Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§19194 Research Awards

Title 42 › CHAPTER 163 — RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, COMPETITION, AND INNOVATION › SUBCHAPTER V — BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN SCIENCE › Part D — Combating Sexual Harassment in Science › § 19194

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director must give competitive grants to colleges, universities, and nonprofit groups (or partnerships of them) to fund studies about sex-based and sexual harassment in the STEM workforce, including students and trainees, and to test ways to reduce how often it happens and how badly it hurts people. Funded projects can include research on the harassment experiences of different groups (for example, racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, foreign nationals, and sexual minorities); creating and testing policies, trainings, and interventions to prevent harassment and build respectful climates; studying how to repair harm; helping institutions develop and measure evidence-based prevention and response strategies; researching alternatives to risky power relationships like mentor-mentee ties; and setting up a center to collect and analyze organizational climate survey data.

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Title 42, §19194

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)In general

The Director shall make awards, on a competitive basis, to institutions of higher education or nonprofit organizations (or consortia of such institutions or organizations)—

(1)to expand research efforts to better understand the factors contributing to, and consequences of, sex-based and sexual harassment affecting individuals in the STEM workforce, including students and trainees; and

(2)to examine approaches to reduce the incidence and negative consequences of such harassment.

(b)Use of funds

Activities funded by an award under this section may include—

(1)research on the sex-based and sexual harassment experiences of individuals, including in racial and ethnic minority groups, disabled individuals, foreign nationals, sexual-minority individuals, and others;

(2)development and assessment of policies, procedures, trainings, and interventions, with respect to sex-based and sexual harassment, conflict management, and ways to foster respectful and inclusive climates;

(3)research on approaches for remediating the negative impacts and outcomes of such harassment on individuals experiencing such harassment;

(4)support for institutions of higher education or nonprofit organizations to develop, adapt, implement, and assess the impact of innovative, evidence-based strategies, policies, and approaches to policy implementation to prevent and address sex-based and sexual harassment;

(5)research on alternatives to the power dynamics, hierarchical, and dependent relationships, including but not limited to the mentor-mentee relationship, in academia that have been shown to create higher levels of risk for and lower levels of reporting of sex- based and sexual harassment; and

(6)establishing a center for the ongoing compilation, management, and analysis of organizational climate survey data.

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42 U.S.C. § 19194

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110