This National Science Foundation (NSF) grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $261,523 to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to conduct a 5-year research project exploring student interactions and participation in small groups within belonging-oriented undergraduate mathematics classrooms. The project aims to advance foundational knowledge on the relationship between active learning approaches and equitable, inclusive learning environments, particularly for...
This Project Grant award, valued at $348,587.00 and issued by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, supports the development of advanced statistical modeling skills by the Principal Investigator (PI) to better understand factors influencing undergraduate student persistence in STEM fields. The PI will complete statistical coursework and work with a mentor team to build complex statistical models using data from the Higher Education Research...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,989,686 STEM Education Program (CFDA 47.076) project grant to Virginia Wesleyan University to support the retention and graduation of 30 high-achieving, low-income undergraduate students pursuing degrees in STEM fields over a 5-year period. The project will provide comprehensive support through scholarships, faculty and peer mentoring, research and internship experiences, career planning services, and networking opportunities. Additional...
This $1,997,177 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income computer science students with demonstrated financial need at Virginia Commonwealth University. Over the six-year award period, the project will provide scholarships to 54 full-time computer science transfer students and equip them with a holistic model of support, including a scholars retreat,...
This Project Grant award of $349,999 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports a two-year mixed-methods study investigating the impact of structured student support programs on the academic success, retention, and degree completion of undergraduate engineering students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The research project aims to identify practices that foster community, academic confidence, and positive engineering...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education (47.076) federal grant program, provides $444,348 to Virginia Commonwealth University to develop a digital platform and classroom strategies for improving undergraduate STEM students' professional skills. The three-year award beginning in March 2023 will support creating a digital platform pre-loaded with customizable rubrics from the prior NSF-funded Enhancing Learning by...
This Project Grant award for $499,998.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education). The award will fund the incubation and piloting of a "laboratory classroom" to capture real-time data on individual student and teacher behavior, neurology, physiology, cognition, and physical interactions within classroom settings. This research aims to advance understanding of how individual student...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) award, under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, provides $199,967 to Colorado State University to conduct exploratory research leveraging large language models to analyze qualitative data gathered from underrepresented students in STEM disciplines. The project takes an ecosystems approach to understanding STEM degree progression, examining how environmental factors at the individual, academic, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $350,000 to Child Trends, Inc. to engage Black youth voices in order to advance the understanding and conceptualization of Black youth's STEM identity development. The project aims to promote greater equity in K-12 STEM education by elevating the perspectives of Black students, who are often underrepresented in STEM fields. Through comprehensive professional development activities...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, provides $199,970 in funding to Manhattanville University to conduct a planning project focused on increasing persistence, retention, and graduation rates among Hispanic and other historically underserved students in STEM fields. The key objectives of this 16-month project are to: (1) learn more about Manhattanville's STEM student population and assess the effectiveness of current...