COSAM News Articles 2016 September NSF grants $298,424 to project NSF INCLUDES with Drs. Overtoun Jenda (PI) and Ash Abebe (Co-PI) as team members of Auburn University, the lead institution.

NSF grants $298,424 to project NSF INCLUDES with Drs. Overtoun Jenda (PI) and Ash Abebe (Co-PI) as team members of Auburn University, the lead institution.

Published: 09/16/2016

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted $298,424 to the collaborative research project NSF INCLUDES: South East Alliance for Persons with Disabilities in STEM (SEAPD-STEM)" effective October 1, 2016. The pilot project has 21 colleges and universities in the Southeast with Auburn as the lead institution. The Auburn team includes our colleagues Drs. Overtoun Jenda (PI and Project Director) and Ash Abebe (Co-Principal Investigator), and other Auburn Co-Principal Investigators: Caroline Dunn (Special Ed, Rehabilitation and Counseling), Daniela Marghitu (AU Computer Science and Software Engineering), and Alan Wilson (School of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences).

For details of the Auburn University part of the grant, see

https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649344&HistoricalAwards=false

For details of INCLUDES, see

https://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=189706&org=NSF&from=news

https://cws.auburn.edu/apspi/pm/includes

Also see the COSAM News

http://auburn.edu/cosam/news/articles/2016/09/auburn-university-among-first-time-recipients-of-national-science-foundations-new-includes-program-awards.htm

Congratulations Ash and Overtoun!