Project Grant AH27558320

The Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education awarded Adirondack Community College $694,346 under the Education Stabilization Fund federal grant program to address learning gaps and reduce barriers for students impacted by COVID-19 from July 13, 2022 to July 12, 2023. As the awardee, Adirondack Community College will deliver projects and services to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the State of New York as the parent organization overseeing use...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $100,039 to the University of Colorado to conduct a longitudinal study on the emotional adjustment and psychological health of diverse emerging adult students before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aims to use remote-based surveys and experience-sampling methods to examine how social isolation, emotion regulation...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on undergraduate science education in the United States. The $113,972 award to Arizona State University will repeat a 2019 survey of approximately 18,000 instructors of first-year mathematics, chemistry, and physics courses across nearly 1,000 post-secondary institutions. This will allow the researchers to characterize...

Stony Brook University will receive $299,949 over three years from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to study online laboratory instruction in undergraduate physics courses. Specifically, the project aims to investigate how physics faculty and teaching assistants have adapted laboratory materials and pedagogy for remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. It will explore factors influencing online teaching approaches as well as student experiences and...

The Board of Cooperative Education received a $394,766 formula grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Education Stabilization Fund program (CFDA 84.425). The grant period runs from March 1, 2021 through February 28, 2022. The funding will support efforts by the Board to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic at the postsecondary education level in Watertown, New York. Specifically, the $394,766 in grant funds will be...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $157,202 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to The Ohio State University. The grant will fund a 15-month project called "Pandemics and Public Health Crises in United States History" that will train 30 educators in the humanities and health sciences to teach interdisciplinary courses on the history of disease and other public health crises. The project aims to...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $464,597 will fund research to characterize active learning environments in physics education and relate classroom features to student outcomes. The award was made under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education program (CFDA 47.076) to support the creation and implementation of promising STEM education practices. Specifically, the funding will support a collaborative research project between Drexel University and Wright...

The Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education awarded Post University, Inc. a $1,393,742 Formula Grant under the Education Stabilization Fund (CFDA 84.425) program on February 4, 2021. The grant period runs through June 21, 2022 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. As a proprietary institution of higher education located in Waterbury, Connecticut, Post University will utilize the grant funding to provide support for students and help...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, totaling $421,171 will fund the development of a model to understand instructor implementation of evidence-based teaching practices. Yale University is the primary awardee and will collaborate with the State University of New York at Binghamton and the University of Connecticut on this project awarded February 1, 2023 with a projected completion date of January 31,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program provides $299,906 to Florida International University to develop and implement the Deep Teaching Residency, a year-long faculty development program. The program aims to build a community of scholar-educators committed to developing and evaluating inclusive teaching practices in undergraduate STEM courses. Over two years, two cohorts of 24 STEM instructors each will participate in a preparatory summer workshop and...