Current Grants

Providing Undergraduate Researchers with Curricular Development Opportunities Through the Purdue CDF Freedom School Summer Literacy & Enrichment Program

• $10,000
• Purdue Honors College Blue Sky Teaching and Learning Labs
• PI: Breanya Hogue with First United Methodist Church
• 11/2023-10/2024

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Gauging the Instructional Sensitivity of Ordinal Assessment Items

• $25,500
• IEA Amsterdam
• PI: Anne Traynor
• 1/2024-5/2024

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FFA Lilly Grant Purdue Professional Development Proposal

• $10,000
• National FFA Organization
• PI: Sarah LaRose, Co-PI: Brian Talbert
• 9/2023-8/2024

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Sabbath as a spiritual imperative for liberatory teaching

• $5,000
• Wabash Center
• PI: Amber Neal-Stanley
• 9/2023-5/2024

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Professional Development for Educators: Enhancing Instruction with Extended Reality Experiences for Enhanced Learning Opportunities

• $50,000
• Purdue Innovation Hub
• PI: Victoria Lowell
• 7/2023-7/2024

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Leading Academic Transformation: Enhancing STEM Instructional Methods

• $24,000
• U.S.-Kazakhstan University Partnerships Program
• PI: Paul Asunda
• 2/2023-2/2024

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Attracting, Preparing, & Retaining Teachers through a Residency-Based Grow Your Own Program

• $916,453
• Indiana Department of Education
• PI: Kathy Obenchain, Co-PI: Jenn Barce
• 9/2022-9/2024

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Centering Trauma-informed Practices (TIP) to Sustain TIP Knowledge and Reduce Secondary Traumatic Stress in Novice Teachers: An Interdisciplinary Research-Practice Partnership

• $398,000
• Spencer Foundation
• Co-PI: Ofelia Schepers, in collaboration with MSU-Denver
• 8/1/22-7/31/24

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Project HOPE+ 2022-2024

• $150,000
• Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
• PI: Marcia Gentry
• 1/2022-12/2024

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Collaborative Research: A Data-Driven Employer-Academia Partnership for Continual Computing Curricular Change

• $3,000,000
• National Science Foundation: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE)
• Co-PI: Marisa Exter
  • In collaboration with University of Alabama, Rochester Institute of Technology, Tuskegee University, George Washington University, University of New Hampshire, Mississippi State University, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 8/2021-7/2024

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Learning by Evaluating: Engaging students in evaluation as a pedagogical strategy to improve design thinking

• $1,257,321
• National Science Foundation: Discovery Research K-12
• PI: Nathan Mentzer, Co-PIs: Scott Bartholomew, Andrew Jackson, and Ryan Novitski
• 6/2021-12/2023

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Growing the Workforce for Digital Agriculture

• $297,861
• National Inst of Food & Agriculture
• PI: Bruce Erickson, Co-PI; Sarah LaRose
• 1/2021-12/2023

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LASER Partners for University-led Solutions Engine (PULSE)

• $20,000,000
• S. Agency for International Development
• Co-PI: Willie Burgess
  • In Collaboration with PI: A Raman, and Co-PIs: J Sinfield, Y Yuehwern
• 6/2018-6/2023

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Professional Development for K-12 Teachers in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

• $847,245
• National Science Foundation, Discovery Research in K-12 Education
• PI: Minjung Ryu [now at University of Illinois Chicago], Co-PI: Wayne E. Wright
• 9/2018-8/2023*

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Enhancing Undergraduate STEM Education by Integrating Mobile Learning Technologies

• $1,398,642
• Institute of Education Sciences
• PI: Muhsin Menekse, Co- PI: Ala Samarapungavan
• 8/2018-8/2023*

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Project Einstein: Excellence in STEM Teaching in Indiana

• $1,415,500
• National Science Foundation: Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
• PI: Lynn Bryan, Co-PIs: Selcen Guzey, Jill Newton, Paul Asunda, Muhsin Menekse
• 7/2018-6/2023*

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Project PUEDE: Parent and Professional Understanding for Equity in Dual Language Education

• $1,892,481
• S. Department of Education: National Professional Development Program
• PI: Trish Morita-Mullaney, Co- PI: Wayne E. Wright
• 9/2017-8/2023*

