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Office of Educational Research Submitted Proposals – November 2025

Submitted Proposals – November 2025

December 5, 2025

Principal Investigator: Pavlo Antonenko (STL)

Co-PI: Andrea Ramirez Salgado (Engineering); Swarup Bhunia (Engineering)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Engaging High Schoolers in Integrated Computer
Science and Engineering Through Hands-On Experiences with
Microelectronics and Artificial Intelligence

Requested Amount: $297,186


Principal Investigator: Aroba Saleem (Engineering)

Co-PI: Avery Closser (STL)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Dynamic Narrative Cognition: AI-Driven Personalized Microstories for Enhanced Learning in Engineering Education

Requested Amount: $899,698


 Principal Investigator: Christy Gabbard (PKY)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Palm Beach State College

Proposal Title: Florida Partnership Achieve Grant

Requested Amount: $128,450


 Principal Investigator: Daryn Dever (STL)

Co-PI: Walter Leite (SHDOSE); Anthony Botelho (STL); Lori Dassa (STL)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Fostering Transferable Self-Regulated Learning Competency through Adaptive Scaffolding in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Requested Amount: $632,518


 Principal Investigator: Brady Nash (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: National Academy of Education

Proposal Title: How Do We Teach Culturally Sustaining Digital Literacy in Authoritarian Times?

Requested Amount: $70,000


 Principal Investigator: Christy Gabbard (PKY)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education

Proposal Title: Live Healthy – University Lab School Health Care Programs

Requested Amount: $500,000


 Principal Investigator: Jue Wu (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: National Academy of Education

Proposal Title: Many Ways to Compute: A Typology of Computer Science Program Structure and Its Impact on Student Perceptions and Pathways

Requested Amount: $70,000


 Principal Investigator: Avery Closser (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: National Academy of Education

Proposal Title: Navigating Ethical Tensions in K-12 Research: Balancing Student Protections for the Advancement of Education

Requested Amount: $70,000


Principal Investigator: Walter Leite (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Christian Grant (Engineering); Ying Liu (Liberal Arts and Sciences); Holly Lane (SESPECS)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: ORF-TECH: Oral Reading Fluency Technology and Enhancement for Children

Requested Amount: $899,897


Principal Investigator: Richard Carlos Velasco (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: National Academy of Education

Proposal Title: Pacific Data Learning Webinars to Analyze and Visualize Evidence

Requested Amount: $70,000


 Principal Investigator: Taryrn Brown (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: American Council of Learned Societies

Proposal Title: Project P.L.A.Y. (Politics of Learning, Archiving, and Youth Voice): Black Girls’ Digital Worldbuilding for Archive, Pedagogy, and Resistance

Requested Amount: $95,504


 Principal Investigator: Hyo Kang (Digital Worlds)

Co-PI: Eunjin Shin (SHDOSE); Navid Asadi Zanjani (Engineering); Wanli Xing (STL)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Sensible AI: Integrating Multimodal AI and Mixed Reality for Context-Aware Real-Time Laboratory Learning in Microelectronics

Requested Amount: $899,989


 Principal Investigator: Ying Liu (Liberal Arts and Sciences)

Co-PI: Walter Leite (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: Imminent

Proposal Title: Storiza Corpus: Annotated Voice Recordings of K to 3rd Grade US Children Reading Short Stories

Requested Amount: $19,986


 Principal Investigator: Christy Gabbard (PKY)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education

Proposal Title: Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, (Perkins V) University Developmental Research Schools, Secondary Career and Technical Education Programs

Requested Amount: $45,110


Principal Investigator: Hyo Kang (Digital Worlds)

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

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Supplement to Adaptive Contextual Learning in Microelectronics through Immersive Virtual Reality

Requested Amount: $135,420


Principal Investigator: Carla Fisher (Medicine)

Co-PI: Carma Bylund-Lincoln (Medicine); Jason Arnold (ETC); Melissa Armstrong (Medicine)

Funding Agency: Florida Department of Health

Proposal Title: Supportive Care for Family Dementia Caregivers: Promoting Communication Skill Development to Enhance Caregivers’ Well-Being and Dementia Care

Requested Amount: $37,750