This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track 2 award to the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) will test strategies for helping all students, particularly those underrepresented in graduate education, to succeed in doctoral programs. The $999,699 grant, which runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2028, will allow CGS to work with a network of 10 universities and 60 doctoral programs to examine whether prior research findings on the positive...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $495,376 will support the University of Hawaii at Manoa in transforming its marine biology graduate program to incorporate place-based pedagogies. Funded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), this three-year award beginning October 1, 2022 aims to establish a community-embedded science approach. Graduate students will undertake a two-week intensive immersing them in relationship building, service learning, and cultural education...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program Project Grant, awarded to Boise State University and Utah State University, provides funding of $279,997 to pilot a storytelling intervention to enhance professional identity, sense of belonging, and reduce impostor syndrome among graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The project aims to develop, implement, and assess an innovative personal storytelling...
This National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) award to Boise State University and Utah State University provides $219,984 to pilot a cohort-based storytelling intervention to enhance professional identity, sense of belonging, and reduce imposter feelings among STEM graduate students. The project, developed in collaboration with the Story Collider non-profit organization, will train students in storytelling techniques and facilitate their practice through public...
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 Project Grant award of $272,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (CFDA 47.076 STEM Education) supports outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and STEM education at Boise State University. The award provides financial support for three years to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce in the...
The University of Cincinnati will receive $499,999 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and evaluate an innovative graduate curriculum focused on public engagement with science. Over three years, the university will design and implement a three-part "Engaging Science Curriculum" involving hands-on training, a semester-long course, and community internships for 90 graduate students total. The curriculum aims to equip students with skills...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program award to the University of Pittsburgh will create and validate a Personalized Learning Model (PLM) for graduate STEM education. The $500,000 award, effective October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2026, aims to break the traditional "one-size-fits-all" approach to graduate STEM training by developing a model that addresses issues of inclusivity and removes barriers to participation by underrepresented...
This three-year, $299,967 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and testing of Earth, environmental, and agricultural science courses that integrate human dimensions of science using the STEM Futures framework for undergraduate education. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville leads a partnership with Colorado State University and the University of Texas at El Paso to further develop an existing course on the history...
This $211,477 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development and implementation of introductory geoscience lessons at Boise State University to quantify the relationship between student learning outcomes, affect, and levels of instructional reform. The grant aims to design lessons classified as teacher-centered, transitional/interactive lecture, and student-centered using the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol and Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM....