This $877,151 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports West Virginia University Research Corporation in developing a model for interdisciplinary STEM education partnerships to help undergraduate students apply mathematical knowledge across disciplines. The project, led by West Virginia University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Western Michigan University, aims to adapt the proven SUMMIT-P model to form new faculty teams at...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education grant award (CFDA 47.076) for $160,976 to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) aims to develop a model for interdisciplinary STEM partnerships that enable undergraduate students to better apply mathematical knowledge across disciplines. The project, titled "A Model for Institutional Transformation through Interdisciplinary STEM Partnerships to Support Student Transfer of Mathematical Knowledge," will assist approximately 40 new...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research on student interactions and learning experiences in small group settings within active learning undergraduate mathematics classrooms. The primary goal is to explore the experiences of students from non-dominant identity groups and their instructors during group activities, analyzing factors such as participation, positional identities, and learning opportunities....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to advance the understanding of departmental change efforts that can transform undergraduate STEM education. The $136,024 award to National Louis University, in collaboration with the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado State University, and Western Michigan University, will conduct a two-pronged project: (1) a landscape study on methods for supporting STEM departmental...
This $600,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will support Texas State University in developing equitable group work strategies for proof-based undergraduate mathematics courses. Over a two-year period ending December 2025, the university will design and implement instructor workshops on incorporating group-worthy tasks adapted from K-12 complex instruction principles. It will also study the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant for $399,896 is intended to transform undergraduate STEM teaching through a novel professional development model for faculty. The project aims to help faculty design student-centered, equitably-minded, and pedagogically engaging curricular innovations for their STEM courses. Key components include a pedagogy workshop, faculty support groups, an iterative co-design process with students, and development of an...
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 $1.4 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support Fort Valley State University's "Driving Math Competency through STEM Modeling" initiative from October 2022 through September 2028. The project aims to increase degree completion among low-income, high-achieving undergraduates pursuing bachelor's degrees in mathematics. Specifically, it will provide scholarships for 30 unique students over six years, with 12...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $349,999 to Virginia Commonwealth University to expand and enhance methodologies for obtaining deeper insights into factors affecting the engagement and persistence of STEM majors in higher education. The project consists of two components: 1) a systematic literature review to examine research on undergraduate STEM student engagement, performance, and persistence, considering...
This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of four curricular modules to foster STEM thinking and integration in mathematics courses for elementary education majors at Marquette University. The modules aim to provide authentic problem-solving experiences for pre-service teachers related to quantitative relationships using ratios, proportions, scaling, measurement and estimation. Informed by the Next Generation Science Standards, Standards for Technological...