Drake University

HEAD START AND EARLY HEAD START

FULL YEAR HEAD START-PART DAY-FULL DAY AND HANDICAPPED

HEAD START AND EARLY HEAD START

HEAD START AND EARLY HEAD START

HIGHER EDUCATION EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND - IHE/INSTITUTION FOR DRAKE UNIVERSITY

EARLY HEAD START CHILD CARE PARTNERSHIP

HIGHER EDUCATION EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND FOR DRAKE STUDENTS SUPPORT

EARLY HEAD START - CHILD CARE PARTNERSHIP

EVIDENCE-BASED TELE-BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK PROGRAM

AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN

EARLY HEAD START CHILD CARE PARTNERSHIP

DRAKE UNIVERSITY LONG-TERM TRAINING IN VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION COUNSELING

IMPROVING SECONDARY PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS, CHEMISTRY, AND COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHER PREPARATION THROUGH A SEQUENCE OF ACTIVE TEACHING EXPERIENCES

REHABILITATION LONG-TERM TRAINING - REHABILITATION COUNSELING

REHABILITATION LONG-TERM TRAINING - REHABILITATION COUNSELING

REHABILITATION LONG-TERM TRAINING - REHABILITATION COUNSELING

ENGAGING ELEMENTARY TEACHERS IN DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS PROMOTING SOCIOSCIENTIFIC LITERACY -NAVIGATING COMPLEX SOCIETAL ISSUES SUCH AS WATER SHORTAGES, FOREST FIRES, AND OTHER PHENOMENA-BASED PROBLEMS REQUIRES UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL, TECHNOLOGICAL, AND SCIENTIFIC DIMENSIONS SURROUNDING THE ISSUES AND THEY WAYS THESE DIMENSIONS INTERACT, SHIFT, AND CHANGE. UNDOUBTEDLY, K-12 STUDENTS ENCOUNTER COMPLEX PROBLEMS IN THEIR EVERYDAY LIVES NOW AND WILL DO SO IN THE FUTURE; HOW THEY COME TO UNDERSTAND AN ISSUE AND HOW TO TACKLE IT DEPENDS ON THEIR SOCIOSCIENTIFIC LITERACY, OR THE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND DISPOSITIONS NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND AND ADDRESS COMPLEX SOCIETAL ISSUES WITH SOCIAL, TECHNOLOGICAL, AND SCIENTIFIC DIMENSIONS. DESPITE ITS IMPORTANCE, HOWEVER, DEVELOPING STUDENTS? SOCIOSCIENTIFIC LITERACY HAS RECEIVED LIMITED ATTENTION IN ELEMENTARY SCIENCE TEACHING AND LEARNING CONTEXTS. THIS PROJECT BEGINS TO ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM OF PRACTICE BY FOCUSING FIRST ON DEVELOPING ELEMENTARY TEACHERS? SOCIOSCIENTIFIC LITERACY AND THEIR CAPACITY TO INTEGRATE SOCIOSCIENTIFIC ISSUES AND LOCAL PHENOMENA IN THEIR SCIENCE TEACHING PRACTICE. THE PROJECT WILL DO THIS THROUGH THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND FACILITATION OF A YEAR-LONG PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR FOURTH- AND FIFTH-GRADE TEACHERS. THE PROJECT WILL PROMOTE TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS GAINED DURING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTO THE CLASSROOM BY SUPPORTING TEACHERS IN THE WORK OF MODIFYING THEIR EXISTING SCIENCE CURRICULUM MATERIALS TO INTEGRATE SOCIOSCIENTIFIC ISSUES AND LOCAL PHENOMENA IN STUDENTS? SCIENCE LEARNING. