The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $282,477 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) for the collaborative research project "Generics in Context: Examining Mental Biases and Resources in Social and Science Communication and Learning." This 3-year project, which began on September 1, 2023, aims to generate new empirical findings on cognitive and linguistic barriers that impede diversifying STEM fields, as...
This $799,997 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve the diversity and availability of the STEM educational pipeline at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). The project will study how a sense of belonging in STEM and motivation to solve real-world, culturally-connected problems can enhance the professional STEM identity and career intentions of underrepresented minority...
This $209,204 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research investigating the impacts of diversity and inclusion in the scientific workforce. The key objectives are to: (a) quantify the participation of people of color and members of historically marginalized populations in science production, (b) elucidate their role in driving intellectual innovations, and (c) understand how team...
This $659,861 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) supports research by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to explore how transdisciplinary computational learning experiences can foster identity formation, persistence, and a sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students in STEM fields. The research aims to make theoretical and empirical contributions to undergraduate computer science education, design-based...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $143,028 under the NSF STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports a collaborative research project between Pennsylvania State University and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T). The project aims to investigate structural, systemic, and social barriers impacting the participation of underrepresented STEM students in innovation competitions and programs (ICPs). The goals are to advance the...
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 $379,990 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to implement and study evidence-based teaching practices that promote equitable collaboration in undergraduate data science courses at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and California State University, Monterey Bay. The overarching goal is to understand how small group experiences, specifically pair programming, can be designed to create...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing a $299,181 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Colorado to study the mechanisms that lead to a lack of diversity in computer science (CS) research subfields. The three-part study includes in-depth interviews, textual analysis of subfield discourse, and a large-scale survey to quantify participation of domestic racial minorities in CS subfields. The goal is to develop a...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $3 million project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) on September 1, 2021. The five-year grant will support the Linguistic Diversity Across the Lifespan project to transform training and advance human-technology interaction through research on linguistic diversity. As part of the NSF's mission to ensure the vitality of the nation's STEM education...
The National Science Foundation awarded $122,710 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to Stanford University from June 2022 to July 2023. The project aims to increase diversity in the linguistic sciences through an Research Experiences for Undergraduates site examining the role of language in social mobility. Undergraduate students from historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions will conduct...