Grant Activities

Grant Activities

ODS researchers actively pursue grant funding to support student success, engineering pathways, and institutional research. Funded, pending, and unfunded proposals are listed below.

Funded

  • 2024 - 2026. Nicolina Pender serves as Co-PI. Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) – Broadening Participation in STEM Graduate Degrees. National Science Foundation (NSF). Award No. 2336484, $75,000.
  • 2023 - 2027. Qingmin Shi serves as the Co-PI. HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project, “Enhancing and Expanding Second-Year Experience (EESYE) to Improve Equity, Retention, and Student Success in Engineering/Computer Science Programs”. National Science Foundation (NSF). Award No. 2247579, $499,969.
  • 2023 - 2026. Nicolina Pender serves as a Steering Committee member. SLOAN Centers for Systemic Change Grant. $247,812.
  • 2021 - 2022. Qingmin Shi serves as the Co-PI. Creating sustained pathways for student success in engineering and computer science: The peer mentoring program embedded in first year (EGG 101) and second year experience (EGG 202) courses. Funded by Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSAA) through UNLV. $60,000.
  • 2021 - 2022. Qingmin Shi serves as the Co-PI. Estimating the impacts of the newly redesigned curriculum for EGG 101 course on engineering students’ strategic learning. Funded by the Office of Academic Assessment, UNLV. $1,250.
  • 2018 - 2021. Qingmin Shi serves as the Evaluator for the Grant: GP-IMPACTS: Nevada’s GeoGateway Program: A collaboration between Nevada State College, College of Southern Nevada, and the Desert Research Institute. Funded by the National Science Foundation, $351,431, Award No. 1801605.
  • 2018 - 2020. Qingmin Shi serves as the Statistical Consultant for the grant Understanding Ph.D. career pathways for program improvement. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Founded by National Science Foundation and the Council of Graduate Schools/NSF Career Pathways, $50,000, Award No. 1661272.

Pending

None at this time.

Unfunded

  • 2024 - 2026. Qingmin Shi and Ashley Guyer serve as the Co-PIs. Bet on Bar Success. Grant proposal submitted to the 2024 Faculty Opportunity Award (FOA). University of Nevada, Las Vegas. $35,000. Unfunded.
  • 2021 - 2022. Skip Crooker serves as the Co-PI. Modeling success across the graduate student lifecycle: Predictive analytics as a pathway to promote positive graduate student outcomes. Grant proposal submitted to Spencer Foundation. $49,900. Unfunded.
  • 2020 - 2025. Qingmin Shi serves as the Co-PI. Enhancing critical transitions of engineering and computer science students with synergetic curricular and co-curricular activities: A two-year Navigator Project. National Science Foundation. Unfunded. $2,487,431.