Fordham University

DESCRIPTION:THIS AGREEMENT PROVIDES FUNDING UNDER THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT TO FORDHAM UNIVERSITY TO SUPPORT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES THROUGH ITS THRIVING COMMUNITIES GRANTMAKER INITIATIVE TITLED FLOURISHING IN COMMUNITIES (FIC). THE RECIPIENT, A REGIONAL GRANTMAKER, PROPOSES AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH TO PLACE FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES IN POSITIONS OF POWER TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CLIMATE JUSTICE IN DISADVANTAGED AND HARD -TO-REACH COMMUNITIES AND COMMUNITIES DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE, POLLUTION, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS IN NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PUERTO RICO, AND U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. SPECIFICALLY, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY INTENDS TO AWARD AND MANAGE COMPETITIVE AND NONCOMPETITIVE SUBGRANTS THROUGH ITS FLOURISHING IN COMMUNITIES FUNDING PROGRAM. IN ADDITION, THE RECIPIENT WILL OVERSEE PROGRAMMATIC TRACKING, DISTRIBUTE FUNDS AND PROVIDE WRAP-AROUND SUPPORT TO ENSURE THE SUCCESS OF THE SUBGRANTEES. THIS GRANTMAKER FUNDING PROGRAM WILL REDUCE BARRIERS THE FEDERAL GRANT PROCESS PLACES ON SMALL, RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED COMMUNITY-BASED NONPROFITS SUPPORTING THE UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. THE PURPOSE OF THIS AWARD IS TO FUND THE SUBSEQUENT AWARD FOR THE PASS-THROUGH ENTITY FORDHAM UNIVERSITY.ACTIVITIES:THE ACTIVITIES IN THE SUBSEQUENT AWARD INCLUDE A RANGE OF INITIATIVES DESIGNED TO PROMOTE AND IMPLEMENT A COMPREHENSIVE SUBGRANT FUNDING PROGRAM. THIS INCLUDES HOSTING A SERIES OF MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS, AND WEBINARS BOTH IN PERSON AND VIRTUAL TO ENCOURAGE ELIGIBLE STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION AND RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE SUBGRANT OPPORTUNITIES. ALSO, TO EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENT THE SUBGRANT PROGRAM, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY WILL OPEN THEIR THRIVING COMMUNITIES SUBGRANT PROGRAM FOR COMPETITIVE AND NONCOMPETE AWARDS, DEVELOP A QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN, CONDUCT APPLICATION REVIEWS, ESTABLISH AN EVALUATE PROCESS TO REVIEW AND RANK ELIGIBLE APPLICATION, MANAGE AND DISTRIBUTE FUNDS TO ELIGIBLE SUBGRANTEES. IN ADDITION, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY WILL CONDUCT POST AWARD MONITORING OF SUBGRANTEES TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE AND ASSESS PROGRESS WITH REGULAR REPORTING ON THE OUTCOMES OF THE FUNDED PROJECTS. SUBRECIPIENT:FORDHAM UNIVERSITY WILL ADMINISTER SUBAWARDS UNDER THIS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH ACTIVITIES INCLUDING PROJECT COORDINATION, APPLICATION INTAKE, AND OUTREACH EFFORTS. AS A PASS-THROUGH ENTITY, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY WILL ALSO MANAGE AND DISTRIBUTE FUNDS THROUGH ITS THRIVING COMMUNITIES GRANTMAKER PROGRAM TO ELIGIBLE SUBGRANTEES.OUTCOMES:IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THIS PROJECT WILL RESULT IN THE FOLLOWING DELIVERABLES AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES: DEVELOPMENT OF A QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN, FORTY-EIGHT INFORMATION SESSIONS ACROSS NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PUERTO RICO AND THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS, DEVELOPMENT A ROBUST COMMUNICATION STRATEGY, AWARD APPROXIMATELY 300 COMPETITIVE AND NON-COMPETITIVE SUBAWARDS TO ELIGIBLE SUBGRANTEES, CREATE AN INTUITIVE ONLINE PLATFORM AND DASHBOARD FOR SUBGRANTEES TO EASILY TO APPLY, TRACK PROJECTS AND ACCESS RELEVANT INFORMATION AND RESOURCES RELATED TO THE GRANT PROCESS. DIRECT BENEFICIARIES OF THE PROGRAM INCLUDE RESIDENT LOCATED IN NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, PUERTO RICO AND THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLAND AND INDIAN NATIONS.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY CARES ACT: HIGHER EDUCATION EMERGENCY RELIEF FUNDING - INSTITUTE PORTION

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY CARES ACT: HIGHER EDUCATION EMERGENCY RELIEF FUNDING - STUDENT PORTION

DESCRIPTION:THIS AGREEMENT PROVIDES FUNDING UNDER THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT TO FORDHAM UNIVERSITY TO SUPPORT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING DISADVANTAGE COMMUNITIES THROUGH ITS THRIVING COMMUNITIES GRANTMAKER INITIATIVE TITLED FLOURISHING IN COMMUNITIES (FIC). SPECIFICALLY, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY GRANTMAKER PROPOSES AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH TO PLACE FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES IN POSITIONS OF POWER TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CLIMATE JUSTICE IN DISADVANTAGED AND HARD-TO-REACH COMMUNITIES AND COMMUNITIES DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE, POLLUTION, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS IN NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PUERTO RIC, AND U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY GRANTMAKER WILL FOSTER STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT; ESTABLISH A COMMUNITY LED PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE; FACILITATE A ROBUST AND ACCESSIBLE SUBGRANT APPLICATION, DISBURSEMENT, MONITORING AND REPORTING PROCESS; AND PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND WRAP-AROUND SUPPORT TO SUBGRANTEES. THIS GRANTMAKER INITIATIVE WILL REDUCE BARRIERS THE FEDERAL GRANT PROCESS PLACES ON SMALL, RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED COMMUNITY-BASED NONPROFITS SUPPORTING THE UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. ACTIVITIES:THE ACTIVITIES IN THE INITIAL AWARD PHASE INCLUDE: A SERIES OF MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS AND WEBINARS, BOTH FACE-TO-FACE AND VIRTUAL TO FOSTER AUTHENTIC STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT AND ESTABLISH PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE, FACILITATE A ROBUST AND ACCESSIBLE SUBGRANT APPLICATION, DISBURSEMENT, MONITORING AND REPORTING PROCESS.SUBRECIPIENT:FORDHAM UNIVERSITY WILL ISSUE SUBAWARDS UNDER THIS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT. SUBAWARD ACTIVITIES WILL INCLUDE PROJECT COORDINATION, INTAKE APPLICATIONS, DEVELOPMENT OF SOLICITATION AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES, OUTCOMES:IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THIS PROJECT WILL RESULT IN THE FOLLOWING DELIVERABLES AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES: DEVELOPMENT OF PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE, OUTREACH PLAN, SUBGRANT APPLICATION CONSISTING OF DISBURSEMENT, MONITORING, AND REPORTING PROCESS. DIRECT BENEFICIARIES OF THE PROGRAM INCLUDE RESIDENT LOCATED IN NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, PUERTO RICO AND THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLAND AND INDIAN NATIONS.

TRAINING PROGRAM IN HIV PREVENTION RESEARCH ETHICS

STUDY OF AGING LATINAS/OS FOR UNDERSTANDING DEMENTIA IN HIV (SALUD HIV)

CYBERCORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOR SERVICE: PREPARING FUTURE CYBERSECURITY PROFESSIONALS WITH DATA SCIENCE EXPERTISE -AS INCREASINGLY SOPHISTICATED AND VARIED CYBERATTACKS BECOME COMMON, IT IS CRUCIAL THAT WELL-TRAINED AND AGILE CYBERSECURITY PROFESSIONALS ENTER INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT POSITIONS. THESE PROFESSIONALS SHOULD BE ADEPT AT ANALYZING THE ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF DATA GENERATED BY MODERN COMPUTING SYSTEMS TO FACILITATE PROCESSING AT THE SCALE AND RATES NECESSARY TO IDENTIFY NEW ATTACKS. THE CYBERCORPS(R) SCHOLARSHIP FOR SERVICE (SFS) PROJECT AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY WILL HELP ADDRESS THESE WORKFORCE NEEDS BY PROVIDING SCHOLARSHIPS TO EDUCATE A NEW BREED OF CYBERSECURITY PROFESSIONALS TRAINED IN DATA SCIENCE METHODS AND TOOLS. FORDHAM SFS RECIPIENTS WILL EARN AN M.S. IN CYBERSECURITY WITH EITHER A CONCENTRATION IN DATA SCIENCE OR AN ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN DATA SCIENCE FOR CYBERSECURITY. THE PROGRAM WILL AFFORD STUDENTS A WELL-ROUNDED CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION, INCLUDING ITS TECHNICAL AND ETHICAL COMPONENTS, WHICH ARE VITAL FOR GOVERNMENT POSITIONS. THE PROJECT TEAM WILL LEVERAGE RECENT AWARDS MADE TO FORDHAM FOCUSED ON INCREASING DIVERSITY, INCLUDING GENCYBER AND NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION DIVERSITY INITIATIVE AWARDS. THESE AND OTHER EFFORTS BY THE PROJECT TEAM AIM TO INCREASE THE PARTICIPATION OF GROUPS WHO HAVE THUS FAR REMAINED UNDERREPRESENTED IN THE CYBERSECURITY WORKFORCE. THE GOAL OF INSPIRING NEW CYBERSECURITY PERSONNEL TOWARDS A CAREER IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE WILL BENEFIT FROM FORDHAM?S COLLABORATION WITH NUMEROUS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, ITS SMALL CLASS SIZES, AND NUMEROUS OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN RESEARCH AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES, SUCH AS CYBER-DEFENSE COMPETITIONS. STUDENTS WILL HAVE THE OPTION OF PURSUING A CYBER-OPERATIONS OR A POLICY/LAW/MANAGEMENT TRACK FOR THE CYBERSECURITY COURSEWORK. DATA SCIENCE COURSEWORK WILL PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH THE PROGRAMMING SKILLS, TOOLS, AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED TO MANIPULATE, ANALYZE, AND VISUALIZE LARGE AND COMPLEX DATASETS. THE STUDENT-CENTERED CURRICULUM THAT LEVERAGES THE SYNERGIES BETWEEN THE TRADITIONAL CYBERSECURITY AND DATA SCIENCE CURRICULA WILL RESULT IN CYBERSECURITY PROFESSIONALS WHO ARE WELL-PREPARED TO MEET EVOLVING CYBERSECURITY THREATS TO OUR NATION?S INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATA INFRASTRUCTURE. THIS PROJECT IS SUPPORTED BY THE CYBERCORPS(R) SCHOLARSHIP FOR SERVICE (SFS) PROGRAM, WHICH FUNDS PROPOSALS ESTABLISHING OR CONTINUING SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS IN CYBERSECURITY AND ALIGNS WITH THE U.S. NATIONAL CYBER STRATEGY TO DEVELOP A SUPERIOR CYBERSECURITY WORKFORCE. FOLLOWING GRADUATION, SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS ARE REQUIRED TO WORK IN CYBERSECURITY FOR A FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL, OR TRIBAL GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION FOR THE SAME DURATION AS THEIR SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORT. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

EDUCATION RESEARCH PROGRAM

SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTORS OF SLEEP DISPARITIES DURING THE TRANSITION TOCOLLEGE - PROJECT SUMMARY ETHNIC/RACIAL MINORITIES (ERMS) ARE MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER FROM SHORT SLEEP DURATION AND POOR SLEEP QUALITY RELATIVE TO WHITES. SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACT ERMS AND HAVE BEEN IMPLICATED IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF RACE-RELATED SLEEP DISPARITIES. THE TRANSITION TO COLLEGE IS AN ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT TIME TO INVESTIGATE SLEEP SINCE YOUNG ADULTS ENCOUNTER A UNIQUE CONFIGURATION OF SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS LINKED TO SLEEP. NO LONGER TETHERED TO EARLY HIGH SCHOOL START TIMES, COLLEGE STUDENTS REPORT LATER AND MORE IRREGULAR BEDTIMES. COLLEGE STUDENTS ALSO SLEEP LESS AND MORE POORLY THAN ADULTS, SUGGESTING A DEVELOPMENTAL PEAK IN SLEEP DISTURBANCES AMONG YOUNG ADULTS. FOCUSING ON TWO SLEEP-VULNERABLE GROUPS – ERMS AND COLLEGE STUDENTS - THIS 5-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY INVESTIGATES RACE-RELATED SLEEP DISPARITIES IN A DIVERSE SAMPLE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS DURING AND AFTER THE TRANSITION TO COLLEGE; AND HOW RACE-RELATED SLEEP DISPARITIES FORECAST DOWNSTREAM HEALTH AND ACADEMIC OUTCOMES THROUGH STUDENTS’ SENIOR YEAR. THE STUDY ALSO INVESTIGATES THE RISK AND PROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF ETHNIC/RACIAL IDENTITY AS A DYNAMIC AND CHANGING MODERATOR DURING THIS PERIOD. THE INNOVATIVE AND NOVEL COMBINATION OF DAILY DIARIES AND SLEEP ACTIGRAPHY, BIANNUAL SURVEYS, AND ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS OF INFLAMMATORY BIOMARKERS, TELOMERE LENGTH AND ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASURES OFFERS AN UNPARALLELED OPPORTUNITY TO INVESTIGATE THE DAILY AND LONGER-TERM MECHANISMS, PATHWAYS, AND CONSEQUENCES OF RACE-RELATED SLEEP DISPARITIES IN A LARGE SAMPLE OF ERM AND WHITE COLLEGE STUDENTS. A KEY INNOVATION OF THE STUDY IS THE INTERSECTIONAL INCLUSION OF ERM, SOCIOECONOMIC, 1ST-GENERATION COLLEGE, RESIDENT AND COMMUTER DIVERSITY. THE THREE SPECIFIC AIMS OF THE STUDY ARE INFORMED BY STRONG PRELIMINARY DATA (R21MD011388), SCIENTIFIC PREMISE, AND THE RACE-BASED DISPARITIES IN STRESS AND SLEEP IN CONTEXT MODEL. THE PROPOSED STUDY: 1. DETERMINES THE DAILY AND LONGER-TERM IMPACT OF SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS ON RACE- RELATED SLEEP DISPARITIES (DURATION, QUALITY, REGULARITY) DURING THE COLLEGE TRANSITION AND THE NEXT FOUR YEARS 2. IDENTIFIES RACE-RELATED SLEEP DISPARITIES AS AN EXPLANATORY PATHWAY FOR SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS TO IMPACT HEALTH, ACADEMIC AND PHYSIOLOGIC BIOMARKER (INFLAMMATION AND TELOMERE LENGTH) OUTCOMES 3. INVESTIGATES ETHNIC/RACIAL IDENTITY AS A DYNAMIC MODERATOR OF THE DAILY AND LONGER-TERM EFFECTS OF STRESS ON SLEEP, AND OF SLEEP ON OUTCOMES TOGETHER, THESE AIMS ADVANCE DEVELOPMENTAL AND HEALTH EQUITY SCIENCE, INVESTIGATING HOW SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CONTRIBUTE TO RACE-RELATED SLEEP DISPARITIES AMONG DIVERSE COLLEGE STUDENTS TO FORECAST DAILY AND LONGER-TERM HEALTH AND ACADEMICS OVER TIME.

THE 3E STUDY: ECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO EMERGING ADULT CARDIOMETABOLIC HEALTH - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (ACES) MAY CONTRIBUTE TO INEQUITIES IN CARDIOMETABOLIC HEALTH DISPROPORTIONATELY EXPERIENCED BY LATINX EMERGING ADULTS. WITH THE INCREASED USE OF ACE MEASURES IN HEALTH RESEARCH, THERE IS A NEED TO CONSIDER HOW WELL THE MEASURES WORK IN DIVERSE POPULATIONS AND WHETHER ACES CATEGORIES NEED TO BE EXPANDED TO INCLUDE COMMUNITY-LEVEL ADVERSITY. FIRST, ALTHOUGH EXISTING ACE MEASURES HAVE BEEN USED TO UNDERSTAND HOW ADVERSITY EARLY IN LIFE IMPACTS THE ADOPTION OF RISKY HEALTH BEHAVIORS AND LONG-TERM HEALTH, THE ORIGINAL MEASURES WERE DEVELOPED WITH A POPULATION THAT HAD HEALTH INSURANCE AND WAS LARGELY WHITE AND WELL-EDUCATED; THEY DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE DIVERSITY OF ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES THAT MAY BE DISPROPORTIONATELY EXPERIENCED BY SOME COMMUNITIES (E.G., IMMIGRATION-RELATED TRAUMAS, POLICING-RELATED TRAUMAS). MORE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE TO UNDERSTAND HOW APPLICABLE THEY ARE TO MORE DIVERSE POPULATIONS. SECOND, DR. FELITTI’S ORIGINAL ACES MEASURES, TYPICALLY REFERRED TO AS “CONVENTIONAL ACES,” WERE FOCUSED ON HOUSEHOLD-LEVEL ADVERSITY (PSYCHOLOGICAL, PHYSICAL OR SEXUAL ABUSE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST THE MOTHER; OR LIVING WITH HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS WHO WERE SUBSTANCE ABUSERS, MENTALLY ILL OR SUICIDAL, OR EVER IMPRISONED). INCREASINGLY, RESEARCHERS RECOGNIZE THAT EXPERIENCES OUTSIDE THE HOME ALSO SHAPE THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND INFLUENCE HEALTH AND HEALTH BEHAVIOR, ESPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE FROM MINORITIZED RACIAL/ETHNIC GROUPS AND/OR THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY, AND ARE CALLING FOR EXPANDED ACE MEASURES THAT ADDRESS INTERPERSONAL AND COMMUNITY-LEVEL ADVERSITY. EXPANDED ACE MEASURES CAN INCLUDE EXPERIENCES OF POVERTY, RACISM, DISCRIMINATION, BULLYING, IMMIGRATION-SPECIFIC ADVERSITY, AND COMMUNITY VIOLENCE. IN ADDITION TO EXPANDING ACES TO INCLUDE COMMUNITY LEVEL ADVERSITY, IT MAY BE USEFUL TO CONSIDER THE FRAMEWORK OF RESILIENCE OR POSITIVE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES. NARAYAN ET AL. DEVELOPED THE BENEVOLENT CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (BCE) SCALE THAT FOCUSES ON PROMOTIVE FACTORS. MEASURES INCLUDE POSITIVE EXPERIENCE WITH PARENTS, PEERS, TEACHERS, AND EXTENDED SOCIAL NETWORKS, A SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT, AND A PREDICTABLE ROUTINE. THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS DIVERSITY SUPPLEMENT ARE 1) TO DEVELOP AN ACE SCALE SPECIFIC TO COMMUNITY LEVEL STRESSORS (POVERTY, RACISM, DISCRIMINATION, BULLYING, IMMIGRATION SPECIFIC ADVERSITY AND COMMUNITY VIOLENCE), 2) TO QUANTIFY ACES AND BCES IN THE 3E STUDY’S COHORT OF DIVERSE EMERGING ADULTS, AND 3) TO USE QUALITATIVE METHODS TO DOCUMENT AND CONTEXTUALIZE HOW ADVERSITY IMPACTS CARDIOMETABOLIC BEHAVIORS (DIET, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, SLEEP, AND SMOKING) AND CARDIOMETABOLIC HEALTH (WEIGHT AND BLOOD PRESSURE). THE EVIDENCE GENERATED FROM THIS WORK COULD INFORM FUTURE COMMUNITY-LEVEL INTERVENTIONS TARGETING DETERMINANTS OF CARDIOMETABOLIC HEALTH AND WILL POSITION THE CANDIDATE TO HAVE AN IMPACTFUL CAREER AS AN INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF COMMUNITY LEVEL ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES ON CARDIOMETABOLIC HEALTH IN DIVERSE POPULATIONS.

EDUCATE SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FOR JUSTICE: A DEVELOPMENTAL-CONTEXTUAL APPROACH

REGULATION OF RPE PHAGOCYTOSIS VIA AVB5 INTEGRIN

CREATING & SUSTAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTITIONERS

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY TALENT SEARCH PROGRAM

CHOLINERGIC INTERNEURON D2 RECEPTOR FUNCTION IN IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR: IMPLICATIONS FOR ADDICTION - PROJECT SUMMARY CHRONIC COCAINE ABUSE IS ASSOCIATED WITH LONG-LASTING IMPAIRMENTS IN IMPULSE CONTROL AND DECISION-MAKING THAT INCREASE THE RISK FOR RELAPSE. HOWEVER, THE BRAIN CIRCUITS FUNDAMENTALLY INVOLVED IN IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR AND THEIR ALTERATION BY CHRONIC DRUG USE ARE NOT WELL UNDERSTOOD. ACCUMULATING EVIDENCE IN HUMANS AND ANIMALS IMPLICATES NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS (NAC) DOPAMINE D2 RECEPTORS (D2RS), YET GIVEN THEIR WIDE EXPRESSION IN DIFFERENT NEURONAL POPULATIONS, IT REMAINS UNCLEAR WHICH D2RS PLAY A KEY ROLE IN IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR. IN PARTICULAR, THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF D2RS IN CHOLINERGIC INTERNEURONS (CINS), WHICH CONSTITUTE ONLY 2-3% OF NEURONS IN THE NAC, HAVE BEEN LARGELY OVERLOOKED, DESPITE KNOWN CIN CONTRIBUTIONS TO NAC FUNCTION AND COCAINE REINFORCEMENT. TO FILL THIS GAP IN OUR KNOWLEDGE, IT IS URGENT TO ELUCIDATE THE CONSEQUENCES OF D2R ALTERATIONS IN CINS ON IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR WITH GREATER CELL-TYPE SPECIFICITY. OUR LONG-TERM GOAL IS TO ELUCIDATE THE CELLULAR AND CIRCUIT MECHANISMS BY WHICH NAC CINS REGULATE IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR, WHICH MAY UNCOVER POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING COCAINE RE- LAPSE. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS APPLICATION IS TO USE CELL-SELECTIVE STRATEGIES TO: 1) DETERMINE WHETHER AND HOW CIN D2RS MEDIATE IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR, AND 2) WHETHER CIN D2RS PARTICIPATE IN COCAINE-INDUCED AUGMEN- TATION OF IMPULSIVITY. OUR CENTRAL HYPOTHESIS IS THAT CIN D2RS MEDIATE IMPULSIVE BEHAVIORS BY ALTERING NAC ACE- TYLCHOLINE (ACH) RELEASE FOLLOWING PREDICTIVE CUES, AND THAT CHRONIC COCAINE CAUSES EXCESSIVE IMPULSIVITY VIA CIN D2RS. AIM 1 WILL USE CELL TYPE-SPECIFIC GENETIC APPROACHES IN MICE TO BIDIRECTIONALLY ALTER D2R EXPRESSION IN CINS TO TEST THE IMPACT ON A DELAY DISCOUNTING TASK, WHICH ASSESSES PREFERENCE FOR SMALL, SHORT-TERM REWARDS OVER LARGER, DELAYED REWARDS. USING IN VIVO FIBER PHOTOMETRY COMBINED WITH OPTOGENETICS, AIM 2 WILL DETERMINE ACH DYNAMICS IN DELAY DISCOUNTING AND TEST WHETHER THE ACH PAUSE IN RESPONSE TO CUES MODULATES IMPULSIVE CHOICE. AIM 3 WILL DETERMINE WHETHER CIN D2RS AND THE CIN PAUSE MEDIATE THE INCREASE IN IMPULSIVE CHOICE RESULTING FROM CHRONIC COCAINE EXPOSURE. THE RESEARCH PROPOSED IN THIS APPLICATION IS INNOVATIVE BECAUSE IT USES TARGETED APPROACHES IN BEHAVING MICE TO EXAMINE A PREVIOUSLY UNRECOGNIZED ROLE FOR THE NAC CIN AND ITS D2RS IN IMPUL- SIVITY. SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE PROPOSED AIMS WILL THUS GENERATE A NOVEL DISSECTION OF NEURONAL MECHANISMS AT PLAY IN IMPULSIVE CHOICE, BOTH UNDER NORMAL CONDITIONS AND FOLLOWING REPEATED COCAINE EXPOSURE. SUCH INFOR- MATION IS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR DEVELOPING NEW TREATMENTS TO COUNTER DRUG-INDUCED ALTERATIONS IN BRAIN FUNCTION THAT CONTRIBUTE TO RELAPSE.

MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF OUTER SEGMENT RENEWAL

TALENT SEARCH PROGRAM

EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR BY THE ESTROUS CYCLE - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT SEX-HORMONE FLUCTUATIONS ACROSS THE OVARIAN CYCLE EXERT POWERFUL EFFECTS ON FEMALE BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR, AND ARE LIKELY CONTRIBUTORS TO FEMALE-SPECIFIC RISKS FOR NEUROPSYCHIATRIC CONDITIONS. THIS IS EXEMPLIFIED BY ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION, DISORDERS TWICE AS PREVALENT IN WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE COMPARED TO THEIR MALE COUNTERPARTS. HOWEVER, THE MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THE DYNAMIC NATURE OF THE FEMALE BRAIN REMAIN POORLY UNDERSTOOD, LIMITING OUR ABILITY TO DESIGN SEX-SPECIFIC TREATMENTS FOR FEMALE-BIASED DISORDERS. THE GOAL OF OUR RESEARCH IS TO ADDRESS THIS CRITICAL NEED, AND TO REVEAL THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS THROUGH WHICH SEX HORMONES DYNAMICALLY IMPACT FEMALE BRAIN STRUCTURE AND BEHAVIOR. TO THIS END, WE RECENTLY MADE THE IMPORTANT DISCOVERY THAT CHROMATIN ORGANIZATION, A MAJOR EPIGENETIC MECHANISM CONTROLLING GENE EXPRESSION, IS HIGHLY DYNAMIC IN THE FEMALE VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS (VHIP) OF MOUSE, AS A FUNCTION OF THE ESTROUS CYCLE STAGE. WE LINKED THESE CHROMATIN DYNAMICS TO CHANGES IN NEURONAL GENE EXPRESSION AND TO VARIATION IN VHIP-DEPENDENT, ANXIETY-RELATED BEHAVIORS IN MICE. BASED ON THESE FINDINGS, WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT RHYTHMIC SEX-HORMONE CHANGES INDUCE EXTENSIVE CHROMATIN RE- ORGANIZATION IN VHIP NEURONS ACROSS THE OVARIAN CYCLE, RESULTING IN CYCLIC CHANGES IN GENE ACTIVITY AND CONTRIBUTING TO INCREASED FEMALE VULNERABILITY TO ANXIETY-RELATED PHENOTYPES ASSOCIATED WITH THE VARYING ESTROGEN STATE. TO ADDRESS THIS HYPOTHESIS, WE DESIGNED THE CURRENT STUDY WITH THREE INDEPENDENT AIMS TO REVEAL ESTROUS CYCLE- AND SEX-SPECIFIC EPIGENETIC GENE REGULATION IN VHIP NEURONS IN MICE, AND TO PROVIDE A MECHANISTIC LINK BETWEEN VHIP CHROMATIN DYNAMICS AND ANXIETY-RELATED BEHAVIOR. IN AIM 1, WE WILL USE CUTTING-EDGE EPIGENOMICS METHODS TO IDENTIFY ESTROUS CYCLE- AND SEX-SPECIFIC CIS-REGULATORY ELEMENTS AND CHROMATIN MECHANISMS DRIVING TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROGRAMS IN VHIP NEURONS. IN AIM 2, WE WILL USE A SINGLE-CELL TRANSCRIPTOMIC ANALYSIS AND RNA IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION TO REVEAL VHIP NEURONAL CLUSTERS THAT ARE TRANSCRIPTIONALLY RESPONSIVE TO CYCLING HORMONES AND POSSIBLE DRIVERS OF CYCLIC CHANGES IN CHROMATIN AND BEHAVIOR. IN AIM 3, WE WILL GENETICALLY MANIPULATE A CANDIDATE EPIGENETIC REGULATOR IDENTIFIED BY BIOINFORMATICS APPROACHES, TO IDENTIFY A FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF THESE SEX-SPECIFIC CHROMATIN DYNAMICS IN GENE REGULATION AND ANXIETY-RELATED BEHAVIOR. OVERALL, THESE STUDIES WILL REVEAL CHROMATIN- DEPENDENT MOLECULAR MECHANISMS CONTROLLING NEURONAL GENE EXPRESSION AND ANXIETY-RELATED BEHAVIOR ACROSS THE ESTROUS CYCLE. THESE FINDINGS WILL PROVIDE A NECESSARY FIRST STEP TO IDENTIFY CANDIDATE, SEX-SPECIFIC TARGETS FOR THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE-BIASED DISORDERS SUCH AS ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION.

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH WORKFORCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM

UPWARD BOUND

NATIONAL CENTER FOR SOCIAL WORK TRAUMA EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

TALENT SEARCH PROGRAM

UPWARD BOUND PROGRAM

HEALTH RISK BEHAVIOR IN LATE CHILDHOOD: IMPACT OF LONGITUDINAL RANDOMIZED TRIAL

SPECIAL EDUCATION PRE-SERVICE IMPROVEMENT GRANTS

COMBINED PRIORITY FOR PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT

IMPROVING CHILD OUTCOMES OF YOUNG CHILDREN WITH HIGH-INTENSITY NEEDS THROUGH INTERDISCIPLINARY PREPARATION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND PRESCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSIONALS (ICO)

ENHANCING CHILD OUTCOMES OF YOUNG CHILDREN WITH HIGH-INTENSITY NEEDS THROUGH INTERDISCIPLINARY PREPARATION OF EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATORS AND SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS (ECO)

PROJECT PACTS: PREPARING AFFIRMATIVE COLLABORATIVE TEACHERS AND SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS FOR STUDENTS WITH HIGH-INTENSITY INTERVENTION NEEDS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PROJECT TRUE (TEENS RESEARCHING URBAN ECOLOGY)

COMBINED PRIORITY FOR PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY NSF ROBERT NOYCE TEACHER SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF THE HUMAN BRAIN ACROSS MENOPAUSAL TRANSITION - ABSTRACT THE MENOPAUSAL TRANSITION (MT) SPANS, ON AVERAGE, 2-8 YEARS BEFORE THE FINAL MENSTRUAL PERIOD AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED RISK FOR MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER (MDD) AND PSYCHOSIS IN WOMEN AND OTHER PEOPLE WITH OVARIES. WHILE OVARIAN HORMONE SHIFTS ARE STRONGLY IMPLICATED IN THE INCREASED PSYCHIATRIC RISK, THE UNDERLYING BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS ARE UNKNOWN. OUR PREVIOUS STUDIES IN MICE DEMONSTRATED THAT OVARIAN HORMONES DYNAMICALLY CHANGE NEURONAL CHROMATIN ORGANIZATION AND GENE EXPRESSION IN THE VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS, AND WE CONNECTED THESE MOLECULAR CHANGES TO CHANGES IN SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY AND ANXIETY-RELATED BEHAVIOR. PARALLEL OVARIAN HORMONE-INDUCED CHANGES IN BRAIN STRUCTURE AND ACTIVITY HAVE BEEN FOUND IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS OF BOTH MICE AND HUMANS, BUT CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR STUDIES IN HUMANS ARE LACKING. HERE, WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT THE ANTERIOR HIPPOCAMPUS (AHIP), THE ANALOGOUS BRAIN REGION CRITICAL FOR EMOTION REGULATION IN HUMANS, UNDERGOES EXTENSIVE CHANGES IN CELLULAR COMPOSITION AND EPIGENOME ACROSS THE MT. WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT THESE CHANGES ARE LARGELY HORMONALLY-DRIVEN, AND COULD UNMASK GENETIC RISK FOR DEPRESSION AND PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS IN SUSCEPTIBLE WOMEN. TO ADDRESS THIS QUESTION, WE WILL WORK WITH A COHORT OF 42 POSTMORTEM HUMAN BRAINS IN WHICH WE DEFINED THE MENOPAUSAL AND HORMONAL STATUS BASED ON 39 PUTATIVE MENOPAUSAL BIOMARKERS. THE COHORT INCLUDES THREE AGE GROUPS: <40 YEARS (“PRE-MENOPAUSAL”, N=10), 45-55 YEARS (“PERI-MENOPAUSAL”, N=21), AND >55 YEARS (“POST-MENOPAUSAL”, N=11), CONSISTING OF INDIVIDUALS WITH MDD/DEPRESSION (N=18) AND CONTROL INDIVIDUALS OR THOSE WITHOUT DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS (N=24). IN AIM 1, WE WILL PERFORM SINGLE-NUCLEUS MULTIOME ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN AHIP IN PRE-, PERI-, AND POST-MENOPAUSAL SUBJECTS, IN ORDER TO DEFINE CELLULAR CLUSTERS, GENE EXPRESSION, AND CHROMATIN STATES THAT SHIFT IN THE AHIP ACROSS THE MT. IN AIM 2, WE WILL PERFORM MICRO-C ANALYSIS OF NEURONAL AND NON-NEURONAL CELLS OF THE AHIP IN ORDER TO EXAMINE THE MT-ASSOCIATED CHANGES IN THE 3D GENOME, INCLUDING CHROMOSOME COMPARTMENTS, TOPOLOGICALLY ASSOCIATING DOMAINS, LOOPS, AND ENHANCER- PROMOTER INTERACTIONS. FINALLY, IN AIM 3, WE WILL ANALYZE THE ASSOCIATION OF MT-SENSITIVE GENE REGULATORY REGIONS WITH GENETIC RISK LOCI FOR DEPRESSION AND SCHIZOPHRENIA, PROVIDING MOLECULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING ENHANCED PSYCHIATRIC RISK IN WOMEN AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS UNDERGOING MT. IN SUMMARY, THIS PROJECT WILL ALLOW US TO CHARACTERIZE CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR CHANGES IN THE HUMAN AHIP ACROSS MT USING HIGH-RESOLUTION, CUTTING-EDGE GENOMICS TECHNIQUES IN UNIQUELY CURATED BRAIN TISSUE COHORT. OUR FINDINGS WILL OPEN THE PATH FOR THE HORMONE STATUS-INFORMED, PRECISION MEDICINE APPROACH IN WOMEN’S MENTAL HEALTH.

MFB: ACCELERATING THE DISCOVERY OF NOVEL LIPOSOME FORMATIONS WITH ORIGINS-OF-LIFE INSIGHTS, LABORATORY AUTOMATION, AND MACHINE LEARNING -FORMULATIONS CHEMISTRY IS A CRUCIAL, BUT OFTEN OVERLOOKED AREA, IN FIELDS AS DIVERSE AS PHARMACEUTICALS, AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS, PAINTS AND COATINGS, COSMETICS, AND HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS. MODERN DESIGNED LIPID BILAYER STRUCTURES ARE COMPLEX, MULTICOMPONENT BLENDS THAT DEFINE THE CELL. HOW MUCH CAN THEY BE SIMPLIFIED AND STILL ACHIEVE BASIC FUNCTIONALITY? UNDERSTANDING HOW TO BUILD LIPID STRUCTURES WITH SPECIFIED FUNCTIONALITY CAN ADVANCE BOTH FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ORIGINS OF LIFE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY. MACHINE LEARNING AND AUTONOMOUS RESEARCH METHODS DEVELOPED IN THIS PROJECT HAVE DIRECT APPLICATIONS TO THIS PROBLEM. DESIGNED LIPID BILAYER STRUCTURES WITH SIMPLIFIED COMPOSITIONS, LIKE LIPOSOMES, ARE IMPORTANT FOR DRUG DELIVERY OF NOVEL BIOLOGICAL PHARMACEUTICALS, MRNA VACCINES, AND AGROCHEMICALS. MORE SPECULATIVELY, THE ABILITY TO CREATE ARTIFICIAL, MINIMALLY FUNCTIONAL CELL-LIKE STRUCTURES COULD BE COMBINED WITH EXISTING CELL-FREE BIOCHEMISTRY SYSTEMS TO GENERATE NOVEL SYNTHETIC BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS THAT COMBINE THE ENGINEERING ADVANTAGES OF CELL-FREE SYSTEMS WITH THE ABILITY TO SELF-REPAIR OR SELF-SUPPORT OF CELLULAR SYSTEMS. DEVELOPING ARTIFICIAL PROTOCELLS WITH SIMPLE COMPONENTS WOULD NOT ONLY INFORM OUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HOW LIFE EVOLVED, BUT ALSO ENABLE THE CREATION OF ENGINEERED ABIOTIC BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS. TO DO THIS WE MUST OVERCOME THE ANTHROPOGENIC BIAS AND COMBINATORIAL EXPLOSION WITH LABORATORY AUTOMATION AND MACHINE-LEARNING METHODS. TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO CHEMICAL EVOLUTION HAVE BEEN BIASED BY CONSIDERING A ?BEST GUESS? FOR STARTING CONDITIONS AND REACTANTS BASED ON EXTANT ORGANISMS AND CONSIDERED ONLY A RELATIVELY LIMITED NUMBERS OF CHEMICAL INPUTS (< 10 REACTANTS) TO TAME COMBINATORIAL COMPLEXITY. IN THIS PROJECT THE INVESTIGATORS WILL USE A COMBINATION OF LABORATORY AUTOMATION AND MACHINE-LEARNING-GUIDED EXPERIMENTATION TO OBTAIN DATASETS AND STATISTICAL BASELINES, NEEDED TO TEST ALGORITHMS FOR EXPLORING AND OPTIMIZING THESE COMPLEX, NON-IDEAL MIXTURES. THE INVESTIGATORS WILL DEVELOP ALGORITHMS FOR AUTONOMOUS FORMULATIONS CHEMISTRY. EXPERIMENTAL CHEMISTRY DATA IS NOISY, BIASED, AND SMALL COMPARED TO MOST MACHINE LEARNING DATASETS, AND SO IT IS NECESSARY TO BOTH MAKE USE OF EXISTING DATA WHILE ALSO EXPLORING NEW CHEMICAL SYSTEMS. THE INVESTIGATORS WILL DEVELOP ACTIVE AND META- LEARNING MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES TO LEARN FROM EXISTING EXPERIMENTAL DATA WHEN APPROACHING NEW OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS, UTILIZING CONTRASTIVE META MODEL CHANGES TO INFER RELEVANT VARIABLES. THEY WILL ALSO EXPLORE GRAPH REGULARIZED MATRIX FACTORIZATION METHODS TO LEARN LOW-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATIONS DIRECTLY FROM EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS. FINALLY, THEY WILL CONTINUE THE DEVELOPMENT OF OPEN-SOURCE EXPERIMENTAL DATA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE TO FACILITATE DATA REUSE AND SHARING. IN THIS PROJECT THE PIS WILL ENGAGE THE BROADER MACHINE-LEARNING COMMUNITY BY RUNNING OPEN CHALLENGE COMPETITIONS, USING PLATFORMS LIKE KAGGLE, AND DISSEMINATING OPEN DATASETS, WITH THE AIM TO BRING NEW TECHNICAL INSIGHTS INTO ORIGINS-OF-LIFE AND BIOPHYSICS RESEARCH, BY DRAWING UPON A POOL OF CITIZEN SCIENTISTS. THIS RESEARCH WILL BE CONDUCTED AT TWO UNDERGRADUATE-ONLY CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENTS AT CENTRAL CONNECTICUT UNIVERSITY AND FORDHAM UNIVERSITY. THIS AWARD WILL SUPPORT SUMMER AND ACADEMIC YEAR RESEARCH POSITIONS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AT THE TWO UNIVERSITIES, AS WELL AS RESEARCH OF TWO POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS. BRINGING POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS INTO UNDERGRADUATE-FOCUSED DEPARTMENTS EXPOSES UNDERGRADUATES TO ANOTHER PHASE OF THE ?LIFE OF THE SCIENTIST?, PARTICULARLY IN THE FORM OF A ?NEAR PEER? WHO MAY BE MORE RELATABLE THAN A PROFESSOR. IT ALSO EXPOSES POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS TO THE POSSIBILITY OF ACTIVE RESEARCH CAREERS AT NON-R1 UNIVERSITIES. THE PIS WILL CONTINUE THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOW-COST, OPEN-SOURCE ROBOTIC HARDWARE AND PEDAGOGICAL MATERIAL THAT BRINGS ORIGINS OF LIFE AND LABORATORY AUTOMATION INTO TEACHING LABS, TO HELP TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION OF CHEMISTS TO INCORPORATE AUTOMATION INTO THEIR EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS. THIS PROJECT IS JOINTLY SUPPORTED BY THE DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY (CHE), THE DIVISION OF INFORMATION AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (IIS), THE DIVISION OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOSCIENCES (MCB), AND THE DIVISION OF PHYSICS (PHY) PHYSICS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

ACHIEVEMENT IN STEM THROUGH A PROGRAM OF IMMERSIVE RESEARCH EXPERIENCES AND SUPPORT

PROJECT DELL: DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP FOR LEARNERS WITH DISABILITIES THROUGH INTERDISCIPLINARY PREPARATION

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY/WCS SCIENCE TEACHER NOYCE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

ETHNIC IDENTITY & PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT AMONG AFRICAN, ASIAN & LATINO YOUTH

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERVENTION FOR NON-SUICIDAL SELF-INJURY IN YOUNG ADULTS

NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH

PATHWAYS TO CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE OF DECIMALS -MATHEMATICS PROFICIENCY IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESS IN STEM FIELDS, BUT REMAINS A CHALLENGE FOR MANY US STUDENTS, PARTICULARLY PROFICIENCY IN UNDERSTANDING DECIMALS AND DECIMAL ARITHMETIC. THE PROJECT AIMS TO TEST WHETHER OPTIMIZING PRACTICE PROBLEMS CAN IMPROVE STUDENTS? COMPETENCY WITH AND UNDERSTANDING OF DECIMALS. CURRENTLY, STUDENTS RECEIVE CERTAIN TYPES OF PRACTICE PROBLEMS MORE FREQUENTLY THAN OTHER TYPES OF PRACTICE PROBLEMS, AN OCCURRENCE THAT MAY LIMIT AS WELL AS INTERFERE WITH STUDENTS? DEVELOPMENT A ROBUST UNDERSTANDING OF DECIMALS. THIS PROJECT INVESTIGATES WHETHER PROVIDING BALANCED DISTRIBUTIONS OF PRACTICE PROBLEMS WITH IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK CAN IMPROVE STUDENTS? KNOWLEDGE OF DECIMALS AND DECIMAL ARITHMETIC IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. THE PROJECT INCLUDES THREE SHORT-TERM INTERVENTION STUDIES WITH 6TH AND 7TH GRADE STUDENTS. STUDY 1 WILL FOCUS ON DECIMAL ARITHMETIC AND TEST WHETHER COMPLETING BALANCED PRACTICE PROBLEMS WITH IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK WILL IMPROVE STUDENTS? PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE. THE RESEARCHERS WILL COMPARE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BALANCED DECIMAL ARITHMETIC PRACTICE PROBLEMS WITH IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK, UNBALANCED PRACTICE PROBLEMS THAT REFLECT TYPICAL PRACTICE PROBLEMS PRESENTED IN TEXTBOOKS, AND BUSINESS-AS-USUAL ACTIVITIES. STUDY 2 WILL FOCUS ON DECIMAL MAGNITUDE KNOWLEDGE AND TEST WHETHER PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPED FROM BALANCED PRACTICE WITH IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK WILL FURTHER IMPROVE CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE, AND WHETHER ADDITIONAL SCAFFOLDING IS NEEDED. THE RESEARCHERS WILL COMPARE EFFECTS OF BALANCED PRACTICE WITH ACCURACY FEEDBACK, BALANCED PRACTICE WITH ACCURACY FEEDBACK AND CONCEPTUAL PROMPTS, AND BALANCED PRACTICE WITH NO FEEDBACK. STUDY 3 WILL COMBINE THE INTERVENTIONS FROM STUDIES 1 AND 2 TO EXAMINE WHETHER BOOSTING STUDENTS? CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE OF DECIMAL MAGNITUDES LEADS TO GREATER BENEFITS FROM A SUBSEQUENT DECIMAL ARITHMETIC INTERVENTION INVOLVING BALANCED PRACTICE PROBLEMS WITH IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK. TOGETHER, THESE STUDIES WILL PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO THE COGNITIVE PROCESSES INVOLVED IN DEVELOPING DECIMAL KNOWLEDGE THROUGH BALANCED PRACTICE PROBLEM DISTRIBUTIONS. FURTHER, THE FINDINGS PROMISE TO SET THE FOUNDATION FOR LARGE-SCALE SCHOOL-BASED INTERVENTIONS AIMED AT IMPROVING CHILDREN?S MATHEMATICAL OUTCOMES VIA AN EASILY MALLEABLE FACTOR IN INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ? DISTRIBUTIONS OF PRACTICE PROBLEMS. THIS PROJECT IS SUPPORTED BY NSF?S EDU CORE RESEARCH (ECR) PROGRAM. THE ECR PROGRAM EMPHASIZES FUNDAMENTAL STEM EDUCATION RESEARCH THAT GENERATES FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELD. INVESTMENTS ARE MADE IN CRITICAL AREAS THAT ARE ESSENTIAL, BROAD, AND ENDURING: STEM LEARNING AND STEM LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS, BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN STEM, AND STEM WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITYS GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, THROUGH ITS CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS, WILL SERVE THREE HIGH-NEED SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN NEW YORK CITY, THE NATIONS LARGEST LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY (LEA) SERVING NEARLY 1 MILLION STUDENTS. THE PARTNER LEAS, COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS (CSDS) FOUR AND FIVE AND THE MANHATTAN HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT, ARE ALL LOCATED IN NYCS BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN AND SERVE MORE THAN 52,000 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, 96.2 PERCENT OF WHOM ARE MINORITIES (PRIMARILY AFRICAN AMERICAN AND HISPANIC), AND 79 PERCENT OF WHOM ARE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED BASED ON THEIR ELIGIBILITY FOR FREE AND REDUCED-PRICE MEALS. THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN HAS A DEMONSTRATED NEED FOR SCHOOL VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES. THE PROJECT WILL SERVE 480 PARTICIPANTS OVER A 36-MONTH PERIOD. THE TARGET AUDIENCE WILL CONSIST OF 240 STUDENTS IN GRADES K12 AND 240 SCHOOL PERSONNEL (E.G., PRINCIPALS, TEACHERS, GUIDANCE COUNSELORS, SOCIAL WORKERS, FAMILY WORKERS AND NYPD SCHOOL SAFETY AGENTS) OVER THAT SPAN. THE PROJECTS PRIMARY INTERVENTIONS WILL CONSIST OF WORKSHOPS COVERING THREE TOPIC AREAS: (1) MENTAL HEALTH-BASED STRATEGIES THAT HELP PARTICIPANTS RECOGNIZE, UNDERSTAND, AND RESPOND TO STRESSORS AND TRIGGERS THAT LEAD TO STUDENT VIOLENCE; (2) EVIDENCE-BASED STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING SCHOOL CLIMATE AND CULTURE TO PREVENT AND/OR REDUCE INCIDENTS OF YOUTH-RELATED VIOLENCE; AND (3) RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PRACTICES THAT CAN BE USED AS ALTERNATIVES TO SUSPENSIONS AND OTHER SEVERE TYPES OF STUDENT DISCIPLINE. THE PROJECT WILL FOCUS ON CULTURALLY SENSITIVE AND APPROPRIATE TECHNIQUES SPECIFIC TO THE PARTNER LEAS LARGE MINORITY ENROLLMENT. INTERVENTIONS FOR KINDERGARTEN TO GRADE 12 PUPILS WILL INCLUDE SOCIOEMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL) DRIVEN CLASSES THAT CULTIVATE PROSOCIAL BEHAVIORS (I.E., MINDFULNESS) WHILE ALSO HELPING THESE YOUNG PEOPLE BETTER UNDERSTAND AND DEAL WITH NEGATIVE EMOTIONS.

