Grants Awarded in CD9
National Science Foundation

Tempe's Childsplay Youth Theater Company Awarded $20,000 The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $20,000 grant to Tempe's Childsplay, Inc. to perform Anne Negri’s original play, “Girls Who Wear Glasses.”  Anne Negri is a playwright and ASU graduate who has worked with Childsplay for several years. Her original play addresses bullying, friendship, peer pressure, and the social challenges confronting middle-school girls. Childsplay, Inc. is a non-profit children’s theater company founded in 1977. It will ?perform the play at various schools throughout the state from February to May 2015.

Arizona State University Literature Professor Cynthia Hogue has been awarded a grant to translate French poet Nathalie Quintane’s “Jeanne Darc" (Joan of Arc) poetry collection into English.

Prof. Hogue is internationally renowned for her poetry, translated works, and teaching. She is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at ASU.

Heard Museum Receives $10,000 to Supplement Admission for Low-Income Families

The Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Art highlights the "arts, heritage and life ways of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with an emphasis on American Indian tribes and other cultures of the Southwest." This grant allows the museum to continue offering free admission to low-income families. 

Scottsdale Cultural Council Awarded $25,000 for “Discovery Series”

This grant allows the Scottsdale Cultural Council to put on the Discovery Series, which explores the arts and culture of different regions of the world. The first Discovery Series will focus on Spain and Portugal.

Department of Transportation

Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety Awarded $664,356 

The Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety received the follow grants: • $523,189 to develop more effective impaired driving countermeasures • $14,339 to support motorcycle safety programs throughout the state. • $126,828 to support the state’s traffic safety information system

Department of Health and Human Services

ASU Prof. Dominique Roe-Sepowitz receives $250,000 to Study Human Trafficking The Department of Health and Human Services awarded Professor Dominique Roe-Sepowitz, of the Arizona State University School of Social Work, a $250,000 grant to study sex trafficking in Arizona. Dr. Roe-Sepowitz is a respected expert on sex trafficking. She is currently working on an extensive project studying sex trafficking in Arizona. Her research also explores ways of identifying vulnerable youth who are targeted for sex trafficking, as well as intervention modalities.

Dr. Hayes received this research grant for his work researching allergies and better ways of treating their symptoms.

National Science Foundation

Arizona State University Awarded $119,985 to Study the West Africa Ebola Outbreak ASU Computer Science and Engineering Prof. K. Selcuk Candan received an NSF grant to study the 2014 Ebola Outbreak using computer simulations. This project, "RAPID: Understanding the Evolution Patterns of the Ebola Outbreak in West-Africa and Supporting Real-Time Decision Making and Hypothesis Testing through Large Scale Simulations," launched December 1, 2014.

Grant Opportunities

This grant aims to foster a research community committed to advancing research and education at the confluence of VEC technologies, and to transitioning its findings into practice. NSF and Intel will cofund each project in equal amounts. This NSF/Intel partnership combines CISE's experience in developing and managing successful large, diverse research portfolios with Intel's long history of building research communities in emerging technology areas through programs such as its Science and Technology Center Program. Click here to learn more.

These grants support faculty development programs in the humanities for school teachers and for college and university teachers. NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes may be as short as two weeks or as long as five weeks.

NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes extend and deepen knowledge and understanding of the humanities by focusing on significant topics and texts; contribute to the intellectual vitality and professional development of participants; build communities of inquiry and provide models of civility and excellent scholarship and teaching; and link teaching and research in the humanities.

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National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops

The Landmarks of American History and Culture program supports a series of one-week residence-based workshops for a national audience of K-12 educators. These workshops use historic sites to address central themes and issues in American history, government, literature, art, music, and related subjects in the humanities.

Each workshop is offered twice during the summer. Workshops accommodate thirty-six school teachers (NEH Summer Scholars) at each one-week session.

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DHS/NIH Family and Interpersonal Relationships in an Aging Context Grant

DoD/Department of the Army Neurosensory and Rehabilitation Research Grant

The goal of the Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP) is to advance the state of medical science in those areas of most pressing need and relevance to today’s battlefield experience. The CRMRP mission is to focus on definitive and rehabilitative care innovations required to reset our wounded warriors, both in terms of duty performance and quality of life.

The Psychological Health/Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program (PH/TBIRP) mission is to establish, fund, and integrate both individual and multiagency research efforts that will lead to improved prevention, detection, and treatment of PH/TBI. The vision of the PH/TBIRP is to prevent, mitigate, and treat the effects of traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury on function, wellness, and overall quality of life for Service Members as well as their caregivers and families.

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