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO PROVIDE CONTINUED SUPPORT AS TEACHERS ENACT THEIR MODIFIED SCIENCE LESSONS AND ENGAGE STUDENTS IN SCIENTIFIC SENSEMAKING ROOTED IN SOCIOSCIENTIFIC ISSUES AND LOCAL PHENOMENA. CURRICULAR MATERIALS AND RESOURCES CREATED DURING THIS PROJECT WILL BE SHARED WIDELY WITH TEACHERS AND OTHER EDUCATORS INTERESTED IN INTEGRATING SOCIOSCIENTIFIC ISSUES AND LOCAL PHENOMENA IN SCIENCE INSTRUCTION. THE PROJECT IS EXPLORATORY IN NATURE AND APPLIES NATURALISTIC RESEARCH METHODOLOGY TO STUDY THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A YEAR-LONG PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PROGRAM FOCUSED ON SUPPORTING ELEMENTARY TEACHERS? SOCIOSCIENTIFIC LITERACY AND CAPACITY TO INTEGRATE SOCIOSCIENTIFIC ISSUES AND LOCAL PHENOMENA IN THEIR SCIENCE TEACHING PRACTICE. THE PROJECT?S TARGET POPULATION IS 4TH AND 5TH GRADE TEACHERS IN DES MOINES, IA AREA SCHOOLS. PROFESSIONAL LEARNING WILL AND FOCUS ON SIX BROAD SOCIOSCIENTIFIC ISSUES (E.G. ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER) SITUATED IN LOCAL PHENOMENA AND DATA (HIGH NUTRIENT LEVELS IN LOCAL WATERWAYS) ALIGNED TO 4TH AND 5TH GRADE SCIENCE NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS. INVESTIGATORS WILL EXAMINE TO WHAT EXTENT AND IN WHAT WAYS THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IMPACTS TEACHERS? SOCIOSCIENTIFIC LITERACY, PEDAGOGICAL CAPACITY TO SUPPORT STUDENTS? SOCIOSCIENTIFIC SENSEMAKING, AND TEACHERS? PRACTICE. DATA SOURCES INCLUDE TEACHER INTERVIEWS, CLASSROOM OBSERVATIONS, ARTIFACTS FROM PRACTICE AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS (LESSON PLANS, REFLECTIVE NOTES), FIELD NOTES, AND PRE- AND POST- SOCIOSCIENTIFIC ISSUES TEACHING EFFICACY BELIEFS SURVEYS. QUALITATIVE ANALYTICAL APPROACHES WILL BE UTILIZED EMPLOYING BOTH INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE CODING STRATEGIES. THE PROJECT?S DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES WILL GENERATE DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING CENTERED ON DEVELOPING ELEMENTARY TEACHERS? PRACTICE THAT PROMOTES SOCIOSCIENTIFIC LITERACY IN UPPER-ELEMENTARY STUDENTS. THE DISCOVERY RESEARCH PREK-12 PROGRAM (DRK-12) SEEKS TO SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCE THE LEARNING AND TEACHING OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) BY PREK-12 STUDENTS AND TEACHERS, THROUGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE RESOURCES, MODELS AND TOOLS. PROJECTS IN THE DRK-12 PROGRAM BUILD ON FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH IN STEM EDUCATION AND PRIOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS THAT PROVIDE THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL JUSTIFICATION FOR PROPOSED PROJECTS. 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.