COMBINED PRIORITY FOR PERSONNEL PREPARATION

THE EFFECTS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND SLEEP DISTURBANCE ON HEALTH AND ACADEMIC OUTCOMES AMONG MINORITY YOUTH

MEDICATION ADHERENCE AMONG HIV+ HISPANICS

D2 RECEPTORS IN CHOLINERGIC INTERNEURONS: ROLE IN STRIATAL CIRCUITRY & MOTIVATION

TRIO - TALENT SEARCH - TALENT SEARCH PROGRAM

EXPANDQISE: TRACK 1: COLLABORATIVE OPTIMIZATION AND MANAGEMENT FOR ITERATIVE AND PARALLEL QUANTUM COMPUTING -NON-TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: QUANTUM COMPUTING IS ADVANCING RAPIDLY, PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF CLASSICAL COMPUTING. DUE TO LIMITED QUANTUM RESOURCES ON ANY SINGLE MACHINE, RECENT RESEARCH ATTEMPTS TO INTEGRATE MULTIPLE QUANTUM MACHINES AND CLASSICAL COMPUTING NODES INTO LARGE-SCALE, MULTI-NODE SYSTEMS. HOWEVER, EXISTING APPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT SCHEMES NEED TO BE OPTIMIZED WITH RESPECT TO THESE SYSTEMS. FOCUSING ON ITERATIVE AND PARALLEL QUANTUM APPLICATIONS, THIS PROJECT STUDIES COLLABORATIVE OPTIMIZATIONS AND MANAGEMENT APPROACHES THAT AIM TO FULLY EXPLOIT THE POTENTIAL OF A MULTI-NODE QUANTUM-CLASSICAL SYSTEM. BUILDING ON POPULAR OPEN-SOURCE PROJECTS, SUCH AS QISKIT AND KUBERNETES, THE PROPOSED SYSTEM CREATES AN ACCESSIBLE ENTRY POINT FOR RESEARCHERS FROM DIVERSE COMPUTER SCIENCE BACKGROUNDS TO EXPLORE QUANTUM COMPUTING. MOREOVER, THE TEAM IS COMMITTED TO PROMOTING QUANTUM COMPUTING TO UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS THROUGH MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL WORKSHOPS AND HACKATHONS. THESE COLLABORATIVE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENTS AND CAPACITY-BUILDING ACTIVITIES WILL PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS AT A NON-R1 INSTITUTION TO DEVELOP THEIR QUANTUM KNOWLEDGE BASE, PAVING THE WAY FOR A MORE DIVERSE AND SKILLED WORKFORCE IN THE EMERGING FIELD OF QUANTUM COMPUTING. TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: THE RESEARCH OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO INVESTIGATE A QUANTUM-CLASSICAL SYSTEM THAT CAN COLLABORATIVELY OPTIMIZE ITERATIVE AND PARALLEL QUANTUM APPLICATIONS. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM COMBINES MULTIPLE QUANTUM MACHINES WITH CLASSICAL COMPUTING NODES, OPERATING IN THREE MODES: SIMULATION-ONLY, QUANTUM-CLASSICAL, AND QUANTUM-ONLY. SPECIFICALLY, IT SUPPORTS COLLABORATIVE OPTIMIZATIONS WHICH UTILIZE A CIRCUIT ANALYST TO IDENTIFY ITERATIVE AND DEPENDENT OPERATIONS AUTOMATICALLY. IT FURTHER GENERATES APPLICATION-SPECIFIC LOGICAL AND PHYSICAL OPTIMIZATION PLANS TO FULLY LEVERAGE THE AVAILABLE QUANTUM AND CLASSICAL RESOURCES WITHIN THE SYSTEM. ADDITIONALLY, A COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT PIPELINE IS DEVELOPED WITH A VISUALIZED REPRESENTATION. THE SYSTEM CONSIDERS MULTIPLE QUANTUM AND CLASSICAL NODES AS A UNIFIED SYSTEM AND OPTIMIZES INPUT-OUTPUT ROUNDTRIP LOOPBACK BETWEEN QUANTUM AND CLASSICAL COMPUTING COMPONENTS. IT UTILIZES AN ONLINE-OFFLINE COMBINED APPROACH TO ADDRESS THE IMBALANCED EXECUTIONS. FURTHERMORE, IT INCORPORATES HARDWARE-INFORMED OPTIMIZATION AND MANAGEMENT, WHICH SEEKS TO EFFECTIVELY GATHER THE HARDWARE?S NOISE, CALIBRATION, AND CONNECTIVITY INFORMATION IN AN EFFICIENT WAY TO OPTIMIZE THE QUANTUM APPLICATION?S FIDELITY. IT QUERIES THE HARDWARE TO TRACK PARAMETERS OF IMPORTANCE TO THE DESIRED QUANTUM ALGORITHM. ULTIMATELY, THIS PROJECT PROVIDES A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO TACKLING THE CHALLENGES FACED IN MULTI-NODE, QUANTUM-CLASSICAL SYSTEMS, ENSURING EFFICIENT RESOURCE UTILIZATION AND SEAMLESS INTEGRATION. THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED BY THE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATIONS (CCF) DIVISION. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

CITYSCAPE GENOMICS OF RATS IN NEW YORK CITY

ROLES OF MYOGEF IN CYTOKINESIS

ROBOTICS: ENHANCING AND EXPANDING RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AND TEACHING CAPABLITY AT FORDHAM UNIVERISTY

EXAMINING ADOLESCENT OUTCOMES OF SEVERE TEMPER OUTBURSTS IN CHILDHOOD

MENTAL HEALTH IMPACT AND SERVICE USE AMONG ASIAN SURVIVORS AND RESCUERS EXPOSED

STOP SCHOOL VIOLENCE PROGRAM

CDS&E: D3SC: THE DARK REACTION PROJECT: A MACHINE-LEARNING APPROACH TO EXPLORING STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY IN SOLID STATE SYNTHESIS

STUDY OF AGING LATINAS/OS FOR UNDERSTANDING DEMENTIA IN HIV (SALUD HIV)

K23 AWARD TO STUDY INTERGENERATIONAL CONFLICT AMONG WEST AFRICAN FORCED MIGR

MEASUREMENT OF PROGNOSTIC UNDERSTANDING IN PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED CANCER

TWC SBE: OPTION: FRONTIER: COLLABORATIVE: TOWARDS EFFECTIVE WEB PRIVACY NOTICE AND CHOICE: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PROSPECTIVE

ENHANCING ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN STUDIES AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS TRAINING FOR SCHOOL PERSONNEL AND SAFETY OFFICERS SERVING BRONX, N.Y. PUBLIC SCHOOLS - MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS TRAINING (MHAT) PROJECT THE PROPOSED MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS TRAINING (MHAT) PROJECT WILL BE IMPLEMENTED BY FORDHAM UNIVERSITY'S GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION (GSE) THROUGH ITS CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS. WITH RESPECT TO GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION, THE PROJECT WILL OPERATE IN SIX COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS (7-12) IN THE BRONX, NEW YORK, A DIVERSE REGION THAT IS THE THIRD-MOST-DENSELY POPULATED COUNTY IN THE UNITED STATES. DESIGNED WITH A STRONG EMPHASIS ON EARLY INTERVENTION, THIS PROJECT WILL SERVE A TOTAL OF 40 PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN UNDUPLICATED GROUPS OF EIGHT PER YEAR OVER FIVE YEARS. EVIDENCE-BASED TRAINING WILL BE DELIVERED TO A BROAD AUDIENCE, FOCUSING ON CLASSROOM TEACHERS AND SCHOOL SAFETY AGENTS THAT INTERACT WITH CHILDREN IN KINDERGARTEN TO GRADE FIVE. OTHER TRAINING RECIPIENTS WILL INCLUDE PRINCIPALS, ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS, FAMILY WORKERS, PARENT COORDINATORS, GUIDANCE COUNSELORS, SOCIAL WORKERS AND NONPROFIT AGENCY STAFF WORKING IN AFTER- SCHOOL PROGRAMS. UNDUPLICATED COHORTS OF TEN PARTICIPANTS WILL BE TRAINED DURING EACH 12-MONTH GRANT PERIOD. A TOTAL OF 400 PARTICIPANTS (80 PER GRANT PERIOD) WILL RECEIVE MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS TRAINING. TRAINING SESSIONS WILL BE OFFERED DURING THE REGULAR SCHOOL DAY, AFTER-SCHOOL HOURS OVER THE ACADEMIC YEAR (I.E., SEPTEMBER TO JUNE), IN ADDITION TO THE SUMMER MONTHS OF JULY AND AUGUST. THROUGH THIS PROJECT, PARTICIPANTS WILL BE TRAINED TO RECOGNIZE AND BETTER UNDERSTAND SIGNS OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN CHILDREN (IN ADDITION TO TRIGGERS FOR ACTING-OUT BEHAVIORS) AND BECOME SKILLED IN FACILITATING STUDENT REFERRALS TO LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS WILL ALSO INTRODUCE PARTICIPANTS TO EVIDENCE-BASED STRATEGIES FOR DE-FUSING EMERGENCY SITUATIONS INVOLVING STUDENTS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS. PARTICIPANTS WILL ALSO BE INFORMED OF VARIOUS SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESSES (SMI) AND SERIOUS EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCES (SED) COMMON AMONG SCHOOL- AGE CHILDREN AND YOUTH. WORKSHOPS WILL BE CONDUCED BY CREDENTIALED, LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS WHO HAVE CONSIDERABLE EXPERIENCE WORKING IN SCHOOL-BASED SETTINGS AND ALIGNED WITH NEW YORK CITY'S MANDATED MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS CURRICULUM FOR ALL STUDENTS. A KEY PROJECT GOAL WILL BE TO INCREASE CHILDREN'S ACCESS TO HIGH-QUALITY MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORTS. ACCORDINGLY, THE PROJECT'S COLLABORATORS WILL INCLUDE THREE LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS LOCATED IN THE BRONX, I.E., MORRIS HEIGHTS HEALTH CENTER (MHHC), ST. BARNABAS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER, AND FORDHAM UNIVERSITY'S COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC. IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT PROJECT PARTICIPANTS WILL PLAY PIVOTAL ROLES IN REFERRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS TO THOSE ORGANIZATIONS.

MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF Y-FAMILY TRANSLESION POLYMERASE ACTIVITY IN BACILLUS SUBTILIS - CELLS MUST EFFICIENTLY AND ACCURATELY REPLICATE THEIR GENETIC MATERIAL, YET THIS PROCESS IS CHALLENGED BY THE PRESENCE OF UNREPAIRED DNA DAMAGE ON THE TEMPLATE STRAND. IN THE DNA DAMAGE TOLERANCE PATHWAY TRANSLESION SYNTHESIS (TLS), SPECIALIZED TRANSLESION POLYMERASES REPLICATE DAMAGED DNA, PROMOTING CELL SURVIVAL UNDER STRESS. MOST TLS POLYMERASES ARE LOWER FIDELITY THAN REPLICATIVE DNA POLYMERASES, AND THUS THEIR ACTIVITY MUST BE TIGHTLY REGULATED UNDER NORMAL GROWTH CONDITIONS TO MAINTAIN GENOME STABILITY. CONVERSELY, STRESS-INDUCED MUTAGENESIS BY TLS POLYMERASES CAN PROMOTE CELL SURVIVAL UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, SUCH AS BY CONTRIBUTING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN BACTERIA. THE GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIUM E. COLI HAS SERVED AS A MODEL SPECIES FOR MECHANISTIC STUDIES OF TLS POLYMERASE REGULATION, BUT IT IS NOT KNOWN WHETHER THE SAME PRINCIPLES APPLY IN OTHER BACTERIAL SPECIES, INCLUDING THE MODEL GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM B. SUBTILIS, WHICH HAS TWO Y-FAMILY TLS POLYMERASES, POL Y1 AND POL Y2. BY COMBINING BIOCHEMICAL AND MICROBIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS WITH LIVE-CELL SINGLE-MOLECULE IMAGING, WE WILL PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF THE SPATIAL ORGANIZATION, DYNAMICS, AND MOLECULAR COORDINATION OF THE TLS POLYMERASES POL Y1 AND POL Y2 IN B. SUBTILIS. THIS STUDY WILL REVEAL NEW INSIGHTS INTO HOW DNA REPLICATION FIDELITY IS MAINTAINED DURING NORMAL GROWTH AND WILL BROADEN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF TLS AND DNA DAMAGE TOLERANCE IN BACTERIAL SPECIES BEYOND E. COLI. AIM 1: DETERMINE HOW TLS POLYMERASES RESPOND TO REPLICATION PERTURBATIONS IN B. SUBTILIS IN E. COLI, TLS POLYMERASES ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE REPLICATION FORK DURING NORMAL CELLULAR GROWTH BUT SELECTIVELY ENRICHED IN RESPONSE TO REPLICATION PERTURBATIONS. IT IS NOT KNOWN, HOWEVER, WHETHER B. SUBTILIS POL Y1 AND POL Y2 ARE REGULATED IN A SIMILAR MANNER. WE WILL USE LIVE-CELL SINGLE-MOLECULE IMAGING TO VISUALIZE FLUORESCENTLY- LABELED POL Y1 AND POL Y2 MOLECULES DURING NORMAL REPLICATION AND UPON DNA DAMAGE, ALLOWING US TO DETERMINE IF AND HOW THEY RESPOND TO REPLICATION PERTURBATIONS. AIM 2: ELUCIDATE THE ROLE OF THE DNAN CLAMP IN COORDINATING POL Y1 AND POL Y2 ACTIVITY THE BACTERIAL REPLICATION PROCESSIVITY FACTOR, THE DNAN SLIDING CLAMP, INTERACTS WITH A WIDE RANGE OF PROTEINS INVOLVED IN DNA REPLICATION AND REPAIR THROUGH A COMMON BINDING SITE. POL Y1 AND POL Y2 CONTAIN CLAMP-BINDING MOTIFS (CBMS), SHORT PEPTIDE SEQUENCES THAT BIND TO DNAN. WE WILL COMBINE BIOCHEMICAL AND MICROBIOLOGICAL ASSAYS WITH LIVE-CELL SINGLE-MOLECULE IMAGING TO ELUCIDATE THE ROLE OF DNAN IN REGULATING TLS IN B. SUBTILIS. AIM 3: DETERMINE WHETHER AND HOW INTERACTIONS WITH SSB PLAY A ROLE IN TLS POLYMERASE RECRUITMENT BACTERIAL SINGLE-STRANDED DNA-BINDING PROTEINS (SSBS) ACT AS A CONSERVED BINDING PLATFORM FOR DNA REPLICATION AND REPAIR PROTEINS. IN E. COLI, THE TLS POLYMERASE POL IV IS SELECTIVELY ENRICHED AT STALLED REPLICATION FORKS THROUGH ITS INTERACTION WITH SSB. WE WILL DETERMINE WHETHER SSB PLAYS A SIMILAR ROLE IN TLS POLYMERASE REGULATION IN B. SUBTILIS BY COMBINING BIOCHEMICAL BINDING ASSAYS WITH LIVE-CELL SINGLE-MOLECULE IMAGING.

BILINGUAL EDUCATION- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

LONG DISTANCE CAREGIVING: UNIQUE CHALLENGES AND SERVICE NEEDS

INITIAL PROCESS OF HPV BINDING AND ENTRY.

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ROLE OF MERTK IN THE RPE INDEPENDENT OF DIURNAL OUTER SEGMENT PHAGOCYTOSIS - DIURNAL RPE PHAGOCYTOSIS IS AN ESSENTIAL ASPECT OF LIFELONG CONTINUOUS RENEWAL OF PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENTS. PHAGOCYTOSIS OF DISTAL PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT TIPS REQUIRES ACTIVITY OF RPE SURFACE RECEPTORS OF THE TAM (TYRO3/AXL/MERTK) RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE FAMILY. IN HUMAN PATIENTS, MUTATIONS IN THE MERTK GENE CAUSE AN UNUSUALLY SEVERE FORM OF RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA WITH BLINDNESS IN TEENAGE YEARS. THE RETINA IN MICE AND RATS LACKING MERTK DEVELOPS NORMALLY BUT RAPIDLY DEGENERATES POSTNATALLY, WITH ONSET OF PHOTORECEPTOR DEATH BEFORE 4 WEEKS OF AGE. NEUROINFLAMMATION AND SPECIFICALLY ACTIVATION AND REDISTRIBUTION OF RETINAL MICROGLIA HAS BEEN REPORTED IN ADULT MERTK-DEFICIENT ANIMALS AND HAS BEEN ASSUMED TO BE A CONSEQUENCE OF PHOTORECEPTOR DISTRESS AND DEBRIS ACCUMULATION CAUSED BY LACK OF DAILY CLEARANCE PHAGOCYTOSIS OF SPENT OUTER SEGMENT TIPS BY THE RPE. HOWEVER, WE FIND THAT, SURPRISINGLY, ROBUST INCREASE IN PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES AND MICROGLIA ACTIVATION IN MERTK-DEFICIENT RAT AND MOUSE RETINA PRECEDE POSTNATAL ONSET OF PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT RENEWAL AND DAILY RPE PHAGOCYTOSIS. MOREOVER, OUR RESULTS SHOW THAT ANTI-INFLAMMATORY TREATMENT IS EFFECTIVE IN PREVENTING MICROGLIA ACTIVATION AND EXTENDING PHOTORECEPTOR SURVIVAL AND FUNCTION ONLY IF APPLIED AT EARLY POSTNATAL AGE SEVERAL DAYS PRIOR TO THE ONSET OF DIURNAL OUTER SEGMENT RENEWAL AND RPE PHAGOCYTOSIS. IN WILD- TYPE RETINA, MERTK IS EXPRESSED EARLY POSTNATALLY AND MAINLY BY THE RPE (AND NOT DETECTED IN MICROGLIA). THIS IMPLIES THAT LOSS OF MERTK AFFECTS THE RPE SPECIFICALLY, DIRECTLY AND BEFORE OUTER SEGMENT RENEWAL BEGINS. THUS, ALL AVAILABLE EVIDENCE SUPPORTS MICROGLIA STIMULATION BY MERTK-DEFICIENT RPE INDEPENDENTLY OF RPE PHAGOCYTIC ACTIVITY AND OUTER SEGMENT RENEWAL. HERE, WE PROPOSE HIGHLY FOCUSED, KEY PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE PILOT STUDIES TO RIGOROUSLY SCRUTINIZE OUR COMPLETELY NOVEL CONCEPT THAT LACK OF MERTK IN ITSELF AND UNRELATED TO RPE PHAGOCYTOSIS CAUSES RPE CELLS TO RELEASE A PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE, WHICH ELICITS EARLY ONSET, HARMFUL NEUROINFLAMMATION THAT IN TURN ACCELERATES PHOTORECEPTOR DYSFUNCTION AND DEMISE. WE WILL TEST OUR HYPOTHESIS IN 3 INDEPENDENT SPECIFIC AIMS. AIM 1 WILL EXPLORE DOUBLE MUTANT MICE WE JUST GENERATED TO TEST IF CYTOKINE IS REQUIRED FOR NEUROINFLAMMATION IN MERTK-/- RETINA. AIM 2 WILL EXPLORE IF INDUCING CYTOKINE LOSS IN THE RPE ALONE IS SUFFICIENT TO ELIMINATE EARLY POSTNATAL HARMFUL NEUROINFLAMMATION AND WHETHER CYTOKINE MEDIATOR MUST BE EXPRESSED EARLY POSTNATALLY TO INDUCE NEUROINFLAMMATION IN MERTK-/- RETINA. AIM 3 WILL EXPLORE POLARIZED, DIFFERENTIATED RPE CELL MODELS (PRIMARY, UNPASSAGED WILD-TYPE AND MERTK-DEFICIENT RPE AND PASSAGE 1 HUMAN RPE CELLS) TO DETERMINE WHETHER MERTK EXPRESSION AND ITS KINASE SIGNALING ACTIVITY ARE DIRECTLY LINKED MECHANISTICALLY TO CYTOKINE TRANSCRIPTION, TRANSLATION, AND/OR RELEASE BY RPE CELLS. UPON COMPLETION, THIS PILOT STUDY WILL HAVE YIELDED UNAMBIGUOUS CONFIRMATION OR DISPROOF OF OUR NOVEL HYPOTHESIS AND GENERATED IN VIVO AND CULTURE MODELS FOR LARGE SCOPE MECHANISTIC AND PRE-TRANSLATIONAL FOLLOW-UP.

