences. The program will produce a cadre of highly skilled trainees in a field where graduates often pursue a wide range of non-academic careers as well as research careers. By filling critical gaps in knowledge on the complete pathway of hydrocarbon production and interconnections with the water cycle, this training program contributes to our national competitiveness and environmental security.\n\nThis NRT program bridges chemistry, engineering, and earth science to tackle issues at the water-energy nexus. The research theme spans the complete pathway of hydrocarbon energy production, from deposition and origin of hydrocarbons, to production from shale, to environmental effects of hydrocarbon use, and the linkages of the energy and water cycles. Trainees will address knowledge gaps on hydrological and geological controls on the development of productive shale plays, characterization of produced water and gas from shale, and how changes in emissions, fuel sources, and infrastructure for hydrocarbon transport impact the environment. The program provides training beyond core academic competency with comprehensive technical and professional development training that will develop student understanding of how knowledge in one area can be applied to another.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "13770", "attributes": { "award_id": "2122652", "title": "Institutional Transformation through Large-Scale Implementation of Departmental Action Teams", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Directorate for STEM Education (EDU)", "HSI-Hispanic Serving Instituti" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 1859, "first_name": "Mike", "last_name": "Ferrara", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-10-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 2966735, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30061, "first_name": "Charu", "last_name": "Thakral", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30061, "first_name": "Charu", "last_name": "Thakral", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 30062, "first_name": "Miguel A", "last_name": "Gonzalez-Meler", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 30063, "first_name": "Carmen M", "last_name": "Lilley", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 30064, "first_name": "Erin S", "last_name": "OLeary", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 163, "ror": "https://ror.org/02mpq6x41", "name": "University of Illinois at Chicago", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This project aims to establish an institution-wide imperative to improve classroom climate, instructional quality, and degree pathways in all Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics departments at the University of Illinois-Chicago, a broad-access Hispanic-Serving Institution. Many institutional transformation efforts do not yield broad impact on an entire institution due to their focus on a single course or small cadre of teaching faculty. To accomplish institutional transformation at a large, decentralized university, the project will implement departmental action teams that involve over 100 faculty across the university who will investigate the barriers to student success in their classrooms with close attention to institutional data. Departmental action teams will develop and implement individual action plans to address identified barriers through curricular, instructional, and policy reforms. The work of these teams will be complemented by a campus-level initiative that disseminates high-quality faculty professional development with a concerted focus on helping faculty implement evidence-based inclusive teaching practices. Supported by the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this project will transform the university to achieve an inclusive and highly productive campus environment for both students and faculty that reflects an institutional culture where students see faculty as advocates for their success.<br/><br/>The goal of institutional transformation that lies at the heart of this project will present an opportunity to study both the efficacy of interventions proposed by the departmental action teams and the resulting institutional change processes. The project will contribute to theories of change in organizations in ways that have not been systematically studied in the context of a large, public, minority-serving research-extensive university. Project researchers will study the evolution of the change effort to identify barriers to change and strategies for overcoming those barriers as each department improves its capacity to deliver engaging and inclusive pedagogies by conducting a systematic analysis of the work of each team and the evolution of the teaching culture at UIC in response to project programming. Using surveys, observational protocols, and interviews, project researchers will produce an evidentiary basis for institutional transformation following a teleological theory of change. This will include demonstrating the unique and common change processes across multiple academic departments units at the same university and how those processes are facilitated or hindered at other institutional levels. Finally, the dissemination plan calls for the production of an online roadmap to provide guidelines for launching data-driven change efforts that are attentive to local contexts. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also draw from these approaches to generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "11531", "attributes": { "award_id": "5R01AG074710-02", "title": "The Care Ecosystem Response to COVID-19: Accelerating Research on Dementia Care that Meets the Needs of Caregivers and Persons with Dementia during COVID-19", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Institute on Aging (NIA)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 26416, "first_name": "EMERALD THAI HAN", "last_name": "Nguyen", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2022-06-15", "end_date": "2025-05-31", "award_amount": 2967381, "principal_investigator": { "id": 7230, "first_name": "Katherine Laurel", "last_name": "Possin", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 768, "ror": "https://ror.org/043mz5j54", "name": "University of California, San Francisco", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 768, "ror": "https://ror.org/043mz5j54", "name": "University of California, San Francisco", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Dementia causes substantial burdens for patients and caregivers, which have been exacerbated by the COVID- 19 pandemic. The current state of dementia care is inadequate to meet the needs of this growing, vulnerable population. Scalable, effective, and person-centered dementia care models that are aligned with value-based healthcare reforms are needed now. The Care Ecosystem is an accessible, remotely delivered team-based dementia care model, designed to add value for patients, providers and payers in complex organizational and reimbursement structures. Care is delivered via the phone and web by unlicensed Care Team Navigators, who are trained and supervised by a team of dementia specialists with nursing, social work, and pharmacy expertise. Care Protocols guide proactive, quality care that is documented in the electronic health record. The evidence base to date suggests that the Care Ecosystem improves outcomes important to people with dementia, caregivers, and payers when delivered in a controlled research environment, including reduced emergency department visits, higher quality of life for patients and lower caregiver depression. We propose a rapid pragmatic trial in 6 health systems serving geographically and culturally diverse populations. We will leverage technology, delivering care via the phone and web and using electronic health records to monitor quality improvements and evaluate outcomes while maximizing external validity. In Aim 1, we will use implementation science to identify the model adaptations, facilitators, and barriers to implementing and sustaining the Care Ecosystem during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Aim 2 we will use mixed methods to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of the Care Ecosystem on outcomes important to patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, and health systems during the pandemic. In Aim 3, we will characterize the patient and caregiver factors associated with treatment benefit. This will include investigating effectiveness in underrepresented groups and elucidating unmet needs that will guide future development work. By simultaneously evaluating the real-world effectiveness and implementation strategies in diverse health systems, this project will bridge the science-practice gap in dementia care during an unprecedented time of heightened strain on family caregivers, healthcare providers and health systems. Furthermore, this work will pave the way for expanding access to high quality dementia care in the future, mitigating the negative impact of dementia on patients and their families across the nation.", "keywords": [ "Acceleration", "Bed Occupancy", "Behavior", "Behavioral Symptoms", "Black race", "COVID-19", "COVID-19 pandemic", "Caregiver Burden", "Caregiver support", "Caregiver well-being", "Caregivers", "Caring", "Clinical", "Communication", "Communities", "Community Health", "Complex", "Data", "Dementia", "Dementia caregivers", "Development", "Discipline of Nursing", "Ecosystem", "Effectiveness", "Electronic Health Record", "Emergency department visit", "Emergency medical service", "Enrollment", "Environment", "Evaluation", "Family", "Family Caregiver", "Fee-for-Service Plans", "Fright", "Future", "Geography", "Goals", "Health Personnel", "Health system", "Healthcare", "Healthcare Systems", "Home", "Hospitalization", "Infection", "Internet", "Intervention", "Interview", "Latinx", "Licensing", "Locales", "Medical", "Medicare claim", "Mental Depression", "Methods", "Modeling", "Monitor", "Outcome", "Participant", "Patients", "Persons", "Pharmaceutical Preparations", "Pharmacy facility", "Population Heterogeneity", "Primary Care", "Protocols documentation", "Provider", "Public Health", "Quality of Care", "Quality of life", "Research", "Resources", "Risk", "Risk Adjustment", "Rural", "Sampling", "Science", "Services", "Site", "Social Work", "Social isolation", "Specialist", "Standardization", "Structure", "Supportive care", "Surveys", "Technology", "Telephone", "Time", "Training", "Underrepresented Populations", "Underserved Population", "Vulnerable Populations", "Work", "advanced dementia", "advanced disease", "barrier to care", "caregiver depression", "cohort", "collaborative care", "comparison group", "cost", "dementia care", "design", "effectiveness evaluation", "effectiveness study", "ethnic minority population", "evidence base", "experience", "family burden", "health care model", "high risk", "hospital readmission", "implementation barriers", "implementation facilitators", "implementation science", "implementation strategy", "implementation/effectiveness", "improved", "improved outcome", "pandemic disease", "patient population", "person centered", "pragmatic trial", "primary