REHABILITATION LONG-TERM TRAINING - REHABILITATION LONG-TERM TRAINING - REHABILITATION COUNSELING

FY2009 ARRA COLA/QI

TRAINING

REHABILITATION LONG-TERM TRAINING - JOB DEVELOPMENT AND JOB PLACEMENT SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES

ELEMENTS: NSCI-SOFTWARE -- A GENERAL AND EFFECTIVE B-SPLINE R-MATRIX PACKAGE FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE AND PHOTON COLLISIONS WITH ATOMS, IONS, AND MOLECULES

VEGF AND SKELETAL MUSCLE ADAPTATION DURING CHRONIC OVERLOAD

SERVICE FOCUSED SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL INITIATIVE

FUNCTION-BASED ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOTROPHIC EFFECTS ON PROBLEM BEHAVIOR IN IDD

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROLLING FORCE GENERATION BY A CENTRIN-BASED CONTRACTILE SYSTEM -FORCE GENERATION UNDERLIES MANY OF THE PROCESSES MOST ASSOCIATED WITH LIFE: MOVEMENT, GROWTH, AND REPRODUCTION. THE ULTRAFAST CONTRACTION OF THE CILIATE SPIROSTOMUM AMBIGUUM REPRESENTS THE MOST POWERFUL BIOLOGICAL FORCE GENERATION IN NATURE. THIS EXTREME MOVEMENT IS THOUGHT TO BE DRIVEN BY A CONTRACTILE PROTEIN-BASED NETWORK KNOWN AS MYONEMES, WHICH IS POORLY UNDERSTOOD. THE PROJECT WILL COMBINE EXPERIMENTS AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELING TO ELUCIDATE THE MECHANISM OF MYONEME CONTRACTION WITH A VIEW TOWARD REVEALING NEW PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGICAL FORCE GENERATION. THE FINDINGS WILL SET THE STAGE TO ENGINEER FORCE-GENERATING SYSTEMS FOR SYNTHETIC CELLS, FOR EXAMPLE TO CONTROL CELL SHAPE AND MOVEMENT. THE TEAM WAS ESTABLISHED AT A 2019 NSF IDEAS LAB ON BUILDING SYNTHETIC CELLS AS PART OF THE RULES OF LIFE INITIATIVE. THE BROADER IMPACT OF THE WORK INCLUDES ITS INTRINSIC NATURE IN REVEALING THE MECHANISTIC DETAILS OF WHAT MAY BE THE MOST POWERFUL BIOLOGIC MOTOR KNOWN. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES WILL INCLUDE THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAINING OF HIGH SCHOOL, UNDERGRADUATE, GRADUATE STUDENTS, AND POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLARS. A PERMANENT EXHIBIT ON ?SEEING CELLS? AT THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY (MBL), WHERE 1000+ SCIENTISTS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC VISIT EACH YEAR, WILL ALSO BE EXPANDED UPON. A THEME OF THE EXHIBIT IS THAT A GIVEN FUNCTION IN A CELL CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH DIFFERENT MECHANISMS IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF CELLS. THE PROJECT WILL CATALYZE NEW DISCUSSIONS ON THIS THEME, THE DESIGN OF SYNTHETIC CELLS, AND THEIR POSSIBLE IMPACT ON SOCIETY, AND IDEAS FROM THESE DISCUSSIONS WILL BE INCORPORATED INTO THE EXHIBIT AND TRANSLATED TO AN ONLINE FORMAT TO REACH A WIDE AUDIENCE. MYONEME CONTRACTION IS TRIGGERED BY CALCIUM, AND MYONEMES ARE COMPOSED OF CENTRIN EF-HAND PROTEINS AND SFI1 SCAFFOLD PROTEINS. IN CONTRAST TO THE WELL-STUDIED ATP-DRIVEN ACTOMYOSIN CONTRACTILE SYSTEM, LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT HOW MYONEMES GENERATE FORCE. STUDIES AT MULTIPLE SCALES WILL PRODUCE QUANTITATIVE INTEGRATIVE MODELS THAT EXPLAIN HOW MOLECULAR CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES PRODUCE FORCE IN THE WHOLE ORGANISM. A KEY ADVANCE ENABLING THE STUDIES IS THE TEAM?S RECONSTITUTION OF CALCIUM-INDUCED CONTRACTION BY FILAMENTS COMPOSED OF ONLY CENTRIN AND SFI1 IN VITRO. THE PROJECT WILL TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT SPECIFIC CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES OF MYONEME PROTEINS AT THE MOLECULAR LEVEL ARE TRIGGERED BY CALCIUM TO DRIVE THE ULTRAFAST CONTRACTION AT THE MILLIMETER SCALE IN THIS ORGANISM. THE AIMS ARE TO 1) DETERMINE THE FACTORS THAT MODULATE ASSEMBLY AND FORCE GENERATION IN VITRO, 2) ELUCIDATE THE STRUCTURAL BASES OF CONTRACTION AT THE MOLECULAR LEVEL, AND 3) DETERMINE HOW THE INTERPLAY OF THE MYONEME NETWORK, CALCIUM DYNAMICS, MICROTUBULES, AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS PRODUCE ULTRAFAST CONTRACTION OF THE WHOLE ORGANISM. IN THE LONG TERM, THIS WORK WILL ENABLE NOVEL UNDERSTANDING OF AN INDEPENDENT BIOLOGICAL MECHANISM FOR ULTRAFAST FORCE GENERATION, WHICH CAN BE HARNESSED TO MANIPULATE BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS, BOTH IN VITRO AND IN VIVO. THIS PROJECT WAS CO-FUNDED BY THE MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS AND THE SYSTEMS AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY PROGRAMS IN THE DIVISION OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOSCIENCES. 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.