SLEEP DISTURBANCE AND INHIBITORY CONTROL AS PROXIMAL PREDICTORS OF SUICIDAL IDEATION AND BEHAVIOR: A DAILY DIARY AND ACTIGRAPHY STUDY OF YOUNG ADULTS - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT SUICIDE IS THE SECOND LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AMONG YOUNG ADULTS AGED 18-34 IN THE UNITED STATES. THERE IS AN URGENT NEED TO IDENTIFY CLINICALLY-RELEVANT BEHAVIORAL FACTORS THAT ARE PREDICTIVE OF SUICIDE RISK ACROSS DIVERSE POPULATIONS, AS WELL AS TO IDENTIFY THE MECHANISMS THROUGH WHICH THESE FACTORS CONFER RISK. DISTURBED SLEEP HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A PROXIMAL RISK FACTOR FOR SUICIDE OUTCOMES, INCLUDING IDEATION AND ATTEMPTS. IMPORTANTLY, SLEEP IS MODIFIABLE, MAKING IT A CRITICAL FOCUS OF RESEARCH ATTENTION. THE PROPOSED STUDY WILL UTILIZE DAILY DIARY AND ACTIGRAPHY METHODOLOGIES OVER 21 DAYS TO EXAMINE THE EFFECTS OF SLEEP DISTURBANCE—A SPECIFIC, MODIFIABLE, IMMEDIATELY PROXIMAL RISK FACTOR FOR SUICIDE OUTCOMES IN YOUNG ADULTS—ON NEXT DAY SUICIDAL IDEATION AND ATTEMPT BEHAVIOR. IN ADDITION, WE WILL EXAMINE INHIBITORY CONTROL AS A TIME-VARYING MECHANISM THROUGH WHICH DAILY SLEEP DISTURBANCE MAY CONFER PROXIMAL RISK FOR SUICIDE OUTCOMES. WE WILL FULFILL THE AIMS OF RFA-MH-20-326 AND NIH STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 2.2 BY INVESTIGATING LONGITUDINAL RELATIONSHIPS OF THE RDOC DOMAINS OF AROUSAL AND REGULATORY SYSTEMS (CONSTRUCT: SLEEP DISTURBANCE) AND COGNITIVE SYSTEMS (CONSTRUCT: INHIBITORY CONTROL) AT MULTIPLE UNITS OF ANALYSIS (UNITS: BEHAVIORAL, SELF-REPORT, PARADIGM) ON A DAILY TIMESCALE OVER A 21-DAY PERIOD. THIS STUDY WILL BE CONDUCTED WITH A TRANSDIAGNOSTIC, ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, HIGH- RISK SAMPLE OF DIVERSE YOUNG ADULTS (AGES 18-34), CONSISTENT WITH NIH’S CALL TO IDENTIFY BIOMARKERS THAT PREDICT SUICIDE OUTCOMES ACROSS DIVERSE POPULATIONS.

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ETHICAL CHALLENGES FOR RESEARCH EXTENDERS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INTEGRITY OF COMMUN

THE EFFECTS OF DISCRIMINATION AND SLEEP DISTURBANCE ON HEALTH AMONG ASIAN YOUTH

FROM PRINCIPLES TO PRACTICE: ETHICAL GUIDANCE FOR NEUROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCHERS -NEUROTECHNOLOGY RAISES NOVEL ETHICS ISSUES WITH SIGNIFICANT IMPLICATIONS, GIVEN THE ROLE OF THE BRAIN IN HUMAN THOUGHT, FEELING, AND BEHAVIOR. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO ENSURE THAT ADVANCEMENTS IN NEUROTECHNOLOGY ENHANCE SOCIETAL WELL-BEING. THE RESEARCH TEAM WILL ANALYZE EXISTING ETHICS GUIDANCE FOR NEUROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCHERS, ASK NEUROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCHERS WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT THIS GUIDANCE, AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH AIM TO ENSURE THAT NEUROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH BOTH ADVANCES SCIENCE AND PROMOTES THE GOOD OF THE PUBLIC. RESULTS WILL AID IN CRAFTING ETHICS RESOURCES THAT ARE MOST LIKELY TO BE USED AND THAT WILL ENSURE POSITIVE OUTCOMES. THE PROJECT WILL YIELD INSIGHTS FOR DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE ETHICS REQUIREMENTS FOR RESEARCH AT THE INTERSECTION OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, COMPUTER SCIENCE, AND NEUROSCIENCE. NEUROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH RAISES ETHICAL ISSUES THAT REQUIRE SPECIAL ATTENTION BEYOND TRADITIONAL RESEARCH ETHICS AND TRAINING. TWO KEY QUESTIONS WILL GUIDE THE TEAM AS IT SEEKS TO INVESTIGATE ETHICAL ISSUES EMERGING FROM NEUROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH. TO WHAT EXTENT DOES ETHICS GUIDANCE FACILITATE ETHICAL CONDUCT OF NEUROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH? AND, WHAT ARE THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT ENABLE ETHICS GUIDANCE TO HAVE THIS EFFECT? THIS PROJECT WILL ADDRESS THESE QUESTIONS ACROSS THREE PHASES THAT WILL IDENTIFY AND ANALYZE ETHICS GUIDANCE IN NEUROTECHNOLOGY (PHASE 1), SURVEY NEURAL ENGINEERS ABOUT THEIR AWARENESS OF EXISTING ETHICS GUIDANCE AND THEIR PERCEPTION OF ITS UTILITY FOR THEIR PRACTICES (PHASE II), AND DEVELOP A SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TRANSLATING ETHICS KNOWLEDGE FOR NEUROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH (PHASE III). THE MAIN CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE PROJECT ARE TWOFOLD. FIRST, BY CHARACTERIZING THE INTERFACE BETWEEN NEUROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCHER PRACTICES AND ETHICIST GUIDANCE, THE PROJECT WILL YIELD A GROUNDED APPRAISAL OF RESEARCHER-PERCEIVED VALUE OF CURRENT ETHICS RESOURCES AND AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT TYPES OF ETHICS RESOURCES ARE LIKELY TO HAVE AN EFFECT ON PRACTICE. SECOND, THE KNOWLEDGE OBTAINED ABOUT THE ETHICS NEEDS OF RESEARCHERS AND THE PROCESS-BASED ISSUES THEY ENCOUNTER IN PRACTICE WILL BE USED TO OUTLINE A PATHWAY FOR IMPROVING THE UTILITY OF EXISTING ETHICS GUIDANCE AND PROMOTING ITS FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPACT. THIS PROJECT IS JOINTLY FUNDED THROUGH THE ER2 PROGRAM AND THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES (STS) PROGRAM BY THE DIRECTORATE FOR SOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

EQUIPMENT: MRI: TRACK 1 ACQUISITION OF A HIGH-PERFORMANCE GPU CLUSTER FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY -THIS MRI PROJECT WILL PROVIDE MUCH-NEEDED EQUIPMENT TO MODERNIZE THE SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY. IT WILL ADDRESS THE GROWING DEMAND FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES REQUIRED TO TACKLE COMPLEX SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PROBLEMS ACROSS VARIOUS DISCIPLINES, SUCH AS COMPUTER SCIENCE, NEUROSCIENCE, SECURITY, ECONOMICS, CHEMISTRY, STATISTICS, AND PSYCHOLOGY. THIS PROJECT NOT ONLY PROMISES TO ELEVATE THE QUALITY AND SCOPE OF RESEARCH BUT ALSO ENHANCES EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS ACROSS THE CAMPUS BY PROVIDING HANDS-ON RESEARCH AND EDUCATION EXPERIENCE WITH CUTTING-EDGE COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES. THE GPU CLUSTER CONSISTS OF THREE COMPUTING NODES, FEATURING APPROXIMATELY 12 NVIDIA AMPERE A100 GPU ACCELERATORS. THIS CLUSTER PROVIDES THE ESSENTIAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE TO SUPPORT FORDHAM'S NEW AND EMERGING RESEARCH PROJECTS. THE ON-SITE HPC CLUSTER AT FORDHAM WILL SIGNIFICANTLY ADVANCE MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN AREAS SUCH AS DEEP LEARNING, ROBOTICS, QUANTUM COMPUTING, CYBERSECURITY, NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING, COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, AND MORE. ADDITIONALLY, THE HPC CLUSTER WILL ENABLE FACULTY TO ENHANCE THEIR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN COMPUTATIONAL FIELDS AND PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF BOTH UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE CURRICULA, FACILITATING THE TRAINING OF THE NEXT-GENERATION STEM WORKFORCE. THE SYSTEM WILL BE OPTIMIZED AND ACCESSIBLE TO MAJOR USERS ACROSS THE CAMPUS, ENSURING SUSTAINABLE USE THROUGHOUT THE GRANT PERIOD AND BEYOND. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

EDI SPECIAL PROJECTS

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ACCELERATED DISCOVERY OF LEAD-FREE METAL HALIDE PEROVSKITOIDS USING AUTOMATION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE -NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: HALIDE PEROVSKITES AND PEROVSKITOIDS ARE A BROAD FAMILY OF MATERIALS THAT HAVE MANY APPLICATIONS INCLUDING PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS, LIGHTING, LASERS, PHOTODETECTORS, X-RAY DETECTORS, AND CATALYSIS. HOWEVER, MANY OF THE APPLICATIONS USE MATERIALS CONTAINING TOXIC METALS, SUCH AS LEAD. IN THIS PROJECT, WITH SUPPORT FROM THE SOLID STATE AND MATERIALS CHEMISTRY PROGRAM IN THE MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES DIRECTORATE, AUTOMATED LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS ARE GUIDED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO DISCOVER AND CHARACTERIZE NEW LEAD-FREE PEROVSKITES AND PEROVSKITOIDS WITH NOVEL PROPERTIES. THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL METHODS FOR USING GENERATIVE AI TO IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING IS ACCOMPLISHED BY THE EXTRACTION OF DATA FROM PUBLISHED EXPERIMENTS TO ARTICULATE THE CURRENT LIMITS OF CHEMICAL KNOWLEDGE AND TO IDENTIFY GAPS IN EXPERIMENTAL EFFORTS. THESE DATA ARE USED TO CONSTRUCT MACHINE LEARNING MODELS THAT HELP OPTIMALLY GUIDE EXPLORATORY SYNTHESIS EFFORTS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL ROBOTIC COMPATIBLE SYNTHETIC ROUTES ENABLES ITERATIVE TESTING AND REFINEMENT OF THE MACHINE LEARNING MODELS. TO AID IN THIS, AUTOMATED AI-BASED ASSISTANTS ARE DEVELOPED TO ASSIST IN COMPLEX MULTISTEP RESEARCH PLANNING. THE VALUE OF THIS APPROACH FOR LEAD-FREE HALIDE PEROVSKITES DEMONSTRATES THEIR WIDER IMPORTANCE, GENERAL-PURPOSE AI TOOLS ARE SHARED WITH THE BROADER MATERIALS CHEMISTRY COMMUNITY. UNDERGRADUATE, GRADUATE, AND POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS PARTICIPATING IN THIS PROJECT DEVELOP INTERDISCIPLINARY SKILLS COMBINING DATA SCIENCE AND CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTATION, ADDRESSING A SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE GAP. ADDITIONALLY, UNDERGRADUATE-LEVEL TEACHING RESOURCES ARE CREATED, ALL OF WHICH ARE SHARED WITH OTHER INSTITUTIONS. TO HELP FURTHER IMPROVE THE PIPELINE OF SCIENTISTS, AGE-APPROPRIATE GAMES THAT TEACH PRINCIPLES OF MATERIALS DESIGN TO KINDERGARTEN-LEVEL STUDENTS ARE ALSO DEVELOPED, CREATED AND TESTED. TECHNICAL SUMMARY: WITH SUPPORT FROM THE SOLID STATE AND MATERIALS CHEMISTRY PROGRAM IN THE MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES DIRECTORATE, THIS PROJECT DEVELOPS AUTOMATED HIGH-THROUGHPUT SYNTHESIS METHODS BASED ON ANTISOLVENT VAPOR DIFFUSION, INVERSE TEMPERATURE CRYSTALLIZATION, AND IONIC-LIQUID BASED METHODS FOR LEAD-FREE HALIDE PEROVSKITES AND PEROVSKITOIDS, WITH AN INITIAL FOCUS ON COPPER HALIDES. COPPER HALIDES EXHIBIT HIGH STABILITY AND LUMINESCENCE (SERVING MANY OF THE SAME OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS AS LEAD HALIDES) AND ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF DISPLAYING NOVEL PHYSICAL PROPERTIES INCLUDING CHIRALITY-INDUCED SPIN SELECTIVITY, MAGNONIC RESPONSE, ENANTIOSELECTIVE ELECTROCATALYSIS, AND QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING APPLICATIONS. ACTIVE LEARNING IS USED FOR EFFICIENT EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETER EXPLORATION, COMBINED WITH LARGE-LANGUAGE MODEL (LLM)-BASED LITERATURE EXTRACTION TO IDENTIFY PAST PRECEDENTS AND IDENTIFY GAPS IN SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING. AGENTIC LLM WORKFLOW STRATEGIES ARE STUDIED, DEVELOPED, AND EVALUATED FOR THEIR ABILITY TO ASSIST IN EXPLORATORY CHEMISTRY RESEARCH. BROADER IMPACTS INCLUDE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS THAT HAVE BOTH DATA SCIENCE AND EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS, AND SIMPLIFICATIONS OF THE AUTOMATED EXPERIMENTS THAT CAN BE PERFORMED ON FRUGAL TWIN AUTOMATION SYSTEMS IN AN UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING LABORATORY SETTING. ADDITIONALLY, ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING IS USED TO PROTOTYPE AND PLAY-TEST TOYS THAT ENABLE PRE-K AND KINDERGARTEN AGED STUDENTS TO SEE, TOUCH, AND EXPLORE CONCEPTS OF MATERIALS DESIGN BASED ON THE 2D-ISING MODEL. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

MOLECULAR BASIS OF JUVENILE HORMONE ACTION IN INSECT DEVELOPMENT

INTEGRATING ART, HISTORY AND DIVERSE KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS IN SYSTEMATICS: A FRAMEWORK TO ADVANCE INCLUSIVE PRACTICE IN TAXONOMY -THIS PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO INTEGRATE THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE WITH MODERN CULTURAL AND TECHNOLOGY-BASED KNOWLEDGE THROUGH PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH TO ADVANCE INCLUSIVE PRACTICE IN SYSTEMATICS AND TAXONOMY. THE PROJECT FOCUSES ON CROCODILES, A GROUP OF ANIMALS WHICH FIGURE PROMINENTLY IN CULTURES AND COMMUNITIES AROUND THE GLOBE, TO DEVELOP A MODEL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM-BASED SURVEYS OF CULTURAL HERITAGE MATERIALS FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL, ARTISTIC AND ARCHIVAL CONTEXTS REFLECTING CULTURAL BELIEFS RELATED TO NATURAL HISTORY AND TAXONOMY. THE PROJECT WILL RESULT IN A MODEL OF KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION THAT IS TO BE DISSEMINATED BY PUBLISHING A REFERENCE DATABASE ONLINE AND BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH PARTICIPATION, OUTREACH, AND EDUCATION IN AN EXCITING, SHARED ENDEAVOR AMONG STUDENTS AND PARTICIPANTS REPRESENTING DIVERSE COMMUNITIES AND CULTURES. OTHER OUTCOMES OF THE PROJECT INCLUDE PUBLIC SCIENCE COMMUNICATION EVENTS, INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL ARTICLES, AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE, GRADUATE, AND POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS. A WORKSHOP FOCUSED ON THIS RESEARCH IS TO BE DEVELOPED FOR THE ANNUAL STUDENT CONFERENCE ON CONSERVATION SCIENCE. SYSTEMATIC TAXONOMY STRIVES TO RECOGNIZE ALL LEVELS OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, YET MUCH OF THE DATA USED IN THE DOCUMENTATION OF DIVERSITY HAS RELIED ON KNOWLEDGE PROVIDED BY THE COMMUNITIES FROM WHICH THESE COLLECTIONS WERE SOURCED WITHOUT APPROPRIATE ATTRIBUTION. THIS PROJECT WILL STRIVE TO RESURFACE, RE-ATTRIBUTE AND INTEGRATE PLACE BASED AND TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE TO ENHANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY. THROUGH TEAM BASED CO-PRODUCED ARCHIVAL RESEARCH ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SOURCE AND DESCENDANT COMMUNITIES WE WILL RE-VISIT THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY WITH ADDITIONAL SOCIETAL STAKEHOLDERS AND EXPAND PATHWAYS OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION. THE INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN DIGITIZATION, MAPPING AND BIO-MOLECULAR ANALYSIS METHODS WITH INDIGENOUS AND PLACE-BASED KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS MAY PROVIDE US WITH THE NEXT BIG JUMP IN UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORY OF AND RELATIONSHIPS AMONG LIVING SYSTEMS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

SOCIAL NETWORKS OF WEST AFRICAN FORCED MIGRANTS

DECODING THE X-CHROMOSOME DYNAMICS IN THE ADULT FEMALE BRAIN - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT OVARIAN HORMONE FLUCTUATIONS CRITICALLY SHAPE THE BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR AND REPRESENT A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO FEMALE SPECIFIC RISKS FOR NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS INCLUDING DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY DISORDERS. ANOTHER FEMALE-SPECIFIC FACTOR IS A DOUBLE DOSE OF THE X CHROMOSOME, ONE OF WHICH IS TYPICALLY “INACTIVATED” DURING DEVELOPMENT AND STAYS IN A REPRESSED FORM IN SOMATIC FEMALE CELLS INCLUDING NEURONS. A SUBSET OF GENES CALLED “X ESCAPEES” ARE ABLE TO ESCAPE THIS INACTIVATION AND CONTRIBUTE TO SEX-SPECIFIC GENE EXPRESSION ACROSS TISSUES INCLUDING THE BRAIN. WHILE SOME CELL-, TISSUE-, AND SPECIES-SPECIFIC ESCAPEES HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED, “DYNAMIC X ESCAPEES” ARE UNKNOWN. HOWEVER, IN OUR RECENT STUDY, WE DESCRIBED PUTATIVE “ESTROUS CYCLE-DEPENDENT X ESCAPEES” ASSOCIATED WITH SUBSTANTIAL DYNAMISM IN 3D GENOME STRUCTURE OF THE X CHROMOSOME ACROSS THE MOUSE ESTROUS CYCLE. INTRIGUINGLY, WE HAVE A STRONG INDICATION THAT THE VOLUME OF THE INACTIVE X CHROMOSOME (XI) CHANGES IN RESPONSE TO FLUCTUATING OVARIAN HORMONES. WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT XI UNDERGOES CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN NEURONS ACROSS THE OVARIAN CYCLE, WHICH CAN ALTER BOTH X-LINKED AND AUTOSOMAL GENE EXPRESSION AND CONTRIBUTE TO BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATION IN RESPONSE TO REPRODUCTIVE HORMONE CHANGES. IN THIS PROJECT, WE WILL PERFORM TWO INDEPENDENT AIMS TO TEST OUR HYPOTHESIS, BY STUDYING THE ESTROUS CYCLE EFFECTS IN TWO MOUSE GENETIC MODELS. IN AIM 1, WE WILL USE THE ΔXIST MUTANT MICE THAT WILL ALLOW US TO PERFORM ALLELE-SPECIFIC GENOMICS ANALYSES AND DISTINGUISH BETWEEN ACTIVE (XA) AND INACTIVE (XI) X CHROMOSOMES AND CONFIRM HORMONE-INDUCED XI PLASTICITY. IN AIM 2, WE WILL USE THE 39,XO FEMALE MICE THAT LACK THE INACTIVE X CHROMOSOME AND WILL ALLOW US TO ASSESS THE FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF XI AND ITS DYNAMICS IN GENE REGULATION AND BEHAVIOR. IN BOTH AIMS, WE WILL USE CUTTING-EDGE, NEURON-SPECIFIC GENOMICS ASSAYS TO CHARACTERIZE GENE EXPRESSION (RNA-SEQ) AND 3D GENOME ORGANIZATION (HI-C) IN VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONS ACROSS THE ESTROUS CYCLE. WE WILL ALSO TEST ANXIETY-RELATED BEHAVIOR IN XO MICE AND COMPARE IT TO XX AND XY COUNTERPARTS, TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE INACTIVE X CHROMOSOME INTERACTS WITH THE ESTROUS CYCLE TO REGULATE BEHAVIOR. OUR FINDINGS CAN PROVIDE RADICALLY NOVEL INSIGHTS INTO SEX-SPECIFIC BRAIN REGULATION, OPENING NEW AVENUES FOR SEX-AND GENDER-INFORMED TREATMENTS OF BRAIN DISORDERS, WITH CRITICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN’S MENTAL HEALTH.