outcome", "programs", "racial minority population", "randomized clinical trials", "remote delivery", "remote health care", "response", "satisfaction", "secondary outcome" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "13695", "attributes": { "award_id": "2116070", "title": "Ice Worlds: A Giant Screen Film and Outreach Project", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Directorate for STEM Education (EDU)", "AISL" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 29938, "first_name": "Kevin A.", "last_name": "Clark", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-10-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 2979451, "principal_investigator": { "id": 29939, "first_name": "Andrew", "last_name": "Wood", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 29939, "first_name": "Andrew", "last_name": "Wood", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 29940, "first_name": "Patricia A", "last_name": "Loew", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 29941, "first_name": "Karen", "last_name": "Elinich", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2323, "ror": "", "name": "Giant Screen Films", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants. <br/><br/>The Ice Worlds media project will inspire millions of children and adults to gain new knowledge about polar environments, the planet’s climate, and humanity’s place within Earth’s complex systems—supporting an informed, STEM literate citizenry. Featuring the NSF-funded THOR expedition to Thwaites glacier, along with contributions of many NSF-supported researchers worldwide, Ice Worlds will share the importance of investments in STEM with audiences in giant screen theaters, on television, online, and in other informal settings. Primary project deliverables include a giant screen film, a filmmaking workshop for Native American middle school students that will result in a documentary, a climate storytelling professional development program for informal educators, and a knowledge-building summative evaluation. The project’s largest target audience is middle school learners (ages 11-14); specific activities are designed for Native American youth and informal science practitioners. Innovative outreach will engage youth underserved in science inspiring a new generation of scientists and investigative thinkers. The project’s professional development programs will build the capacity of informal educators to engage communities and communicate science. The Ice Worlds project is a collaboration among media producers Giant Screen Films, Natural History New Zealand, PBS, and Academy Award nominated film directors (Yes/No Productions). Additional collaborators include Northwestern University, The American Indian Science and Engineering Society, the Native American Journalism Association, a group of museum and science center partners, and a team of advisors including scientific and Indigenous experts associated with the NSF-funded Study of Environmental Arctic Change initiative.<br/><br/>The goals of the project are: 1) to increase public understanding of the processes and consequences of environmental change in polar ecosystems, 2) to explore the effectiveness of the giant screen format to impart knowledge, inspire motivation and caring for nature, 3) to improve middle schoolers’ interest, confidence and engagement in STEM topics and pursuits—broadly and through a specific program for Native American youth, and 4) to build informal educators’ capacity to share stories of climate change in their communities. The main evaluation questions are 1) to what extent does the Ice World film affect learning, engagement, and motivation around STEM pursuits and environmental problem solving 2) what is the added value of companion media for youth’s giant screen learning over short and longer term, and 3) what are the impacts of the culturally based Native American youth workshops.<br/><br/>The evaluation work will involve a Native American youth advisory panel and a panel of science center practitioners in the giant screen film’s development and evaluation process. Formative evaluation of the film will involve recruiting youth from diverse backgrounds, including representation of Native youth, to see the film in the giant screen theater of a partner site. Post viewing surveys and group discussions will explore their experience of the film with respect to engagement, learning, evoking spatial presence, and motivational impact. A summative evaluation of the completed film will assess its immediate and longer term impacts. Statistical analyses will be conducted on all quantitative data generated from the evaluation, including a comparison of pre and post knowledge scores. An evaluation of the Tribal Youth Media program will include a significant period of formative evaluation and community engagement to align activities to the needs and interests of participating students. Culturally appropriate measures, qualitative methods and frameworks will be used to assess the learning impacts. Data will be analyzed to determine learning impacts of the workshop on youth participants as well as mentors and other stakeholder participants. Evaluation of the community climate storytelling professional development component will include lessons learned and recommendations for implementation.