This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) provides a $299,923 research initiation grant to Clark Atlanta University (CAU), a private, historically Black university located in Atlanta, Georgia. The project aims to advance the study of partially ordered sets (posets) and structures that do not contain them, with a focus on Turán-type problems. Key objectives include conducting research to resolve the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $397,999 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Clark Atlanta University to develop and implement new undergraduate geospatial research courses in the political science curriculum, incorporate geospatial data systems and/or data analytics modules in existing political science courses, and increase geospatial research and data analytics through faculty-mentored undergraduate research projects. The goal of this 3-year project...
This $349,602 federal project grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports research at Clark Atlanta University to evaluate the effectiveness of integrating scientific literacy curricula, peer mentoring, and supplemental instruction for first-year biology majors. The goal is to enhance retention, graduation rates, and gateway course pass rates for this student population. The 3-year project employs a randomized controlled trial design,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Morehouse College Inc., a private historically Black college in Atlanta, Georgia, a $399,605 Project Grant under its STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076). The funding will support the development, implementation, and study of innovative approaches to improving the preparation and success of historically Black college and university (HBCU) undergraduate students in STEM disciplines, with a focus on deep...
This $320,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and delivery of ten data science courses to over 200 undergraduates from a consortium of eleven diverse universities. Led by Florida A&M University, the consortium will leverage distributed learning technologies to provide data science instruction and research experiences traditionally unavailable at smaller or minority-serving institutions. Through an...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) grant award for $749,861 aims to develop effective curricular materials and an integrated learning platform to overcome programming barriers and increase data science education for non-computing students. The 3-year project, led by the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in collaboration with Howard University and Bryn Mawr College, will: (1) create an integrated teaching and learning platform; (2) develop course modules...
This $908,881 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support research examining conceptions of Blackness among undergraduate Black STEM students. A collaborative network of six institutions across five states will conduct an exploratory mixed methods study integrating ethnography and survey design. The project aims to understand how Black students' notions of racial identity vary across dimensions like ethnicity, region, and generation, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $126,685 STEM Education Program (CFDA 47.076) project grant to Tuskegee University. The project aims to integrate essential cross-disciplinary skills and dispositions, such as teamwork and adaptability, into Tuskegee's computer science degree program. Key activities include developing assessment approaches for these skills, incorporating them across the curriculum, and enhancing the university's continuous improvement model. The project will...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,065,163 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Jarvis Christian University, a historically Black institution, to design, implement, study, and assess comprehensive efforts to increase the recruitment, retention, and graduation of underrepresented minority students in STEM disciplines. The 5-year project aims to achieve this through interdisciplinary research infusion into the undergraduate STEM curriculum, including...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $399,399 to Howard University to incorporate data science and analytics (DSA) into the honors curriculum and co-curricular experiences in the College of Arts and Sciences. The project aims to develop four curriculum modules covering topics like data science methodologies, data transformation, visualization, and machine learning. The goal is to prepare over 400 COAS honors students...