DATA STORIES: CO-DESIGNING CURRICULA AND TOOLS WITH TEACHERS TO SUPPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL YOUTH?S CRITICAL DATA LITERACY THROUGH REMIXING -YOUTH ARE AVID CREATORS AND CONSUMERS OF DATA-RELATED CLAIMS THROUGH THEIR PARTICIPATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA SITES, IN WHICH THEY VIEW, PRODUCE, AND SHARE CONTENT. THEY REMIX CONTENT, BUILDING OFF ONE ANOTHER?S VIDEOS, GIFS, AND MEMES TO REPRESENT AND DISCUSS TOPICS THEY CARE ABOUT. HOWEVER, PARTICIPATION ON THESE SAME PLATFORMS CAN RESULT IN ECHO CHAMBERS, MISINFORMATION, AND PROLIFERATION OF PERSPECTIVES THAT ARE DETACHED FROM REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE. THUS, IT IS ESSENTIAL TO SUPPORT YOUTH IN DEVELOPING THE ABILITY TO CRITIQUE DATA-RELATED CLAIMS THROUGH ENGAGING IN INVESTIGATIONS THAT CONSIDER CONTEXT HOLISTICALLY, AND WITH EMPATHY FOR THE PEOPLE INVOLVED. THIS PROJECT EXPLORES THE DEVELOPMENT OF CURRICULA AND TOOLS WITH MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH AND ENGLISH TEACHERS THAT WILL LEVERAGE YOUTH?S PRACTICES WITH DIGITAL MEDIA REMIXING TO DEVELOP ARGUMENTATION SKILLS AND THE CRITICAL DATA LITERACIES NECESSARY TO PARTICIPATE IN TODAY?S WORKFORCE AND AS INFORMED CITIZENS. STUDENTS WILL EXPLORE SOCIOPOLITICAL ISSUES AS THEY CREATE DATA STORIES BY SYNTHESIZING INFORMATION ACROSS DATA SOURCES AND MEDIA. THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP CURRICULAR RESOURCES AND TOOLS TO SUPPORT STUDENTS? ABILITIES TO INVESTIGATE, CRITIQUE, COMMUNICATE AND BUILD KNOWLEDGE WITH AND AROUND DATA. THE PROJECT WILL ENGAGE 10 CROSS-DOMAIN TEACHERS IN 4 SCHOOLS ACROSS THE U.S. THROUGH SUMMER WORKSHOPS AND YEAR-ROUND DESIGN COLLABORATIONS; AND UP TO 30 TEACHERS AND 1300 STUDENTS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES THROUGH CLASSROOM IMPLEMENTATIONS. THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP TOOLS AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING SCAFFOLDING AND INTERACTION DESIGN, TO SUPPORT INTEGRATION OF YOUTH?S CULTURALLY RELEVANT MEDIA PRACTICES, CRITICALITY IN DATA INVESTIGATIONS, AND COMMUNICATION THROUGH THE REMIXING OF PREEXISTING ONLINE MATERIAL. THE PROJECT WILL ENGAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH AND ENGLISH TEACHERS IN THE CO-DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TECHNOLOGY AND CURRICULAR UNITS AS THEIR LEARNERS USE DATA AND MEDIA TO INVESTIGATE AND RESPOND TO THEIR SURROUNDING SOCIOPOLITICAL SYSTEMS. A DESIGN-BASED RESEARCH APPROACH WILL INFORM MULTIPLE ITERATIONS OF THE TECHNOLOGY AND CURRICULUM. RESEARCHERS WILL USE MIXED METHODS TO ANALYZE DOCUMENTATION, PARTICIPANT INTERVIEWS, CLASSROOM OBSERVATIONS, AND IMPLEMENTATION ARTIFACTS, TO ANSWER THREE RESEARCH QUESTIONS: (1) WHAT REMIXING AFFORDANCES CAN SUPPORT STUDENTS? CRITICAL DATA-REASONING PRACTICES?, (2) HOW CAN WE SUPPORT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CRITICAL DATA STORYTELLING TOOLS IN DIVERSE CLASSROOM CONTEXTS?, AND (3) HOW DO THE REMIXING AFFORDANCES OF THE CRITICAL DATA STORYTELLING TOOLS SUPPORT STUDENTS IN DEVELOPING AND APPLYING CRITICAL DATA-LITERACY PRACTICES? THIS PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TECHNOLOGY CAN CONNECT INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING GOALS ACROSS ARGUMENTATION AND COMMUNICATION TO SUPPORT CRITICAL DATA-REASONING PRACTICES. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

THE ROLE OF PRE-TRNA 3-PRIME END PROCESSING DURING DROSOPHILA DEVELOPMENT

REU SITE: CALDER SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH (CSUR) PROGRAM IN CONSERVATION AND URBAN ECOLOGY

GRADUATE PSYCHOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAMS

SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAM

EDUCATION DCL: EAGER: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PLATFORM AND CURRICULAR MODULES FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING SECURITY AND PRIVACY EDUCATION -QUANTUM COMPUTING IS A REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY DUE TO ITS ADVANTAGE OF EXPONENTIAL SPEEDUP IN CERTAIN COMPUTATIONAL TASKS COMPARED WITH THE CLASSICAL COMPUTING PARADIGM. A NUMBER OF VENDORS NOWADAYS PROVIDE CLOUD-BASED ACCESS TO PHYSICAL QUANTUM COMPUTERS FOR RESEARCHERS TO DESIGN, IMPLEMENT, AND OPTIMIZE QUANTUM ALGORITHMS. HOWEVER, WITH PREVAILING MALICIOUS ATTACKS TO CYBER INFRASTRUCTURE, THIS CLOUD-BASED QUANTUM-CLASSICAL MODEL INTRODUCES SIGNIFICANT SECURITY AND PRIVACY CONCERNS TO QUANTUM COMPUTING SYSTEMS. IT BECOMES IMPERATIVE TO CULTIVATE SKILLED CYBERSECURITY PROFESSIONALS WITH EXPERTISE IN QUANTUM COMPUTING. HOWEVER, THIS IS CHALLENGING DUE TO THE LACK OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL THAT INTEGRATES BOTH QUANTUM COMPUTING AND CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY SUBJECTS. THIS PROJECT FILLS THIS GAP BY DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE SET OF CURRICULAR MODULES AND AN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PLATFORM WITH HANDS-ON LABS TO SUPPORT QUANTUM COMPUTING SYSTEMS SECURITY AND PRIVACY (QUANSP) EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AT SCALE. THE PROJECT TEAM IS DEVELOPING HANDS-ON LABS AND CURRICULAR MODULES FOR INTEGRATED MULTIDISCIPLINARY QUANTUM COMPUTING AND CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION. IT ALLOWS STUDENTS TO LEARN TWO TRADITIONALLY DISCONNECTED SUBJECTS WITH EXPERIMENTATION LABS AND ENGAGING CURRICULAR MODULES. THESE MATERIALS INCORPORATE SOCIO-TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF QUANSP TO PROVIDE A HOLISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUBJECT MATTER. THE LEARNING-BY-SEEING-AND-DOING EXPERIENCE OFFERED BY THE VISUALIZATION-DRIVEN LAB PLATFORM FOSTERS SYSTEMATIC THINKING OF LEARNERS ON QUANTUM COMPUTING SECURITY AND PRIVACY. THE PROJECT FURTHER PROVIDES HANDS-ON OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPLEMENT AND CREATE SOPHISTICATED SECURITY- AND PRIVACY-BY-DEIGN STRATEGIES TO COUNTERACT ADVERSARIAL THREATS TARGETING DIFFERENT LAYERS IN THE CLOUD-BASED QUANTUM COMPUTING ECOSYSTEM. THE PROJECT TEAM IS INTEGRATING THE DEVELOPMENTS INTO CURRICULA AT DIFFERENT LEVELS AND DISSEMINATING THE OUTCOMES TO THE BROADER COMMUNITY IN THE FIELD THROUGH OUTREACH ACTIVITIES TO ADVANCE QUANSP RESEARCH AND EDUCATION. THE INVESTIGATORS ARE COMMITTED TO BROADENING THE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES BY INVOLVING THEM AS UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHERS IN THE PROJECT. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON SPONTANEOUS TORPOR IMPOSED BY DIET PUFA CONTENT.

ADAPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSES OF WHITE-FOOTED MICE (PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS) TO URB

GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM (GRFP)

ION CHANNEL DISORDER MECHANISMS

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TOPOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF HYPERBOLIC AND FRACTAL LATTICES -THIS GRANT WILL FUND RESEARCH THAT DRAMATICALLY ENLARGES THE DESIGN SPACE FOR FUTURE VIBRATION ABSORBING MATERIALS AND STRUCTURAL DESIGNS, WITH APPLICATIONS TO ENERGY HARVESTING AND ACOUSTIC PANEL TECHNOLOGIES, THEREBY PROMOTING THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND ADVANCING THE NATIONAL PROSPERITY. THE WAVE GUIDING PROPERTIES OF SUCH MATERIALS DEPEND ON AN UNDERLYING SPATIAL PATTERN OF INDIVIDUAL OSCILLATOR ELEMENTS. WHILE THE BEHAVIOR ASSOCIATED WITH SIMPLE PATTERNS THAT TESSELLATE THE PLANE USING REGULAR POLYGONS IS WELL UNDERSTOOD, THERE IS A GAP IN OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ABILITY OF OTHER CLASSES OF PATTERNS TO STEER, GUIDE, AND LOCALIZE WAVES. THIS PROJECT WILL FILL THIS GAP BY DISCOVERING RADICALLY NEW WAVE-GUIDING PHYSICS ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH NEW CLASSES OF PATTERNS, INCLUDING FRACTALS WITH SELF-SIMILAR FEATURES AT MULTIPLE SCALES. THE EXPERIMENTAL PART OF THIS WORK WILL UNCOVER SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS OF FABRICATING ACOUSTIC CRYSTALS WITH A DESIRED PATTERN, AS WELL AS CHARACTERIZING THE PATTERN OF A GIVEN CRYSTAL, OPENING UP NEW RESEARCH DIRECTIONS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE, ACOUSTICS, AND MECHANICS. THE PROJECT?S COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ECOSYSTEM, WHERE PURE MATHEMATICS MEETS COMPUTATIONAL MODELING AND PHYSICAL VALIDATION, WILL PROVIDE UNIQUE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR BOTH UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS, AS WELL AS FOR POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS. OUTREACH PROGRAMS WILL EXPOSE MIDDLE- AND HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS TO ADVANCED TOPICS IN GEOMETRY, TOPOLOGY, AND DYNAMICS THROUGH DEDICATED AND HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES. THIS RESEARCH AIMS TO MAKE FUNDAMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF WAVE-GUIDING METAMATERIALS THAT CAN BE CHARACTERIZED AS HYPERBOLIC OR FRACTAL LATTICES, AS WELL AS TO THE ABILITY TO PHYSICALLY REALIZE SUCH STRUCTURES FOR EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OR DESIGN. IT WILL ACHIEVE THIS OUTCOME BY FORMULATING A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF TOPOLOGICAL DYNAMICS AND OF THE POSSIBLE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE BULK-BOUNDARY PRINCIPLE IN HYPERBOLIC AND FRACTAL LATTICES. THE RESEARCH WILL FURTHER DEMONSTRATE HOW INTRINSIC DEGREES OF FREEDOM OF SUCH LATTICES MAY BE CONTROLLED TO ACHIEVE NEW FORMS OF WAVE STEERING, PHASE CONTROL, EDGE AND BULK MODE LOCALIZATION, AND TOPOLOGICAL PUMPING. THE EXPERIMENTAL EFFORT WILL DEMONSTRATE BIOINSPIRED PACKING AND DESIGN SOLUTIONS FOR LARGE-SCALE FABRICATION OF APERIODIC LATTICES. THE PROJECT WILL EXPAND OUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE COLLECTIVE DYNAMICS OF LATTICES, AND WILL DELIVER ANALYSIS TOOLS, MATHEMATICAL MODELS, AND EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORMS THAT WILL HELP CHART THE COMPLEX LANDSCAPE OF NOVEL LATTICE GEOMETRIES AND THEIR POSSIBLE APPLICATION FOR FUTURE MATERIAL AND STRUCTURAL DESIGNS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

THE IMPACTS OF MIGRATION ON CIVIC PARTICIPATION AND GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT -THIS RESEARCH PROJECT INVESTIGATES WHAT FACTORS CONTRIBUTE TO ENHANCING CIVIL SOCIETY PARTICIPATION AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY FORMATION AMONG RECENTLY RETURNED LABOR MIGRANTS. THE RESEARCHERS EMPLOY A MULTI-SITED, LONGITUDINAL APPROACH TO TRACK THE LONG-TERM IMPACTS OF MIGRATION TRAJECTORIES ON CIVIC PARTICIPATION OF MIGRANTS WHO RETURN TO THEIR HOME COUNTRIES. THIS LONGITUDINAL APPROACH STRENGTHENS THE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW CIVIL SOCIETY AND MIGRANT REINTEGRATION CAN BE UNDERSTOOD GLOBALLY. THE SYSTEMATIC, SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF HOW DIFFERENT MIGRATION EXPERIENCES AND MIGRANT TRAJECTORIES CAN IMPACT THE FORMATION OF NEW CIVIC PARTICIPATION AND THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT OF MIGRANTS WHO RETURN HOME EXPANDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE DYNAMICS OF THE ROLE MIGRATION PLAYS IN BUILDING A GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY. THE BROADER IMPACTS OF THIS PROJECT PROVIDE TRAINING IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND METHODS TO UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AT THE RESEARCHER'S HOME INSTITUTION AND TO A TEAM OF LOCAL RESEARCHERS AND STUDENTS AT THE RESEARCH SITES. RESEARCH RESULTS ARE MADE AVAILABLE TO BOTH LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MIGRATION POLICY AND MIGRATION MANAGEMENT. THE INVESTIGATORS USE A COMBINATION OF IN-DEPTH ETHNOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS TO UNDERSTAND THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MIGRATION, RETURN-MIGRATION AND CIVIC PARTICIPATION. THEY TEST FOR THE IMPACTS OF VARIOUS FACTORS INVOLVED IN HOW RETURN MIGRANTS BUILD CIVIC PARTICIPATION NETWORKS OVER TIME IN THEIR HOME COUNTRIES. THIS RESEARCH MAKES SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION, MIGRATION POLICY. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

COMPETITION TO PREVENT HIGH-RISK DRINKING & VIOLENT BEHAVIOR AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS

COMMUNICATION OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE IPCC: A COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL STUDY

EAGER: CAN YOU TRUST APPS AGE RECOMMENDATIONS? INCONSISTENT AND UNRELIABLE MATURITY RATINGS ON MOBILE PLATFORMS

MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF FRIED, A GENE REQUIRE

REU SITE: THE CALDER CENTER SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM IN ECOLOGY AND FIELD BIOLOGY

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DASS: LEGAL ACCOUNTABILITY AS SOFTWARE QUALITY -WITHIN THE LAST DECADE, INNOVATION IN THE FIELD OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING HAS PRODUCED NEW CONSUMER PRODUCTS AND SERVICES THAT AFFECT NEARLY EVERY ASPECT OF DAILY LIFE. THIS INNOVATION IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE BROAD ADOPTION OF AGILE SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT METHODS THAT EMPHASIZE FAST DELIVERY OF WORKING SOFTWARE AND A RAPID, DYNAMIC RESPONSE TO CHANGING CONSUMER NEEDS. THE CULTURE OF INNOVATION ENCOURAGES ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE DEPLOYMENT OF NOVEL, CREATIVE SOFTWARE TO ALLOW COMPANIES TO QUICKLY ASSUME A POSITION OF MARKET LEADERSHIP. DUE TO THE UBIQUITY AND PERVASIVENESS OF SOFTWARE, HOWEVER, INNOVATION THAT PRODUCES SOFTWARE QUICKLY, WITHOUT ATTENTION TO SOCIETAL OR ETHICAL CONCERNS, RISKS CREATING HARM TO THE PUBLIC. LAWS AND REGULATIONS ARE ENACTED TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC FROM SUCH HARM, AND REGULATORS AND STANDARDS ORGANIZATIONS SERVE TO GUIDE COMPANIES IN HOW TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW. THE COST OF INNOVATION WITH WEAK ACCOUNTABILITY TO LAW AND SOCIETY IS HIGH: WHILE THOUSANDS OF COMPANIES HAVE BEEN FINED BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY GOVERNMENT REGULATORS FOR NON-COMPLIANCE, ENFORCEMENT ACTION ADDRESSES ONLY A FRACTION OF THE POTENTIAL WRONGS. REGULATORS OFTEN LACK THE RESOURCES TO INVESTIGATE EVERY COMPANY, AND AS A RESULT, MILLIONS OF USERS ARE AFFECTED BY REGULATED TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE AT RISK OF NON-COMPLIANCE. TO DATE, THE DISCIPLINES OF LAW AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING HAVE BEEN LARGELY SILOED, AND LEGAL ACCOUNTABILITY IS TYPICALLY ADDRESSED LATE IN THE DESIGN PROCESS IN AN AD HOC MANNER AFTER KEY DESIGN DECISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE, AND AT A POINT WHERE THE COST TO CHANGE THOSE DECISIONS IS HIGH. THIS PROJECT WILL BREAK DOWN THIS INTERDISCIPLINARY BARRIER BY DISCOVERING INTEGRATIVE METHODS THAT ALIGN LEGAL AND ENGINEERING CONSIDERATIONS FROM BOTH DISCIPLINES, ALLOWING DESIGN TEAMS TO MAKE TRADE-OFF DECISIONS EARLY IN THE DESIGN PROCESS. AS LAWS AND REGULATIONS PROTECT THE PUBLIC FROM HARM, THESE METHODS WILL ACCRUE BENEFITS TO SOCIETY BY ENSURING THAT INDIVIDUALS? LEGAL RIGHTS ARE PROTECTED BY SOFTWARE IN A TRANSPARENT AND OBSERVABLE MANNER. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO YIELD NEW COURSEWARE TO SUPPORT THE TRAINING OF LAW AND ENGINEERING STUDENTS, FILLING A VOID IN BOTH DISCIPLINES WHERE THIS TRAINING PRESENTLY DOES NOT EXIST, AND IT WILL INFORM PUBLIC POLICY ON THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES TO DEMONSTRATE ACCOUNTABILITY TO LAW AND SOCIETY. THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE NEW METHODS AND TOOLS TO DESIGN SOFTWARE TO BE ACCOUNTABLE TO LAW AND REGULATION. THE METHOD WILL LEVERAGE STRUCTURED-ARGUMENTATION THEORY TO DOCUMENT AND RECONCILE LAWS, REGULATIONS, LEGAL PRECEDENTS, AND PAST ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS WITH SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS AND ARCHITECTURE. THE PROJECT WILL PROTOTYPE NOVEL TOOLS TO SUPPORT ENHANCED, BIDIRECTIONAL COLLABORATION AND CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAMING, INCLUDING EXPERIMENTS TO EVALUATE THE EFFICACY OF THE METHODS AND TOOLS IN PRODUCING LEGALLY ACCOUNTABLE SOFTWARE IN THE DATA PROTECTION DOMAIN. THE PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IN SEVERAL WAYS: (1) THE PROJECT WILL BRIDGE THEORY FROM LAW, COMPUTER SCIENCE, AND PSYCHOLOGY ON CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAMING WITH EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF LEGAL AND DESIGN THINKING TO PRODUCE (A) NEW STRUCTURES TO REPRESENT LEGAL AND DESIGN REASONING, AND (B) NEW METHODS FOR ELICITING, CRITIQUING, AND JUSTIFYING TO WHAT EXTENT DESIGN DECISIONS SATISFY LEGAL REQUIREMENTS, WHILE INCREASING SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT KNOWLEDGE ACROSS TWO DOMAINS IN LAW AND ENGINEERING; (2) NEW ENHANCED AGILE SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING METHODS, TOOLS AND METRICS THAT SUPPORT AND MEASURE HOW WELL THESE DISCUSSIONS ARE MOVING TOWARD INCREASING LEGAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN DESIGN; AND (3) NEW UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE EXTENT TO WHICH DESIGN REASONING TO INCREASE LEGAL ACCOUNTABILITY FROM A LEGAL AND DESIGN CONTEXT IS GENERALIZABLE TO OTHER DESIGN CONTEXTS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM (GRFP)

ANALYZING AND IMPROVING TEACHER PRACTICES TO FOSTER DISCOURSE IN 9TH AND 10TH GRADE MATHEMATICS CLASSES

TOPOLOGICAL STATES IN CLASSICAL NONLINEAR AND QUANTUM CORRELATED REGIMES

DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY FOR STALKING OFFENDERS

XTRIPODS: ADVANCING QUANTUM DATA SCIENCE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: RESILIENT QUANTUM LEARNING IN NISQ ERA -DATA SCIENCE-BASED APPROACHES HAVE EMPOWERED POPULAR TECHNOLOGIES, INCLUDING DEEP LEARNING AND LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS, LEADING TO SIGNIFICANT ADVANCEMENTS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. HOWEVER, IN THE POST-MOORE?S LAW ERA, THE LIMITATIONS OF SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION, COMBINED WITH THE CONTINUOUS GROWTH OF DATA SIZES, HAVE HINDERED FURTHER PROGRESS. SIMULTANEOUSLY, THE RAPID EVOLUTION OF QUANTUM COMPUTING HAS USHERED IN A NEW ERA, HOLDING IMMENSE POTENTIAL. THIS HAS SPARKED INTEREST IN QUANTUM-BASED DATA SCIENCE AND LEARNING, WITH THE ANTICIPATION THAT CERTAIN SYSTEMS COULD PROVIDE A QUANTUM SPEEDUP. THIS PROJECT WILL HARNESS THE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY EXPERTISE FROM OUR NSF TRIPODS COLLABORATION TO DEVELOP NOISE-AWARE AND RESILIENT QUANTUM LEARNING SYSTEMS. THIS PROJECT BRIDGES THE GAP BETWEEN RESEARCH COMMUNITIES IN TRADITIONAL DATA SCIENCE AND QUANTUM COMPUTING, THEREBY INTRODUCING CLASSICAL DATA SCIENCE RESEARCHERS TO THE OPPORTUNITIES IN QUANTUM DATA SCIENCE (QUANDS). FURTHERMORE, THIS PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO DEVELOPING A SKILLED WORKFORCE, WELL-VERSED IN CUTTING-EDGE AI AND EQUIPPED TO NAVIGATE THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF THIS EMERGING FIELD IN QUANDS. THIS PROJECT DEVELOPS A QUANTUM LEARNING SYSTEM USING A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH THAT INTEGRATES STATIC-DYNAMIC COMBINED CIRCUIT ANALYSIS. THIS METHOD COMBINES STATIC METRICS WITH THE INHERENT DYNAMIC NOISES OF QUANTUM SYSTEMS BY DEVELOPING A SET OF NOISE-INVOLVED EVALUATION METRICS, SUCH AS CIRCUIT SENSITIVITY INDICATOR. A TOPOLOGY-AWARE RESILIENT CIRCUIT TRANSPILATION MECHANISM TAILORED TO QUANTUM LEARNING WILL THEN BE DEVELOPED TO OPTIMIZE THE EXECUTION ON NOISY INTERMEDIATE-SCALE QUANTUM (NISQ) ERA HARDWARE UNDER QUANTUM NOISE. ADDITIONALLY, THE PROJECT PROVIDES A HOLISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE VULNERABILITY IN DISTRIBUTED QUANTUM LEARNING BY REASONING THE STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR OF THE ATTACKER TO QUANTUM COMPUTING NODES, AND DEVISES RESILIENT LEARNING COUNTERMEASURES IN THE DISTRIBUTED QUANTUM-CLASSICAL LEARNING PARADIGM. FURTHERMORE, IT DEVELOPS EDUCATIONAL MODULES IN QUANTUM CONTROL SYSTEMS COMBINED WITH RESILIENT QUANTUM LEARNING TECHNIQUES. THE COMPREHENSIVE OUTREACH ACTIVITIES WILL BE DEVELOPED TO INTEGRATE QUANDS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

ERI: MULTI-LAYER DYNAMIC STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING FOR INTEGRATED CYBER-PHYSICAL ENERGY SYSTEMS SECURITY AND RESILIENCE