REHABILITATION LONG-TERM TRAINING - REHABILITATION LONG-TERM TRAINING - JOB DEVELOPMENT AND JOB PLACEMENT SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES

EXCITATION AND IONIZATION IN ATOMIC COLLISION PROCESSES --- GENERAL THEORY AND ACCURATE NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS

PHOTON- AND ELECTRON-DRIVEN ATOMIC COLLISION PROCESSES: GENERAL THEORY AND ACCURATE NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS -THIS PROJECT DEALS WITH THE INTERACTION OF CHARGED PARTICLES (MOSTLY ELECTRONS) AND LIGHT (MOSTLY LASERS AND SYNCHROTRON RADIATION) WITH ATOMS AND IONS. THE RESULTS ARE NOT ONLY IMPORTANT FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUNDAMENTAL COLLISION DYNAMICS, BUT THEY ALSO FULFILL THE URGENT PRACTICAL NEED FOR ACCURATE ATOMIC DATA TO MODEL THE PHYSICS OF STARS, PLASMAS, LASERS, AND PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES. THE SHORT-PULSE INTENSE-LASER PART OF THE PROJECT REQUIRES ACCURATE SOLUTIONS OF THE TIME-DEPENDENT SCHR?DINGER EQUATION ON A NUMERICAL SPACE-TIME GRID. WITH THE RAPID ADVANCES CURRENTLY SEEN IN COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES, SUCH STUDIES CAN NOW BE UNDERTAKEN FOR REALISTIC SYSTEMS, AS OPPOSED TO IDEALIZED MODELS. THIS WORK IS IMPORTANT TO FACILITATE FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN THE IMAGING AND CONTROL OF SUBMICROSCOPIC REACTIONS, WHICH IN TURN ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE BROAD IMPACT BY REACHING OUT FROM PHYSICS TO CHEMISTRY AND ULTIMATELY BIOLOGY. MANY EXPERIMENTAL EFFORTS WORLDWIDE ARE SUPPORTED THROUGH THE PRESENT PROJECT, WHICH WILL ALSO TRAIN A POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE AND SEVERAL RESEARCH STUDENTS. MOST OF THE NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS WILL BE BASED UPON THE NON-PERTURBATIVE CLOSE-COUPLING METHOD, WITH THE GOAL OF PUSHING THE EXPANSION TO CONVERGENCE BY INCLUDING A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF LOW-LYING PHYSICAL BOUND STATES AS WELL AS PSEUDO-STATES TO ACCOUNT FOR THE COUPLING TO THE REMAINDER OF THE INFINITE RYDBERG SPECTRUM AS WELL AS THE IONIZATION CONTINUUM. THE GROUP HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT, AND HENCE HAS ACCESS TO, SOME OF THE MOST SOPHISTICATED ALL-ELECTRON CODES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TO PROVIDE ACCURATE QUANTITATIVE PREDICTIONS. THESE INCLUDE THE HIGHLY FLEXIBLE B-SPLINE R-MATRIX (BSR) IMPLEMENTATION WITH NON-ORTHOGONAL ORBITAL SETS TO SOLVE THE CLOSE-COUPLING EQUATIONS (DEVELOPED IN THE PI'S GROUP AT DRAKE UNIVERSITY) AND THE R-MATRIX WITH TIME DEPENDENCE (RMT) SUITE OF CODES DEVELOPED IN BELFAST. WHILE BSR WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED FOR TIME-INDEPENDENT PROCESSES (ATOMIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRON COLLISIONS WITH ATOMS AND IONS, WEAK-FIELD PHOTOIONIZATION), THE GROUP WILL ADAPT THE OUTPUT (MULTI-ELECTRON COULOMB AND DIPOLE MATRIX ELEMENTS) FROM BSR TO SERVE AS INPUT FOR RMT. THIS INTERFACE IS EXPECTED TO RESULT IN AN ACCURATE AND EFFICIENT TIME-PROPAGATION SCHEME FOR SOLVING THE TIME-DEPENDENT SCHR?DINGER EQUATION FOR THE INTERACTION OF INTENSE SHORT-PULSE LASERS WITH COMPLEX ATOMIC TARGETS. TO ASSIST IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMPLEX PROCESSES INVOLVED, SIMPLER MODELS SUCH AS THE POPULAR SINGLE-ACTIVE ELECTRON APPROXIMATION (SAE) WILL ALSO BE USED FOR COMPARISON BETWEEN THE PREDICTIONS AND THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA OBTAINED IN SEVERAL COLLABORATING LABORATORIES. CONTINUED STUDENT INVOLVEMENT IN TESTING THE NUMERICAL METHODS AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER CODES, AS WELL AS VISUALIZING THE RESULTS, IS EXPECTED. 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.

