Grants

Active Grant Projects

Dr. Annela Teemant (Co-PIs)
Dr. Brandon Sherman (Co-PIs)
Josh Prada (Co-PIs)

Project Title: Project CELEBRATE: Cultivating Equitable Learning Environments, Building Readiness, Advancing Teacher Education
Funding Agency: USDOE
Funded Amount: $2,999,077
Timeline: 2022-2027

Dean Tambra O. Jackson (PI)

Project Title: IU Indianapolis' (formerly IUPUI) Collaborative Urban Partnerships for Attracting, Preparing & Retaining Teachers
Funding Agency: IDOE
Funded Amount: $568,708
Timeline: 2022-2024

Dr. Kathleen King Thorius (PI)

Project Title: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP)
Funding Agency: US Department of Education
Funded Amount: $8,500,000
Timeline: 2022-2027

Craig Willey (Faculty)
Erik Jacobson (PI)
Dionne Francis Cross (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Naomy Jessup (Georgia State)

Project Title: Attributions of Mathematical Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Funding Agency: NSF
Funded Amount: $2,010,846
Timeline: 7/1/2022 - 6/30/2025

Chalmer Thompson (Faculty)

Project Title: N/A
Funding Agency: Office of International Affairs
Funded Amount: $2,500
Timeline: 2/1/2021 - 6/3/2023

Jomo Mutegi (Faculty)

Project Title: Indy Empowerment Program: Promoting Racial Justice by Empowering African American adolescents through Crime Prevention and Academic Achievement
Funding Agency: RJRF
Funded Amount: $15,000
Timeline: 1/21 - 6/23

Project Title: Carver Teaching Initiative (CTI) Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
Funding Agency: NSF
Funded Amount: $484,967
Timeline: 8/2018 - 7/2023

Cleveland Hayes (Faculty)

Project Title: The 8-minutes and 46-seconds that Started a Movement: A Critical Race Moment of Why Now?
Funding Agency: RJRF
Funded Amount: $14,955
Timeline: 1/21 - 6/23

David Nguyen (Faculty)

Project Title: Revealing the Darkness: Examining Black Experiences in the Legal Profession
Funding Agency: IU Indianapolis (formerly IUPUI)I Racial Justice Research Fund
Funded Amount: $15,000
Timeline: 1/21 - 6/23

Jeremy Price (Faculty)
Paula Magee (Faculty)
Amy Waechter-Versaw (Faculty)
Brooke Moreland (Faculty)
Craig Willey (Faculty)

Project Title: Well Rounded Curriculum
Funding Agency: IDOE
Funded Amount: $620,795
Timeline: 8/2021 - 7/2023

Crystal Morton (Faculty)

Project Title: Carver Teaching Initiative (CTI) Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
Funding Agency: NSF
Funded Amount: $484,967
Timeline: 8/2018 - 7/2023

Project Title: Girls STEM Institute: Advancing Learning Through Interdisciplinary Experiences
Funding Agency: IDOE
Funded Amount: $567,640
Timeline: 5/21/2021 - 6/30/2023

Note: Girls STEM Summer Institute is open and available to all individuals, regardless of race or gender.

Annela Teemant (Faculty)
Dean Tambra O. Jackson (Faculty-Dean)

Project Title: Education for Liberation: School Change Leadership for Racial Equity and Justice
Funding Agency: Lumina Foundation
Funded Amount: $250,000
Timeline: 5/10/2021 - 12/31/2022

Dean Tambra O. Jackson (Faculty-Dean)

Project Title: IU Indianapolis (formerly IUPUI) Cultural Competency: Leading Radical Change
Funding Agency: IDOE
Funded Amount: $991,269
Timeline: 8/16/2019 - 8/31/2023

Kathleen King-Thorius (Faculty)

Project Title: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center: Civil Rights Training and Advisory Services- Equity Assistance Centers Program
Funding Agency: DOE
Funded Amount: $9,782,431
Timeline: 10/1/2016 - 9/30/2022

Shanna Stuckey (Staff)

Project Title: Evaluation of Christel House West
Funding Agency: Christel House Academy (IDOE)
Funded Amount: $13,449
Timeline: 10/2018 - 9/2022

Annela Teemant (Faculty)
Gina Yoder (Faculty)

Project Title: Partnering for Radical School Improvement: Preparing Every Teacher for English Learners
Funding Agency: USDOE
Funded Amount: $1,647,202
Timeline: 9/2017 - 8/2022

Annela Teemant (Faculty)

Project Title: Teacher of Record ENL Certification
Funding Agency: IDOE
Funded Amount: $244,200
Timeline: 8/2020 - 9/2022

Project Title: EMPOWER
Funding Agency: OVCR
Funded Amount: $2,000
Timeline: 8/2021 - 7/2022

Cristina Santamaria Graff (Faculty)

Project Title: EMPOWER
Funding Agency: OVCR
Funded Amount: $2,000
Timeline: 10/21 - 6/22

Project Title: (Re)Building Community Through Engagement
Funding Agency: Welcoming Campus
Funded Amount: $5,000
Timeline: 8/21 - 7/22

Gina Yoder (Faculty)

Project Title: Doing the Math with Paraeducators: Expanding and Sustaining a Professional Development Model in PreK to Grade 3 Math Classrooms
Funding Agency: TERC
Funded Amount: $67,570
Timeline: 8/1/2021 - 7/31/2022

Jeremy Price (Faculty)
Paula Magee (Faculty)
Cristina Santamaria Graff (Faculty)
Ted Hall (Partner)

Project Title: Digital Education Hub (DEH) for Rigorous Remote Learning with Communities
Funding Agency: IDOE
Funded Amount: $1,179,105
Timeline: 8/15/2020 - 8/14/2022

