This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) will provide $100,000 to Nova Southeastern University in Florida to host a series of conferences focused on supporting early-career faculty and enhancing research infrastructure at emerging research institutions and minority-serving institutions. The conferences will bring together research development professionals, university administrators, and early-career faculty to capture...
This Project Grant award of $106,050, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, supports a conference and collaborative activities to increase proposal development skills and submission rates for STEM education projects among institutions of higher education (IHEs) in the EPSCoR jurisdictions of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The key objectives of the project are to: (1) conduct a proposal development workshop for 50 researchers from...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant in the amount of $637,354 to the University of Texas at Austin. The grant, which will run from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2029, is funded through NSF's Education Core Research (ECR) program and aims to understand and reduce inequality in the returns to K-12 STEM education for college and early career outcomes. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: 1) analyzing...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to host a conference on "Inclusive Collaboration Resources: Enhancing Research Support Infrastructure at Minority Serving Institutions." The goal is to develop best practices and resources to improve equitable research collaboration and retention of diverse STEM researchers. The conference will convene research enterprise...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $218,966 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant to Idaho State University (ISU) to study how to foster undergraduate students' agency to shape science practices. The grant, which runs from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2029, falls under the NSF's Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program (CFDA 47.076). The project aims to develop research-based understandings on how to empower undergraduate students to actively...
This two-year, $599,255 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund research exploring career trajectories and outcomes of marginalized groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) doctoral programs. The principal investigators at the National Opinion Research Center will employ mixed methods to analyze survey data from current and recent doctoral students at three North Carolina institutions. The project aims to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) for $100,000 will fund a collaborative research project to organize four workshops from 2024-2026 aimed at training aspiring principal investigators (PIs) from minority-serving institutions (MSIs) in the Southern and Southeastern U.S. states. The goal is to prepare these participants to submit proposals to the CISE MSI program in 2025 and 2026. The workshops will focus...
This Project Grant award of $679,917 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development of a culturally responsive community of practice to build equitable pathways to graduate STEM education. The project, led by the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) in collaboration with Bowie State University (BSU) and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), aims to: Conduct four trainings in culturally relevant pedagogy for STEM faculty...
This NSF STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $2,230,149 to Mississippi State University will support a collaborative research hub focused on increasing the retention, graduation, and STEM career participation of rural, low-income college students. The award will fund the development of a strategic alliance among five rural-serving institutions (RSIs) to conduct research on factors influencing the belonging, persistence, and academic/career outcomes of this student population. Key...
This $769,984 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will establish an institute to train a cohort of early- and mid-career scholars in advanced quantitative and computational methods for STEM education research. The goal is to develop a community of skilled researchers who can rigorously apply cutting-edge analytical techniques to understand and address inequities in STEM education access and outcomes for underrepresented...