Submitted Proposals – January 2025

Principal Investigator: Pavlo Antonenko (STL)

Co-PI: Sara Smith (STL), Baibhab Chatterjee, Myoseon Jang, Andrea Ramirez Salgado

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Engaging Bilingual Communities in Microelectronics Engineering and Air Quality Science Using Smart Kites and AI (SKAI)

Requested Amount: $1,806,868

Principal Investigator: Kakali Bhattacharya (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities

Proposal Title: AI & I: Navigating the Last Mile of Human Connection

Requested Amount: $281,382

Principal Investigator: Damien Boada (PKY)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Project Lead the Way

Proposal Title: Project Lead the Way Grant

Requested Amount: $10,000

Principal Investigator: Anthony Botelho (STL)

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

Funding Agency: The Learning Agency

Proposal Title: CHECKPOINT: Misconception-focused Assessment Item Generation

Requested Amount: $49,901

Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Education Foundation of Palm Beach County

Proposal Title: Education Foundation of Palm Beach SoR PL Materials 2025

Requested Amount: $1,945

 Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: UF Foundation (Subcontract – PNC Foundation)

Proposal Title: PNC Early Language and Literacy PD for PK

Requested Amount: $26,500

Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Reed Charitable Foundation

Proposal Title: RCF Literacy Coach Endorsement 2025

Requested Amount: $13,325

Principal Investigator: Catherine Cavanaugh (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: The Learning Agency

Proposal Title: Florida Education Data Lagoon

Requested Amount: $50,000

Principal Investigator: Aaron Costin

Co-PI: Wanli Xing (STL), Chaofeng Wang

Funding Agency: Transportation Research Board

Proposal Title: Toolkit for Implementation of AI-Based Solutions for State Departments of Transportation

Requested Amount: $400,000

Principal Investigator: Zandra De Araujo (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: School Board of Seminole County

Proposal Title: SCPS K-12 Calibration Program 2025

Requested Amount: $7,235

Principal Investigator: Elliot Douglas

Co-PI: Erica McCray (Deans Office)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Track 2: Professionalism in Engineering Internships

Requested Amount: $511,717

Principal Investigator: Bryndan Durham

Co-PI: Julie Brown (STL)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Improving Experimentation Competency and Data Literacy in Undergraduate Biology Students Through the Semester of Immersion

Requested Amount: $398,670

Principal Investigator: Christy Gabbard (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: Christy Gabbard (PKY)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education

Proposal Title: Safety and Security of School Buildings

Requested Amount: $42,000

Principal Investigator: Zhe Jiang

Co-PI: Wanli Xing (STL), Alberto Canestrelli

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: Interdisciplinary Training on Geospatial AI Cyberinfrastructure for Coastal Sciences

Requested Amount: $800,047

Principal Investigator: Hyo Kang

Co-PI: Nigel Newbutt (STL), Navid Asadi Zanjani, Eakta Jain, Ann-Marie Orlando

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Virtual Reality Job Simulation with Eye-Tracking to Bridge Non-Verbal Neurodiverse Young Adults to STEM Careers

Requested Amount: $1,499,997

Principal Investigator: Walter Leite (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Seyedahmad Rahimi (STL), Stephanie Snidarich (Lastinger Center)

Funding Agency: The Learning Agency

Proposal Title: Storiza

Requested Amount: $50,000

Principal Investigator: Walter Leite (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Ying Liu

Funding Agency: The Learning Agency

Proposal Title: Storiza Corpus

Requested Amount: $50,000

Principal Investigator: Wei Li (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Subcontract – Spencer Flow Through)

Proposal Title: Methods and Tools for Designing, Analyzing, and Reporting Multilevel Cost-Effectiveness Studies

Requested Amount: $104,956

 Principal Investigator: Raymon Mailhot

Co-PI: David Miller (SHDOSE), Amy Crisp, Carla Fisher, Erin Mobley

Funding Agency: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Proposal Title: Recognizing Educational Achievement in Children’s Health (REACH)

Requested Amount: $1,031,771

Principal Investigator: Anne Manley (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Florida International University (Subcontract – National Council on Measurement in Education Flow Through)

Proposal Title: Alignment, Gaps, and Opportunities: A Review of Baseline Competencies Offered by U.S. Educational Measurement Programs

Requested Amount: $8,393

Principal Investigator: Ryan Sharston

Co-PI: Kent Crippen (STL), Bahar Armaghani, Hassan Azad, Mary Koroly

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Transforming the Pedagogical Model of Environmental Technology Education in Architecture Using the Principles of Sustainability & Resilience

Requested Amount: $400,000

Principal Investigator: Sondra Smith (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Caronne Rush

Funding Agency: U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration

Proposal Title: Project Educating Quality Integrated Professional (EQuIP) Counselors

Requested Amount: $1,884,903

Principal Investigator: Jue Wu (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Measuring and Leveraging Perceived Difficulty and Realized Effort to Enhance Physics Learning for Undergraduate Non-Majors

Requested Amount: $190,960

Principal Investigator: Wanli Xing (STL)

Co-PI: Swarup Bhunia, Sandip Ray

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Chips4Youth: A Culturally Relevant Approach to Microelectronics for Latino Middle Schoolers through Concreteness Fading

Requested Amount: $2,000,000