This page includes awards made during the current NNLM award period (May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2026).
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| Project Title | Lead Organization | Project Summary | Project Start Date | Project End Date | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empowering communities with indoor air quality information: Massachusetts pilot project | Brookline Public Library | Carbon dioxide monitors can make visible something that is invisible: indoor air quality. Indoor air quality (IAQ) is a hot topic because of the COVID-19 pandemic and other airborne environmental health threats, like particulate matter and wildfire smoke. But most people have low environmental health literacy. Even if people do know about the relationship between ventilation and COVID-19 risk, many people can’t afford to buy CO2 monitors to check their ventilation. … | New Hampshire | ||
| Enabling Engagement with 3-D Scanning Technology | Oregon Health & Science University Library | The Oregon Health & Science University’s OHSU Library will make 3-D scanning technology more available to communities through Equipment Lending and Special Collections Outreach. Experience with creating and manipulating 3-D representations of medical and scientific objects is important to the spatial thinking and creativity of academic, research and community learners served by the OHSU Library. Creating an opportunity to experiment with this technology can provide a background that learners can build on for more advanced scientific training or… | Oregon | ||
| Engaging AZ Public Libraries as Community Hubs for Citizen Science | Arizona Library Association | Through citizen and community science, people engage in events, projects and programs that can directly improve their health. Increasingly, libraries are becoming community hubs for citizen and community science facilitating participation among UBRs and others. The project aims to train and engage librarians and staff as facilitators and conduits of citizen science to reach and engage more people in understanding threats to environmental determinants of health and participating in projects that aim to address those threats (including… | Arizona | ||
| Engaging Beyond Tablets: Noticing Older Adults during Post Pandemic | Northern Illinois University | Our proposal aims to provide an educational resource tool kit using Tablets to underserved older adults (> 65 yrs) belonging to lower income and lower education groups in DeKalb county. Secondary goal is to bring awareness and educate them on how the All of US Research program can help all, including older adults by providing the research community with data sets so future studies can address specific needs of older populations. The educational tool kit will include 20 PowerPoint slides and interactive videos to help older adults learn… | Illinois | ||
| Enhancing disaster Relief through Amateur Radio and Health Education in St. Thomas US Virgin Islands. | Healthdove, Inc. | Emergencies and disasters in the US Virgin Islands include earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, wildfires, riots, marine and terrestrial search and rescue operations, landslides, bomb threats, chemical spills, nuclear radiation, and war. Some are caused by natural forces, some result from human error, and some are deliberate acts of violence. There is no place that is safe from a threat of disaster. There are multiple disasters occurring in the world today. Closer to home hurricanes Erma and Maria in the territory in 2017 and prior hurricanes. Fortunately, loss of life from… | Virgin Islands |