Office of Educational Research Submitted Proposals – June 2026

Submitted Proposals – June 2026

July 9, 2026

Principal Investigator: Dany Fanfan (Nursing)

Co-PI: Qinglin Pei (Nursing), Tessy Korah (Medicine), Liang Mao (CLAS), Laura Shannonhouse (SHDOSE), Kelly Smith (N/A)

Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIMH)

Proposal Title: Mechanistic Pathways Linking Social Disconnection to Suicidal Desire/Ideation Following Nursing Home Transitions among Older Adults

Requested Amount: $3,742,066


Principal Investigator: Julie Brown (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine

Proposal Title: Guardians of the Gulf 2.0: Empowering Youth to Strengthen Algal Bloom Resilience Through Sentinel Species

Requested Amount: $749,208


Principal Investigator: Catherine Corbin (SESPECS)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: University of Washington

Proposal Title: Redesign of an Evidence-Based Implementation Strategy to Improve Implementation of Universal Behavioral Health Interventions in Schools

Requested Amount: $5,932


Principal Investigator: Zhong-Ren Peng (Design, Construction, and Planning)

Co-PI: Zhaoxi Zhang (Design, Construction, and Planning); Anne Seraphine (SHDOSE); Julie Bruck (Agriculture); Kyle Dost (Design, Construction, and Planning); Elizabeth Abernethy (Design, Construction, and Planning); F. Chris Curran (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine

Proposal Title: RiseReady: Empowering Coastal Youth to LEAD

Requested Amount: $750,000


Principal Investigator: Keith Muller (Medicine)

Co-PI: Katherine Sauer (N/A), William Baumgartner (N/A), Debbie Glueck (N/A), Albert Ritzhaupt (STL)

Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health

Proposal Title: Embedding Reproducibility in the Design of Cardiovascular Trials

Requested Amount: $3,075,061


Principal Investigator: Walter Leite (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Oregon Research Institute

Proposal Title: Project InterLACE (Inter-language Lexical Acquisition and Conceptual Enrichment)

Requested Amount: $111,137


Principal Investigator: Paige Carter (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Amber Moss-Lazarczyk (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: Association for Counselor Education and Supervision

Proposal Title: Experimental Examination of Purity Culture Messaging and Counseling Outcomes in Women

Requested Amount: $2,000


Principal Investigator: Swapna Kumar (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Boise State University

Proposal Title: From Assessment to Action: Strengthening Mentoring in Online Doctoral Education

Requested Amount: $66,533


Principal Investigator: F. Chris Curran (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Melanie Soderstrom (N/A)

Funding Agency: US Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice

Proposal Title: Safety From Above: An Evaluation of School-Based Aerial Drones as a Rapid Response to School Violence

Requested Amount: $994,146


Principal Investigator: Wei Li (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

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

Requested Amount: $66,318


Principal Investigator: Brady Nash (STL)

Co-PI: Sevan Terzian (STL)

Funding Agency: US National Endowment for the Humanities

Proposal Title: Exploring Generative AI Through Educational Philosophy

Requested Amount: $137,967


Principal Investigator: Nigel Newbutt (STL)

Co-PI: Hyo Kang (Digital World)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Virtual Reality as a Co-Design Method for Understanding Computer Science Participation in Grades 11-12

Requested Amount: $446,647


Principal Investigator: Tracy Centanni (Public Health)

Co-PI: Holly Lane (SESPECS), Valentina Contesse (SESPECS)

Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NICHD)

Proposal Title: Exploration of the Effect of UFLI Foundations on Trajectory of Early Neural Reading Network Development and Literacy Acquisition

Requested Amount: $384,888


Principal Investigator: Nigel Newbutt (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: City University of New York

Proposal Title: Co-Designing Augmented Reality Career Exploration Tools in Informal STEM Learning Spaces

Requested Amount: $262,926


Principal Investigator: Yusen Zhai (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: University of Alabama Birmingham

Proposal Title: Dependency-Aware Human-in-the-Loop AI for Personalized Mental Health Risk Assessment and Adaptive Questioning

Requested Amount: $153,500


Principal Investigator: Jue Wu (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Temple University

Proposal Title: Where do they go? A longitudinal qualitative study of graduating high school women interested in computing