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "13351", "attributes": { "award_id": "75N95023D00001-0-759502300019-1", "title": "STSS TASK ORDER - NATIONAL CLINICAL DATA COLLABORATIVE (NACDAC)", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2023-09-26", "end_date": "2024-09-25", "award_amount": 2985677, "principal_investigator": { "id": 26488, "first_name": "GARY", "last_name": "MAYS", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1701, "ror": "", "name": "AXLE INFORMATICS, LLC", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "National COVID-19 Cohort Collaborative (N3C): The National COVID-19 Cohort Collaborative (N3C) sponsors the NIH COVID-19 Data Enclave, https://covid.cd2h.org/, one of the largest data enclaves in the world supporting COVID-19 research. N3C is a partnership among the NCATS-supported Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program hubs, the National Center for Data to Health (CD2H), and the NIGMS-supported Institutional Development Award Networks for Clinical and Translational Research (IDeA-CTR), with overall stewardship by NCATS. The N3C program is essentially a medium sized business, consisting of thousands of researchers, requiring enterprise level information technology (IT) support as part of a virtual research organization (VRO). This contract is necessary to ensure that NCATS and N3C can continue to provide adequate support for a secure, collaborative, VRO. This contract allows for continued support of the VRO which supports all of the required information technology functions to support an environment of over 4,000 users, including cloud-based productivity tools, a service desk, commercial and open-source deployments of analytical tools for the community to use, and expansion of the data types available for analysis, such as imaging, viral variant genomic sequences, etc. The common need is to share a collaborative cloud environment capable of ingesting billions of data points and performing a variety of complex analyses against multimodal data types, ranging from pathology and radiology data, synthetic data, genomic information, electronic health records (EHRs) and a wide variety of others. All of this must be done while meeting the highest levels of security and privacy, given the sensitivity of some of the data types being collected and the importance of the work being done in the environment. This contract provides support for all of these enterprise IT efforts.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "8102", "attributes": { "award_id": "75N93021C00012-0-9999-4", "title": "Statistical and Data Coordinating Center: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Studies", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2021-03-01", "end_date": "2022-02-28", "award_amount": 2994239, "principal_investigator": { "id": 23982, "first_name": "MARIAN", "last_name": "EWELL", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1673, "ror": "", "name": "THE EMMES COMPANY, LLC", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1673, "ror": "", "name": "THE EMMES COMPANY, LLC", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The goal of the Statistical and Data Coordinating Center is to provide comprehensive statistical support, data management and analysis activities for DMID-sponsored COVID clinical research trials. This includes internet-based electronic data collection, data management, data quality control and a specimen tracking system. In addition, the contractor provides consultation on statistics, study design, appropriate control groups, sample size, power calculations, randomization, stratification, and analysis.", "keywords": [ "2019-nCoV", "COVID-19", "Clinical Research", "Clinical Trials", "Consultations", "Contractor", "Control Groups", "Data Analyses", "Data Collection", "Data Coordinating Center", "Goals", "Internet", "Quality Control", "Randomized", "Research Design", "Sample Size", "Specimen", "Stratification", "System", "base", "coronavirus disease", "data management", "data quality", "electronic data", "research study", "statistics" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "13767", "attributes": { "award_id": "2115860", "title": "The Blue Whales Project: Engaging audiences in adaptation related science content through a giant screen film and educational activities in science centers and rural libraries", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Directorate for STEM Education (EDU)", "AISL" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 29938, "first_name": "Kevin A.", "last_name": "Clark", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-10-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 2996185, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30058, "first_name": "Charles", "last_name": "Kopczak", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30057, "first_name": "Elizabeth A", "last_name": "Roth-Johnson", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2336, "ror": "", "name": "California Science Center Foundation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2)<br/><br/>Despite the rich scientific evidence of adaptations and their evolutionary basis, there are concerning public misconceptions about evolution, processes of natural selection, and adaptations in the biodiverse world. Such misconceptions begin early. Younger elementary school children are often resistant to the idea that one “kind” of animal could descend from a completely different kind of animal, and they see features as having always existed. Other misconceptions lead to an inaccurate belief that changes in individual organisms acquired in a lifetime are passed directly on to offspring or that entire populations transform as a whole. These cognitive biases and \"intuitive” misunderstandings can persist into adulthood. This Innovations in Development project will counter that narrative through an informal science project