University of Virginia

The University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute of Democracy focuses on understanding, defending, and invigorating the institutions, practices, and cultural underpinnings foundational to democracy. The Karsh Institute’s National Election Survey will capture voters’ experiences on Election Day and analyze connections among individual political behavior, national trends and media coverage, confidence in the electoral system, and attitudes toward democracy — all to better understand American’s views on electoral integrity and trust in the democratic process.

The Center for Effective Lawmaking is a partnership between the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University. It was created in 2017 to work toward a Congress that has effective lawmakers, strong institutional capacity, and the incentive structure needed to address America’s greatest public policy challenges. The mission of the center is to advance the generation, communication, and use of new knowledge about the effectiveness of individual lawmakers and legislative institutions in Congress.

The School of Data Science at the University of Virginia applies academia to today’s challenges in artificial intelligence. This grant supports a project that develops Wikipedia articles in “open source software” by matching the school’s expertise in the open movement with wiki readers’ demand for such content. (Strategy: Translation Infrastructure)