Project Grant N000141812684

This Project Grant award, valued at $669,916.00, was issued by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Colorado State University (CSU) to improve conceptual understanding of invisible physics concepts through the use of virtual reality (VR) technology. The primary objectives of this Level 2 Engaged Student Learning project are to: (A) Advance scientific models of human learning in VR environments (B) Provide rigorous evidence on the effectiveness of VR-aided...

This $899,526 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) is supporting research to develop a multi-user virtual reality (VR) classroom framework for collaborative, experiential learning and teaching of introductory physics. The grant recipient, George Mason University, will investigate techniques for scalable multi-user VR physics classes, create interactive VR tools for collaborative learning and teaching, and develop authoring tools to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $267,088 to the CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, a Hispanic-Serving Institution, to conduct research and develop instructional exercises that will support the effective integration of calculus concepts in introductory calculus-based physics courses. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) research practices in introductory mathematics and physics courses...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $599,750 Project Grant to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley through the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to improve the quality of learning among physics students. The University will implement Team-Based Learning approaches in multiple lower-division and advanced physics courses over a three-year period from July 2022 to June 2025. Team-Based Learning is an interactive instructional strategy that replaces passive learning with active...

This $900,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support North Carolina State University in developing a low-cost augmented reality platform that integrates force sensing and visualization capabilities to enhance physics education. The project aims to create an affordable tablet-based system and complementary curriculum modules covering Newtonian mechanics and electrodynamics, targeting high school students. The goal...

This $348,165 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to support the redesign of introductory physics labs at colleges and universities to focus on developing students' experimentation skills and critical thinking abilities. The project will create an "Introductory Physics Labs Institute" to build a community and resources for physics lab instructors, including non-tenure track staff and graduate/undergraduate teaching...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $949,555.00 to the University of Washington to serve the national interest by promoting best practices in introductory experimental physics. The project aims to redesign introductory physics labs to focus on developing student experimentation skills, critical thinking, and positive views on experimentation, rather than just reinforcing lecture concepts. The project will create...

The University of Massachusetts Lowell will conduct research and development in the area of physics under a $440,192 Project Grant from the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory. The grant is part of the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and prevent technological surprise to adversaries. Through this three-year award beginning May 2021, the university will perform...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $299,649 will fund the development of interactive physics simulations called DynamicSlab to improve student learning outcomes in intermediate classical mechanics courses. Awarded under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the grant will support Utah State University in iteratively developing two browser-based simulations focused on projectile motion with drag and the motion of a bead on a spinning hoop over three years from...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) award of $300,000 will fund an "EAGER: TASKDCL: DRONEVISION, A PHYSICS-BASED ENVIRONMENT USING FLYING LIGHT SPECKS" project at the University of Southern California (USC). The project aims to develop a novel "physics-based environment called DRONEVISION that will enable its users to see illuminated objects with their naked eyes and to have haptic interactions with them using their bare hands." It will...