Newly Funded Awards – October 2023
Principle Investigator: Anthony Botelho – School of Teaching and Learning
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Project Title: EAGER: Orchestrating Productive Collaboration among Students in Mathematics with Multimodal Machine Learning
Project Period: 9/1/2023 – 8/31/2025
Award Amount: $299,623
Principle Investigator: Mary Bratsch-Hines – Lastinger Center for Learning
Funding Agency: Naples Children and Education Foundation
Project Title: NCEF Program Evaluation of GEC
Project Period: 10/1/2023 – 12/31/2023
Award Amount: $15,000
Principle Investigator: Kent Crippen – School of Teaching and Learning
Funding Agency: Institute for Future Intelligence (Subcontract – NIH Flow Through)
Project Title: Adventures in Drug Discovery: Integrating Data Science into the Science Curriculum
Project Period: 8/17/2023 – 7/31/2028
Award Amount: $265,250
Principle Investigator: Bruce Carroll – Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Co-PI: Kent Crippen – School of Teaching and Learning
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Project Title: Collaborative Research: Research Initiation: Factors Affecting Latina Engineering Student Decisions to Enter Graduate School or Engineering Career Pathways
Project Period: 8/1/2023 – 7/31/2025
Award Amount: $50,252
Principle Investigator: Herman Knopf – AZCEECS
Co-PIs: Darbianne Shannon – AZCEECS, Elizabeth Shenkman – Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics
Funding Agency: Florida Division of Early Learning (Subcontract – Administration for Children & Families Flow Through)
Project Title: Sunshine State Early Childhood Information Portal Expansion and Pilot Implementation of Practice-Based Coaching withing Florida’s Early Care and Education System
Project Period: 9/29/2023 – 6/30/2028
Award Amount: $7,727,240
Principle Investigator: Kathrin Maki – SESPECS
Funding Agency: University of Houston (Subcontract – IES Flow Through)
Project Title: A Longitudinal Investigation of Predictors and Outcomes of Specific Learning Disabilities Identification
Project Period: 7/1/2023 – 6/30/2027
Award Amount: $400,161
Principle Investigator: Justin Ortagus – SHDOSE
Funding Agency: Arnold Ventures
Project Title: Examining the Most Recent PBF Data to Consider the Impact of Updated PBF Policy Designs and ROI
Project Period: 9/14/2023 – 7/31/2025
Award Amount: $346,320
Principle Investigator: Philip Poekert – Lastinger Center for Learning
Co-PI: Paige Pullen – Lastinger Center for Learning
Funding Agency: Florida Division of Early Learning (Subcontract – Administration for Children & Families Flow Through)
Project Title: DEL Early Learning Florida Emergent Literacy Coaching, Research Study, and Instructional Support
Project Period: 9/28/2023 – 6/30/2024
Award Amount: $1,533,333
Principle Investigator: Paige Pullen – Lastinger Center for Learning
Co-PI: Philip Poekert – Lastinger Center for Learning
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Project Title: FDOE Literacy Matrix and Coaching 2024-25
Project Period: 10/11/2023 – 8/31/2024
Award Amount: $1,000,000
Principle Investigator: Paige Pullen – Lastinger Center for Learning
Funding Agency: School District of Manatee County
Project Title: Manatee County – ALO Communication & Evaluation 2023-24
Project Period: 6/15/2023 – 6/30/2024
Award Amount: $40,000
Principle Investigator: Ross van Boven – P.K. Yonge
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Project Title: Title I, Part A: Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies Improving (TIPA)
Project Period: 7/1/2023 – 6/30/2024
Award Amount: $128,935
Principle Investigator: Wanli Xing – School of Teaching and Learning
Co-PI: Sandip Ray – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Project Title: Pivots: VETS-HASTE: Veterans SkillBridge through Industry based
Hardware Security Training and Education
Project Period: 10/11/2023 – 6930/2026
Award Amount: $1,000,000
