This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $198,998 to San Joseevergreen Community College District to incorporate the Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science (SEA-PHAGES) curriculum into the biology major at San Jose City College. The two-year project aims to increase student success and facilitate academic pathways into the biological science workforce in Silicon Valley...
This Project Grant award of $156,484.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the implementation of a course-based research experience (CRE) in molecular biology, bioinformatics, and genomics at Joliet Junior College. The project aims to increase persistence and strengthen the workforce readiness of two-year college students through participation in the well-established Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary...
This Project Grant award of $196,541.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) in implementing a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) in introductory biology. The project aims to increase research opportunities for two-year college students and strengthen their interest, engagement, and persistence in STEM fields. Over a two-year period, the project will embed the Science Education...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) project grant award of $1,126,524 to the University of Colorado Colorado Springs aims to implement and sustain course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) in gene editing technology at two-year colleges nationwide. The key products and services provided under this five-year grant include: 1) Summer workshops to train two-year college faculty in a modular CRISPR gene editing protocol using fission yeast, 2)...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $349k Project Grant to Santa Monica Community College District under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop a credentialed biotechnology program focusing on cell science and immunological testing. The three-year award will recruit and train 30 students from diverse and traditionally underrepresented backgrounds, including those impacted by the justice system, providing 30 industry internships and up to 60 stackable certificates in a career...
This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the University of California Santa Cruz's implementation and evaluation of curricular undergraduate research experiences in the life sciences. The university will establish four new faculty-led course-based undergraduate research laboratories engaging up to 100 undergraduates, including those from underrepresented groups, in authentic research projects in molecular, cellular,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,258,941 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) to create a culture of STEM research at a two-year college. The project aims to develop and implement an array of early undergraduate research experiences for diverse STEM students at CCBC, prior to transferring to a four-year university. Key objectives include creating STEM research courses, providing student research...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $199,989 will fund Bloomfield College's interventions to improve academic performance among biology majors under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The two-year award beginning June 1, 2022 will support a week-long intensive biology summer enrichment program, peer coaching and tutoring, and course-based undergraduate research experiences for incoming first-year biology students. These services aim to ease the transition to college,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $457,595 project grant under the CFDA 47.076 STEM Education program to Arapahoe Community College in Littleton, Colorado. The goal of this 3-year project is to integrate course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) into STEM curricula at the community college to increase student success, knowledge, persistence, and completion in STEM fields. Key objectives include: developing variable-length CUREs and training 60 faculty, 6 lab prep...
This $500,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) is intended to enhance undergraduate research experiences for community college students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The project, titled "Beyond the Classroom: Increasing Persistence in STEM through External Validation in Community College Undergraduate Research Experiences," aims to provide opportunities for students...