2020-2022 – Teachers as Learners – Teachers as Thinkers: Improving Classroom Communication in Mathematics. James Smith McDonnell Foundation, $2,488,319 (Co-PI, with Nicole Kersting and Michelle Perry).
2019 – 2020: Convergence Accelerator Phase I (RAISE): Civil Infrastructure Systems Open Knowledge Network (CIS-OKN), Senior Personnel, Funded by NSF
2020 – present: Midwest Bioenergy Crop Landscape Laboratory (MBC-Lab): Capturing Spatio-temporal and Managerial Variations to Provide a Gold Standard Data and Platform for Validating Field-level Emission from Bioenergy Crops, Co-PI, Funded by ARPA-E SmartFarm
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Center for Healthy Work, U19OH011232, 09/01/2021-08/31/2026, Conroy (PI) and Forst Co-Investigator
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Illinois Occupational Surveillance Program, U60OH010905, 07/01/2021 – 06/30/2026, Friedman (PI), and Forst Co-Investigator
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 75D30121P10130, 01/04/2021-09/30/2021, Forst (PI)
Consumer Product Safety Commission (renewable annually), CPS 61320620N0009, 09/29/2020-06/30/2021, Forst (PI)
Web-based Decision Support Tool for Cover Crop Management – Illinois NREC, Walton Family Foundation, and McKnight Foundation ($748,958)
2018-2022 – Collaborative Research: Improving Multi-dimensional Assessment and Instruction: Building and Sustaining Elementary Science Teachers’ Capacity Through Learning Communities. National Science Foundation, Award #1813938, $632,753. (Formerly Co-PI, with Liz Lehman; resigned from project in 2020 to take IWERC Directorship).