This $274,095 National Science Foundation project grant supports the Reviewer Zero coalition's efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the peer review process. Funded under the NSF's STEM Education program, the three-year award provides strategic programming and interventions for graduate students and reviewers/editors. The grantees—Indiana University, Columbia University, and California State San Bernardino—will design and deliver evidence-based training to build awareness of...
This $499,992 National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program grant (CFDA 47.076) awarded to the University of California, Berkeley will fund the development and implementation of a comprehensive graduate curriculum to enhance scientific literacy, peer review skills, and communication capabilities among STEM graduate students. The two-year project, titled "Empowering Tomorrow's Scholars: A Comprehensive Training Initiative for Graduate Students in...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $501,890 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to assess bias and idiosyncrasies in elite scientific peer review. The University of Colorado will produce and make publicly available multiple comprehensive anonymized datasets spanning submitted manuscripts and reviews from two elite general science journals over multiple years and fields. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering, provides $200,000 in funding to George Mason University to develop improved methods and concepts to guide the development and application of new digital technologies that could be used in peer review processes for evaluating scientific publishing and funding outcomes. The research team will seek to compare...
This $999,985 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) to the University of California, Santa Cruz aims to investigate how academic programs can better mobilize the cultural strengths and ways of knowing of marginalized doctoral students in STEM fields. The multi-stage, multi-program intervention will take inventory of three existing programs (a fellowship support program, an interdisciplinary research training program, and a mentoring training...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,219,872 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Southern Methodist University (SMU) to conduct the "Amplifying Diverse Voices in STEM Education" (ADVISE) research project. The overarching goal of this 5-year collaborative project is to better understand and compare the individual- and group-level psychological and sociological processes, such as student belonging, stereotype threat, classroom climate, and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to identify and understand pedagogical strategies that promote equity in team experiences for Black and Latinx students in engineering and computer science classrooms. The $275,745 award to Arizona State University will use an asset-based approach to inform team compositions that foster cooperation, collaboration, and inclusion, while also providing training for faculty...
This $327,745 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to transform undergraduate engineering education to create more inclusive learning environments. The project, titled "FROM CORNERSTONE TO CAPSTONE AND BEYOND: TRANSFORMING ENGINEERING TEAMING TO SUPPORT A DIVERSE AND EMPOWERED ENGINEERING COMMUNITY", will develop and validate scalable inclusive teamwork models to foster a sense of belonging for...
This $1,130,584 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop and test a comprehensive strategy to identify and cultivate the readiness of predominantly white institutions (PWIs) and new minority-serving institutions (MSIs) to address systemic inequities in STEM education. The key objectives of the "Determining Equity Readiness in Higher Education: Empowering Student Success in STEM Education"...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) to the California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc. supports a collaborative research project examining cognitive and linguistic barriers to improving diversity in STEM fields. The $721,526 award over 3 years from September 2023 to August 2026 will fund 5 large-scale studies to investigate how generalization and generic language development affect science learning,...
This $117,053 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and evaluation of interventions to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scientific peer review process. The awardee, a consortium led by Indiana University including Columbia University and California State University San Bernardino, will design and deliver training to both graduate students navigating peer review and the reviewers/editors who make review decisions. The training will build awareness of inequities and provide tools to shift peer review culture toward a more formative and supportive function. A new paper development system will pilot interactive formative reviews. Outreach to journals and societies aims to disseminate the reimagined goals and processes of peer review. The project aims to study how engagement with the activities affects trainee and reviewer knowledge and skills to understand cultural shifts in peer review.