Requested Amount: $103,938


Principal Investigator: F. Chris Curran (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Melanie Soderstrom (N/A)

Funding Agency: US Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice

Proposal Title: Safety From Above: An Evaluation of School-Based Aerial Drones as a Rapid Response to School Violence

Requested Amount: $1,004,846


Principal Investigator: Darbianne Shannon (AZCEECS)

Co-PI: Anne Manley (SHDOSE), Crystal Bishop (AZCEECS), Christine Myers (Public Health), Kristine Lewandowski (Public Health)

Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation

Proposal Title: Bridging Disciplines for Inclusion: Understanding Factors Shaping Collaboration in Early Childhood

Requested Amount: $372,405


Principal Investigator: Matthew Burns (SESPECS)

Co-PI: Valentina Contesse (SESPECS), Vivian Gonsalves (SESPECS), Holly Lane (SESPECS)

Funding Agency: American Institutes for Research

Proposal Title: National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities

Requested Amount: $1,588,210


Principal Investigator: Carrie Geiger (PKY)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Palm Beach State College

Proposal Title: Florida Partnership for Minority and Underrepresented Student Achievement (FLP Achieve)

Requested Amount: $118,225


Principal Investigator: Carrie Geiger (PKY)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education

Proposal Title: Perkins V Grant

Requested Amount: $45,770


Principal Investigator: Katherine Byron (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Jue Wu (SHDOSE), Sooji Kim (SHDOSE), Zyrashae Smith-Onyewu (SHDOSE), Jason Arnold (ETC)

Funding Agency: South Florida State College

Proposal Title: FLIGHT: Florida Learning, Innovation, and Growth for a High-skilled Talent Pipeline

Requested Amount: $1,356,157


Principal Investigator: Kristi Cheyney-Collante (Lastinger)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Early Learning Coalition of Polk County

Proposal Title: ELC of Polk Early Lit Foundations 2027

Requested Amount: $35,900


Principal Investigator: Kristi Cheyney-Collante (Lastinger)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Madison County

Proposal Title: Madison Early Lit Foundations 2026 (1 month)

Requested Amount: $18,250


Principal Investigator: Kristi Cheyney-Collante (Lastinger)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Madison County

Proposal Title: Madison Early Lit Foundations 2026 (3 month)

Requested Amount: $29,500


Principal Investigator: Walter Leite (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Wei Li (SHDOSE), Huibin Zhang (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: Propensity Score Analysis of Multilevel Data: A Systemic Review

Requested Amount: $348,917


Principal Investigator: Alice Emery (SESPECS)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education

Proposal Title: Working with the Experts – University of Florida (Gainesville) 2026-2027

Requested Amount: $252,000


Principal Investigator: Chaohua Ou (Lastinger)

Co-PI: Tyran Butler (Lastinger), Philip Poekert (Lastinger)

Funding Agency: Helios Education Foundation

Proposal Title: Helios Data Listening Tour and Visualization Center Prototype

Requested Amount: $1,500,000


Principal Investigator: Christopher Redding (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Melinda Leko (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: Boston University

Proposal Title: Special Education Research and Development Center Program

Requested Amount: $17,232


Principal Investigator: Dicy Watson (PKY)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education

Proposal Title: Title II, Part A: Supporting Effective Instruction

Requested Amount: $30,510


Principal Investigator: Dicy Watson (PKY)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education

Proposal Title: Title IV, Part A: Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE)

Requested Amount: $10,001


Principal Investigator: Dicy Watson (PKY)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education

Proposal Title: Title I, Part A: Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies (TIPA)

Requested Amount: $150,999


Principal Investigator: Zhihui Fang (STL)

Co-PI: Kristy Boyer (Engineering), Wei Li (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: University of Miami

Proposal Title: MAGICAL-Math: Multimodal Artificial Generative Intelligence Championing Advanced Learning Sciences for Math Education

Requested Amount: $594,493


Principal Investigator: Kristi Cheyney-Collante (Lastigner)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Brevard County School Board

Proposal Title: Brevard Early Lit Foundations 2027

Requested Amount: $22,499


Principal Investigator: Kimberly Dotts-Hoehnle (PKY)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education

Proposal Title: Individuals with Disabilities Education

Requested Amount: $272,595