USC Rossier Research News is a monthly update for faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars, and Ph.D. students at USC Rossier, with information on upcoming events, as well as information on new awards and grant opportunities.
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Adrian H. Huerta (Pullias/CEPEG) was awarded the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to study the educational experiences of former gang members on their path to college graduation.
Elif Yücel (Pullias) was awarded the Wheelhouse Summer Scholars Fellowship for her work on community college reentry programs.
Kate Kennedy was awarded the Past President Emery Stoops Scholarship Award and the Lucy and John Wood Endowed Scholarship Award by the 2022 PDK Educational Foundation Scholarship.
Eugenia Mora-Flores and Lindsay Kwock Hu were awarded a $10,390 grant from the USC Good Neighbors Grant Committee, for her work titled "Ednovate Schools and Problem-Based Learning".
Laila Hasan was awarded a $15,150 grant from the USC Good Neighbors Grant Committee, for her work titled "Using STEAM to Alter History: Integrating History, Science, Math, and Art".
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Zoë Corwin (Pullias) and Alan Green, along with Co-PI Rafel Angulo from the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social work, have been awarded $15,270 by the USC Research Collaboration Fund award for their collaborative on Embedding Mental Health Resources in Non-Traditional Spaces group.
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Marsh, J., Koppich, J., Humphrey, D., Kimner, H., Mulfinger, L., Allbright, T., Alonso, J., Bridgeforth, J., Daramola, E.J., Enoch-Stevens, T., Kennedy, K. & Nkansah-Amankra, A. (2022). Crisis response in California school districts: Leadership, partnership, and community. Policy Analysis for California Education.
Polikoff, M. (2022). Alignment. Routledge resources online: Education.
Silver, D., Polikoff, M., Saavedra, A., Haderlein, S., Rapaport, A., & Garland, M. (2022). The subjective value of postsecondary education in the time of COVID: Evidence from a nationally representative panel. Peabody Journal of Education.
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Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is committed to building a culture of health that provides everyone in America a fair and just opportunity for health and well-being. Racial disparities in COVID-19 infections and deaths have brought to the forefront well-documented and longstanding inequities in family and community wealth and opportunity. Upending centuries of policy decisions that perpetuated racism will require significant transformation to elevate the voices of communities historically excluded from decision-making.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Policies for Action program, they are seeking proposals to research policies with the potential to significantly improve the financial wellbeing and economic security of families and communities that have been systematically shoved to the margins, unable to enjoy a fair and just opportunity to be healthy.
Preference will be given to applicants that are either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations or Type III supporting organizations. The Foundation may require additional documentation. Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories. Awards will be made to organizations, not to individuals.
Amount: Grants are typically funded for a duration of 24 months and have ranged from $30,000- $450,0000.
Deadline for receipt of letters of intent: September 7, 2022 (3pm ET)
Deadline for receipt of full proposals: February 1, 2023 (3pm ET)
The Spencer Foundation's Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. They accept applications three times per year.
This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. The goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious, and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.
This program supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally, from scholars at various stages in their career. They anticipate that proposals will span a wide range of topics and disciplines that innovatively investigate questions central to education, including for example education, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, law, economics, history, or neuroscience, amongst others.
Amount: up to $50,000
Deadline: August 9, 2022, 12pm (CST)
The William T. Grant Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Institutional Challenge Grant program encourage university-based research institutes, schools, and centers to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Applications are welcome from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, child welfare, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. We especially encourage proposals from teams with African American, Latinx, Native American, and Asian American members in leadership roles. The partnership leadership team includes the principal investigator from the research institution and the lead from the public agency or nonprofit organization.
Research institutions will need to address four important goals:
• Grow an existing institutional partnership with a public agency or nonprofit organization.
• Pursue a joint research agenda to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.
• Create institutional change to value research-practice partnerships within research institutions.
• Enhance the capacity of both partners to collaborate on producing and using research evidence.
Amount: The award will provide $650,000 over three years. This includes:
- Up to $50,000 for up to 9 months of joint planning activities (e.g., refining protocols for partnering, selecting fellows, finalizing partnership and data sharing agreements, etc.).
- Funding for two years of a full-time equivalent fellowship. In addition, universities are required to fund one additional year of a full-time equivalent fellowship.
- Up to three years of support for the partnership to conduct and use research to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.
- Resources to advance the proposed institutional shifts and capacities of both partners.
- Indirect cost allowance of up to 15 percent of total direct costs.
Deadline: September 14, 2022, at 3pm ET.
Federal
USCIS will consider applications for all types of citizenship education innovations. The most successful applicants will propose innovations that address an existing challenge within the citizenship education field and will include key performance indicators related to attaining U.S. citizenship.
Amount: up to $2 million in federal funding is available for eligible organizations to develop and pilot innovative approaches to citizenship education. USCIS will award grants of between $50,000 and $250,000.
Deadline: 08/05/2022 at 11:59pm EST
The National Science Foundation's Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computer science (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of STEM education innovations and approaches. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects. Projects should result in research-informed and field-tested outcomes and products that inform teaching and learning. Teachers and students who participate in DRK-12 studies are expected to enhance their understanding and use of STEM content, practices and skills.