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Leveraging the Lectura y Lenguaje: A Collaborative Scale up of Literacy and Language in Indiana Schools

• $1,840,319
• S. Department of Education: National Professional Development Program
• PI: Trish Morita-Mullaney, Co- PI: Wayne E. Wright
• 9/2017-8/2023*

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Indiana’s GEAR UP Program

• $24,500,000
• S. Department of Education
• PI: Carla Johnson [now at North Carolina State University], Co-PI: Virginia Bolshakova
• 9/2016-8/2023

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FFA Lilly Grant Purdue Professional Development Proposal

• $10,000
• National FFA Organization
• PI: Sarah LaRose, Co-PI: Brian Talbert
• 9/2023-8/2024

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Looks Like Me: Leveraging Funds of Identity to Enhance Engineering Career Pursuits in Rural/Reservation Communities

• $49,965
• Montana State University / NSF
• PI: Rebekah Hammack
• 8/2023-6/2024

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Purdue Freedom Schools Program

• $9,993
• United Way
• PI: Breanya Hogue
• 6/2023-5/2024

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Strengthening Indiana’s Future through the 21st Century STEM Teaching Scholarship

• $563,750
• Indiana Commission for Higher Education
• PI: Lynn Bryan, Co-PIs: Selcen Guzey, Mushin Menekse, Jill Newton, Paul Asunda, Nathan Mentzer, William Walker
• 7/2021-6/2023

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Hoosier STEM Academy Program

• $150,000
• Indiana Commission for Higher Education
• PI: Tara Johnson, In collaboration with Ball State University
• 7/2021-6/2023

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Developing an Effective “Systems Think” Evaluation Tool for RR Job Candidates

• $64,651
• Rolls Royce Corporation
• PI: Sorin Matei, Co-PIs: William Watson and Joel Rasmus
• 7/2021-7/2023

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Characterizing How Teachers Design Engaging Learning Environments in STEM Education: Examining Teachers’ and Students’ Conceptualizations of Integrated STEM

• $325,009
• National Science Foundation: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (BCSER)
• PI: Paul Asunda
• 7/2021-6/2023

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Creating Place: The Experiences of Indigenous Graduate Students in STEM

• $49,945
• Spencer Foundation
• PI: Stephanie Zywicki
• 7/2019-6/2023

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Exploring Biological Evidence (EBE): Helping Students Understand the Richness and Complexity of Evidentiary Constructs in Biology

• $1,270,154 (+ $65,909 supplement)
• National Science Foundation: Discovery Research K-12
• PI: Ala Samarapungavan
  • In collaboration with Co- PI: K. Clase, S. Gardner and N. Palaez
• 1/2017-12/2022

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Sensing Science through Modeling Matter: Kindergarten Students’ Development of Understanding Matter and it Changes

• $2,641,415 ($875,045 Purdue)
• National Science Foundation & Concord Consortium
• Co- PIs: Lynn Bryan and Ala Samarapungavan
  • In collaboration with PI: C. Staudt
• 10/2016-12/2022

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Becoming an Online Teacher Even When I Didn’t Sign Up For It

• $1,548,822
• IN Department of Education
• PI: Tim Newby, Co-PIs: Kharon Grimmet, Adrie Koehler-Blair, Trish Morita-Mullaney, Jennifer Richardson
• 10/2020-9/2022

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Grants House Mural

• $4,950
• Indiana Arts Commission
• PI: Jennifer Smith, Co-PI: Jasmine Begekse
• 11/2022-6/2023

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Purdue’s Literacy and Language Development Clinic

• $1,123,774
• Indiana Department of Education
• PI: Christy Wessel-Powell, Co-PIs: Dr. Helen Bentley, Dr. Virak Chan, Dr. Trish Morita-Mullaney, and Dr. Laura Bofferding, and Dr. Jenn Barce and Edward Wiercioch
• 1/2022-6/2023

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Engaging Middle School Science Student in Taxonomy with Augmented Reality (AR) Technology-Assisted Learning

• $25,000
• College of Education Launch the Future Award
• PI: Victoria Lowell, with graduate students Stuart White, Anthony IIobinso, and Kevin Jones, and consultants Lynn Bryan, Timothy Gibb, Daniel Triplett and George Takahashi.
• 4/2022-4/2023