focusing on the blue whale one of nature’s most spectacular stories of adaptation. It is a species that lives life at extremes: a long-distance migrator, a deep diver, an extravagant eater, the largest animal to ever exist. With its awe-inspiring size and rich mosaic of anatomical, physiological, and behavioral specializations, it serves as a bridge to an enriched understanding of universal concepts in elementary biology and can begin to dispel the deeply rooted misconceptions. The project deliverables include a giant screen film documenting the field work of research scientists studying the blue whales in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Mexico; multi-platform educational modules and programs that will build on the blue whale content from the film for use in science center programs and rural libraries; and professional development webinars that will offer content utilization and presentation skills for ISE facilitators. Project partners include California Science Center, STAR Library Education Network, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and SK Films. <br/><br/>The external evaluation studies will gather data from 20 participating rural libraries and 6 science museums. A formative evaluation of the film will be conducted in a giant screen theater setting with 75 families. After viewing a fine-cut version of the film they will complete age-appropriate post-viewing surveys on the film’s engagement, storytelling, content appeal and clarity, and learning value in communicating key science concepts. An external summative evaluation will include three studies. Study 1 will assess the implementation of the project at the 26 organizations, addressing the question: To what extent is the project implemented as envisioned in the libraries and science center settings? Baseline information will be collected, and later partners will complete post-grant surveys to report on their actual implementation of the project elements. In addition, the study will examine outcomes relating to professional development. Study 2 will be an evaluation of the film as experienced by 400 youth and parents in science centers and examining the question: To what extent does experiencing the film engage youth and parents and affect their interest, curiosity, and knowledge of blue whales, adaptations, and the scientific process? Study 3 will examine: To what extent and how does experiencing an educational module (virtual field trips, hands on activities, augmented reality) affect youth and parents’ interest, curiosity, and knowledge of adaptations and scientific process?<br/><br/>As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "13970", "attributes": { "award_id": "2115621", "title": "Building on Latinx families' strengths to model and promote informal science learning through a culturally responsive telenovela series", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Directorate for STEM Education (EDU)", "AISL" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 29948, "first_name": "Lori", "last_name": "Takeuchi", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 2996309, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30419, "first_name": "Jessica", "last_name": "Young", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30419, "first_name": "Jessica", "last_name": "Young", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 30420, "first_name": "Anthony", "last_name": "Tassi", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 998, "ror": "https://ror.org/04wnwd012", "name": "Education Development Center", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Families play a vital role in supporting children’s informal science learning. Yet multiple studies have shown that Latinx families, particularly in neighborhoods with a high poverty rate, face many barriers to accessing informal science experiences and environments. Telenovelas, a type of television serial drama watched by Spanish-speaking audiences around the world, may provide an entryway to reaching these families. Prior research has shown that telenovelas can be an effective means of changing adults’ behavior, with potential cascading impacts on children. Education Development Center, Literacy Partners, and Univision will use a culturally responsive approach to broaden participation of Latinx families in informal science learning using La Fuerza de Creer, a popular Spanish-language telenovela that reaches 7 million U.S. viewers. The five-episode telenovela series will model positive informal science interactions between caregivers and their children and provide positive role models of Latinx scientists. The project team will then use the telenovela as the foundation for a five-session workshop series for caregivers to further explore how to engage in these informal science learning opportunities with their children. The La Fuerza-STEM project will build on families’ strengths and interests and tap their power—la fuerza—to engage children in exploring science. This research will examine the relationship between the telenovela/workshops and caregivers’ practices and attitudes towards science. La Fuerza-STEM seeks to expand informal science learning using a culturally grounded strategy to engage an under-served population that is historically under-represented in STEM.