This five-year, $1.48 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund scholarships and engagement activities to support the retention and graduation of 24 diverse, low-income students pursuing STEM degrees at the University of Houston. The University of Houston will provide scholarships from years one through graduation for students majoring in Earth and atmospheric sciences, mathematics, and physics. Scholars will participate in...
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Houston a $500,000 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to provide research experiences for pre-service secondary STEM teachers. Through summer 2023-2025, the project will engage 30 prospective teachers in interdisciplinary research focused on industries of the future such as artificial intelligence, quantum information science, and biotechnology. Participants will conduct research at partnering Houston-area school...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $767,625 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin through the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to examine conceptions of Blackness among undergraduate Black STEM students. The research team will conduct an exploratory mixed methods study integrating ethnography and surveys across six institutions in five states. They aim to understand how Black students' notions of identity along dimensions like ethnicity, place, and generation relate to...
This $1,808,065 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) to the University of Houston System aims to develop STEM teacher leaders in the areas of culturally responsive classroom management, engineering design, and induction. Key goals include: Recruiting and providing 5-year, $20,000 annual salary supplements to 15 Master Teacher Fellows (MTFs) to receive intensive training in culturally responsive classroom management (CRCM) and engineering design....
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $500,000 to the University of Houston to implement an undergraduate research training program in biology and biochemistry. The project will engage cohorts of financially disadvantaged students, including those from underrepresented populations, in a two-semester capstone course to develop scientific and workforce skills, followed by research placements with mentors. The primary goals are...
This $1,130,584 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The award aims to develop and test a comprehensive, evidence-based strategy to help 10 predominantly white institutions (PWIs) or new minority-serving institutions (MSIs) identify and address systemic racial inequities in STEM education. Over nearly two years, the cohort institutions will be guided by experts to reconcile explicit and implicit...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $1,548,342 to the University of California, Irvine for a collaborative research project investigating culturally responsive informal pedagogical practices for STEM afterschool programs engaging Latinx youth. Over four years, the University will conduct a mixed-methods study involving surveys and interviews with 840 adolescent participants, 210 undergraduate mentors, 87 parents, and 87...
This Project Grant award of $679,917 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports the development of a culturally responsive community of practice to build equitable pathways to graduate STEM education. The grant will fund four training sessions in culturally relevant pedagogy for STEM faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park, Bowie State University, and University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Additionally, an online mentor training program will...
This $1,611,154 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, will support the University of Houston System in developing and testing a model of informal engineering programming designed to foster engineering identities among youth aged 9-12 in Houston's Second and Third Wards. The program will offer a 16-week after-school curriculum featuring hands-on engineering design projects, interactions with diverse engineers and scientists,...
This $372,420 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the development and testing of a model for informal engineering programming designed to foster engineering identity and broaden participation in engineering pathways among youth aged 9-12 in Houston's Second and Third Wards. The project, led by researchers at the University of Houston and Drexel University, will offer a 16-week after-school program featuring hands-on...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,170,000 Project Grant under its STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of Houston System, doing business as the University of Houston, to develop and research a program that offers culturally responsive mentoring, tutoring, summer research, and college/career readiness supports for predominantly Black and Latinx high school students enrolled in alternative school systems in Houston, Texas. The program will also provide anti-racist and culturally responsive pedagogy training for University of Houston pre-service STEM teachers to guide their engagement with the participating youth. The research will explore the impact of the program on the high school students' STEM identities, STEM career interest, and college readiness, as well as the pre-service teachers' self-efficacy in culturally responsive teaching. Findings will be disseminated through academic networks, conferences, and journals to advance racial equity in STEM education. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.