Grants Database

The Foundation awards approximately 200 grants per year (excluding the Sloan Research Fellowships), totaling roughly $80 million dollars in annual commitments in support of research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics. This database contains grants for currently operating programs going back to 2008. For grants from prior years and for now-completed programs, see the annual reports section of this website.

Grants Database

Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: North Carolina A&T State University
    amount: $500,000
    city: Greensboro, NC
    year: 2022

    To engage Black American undergraduate students in research experiences and see them successfully enroll in and graduate from environmental science Ph.D. programs

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Clay Gloster

    To engage Black American undergraduate students in research experiences and see them successfully enroll in and graduate from environmental science Ph.D. programs

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  • grantee: Fund for the City of New York
    amount: $888,876
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2022

    To improve local decision-making by continuing to build technical capacity in NYC borough president offices, community boards, agencies, and civic organizations

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Noel Hidalgo

    To improve local decision-making by continuing to build technical capacity in NYC borough president offices, community boards, agencies, and civic organizations

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  • grantee: Research Foundation of the City University of NY
    amount: $1,499,711
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2022

    To provide research experience and mentoring to promising students transferring from CUNY community colleges to CUNY senior colleges

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Effie MacLachlan

    To provide research experience and mentoring to promising students transferring from CUNY community colleges to CUNY senior colleges

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  • grantee: WGBH Educational Foundation
    amount: $1,000,000
    city: Boston, United States
    year: 2022

    To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of two prime time American Experience documentary films: Love Canal and The Pap Test.

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Cameo George

    To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of two prime time American Experience documentary films: Love Canal and The Pap Test.

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  • grantee: Women Make Movies, Inc.
    amount: $500,000
    city: New York, United States
    year: 2022

    To support the production of a feature length documentary called Love + Tech, about the increasing impact of technology on our romantic lives

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Shalini Kantayya

    To support the production of a feature length documentary called Love + Tech, about the increasing impact of technology on our romantic lives

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  • grantee: University of Texas, El Paso
    amount: $500,000
    city: El Paso, TX
    year: 2022

    To accelerate systemic change across Computing Alliance Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) to advance more Hispanic students into and through computing graduate programs

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Ann Quiroz Gates

    This grant provides funds to bolster the efforts of an established consortium of Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI). CAHSI is dedicated to advancing Latina/o/x representation in computer science, a discipline lacking in diversity (by gender and race/ethnicity), especially at the graduate level. CAHSI pulls together more than 60 two- and four-year Hispanic Serving Institutions to learn from one another and to work with industry, non-profit, and other partners to raise computing degree attainment by Latina/o/x students. With much success behind them, CAHSI leadership is expanding its focus from undergraduate to graduate education pathways.Funds from this grant will support a series of activities designed to develop multilevel shared responsibility across the network, build multidimensional structures and cultivate a talent development mindset at CAHSI member institutions. Moreover, the project is poised to capitalize on a growing number of R1 (i.e., very high research productivity) HSIs, including through CAHSI’s involvement in the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU), whose goals are to double the number of Hispanic doctoral students and increase by 20% the number of Hispanic faculty in their universities by 2030.

    To accelerate systemic change across Computing Alliance Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) to advance more Hispanic students into and through computing graduate programs

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  • grantee: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    amount: $500,000
    city: Champaign, IL
    year: 2022

    To develop an innovative postsecondary pathway to STEM graduate education for domestic Black, Latinx/a/o, and Indigenous students from Wilbur Wright College to UIUC

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Lisa Abston

    As of January 2022, Illinois state law guarantees admission to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for all students from the Community College of Chicago system with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0. This grant supports a partnership between UIUC and Wilbur Wright College, a Hispanic Serving community college in Chicago, to help Wilbur Wright students take advantage of this new law, increase the number of Wilbur Wright students who transfer to UIUC, and enhance the educational resources available to these students, particularly those interested in STEM, so that they are well-prepared to succeed as their education continues.Primary activities funded through this grant include presentations for Wilbur Wright students and workshops for Wilbur Wright faculty on transfer and graduate opportunities; the launch of a one-week summer exploration program for Wilbur Wright students at UIUC; expanded professional development offerings and supports for Wilbur Wright students in the Transfer Pathways program, an annual STEM conference at Wilbur Wright; and sponsorships for 8-10 Wilber Wright students per year to participate in UIUC’s GearUp engineering education enrichment program. In addition, UIUC will use qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze lessons learned and promising practices from the collaboration and disseminate them to inform similar partnerships at other universities.

