IES Awards $160 Million in Grants for Education and Special Education Research

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has awarded 83 grants to applications considered under the August 2017 deadline for research that will increase the evidence base across a wide array of topics in education and special education. The 2018 grants, representing an investment of more than $160 million over five years, are offered through the National Center for Education Research (NCER) and the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER). 

Education Research Grants Program (CFDA 84.305A)

NCER has awarded 54 grants for its 2018 competition to applications considered under the August 2017 deadline, representing an investment of more than $112 million. Forty-one colleges, universities, and research agencies received 2018 NCER Education Research Grants.

Click here to see the full list of 2018 NCER Education Research Grants with links to project abstracts. 

Special Education Research Grants Program (CFDA 84.324A)

NCSER has awarded 29 grants for its 2018 competition to applications considered under the August 2017 deadline, representing an investment of more than $49 million. The Special Education Research Grants have been awarded to 24 colleges, universities, or research agencies.

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NSF Idea Machine Competition Opening Soon

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is planning to open a new prize competition effort in late August to help set the U.S. agenda for fundamental research in science and engineering for the next eight years. Read more

UFIT: Low-Cost Basic Storage Is Now Available

UF Information Technology (UFIT) now offers a basic storage tier. This is the lowest-cost durable SMB storage option available. Basic storage will be encrypted at rest by default and have a daily snapshot, which is retained for seven days for data recovery purposes. (The snapshots are intended for retrieving your data within a week’s time, provided the data center and the storage devices are intact and not impacted by any true physical damage or disaster.)

The basic storage tier is the simplest of offerings for the archiving and storing of large volumes of digital content/data/files and may be requested through the submission of a myIT ticket to the UFIT Storage Team. The features of the basic storage tier include the following:

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UF DSP Releases New Award Funding Dashboard

The Division of Sponsored Programs (DSP) is pleased to announce the release of an interactive Award Funding Dashboard in Enterprise Analytics: the new, improved Enterprise Reporting.

The Sponsored Program data and report suite is now in Enterprise Analytics and the reports in Enterprise Reporting will be sunset and no longer supported as of August 31, 2018. Enterprise Reporting will continue to be the home of other UF data, until all data and reports move into the new platform at a later date.

Access is available via the “Enterprise Analytics” link in myUFL, or by logging in at reporting.it.ufl.edu, using your Gatorlink and password. Roles from Enterprise Reporting have transferred over to Enterprise Analytics, so access should be the same.

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Awarded Projects for July 2018

Congratulations to Lynda Haynes for her award from the Florida Department of Education; Elliot Douglas and Erica McCray for their award from the National Science Foundation; Philip Poekert and Page Pullen for their award from Children’s Services Council of Florida, Inc.; Philip Poekert for his award from Valley of the Sun United Way; and Stephen Smith, Joni Splett, and Ann Daunic for their award from the Institute of Education Sciences.

For more details, see the Awarded Projects table.
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Submitted Projects for July 2018

Best wishes to Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko, Andreas Keil, and Stephen Miller for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Amber Benedict for her subcontract proposal IES Flow Through from the University of Connecticut; Kara Dawson for her subcontract proposal IES Flow Through from Pacific University; Herman Knopf for his subcontract proposal DHHS Flow Through from the University of South Carolina; Page Pullen and Holly Lane for their proposal to the US Department of Education/OSERS; Philip Poekert for his proposals to Study Edge; Philip Poekert for his proposal to Southwest Human Development; Philip Poekert for his proposal to Lauren’s Kids; Philip Poekert for his proposal to the Alachua County School Board; Christopher Redding, Isaac McFarlin, David Miller, and Justin Ortagus for their proposal to the Florida Department of Education; Patricia Snyder for her proposal to the Santa Clara County Office of Education; and Dennis Kramer for his proposal to General Services Administration.

For more details, see the Submitted Projects table.
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