Tribal Colleges and Universities Program
Funds tribal colleges and Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions to build science and engineering capacity.
TCUP is a capacity programme with a fixed set of applicants: federally recognised tribal colleges and universities, Alaska Native-serving institutions and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions. Nobody else may apply.
The science it covers is wide — the social and behavioural sciences, the natural sciences, computer science including artificial intelligence, quantum information science and cybersec…
Building science, technology, engineering and mathematics capacity at tribal colleges and universities, Alaska Native-serving institutions and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions — instructional capacity, targeted infusion projects, teacher support, enterprise advancement centres, cyberinfrastructure, implementation planning, and small research grants for individual faculty.
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