Jeremy Price (Faculty)
Paula Magee (Faculty)
Amy Waechter-Versaw (Faculty)
Brooke Moreland (Faculty)
Craig Willey (Faculty)
Cristina Santamaria Graff (Faculty)

Project Title: It Takes a Village: Student Resilience Learning Plan
Funding Agency: IDOE
Funded Amount: $1,132,590
Timeline: 5/21/2021 - 6/30/2022

Craig Willey (Faculty)
Paula Magee (Faculty)

Project Title: Teacher Collaborative for Culturally Relevent Mathematics and Science Curricula (CR_MASC)
Funding Agency: NSF
Funded Amount: $99,986
Timeline: 6/15/2021 - 5/31/2022

Pat Rogan (Faculty)

Project Title: “Work to Include”: Advancing Employment First in Indiana Year
Governor's Council for People with Disabilities (GCPD)
Funded Amount: $166,870
Timeline: 10/1/2019 - 3/30/22

Project Title: Back Home in Indiana Alliance
Funding Agency: Governor's Council for People with Disabilities (GCPD)
Funded Amount: $353,831
Timeline: 10/1/2018 - 9/30/2022

Chalmer Thompson (Faculty)

Project Title: The Development of a Pan-African Website for Youth Exposed to Violence: Toward a Process of Healing
Funding Agency: Office of International Affairs
Funded Amount: $2,500
Timeline: 2/2021 - 2/2022

Lasana Kazembe (Faculty)

Project Title: elev8te: Exploring Global Black Arts Movements
Funding Agency: Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation
Funded Amount: $71,000
Timeline: 6/8/2020 - 7/31/2021

Annela Teemant (Faculty)

Project Title: International Consortium for Multilingual Excellence in Education (ICMEE)
Funding Agency: University of NE Lincoln
Funded Amount: $55,103
Timeline: 12/2016 - 8/2021

Cristina Santamaria Graff (Faculty)

Project Title: Developing an Online Repository of Family-Centered Lesson Plans Through a “Family as Faculty” Approach
Funding Agency: Indiana Campus Compact
Funded Amount: $3,800
Timeline: 10/2020 - 5/2021

Thu Suong Nguyen (Faculty)
Brendan Maxcy (Faculty)
Hardy Murphy (Faculty)
Khaula Murtadha (Faculty)
David Nguyen (Faculty)
Samantha Scribner (Faculty)

Project Title: Examining Urban School Leadership to Access School Based Issues of Racial Injustice and Marginalization
Funding Agency: IUPUI Racial Justice Research Fund
Funded Amount: $15,329
Timeline: 8/2020 - 5/2021

Jeremy Price (Faculty)

Project Title: Around the Development of a Community Typology in which School-Based Incidents of Antisemitism Occur
Funding Agency: IUPUI Institute of Integrative AI
Funded Amount: $17,000
Timeline: 1/1/21 - 12/31/21

Jomo Mutegi (Faculty)

Project Title: A Landscape Study of Residents’ Science Knowledge and Informal Science Resource Use Amid the Flint Water Crisis
Funding Agency: RSFG
Funded Amount: $35,000
Timeline: 12/2019 - 12/2020

Project Title: Developing Methods for Teaching Socially Transformative STEM Curriculum for Pre-Service Science Teachers (STSC Methods)
Funding Agency: Midwest Noyce Conference Grant
Funded Amount: $4,800
Timeline: 11/2019 - 11/2020

Project Title: STEM Teaching Lab Upgrade
Funding Agency: IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning
Funded Amount: $25,000
Timeline: 11/2019 - 11/2020

Crystal Morton (Faculty)

Project Title: The Bessie Coleman Project- Using Computer Modeling and Flight Simulation to Create STEM Pathways
Funding Agency: NSF Subaward University of Wyoming
Funded Amount: $13,542
Timeline: 2/18/2020 - 2/28/2021

Lasana Kazembe (Faculty)

Project Title: “The Voodoo of Hell’s Half Acre”: The Travelin’ Genius of Richard Wright from Natchez to Chicago: A Blues Poetry Opera
Funding Agency: New Frontiers
Funded Amount: $60,000
Timeline: 1/1/2020 - 11/1/2020

Susan Kigamwa (Student)
Khaula Murtadha (Faculty)

Project Title: Indiana Kids e-learning request for digitizers
Funding Agency: Hoover Family Foundation
Funded Amount: $10,000
Timeline: 7/1/2020

Project Title: Africana Reperatory Theatre at IUPUI (A.R.T.I.)
Funding Agency: CICF
Funded Amount: $24,422
Timeline: 7/1/2020

Samantha Scribner(Faculty)

Project Title: Evaluation of NSF ITEST: Enhancing Minority Middle School Student Knowledge, Literacy, and Motivation in STEM Using Contextualized Agricultural Life Science Learning Experiences
Funding Agency: name
Funded Amount: $113,042
Timeline: 8/2016 - 7/2020

Pat Rogan (Faculty)

Project Title: “Work to Include”: Advancing Employment First in Indiana Year
Funding Agency: Governor's Council for People with Disabilities (GCPD)
Funded Amount: $94,325
Timeline: 10/1/2019 - 9/31/2020

Project Title: Back Home in Indiana Alliance
Funding Agency: Governor's Council for People with Disabilities (GCPD)
Funded Amount: $122,000
Timeline: 10/1/2019 - 9/31/2020

Monica Medina (Faculty)

Project Title: Indianapolis Near-Westside Community Schools Project
Funding Agency: Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center
Funded Amount: $24,000
Timeline: 10/1/2019 - 9/30/2020

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