This $250,000 Project Grant awarded on October 1, 2023 by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support cyberinfrastructure upgrades at Aaniiih Nakoda College, a tribal college in Harlem, Montana. The project aims to enhance the college's IT resources and cybersecurity capabilities to facilitate STEM instruction, research, and data management. Specifically, the funding will enable upgrades to the college's network, cybersecurity, and STEM-related IT...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $500,001 Project Grant to Fort Peck Community College (FPCC) to expand its capacity in geography and environmental sciences classes by adding a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technology Certificate in Applied Science. This award aligns with the NSF STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), which aims to increase the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of higher education institutions...
This five-year, $1.5 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support Northwest Indian College's efforts to transform STEM education and support Indigenous scientists. Over the grant period, Northwest Indian College will provide scholarships to 43 unique full-time students pursuing bachelor's degrees in Native Environmental Science. Key services include removing financial barriers for academically talented Indigenous science students,...
This $166,946 National Science Foundation project grant will support the salary and professional development of one full-time STEM faculty member at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Montana from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023. The award aims to maintain the college's STEM program as it recovers from impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic by mitigating loss of enrollment-tied operating funds. The grant falls under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), which sponsors development of...
This $1.62 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support scholarships for 105 low-income Native American and rural students pursuing two- and four-year STEM degrees at four Montana institutions over six years. Salish Kootenai College, Inc. will lead the collaboration with the University of Montana, Montana Technological University, and Blackfeet Community College to provide scholarships and coordinated student supports....
This Project Grant award of $1,868,784 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports the Aaniiih Nakoda Water Center at Aaniiih Nakoda College (ANC). The center conducts water quality research, offers water resource education and training programs, and serves as a clearinghouse for the Fort Belknap Indian Community. Specifically, the center is carrying out comparative bioassessments of surface water, studying local groundwater impacts, and...
Oglala Lakota College received a $1,500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to strengthen environmental data science education and undergraduate research. The award will support the "T?OK?TAKIYA (?TOWARDS THE FUTURE?) PROJECT" through March 2028. The project aims to build an environmental data science STEM education model incorporating traditional ecological knowledge to address complex environmental...
This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports Bay Mills Community College, a tribal college and 1994 Land Grant Institution in Michigan, in developing and enhancing its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program offerings and capacity. The funding will enable Bay Mills Community College to develop four new science courses (Biology I, Biology II, Chemistry I, and Chemistry II) and explore the...
This $166,946 National Science Foundation project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the salary and professional development of one full-time STEM faculty member at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Montana from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. The goal is to help maintain the college's STEM program as it recovers from enrollment declines and resulting funding losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic's disruptive impacts on higher education institutions. Specifically,...
This $199,999 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports United Tribes Technical College's STEM instructional capacity as it recovers from impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding will retain one full-time STEM faculty member position and provide other resources to maintain the college's STEM program through April 30, 2023. As the core operating funds for Tribal Colleges and Universities are directly tied to student enrollment, drops...