Project Grant 2541352
- Federal Grant Award Summary Texas State University received a $494,725 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028. This Implementation and Evaluation Project (IEP) Level 1 award supports an initiative designed to increase retention, academic achievement, and career preparation for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)...
- Texas State University received a $478,385 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (47.076) federal grant program. The grant will fund a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis to examine published and unpublished studies on psychosocial interventions targeting postsecondary students' mathematics attainment. Specifically, the university will collect and assess evidence on such interventions in college...
- Texas State University was awarded a two-year, $336,677 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will support the development of expertise in Data Envelope Analysis techniques to guide investigations of best practices that efficiently graduate Hispanic students with STEM degrees at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Leveraging DEA methods, the university will analyze institutional and...
- 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 Project Grant award of $289,017 provides funding from February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2025 to support research aimed at improving student success and equity in introductory biology courses. The award is made under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education program (CFDA 47.076), which supports the development and improvement of STEM education. Specifically, the awardee, Texas Tech University, will implement and evaluate mindset...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded Texas State University $291,134 on November 1, 2026, to advance methods for analyzing mathematical proof language under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The project, titled Advancing Methods for Analyzing Proof Language (AMPL), develops AI-based approaches to identify and characterize language conventions in formal mathematical proofs. The recipient will build two new educational corpora—one from undergraduate...
- This $1,393,594 National Science Foundation Project Grant will support the University of Texas at San Antonio in promoting psychological well-being and resilience to increase retention of high-achieving STEM students from underrepresented groups. Over six years, the project will provide scholarships of up to four years each to 27 students pursuing bachelor's degrees in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and physics/astronomy. Scholarship recipients will participate in a...
- Stephen F Austin State University was awarded a $141,577 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to conduct research from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2025. The grant will support COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INVESTIGATING STEM TEACHER PREPARATION AND RURAL TEACHER PERSISTENCE AND RETENTION. Specifically, the University will investigate factors that influence rural STEM teacher preparation, hiring, and...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded Texas Tech University $187,321 on October 15, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop an integrated systems model of organizational resilience in engineering departments. The project will characterize relationships among student, faculty/staff, and departmental resilience, then investigate the model's impact on student outcomes. Texas Tech will create a validated integrated systems model including...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded South Texas College $499,392 on October 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to expand course-based undergraduate research experiences in biotechnology to rural community college students. South Texas College will expand the SEA-PHAGES course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) to its rural branch campus and embed a multi-week CRISPR curriculum module across institutional sites. The...
The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded Texas State University $709,512 through the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program on July 1, 2026, to investigate how peer interactions shape growth mindset and retention in undergraduate STEM courses. The project, led by faculty members at Texas State University in San Marcos, will analyze classroom observations and student daily diary entries using natural language processing tools to identify peer cues linked to academic persistence in STEM. The research will develop an intervention designed to shift peer interactions toward fostering growth mindset and improving STEM retention. The team will disseminate findings through open-access toolkits, faculty development workshops, academic publications, a national symposium, and public-facing venues. The work addresses a gap in motivation theory by treating peers as social agents whose specific behaviors and daily interactions signal either fixed or growth mindsets, and will test peer norm interventions in authentic classroom settings to create low-cost, scalable evidence-based practices for undergraduate STEM retention. Performance occurs at Texas State University's San Marcos, Texas campus. The award period runs from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2031. This is a Project Grant funded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), which supports initiatives advancing the nation's STEM education enterprise.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $709.5k | 7/21/26 |