ERI: HARNESSING QUANTUM-CLASSICAL COMPUTING WITH A CLOUD-EDGE FRAMEWORK FOR CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS -CLOUD-EDGE COMPUTING FOR CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (CPS) AND QUANTUM COMPUTING HAVE EVOLVED INDEPENDENTLY, EACH ADDRESSING UNIQUE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES. CLOUD-EDGE-CPS RESEARCH HAS PREDOMINANTLY FOCUSED ON USING CLASSICAL RESOURCES, WITH LIMITED EXPLORATION OF THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS THAT QUANTUM-EQUIPPED DEVICES MAY OFFER. THIS LEAVES A KNOWLEDGE GAP IN UNDERSTANDING HOW QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES COULD ENHANCE CLOUD-EDGE-CPS PERFORMANCE AND CAPABILITIES. SIMULTANEOUSLY, THE QUANTUM COMPUTING COMMUNITY HAS PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING HIGH-QUBIT, STABLE HARDWARE AND REFINING THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY, WITH INSUFFICIENT ATTENTION TO BROADENING THE APPLICATION SCENARIOS FOR LOW-QUBIT QUANTUM MACHINES, WHICH ARE MORE ACCESSIBLE IN THE NOISY INTERMEDIATE-SCALE QUANTUM (NISQ) ERA. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN THESE RESEARCH DOMAINS BY INCORPORATING QUANTUM-EQUIPPED DEVICES, SUCH AS QUANTUM EDGE NODES AND QUANTUM CLOUDS, INTO A CLOUD-EDGE COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING FRAMEWORK. IT HIGHLIGHTS THE POTENTIAL OF LOW-QUBIT QUANTUM MACHINES IN RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENTS AND INTRODUCES THEM TO NOVEL USAGE SCENARIOS. MOREOVER, IT FOSTERS COLLABORATION BETWEEN VARIOUS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITIES, ENCOMPASSING CLOUD-EDGE COMPUTING, CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS, AND QUANTUM COMPUTING. THE PROPOSED QUANTUM-CLASSICAL SYSTEM EMPHASIZES EXTENSIBILITY, CREATING A SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR RESEARCHERS AND ENGINEERS FROM THESE COMMUNITIES, ULTIMATELY STIMULATING INNOVATION AND COOPERATION ACROSS THESE DISCIPLINES. IT WILL CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO DEVELOP THEIR QUANTUM LITERACY AT AN UNDERREPRESENTED INSTITUTION. THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A QUANTUM-EQUIPPED CLOUD-EDGE COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING FRAMEWORK TO EFFECTIVELY MANAGE HETEROGENEOUS PARTICIPANTS, NETWORK CHANNELS, AND QUANTUM NOISE ON RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED DEVICES. THE PROPOSED FRAMEWORK CONSISTS OF THREE PRIMARY COMPONENTS: (I) CLOUD SERVERS LOCATED IN REMOTE DATA CENTERS, PROVIDING AMPLE QUANTUM AND CLASSICAL RESOURCES; (II) EDGE NODES POSITIONED NEAR END DEVICES WITH FEWER RESOURCES THAN CLOUDS, WHICH CAN BE CATEGORIZED INTO TWO TYPES - QUANTUM-CLASSICAL AND CLASSICAL-ONLY EDGES; AND (III) END DEVICES THAT ACT AS SYSTEM CONSUMERS, POSSESSING MINIMAL RESOURCES AND POTENTIALLY EQUIPPED WITH QUANTUM PROCESSORS. BASED ON THE FRAMEWORK, IT PROVIDES VARIOUS MODULES, INCLUDING END DEVICE REGISTRATION, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, TASK MODELING, AND OFFLOADING ESTIMATION, EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL ADVANTAGES DERIVED FROM QUANTUM FEATURES SUCH AS SUPERPOSITION, ENTANGLEMENTS, AND TELEPORTATION. SPECIFICALLY, THE SYSTEM BUILDS A CLIENT PROFILE FOR EACH END DEVICE. WHEN A COMPUTING JOB ARRIVES, IT MODELS A SPECIFIC TASK AND GENERATES TWO EXECUTION PLANS, QUANTUM-CLASSICAL AND CLASSICAL-ONLY. BASED ON PREDEFINED QUANTUM SERVICES THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PROVIDE SIGNIFICANT BENEFITS TO END DEVICES (E.G., QUADRATIC OR EXPONENTIAL SPEEDUPS), THE SYSTEM PREDICTS THE TASK EXECUTION TIME ACCORDING TO THE PLANS AND SELECTS THE ONE THAT SATISFIES THE CLIENT'S CONSTRAINTS AND MAXIMIZES OVERALL SYSTEM PERFORMANCE. DUE TO THE LIMITED ACCESS TO QUANTUM MACHINES, THE PROJECT WILL IMPLEMENT A DISTRIBUTED QUANTUM-CLASSICAL CLOUD-EDGE-CPS SIMULATOR TO CONDUCT LARGE-SCALE, CLOUD-BASED EXPERIMENTS AND SUPPORT A HIGH DEGREE OF HETEROGENEITY. ADDITIONALLY, IT WILL DEVELOP A RUNTIME SAMPLER TO STUDY QUANTUM NOISE EFFECTS ON RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED NISQ MACHINES, DETAILING HOW CLOUDS MAY HELP MANAGE INHERENT NOISE AND ERRORS. ULTIMATELY, THIS PROJECT AIMS TO ENHANCE THE PERFORMANCE, EFFICIENCY, AND CAPABILITIES OF CLOUD-EDGE COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING SYSTEMS BY INCORPORATING QUANTUM-EQUIPPED DEVICES AND INVESTIGATING THEIR POTENTIAL BENEFITS IN VARIOUS APPLICATION SCENARIOS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

THE INTEGRIN LIGAND MFG-E8 AND PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT RENEWAL.

JOHN BURIDAN'S QUESTIONS ON ARISTOTLE'S DE ANIMA (ON THE SOUL): A CRITICAL EDITION WITH AN ANNOTATED TRANSLATION

THE PURPOSE OF THE LOW-INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC LITC GRANT IS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO, 1. A CLINICAL PROGRAM AT AN ACCREDITED LAW, BUSINESS, OR ACCOUNTING SCHOOL IN WHICH STUDENTS REPRESENT LOW-INCOME TAXPAYERS IN CONTROVERSIES ARISING UNDER IRC 7526. 2. AN ORGANIZATION DESCRIBED IN SECTION 501C AND EXEMPT FROM TAX UNDER SECTION 501A THROUGH REPRESENTATION OF TAXPAYERS OR REFERRAL OF TAXPAYERS TO QUALIFIED REPRESENTATIVES. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED UNDER THE LITC PROGRAM, THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AWARDS GRANTS SO THAT GRANT RECIPIENTS ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE TAX REPRESENTATION BEFORE THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OR OTHER TRIBUNAL ON FEDERAL TAX MATTERS, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES ON VARIOUS TAX TOPICS AND ADVOCACY ON TAX ISSUES IMPACTING THE INTENDED BENEFICIARIES. END GOAL AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES, THE LITC PROGRAM AWARDS GRANTS TO, 1. OPEN NEW AND WORK PREVIOUSLY OPENED REPRESENTATION CASES. 2. CONSULT WITH TAXPAYERS ON THEIR SPECIFIC TAX ISSUE. 3. CONDUCT EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. 4. MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPROVEMENT TO TAX ADMINISTRATION BY ADVOCATING FOR CHANGES OR IMPROVEMENTS TO IRS ADMINISTRATION. INTENDED BENEFICIARIES, TAXPAYERS WITH INCOMES THAT DO NOT EXCEED 250 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES AND TAXPAYERS FOR WHOM ENGLISH IS THEIR SECOND LANGUAGE. SUBRECIPIENT ACTIVITIES, IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH ADVANCED APPROVAL BY THE LITC PROGRAM OFFICE, SUBRECIPIENTS MAY BE UTILIZED BY GRANT RECIPIENTS TO HELP DELIVER KEY BROADBAND ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM. 5. REASON FOR MODIFICATION IF SHOWING A POSITIVE AMOUNT IS AN OBLIGATION FOR THE YEAR THAT IS REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D., IF SHOWING A NEGATIVE AMOUNT IT IS A DE-OBLIGATION OR A RETURN OF FUNDS FOR THE YEAR REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D.

THE PURPOSE OF THE LOW-INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC LITC GRANT IS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO, 1. A CLINICAL PROGRAM AT AN ACCREDITED LAW, BUSINESS, OR ACCOUNTING SCHOOL IN WHICH STUDENTS REPRESENT LOW-INCOME TAXPAYERS IN CONTROVERSIES ARISING UNDER IRC 7526. 2. AN ORGANIZATION DESCRIBED IN SECTION 501C AND EXEMPT FROM TAX UNDER SECTION 501A THROUGH REPRESENTATION OF TAXPAYERS OR REFERRAL OF TAXPAYERS TO QUALIFIED REPRESENTATIVES. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED UNDER THE LITC PROGRAM, THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AWARDS GRANTS SO THAT GRANT RECIPIENTS ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE TAX REPRESENTATION BEFORE THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OR OTHER TRIBUNAL ON FEDERAL TAX MATTERS, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES ON VARIOUS TAX TOPICS AND ADVOCACY ON TAX ISSUES IMPACTING THE INTENDED BENEFICIARIES. END GOAL AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES, THE LITC PROGRAM AWARDS GRANTS TO, 1. OPEN NEW AND WORK PREVIOUSLY OPENED REPRESENTATION CASES. 2. CONSULT WITH TAXPAYERS ON THEIR SPECIFIC TAX ISSUE. 3. CONDUCT EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. 4. MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPROVEMENT TO TAX ADMINISTRATION BY ADVOCATING FOR CHANGES OR IMPROVEMENTS TO IRS ADMINISTRATION. INTENDED BENEFICIARIES, TAXPAYERS WITH INCOMES THAT DO NOT EXCEED 250 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES AND TAXPAYERS FOR WHOM ENGLISH IS THEIR SECOND LANGUAGE. SUBRECIPIENT ACTIVITIES, IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH ADVANCED APPROVAL BY THE LITC PROGRAM OFFICE, SUBRECIPIENTS MAY BE UTILIZED BY GRANT RECIPIENTS TO HELP DELIVER KEY BROADBAND ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM. 5. REASON FOR MODIFICATION IF SHOWING A POSITIVE AMOUNT IS AN OBLIGATION FOR THE YEAR THAT IS REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D., IF SHOWING A NEGATIVE AMOUNT IT IS A DEOBLIGATION OR A RETURN OF FUNDS FOR THE YEAR REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D.

THE PURPOSE OF THE LOW-INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC LITC GRANT IS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO, 1. A CLINICAL PROGRAM AT AN ACCREDITED LAW, BUSINESS, OR ACCOUNTING SCHOOL IN WHICH STUDENTS REPRESENT LOW-INCOME TAXPAYERS IN CONTROVERSIES ARISING UNDER IRC 7526. 2. AN ORGANIZATION DESCRIBED IN SECTION 501C AND EXEMPT FROM TAX UNDER SECTION 501A THROUGH REPRESENTATION OF TAXPAYERS OR REFERRAL OF TAXPAYERS TO QUALIFIED REPRESENTATIVES. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED UNDER THE LITC PROGRAM, THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AWARDS GRANTS SO THAT GRANT RECIPIENTS ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE TAX REPRESENTATION BEFORE THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OR OTHER TRIBUNAL ON FEDERAL TAX MATTERS, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES ON VARIOUS TAX TOPICS AND ADVOCACY ON TAX ISSUES IMPACTING THE INTENDED BENEFICIARIES. END GOAL AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES, THE LITC PROGRAM AWARDS GRANTS TO, 1. OPEN NEW AND WORK PREVIOUSLY OPENED REPRESENTATION CASES. 2. CONSULT WITH TAXPAYERS ON THEIR SPECIFIC TAX ISSUE. 3. CONDUCT EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. 4. MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPROVEMENT TO TAX ADMINISTRATION BY ADVOCATING FOR CHANGES OR IMPROVEMENTS TO IRS ADMINISTRATION. INTENDED BENEFICIARIES, TAXPAYERS WITH INCOMES THAT DO NOT EXCEED 250 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES AND TAXPAYERS FOR WHOM ENGLISH IS THEIR SECOND LANGUAGE. SUBRECIPIENT ACTIVITIES, IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH ADVANCED APPROVAL BY THE LITC PROGRAM OFFICE, SUBRECIPIENTS MAY BE UTILIZED BY GRANT RECIPIENTS TO HELP DELIVER KEY BROADBAND ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM. 5. REASON FOR MODIFICATION IF SHOWING A POSITIVE AMOUNT IS AN OBLIGATION FOR THE YEAR THAT IS REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D., IF SHOWING A NEGATIVE AMOUNT IT IS A DE-OBLIGATION OR A RETURN OF FUNDS FOR THE YEAR REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D.

HIGH TRADITIONAL MASCULINITY AND SUICIDE: TESTING DIRECT, MODERATION AND MEDIATION MODELS - PROJECT SUMMARY SUICIDE IS THE TENTH LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN THE US, AND THE EIGHTH IN MEN.17 IN THE US, APPROXIMATELY 75% OF SUICIDE DEATHS ARE AMONG MEN.2 THE LARGE MALE-FEMALE GENDER RATIO IN SUICIDE DEATHS POINTS TO A POSSIBLE PATHWAY TO UNDERSTANDING SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR – IDENTIFYING WHAT ACCOUNTS FOR THE GREATER PREVALENCE OF MALE SUICIDES MAY PROVIDE A LEVERAGE POINT FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION WITH THOSE AT RISK OF SUICIDE. COLEMAN AND COLLEAGUES’ FINDING THAT HIGH TRADITIONAL MASCULINITY (HTM) MEN WERE 2.4 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DIE BY SUICIDE7 WAS THE FIRST STUDY TO SHOW THIS CONNECTION, AND IT IS CONSISTENT WITH THEORETICAL MODELS OF THE ROLE OF MASCULINITY SOCIALIZATION IN SUICIDE DEATH15,18,19 AND QUALITATIVE STUDIES OF MEN AND SUICIDALITY.20 IF THE PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE OF A LINK OF HTM TO SUICIDE DEATH7 IS SHOWN TO BE ROBUST, IT WILL BRING NEW ENERGY AND ATTENTION TO GENDER-ROLE INFORMED SUICIDE PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION. THE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY – NATIONAL DEATH INDEX (GSS-NDI), THE DATA SOURCE FOR THIS STUDY, IS A SERIES OF ANNUAL OR EVERY-OTHER YEAR NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE SURVEYS (THE GSS) THAT WAS MATCHED WITH DEATH RECORDS STARTING IN 2011.32,33 THE GSS-NDI PROVIDES AN UNPARALLELED OPPORTUNITY TO TEST THE RELATIONSHIP OF HTM TO SUICIDE DEATH, TO PROVIDE THE FIRST KNOWN INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THIS VARIES BY GENDER, AGE AND RACE/ETHNICITY, AND TO EXAMINE POSSIBLE MEDIATORS OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF HTM TO SUICIDE DEATH INCLUDING SUICIDE ACCEPTABILITY AND EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIOR. MOST RESEARCH ON MASCULINITY AND SUICIDAL IDEATION OR ATTEMPTS USES SELF-REPORT MEASURES OF ENDORSEMENT OF MASCULINE NORMS OR MASCULINITY IDEOLOGY,5,6 WHILE OUR RESEARCH GROUP IS DEVELOPING USE OF AN INDIRECT LATENT PROBABILITY MODEL OF GENDER ROLE ORIENTATION, THE M-F FACTOR, NOVEL TO SUICIDE RESEARCH BUT PREVIOUSLY USED IN OTHER SUBSTANTIVE AREAS WITH THE ADD HEALTH DATASET48,49 AS WELL OTHER LARGE COHORT STUDIES.50 FOLLOWING COLEMAN AND COLLEAGUES 2020, WE WILL CODE THOSE SCORING 1 STANDARD DEVIATION OR HIGHER ON M-F FACTOR AS HTM. COX SURVIVAL MODELING WILL BE USED TO TEST THE DIRECT RELATIONSHIP OF HTM, MODERATION OF THE HTM – SUICIDE RELATIONSHIP BY DEMOGRAPHICS, AND MEDIATORS OF THE HTM-SUICIDE RELATIONSHIP. THE NOVEL USE OF M-F FACTOR IN SUICIDE RESEARCH, PAIRED WITH THE INNOVATION OF LINKING STUDIES TO DEATH RECORDS, UNLOCKS THE POTENTIAL TO STUDY THE EFFECT OF MASCULINITY ON SUICIDE DEATH. THE REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE GSS- NDI DELIVERS AN UNPRECEDENTED DIVERSITY OF AGE, GENDER AND RACE/ETHNICITY AMONG SUICIDE DECEDENTS, PROVIDING A ROBUST AND NUANCED TEST OF THE MASCULINITY-SUICIDE DEATH HYPOTHESIS, ADVANCING THE SCIENCE OF MASCULINITY AND SUICIDE BEYOND THEORIZED LINKAGES AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS.

MRI: ACQUISITION OF FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER (FACS) FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: COLLABORATIVE: AUTOMATICALLY ANSWERING PEOPLE'S PRIVACY QUESTIONS

BUILDING CLOUD-BASED EXPERIENTIAL BLOCKCHAIN LEARNING MODULES FOR CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION -THIS PROJECT AIMS TO SERVE THE NATIONAL INTEREST BY DEVELOPING BLOCKCHAIN LEARNING MODULES TO IMPROVE CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION FOR BOTH COMPUTER SCIENCE AND NON-COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS. THE REMARKABLE GROWTH OF CYBERSECURITY THREATS AFFIRMS THE IMPORTANCE OF ENGAGING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN ADAPTIVE HANDS-ON LEARNING-BASED EDUCATION. THE CURRENT NUMBER OF HIGHLY SKILLED PROFESSIONALS IN THE CYBERSECURITY MARKET DOES NOT ALIGN WITH THE INCREASING GROWTH OF CYBERSECURITY THREATS. IN ADDITION, BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY, AS A VITAL COMPONENT OF CYBERSECURITY MARKETS, IS EXPECTED TO HAVE A MASSIVE IMPACT ON BOTH THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS. BROADENING CURRICULA AND PROVIDING HANDS-ON LEARNING PRACTICES FOR UNDERGRADUATE STEM STUDENTS WILL HELP ADDRESS THE NEED FOR WELL-PREPARED PROFESSIONALS IN BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY. THE PROJECT INTENDS TO IMPLEMENT INNOVATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES AND RESOURCES TO ENHANCE BLOCKCHAIN AND CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION BY LEVERAGING EXISTING NSF CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE RESOURCES AND HANDS-ON LAB EXPERIENCES. THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT IS TO IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSOCIATED WITH BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY. THE PROPOSED STRATEGIES WILL INCLUDE SEVERAL ACTIVITIES: 1) INTEGRATING OPEN-ENDED DESIGN ALONG WITH EVIDENCE-BASED AND KNOWLEDGE-GENERATING EXPERIENCES INTO LAB EXPERIMENTS, 2) ACCOMPLISHING TEAMWORK IN FLEXIBLE AND PORTABLE LABS, 3) CREATING ONLINE AND IN-PERSON LEARNING COMMUNITIES, AND 4) OVERCOMING THE ISOLATION OF SINGLE LOCATION EXPERIMENTS TO MAKE POSSIBLE MULTI-DOMAIN INTERACTIONS. IN ADDITION TO DESIGNING A NEW COURSE FOR BLOCKCHAIN AND CYBERSECURITY, THE PROJECT TEAM PLANS TO DEVELOP AND INTEGRATE EXPERIENTIAL ONLINE LEARNING MODULES INTO SEVERAL EXISTING COURSES. THE DEVELOPED COURSES AND LEARNING MODULES HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO GENERATE NEW KNOWLEDGE OF HOW NSF-FUNDED CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE RESOURCES CAN BE EASILY AND EFFICIENTLY USED IN CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION THROUGH BLOCKCHAIN LABS. THE PROJECT TEAM PLANS TO DISSEMINATE THE DEVELOPED MODULES TO FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS AND STEM CAMPS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO BROADEN PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING. THE NSF IUSE: EHR PROGRAM SUPPORTS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS TO IMPROVE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STEM EDUCATION FOR ALL STUDENTS. THROUGH ITS ENGAGED STUDENT LEARNING TRACK, THE PROGRAM SUPPORTS THE CREATION, EXPLORATION, AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PROMISING PRACTICES AND TOOLS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM (GRFP) -THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF) GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM (GRFP) IS A HIGHLY COMPETITIVE, FEDERAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM. GRFP HELPS ENSURE THE VITALITY AND DIVERSITY OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING WORKFORCE OF THE UNITED STATES. THE PROGRAM RECOGNIZES AND SUPPORTS OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENTS WHO ARE PURSUING RESEARCH-BASED MASTER'S AND DOCTORAL DEGREES IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) AND IN STEM EDUCATION. THE GRFP PROVIDES THREE YEARS OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE GRADUATE EDUCATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE DEMONSTRATED THEIR POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS IN STEM AND STEM EDUCATION. THIS AWARD SUPPORTS THE NSF GRADUATE FELLOWS PURSUING GRADUATE EDUCATION AT THIS GRFP INSTITUTION. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

RELIGIOUS ORTHODOXY AND NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A LIQUID-HANDLING ROBOTIC PLATFORM FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT RESEARCH IN URBAN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION AT THE LOUIS CALDER CENTER-BIOLOGI

EXISTENCE AND REGULARITY FOR VARIATIONAL PROBLEMS

ENDS OF EINSTEIN MANIFOLDS

CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECT FOR THE CYBER SERVICE ACADEMY.

THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL STRUCTURE OF VARIATIONAL SOLUTIONS

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PUBERTY AND SOCIOCULTURAL EXPERIENCES AMONG MEXICAN-AMERICAN BOYS

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A HIGH RESOLUTION ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY NANOSCIENCE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

ESTIMATES ON EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS IN CONVEX SETTINGS

BIRD/BRIDGE STRIKE STUDY - MISS

THE PURPOSE OF THE LOW-INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC LITC GRANT IS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO, 1. A CLINICAL PROGRAM AT AN ACCREDITED LAW, BUSINESS, OR ACCOUNTING SCHOOL IN WHICH STUDENTS REPRESENT LOW-INCOME TAXPAYERS IN CONTROVERSIES ARISING UNDER IRC 7526. 2. AN ORGANIZATION DESCRIBED IN SECTION 501C AND EXEMPT FROM TAX UNDER SECTION 501A THROUGH REPRESENTATION OF TAXPAYERS OR REFERRAL OF TAXPAYERS TO QUALIFIED REPRESENTATIVES. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED UNDER THE LITC PROGRAM, THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AWARDS GRANTS SO THAT GRANT RECIPIENTS ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE TAX REPRESENTATION BEFORE THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OR OTHER TRIBUNAL ON FEDERAL TAX MATTERS, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES ON VARIOUS TAX TOPICS AND ADVOCACY ON TAX ISSUES IMPACTING THE INTENDED BENEFICIARIES. END GOAL AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES, THE LITC PROGRAM AWARDS GRANTS TO, 1. OPEN NEW AND WORK PREVIOUSLY OPENED REPRESENTATION CASES. 2. CONSULT WITH TAXPAYERS ON THEIR SPECIFIC TAX ISSUE. 3. CONDUCT EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. 4. MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPROVEMENT TO TAX ADMINISTRATION BY ADVOCATING FOR CHANGES OR IMPROVEMENTS TO IRS ADMINISTRATION. INTENDED BENEFICIARIES, TAXPAYERS WITH INCOMES THAT DO NOT EXCEED 250 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES AND TAXPAYERS FOR WHOM ENGLISH IS THEIR SECOND LANGUAGE. SUBRECIPIENT ACTIVITIES, IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH ADVANCED APPROVAL BY THE LITC PROGRAM OFFICE, SUBRECIPIENTS MAY BE UTILIZED BY GRANT RECIPIENTS TO HELP DELIVER KEY BROADBAND ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM. 5. REASON FOR MODIFICATION IF SHOWING A POSITIVE AMOUNT IS AN OBLIGATION FOR THE YEAR THAT IS REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D., IF SHOWING A NEGATIVE AMOUNT IT IS A DEOBLIGATION OR A RETURN OF FUNDS FOR THE YEAR REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D.