PHOTON- AND ELECTRON-DRIVEN ATOMIC COLLISION PROCESSES: GENERAL THEORY AND ACCURATE NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS

PHOTON- AND ELECTRON-DRIVEN ATOMIC COLLISION PROCESSES: GENERAL THEORY AND ACCURATE NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS

EXCITATION AND IONIZATION IN ATOMIC COLLISION PROCESSES --- GENERAL THEORY AND ACCURATE NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS

EXCITATION AND IONIZATION IN ATOMIC COLLISION PROCESSES -- GENERAL THEORY AND ACCURATE NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS

RESEARCH ON THE IMPACT OF INVITING EARLY COLLEGE STUDENTS TO BE MATHEMATICIANS

LOAN GRANT WITH FUNDS FOR NEW BUDGET PERIOD

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: COMPARING PRESERVICE STEM TEACHER PREPARATION USING VIRTUAL REALITY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SIMULATIONS VERSUS PEER TEACHING -THIS NSF IUSE: EDU PROJECT AIMS TO SERVE THE NATIONAL NEED FOR A GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE STEM WORKFORCE BY PREPARING UNDERGRADUATE STEM EDUCATION STUDENTS TO MORE EFFECTIVELY TEACH ALL K-12 STUDENTS. THE PROJECT WILL SUPPORT FUTURE TEACHERS BY OFFERING EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING THROUGH VIRTUAL REALITY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SIMULATIONS AND SCAFFOLDED PEER TEACHING. THESE INNOVATIVE TEACHING EXPERIENCES ARE DESIGNED TO HELP FUTURE EDUCATORS DEVELOP THE SKILLS NEEDED TO FACILITATE DISCUSSIONS OF SCIENTIFICALLY RELEVANT REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS. THROUGH THIS WORK, THE PROJECT AIMS TO PREPARE UNDERGRADUATE STEM EDUCATION STUDENTS TO EFFECTIVELY TEACH SCIENCE IN K?12 SCHOOLS TO SUPPORT ALL STEM LEARNERS IN SOLVING REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS. THIS PROJECT INCLUDES PARTNERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA, SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY, AND DRAKE UNIVERSITY. TOGETHER, THESE INSTITUTIONS WILL INVESTIGATE HOW UNDERGRADUATE STEM EDUCATION STUDENTS CAN BE EFFECTIVELY PREPARED TO FACILITATE DISCUSSIONS OF SCIENTIFICALLY RELEVANT REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS. PROJECT GOALS INCLUDE DEVELOPING AND COMPARING TWO INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE MODALITIES - VIRTUAL REALITY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AVATAR SIMULATIONS AND SCAFFOLDED PEER TEACHING - AND EVALUATING THEIR IMPACT ON APPROXIMATELY 250 UNDERGRADUATE STEM EDUCATION STUDENTS ACROSS THE FIVE INSTITUTIONS. USING A MIXED-METHODS APPROACH, THE STUDY WILL COLLECT DATA THROUGH RUBRIC-BASED EVALUATIONS OF TEACHING PERFORMANCE AT THREE TIMEPOINTS, PARTICIPANT SURVEYS, AND MENTOR FEEDBACK. THE RESEARCH WILL FOCUS ON PRESERVICE TEACHERS PREPARING TO TEACH SCIENCE IN K?12 SCHOOLS. BY PREPARING FUTURE STEM TEACHERS TO ENACT SCIENCE INSTRUCTION THAT ENCOURAGES STUDENTS TO SOLVE REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS, THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE EMPIRICAL SUPPORT FOR THE USE OF SCIENTIFICALLY RELEVANT REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS IN STEM TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS. AN EXTERNAL EVALUATOR WILL PROVIDE FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT PROJECT OBJECTIVES. FINDINGS WILL BE DISSEMINATED THROUGH PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS, NATIONAL STEM EDUCATION CONFERENCES, AND A PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE PROJECT WEBSITE OFFERING OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES. THE NSF IUSE: EDU PROGRAM SUPPORTS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS TO IMPROVE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STEM EDUCATION FOR ALL STUDENTS. THROUGH THE ENGAGED STUDENT LEARNING TRACK, THE PROGRAM SUPPORTS THE CREATION, EXPLORATION, AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PROMISING PRACTICES AND TOOLS. PARTIAL FUNDING FOR THE PROJECT IS FROM THE ROBERT NOYCE TEACHER SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM. 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.

