The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000 project grant to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education to build capacity to improve transfer success in undergraduate engineering. Funded through the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), this award will support efforts to develop strategies and tools to help community college students successfully transfer to four-year institutions for bachelor's degrees in engineering. The STEM Education program aims to ensure the vitality...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing a $751,167 Project Grant award under its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Mississippi State University (MSU). The grant aims to enhance STEM education in rural areas of North Mississippi by recruiting, training, and placing highly qualified teachers in high-need schools, with a focus on physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Over the next five years, the project seeks to produce up to six new STEM teachers annually, leveraging innovative...
The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded Mississippi State University a $822,558 project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2025. The grant will support collaborative research investigating STEM teacher preparation and rural teacher persistence and retention. The STEM Education program aims to ensure the vitality of the nation's STEM education enterprise by supporting programs that develop STEM education. This...
This $4,986,777 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the Natural Science Transfer Scholars consortium led by Michigan State University. The consortium aims to increase degree completion in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields among low-income, academically talented community college transfer students. Specifically, over the six-year award period ending December 2028, the consortium will provide...
The University of Texas at Dallas was awarded a $1.5 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to improve transfer academic, career, and community engagement outcomes for engineering and computer science students. Over a six-year period through September 2028, the University will provide scholarships of up to $3 years for 30 unique transfer students pursuing degrees in biomedical engineering, computer engineering, computer science,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,497,095 Project Grant under its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the Fresno Foundation California State University to deliver the "Enhanced Engineering Education for Underserved Communities of the San Joaquin Valley" project over 6 years. This initiative will provide scholarships to 31 talented, low-income, primarily first-generation and minority undergraduate students pursuing STEM degrees in engineering at California State...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $2,499,950 to Minnesota State Colleges & Universities (operating as Bemidji State University) will support a six-year program to increase STEM degree completion rates for academically talented, low-income undergraduate students with demonstrated financial need. The project aims to recruit and retain two cohorts of 55 diverse STEM scholars, graduate 80% within four years, and have at least 90% obtain...
The Michigan State University was awarded a $382,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The grant funding will support MSU's Mobile Technology to Improve Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) College and Career Awareness for Underserved High School Students project. The project aims to enhance STEM college and career...
This $1.5 million National Science Foundation project grant will fund scholarships and student support services at Angelo State University over six years from 2022 to 2028 under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The university will provide 36 scholarships of up to four years for first-year students and two and a half years for transfer students pursuing civil and mechanical engineering degrees. Scholarship recipients will participate in student cohorts, mentoring from peers,...
The University of St. Thomas received a $1,499,997 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education on January 1, 2022 to support the "Alternate Pathways to Excellence: Engineering a Transfer-Friendly Experience" project. This project grant, awarded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076), aims to develop transfer pathways and experiences that support the success of community college transfer students pursuing bachelor's...