2026 Special Research Grant Initiatives

Teaching and Learning Reparations Won in Chicago: Curricular Interventions about Police Violence, Race, and Racism
Hannah Carson Baggett

Decent Education as a Developmental Condition: Understanding Institutional Thresholds of Opportunity, Belonging, and Future Work
Gabriel Ezema

Harnessing Timeline Stories to Boost Girls’ Identity in STEM
Allison Master

Climate Change Education in Informal Learning Contexts: Testing a Culturally Responsive Approach to Conceptual Change
Brendan Schuetze

Beyond Empathy: When First-Generation Students Prefer Human Experience Over AI Support
Gerardo Ramirez

Developing a Contextually Specific Intervention: Promoting Belonging and Reducing Harmful Cost Perceptions at a Minority-Serving Institution
Elise C. Allen

Unpacking SEL Implementation: Structure, Interactions, and Essential Components in Routine Educational Practice
Tianying Sun

Bridging the Cognitive Gap: Analyzing Instructor Engagement with Generative AI in the Creation of Interactive Visuals for Statistical Learning
Bailing Lyu