The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) received a $353,489 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (ECR) program, effective February 1, 2024 through January 31, 2029. The award will fund research to promote 4- to 6-year-old children's scientific learning through parent-child conversations during book reading interactions. Key objectives include: Using natural language processing to quantify references to scientific processes in children's...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) project grant award of $478,433 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) aims to develop statistical procedures to improve the internal validity of STEM education impact evaluations. The 3-year project from July 2024 to June 2027 will focus on quantifying how the choice of outcome measures affects the conclusions of STEM education research studies. Key products will include new robust statistical...
This $2.358 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development of youth environmental health literacy and climate resilience programming. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will build the capacity of community organizations to implement informal STEM learning activities for racially and ethnically diverse youth focused on collecting and analyzing local climate data, developing resilience solutions, and...
This $927,909 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports graduate research fellowships for outstanding students pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and STEM education. The award provides three years of financial support for NSF Graduate Fellows at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct cutting-edge research...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) received a three-year $548,722 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (formerly the Education and Human Resources program, CFDA 47.076) to develop and validate a model of self-regulated learning (SRL) in computer science education. Through this award, UNC-Chapel Hill will collect fine-grained digital trace data from students' interactions with programming tools in authentic...
The University of North Carolina at Asheville received a three-year, $299,931 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076) to implement a science communication instruction initiative from December 2021 through November 2024. The grant funds will support curriculum development and instruction to improve undergraduate students' science literacy and communication skills. As part of the NSF's mission to ensure the vitality of the U.S.' STEM...
North Carolina State University received a $459,848 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and evaluate a professional development model for secondary mathematics teachers serving linguistically marginalized students. Over a three-year period from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2026, the university will design workshops and provide video-coaching to support...
This $349,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support a research project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to investigate how to design and integrate artificial intelligence (AI) to support equitable K-12 science education. The project plans to explore the use of multimodal AI to provide automated feedback for formative science assessments, with the goal of generating design principles to develop...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,999,399 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support the "Data Analytics Training and Scientific Computing Initiative" at the University of North Carolina Asheville (UNC Asheville). The project aims to increase the STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduate students by providing comprehensive support including scholarships, peer mentoring, paid research and internship...
The National Science Foundation awarded The University of North Carolina at Pembroke a $226,438 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop six self-contained lab modules for securing self-driving networks. The modules will provide undergraduate students hands-on experience in attack investigation and analysis, vulnerability hunting, network data collection, protection techniques, risk assessment, and automated response. The university will organize workshops to...