This $1.69 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support scholarships for 105 low-income students pursuing STEM degrees over six years at four Montana institutions. The University of Montana leads this collaboration with Salish Kootenai College, Blackfeet Community College, and Montana Technological University. The project aims to increase STEM retention and graduation rates through individual mentoring, peer support networks,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education will provide $1,091,396 in funding over six years to support scholarships for 105 students pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees at four Montana institutions of higher education. The official federal grant program is the STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076), which aims to improve STEM education and ensure the vitality of the U.S. STEM workforce. Under the award,...
Montana State University was awarded a $299,949 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to evaluate a role-playing approach to improve transferable professional communication skills of chemical engineering students. The grant will support Montana State University's Office of Sponsored Programs in developing and assessing a role-playing curriculum focused on enhancing students' abilities to...
Montana State University was awarded a $2.984 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2026. The grant supports the "NRT-UROL: Decoding the Mechanisms Underpinning Biofilm Function and Architecture in Extreme Environments" project under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The project aims to advance understanding of biofilm formation and function in extreme environments through...
This $1.62 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support scholarships for 105 low-income Native American and rural students pursuing two- and four-year STEM degrees at four Montana institutions over six years. Salish Kootenai College, Inc. will lead the collaboration with the University of Montana, Montana Technological University, and Blackfeet Community College to provide scholarships and coordinated student supports....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded through the STEM Education (47.076) program, supports Jackson State University in implementing and studying writing-to-learn (WTL) pedagogy and cognitive/metacognitive skills development in STEM courses at their institution. The $399,982 award, with a period of performance from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, will explore using AI-powered automatic assessment of student writing and metacognitive prompts to evaluate learning...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to address the critical need for developing highly effective STEM teacher leaders in high-need school districts in Montana. The $1,519,175 award to Montana State University will support the recruitment, training, and ongoing development of 26 STEM Master Teacher Fellows (MTFs) from seven high-need school districts across rural and American Indian communities in...
This $245,975 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to develop and validate an assessment framework to improve the ability to evaluate individual student contributions in team-based software development projects in undergraduate computing education. The project, awarded to the University of Montana, will iteratively create and validate (a) an assessment framework to measure attainment of learning outcomes targeted by collaborative...
This $389,897 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a three-year meta-analysis investigating the effectiveness of writing instruction in secondary math and science classes. The project aims to: a) determine the overall impact of writing instruction on students' math/science achievement, math/science-specific writing, and general writing composition; b) identify factors that influence the effectiveness of writing instruction in...
This $196,316 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development of antiracist writing pedagogies across STEM curricula at Humboldt State University. Over the one-year period from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023, the University will provide professional development to approximately 112 STEM faculty on inclusive frameworks for language and writing development, antiracist writing assessment theories, and culturally sustaining...