DEVELOPMENT OF A GENERAL AND EFFECTIVE PROGRAM B-SPLINE R-MATRIX PROGRAM FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE AND PHOTON COLLISIONS WITH ATOMS, IONS, AND MOLECULES

DRAKE UNIVERSITY INNOVATIVE REHABILITATION COUNSELING LONG-TERM TRAINING GRANT

DEVELOPMENT OF A GENERAL, FULLY RELATIVISTIC B-SPLINE R-MATRIX WITH PSEUDO-STATES PROGRAM FOR ELECTRON AND PHOTON INTERACTIONS WITH ATOMS, IONS, AND

DEVELOPMENT OF A GENERAL, FULLY RELATIVISTIC, PARALLELIZED B-SPLINE R-MATRIX WITH PSEUDO-STATES PROGRAM FOR ELECTRON AND PHOTON INTERACTIONS WITH ATO

DRAKE UNIVERSITY INNOVATIVE UNDERGRADUATE REHABILITATION SERVICES TRAINING GRANT

RUI: DETERMINING NON-SYMBIOTIC HEMOGLOBIN FUNCTION IN PLANTS -WITH THIS AWARD, THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE PROCESSES PROGRAM IN THE CHEMISTRY DIVISION WILL BE FUNDING DR. STURMS FROM DRAKE UNIVERSITY TO INVESTIGATE THE ANCESTRAL FUNCTION OF NON-OXYGEN TRANSPORT HEMOGLOBINS IN EARLY FORMS OF PLANT LIFE. WHILE MOST PEOPLE ARE FAMILIAR WITH HEMOGLOBIN'S ROLE IN TRANSPORTING OXYGEN IN BLOOD, SCIENTISTS HAVE INCREASINGLY RECOGNIZED THAT OXYGEN TRANSPORT MAY NOT BE THE ORIGINAL FUNCTION OF THESE IMPORTANT PROTEINS. UNDERSTANDING THE TRUE ANCESTRAL PURPOSE OF HEMOGLOBINS WILL HELP US TO UNDERSTAND BASIC RULES ABOUT HOW PROTEINS DEVELOPED THEIR SPECIALIZED FUNCTIONS OVER MILLIONS OF YEARS. THIS RESEARCH WILL FOCUS ON HEMOGLOBIN PROTEINS FOUND IN BRYOPHYTES, WHICH ARE SIMPLE PLANTS LIKE MOSSES AND LIVERWORTS THAT STILL EXIST TODAY BUT REPRESENT SOME OF THE EARLIEST FORMS OF PLANT LIFE ON EARTH. BY STUDYING HEMOGLOBINS FROM EARLY LAND PLANTS, THIS RESEARCH WILL UNCOVER HOW THESE BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES SUPPORT LIFE PROCESSES, WITH POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING METABOLIC DISORDERS AND DEVELOPING NEW BIOTECHNOLOGIES. THE PROJECT WILL PROVIDE HANDS-ON RESEARCH TRAINING FOR 6-8 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS, PREPARING THEM FOR CAREERS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. ADDITIONALLY, 2-3 HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS WILL RECEIVE LABORATORY TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH COLLABORATION WITH IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY'S RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR TEACHERS PROGRAM, ENABLING THEM TO BRING CUTTING-EDGE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE BACK TO THEIR CLASSROOMS AND INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WILL BE CARRIED OUT TO DETERMINE WHETHER BRYOPHYTE HEMOGLOBINS FUNCTION IN OXYGEN TRANSPORT OR INSTEAD SERVE ALTERNATIVE METABOLIC ROLES, PARTICULARLY IN NITROGEN METABOLISM UNDER LOW-OXYGEN CONDITIONS. THE STUDY WILL EXAMINE HEMOGLOBIN PROTEINS FROM THREE BRYOPHYTE SPECIES: PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS, MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA, AND ANTHOCEROS PUNCTATUS. THE RESEARCH WILL ADDRESS THREE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES THROUGH DETAILED PROTEIN CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES. FIRST, THIS STUDY WILL DETERMINE IF BRYOPHYTE HEMOGLOBINS DISPLAY HEME COORDINATION AND LIGAND BINDING CHARACTERISTICS CONSISTENT WITH OXYGEN TRANSPORT BY MEASURING VISIBLE ABSORBANCE SPECTRA AND MONITORING LIGAND BINDING KINETICS. SECOND, ENZYME KINETIC MEASUREMENTS WILL EVALUATE WHETHER THESE HEMOGLOBINS EXHIBIT REACTION RATES WITH NITROGEN-CONTAINING MOLECULES THAT WOULD SUPPORT THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN METABOLIC PATHWAYS, INCLUDING NITRITE REDUCTION, HYDROXYLAMINE REDUCTION, AND NITRIC OXIDE DIOXYGENASE ACTIVITY. THIRD, STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF BRYOPHYTE HEMOGLOBINS WILL BE CONDUCTED USING PROTEIN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES TO UNDERSTAND HOW STRUCTURE RELATES TO FUNCTION. RESULTS FROM THESE STUDIES WILL ADVANCE UNDERSTANDING OF THE EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF HEMOGLOBIN FUNCTION AND PROVIDE NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE RULES OF LIFE THAT GOVERN PROTEIN STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS IN BIOLOGICAL 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