LOW INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC

DETERMINING THE ROLE OF DISCRIMINATION IN CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND TREATMENT RESPONSE AMONG SEXUAL MINORITY PEOPLE WITH OCD: A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH - SEXUAL MINORITY (SM; E.G., GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL) INDIVIDUALS ARE AT INCREASED RISK FOR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY COMPARED TO HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE. THESE DISPARITIES ARE ESPECIALLY STRIKING FOR OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD), WITH PAST 12-MONTH DIAGNOSIS RATES BEING 9 TIMES HIGHER FOR SM COMPARED TO HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE. FURTHER, SM PEOPLE REPRESENT 18% OF PATIENTS RECEIVING OCD TREATMENT, WHICH IS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN THE PERCENTAGE OF SM PEOPLE IN THE GENERAL POPULATION (4-7%). PRIOR RESEARCH HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT SM PEOPLE ENTER OCD TREATMENT WITH MORE SEVERE OCD AND COMORBIDITIES (E.G., ANXIETY, DEPRESSION) THAN HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE. IN GENERAL, THE MENTAL HEALTH INEQUITIES AFFECTING SM PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO THEIR UNIQUE EXPERIENCES OF STRESS, SUCH AS DISCRIMINATION. DESPITE ACCUMULATING EVIDENCE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION DISPARITIES IN OCD DIAGNOSIS AND SEVERITY, THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT GAPS IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF CLINICAL PRESENTATION, TREATMENT OUTCOMES, AND THE IMPACT OF MINORITY STRESS. TO ADDRESS THESE GAPS, THE CURRENT STUDY WILL RECRUIT 103 SM ADULTS IN PARTIAL HOSPITAL/RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FOR OCD. AS PART OF ROUTINE CLINICAL MONITORING AND AN ESTABLISHED CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM, PARTICIPANTS WILL COMPLETE MEASURES OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS, GENERAL RISK FACTORS (E.G., EMOTION DYSREGULATION, DISTRESS INTOLERANCE), SEXUAL MINORITY STRESS (E.G., DISCRIMINATION, INTERNALIZED STIGMA), TREATMENT VARIABLES (E.G., CREDIBILITY, EXPECTANCY), AND OCD SEVERITY (PRIMARY OUTCOME) UPON ADMISSION. AT DISCHARGE, THEY WILL RE-COMPLETE MEASURES OF OCD SEVERITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE (SECONDARY OUTCOME). THESE DATA WILL BE USED TO ADDRESS TWO SPECIFIC AIMS: (1) DETERMINE CORRELATES OF OCD SEVERITY AT BASELINE FOR SM PEOPLE WITH OCD, AND (2) PREDICT CLINICAL OUTCOMES AT DISCHARGE FOR SM PEOPLE WITH OCD. GIVEN THE NUMBER OF POTENTIAL RISK FACTORS FOR OCD SEVERITY AMONG SM INDIVIDUALS AND THE LACK OF PRIOR RESEARCH IN THIS AREA, MACHINE LEARNING PROVIDES AN IDEAL METHOD TO UNDERSTAND RISK IN THIS POPULATION AS IT CAN: 1) HANDLE LARGE NUMBERS OF PREDICTORS, 2) INCLUDE PREDICTORS THAT ARE HIGHLY CORRELATED, WHICH GENERAL RISK FACTORS OFTEN ARE, 3) BE OPTIMIZED TO SELECT THE SUBSET OF VARIABLES THAT MAXIMIZE PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE, AND 4) PROVIDE INTERPRETABLE COEFFICIENTS THAT LEND THEMSELVES WELL TO PREDICTION IN REAL-WORLD SETTINGS. AS SUCH, FINDINGS CAN BE USED TO ENHANCE EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTIONS BY IDENTIFYING SPECIFIC TREATMENT TARGETS FOR SM PEOPLE WITH OCD, CONSISTENT WITH A RECENT NOTICE OF SPECIAL INTEREST (NOT-OD-22- 032), EMPHASIZING THE NEED FOR RESEARCH TO REDUCE MENTAL HEALTH INEQUITIES AMONG SM POPULATIONS.

FROM THE POSTCOLONIAL TO THE GLOBAL: THE MAKING OF THE INDIAN SPACE PROGRAM, 1962-1992 (SCHOLAR AWARD)

THE PURPOSE OF THE LOW-INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC LITC GRANT IS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO, 1. A CLINICAL PROGRAM AT AN ACCREDITED LAW, BUSINESS, OR ACCOUNTING SCHOOL IN WHICH STUDENTS REPRESENT LOW-INCOME TAXPAYERS IN CONTROVERSIES ARISING UNDER IRC 7526. 2. AN ORGANIZATION DESCRIBED IN SECTION 501C AND EXEMPT FROM TAX UNDER SECTION 501A THROUGH REPRESENTATION OF TAXPAYERS OR REFERRAL OF TAXPAYERS TO QUALIFIED REPRESENTATIVES. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED UNDER THE LITC PROGRAM, THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AWARDS GRANTS SO THAT GRANT RECIPIENTS ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE TAX REPRESENTATION BEFORE THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OR OTHER TRIBUNAL ON FEDERAL TAX MATTERS, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES ON VARIOUS TAX TOPICS AND ADVOCACY ON TAX ISSUES IMPACTING THE INTENDED BENEFICIARIES. END GOAL AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES, THE LITC PROGRAM AWARDS GRANTS TO, 1. OPEN NEW AND WORK PREVIOUSLY OPENED REPRESENTATION CASES. 2. CONSULT WITH TAXPAYERS ON THEIR SPECIFIC TAX ISSUE. 3. CONDUCT EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. 4. MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPROVEMENT TO TAX ADMINISTRATION BY ADVOCATING FOR CHANGES OR IMPROVEMENTS TO IRS ADMINISTRATION. INTENDED BENEFICIARIES, TAXPAYERS WITH INCOMES THAT DO NOT EXCEED 250 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES AND TAXPAYERS FOR WHOM ENGLISH IS THEIR SECOND LANGUAGE. SUBRECIPIENT ACTIVITIES, IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH ADVANCED APPROVAL BY THE LITC PROGRAM OFFICE, SUBRECIPIENTS MAY BE UTILIZED BY GRANT RECIPIENTS TO HELP DELIVER KEY BROADBAND ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM. 5. REASON FOR MODIFICATION IF SHOWING A POSITIVE AMOUNT IS AN OBLIGATION FOR THE YEAR THAT IS REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D., IF SHOWING A NEGATIVE AMOUNT IT IS A DEOBLIGATION OR A RETURN OF FUNDS FOR THE YEAR REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D.

THE PURPOSE OF THE LOW-INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC LITC GRANT IS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO, 1. A CLINICAL PROGRAM AT AN ACCREDITED LAW, BUSINESS, OR ACCOUNTING SCHOOL IN WHICH STUDENTS REPRESENT LOW-INCOME TAXPAYERS IN CONTROVERSIES ARISING UNDER IRC 7526. 2. AN ORGANIZATION DESCRIBED IN SECTION 501C AND EXEMPT FROM TAX UNDER SECTION 501A THROUGH REPRESENTATION OF TAXPAYERS OR REFERRAL OF TAXPAYERS TO QUALIFIED REPRESENTATIVES. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED UNDER THE LITC PROGRAM, THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AWARDS GRANTS SO THAT GRANT RECIPIENTS ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE TAX REPRESENTATION BEFORE THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OR OTHER TRIBUNAL ON FEDERAL TAX MATTERS, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES ON VARIOUS TAX TOPICS AND ADVOCACY ON TAX ISSUES IMPACTING THE INTENDED BENEFICIARIES. END GOAL AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES, THE LITC PROGRAM AWARDS GRANTS TO, 1. OPEN NEW AND WORK PREVIOUSLY OPENED REPRESENTATION CASES. 2. CONSULT WITH TAXPAYERS ON THEIR SPECIFIC TAX ISSUE. 3. CONDUCT EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. 4. MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPROVEMENT TO TAX ADMINISTRATION BY ADVOCATING FOR CHANGES OR IMPROVEMENTS TO IRS ADMINISTRATION. INTENDED BENEFICIARIES, TAXPAYERS WITH INCOMES THAT DO NOT EXCEED 250 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES AND TAXPAYERS FOR WHOM ENGLISH IS THEIR SECOND LANGUAGE. SUBRECIPIENT ACTIVITIES, IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH ADVANCED APPROVAL BY THE LITC PROGRAM OFFICE, SUBRECIPIENTS MAY BE UTILIZED BY GRANT RECIPIENTS TO HELP DELIVER KEY BROADBAND ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM. 5. REASON FOR MODIFICATION IF SHOWING A POSITIVE AMOUNT IS AN OBLIGATION FOR THE YEAR THAT IS REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D., IF SHOWING A NEGATIVE AMOUNT IT IS A DEOBLIGATION OR A RETURN OF FUNDS FOR THE YEAR REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D.

THE PURPOSE OF THE LOW-INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC LITC GRANT IS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO, 1. A CLINICAL PROGRAM AT AN ACCREDITED LAW, BUSINESS, OR ACCOUNTING SCHOOL IN WHICH STUDENTS REPRESENT LOW-INCOME TAXPAYERS IN CONTROVERSIES ARISING UNDER IRC 7526. 2. AN ORGANIZATION DESCRIBED IN SECTION 501C AND EXEMPT FROM TAX UNDER SECTION 501A THROUGH REPRESENTATION OF TAXPAYERS OR REFERRAL OF TAXPAYERS TO QUALIFIED REPRESENTATIVES. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED UNDER THE LITC PROGRAM, THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AWARDS GRANTS SO THAT GRANT RECIPIENTS ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE TAX REPRESENTATION BEFORE THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OR OTHER TRIBUNAL ON FEDERAL TAX MATTERS, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES ON VARIOUS TAX TOPICS AND ADVOCACY ON TAX ISSUES IMPACTING THE INTENDED BENEFICIARIES. END GOAL AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES, THE LITC PROGRAM AWARDS GRANTS TO, 1. OPEN NEW AND WORK PREVIOUSLY OPENED REPRESENTATION CASES. 2. CONSULT WITH TAXPAYERS ON THEIR SPECIFIC TAX ISSUE. 3. CONDUCT EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. 4. MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPROVEMENT TO TAX ADMINISTRATION BY ADVOCATING FOR CHANGES OR IMPROVEMENTS TO IRS ADMINISTRATION. INTENDED BENEFICIARIES, TAXPAYERS WITH INCOMES THAT DO NOT EXCEED 250 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES AND TAXPAYERS FOR WHOM ENGLISH IS THEIR SECOND LANGUAGE. SUBRECIPIENT ACTIVITIES, IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH ADVANCED APPROVAL BY THE LITC PROGRAM OFFICE, SUBRECIPIENTS MAY BE UTILIZED BY GRANT RECIPIENTS TO HELP DELIVER KEY BROADBAND ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM. 5. REASON FOR MODIFICATION IF SHOWING A POSITIVE AMOUNT IS AN OBLIGATION FOR THE YEAR THAT IS REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D., IF SHOWING A NEGATIVE AMOUNT IT IS A DEOBLIGATION OR A RETURN OF FUNDS FOR THE YEAR REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D.

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NEUROCOGNITION OF SPEECH COMPREHENSION IN SOCIAL CONTEXT: SPEAKER IDENTITY AND LISTENER EXPERIENCE

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NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND HEALTH CARE DECISION-MAKING

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THE HUMANITIES OPEN BOOK PROGRAM OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

THE LONGITUDINAL EFFECTS OF HYPERTENSION ON COGNITIVE AGING IN UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITY ADULTS WITH HIV

CAREER: EXISTENCE AND REGULARITY OF SOLUTIONS TO VARIATIONAL PROBLEMS IN GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS

PTFP-FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF CHONDRITIC METEORITES:CHONDRITIC METEORITES CAN BE USED A PROXIES FOR LABORATORY STUDIES OF ASTEROIDS

JOHN BURIDAN'S PHILOSOPHY OF MIND: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIS QUESTIONS ON ARISTOTLE'S DE ANIMA (ON THE SOUL)

I-CORPS: TRANSLATION POTENTIAL OF DISTRIBUTED QUANTUM RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND SCHEDULING WITH EFFICIENT CIRCUIT CUTTING -THIS I-CORPS PROJECT FOCUSES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SCALABLE QUANTUM-CLASSICAL FRAMEWORK, TO OVERCOME CRITICAL LIMITATIONS IN NEAR-TERM QUANTUM COMPUTING HARDWARE. WHILE QUANTUM COMPUTERS HOLD TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL FOR SOLVING COMPLEX PROBLEMS IN DRUG DISCOVERY, CRYPTOGRAPHY, AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, TODAY'S ERROR-PRONE, SMALLER-SCALE QUANTUM DEVICES LACK THE CAPACITY AND RELIABILITY TO EXECUTE LARGE ALGORITHMS. THIS QUANTUM-CLASSICAL FRAMEWORK OVERCOMES THESE BARRIERS BY INTELLIGENTLY LEVERAGING BOTH QUANTUM AND CLASSICAL COMPUTING RESOURCES TO EXECUTE QUANTUM CIRCUITS THAT ARE TOO LARGE TO FIT ON EXISTING QUANTUM HARDWARE. THE TECHNOLOGY ENABLES QUANTUM ADVANTAGE ON CURRENT RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED HARDWARE AND ACCELERATES PRACTICAL APPLICATION WHILE REDUCING COSTS FOR QUANTUM CLOUD PROVIDERS, RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, AND ENTERPRISES. THIS I-CORPS PROJECT UTILIZES EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING COUPLED WITH A FIRST-HAND INVESTIGATION OF THE INDUSTRY ECOSYSTEM TO ASSESS THE TRANSLATION POTENTIAL OF THE TECHNOLOGY. THIS SOLUTION IS BASED ON A SCALABLE COMPUTING FRAMEWORK THAT PARTITIONS LARGE QUANTUM CIRCUITS INTO SMALLER, EXECUTABLE SUBCIRCUITS AND MANAGES THEIR EXECUTION AND RECONSTRUCTION WITHIN A HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM COMPRISING BOTH QUANTUM AND CLASSICAL COMPUTING RESOURCES. THIS COMPUTING FRAMEWORK EMPLOYS ADVANCED GRAPH PARTITIONING ALGORITHMS TO MODEL QUANTUM CIRCUITS AND IDENTIFY OPTIMAL CUTTING POINTS, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT PRACTICAL HARDWARE CONSTRAINTS TO MINIMIZE CUTTING OVERHEAD AND MAXIMIZE ALGORITHM FIDELITY. THIS FRAMEWORK ALSO INCORPORATES A WEIGHTED CLOSEST-FIRST SCHEDULER FOR DISTRIBUTING SUBCIRCUITS EFFICIENTLY ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS QUANTUM AND CLASSICAL RESOURCES, ENABLING BOTH SEQUENTIAL AND PARALLEL EXECUTION. SCIENTIFICALLY, THIS FRAMEWORK ADVANCES BEYOND EXISTING TOOLS BY OFFERING IMPROVED PERFORMANCE, ENHANCED RESOURCE UTILIZATION, AND SUPERIOR SCALABILITY FOR DISTRIBUTED QUANTUM SYSTEMS, WHILE PRESERVING THE FULL COMPUTATIONAL POWER OF THE ORIGINAL CIRCUIT. USERS BENEFIT FROM ITS SEAMLESS INTEGRATION WITH STANDARD QUANTUM PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS, USER-FRIENDLY APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES, AND AUTOMATED PIPELINES, ALLOWING THEM TO LEVERAGE COMPLEX QUANTUM ALGORITHMS ON RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED HARDWARE WITHOUT REQUIRING DEEP EXPERTISE IN CIRCUIT OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

MANIFEST: DIGITAL HUMANITIES PLATFORM FOR THE CRITICAL STUDY OF LOGISTICS [WHILE OF SIGNIFICANT SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPORTANCE, GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS ARE BOTH COMPLEX AND OPAQUE. UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF THESE NETWORKS IS CHALLENGING. MANIFEST IS A DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECT DESIGNED TO ALLOW RESEARCHERS IN THE HUMANITIES TO PRODUCE CRITICAL ACCOUNTS OF GLOBAL LOGISTICAL OPERATION AND TO COMMUNICATE THE IMPACT OF SUPPLY CHAINS ON SOCIETY. THIS PROPOSAL WILL FORM A RESEARCH NETWORK AROUND MANIFEST'S OPEN-SOURCE, WEB-BASED PLATFORM FOR THE CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF SUPPLY CHAINS, PRODUCTION LINES, AND TRADE NETWORKS. BASED ON CASE STUDIES IMPLEMENTED ON THE MANIFEST PLATFORM BY MEMBERS OF THE RESEARCH NETWORK, THE PROJECT WILL CONSTRUCT A COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH GUIDE AND CURRICULUM FOR THE CRITICAL STUDY OF LOGISTICS IN THE HUMANITIES.]

A MIXED METHODS APPROACH TO DETERMINING INTERVENTION COMPONENTS THAT DRIVE IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICATION ADHERENCE - PROJECT SUMMARY EACH YEAR, 500 CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES RECEIVE A LIVER TRANSPLANT FOR THE TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD LIVER FAILURE OR INHERITED LIVER DISEASES.1 FOLLOWING THIS LIFESAVING PROCEDURE, CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES MUST ADHERE TO A DAILY IMMUNOSUPPRESSANT MEDICATION REGIMEN TO PREVENT ORGAN REJECTION.2 MEDICATION NONADHERENCE, WHICH IS DIFFICULTY FOLLOWING A PRESCRIBED REGIMEN FROM A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER,3 OCCURS IN AS MANY AS 39% OF CHILDREN WHO HAVE RECEIVED A LIVER TRANSPLANT AND IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF MORTALITY IN THIS POPULATION.4,5 INTERVENTIONS TARGETING NONADHERENCE AMONG PEDIATRIC LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED AND TESTED, BUT HAVE LARGELY BEEN INEFFECTIVE AT IMPROVING TRANSPLANT OUTCOMES.6 THIS APPLICATION PROPOSES SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS OF THE IMPROVING MEDICATION ADHERENCE IN ADOLESCENTS WHO HAD A LIVER TRANSPLANT (IMALT) TRIAL UTILIZING A NOVEL MIXED METHODS APPROACH. THIS RECENTLY COMPLETED TRIAL INCLUDED 72 PATIENTS RANDOMIZED TO A TWO-YEAR REMOTE, MANUALIZED INTERVENTION FOCUSED ON IMPROVING MEDICATION ADHERENCE OFFERING AN INNOVATIVE OPPORTUNITY TO FURTHER EXPLORE HOW SESSION CONTENT MAY INFLUENCE OUTCOMES. FOR ALL INTERVENTION RECIPIENTS, THE SESSIONS WERE RECORDED, AND THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS TO APPLY QUALITATIVE ANALYSES TO THE CONTENT OF THE FIRST THREE SESSIONS. THESE RESULTS WOULD THEN SERVE AS PREDICTORS OF ADHERENCE AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES IN MODELS RUN WITH CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS. THE AIM OF THIS PROPOSED STUDY IS TO INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP OF SESSION THEMES AND RESPONSE QUALITY TO INTERVENTION ENGAGEMENT AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES. IT IS HYPOTHESIZED THAT AT LEAST 1 SESSION THEME OR THE RESPONSE QUALITY IDENTIFIED IN THE FIRST 3 INTERVENTION SESSIONS WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED INTERVENTION ENGAGEMENT. SECONDLY, IT IS HYPOTHESIZED THAT AT LEAST 1 SESSION THEME OR THE RESPONSE QUALITY WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVED ADHERENCE AND HEALTH OUTCOMES. THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF THIS PROPOSED STUDY WOULD BE TO INFORM THE NEXT ITERATION OF A MANUALIZED TREATMENT FOR MEDICATION ADHERENCE AMONG PEDIATRIC LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS AND PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO ELEMENTS OF THE INTERVENTION THAT COULD BE MODIFIED IN REAL TIME TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES. GIVEN THE HIGH RATES OF MEDICATION NONADHERENCE IN THIS POPULATION AND HOW CRITICAL ADHERENCE IS TO LONG TERM SURVIVAL FOR THESE PATIENTS, IDENTIFYING ELEMENTS OF INTERVENTIONS THAT LEAD TO IMPROVED ADHERENCE AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES IS PARAMOUNT. THIS PROPOSED FELLOWSHIP IS CLOSELY ALIGNED WITH NICHD’S MISSION TO “ENHANCE THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS.”7 THE PROPOSED TRAINING PLAN FOR THIS FELLOWSHIP WOULD PROVIDE THE APPLICANT WITH TRAINING IN THEMATIC ANALYSIS, A QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY IN WHICH TEXTS ARE ANALYZED FOR THEMES,8 AND CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS, A STATISTICAL TECHNIQUE IN WHICH CROSS-TABULAR DATA ARE PLOTTED IN A VISUAL PLANE TO ANALYZE PATTERNS OF ASSOCIATED VARIABLES.9 THE RESEARCH TRAINING WILL TAKE PLACE AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY AND THE ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI. BOTH INSTITUTIONS WILL PROVIDE THE APPLICANT WITH TRAINING AND MENTORSHIP TO ACCOMPLISH THE GOALS OF THIS FELLOWSHIP AND BECOME A SUCCESSFUL CONTRIBUTOR TO PEDIATRIC PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH.

USE OF RATTUS TO TRACK HUMAN MIGRATION -RESEARCH TEAM MEMBERS WILL COLLABORATE TO USE ISLAND BLACK RATS AS BIOPROXIES TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY OF HUMAN VOYAGES ACROSS OCEANIC EXPANSES. THROUGH GENETIC INVESTIGATION OF SPECIES INTRODUCED TO ISLANDS BY HUMAN VOYAGERS IT SHOULD BE POSSIBLE TO DETERMINE WHEN THEY WERE INTRODUCED. THE RESEARCH TEAM IS INVESTIGATING THE ORIGIN OF LONG DISTANCE MARITIME MOVEMENT USING GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF INVASIVE BLACK RATS. RECENT ADVANCES IN POPULATION GENOMICS, SPECIFICALLY HIGH-THROUGHPUT GENOTYPING OF SINGLE BASE PAIR DNA CHANGES, WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING, AND STATISTICAL ESTIMATION OF DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORIES, HAVE MADE IT POSSIBLE TO INFER THE GEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS AND TIMING OF RAT INTRODUCTIONS FROM CONTEMPORARY SAMPLES. SUCH APPROACHES WILL BE USED IN THIS PROJECT TO LEARN WHEN, AND FROM WHERE, RATS FIRST REACHED AN ISLAND SETTING. ESTABLISHING THE ANTIQUITY OF SUCH RAT POPULATIONS WILL HELP ARCHAEOLOGISTS DETERMINE SITES FOR FUTURE RESEARCH. THIS PROJECT WILL SIGNIFICANTLY REVISE UNDERSTANDING OF REMOTE VOYAGING NETWORKS WITH ALL THEIR TRANSFORMATIVE CULTURAL, ECONOMIC, AND ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

TO SUPPORT A STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF ARTS PROGRAMMING ON THE SOCIAL SKILLS AND MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES OF AT-RISK YOUTH.

