UAP Professors Win NSF Grant for Research on Digital Information During COVID-19 Distancing
April 23, 2020
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Professors Shalini Misra and Kris Wernstedt received a $98,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their “RAPID: Distancing & Digital Information in the Face of COVID-19” research project. Shalini and Kris (along with two other VT colleagues) also received an ISCE award to conduct a proof-of-concept study focusing on risk, resource management, and social informatics in the hiking community.