Select grant funded projects below highlight diversity of funding agencies, affiliation of Principal Investigators, and project aims.
Connect Arizona Now project will help close the digital divide among diverse, rural, underserved communities in Southern Arizona that lack reliable, high-speed broadband access. The project activities include creating “equipment bundles” (including hotspots, laptops, headphones, and webcams) that can be checked out by students, expanding University of Arizona network and classroom technologies, providing support personnel at education sites in rural communities, and more.
- $3,051,875 awarded by the U.S. Department of Commerce
- Principal Investigator: Bryan Carter; Director, College of Humanities' Center for Digital Humanities
The goal of the “Digital Borderlands” project (Aligning Library Services with Data-Intensive Humanities Research: Modeling Support for Open Scholarship through Data Storytelling and Digital Publishing on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands) is to produce and disseminate new, open-access humanities scholarship on the U.S.- Mexico borderlands by integrating library services into a collaborative research process that emphasizes data-intensive, digital storytelling.
- $750,000 awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon
- Principal Investigator: Shan Sutton, University Libraries Project
Project LISTO will support a growing community of HSIs and its stakeholders by (1) scaling existing capacity-building practices to increase reach and impact, (2) documenting the design of a statewide HSI consortium, and providing a blueprint to inform community and capacity-building strategies in other states, and (3) generating new knowledge on the impact of this statewide consortium on broadening participation in STEM and associated leading factors.
The HSI HUD Center will establish the Arizona Research Center for Housing Equity and Sustainability, or ARCHES. The new center will be a partnership among 19 researchers at Arizona State University, UArizona, Northern Arizona University and the University of New Mexico. The new center's research on housing security will inform equitable housing growth and production to support Hispanic and underserved households.
- $1,000,000 awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Principal Investigator: Daniel Kuhlman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Real Estate Development and Planning, School of Landscape Architecture and Planning
The purpose of LIDERES Institute is to bring together community members, future researchers, and current scientist/subject matter experts to create a training blueprint targeting research teams who would like to pursue patient - centered outcomes research/ comparative effectiveness research to enhance health services for individuals experiencing communication disability from Hispanic and Latinx communities
- $100,000 awarded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
- Principal Investigator: Aileen Wong, AuD, CCC-A, Associate Clinical Professor & Research Audiologist, Speech Language & Hearing Sciences, College of Science
The NOURISH Scholars Program is an innovative educational model to increase access to graduate and professional school preparation and mentoring for undergraduate students historically underrepresented areas of food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences. The ultimate goal of this program is to build the pipeline of diverse STEM and health professionals.
- $250,000 awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Principal Investigator: Ashlee Linares-Gaffer, Associate Professor of Practice, Nutritional Sciences, College of Agriculture, Life & Environmental Sciences
Project ADELANTE: Advancing Culturally Responsive Place-Based Educational Opportunities for Latinx Students in the Borderlands includes three components – an internship and career readiness program to connect undergraduates with community businesses and nonprofits, professional development fellowships for UArizona faculty and staff, and a first-year writing program curriculum based on the Latin American "testimonio" tradition of personal narratives.
- $2,863,406 awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program
- Principal Investigator: Ana Cornide, PhD; Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Critical Service Learning, College of Humanitites
Project OutreachFAMILIA (Forwarding Academic Mechanisms Integral to Learning In the Academy) aims to increase the number of Hispanic and low-income students entering higher education and earning college degrees. A core element includes the launch of a culturally-responsive pre-calculus dual enrollment course developed by Dr. Guadalupe Lozano and team in partnership with several TUSD schools and Pima Community College.
- $3,000,000 awarded by the U.S. Department of Education, Title V Program
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Cindy Trejo, Project Director, Outreach FAMILIA
Project PHIRE (Place-based Culturally Responsive Health Informatics Research Education) brings together expertise from data science, systems science and engineering, health informatics, and public health and infuses regional assets and needs from the community into the training and curricula. The PHIRE training program will recruit and prepare a diverse pool of 60 undergraduate students to conduct scientific research in health informatics with an inherent focus on addressing health disparities and public health needs.
- $571,905 grant funded by the National Library of Medicine, at the National Institutes of Health
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Vignesh Subbian, Biomedical Engineering and Systems & Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering
Project SALUDABLES (Strengthening Awareness for Living Healthy Using Dietetics Approaches and Boosting Local Educational Success) will address health and educational disparities in the Southwest border region by increasing interest in nutrition and health careers and creating a clear educational pathway for students in Yuma and Imperial counties.
- $983,112 awarded by the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture HSI Education Grants program
- Collaborative project: UArizona, Arizona Western College, and Imperial Valley College (all HSIs)
- Principal Investigator: Ashlee Linares-Gaffer, Associate Professor of Practice, School of Nutritional Science & Wellness
¿Quantum Qué? (Collaborative Research: HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Transfer Students’ Success in Quantum Information Science and Engineering) targets first and second year community college students to increase Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) awareness and facilitate transfer into four UArizona undergraduate QISE majors. This culturally responsive transfer program includes summer research experiences, faculty mentor training, peer and faculty student mentoring, and advising mapping.