<br/><br/>The project will use an iterative research and design process that is guided by the input of both parent and scientific advisory boards. Front-end formative research with approximately 30 Latinx caregivers from under-resourced communities will explore their informal science practices. These experiences will then inform script development for the telenovela. A pre-post comparison group study with 200 caregivers will investigate how caregivers’ attitudes toward science might change as a result of viewing the telenovela. The project will then build a 5-session workshop series around the telenovela and these research findings. Finally, 300 caregivers will participate in a randomized controlled trial to examine the efficacy of the La Fuerza-STEM workshops on changing caregivers’ informal science attitudes and practices. Throughout, the project will address the overarching research question, How can a culturally relevant telenovela be used to improve Latinx caregivers’ science self-efficacy, career awareness, and informal science practices? Project findings and products will be publicly disseminated through publications, conference presentations, and local partner organizations, with an eye toward open access and data sharing. The project will generate knowledge about the effectiveness of embedding informal science content in a culturally-grounded medium—the telenovela—in improving caregivers’ confidence and competence to engage in informal science learning experiences with their children. With an anticipated audience of 7 million, the potential impact of the telenovela on caregivers’ informal science attitudes and practices is enormous. By implementing workshops with local organizations, the project aims to be self-sustaining, building the capacity of community partners to provide families with services targeting informal science knowledge and skills long after the grant has ended.<br/><br/>This Innovations in Development project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to (a) advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments; (b) provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; (c) advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and (d) engage the public of all ages in learning STEM in informal environments.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "13969", "attributes": { "award_id": "2115669", "title": "Using Media and Texting to Foster STEM Learning in Low-Income and Latinx Families", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Directorate for STEM Education (EDU)", "AISL" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 29948, "first_name": "Lori", "last_name": "Takeuchi", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 2996612, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18353, "first_name": "Sandra", "last_name": "Sheppard", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 14645, "first_name": "William", "last_name": "Tally", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2384, "ror": "", "name": "WNET", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Cyberchase: Mobile Adventures in STEM is designed to advance the STEM learning of children ages 6-8 and engage low-income families in informal STEM interactions. Based on a successful NSF-funded pilot, the project combines the appeal of the PBS KIDS series Cyberchase and the potential of mobile texting to deliver informal learning. WNET and Education Development Center will produce: three Cyberchase videos that blend math and environmental content; a bilingual family engagement campaign in 15 communities across the U.S. that combines this media with weekly text-based engagement; and research into use and impact of the model among low-income Latinx families. Mobile Adventures addresses the need to better engage underserved families in informal science practices that are foundational for future STEM learning. While the materials target low-income communities broadly, research will focus on low-income Latinx families with children ages 6-8, an age group overlooked in previous research on educational uses of texting. A needs assessment and formative testing will ensure that the project design meets the needs and interests of diverse Latinx and other families.<br/><br/>The goal of Mobile Adventures is to build knowledge about how innovative, culturally responsive tools can help Latinx and low-income families engage in fun STEM learning at home. A three-tiered research study will address the question: how and to what extent does a mobile text-and-media approach to delivering informal STEM learning materials foster joint media engagement between children and parents, building new repertoires for learning together? The study will combine analysis of observation in homes and community settings, backend data, and pre/post surveys. Research will deepen understanding of effective family engagement models that make media a central component, the potential of text messaging as a stimulus to parent/child STEM learning, and maximal design of media and community engagement to serve low-income Latinx families. Findings will be disseminated through national conferences and journals. The Cyberchase videos, distributed free on broadcast and digital platforms, will build the STEM literacy of millions of diverse children, while the family engagement campaign will involve a projected 3,750 families in 15 locations. Evaluation will assess how well the project has met its goals.<br/><br/>This Innovations in Development project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to (a) advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments; (b) provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; (c) advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and (d) engage the public of all ages in learning STEM in informal environments.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1392, "pages": 1442, "count": 14420 } } }