This page includes awards made during the current NNLM award period (May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2026).
For awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021) please visit Past Funded Projects.
To browse our open funding opportunities please visit Funding Opportunities.
| Name | Lead Organization | Project Summary | Project Start Date | Project End Date | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Think/Act Like a Researcher: Exploring Citizen Science | PBSC’s Think/Act Like a Researcher: Exploring Citizen Science project provides a possible avenue to higher education for underserved students. The College hosts a one-day event at its Loxahatchee Groves campus, offering high school students an exclusive introduction to Citizen Science through face to face information, promotion and hands-on activities, targeting Underrepresented Populations for Biomedical Research. After orientation on the day’s activities, students are grouped according to their academic interests to participate in relevant activities and projects at various work and… | ||||
| Our Stories: Wellbeing at the Wayland Free Library | This project will incorporate telling (and recording) our stories about wellness into library programs. The programs at the library will bring people together, sharing our stories is already part of the culture we are trying to foster at our programs. Gathering to create meals and crafts, exercise, share our experiences and learn new things will be the springboard to making recordings for StoryCorps. The Teen Suppers will also play a StoryCorps recording at the beginning of some of the programs. | ||||
| Exploring the Future of Health Information Literacy through Generative AI Integration: A Pilot Study | California Health Sciences University | This project seeks to harness the transformative power of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) to bridge the gap in health information literacy and accessibility. Leveraging ChatGPT, an advanced conversational AI, we aim to develop a user-friendly chatbot hosted within our health sciences library. This innovative tool will be designed to provide instant, reliable, and tailored health information to students, staff, and faculty, addressing the unique challenges of language barriers and expanding access to high-quality reference interactions. The core objective of our initiative is to… | |||
| Rare Disease Day Symposium | Rare Disease Day is a global event that serves to raise awareness of over 7,000 identified rare diseases. Although each disease on its own is rare, together they affect approximately 1 in 10 Americans. Since 2015, the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine has hosted a Rare Disease Day Symposium, providing an opportunity for patients, family members, clinicians, and researchers to share their stories, research and insight into the development of novel therapeutics. Our mission is to promote interprofessional healthcare, awareness and advocacy for the rare disease community with an event that… | ||||
| All of Us Work(out) Together | The Cherokee Public Library endeavors to examine health and wellness in the community and to focus on the stories of wellness. For this avenue, we have a partnership with the school’s cross country team and the community wellness center. We have found several members in the community who have also with been runners since cross country in high school, or began running later in life. The team has been looking at the toolkit and Storycorps app and are wanting to try and do interviews via short videos, which are easier to share and break down into smaller groups. The second idea plays into work… |