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Development, Validation, and Implementation of the Pre-Service Teachers Online Teaching Motivation Scale (PST-OTMS): Examining Motivational Constructs in Online Teaching and Learning

• $22,986
• College of Education Launch the Future Award
• PI: Luke Bennett, Co-PIs: Yukiko Maeda and Adrie Koehler
• 4/2022-4/2023

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Innovation and Impact: Fostering Preservice Teachers’ Engagement with Rural Community Partners

• $24,380
• College of Education Launch the Future Award
• PI: Stephanie Oudghiri, Co-PIs: Helen Bentley and Laura Bofferding 
• 4/2022-4/2023

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Video-Based Innovative Teaching and Learning (VITAL) Mobile Studio for Online Instruction and Educational Videos in the College of Education

• $98,787
• Purdue Instructional Equipment Grant
• PI: Christy Wessel-Powell, Co-PIs: Jasmine Begeske, Luke Bennett, Helen Bentley, Virak Chan, Diane Gunstra, Adrie Koehler-Blair, Trish Morita-Mullaney, Anne Murphy-Kline, David Premont, Jennifer Renn, Bill Watson, Sunny Watson, and Wayne E. Wright
• 11/2021-10/2022

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Empowering Pre-service Teaching with Emerging Technologies and In-depth Faculty Feedback – Innovative Initiative (I²)

• $99,393
• Purdue Instructional Equipment Program
• Co-PIs: Rose Mason, Christy Wessel-Powell, Wanju Huang, David Sears, Adrie Koehler, and Bill Watson
• 1/2021-12/2022

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Creative Assistive and Rehabilitative Technology Solutions (CARTS)

• $99,907
• Purdue Instructional Equipment Program
• Co-PIs: Jasmine Begeske and Jennifer Smith
• 1/2021-12/2022

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Addressing special education teachers’ implementation fidelity of functional communication training: A preliminary evaluation of the Performance Diagnostic Checklist – Schools

• $1,300
• Association for Positive Behavioral Support
• PI: Mandy Rispoli
• 9/2021-4/2022

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Small But Mighty Mural Project

• $5,000
• Indiana Arts Commission
• Co-PIs: Jasmine Begeske and Jennifer Smith
• 7/2021-6/2022

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Identifying Marginalization and Allying Tendencies to Transform Engineering Relationships

• $630,386
• National Science Foundations: Broadening Participation in Engineering
• Co-PI: Stephanie Zywiki
  • In collaboration with PI: A. Pawley, and Co- PIs: D. Dickerson, and M. Ohland
• 8/2019-7/2022

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Participatory Action Research of Higher Education Connected Learning in Emergencies

• $50,000
• Spencer Foundation
• Co-PI: Brenda Capobianco
  • In collaboration with PI Jennifer DeBoer
• 6/2021-5/2022

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Integrating STEM Through Food Systems Incubation Design Challenges

• $20,000
• College of Education, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, and Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships: Purdue Polytechnic High School Collaborative Research Grant
• Co-PI: Hui Hui Wang
  • In collaboration with Lisa Bowman and Neil Knobloch
• 6/2021-5/2022

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Foregrounding High School Mathematics in Project-Based Learning

• $20,000
• College of Education, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, and Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships: Purdue Polytechnic High School Collaborative Research Grant
• Co-PIs: Rachael Kenney, Signe Kastberg, Elizabeth Suazo-Flores
  • In collaboration with Sarah Leach, Fay Barber-Dansby, and Jeff de Verona
• 6/2021-5/2022

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Building and Supporting Critique Environments Across Project-Based Disciplinary Contexts

• $32,172
• Purdue Best Practices in Higher Education
• Co-PIs: Marisa Exter and Wanju Huang
  • In collaboration with Colin Gray (PI) and Davin Huston, Purdue Polytechnic Institute
• 11/2020-10/2021

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Hyflex as a model for actively engaging face to face and remote students in discussion and small group project-based learning

• $45,393
• Purdue Best Practices in Higher Education
• PI: Nathan Mentzer
• 11/2020-10/2021

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Determining the Effectiveness of the Purdue Repository for online Teaching and Learning (PoRTAL) for Transforming Online Teaching Practices

