PIT-UN Funded Projects

Members of the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) are eligible for funding through our annual Network Challenge, and topic-focused Requests for Proposal. Learn how PIT-UN members have leveraged these funds to create innovative PIT projects, from new courses to community partnerships, career placement, research collaboratives and more.

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Grantee Projects

Use the filters below to discover 2021 PIT-UN Grantee projects. See 2019-2022 PIT-UN Grantee Projects.

Cal Poly State University

Promoting Diversity, Inclusion and Equity in the Local Community Through Collaboration on Interactive Virtual Reality (VR) Training Tools

Project Lead: James Warner

The project aims to incorporate VR components into existing sexual and gender harassment and transgender awareness training; participants assess training needs and develop two screenplays for DEI VR simulations.

Boston University

Proposal to Expand and Scale the Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University

Project Lead: Brooke Williams

CDS will formally establish the Justice Media Computational Journalism Co-Lab and increase affiliated faculty and offerings for students, continue and expand organizational partnerships, and launch a website with the goal of increasing financial support.

Boston University

Justice Media Collective

Project Lead: Brooke Williams

This project develops and tests an institutional framework for interdisciplinary collaboration, CDS Impact Collectives, which consists of a computational journalism course, summer certificate program, and student-partner organization data project.

Boston University

The Equity Data Science Lab at Boston University

Project Lead: Azer Bestavros and Ziba Cranmer

Establish an interdisciplinary data science lab to facilitate collaboration and engagement of faculty, students, and external partners around research and applications that have real-world impact.

Arizona State University

Bloomn: A Social Impact Innovation Competition, Community, and Accelerator Platform

Project Lead: Mark Naufel

Bloomn is a social impact innovation competition, community, and accelerator platform, designed to sustainably support and inspire the next generation of public interest technologists.

Arizona State University

PIT-UN Challenge: Toward the Comprehensive PIT Institution

Project Lead: David Guston

This project studies ASU, Howard, and Estrella Mountain Community College to identify their potential steps towards becoming comprehensive PIT-UN institutions, with the goal of building a PIT-UN of institutions strategically committed to PIT.