INVESTIGATING PATHWAYS TO MEDICATION (NON)ADHERENCE IN ADOLESCENT SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANT PATIENTS

LIBRARY STAFF AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY WILL COLLECT, PRESERVE, AND SHARE THE RECORD OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY IN THE BRONX. IN REAL TIME: FORDHAM UNIVERSITY'S COVID-19 DIGITAL ARCHIVE IS A FREELY AVAILABLE AND COMPLETELY SEARCHABLE COLLECTION OF SCANNED DOCUMENTS, PROTOCOLS EMAILS, VIDEOS, SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS, ORAL HISTORIES, AND OTHER ITEMS WHICH ILLUSTRATE HOW A UNIVERSITY IN THE EPICENTER OF THE CRISIS NAVIGATED THE PRESENT, AND PLANNED FOR THE FUTURE, DURING THE PANDEMIC. LIBRARY BEGAN COLLECTING FOR THE ARCHIVE IN SPRING 2020 AND IMLS FUNDING WILL SUPPORT THE TEAM'S CAPACITY TO SCAN AND UPLOAD HARD COPY ITEMS THAT PERTAIN TO THE PANDEMIC AS WELL AS TO GREATLY EXPAND THE USE OF VIDEO FOR PERSONAL NARRATIVES AND ORAL HISTORIES. THE ARCHIVE WILL SERVE AS A GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS TO EXAMINE, A COMPREHENSIVE RECORD FOR HISTORIANS TO STUDY, AND A CHRONICLE OF INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES AND NARRATIVES FOR ALL TO CONSIDER.

ACADEMIC LESSONS FROM VIDEO GAME LEARNING

DECISION-MAKING CAPACITY AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING IN TERMINALLY ILL CAN

FACTORS AFFECTING THE VALIDITY OF A VIOLENCE RISK SCREENING TOOL WITH PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENTS

CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES ON ETHNIC/RACIAL IDENTITY

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BUILDING STUDENTS' DATA LITERACY THROUGH THE CO-DESIGN OF CURRICULUM BY MATHEMATICS AND ART TEACHERS

TOWARDS A COMPLETE HISTORY OF ART: BUILDING AN INTERFACE THAT CONNECTS MUSEUM DATA INTERNATIONALLY

THE "LIVING HUMANITIES" PH.D. FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

DDRIG IN DRMS: MEASURING PERSUASION WITHOUT MEASURING A PRIOR BELIEF: A NEW APPLICATION OF PLANNED MISSING DATA TECHNIQUES -EXPERIMENTS ON ADVICE TAKING TYPICALLY REQUIRE A PERSON RECEIVING ADVICE (AN ?ADVISEE?) EXPRESS THEIR BELIEF ABOUT THE TOPIC THEY ARE BEING ADVISED ABOUT BEFORE RECEIVING THE ACTUAL ADVICE. THEN, AFTER ADVICE IS GIVEN, THE ADVISEE REPORTS A NEW BELIEF. RESEARCHERS CAN THEN STUDY THE EFFECTS OF ADVICE BY LOOKING AT HOW THE ADVISEE?S BELIEF CHANGED. HOWEVER, THERE IS A POTENTIAL PROBLEM WITH THIS SETUP. MAKING THE ADVISEE EXPLICITLY CONSIDER THEIR EXPECTATION BEFORE RECEIVING ADVICE CAN CHANGE ITS EFFECTS, BUT THERE IS NO WAY TO STUDY HOW THE ADVISEE?S BELIEF CHANGES WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THEY BELIEVED BEFOREHAND. THIS RESEARCH USES CUTTING EDGE STATISTICAL METHODS TO ESTIMATE ADVISEES? PRIOR BELIEFS BASED ON OTHER FACTORS THAT ARE KNOWN ABOUT THEM, ALLOWING RESEARCHERS TO UNDERSTAND THE INFLUENCE OF ADVICE UNDER MORE REALISTIC CONDITIONS, WHERE ADVISEES DON?T HAVE TO DIRECTLY THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY BELIEVE BEFORE BEING ADVISED. THE SCIENTIFIC TERM FOR SITUATIONS WHERE MEASUREMENT AFFECTS SUBSEQUENT BEHAVIORAL PROCESSES IS ?MEASUREMENT REACTIVITY?. THIS PROJECT?S APPROACH TO CURING THIS MEASUREMENT REACTIVITY IS TO TREAT ADVISEES? PRIOR BELIEFS AS MISSING DATA. ADVANCES IN STATISTICAL METHODS ALLOW RESEARCHERS TO IMPUTE MISSING DATA WITH WITHOUT BIAS UNDER THE RIGHT SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES. THESE METHODS ARE TYPICALLY UTILIZED WHEN DATA ARE MISSING INCIDENTALLY, BUT THIS PROJECT WILL EXPERIMENTALLY RANDOMIZE WHEN DATA ARE MISSING, ENSURING THE CORRECT CONDITIONS FOR THE IMPUTATION TO WORK EFFECTIVELY. BECAUSE THESE ADVISEES NEVER DIRECTLY REPORT THEIR PRIOR BELIEFS, THE RESEARCHERS CAN STUDY HOW ADVICE UTILIZATION OCCURS IN THE ABSENCE OF MEASUREMENT REACTIVITY. THIS WORK HAS IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS FOR HOW ADVISORS CAN HELP ADVISEES OPTIMIZE THEIR EXPERTISE IN MANY REAL-LIFE SCENARIOS. THE METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATION OF USING A PLANNED MISSING DATA EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN TO CURE MEASUREMENT REACTIVITY ALSO HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GENERALIZE TO OTHER SCIENTIFIC DOMAINS WHERE IT IS A POTENTIAL CONFOUND. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH IN DRMS: DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING A METHOD OF COHERENCE-BASED JUDGMENT AGGREGATION

NEH ENDURING QUESTIONS COURSE ON TIME AND ITS VALUE

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH IN DRMS: THE COUPLED IMPACT OF CONFLICT AND IMPRECISION OF MULTIPLE FORECASTS

TRAVEL: NSF STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT FOR 6TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRUST, PRIVACY, AND SECURITY IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS (IEEE TPS 2024) -THIS AWARD WILL PROVIDE FUNDING TO SUPPORT ABOUT 15 STUDENTS AT U.S.-BASED INSTITUTIONS TO ATTEND THE 6TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRUST, PRIVACY AND SECURITY IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, AND APPLICATIONS (IEEE TPS 2024). TPS IS AN INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY FORUM FOR PRESENTATION OF STATE-OF-THE ART INNOVATIONS, ALONG WITH DISCUSSION AMONG ACADEMIC/INDUSTRY RESEARCHERS, POLICY MAKERS, AND PRACTITIONERS ON ISSUES RELATED TO TRUST, PRIVACY, AND SECURITY IN EMERGING SYSTEMS THAT ARE SUPPORTED, ATTACKED, AND/OR DEFENDED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING. STUDENTS SELECTED FOR TRAVEL AWARDS WILL BE EXPOSED TO RESEARCH PROBLEMS DISCUSSED BY ESTABLISHED RESEARCHERS, HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO INTERACT AND NETWORK WITH OTHER RESEARCHERS, AND BENEFIT FROM A SPECIAL STUDENT MENTORING SESSION WITH SUCCESSFUL RESEARCHERS WHO CAN ACT AS ROLE MODELS IN THE FIELD. THE CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD IN WASHINGTON D.C. ON OCTOBER 28-30, 2024 AND IS CO-LOCATED WITH THE 10TH IEEE CONFERENCE ON COLLABORATION AND INTERNET COMPUTING (IEEE CIC 2024), AND THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE MACHINE INTELLIGENCE (IEEE COGMI 2024). FUNDING FROM THIS AWARD WILL ALSO ALLOW STUDENTS TO INTERACT WITH ATTENDEES FROM THESE OTHER CONFERENCES, INCREASING THEIR EXPOSURE TO RESEARCH AND RESEARCHERS FROM OTHER DISCIPLINES. ATTENDING IEEE TPS WILL BE VERY VALUABLE TO STUDENTS INTERESTED IN THE INTERSECTION OF TWO OF THE MOST CRITICAL AREAS OF RESEARCH AROUND COMPUTING: TRUST, PRIVACY, AND SECURITY WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING. STUDENTS WILL GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT THEIR RESEARCH, RECEIVE FEEDBACK, AND NETWORK WITH ESTABLISHED RESEARCHERS IN THESE AREAS, ALLOWING YOUNG RESEARCHERS WHO MAY OTHERWISE NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND TO DEVELOP BOTH THE FIELD AND THEIR CAREERS. THE CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ALSO SEEK TO BROADEN PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING THROUGH WIDELY ADVERTISING THE OPPORTUNTITY OF FUNDING AND CONSIDERING DIVERSITY OF PARTICIPANTS IN TERMS OF RESEARCH TOPICS AS WELL AS PERSONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL BACKGROUNDS AS PART OF THE SELECTION CRITERIA, ALONG WITH THE RELEVANCE AND STRENGTH OF THE APPLICANT'S RESEARCH TO THE CONFERENCE AND THE AVAILABILITY OF OTHER SUPPORT. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

TO SUPPORT THE RECONSTRUCTION OF JOYCE TRISLER'S BALLET "FOUR TEMPERAMENTS" (1975).

THE PURPOSE OF THE LOW-INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC LITC GRANT IS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO, 1. A CLINICAL PROGRAM AT AN ACCREDITED LAW, BUSINESS, OR ACCOUNTING SCHOOL IN WHICH STUDENTS REPRESENT LOW-INCOME TAXPAYERS IN CONTROVERSIES ARISING UNDER IRC 7526. 2. AN ORGANIZATION DESCRIBED IN SECTION 501C AND EXEMPT FROM TAX UNDER SECTION 501A THROUGH REPRESENTATION OF TAXPAYERS OR REFERRAL OF TAXPAYERS TO QUALIFIED REPRESENTATIVES. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED UNDER THE LITC PROGRAM, THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AWARDS GRANTS SO THAT GRANT RECIPIENTS ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE TAX REPRESENTATION BEFORE THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OR OTHER TRIBUNAL ON FEDERAL TAX MATTERS, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES ON VARIOUS TAX TOPICS AND ADVOCACY ON TAX ISSUES IMPACTING THE INTENDED BENEFICIARIES. END GOAL AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES, THE LITC PROGRAM AWARDS GRANTS TO, 1. OPEN NEW AND WORK PREVIOUSLY OPENED REPRESENTATION CASES. 2. CONSULT WITH TAXPAYERS ON THEIR SPECIFIC TAX ISSUE. 3. CONDUCT EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. 4. MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPROVEMENT TO TAX ADMINISTRATION BY ADVOCATING FOR CHANGES OR IMPROVEMENTS TO IRS ADMINISTRATION. INTENDED BENEFICIARIES, TAXPAYERS WITH INCOMES THAT DO NOT EXCEED 250 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES AND TAXPAYERS FOR WHOM ENGLISH IS THEIR SECOND LANGUAGE. SUBRECIPIENT ACTIVITIES, IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH ADVANCED APPROVAL BY THE LITC PROGRAM OFFICE, SUBRECIPIENTS MAY BE UTILIZED BY GRANT RECIPIENTS TO HELP DELIVER KEY BROADBAND ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM. 5. REASON FOR MODIFICATION IF SHOWING A POSITIVE AMOUNT IS AN OBLIGATION FOR THE YEAR THAT IS REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D., IF SHOWING A NEGATIVE AMOUNT IT IS A DEOBLIGATION OR A RETURN OF FUNDS FOR THE YEAR REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: PREASSEMBLY METHODS FOR COGNITIVE DIAGNOSTIC MULTISTAGE ADAPTIVE TESTING -THIS DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH PROJECT WILL ADVANCE TEST PREASSEMBLY METHODS FOR COGNITIVE DIAGNOSTIC MULTISTAGE ADAPTIVE TESTING (CD-MST). THIS TYPE OF COMPUTER-ADMINISTERED EDUCATIONAL TEST IDENTIFIES WHICH SKILLS STUDENTS HAVE SUCCESSFULLY LEARNED WITH A SHORT, YET RELIABLE, TEST THAT IS INDIVIDUALIZED FOR EACH STUDENT. CD-MST WITH MODULE PREASSEMBLY ALLOWS TEST DEVELOPERS TO REVIEW THE QUALITY OF TEST FORMS BEFORE TEST ADMINISTRATION AND PROVIDES DETAILED DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT TOPICS STUDENTS HAVE MASTERED ALONGSIDE AN EVALUATION OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. HOWEVER, ONLY A FEW METHODS HAVE BEEN PROPOSED TO PREASSEMBLE TESTS IN CD-MST. IN ADDITION, THERE ARE UNIQUE CHALLENGES WHEN USING CD-MSTS WHEN OTHER CONSTRAINTS NEED TO BE MET, SUCH AS ENSURING THAT THE TEST PROVIDES AN EVEN BALANCE OF ALL CONTENT AREAS COVERED BY THE TEST. CURRENT METHODS REQUIRE STRICT ASSUMPTIONS AND CANNOT ACCOMMODATE MULTIPLE TEST CONSTRAINTS. THE TEST DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY TO BE DEVELOPED IN THIS PROJECT WILL ADVANCE CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS IN WHICH TESTS CAN SERVE AS A PART OF LEARNING PROCESS RATHER THAN AS A TOOL TO RANK STUDENTS BY LEARNING OUTCOMES. PROVIDING ACCURATE, SPECIFIC, AND REAL-TIME FEEDBACK ON MULTIPLE CRITERIA FOR EACH STUDENT IS ESSENTIAL FOR EFFECTIVE LEARNING AND REMEDIAL INSTRUCTION. CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS THAT ADOPT THIS NEW TEST MODE WILL PROVIDE SHORT ADAPTIVE TESTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR THAT INSTANTLY YIELD VALID AND RELIABLE PERSONALIZED COMPETENCY DIAGNOSES ALIGNED WITH EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS. AS A DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH IMPROVEMENT AWARD, SUPPORT IS PROVIDED TO ENABLE A PROMISING STUDENT TO ESTABLISH A STRONG, INDEPENDENT RESEARCH CAREER. THIS DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A HOLISTIC COGNITIVE DIAGNOSTIC MULTISTAGE ADAPTIVE TESTING (CD-MST) PREASSEMBLY METHOD THAT WILL SIMULTANEOUSLY CONSIDER NUMEROUS TYPES OF TEST CONSTRAINTS. TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF CD-MST, IT IS CRUCIAL TO DEVELOP PREASSEMBLY METHODS THAT INCORPORATE NOT ONLY STATISTICAL CONSTRAINTS (E.G., MAXIMIZING RELIABILITY), BUT ALSO CONTENT CONSTRAINTS (E.G., ENSURING ALL CONTENTS TESTED) WITHOUT SACRIFICING ESTIMATION PRECISION. CURRENTLY, MOST CD-MST APPLICATIONS HAVE EMPLOYED ON-THE-FLY CD-MST THAT ASSEMBLES MODULES DURING AN IN-PROGRESS TEST SESSION. HOWEVER, THIS APPROACH MAY LEAD TO DIFFICULTIES IN ENSURING DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF EQUIVALENT TESTS AND SATISFYING THE NON-STATISTICAL CONSTRAINTS BECAUSE THE TESTS ARE ASSEMBLED DURING THE TESTING SESSION. THE HOLISTIC METHOD TO BE DEVELOPED IN THIS PROJECT WILL ADAPT METHODS THAT HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY PROPOSED FOR SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT CONTEXTS: ITEM SELECTION DURING AN IN-PROGRESS TEST SESSION AND PREASSEMBLY FOR DIAGNOSTIC ADAPTIVE ASSESSMENT. SIMULATION STUDIES WILL BE CONDUCTED TO EVALUATE THE ACCURACY OF THE NEWLY DEVELOPED METHOD. THE FOLLOWING THREE QUESTIONS WILL BE ADDRESSED: 1) IS THE HOLISTIC CD-MST PREASSEMBLY METHOD COMPUTATIONALLY FEASIBLE? 2) HOW WELL DOES THE HOLISTIC CD-MST PREASSEMBLY METHOD PERFORM ACROSS DIFFERENT COGNITIVE DIAGNOSTIC MODELS AND TEST LENGTHS? 3) HOW DOES THE PERFORMANCE OF A HOLISTIC CD-MST PREASSEMBLY METHOD CHANGE WITH MULTIPLE CONTENT CONSTRAINTS? THE FEASIBILITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE HOLISTIC METHOD WILL BE EVALUATED IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF CONSTRAINTS VIOLATED, EXAMINEE CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY (I.E., WHETHER EXAMINEES ARE FOUND TO HAVE THE SKILL SET THAT THEY ACTUALLY HAVE), THE PROPORTION OF THE ITEM POOL USED, AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF EXAMINEES CLASSIFICATIONS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

THE PURPOSE OF THE LOW-INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC LITC GRANT IS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO, 1. A CLINICAL PROGRAM AT AN ACCREDITED LAW, BUSINESS, OR ACCOUNTING SCHOOL IN WHICH STUDENTS REPRESENT LOW-INCOME TAXPAYERS IN CONTROVERSIES ARISING UNDER IRC 7526. 2. AN ORGANIZATION DESCRIBED IN SECTION 501C AND EXEMPT FROM TAX UNDER SECTION 501A THROUGH REPRESENTATION OF TAXPAYERS OR REFERRAL OF TAXPAYERS TO QUALIFIED REPRESENTATIVES. ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED UNDER THE LITC PROGRAM, THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AWARDS GRANTS SO THAT GRANT RECIPIENTS ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE TAX REPRESENTATION BEFORE THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OR OTHER TRIBUNAL ON FEDERAL TAX MATTERS, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES ON VARIOUS TAX TOPICS AND ADVOCACY ON TAX ISSUES IMPACTING THE INTENDED BENEFICIARIES. END GOAL AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES, THE LITC PROGRAM AWARDS GRANTS TO, 1. OPEN NEW AND WORK PREVIOUSLY OPENED REPRESENTATION CASES. 2. CONSULT WITH TAXPAYERS ON THEIR SPECIFIC TAX ISSUE. 3. CONDUCT EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. 4. MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPROVEMENT TO TAX ADMINISTRATION BY ADVOCATING FOR CHANGES OR IMPROVEMENTS TO IRS ADMINISTRATION. INTENDED BENEFICIARIES, TAXPAYERS WITH INCOMES THAT DO NOT EXCEED 250 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES AND TAXPAYERS FOR WHOM ENGLISH IS THEIR SECOND LANGUAGE. SUBRECIPIENT ACTIVITIES, IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH ADVANCED APPROVAL BY THE LITC PROGRAM OFFICE, SUBRECIPIENTS MAY BE UTILIZED BY GRANT RECIPIENTS TO HELP DELIVER KEY BROADBAND ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM. 5. REASON FOR MODIFICATION IF SHOWING A POSITIVE AMOUNT IS AN OBLIGATION FOR THE YEAR THAT IS REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D., IF SHOWING A NEGATIVE AMOUNT IT IS A DE-OBLIGATION OR A RETURN OF FUNDS FOR THE YEAR REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF THE PRIME AWARD I.D.

FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL'S FEERICK CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE PROMOTES THE RIGHTS AND ADDRESSES THE PROBLEMS FACING MARGINALIZED AND LOW-INCOME NEW YORKERS THROUGH THE CREATION OF STRATEGIES TO REFORM POLICIES, EDUCATE, AND PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO RIGHT WRONGS. HIGHLY REGARDED FOR ITS EFFICACY AND DEDICATION TO COMBATING INEQUITIES, THE CENTER WORKS WITH WIDE-RANGING NETWORKS TO RALLY PARTNERS IN THE LEGAL COMMUNITY AND BEYOND TO RESPOND TO THE CHALLENGES OF THOSE IN NEED. FORDHAM LAW FACULTY AND STUDENTS INVOLVED AT THE CENTER COLLABORATE WITH THE CITY'S NONPROFIT, LEGAL SERVICES, AND PUBLIC SECTORS TO CREATE LONG-TERM INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS CRITICAL TO REAL CHANGE. THE PROPOSED VISTA PROJECT ALIGNS DIRECTLY WITH THE CNCS FOCUS AREAS OF EDUCATION, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, AND VETERANS AND MILITARY FAMILIES. THE CENTER PROPOSES SEVERAL PRIMARY AREAS OF SERVICE: (1) IN COLLABORATION WITH SUBSITE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES (UNH) PLACING AND SUPPORTING VOLUNTEERS THROUGH AN EXPANDED LEGAL ECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT PROJECT (LEEAP) TO ASSIST LOW-INCOME NYC FAMILIES AND STUDENTS IN ACCESSING HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION FOR PRE-K, KINDERGARTEN, MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL (ONE VISTA MEMBER AT UNH AND ONE VISTA MEMBER AT THE FEERICK CENTER); (2) PLACING AND SUPPORTING VOLUNTEERS TO ASSIST LOW-INCOME VETERANS WITH LEGAL ISSUES, INCLUDING VETERANS' BENEFITS, FAMILY LAW, AND CONSUMER (ONE VISTA AT THE FEERICK CENTER); (3) LAUNCHING AN INITIATIVE TO RECRUIT SENIORS TO COUNSEL AND PLACE FELLOW SENIORS IN VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES THAT BENEFIT LOW-INCOME NEW YORKERS, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON ATTORNEY VOLUNTEERS AND VETERAN SERVICE PROVIDERS (ONE VISTA AT THE FEERICK CENTER). IN ADDITION, THE CENTER PROPOSES TWO ADDITIONAL SUB-SITES. THE FIRST, PRO BONO NET'S IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES NETWORK, WILL HAVE ONE VISTA WHO WILL HELP LAUNCH A CAMPAIGN TO SUPPORT LEGAL VOLUNTEER EFFORTS TARGETED TO VULNERABLE NEWCOMERS, INCLUDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS, TRAFFICKING VICTIMS, AND UNACCOMPANIED IMMIGRANT CHILDREN. THIS WORK IS NATIONAL IN SCOPE AND FOCUSES ON TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND CAPACITY BUILDING. THE SECOND, VOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICE (VOLS), WILL HAVE ONE VISTA WHO WILL WORK WITH THE MICROENTERPRISE PROJECT TO RECRUIT VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS TO PROVIDE PRO BONO LEGAL AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO LOW-INCOME SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, WHO ARE PRIMARILY IMMIGRANT, PERSONS OF COLOR AND WOMEN.

SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAM

ROBOTICS: ENHANCING AND EXPANDING RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AND TEACHING CAPABILITY AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY