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Office of Educational Research Submitted Proposals – July 2025

Submitted Proposals – July 2025

August 8, 2025

Principal Investigator: Anthony Botelho (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Missouri University of Science and Technology (Subcontract – National Science Foundation Flowthrough)

Proposal Title: EAGLE: Evaluating AI for Grading, Learning, and Equity

Requested Amount: $109,110


Principal Investigator: Anthony Botelho (STL)

Co-PI: Swarup Bhunia, Patricia Kio, Borui Zhang

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: From Data to Action: Learning AI through Community-Based Problem Solving

Requested Amount: $749,922


Principal Investigator: Matthew Burns (SESPECS)

Co-PI: Valentina Contesse (SESPECS), Holly Lane (SESPECS)

Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education

Proposal Title: UFLIAI: Advancing Foundational Literacy with Artificial Intelligence

Requested Amount: $1,995,728


Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Palm Beach County School Board

Proposal Title: Palm Beach ALA 2025-26

Requested Amount: $180,000


Principal Investigator: Masoud Gheisari

Co-PI: Pavlo Antonenko (STL), Fnu Idris Jeelani

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: AI4CM: Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) Literacy into Construction Courses through Experiential Learning

Requested Amount: $750,000


Principal Investigator: Jing Guo

Co-PI: Wanli Xing (STL), Rui Guo

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Concreteness-Fading-Informed Low-cost Semiconductor Education (CLOSE)

Requested Amount: $658,709


Principal Investigator: Melisa Mariani (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Laura Shannonhouse (SHDOSE), Sondra Smith (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: Association For Counselor Education and Supervision

Proposal Title: Project STRIVE: Suicide Training for Resilient Intervention, Vigilance, and Education Scaling Suicide Prevention Training for Counselors-in-Training and School-Based Mental Health Professionals

Requested Amount: $23,970


Principal Investigator: Keith Muller, Deborah Glueck

Co-PI: Albert Ritzhaupt (STL), William Baumgartner, Katherine Sauder

Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health

Proposal Title: Right-Sizing Cardiovascular Clinical Trials in Multilevel Healthcare Systems: Novel and Robust Technologies to Advance the Science of Translation

Requested Amount: $3,930,746


Principal Investigator: Hyo Kang

Co-PI: Pavlo Antonenko (STL), Navid Asadi Zanjani

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: VISTA: AI-Powered Virtual Intelligent Semiconductor Teaching Assistant

Requested Amount: $748,718


Principal Investigator: Erin Patrick

Co-PI: Kent Crippen (STL), Mark Law, Keith Rambo

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Gamified Circuits 1: Promoting Semiconductor Careers with Responsive and Collaborative Learning

Requested Amount: $749,959


Principal Investigator: Seyedahmad Rahimi (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: CAREER: ACT-GenAI: Advancing Creative Thinking, Physics Learning, and AI Literacy through Little c, a Generative AI Coach in a Sandbox Game

Requested Amount: $2,170,511


Principal Investigator: Andrea Ramirez Salgado

Co-PI: Pavlo Antonenko (STL), Swarup Bhunia

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Optimizing Student Engagement with Artificial Intelligence in Embedded Systems Engineering (OAISys)

Requested Amount: $1,249,536


Principal Investigator: Jue Wu (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: CAREER: Beyond the Leaky Pipeline: Exploring Non-Traditional Pathways
into STEM

Requested Amount: $890,031