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The National Science Foundation awarded $299,984 under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of California, Los Angeles to develop the Change Leadership Development Program. The two-year project will equip graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with change leadership skills to advance inclusive, evidence-based teaching in STEM fields. Through online courses and institutes, participants will learn to influence colleagues,...

This $750,000 National Science Foundation project grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support North Central College's Leadership Experience and Advancement Program in STEM. Over six years, the college will provide scholarships and tailored support services to 15 low-income, high-achieving undergraduate students pursuing degrees in biology, computer science, environmental studies, mathematics, or neuroscience. Transfer students will receive two-year scholarships. Support...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) award to San Diego State University Foundation provides $748,901 to create an open-source, semester-long curriculum on Inquiry-Oriented Dynamical Systems and Modeling (IODSM) for prospective secondary mathematics teachers. The curriculum includes student tasks, instructor resources, and teaching strategies, and will investigate its impact on these teachers' content knowledge, engagement with mathematical practices,...

North Carolina State University received a $1,424,834 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to design and test entrepreneurial challenge curricula for integrating mathematics learning and entrepreneurship skills in high schools. The three-year award running from August 2021 to July 2024 will support developing, testing and publishing nine high-school-level entrepreneurial challenges that relate essential mathematical concepts and skills to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. This 3-year grant, effective October 1, 2024, will test a program to provide STEM graduate students nationwide with inclusive leadership training. The program aims to equip STEM graduate students with the knowledge and skills to become effective leaders in fostering institutional change and inclusivity within academic settings. In...

This $385,921 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development and research of an AI Across the Curriculum program at North Carolina State University. The interdisciplinary team will create introductory and advanced modules integrating artificial intelligence concepts into existing high school mathematics, English language arts, and history curricula. They will also develop a 60-hour professional development program to train...

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County will receive $262,209 over three years from the National Science Foundation under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to examine pedagogy in cybersecurity education at United States military academies. Specifically, the Examining Pedagogy in Cybersecurity at Military Academies project will introduce simulation-based learning exercises and pedagogies into mandatory first-year cybersecurity courses at the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Military...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,999,680 Project Grant under its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the University of Southern California (USC) to develop an "Intelligent, Adaptive Program with Just-in-Time Feedback for Preservice Teachers." This program aims to improve preservice teachers' evidence-based teaching practices, mathematical content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and teaching skills related to ratios and proportional relationships...

This National Science Foundation award of $298,779 from the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports efforts by California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) to examine student attitudes, identities, and motivations toward engineering, and develop contextualized entrepreneurial design learning modules to foster these qualities. The project, conducted by CSUF's Auxiliary Services Corporation Division of Sponsored Programs, aims to create learning experiences that value the diverse...

This $564,686 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports Loyola University of Chicago in providing pre-service secondary science and mathematics teachers authentic STEM research experiences in biodiversity studies through a summer program. Over five years, the university aims to mentor 40 prospective teachers pursuing biology, ecology, or environmental science degrees through hands-on research and professional development opportunities...