SL - PHARMACY - LOAN GRANT WITH FUNDS FOR NEW BUDGET PERIOD

UNDERGRADUATE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE

RME AWARD

RME OUTREACH

WORKSHOP ON "AMO THEORY: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND A VISION FOR THE FUTURE," TO BE HELD AUGUST 18-19, 2011

LOW INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC

IMPACT OF REGULATORY POLICY ON OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARE, LEGAL MOBILIZATION, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

LOW INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC

LOW INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: UTMOST: UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING IN MATHEMATICS WITH OPEN SOFTWARE AND TEXTBOOKS

GLOBAL PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: DEVELOPING NEW QUESTIONS AND CATEGORIES FOR CROSS-CULTURAL INQUIRY

DRAKE FORUM

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A GAZE-CONTINGENT EYE-TRACKING SYSTEM

CONFERENCE: CBMS CONFERENCE: ALGORITHMIC FRACTAL DIMENSIONS -THIS AWARD FUNDS A CONFERENCE BOARD OF THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES (CBMS) REGIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMIC FRACTAL DIMENSIONS TO BE HELD MAY 20-24, 2024, AT DRAKE UNIVERSITY IN DES MOINES, IOWA. THE CENTRAL FOCUS OF THE CONFERENCE WILL BE TEN LECTURES TO BE GIVEN BY PROFESSOR JACK LUTZ OF IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY. ALGORITHMIC FRACTAL DIMENSIONS WERE FIRST DEVELOPED AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS CENTURY AS MEASURES OF THE DENSITY OF INFORMATION IN VARIOUS MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS. AS THE NAME SUGGESTS, THEY ARE VERSIONS OF CLASSICAL FRACTAL DIMENSIONS THAT HAVE THE THEORY OF COMPUTING EMBEDDED IN THEIR DEFINITIONS. THEY HAVE ALREADY HAD APPLICATIONS IN COMPUTABILITY THEORY, COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY, INFORMATION THEORY, AND NUMBER THEORY. MOST STRIKINGLY, ALGORITHMIC FRACTAL DIMENSIONS ARE BEING USED WITH INCREASING FREQUENCY TO PROVE NEW THEOREMS--SOME ANSWERING LONG-STANDING OPEN PROBLEMS--IN CLASSICAL FRACTAL GEOMETRY, THEOREMS WHOSE STATEMENTS DO NOT INVOLVE COMPUTABILITY OR RELATED ASPECTS OF MATHEMATICAL LOGIC. THE CONFERENCE WILL THUS BE OF INTEREST TO PARTICIPANTS FROM MULTIPLE RESEARCH COMMUNITIES. INVITATIONS TO THE CONFERENCE WILL REFLECT THIS BREADTH AND WILL PRIORITIZE EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS, MEMBERS OF HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS, AND A RANGE OF INSTITUTIONS IN THE MIDWEST. THE CONFERENCE LECTURES WILL BEGIN WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CLASSICAL HAUSDORFF AND PACKING DIMENSIONS AND AN OVERVIEW OF THE LECTURES TO COME. FOLLOWING THAT WILL BE A DISCUSSION OF WHAT IT MEANS