Amount: Normal limits for funding requests of DRK -12 proposals are as follows: (1) Level I projects up to $450,000 with a duration of up to three years; (2) Level II projects up to $3,000,000 with a duration of up to four years; and (3) Level III projects up to $5,000,000 with a duration of up to five years. Synthesis proposals are up to $600,000 and three years duration. Conference proposals are up to $100,000 and one year duration.
Deadline: October 5, 2022
The National Science Foundation's EHR Core Research (ECR:Core) invites proposals for fundamental research (curiosity-driven basic research and use-inspired basic research) that contributes to the general, explanatory knowledge that underlies STEM education in one or more of the three broadly conceived Research Areas: Research on STEM Learning and Learning Environments, Research on Broadening Participation in STEM fields, and Research on STEM Workforce Development. Within this framework, the ECR program supports a wide range of fundamental STEM education research activities, aimed at learners of all groups and ages in formal and informal settings.
Amount: The program has three levels of funding with a range of budget sizes, and proposals may request a duration of 3 to 5 years for any level: (1) Level I proposals may request up to $500,000; (2) Level II proposals may request up to $1,500,000; (3) Level III proposals may request up to $2,500,000.
Deadline: October 6, 2022
The National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Teachers in Engineering and Computer Science supports authentic summer research experiences for K-14 educators to foster long-term collaborations between universities, community colleges, school districts, and industry partners. With this solicitation, the Directorates for Engineering (ENG) and Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) focus on a reciprocal exchange of expertise between K-14 educators and research faculty and (when applicable) industry mentors. K-14 educators will enhance their scientific disciplinary knowledge in engineering or computer science and translate their research experiences into classroom activities and curricula to broaden their students’ awareness of and participation in computing and engineering pathways. At the same time, the hosting research faculty will deepen their understanding of classroom practices, current curricula, pedagogy, and K-14 educational environments.
Amount: It is anticipated that approximately 9 Site awards will be made per year. The maximum total request for a Site is $600,000 for a duration of up to three years
Deadline: October 12, 2022
The National Science Foundation's Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning seeks to fund exploratory and synergistic research in emerging technologies (to include, but not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and immersive or augmenting technologies) for teaching and learning in the future. The program accepts proposals that focus on learning, teaching, or a combination of both. The scope of the program is broad, with a special interest in diverse learner/educator populations, contexts, and content, including teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and in foundational areas that enable STEM (e.g., self-regulation, literacy, communication, collaboration, creativity, and socio-emotional skills). Research in this program should be informed by the convergence (synthesis) of multiple disciplines: e.g., learning sciences; discipline-based education research; computer and information science and engineering; design; and cognitive, behavioral, and social sciences. Within this broad scope, the program also encourages projects that investigate teaching and learning related to futuristic and highly technological work environments.
Amount: Projects will be funded up to a total of $850,000 per project with a project length of 3 years.
Deadline: October 17, 2022
This FOA is specifically seeking STEM education and outreach projects that address scientific and technical areas identified in the following thrust areas. Project scope may range in size and complexity. While not a formal requirement or program focus of this FOA, applicants are strongly encouraged to consider under-represented and under-served populations, including women and minorities, in project plans. Special audience priority areas may include, but not be limited to, military-connected students, veteran initiatives, and education systems integral to naval science and technology.
Specific items to be addressed are:
- STEM interests in cybersecurity include:
- Increasing cyber awareness
- Promoting Cybersecurity as a profession.
The focus should be on leveraging smart mobile devices to educate and promote cybersecurity awareness for students in Grades 9 through 12. Solutions that can be used across the two major platforms (Android and iOS) are encouraged.
Proposed research should:
- Promote thinking, analyzing, and solving cyber problems
- Allow for flexibility and creativity in the student interactions
- Be illustrative of cybersecurity professionals
- Examine how students think about cyber problems to further improve cyber training and education
- Scale up to the national level
Proposed research that may be considered outside the scope of this thrust area includes simple enhancements to existing platforms and broadcast tutorials, such as material on websites and videos.
Amount: Varies
Deadline: March 31, 2023 (Friday) at 5pm ET
The National Science Foundation supports creative, novel, and transformative research on new approaches to advancing formal and informal education, broadening participation, and strengthening workforce development in all areas of STEM, including applications of new and rapidly evolving technology. Blockchain technology is based on the concept of a distributed ledger, where copies of data contained in the ledger are distributed and stored across multiple nodes. In the world of decentralized finance, this technology is used to operate the networks underlying cryptocurrency markets.
Successful projects should research and/or promote awareness, knowledge, and interest in at least one STEM discipline, and inform preparation for STEM jobs or industries of the future while building the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics skills and practices that will be needed for these jobs. Proposals are expected to provide opportunities for broadening participation in STEM by increasing participation of groups that have historically been underrepresented in STEM fields - including women, African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Native Pacific Islanders, and persons with disabilities. As appropriate, proposals may address curricula, educational approaches, educator professional development, formal and informal education, educational ecosystems, as well as the needs of other stakeholders such as industry professionals and professional societies.
General questions about this DCL should be directed to Tomasz Durakiewicz, tdurakie@nsf.gov, or Wu He, wuhe@nsf.gov. Program-specific questions about this DCL should be directed to the cognizant program directors for the programs listed below.
Deadlines: Review the programs listed on the webpage linked here and click on each program for their program-specific deadline.
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This newsletter is compiled by the USC Rossier Office of Research. Have something you would like to feature in the next edition? Contact jaimeavi@rossier.usc.edu
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