Project Grant P031A230182

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations of Graduate Education (IGE) Track 2 award to the University of Minnesota will assess different methods used to match science graduate students with faculty advisors, and the impact those methods have on graduate student success. The $995,095 award, which runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2029, will explore the experiences of graduate students, faculty advisors, and program coordinators with recruitment approaches like rotations and...

This $595,227 National Science Foundation project grant supports the University Enterprises, Inc. dba Sacramento State Sponsored Research to implement the PROJECT-ACE program. PROJECT-ACE aims to enhance engineering students' identity, self-efficacy and sense of belonging through active learning pedagogy in six core electrical, electronic and computer engineering courses along critical paths. This supports the NSF STEM Education program's goal of improving STEM education effectiveness for all...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program award in the amount of $499,969 supports the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in implementing and evaluating a comprehensive program called "Enhancing and Expanding Second-Year Experience (EESYE)" for engineering and computer science students. The project aims to reduce attrition and improve retention and graduation rates, particularly among Hispanic and...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totals $198,744 to fund research on student data in the post-pandemic university setting. The grantee, Columbia University, will conduct a qualitative study exploring how students understand and react to institutional data collection practices and how social differences may impact student experiences with educational technology and data surveillance. Through surveys and...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of online learning modules to improve retention of STEM students at the City University of New York. Led by the Research Foundation of the City University of New York in partnership with the university system, the three-year project aims to design, implement, and refine eight modules focused on building students' sense of belonging and self-regulated learning skills. The modules will be piloted in two required civil...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Engineering Education and Centers award, under the Engineering CFDA program (47.041), will provide $294,345 from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 to the University of Washington (UW) to create research-based practical support to help teams of change leaders implement and sustain academic change in undergraduate STEM education. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: Academic Change and the RED Community of Practice: Sustaining a...

The University of Houston-Downtown was awarded a $1.16 million Project Grant from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) program. The three-year award, issued on January 1, 2023 and running through December 31, 2025, will support the university's EXPERIMENTIUM: INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN initiative. This initiative aims to improve postsecondary instruction and expand opportunities through institutional...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $286,418 to Academic Web Pages, Inc. for the development and validation of an innovative integration of large language models and retrieval-augmented generation technology to enhance peer mentoring effectiveness. The project aims to create an AI-assisted mentoring platform that will integrate data-driven insights with affordably scaled peer mentoring...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program ($299,499) supports the development of scalable, experiential learning models and tools for undergraduate STEM education from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2026. The University of California Santa Cruz will establish a new pedagogical approach organizing project-based courses around "micro-roles" that scaffold apprenticeship-style learning pathways. This design-based research aims to develop organizational...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to support faculty and student learning of equity-minded and student-centered pedagogy through iterative curricular co-design. The $399,896 award to the CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, a non-profit Hispanic-Serving Institution, will implement a professional development model that provides STEM faculty the knowledge, time, and support to design instructional innovations...