Vetria L. Byrd, PhD



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External Grants Awarded

Byrd, V. L. (sub-award co-PI), HDR Institute: Geospatial Institute for Digital Innovation to Enhance Resilience and Sustainability, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, National Science Foundation Award #2118329. October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2026. Award Amount: $15M, Subaward to Purdue University: $2,450,000 Byrd Share: $294,000

Moss, K., Byrd, V. (Co-PI), Visionary Grant: Gesture-Manipulated 3D Network Maps for Tracking, Assessment, and Reflection Opportunities in Digital Non-linear Adaptive Learning Systems, Gordon Research Conference/NASA, September 6, 2015 – September 6, 2017. Award Amount: $4,000, Byrd Share: $2,000

Byrd, V. L. (PI), REU SITE: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Collaborative Data Visualization Applications, Clemson University, National Science Foundation, January 15, 2014 – January 15, 2017, NSF Award No. 1359223. Award Amount: $265,988 Byrd Share: $265,988

Thatcher, J., Burton, O., Appleford, S., Byrd, V. L., (Co-PI), EAGER: Social Web Election Listening for Learning, Clemson University, National Science Foundation, Award No. 1247198, September 1, 2012 – August 31, 2014. Award Amount: $262,654, Byrd Share: $65,663.50

Internal Grants Awarded in Support of Research and Discovery

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Ross-Lynn Summer Supplement Award - PRF Graduate Fellowship Grant to support graduate student research associate, FY22, Fall 2021 and Spring 2022, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University. Award Amount: $31,684, Byrd Share: $31,684

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Office of Undergraduate Research Scholar Faculty Award, Purdue Polytechnic Institute,Spring 2018. Award Amount: $1,000, Byrd Share: $1,000

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Education Workforce Development Grant, Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center (INMaC), August 14, 2018 – December 05, 2018. Award Amount: $13,252.16, Byrd Share: $13,252.16

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Education Workforce Development Grant, Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center (INMaC), January 05, 2019 – May 06, 2019. Award Amount: $13,252.16, Byrd Share: $13,252.16

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Education Workforce Development Grant, Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center (INMaC), August 12, 2019 – December 08, 2019. Award Amount: $13,252.16, Byrd Share: $13,252.16

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Education Workforce Development Grant, Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center (INMaC), January 06, 2020 – May 08, 2020. Award Amount: $13,252.16, Byrd Share: $13,252.16

Byrd, V. L. (PI), 2018 Summer PRF Faculty Research Grant, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, June 1, 2018 – July 31, 2018. Award Amount: $10,4000 Byrd Share: $10,4000

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Collaborative Interdisciplinary Machine Learning Research Infrastructure, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Realizing the Digital Enterprise IMPACT Area Grant, April 1, 2018 – June 30, 2018. Award Amount: $8,000, Byrd Share: $8,000

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Donation to Facilitate Discovery from Professor Melissa Dark, Purdue University, December 2016. Award Amount: $15,000, Byrd Share: $15,000

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Post-doc Award Competition, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, August 2016 – Spring 2019. Award Amount: $100,000, Byrd Share: $50,000

Byrd, V. L. (PI), 2016 Summer Salary Support, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, May 2016. Award Amount: $5,800.44, Byrd Share: $5,800.44

Grants Awarded in Support of Teaching and Learning

Byrd, V. L. (PI), and Asunda, P., Building STEM Capacity for Data Visualization, Problem-solving and Critical thinking, Polytechnic High School Collaborative Grant. June 2023 – May 2025. Award amount: $50,000, Byrd Share: $43,000

Byrd, V.L. (PI), Data Mine Data Visualization Initiative, Office of the Provost, Purdue University, August 1, 2019 – May 31, 2020. Award Amount: $13,252.16, Byrd Share: $13,252.16

Byrd, V.L. (PI), IMPACT Course Redesign, Purdue University, January 2017 – May 2019. Award Amount: $5,000, Byrd Share: $5,000

Byrd, V. L. (PI), CSoI Critical Data Visualization Workshop, 3-weeks summer salary, Purdue Center for Science Information, May 2019 – June 2019. Award Amount: $9,789, Byrd Share: $9,789

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Data Visualization for Societal Problems, Polytechnic Transformation Grant, March 2017 – April 2018. Award Amount: $4,000, Byrd Share: $4,000

Byrd, V.L. (PI), Introduction to Digital Scholarship Innovate Grant, Purdue College of Liberal Arts, March 2017 – April 2018. Award Amount: $20,000, Byrd Share: $5,000

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Using Evidence-based Practices and Learning to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills in Students through Data Visualization, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Future Work and Learning Research Impact Area Grant, May 15, 2019 – August 30, 2021. Award Amount: $4,800, Byrd Share: $4,800

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Data Visualization for All: Developing Accessible Design Worksheets for Data Visualization, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Health and Sustainable Communities, May 15, 2019 – June 20, 2019. Award Amount: $1,760, Byrd Share: $1,760

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Raspberry PI Funding, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2016. Award Amount: $7,650, Byrd Share: $3,825

External Grants and Contracts Awarded in Support of Engagement

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Broadening Participation in Visualization (BPViz), Computing Research Association, February 17, 2017 – July 2018. Award Amount: $18,000, Byrd Share: $18,000

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Broadening Participation in Visualization (BPViz), Computing Research Association, August 15, 2015 – December 15, 2016. Award Amount: $18,000, Byrd Share: $18,000

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Broadening Participation in Visualization (BPViz), National Science Foundation Award No. 1636452, September 22, 2015 – January 31, 2017. Award Amount: $17,378, Byrd Share: $17,378

Byrd, V. L. (Co-PI), Educating Skillful Visualizers National Aeronautics and Space Administration, (NASA), Participant support for 2019 BPViz Pre-Conference Workshop and Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Education. Award Amount: $197,600 (100% Participant Support), Byrd Share: $0

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Tanner, L., Cox, D. 2nd Annual CRA-W/CDC Broadening Participation in Visualization Workshop, CRA-W/CDC, July 15, 2014 – October 30, 2015. Award Amount: $18,000, Byrd Share: $18,000

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Gemmill, J., Duffy, E. 1st CRA-W/CDC Broadening Participation in Visualization Workshop, CRA-W/CDC, July 15, 2013 – April 15, 2014. Award Amount: $25,000, Byrd Share: $25,000

Byrd, V. L., (PI), Broadening Participation in Visualization (BPViz) Workshop, National Science Foundation, Award No. 1419415, July 15, 2014 – July 15, 2016. Award Amount: $25,000 (Unsolicited), Byrd Share: $25,000

Byrd, V. L. (PI), Broadening Participation in Visualization (BPViz) Workshop, Clemson Computing and Information Technology, February 02, 2014 – November 24, 2015. Award Amount: $10,000, Byrd Share: $10,000