Project Grant 80NSSC23K1664

The National Science Foundation awarded a $246,857 Project Grant to the University of Arizona under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to improve and broaden participation in undergraduate STEM education through faculty professional development. Specifically, the American Association of Physics Teachers, American Astronomical Society, and American Physical Society will redesign and expand their successful physics and astronomy faculty workshops to focus on developing individualized plans...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $265,312 to American University to address key science questions regarding particle acceleration in coronal jets and their escape into the heliosphere. The award supports an observational and theoretical study combining high-quality observations with state-of-the-art simulations. Researchers will select and analyze coronal jet events at...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) project grant award of $766,689 to Michigan State University (MSU) aims to transform undergraduate physics education across the United States by increasing faculty adoption of computational physics topics. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year award include: 1) Establishing regional faculty development workshops to support physics departments, especially at minority-serving institutions and...

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) received a $179,514 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to implement the Eclipse Ambassadors program. Through this project, ASP will train approximately 200 K-9 science teachers and 100 astronomers as "Eclipse Ambassadors" to develop and distribute a solar eclipse kit, and provide professional development on...

This $225,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education will support the Research Foundation of the City University of New York and Hostos Community College in developing and implementing a new "Doing Physics" pedagogical approach in General Physics I. The approach aims to improve student outcomes through inquiry-based science, collaborative and game-based learning, course-based undergraduate research experiences, and mentoring students to...

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $599,498 Project Grant to the Smithsonian Institution's Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) to establish an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) site in solar physics. The 3-year program will pair 8 undergraduate students per summer with SAO researchers to work on novel data analysis, numerical modeling, and instrumentation projects related to space weather and solar physics. The program aims to foster...

This National Science Foundation STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award in the amount of $111,193 aims to improve teaching and learning in large introductory physics courses through the use of Learning Assistants (LAs). The project, which involves investigators at Seattle Pacific University, University of Washington Bothell, and Western Washington University, will develop a model for training LAs to effectively elicit and build on students' diverse science ideas. This approach,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $439,616 Project Grant to the University of Hawaii (UH) Institute for Astronomy (IFA) and the University of California, Riverside (UCR) for the California-Hawaii Astrophysics Mentoring Partnership (CHAMP) program. The 3-year grant aims to build a collaborative research, education, and outreach program focused on addressing recommendations from the 2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey. Key...

This $305,598 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund collaborative research between the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Alabama, Huntsville to study solar flare-producing active regions. The researchers will leverage high-resolution observations from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope and other ground-based and space-based telescopes, along...

This $184,742 National Science Foundation project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research at Texas A&M University to study the role of co-curricular physics outreach activities on undergraduate student persistence and success. The project aims to survey undergraduate physics majors nationwide regarding their participation in informal physics outreach programs for K-12 students and analyze the relationship to student success factors. A subaward of $30,000 to the...