• $46,792
• Purdue Best Practices in Higher Education
• PI: Jennifer Richardson, Co-PIs: Daniela Castellanos-Reyes, Mohammad Shams Ud Duha
• 11/2020-10/2021

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Virtual Instruction: Research and Literacy Learning; Online Literacy-Cast Faculty Professional Development in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

• $49,996
• Purdue Best Practices in Higher Education
• PI: Christy Wessel-Powell, Co-PIs: Virak Chan, Adrie Koehler-Blair, Marjorie Sprunger
  • In collaboration with Tamar Greenwell and Chenell Loudermill (SLHS), Appalachian State University and University of Northern Iowa
• 11/2020-10/2021

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ACCESS Purdue – Early College Program Proposal: Expanding College Access and Turning High School Partnerships into College Enrollment

• $39,000
• College of Education, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, and Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships: Purdue Polytechnic High School Collaborative Research Grant
• Co-PIs: David Sears and Nathan Mentzer
  • In collaboration with PI Greg Strimel and Co-PI S. Bartholomew, Purdue Polytechnic Institute
• 12/2020-11/2021

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Holistic Talent Development for Underserved Youth: Cybercrime, Internet Safety, and Achievement Motivation

• $33,000
• College of Education, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, and Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships: Purdue Polytechnic High School Collaborative Research Grant
• PI: Marcia Gentry, Co-PI: O Desmet, D Crimmins, 12/2020-11/2021
  • In collaboration with PI: K. Seigfried-Spellar and Co-PI D. Crimmins, Purdue Polytechnic Institute
• 12/2020-11/2021

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A Personalized Project-Based Approach to STEM Learning: How Does The PPHS Model Serve Students At-Risk?

• $28,000
• College of Education, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, and Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships: Purdue Polytechnic High School Collaborative Research Grant
• PI: Sunnie L. Watson, Co-PIs: Denise K. Whitford, Lisa Lambert Snodgrass
  • In collaboration with PI Tahir M. Khan and Co-PI L.B. Bosman, Purdue Polytechnic Institute
• 12/2020-11/2021

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Vet Up! The National HCOP Academy for Veterinary Medicine

• $3,179,007
• Health Resources & Services Administration
• Co-PI: Willie Burgess
  • In collaboration with PI: S SanMiguel, and Co-PIs: H Green, W Reed, B Zenor
• 9/2019-8/2020

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Strengthening Indiana’s Future through the 21st Century STEM Teaching Scholarship

• $498,000
• Indiana Commission for Higher Education
• PI: Lynn Bryan, Co-PIs: Selcen Guzey, Muhsin Meneske, Jill Newton
• 9/2019-6/2021

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Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research

• $19,000
• American Education Research Association
• Co-PI: Jairo Funez, doctoral candidate (under supervision of PI JoAnn Phillion)
• 8/2019-6/2020

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Evaluating the Methods and Effectiveness of Community-based Organizations in Supporting Lower-income Students of Color Through College

• $50,000
• Spencer Foundation
• PI: Amanda Case
• 8/2019-1/2021

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Evaluating the Effects of Service Dogs on Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

• $30,000
• Nestle Purina
• PI: Mandy Rispoli
  • In collaboration with Co-PI: M. O’Haire
• 8/2019-7/2021

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Collaborative Research: Co-Developing a Curriculum Coherence Toolkit with Teachers

• $445,251
• National Science Foundation
• Co-PI: Jill Newton
  • In collaboration with Michigan State University (PI: C. Drake)
• 7/2019-6/2021

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Supporting the Stem Interests, Efficacy, and Career Expectations of Lower-income Black and Latinx Students through Community-based, Out-of-school Programming

• $15,500
• College of Education: Launch the Future
• PI: Amanda Case, Co-PI: Nielson Pereira
• 5/2019-12/2020

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Catchment Zone Interviews: Addressing Inequality in a Segregated School District

• $15,500
• College of Education: Launch the Future
• PI: Christy Wessel-Powell
• 5/2019-12/2020

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Harnessing Parental Support to Improve College Enrollment and Persistence of Lower-income Students of Color

• $20,000
• Kinley Trust
• PI: Amanda Case
• 5/2019-4/2020

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Creating a Connected Classroom

