Principal Investigator: Larisa Olesova (STL)
Co-PI: Kim Gloria (Engineering)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Advancing Student Success Through Human–AI Collaborative Feedback to Strengthen Cognitive Presence and Shared Metacognition Online
Requested Amount: $496,144
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: $895,630
Principal Investigator: Yusen Zhai (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: CAREER: Developmental Science of Augmented Cognition – How People Learn to Reason with AI
Requested Amount: $994,902
Principal Investigator: Daryn Dever (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: CAREER: Learning to Learn in an AI-Mediated World: Embedding Self-Regulated Learning in AI-Driven Narrative Games
Requested Amount: $1,885,324
Principal Investigator: Kristi Cheyney-Collante (Lastinger)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Charlotte County School District
Proposal Title: Charlotte County ELF Program 2026-27
Requested Amount: $35,750
Principal Investigator: Anthony Botelho (STL)
Co-PI: Avery Closser (STL), Eunjin Shin (SHDOSE), Zandra De Araujo (Lastinger)
Funding Agency: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Proposal Title: Clarissa: Open Educational AI for Better Tutoring Decisions
Requested Amount: $7,992,881
Principal Investigator: Kelly Whalon (SESPECS)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Florida State University
Proposal Title: Developing an Emergent Literacy Adaptive Intervention for Preschoolers with Autism
Requested Amount: $270,419
Principal Investigator: Anthony Botelho (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Missouri University of Science and Technology
Proposal Title: EAGLE: Evaluating AI for Grading, Learning, and Equity
Requested Amount: $109,760
Principal Investigator: Kristi Cheyney-Collante (Lastinger)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Early Learning Coalition of Sarasota
Proposal Title: ELC of Sarasota ELF Program 2026 (1 Month)
Requested Amount: $21,750
Principal Investigator: Kristi Cheyney-Collante (Lastinger)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Early Learning Coalition of Sarasota
Proposal Title: ELC of Sarasota ELF Program 2026 (3 Month)
Requested Amount: $35,900
Principal Investigator: Anthony Botelho (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Exploring the Ecological Validity of LLMs for Content Generation
Requested Amount: $483,902
Principal Investigator: Sooji Kim (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: University of South Carolina
Proposal Title: Financing Shock: New Federal Loan Caps and the Transition into Medical Education
Requested Amount: $9,933
Principal Investigator: Maya Israel (STL)
Co-PI: Azra Bihorac (Medicine), Mark Tehranipoor (Engineering), Christian Christensen (Agriculture)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: Florida Coordination Hub: Building Statewide Readiness for Artificial Intelligence Across Education, Health, Agriculture, and Workforce
Requested Amount: $2,997,517
Principal Investigator: Crystal Bishop (AZCEECS)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Health, Children’s Medical Services
Proposal Title: Florida Embedded Practices and Intervention with Caregivers Early Steps Professional Development
Requested Amount: $2,195,997
Principal Investigator: Christopher Anthony (SESPECS)
Co-PI: Kathryn Trainor (SESPECS), Anthony Botelho (STL)
Funding Agency: John Templeton Foundation
Proposal Title: Forming Schools for Forming Good: Exploring Institutions, Leaders, Whole-Child Education, and Virtue in a National Sample of Catholic Schools
Requested Amount: $2,008,644
Principal Investigator: Catherine Corbin (SESPECS)
Co-PI:
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Investigating Educators’ Emotion Regulation Strategy Use as a Target to Improve Instructional Quality and Discipline Disproportionality
Requested Amount: $444,199
Principal Investigator: Ivan Ruchkin (Engineering)
Co-PI: Pavlo Antonenko (STL), May Mansy (Engineering)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: Lab-MATES: An Ecosystem for Mentored, Accountable, Trained, and Engaged Students Consolidating Undergraduate Learning in Research Labs
Requested Amount: $750,071
Principal Investigator: Carla Brisotto (DCP)
Co-PI: Blake Beckett (STL), Harold Knowles (DCP), Jason Von Meding (DCP), Jeffrey Carney (DCP)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: LEAD-R (read “leader”): Learning to Evaluate, Act, and Design for Resilience
Requested Amount: $356,173
Principal Investigator: F. Chris Curran (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Lost Time or Turning Point? Understanding the Suspension Period and Students’ Transitions Back to School
Requested Amount: $346,183
Principal Investigator: Zandra De Araujo (Lastinger)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Orange County Public Schools
Proposal Title: OCPS Instructional Coaching 2026-27
Requested Amount: $21,000
Principal Investigator: Christopher Redding (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: Hannah Mathews (SESPECS), Christopher Thomas (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Patrolling the Right to Teach: How State Education Agencies Interpret and Enforce Teacher Professional Conduct
Requested Amount: $249,671
Principal Investigator: Zandra De Araujo (Lastinger)
Co-PI: Philip Poekert (Lastinger)
Funding Agency: University of Miami
Proposal Title: Rockefeller ALTER Math Year 5 2026-27
Requested Amount: $221,386
Principal Investigator: Kristi Cheyney-Collante (Lastinger)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: School Board of Sarasota County
Proposal Title: Sarasota County ELF Program 2026 (1 Month)
Requested Amount: $18,250
Principal Investigator: Kristi Cheyney-Collante (Lastinger)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: School Board of Sarasota County
Proposal Title: Sarasota County ELF Program 2026 (3 Month)
Requested Amount: $29,500
Principal Investigator: Ayca Fackler (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: LEGO Foundation
Proposal Title: Science, Place, Agency, Relationships, and Knowledge (SPARK) for K–2 Newcomer Children and Families
Requested Amount: $299,997
Principal Investigator: Darbianne Shannon (AZCEECS)
Co-PI: Crystal Bishop (AZCEECS), Christine Myers (Public Health)
Funding Agency: Children’s Trust of Alachua County
Proposal Title: Technical Assistance for the Children’s Trust of Alachua County to Support the Implementation and Evaluation of Project CONNECT
Requested Amount: $51,149
Principal Investigator: Brady Nash (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: The Borderzones Digital Literacy Collective: A School, University, and Youth Partnership to Develop Culturally Sustaining Digital Literacy Curricula in the Age of Algorithms and AI
Requested Amount: $249,869
Principal Investigator: Katherine Byron (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: Zyrashae Smith-Onyewu (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: The Calculus Calculation
Requested Amount: $348,401
Principal Investigator: Rob Moore (STL)
Co-PI: Kent Crippen (STL), Eunjin Shin (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: The TRACE Framework for STEM Microcredential Quality and Trust
Requested Amount: $500,000
Principal Investigator: Hyo Kang (Digital World)
Co-PI: Daryn Dever (STL), Navid Asadi Zanjani (Engineering)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: VISTA: AI-Powered Virtual Intelligent Semiconductor Teaching Assistant
Requested Amount: $749,895