Submitted Proposals – October 2024
Principal Investigator: Florence Bason (SESPECS); Mentor: Christopher Redding (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: National Academy of Education
Proposal Title: Understanding the Systematic Impacts of the Substitute Teacher Shortage in Florida Schools
Requested Amount: $27,500
Principal Investigator: Taryrn Brown (STL)
Co-PI: Tiffany Aaron (SHDOSE), Anthony Botehlo (STL)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: Developing High-Impact Practices Towards Black Technological Futures: Community-Engaged Research for Equity, Accessibility, and Technoliteracy in Education
Requested Amount: $3,691,621
Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Episcopal Children Services (Subcontract – Administration for Children and Family Services)
Proposal Title: Episcopal Children Services Early Learning Coaching
Requested Amount: $68,000
Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Early Learning Coalition of Polk County
Proposal Title: Early Learning Coalition of Polk County 2025
Requested Amount: $156,000
Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Florida Atlantic University
Proposal Title: FAU AD Henderson University School SG PL
Requested Amount: $104,999
Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Proposal Title: FCRR RE Stipends
Requested Amount: $536,000
Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: School District of Hillsborough County
Proposal Title: Hillsborough SG PL Access (Option 1)
Requested Amount: $50,000
Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: School District of Hillsborough County
Proposal Title: Hillsborough SG PL Access (Option 2)
Requested Amount: $50,000
Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: City of Jacksonville
Proposal Title: KHA Accelerating Literacy Outcomes 2025
Requested Amount: $211,000
Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: School District of Manatee County
Proposal Title: Manatee County Accelerating Literacy Achievement 2025
Requested Amount: $421,400
Principal Investigator: Avery Closser (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: Helping Students See Structure: The Effects of Dosage and Timing of Perceptual Scaffolds in Middle School Mathematics
Requested Amount: $1,676,413
Principal Investigator: Maureen Conroy (SESPECS)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Virginia Commonwealth University (Subcontract – National Institutes of Health Flow Through)
Proposal Title: Multi-level Determinants of Implementation and sustainment in the Education Sector – Additional Funds
Requested Amount: $112,435
Principal Investigator: Dwight Irvin (SESPECS)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Capturing Parent-Child Interactions and Talk in Museums (CaPVi-TiM)
Requested Amount: $569,996
Principal Investigator: Dwight Irvin (SESPECS)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: University of Michigan (Subcontract – National Science Foundation Flow Through)
Proposal Title: Digital Twins to Promote Equitable Learning in Early Childhood Special Education
Requested Amount: $96,271
Principal Investigator: Benjamin Lok (Engineering)
Co-PI: Pavlo Antonenko (STL)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: HCC: Medium: EQ Over IQ: Developing Emotionally Aware Mixed Reality Humans for Socially Adaptive Experiences
Requested Amount: $1,199,602
Principal Investigator: Melissa Mariani (SHDOSE)
Principal Investigator: Raymond Mailhot (Medicine)
Co-PI: David Miller (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Proposal Title: TBA
Requested Amount: $2,852,325
Principal Investigator: Melissa Mariani (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: Sara Jean-Philippe (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: Chi Sigma Iota
Proposal Title: Beta Chapter Development Grant
Requested Amount: $300
Principal Investigator: Melissa Mariani (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: Deaetta Grimes (SHDOSE), Sara Jean-Philippe (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: Chi Sigma Iota
Proposal Title: Exploring the Effects of the Choosing Health and Happiness (CHH) Model on Aspects of Wellness for Counselors-in-Training (CITs)
Requested Amount: $2,500
Principal Investigator: Robert Moore (STL)
Co-PI: Kent Crippen (STL)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: The Connecting Institutional Strategy and Workforce Pathways through STEM Microcredential Development (CONNECT) Project
Requested Amount: $353,465
Principal Investigator: Nigel Newbutt (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: COINS: Co-creating Opportunities and Advancing Neuroinclusion in the Semiconductor Skilled Workforce
Requested Amount: $1,485,735
Principal Investigator: Justin Ortagus (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Pennsylvania State University (Subcontract – William T. Grant Foundation Flow Through)
Proposal Title: The Effects of Automatic Eligibility for Need-Based Aid on Racially Minoritized and English Language Learner Student’s College Outcomes in Washington
Requested Amount: $49,785
Principal Investigator: Seyedahmad Rahimi (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: University of Idaho (Subcontract – National Science Foundation Flow Through)
Proposal Title: Enhancing Rural Early Childhood Teacher’s Self-Regulated Science Teaching and Learning Using a Metacognition-Driven Gardening Program
Requested Amount: $281,704
Principal Investigator: Sindia Rivera-Jimenez (Engineering)
Co-PI: Justin Ortagus (SHDOSE), Kakali Bhattacharya (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: Track 2 Persisting Beyond the Transfer Shock: An Exploration of Barriers and Self-Adjustment Experiences of Underserved Vertical Transfer Students in Engineering
Requested Amount: $399,997
Principal Investigator: Joni Splett (SESPECS)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: University of South Florida (Subcontract – U.S. Department of Education Special Education and Rehab Services Flow Through)
Proposal Title: Florida Connect: Interconnecting School Mental Health and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports to Improve Middle School Students’ Academic, Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes
Requested Amount: $99,584
Principal Investigator: Joni Splett (SESPECS)
Co-PI: Valentina Contesse (SESPECS), Holly Lane (SESPECS), Colleen Pollett (UFLI), Megan Worth (SESPECS)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Reading for Resilience R4R
Requested Amount: $399,996
Principal Investigator: Jue Wu (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: STEM Joining in College: Pathways to Broadening Participation in STEM
Requested Amount: $345,029
Principal Investigator: Christine Wusylko (STL)
Co-PI: Pavlo Antonenko (STL), Kara Dawson (STL)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: A University-Museum Research Partnership to Develop and Test an Engaging Model for Cybersecurity and Cryptology Education in Children’s Museums
Requested Amount: $377,359
Principal Investigator: Xing Wanli (STL)
Co-PI: Zandra de Araujo (Lastinger Center)
Funding Agency: University of Utah (Subcontract – National Science Foundation Flow Through)
Proposal Title: Delta-Math: Diversified and Equitable Learning by Teaching AI-Augmented Model for Math Learning
Requested Amount: $450,002