TO EFFECTIVIZE A MATHEMATICAL CONCEPT. THE LECTURES WILL THEN PROCEED TO USE EFFECTIVIZATION TO DEFINE ALGORITHMIC VERSIONS OF CLASSICAL HAUSDORFF AND PACKING DIMENSIONS. APPLICATION OF THESE DIMENSIONS WILL BE DISCUSSED, ALONG WITH HOW THEY UNIFY HAUSDORFF DIMENSION WITH THE LATER INFORMATION THEORIES OF SHANNON AND KOLMOGOROV. THE USE OF ALGORITHMIC DIMENSIONS TO DEVELOP USEFUL NOTIONS OF THE DIMENSIONS OF INDIVIDUAL POINTS IN EUCLIDEAN SPACE WILL BE EMPHASIZED, AS IT LEADS TO THE POINT-TO-SET PRINCIPLE THAT HAS ENABLED SEVERAL SURPRISING APPLICATIONS IN GEOMETRIC MEASURE THEORY. THE LECTURES WILL ALSO DISCUSS APPLICATIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY, INFORMATION THEORY, AND THE THEORY OF BOREL NORMAL NUMBERS. BEYOND THE LECTURES, THE CONFERENCE WILL PROVIDE AMPLE TIME FOR OPEN PROBLEM SESSIONS AND OTHER DISCUSSIONS. 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.

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2023-2025 IOWA COLLOQUIUM ON INFORMATION, COMPLEXITY, AND LOGIC - SUMMER RESEARCH CONFERENCE (ICICL-SRC) -THE IOWA COLLOQUIUM ON INFORMATION, COMPLEXITY, AND LOGIC - SUMMER RESEARCH CONFERENCE (ICICL-SRC) PROMOTES COLLABORATION AMONG RESEARCHERS WHOSE INTERESTS ARE RELATED TO THE THEORY OF COMPUTATION (TOC). ONE OF THE PRIMARY GOALS OF THIS CONFERENCE IS TO REINFORCE IOWA AS A HUB FOR TOC RESEARCH WITHIN THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES. THIS CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD DURING THE COURSE OF TWO DAYS AND WILL FEATURE TWO INVITED SPEAKERS AND SEVERAL CONTRIBUTED TALKS. STUDENTS OF UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITY GROUPS ARE ESPECIALLY ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE. THIS AWARD WILL FUND THE CONFERENCE DURING THE 2023, 2024, AND 2025 CALENDAR YEARS. THIS CONFERENCE WILL BENEFIT BOTH EXPERTS AND STUDENTS WHOSE RESEARCH AREAS ARE RELATED TO TOC AND WILL ALSO INCREASE THE VISIBILITY OF THE SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY IOWA-BASED RESEARCHERS TO THIS FIELD. BOTH UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE AND WILL GAIN EXPERIENCE PRESENTING THEIR WORK AND INTERACTING WITH OTHER EXPERTS WITHIN TOC. AS PART OF ICICL-SRC, THERE WILL BE A COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM TO EDUCATE HIGH SCHOOL COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHERS ABOUT THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF TOC AND THE VALUE OF TEACHING THIS TOPIC TO STUDENTS. THIS OUTREACH PROGRAM WILL BE A HALF-DAY EVENT THAT WILL TAKE PLACE PRIOR TO THE RESEARCH CONFERENCE. HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND AND MAY CHOOSE TO PARTICIPATE IN-PERSON OR ONLINE. 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.

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