Project Grant 2236270

This three-year, $599,338 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076), will support the development, implementation, and assessment of an inclusive STEM curriculum centered on the early 20th century data science innovations of W.E.B. Du Bois. The curriculum module aims to engage over 1,600 undergraduate students across 40 courses at partner institutions—a Hispanic Serving Institution, a Historically Black College and University where Du Bois earned a degree, and an Ivy League institution—in exploring Du Bois' scholarly work in data science. Students will apply data analysis and visualization techniques to domain-appropriate data for their particular disciplinary course and complete written reflections on their learning. The project team, comprised of faculty and students from the partner institutions, will collaborate to develop the curriculum materials, which will be piloted and their impact evaluated using pre-/post-assessment tools to measure constructs like belonging, self-efficacy, and associations with scientist and racial/ethnic identities. Developed materials and study results will be shared openly online to potentially benefit undergraduate science courses nationwide.