Tribal Colleges Research Grants Program
Funds agriculture, natural-resource and human-science research capacity at 35 named Tribal Colleges and Universities.
This is not open to Tribal colleges in general. Eligibility is a closed, named list of 35 specific 1994 Land-Grant Tribal Colleges and Universities, among them Diné College, Haskell Indian Nations University, Salish Kootenai College and Turtle Mountain Community College, and no other institution qualifies.
What's funded is research capacity itself: projects in agriculture, natural resources and h…
Research capacity development at a closed list of 35 named 1994 Land-Grant Tribal Colleges and Universities, in agriculture, natural resources and human sciences, with named interest in projects using artificial intelligence, data science, robotics and other digital tools, and in training undergraduates in those areas.
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