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: University of New Mexico
    amount: $61,002
    city: Albuquerque, NM
    year: 2008

    To conduct feasibility study for a program to expand participation of underrepresented minorities in the earth sciences

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Yemane Asmerom

    To conduct feasibility study for a program to expand participation of underrepresented minorities in the earth sciences

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  • grantee: Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
    amount: $14,500
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2008

    To design a research project to develop and evaluate a standardized reporting module for undergraduate completion rates and time-to-degree by discipline

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Christine Keller

    To design a research project to develop and evaluate a standardized reporting module for undergraduate completion rates and time-to-degree by discipline

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  • grantee: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    amount: $45,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2008

    To fund a technical legal assistance workshop to help universities implement diversity programs

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Daryl Chubin

    To fund a technical legal assistance workshop to help universities implement diversity programs

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  • grantee: American Society for Engineering Education
    amount: $44,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2008

    To develop and prepare for pilot implementation procedures for collecting and analyzing success data for undergraduate engineering students

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Gene Cilento

    To develop and prepare for pilot implementation procedures for collecting and analyzing success data for undergraduate engineering students

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  • grantee: Educational Policy Institute, Inc.
    amount: $39,975
    city: Virginia Beach, VA
    year: 2008

    To enable the EPI to identify comprehensively and describe current and recent efforts at the national, regional, state, and institutional levels to collect individual-level data in an effort to track student progress in postsecondary education

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Watson Swail

    To enable the EPI to identify comprehensively and describe current and recent efforts at the national, regional, state, and institutional levels to collect individual-level data in an effort to track student progress in postsecondary education

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  • grantee: National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.
    amount: $456,400
    city: White Plains, NY
    year: 2008

    To enable the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering to continue administering the Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program and American Indian Graduate Program for an additional three years

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Minority Ph.D.
    • Investigator Aileen Walter

    To enable the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering to continue administering the Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program and American Indian Graduate Program for an additional three years

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  • grantee: Appropriation
    amount: $770,000
    city:  
    year: 2008

    To launch a Minority Post-Doctoral Fellowship Pilot Program.

    • Program Higher Education

    To launch a Minority Post-Doctoral Fellowship Pilot Program.

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  • grantee: Washington University in St. Louis
    amount: $19,200
    city: St. Louis, MO
    year: 2008

    To fund a third meeting for the study of student migration in and out of STEM fields

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Robert Koff

    To fund a third meeting for the study of student migration in and out of STEM fields

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  • grantee: Appropriation
    amount: $250,000
    city:  
    year: 2008

    To fund small projects that will encourage universities and colleges to collect and use data related to student completion rates and time-to-degree.

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Minority Ph.D.

    In March 2008, the Board of Trustees approved the expenditure of up to $250,000 to fund small projects to encourage colleges and universities to collect and use data on student completion rates and time-to-degree. The following grants were made against this previously authorized fund.

    To fund small projects that will encourage universities and colleges to collect and use data related to student completion rates and time-to-degree.

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  • grantee: Southern Regional Education Board
    amount: $123,309
    city: Atlanta, GA
    year: 2008

    To fund the 2008 Biennial Conference of Program Directors in the Sloan Foundation's Minority Ph.D. and American Indian Graduate Programs

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Minority Ph.D.
    • Investigator Ansley Abraham

    To fund the 2008 Biennial Conference of Program Directors in the Sloan Foundation's Minority Ph.D. and American Indian Graduate Programs

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