Research funding at the iSchool averages $1-2 million a year, with awards from National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Service, National Endowment for the Humanities, DARPA, Google, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation.
Grants & Awards
Archives, Records, and Knowledge Management
The Central State Hospital Digital Archives Project
Investigator(s): King Davis, Pat Galloway, & Unmil Karadkar
Source of Funds: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Amount: $763,000
Time: 2016
Building the Future of Archival Education and Research, Phase II
Investigator(s): Pat Galloway
Source of Funds: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $142,000
Time: 2013
Indigenous ways: assessing the awareness of and potential need for identifying content on indigenous world view in educating Libraries/Archives/Museum (LAM) entry level professionals
Investigator(s): Loriene Roy
Source of Funds: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $44,790
Time: 2013 - 2015
Digital Libraries / Digital Humanities
Exploring Data Worlds at the Public Library
Investigator(s): Amelia Acker
Source of Funds: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $109,399
Time: N/A
Social Facets of Data Science
Investigator(s): Amelia Acker
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $24,941
Time: 2016 - 2017
High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship Research and Development with Repositories
Investigator(s): Tanya Clement
Source of Funds: National Endowment for the Humanities
Amount: $250,000
Time: 2014 - 2017
Institute for High Performance Sound Technologies for analysis and Scholarship (HIPSTAS)
Investigator(s): Tanya Clement
Source of Funds: National Endowment for the Humanities
Amount: $235,000
Time: 2012 - 2015
Health Informatics
Understanding Consumers’ Quality Evaluation of Online Health Information Using a Mixed-Method Approach.
Investigator(s): Yan Zhang, & Jacek Gwizdka
Source of Funds: Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation and the Digital Media Program, UT Austin.
Amount: $44,000
Time: 2015 - 2017
Manual and automatic analysis of patients' values and preferences using Seton's Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) surveys
Investigator(s): Bo Xie, & Ken Fleischmann
Source of Funds: N/A
Amount: N/A
Time: 2015
History, Policy, and Cultural Studies
EESE: Collaborative Research: Understanding and Preparing Future Computer Professionals for the Ethical Complexities
Investigator(s): Ken Fleischmann
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $85,000
Time: 2012 - 2014
Human-Computer Interaction / Information Architecture
Human Factors and Ergonomics in Offshore Drilling and Production
Investigator(s): Randolph Bias
Source of Funds: Ocean Energy Safety Institute
Amount: $27,600
Time: 2016
Semi-Automating Data Extraction for Systematic Reviews
Investigator(s): Randolph Bias
Source of Funds: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $26,000
Time: 2015 - 2019
UT-Austin release of ASMP 2.0, usability support
Investigator(s): Randolph Bias
Source of Funds: The University of Texas at Austin, ITS
Amount: $80,000
Time: N/A
Reporting for scientific software sustainability
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $54,000
Time: N/A
The Scientific Software Map
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $541,984
Time: 2011 - 2015
EAGER-Distilling a Process for a National CI Roadmap from NSF Collaboratories
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $49,000
Time: 2011 - 2017
Research Collaboration Network for Managing Research Centers
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $498,000
Time: 2012 - 2017
CAREER: Sustaining Scientific Infrastructure: Researching Transition from Grants to Peer Production
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $535,349
Time: 2015 - 2021
Improving the visibility of scholarly software work
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Amount: $635,000
Time: 2016 - 2018
Virtual Organization Resources and Toolkits Exchange (VORTEX)
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $94,996
Time: 2013 - 2015
Information Behavior
Towards a measure of “skimmability”
Investigator(s): Randolph Bias
Source of Funds: Microsoft
Amount: $50,000
Time: 2016 -
Information Organization and Retrieval
Child-friendly Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs): Towards Better Understanding of Google Search Results Readability by Children
Investigator(s): Jacek Gwizdka
Source of Funds: Google Faculty Research Awards
Amount: $41,363
Time: 2014 -
Relevance Mining and Detection System (REMINDS)
Investigator(s): Matthew Lease, & Jacek Gwizdka
Source of Funds: FCT
Amount: $100,000
Time: 2015 - 2017
Personalized Complex Data Exploration (PCDE)
Investigator(s): Jacek Gwizdka
Source of Funds: Lockheed Martin
Amount: $50,000
Time: N/A
Continuous Assessment of Cognitive Load in Information Seeking: CAREER Development Award
Investigator(s): Jacek Gwizdka
Source of Funds: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $334,641
Time: 2011
Enabling a New Scale of Conversational Speech Archives via Crowdsourcing
Investigator(s): Matthew Lease
Source of Funds: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $287,654
Time: 2013 - 2016
CAREER: Achieving Quality Crowdsourcing Across Tasks, Data Scales, and Operational Settings
Investigator(s): Matthew Lease
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $582,000
Time: 2013 - 2019
Blending Crowdsourcing with Automation for Fast, Cheap, and Accurate Analysis of Spontaneous Speech
Investigator(s): Matthew Lease
Source of Funds: DARPA
Amount: $300,000
Time: 2013 - 2015
Crowdsourcing as a Methodology to Investigate User Engagement
Investigator(s): Matthew Lease
Source of Funds: YAHOO!
Amount: $20,000
Time: N/A
Efficient and Scalable Evaluation for Searching Massive Arabic Social Media and Web Collections
Investigator(s): Matthew Lease
Source of Funds: Qatar National Research Fund
Amount: $305,000
Time: 2015 - 2018
Socio-Technical Studies
DETAILS: Discovering and Explaining Technical Emergence Through Analysis of the Language and Structure of Scientific Publications (FUSE Program)
Investigator(s): Ken Fleischmann
Source of Funds: IARPA
Amount: $108,000
Time: N/A
DETAILS: Discovering and Explaining Technical Emergence Through Analysis of the Language and Structure of Scientific Publications (FUSE Program)
Investigator(s): Ken Fleischmann
Source of Funds: IARPA
Amount: $90,000
Time: N/A
Using Eularian video magnification to study the effect of fluctuations in relative humidity on cultural heritage materials
Investigator(s): Karen Pavelka
Source of Funds: National Center for Preservation technology and Training
Amount: $30,500
Time: 2016
Information Work Research Group
Investigator(s): Tanya Clement
Source of Funds: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $500,000
Time: N/A
Achieving Development Goals with Information Technology
Investigator(s): James Howison & Diane Bailey
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,089,490.00
Time: 2014 -2020
Socio-technical ecosystems for scientific software development
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $400,000
Time: 2009 - 2013
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