    To develop an innovative postsecondary pathway to STEM graduate education for domestic Black, Latinx/a/o, and Indigenous students from Wilbur Wright College to UIUC

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  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $435,628
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2022

    To design, develop, and implement data linkage tools that connect software mentions to research papers, repositories, and grant sources

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Jinseok Kim

    The Institute for Research on Innovation in Science (IRIS) maintains a dataset linking university grant and HR/procurement data with scholarly publications. That data has become essential infrastructure for the growing research community focused on measuring scientific productivity and the return on public and private investments in science. This grant funds efforts by Jinseok Kim and Jason Owen-Smith to expand this database by adding in linkages to research software, creating a new resource that can be used to begin to quantify the role software plays in scientific productivity. Unlike publications and patents, software doesn’t necessarily have well-curated author lists, and citations to software codebases are not necessarily well-structured for data mining. On the other hand, versioning platforms like Github have much more granular data on the specific contributions by individuals to codebases over time, which could enable very detailed analyses on who does what kinds of software work.In order to enable research on individual contributions to software as products of research, the IRIS team will identify relevant software repositories and link contributor usernames to the faculty, students, and staff who are represented in university records. Kim will identify software referenced in a corpus of papers, then develop algorithmic ways to match the names of software projects with active Github repositories. Next, he will use a set of name disambiguation methods to link contributors to those repositories with people already represented in the IRIS data, in the process linking those repositories and contributions to funding and other IRIS entities.

    To design, develop, and implement data linkage tools that connect software mentions to research papers, repositories, and grant sources

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  • grantee: Arizona State University
    amount: $414,592
    city: Tempe, AZ
    year: 2022

    To support the development, adoption, and promulgation of community-wide standards for FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) practices in computational modeling via the Open Modeling Foundation

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Michael Barton

    Computational modeling is a key tool for a number of scientific disciplines, but good practices in software engineering are not necessarily adopted by the developers of those models. To take one example, interoperability can be especially important to modeling, as the linking of models can be critical to particular research questions, but many models aren’t released with the metadata necessary to make this possible.Funds from this grant support the two years of activities at the Open Modeling Foundation (OMF), a modeling standards organization, aimed at advancing best practices in scientific modeling. The OMF’s activities are structured through three working groups: a Standards working group that will develop and maintain community-driven recommendations for computational modeling; a Certification working group that will develop methods to affirm when models meet those standards; and an Education and Training working group that will develop and maintain curricula to encourage best modeling practices by the broader scientific community with a particular focus on students and early career researchers. Each working group has an initial chair who will recruit one or more co-chairs within the first year, with a particular eye toward diversifying the OMF leadership.

    To support the development, adoption, and promulgation of community-wide standards for FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) practices in computational modeling via the Open Modeling Foundation

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  • grantee: Purdue University
    amount: $498,809
    city: West Lafayette, IN
    year: 2022

    To assess the impacts of electrification and renewable energy use on manufacturing processes and job quality in the United States steel industry

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Rebecca Ciez

    The shift toward electrified steel production, leading to a greater reliance on utilizing renewable energy, has the potential to increase variability of steelworker schedules and job quality. This would allow steel producers to use clean energy when it is readily available and cheaper, produce and store intermediate goods, and finish the manufacturing process at a later date. Doing so, however, introduces temporal and seasonal variabilities into the steel production process that would impact the jobs of steel workers.This grant funds efforts by a team of engineers and social scientists to study the impacts on both steel workers and manufacturing processes associated with this increased adoption of renewable energy in the steel industry. The team is led by Rebecca Ciez, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering, and Partha Mukherjee, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, at Purdue University. They team will start by conducting structured interviews with 15-20 steelworkers from across Indiana to develop a framework for understanding worker decision-making processes and how they make tradeoffs about employment opportunities. These interviews will inform the development of a survey of steel workers that will be implemented throughout five states in the Great Lakes region (Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin) to help quantify how workers value different attributes of their work schedules, such as hourly wages, shift schedules, number of months worked per year, and overtime provided. Survey respondents will be recruited using a number of modalities, including engaging companies, local steelworker union chapters, and direct mailing to engage rural steel workers in areas where non-unionized steel mills are major employers. Survey results will inform the modeling of electrified hydrogen and steel production processes, focusing on better representing how renewable-based hydrogen processes might impact steelmaking production on a daily, weekly, seasonal, or yearly basis.In addition to survey results and the hydrogen electrolysis modeling framework, outputs are expected to include academic articles, policy briefs, public repositories of shared data and code, and the training of two graduate students and one undergraduate student in survey methodologies and industrial energy systems analysis. While the framework developed will initially focus on electrified and decarbonized steel manufacturing, it may eventually be expanded and applied to other industries and manufacturing processes.

    To assess the impacts of electrification and renewable energy use on manufacturing processes and job quality in the United States steel industry

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