The quality education for minorities (QEM) network and bowie state university seek a two-year cooperative agreement through the national aeronautics and space administration (NASA) office of education…

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a two-year $728,261 cooperative agreement to the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network and Bowie State University. The purpose is to conduct a series of information awareness, networking, and proposal development activities to assist faculty at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) in increasing their understanding of, and competitiveness in, NASA's funding opportunities. The project aims to 1) increase institutional awareness of NASA competitive funding to build STEM capacity at MSIs, 2) broaden participation of STEM faculty at MSIs in NASA research and technology development, and 3) disseminate information and scale up effective practices in broadening STEM faculty participation at MSIs. This contract does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded through the NASA Office of Education's MUREP MUSIC program.

The quality education for minorities (QEM) network and bowie state university seek a two-year cooperative agreement through the national aeronautics and space administration (NASA) office of education s murep music to conduct a series of information awareness, networking, and proposal development activities designed to assist faculty at minority-serving institutions (msis) in increasing their understanding of, and competitiveness in, NASA s funding opportunities. For more than half of a century, NASA has been an essential aspect of national pride and identity. Through this cooperative agreement, msis will have opportunities to collaborate with NASA to enhance their research, academic, and technological capabilities, by broadening the participation of msis in NASA programs. The project s goals, which will facilitate music goals/objectives, are to: 1) increase institutional awareness of NASA competitive funding resources to build stem capacity at msis; 2) broaden participation of stem faculty at msis in NASA research and mission-specific technology development; and 3) disseminate information to the broader MSI stem community and scale up what works in broadening participation of stem faculty at msis in NASA research and mission-specific technology development. In partnership with bowie state university, the QEM network will design and conduct an information awareness and networking forum with sponsored program staff, administrators, and stem faculty; virtual and in-person institutional capacity-building training sessions, including NASA mission-focused proposal development workshops for faculty, as well as post-workshop webinars and follow-up technical assistance activities; and faculty scholarly development initiatives, with a focus on junior faculty and graduate students/post-docs. In addition, QEM will create and maintain a project resource website and listserv. QEM-bowie will develop a faculty mentoring network that will include NASA grantee PIS as well as stem researchers from minority-serving institutions (msis) as well as other higher education institutions. This innovation-focused network will facilitate mentoring, networking and research collaboration efforts among and between participating faculty and stakeholder groups. The QEM bowie partnership will focus on promoting collaborative, cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research and will support efforts at msis to foster university faculty and staff development related to NASA proposals. Participating NASA staff, administrators, program directors, and researchers will gain knowledge on strategies that broaden the participation in stem research of msis and their faculty/students.