• $4,400
• Wiley Education Services
• PI: Victoria Walker
• 3/2019-1/2020

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Project Hope+

• $150,000
• Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
• PI: Marcia Gentry
• 2/2019-1/2-21

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Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute

• $750,000
• S. State Department
• PI: Anatoli Rapoport
• 1/2019-12/2021

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Making Challenging Text Accessible: Increasing Academic Achievement for Struggling Readers

• $50,000
• Spencer Foundation
• PI: Melanie Kuhn
• 1/2019-2/2020

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LASER Buy-in: Building the Evidence Base on Effective Private Sector Engagement

• $2,687,578
• S. Agency for International Development
• Co-PI: Willie Burgess
  • In collaboration with PI: Y Yuehwern, and Co-PI: J Sinfield
• 10/2018-12/2020

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Para-Impact: Professional Development with Teacher-as-Coach for Paraeducators of Elementary Students with Moderate-to-Severe Developmental Disabilities

• $1,393,765
• Institute of Education Sciences
• PI: Rose Mason, Co-PI: Mandy Rispoli, Jennifer Richardson, Yukiko Maeda
• 8/2018-8/2021

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How Gifted Underachievement Develops According to Gifted Underachievers and their Parents

• $46,730
• American Psychological Association
• PI: Nielsen Pereira, Co-PI: Ophélie Desmet
• 8/2018-7/2020

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Exploratory: Promoting Commenting and Debugging in Early Years Programming

• $397,606
• National Science Foundation: Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers
• PI: Laura Bofferding
• 8/2018-8/2020

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Virtual Reality Augmented Hands-on Cryo-EM Training

• $367,647
• National Institute of Health: Eye Institute
• Co- PI: William Watson
  • In collaboration with PI: Y Chen
• 5/2018-4/2021

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The Integration of Engineering Design and Life Science: Investigating the Influence

• $1,838,015
• National Science Foundation: Discovery Research K-12
• PI: Selcen Guzey
• 9/2017-8/2021

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Collaborative Research: Theoretical and Methodological Tools for Studying Group Productive Disciplinary Engagement

• $1,082,294
• National Science Foundation: EHR Core
• PI: Toni Rogat, Co- PI: Anne Traynor
  • In Collaboration with PI C. Hmelo-Silver and Co-PI B. Cheng, Indiana University
• 9/2017-8/2020

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ARISE – Augmentation Infused Scale-up Environment

• $299,846
• National Science Foundation: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education
• Co-PI: L. Bryan
  • In collaboration with PI: C. Rebello, Co-PIs: Haugan, Hirsch
• 8/2017-7/2020

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Collaborative Research: Identity Development Evaluation of African American Students: A Longitudinal Investigation

• $589,574
• National Science Foundation: EHR Core
• PI: Eric Deemer
  • In collaboration with PI Aryn Dotterer and Co-PI Derosa, Utah State University
• 6/2017-5/2020

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Exploring Biological Evidence (EBE): Helping Students Understand the Richness and Complexity of Evidentiary Constructs in Biology

• $1,270,154 (+ $65,909 supplement)
• National Science Foundation: Discovery Research K-12
• PI: Ala Samarapungavan
  • In collaboration with Co- PI: K. Clase, S. Gardner and N. Palaez
• 1/2017-8/2020

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Sensing Science through Modeling Matter: Kindergarten Students’ Development of Understanding Matter and it Changes

• $2,641,415 ($875,045 Purdue)
• National Science Foundation & Concord Consortium
• Co- PIs: Lynn Bryan and Ala Samarapungavan
  • In collaboration with PI: C. Staudt
• 10/2016-9/2020

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UPDATE: Using Principles of Design to Advance Teacher Education

• $2,018,951
• National Science Foundation
• PI: Brenda Capobianco, Co-PIs: David Eichinger, Selcen Guzey, Sanjay Rebello, and Minjung Ryu [now at University of Illinois Chicago]
  • In collaboration with Co-PI: Kendra Erk, College of Engineering
• 7/2016-6/2021

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This is How We Role: Inspiring Future Researchers through Veterinary Medicine

• $240,356
• National Institutes of Health
• Co-PI: Willie Burgess
  • In collaboration with PI: S Sanmiguel, and Co-PI: L Carlton
• 6/2015-4/2020