Project Grant 2030890

This Project Grant award of $679,917 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development of a culturally responsive community of practice to build equitable pathways to graduate STEM education. The project, led by the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) in collaboration with Bowie State University (BSU) and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), aims to: Conduct four trainings in culturally relevant pedagogy for STEM faculty...

This $396,210 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to develop a cross-institutional culturally responsive community of practice to build equitable pathways to graduate STEM education. Key objectives include: Conducting four trainings in culturally relevant pedagogy for STEM faculty and implementing an online mentor training program to enhance cultural awareness, responsiveness, and competency. Implementing culturally...

This Project Grant award of $999,985 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a multi-stage intervention at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to investigate how programs can build structural opportunities and support for mobilizing marginalized doctoral students' cultural strengths and ways of knowing within STEM graduate education. The project will take inventory of three UCSC programs - the Cota Robles Fellows Program, the New...

This Project Grant award of $1,730,730 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the "Cultivating Culturally Responsive STEM Pathways Using a Near-Peer Role Model Intervention" project at Arizona State University. The project aims to revise the existing "Science is Fun" afterschool program for Hispanic 4th grade students using a culturally-responsive approach. The program will be facilitated by Hispanic near-peer mentors and...

This Project Grant award of $776,588 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development of a culturally responsive community of practice to build equitable pathways to graduate STEM education. The award will fund four trainings in culturally relevant pedagogy for STEM faculty and an online mentor training program at Bowie State University, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and the University of Maryland. The goal is to implement...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $349,999 to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to expand and enhance methodologies for obtaining deeper insights into factors affecting the engagement and persistence of STEM majors in higher education. The project consists of two key components: 1) a systematic literature review to characterize the existing research on undergraduate STEM student engagement,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education Program (CFDA 47.076) award of $192,194 provides funding to Texas Tech University System to build and manage a research network focused on investigating factors that influence the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students in STEM fields. The key products and services delivered through this 5-year project include: Conducting research through a network of rural-serving institutions to gather and analyze data on the...

The National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program has awarded a $499,989 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to implement the "HSI IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION PROJECT: INTEGRATED NETWORKING, SCHOLARSHIP, AND PEER MENTORING OF FRESHMEN ENGINEERS FOR INCREASED ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND GRADUATION RATES." This 5-year project aims to provide academic and social support to UCSB engineering and computer science freshmen with "effectors...

This Project Grant award of $795,731 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a six-year initiative at the University of the Pacific, a minority-serving institution, to increase STEM degree completion for academically talented, low-income undergraduates with financial need. The project will provide four-year scholarships to 10 students pursuing bachelor's degrees in civil engineering and engineering management, while integrating academic and industry...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to examine the impacts of culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy (CRESP) in undergraduate STEM courses. The $484,615 project, awarded to Northern Arizona University, will establish best practices for CRESP implementation and measure its effects on student outcomes, including identity, cultural competence, and critical consciousness. The four-year project will study both CRESP-based and...