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Office of Educational Research Submitted Proposals – January 2026

Submitted Proposals – January 2026

February 4, 2026

Principal Investigator: Cheyenne Conrad (AZCEECS)

Co-PI: Crystal Bishop (Mentor; AZCEECS)

Funding Agency: Society for Research in Child Development

Proposal Title: Caregiver Capacity and Child Development: Understanding Support Roles in Early Intervention

Requested Amount: $7,427


Principal Investigator: Jue Wu (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: The Time-FOI Metric: A Multi-Purpose Tool for
Improving Undergraduate Physics Education

Requested Amount: $116,278


Principal Investigator: Carrie Geiger (PKY)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education

Proposal Title: District Threat Management Coordinator Funding

Requested Amount: $55,001


Principal Investigator: Nicholas Vest (STL)

Co-PI: Avery Closser (STL)

Funding Agency: Society for Research in Child Development

Proposal Title: Early Development of Integer Understanding in Preschool Children Revealed Through Gesture

Requested Amount: $7,280


Principal Investigator: Carla Fisher (College of Medicine)

Co-PI: Joanne Lagmay (College of Medicine), Carma Bylund-Lincoln (College of Medicine), Jason Arnold (ETC)

Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging

Proposal Title: Palliative Care for Parents Caring for Adolescents and Young Adults (AYAs) with Blood Cancer: Providing Communication Skills Support to Reduce Distress and Enhance Care Ability

Requested Amount: $767,500


Principal Investigator: Carrie Geiger (PKY)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education

Proposal Title: Safety and Security of School Buildings

Requested Amount: $100,000


Principal Investigator: Walter Leite (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Ying Liu (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

Funding Agency: Learning Agency

Proposal Title: Storiza Corpus

Requested Amount: $99,602


Principal Investigator: Christopher Redding (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Elizabeth Huffaker (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Teacher Turnover and the Quality of Secondary Students Mathematics and Science Education

Requested Amount: $502,135


Principal Investigator: Anthony Botelho (STL)

Co-PI: Avery Closser (STL), Eunjin Shin (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Proposal Title: Upgrading CHECKPOINT for Scaling Formative Assessment Experiments

Requested Amount: $56,462


Principal Investigator: Daryn Dever (STL)

Co-PI: Emmanuel Dorley (College of Engineering), Neha Rani (College of Engineering)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Using AI Role-Playing Agents to Train Collaborative Problem-Solving Skills in Computer Science Undergraduates

Requested Amount: $399,277