Project Grant P031S200022

This $800,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the "HSI IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION PROJECT: SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES ACHIEVED THROUGH RESEARCH IN STEM (SOAR IN STEM)" at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico (IAUPR). The project aims to strengthen STEM learning and improve retention and graduation rates for disadvantaged students, including low-income, first-generation, and female students, at IAUPR's...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to design the blueprint and initial prototype for a gamified, personalized virtual experience to provide essential scientific research skills training to undergraduate students at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. The $500,000 award, with a performance period from September 2024 to August 2027, will develop an interactive system that offers Spanish-speaking STEM students...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education provides $500,000 in funding to the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) to increase the number of summer undergraduate research and internship opportunities available to students attending a Hispanic Serving two-year college. The key products and services to be delivered include: Offering a multi-pronged approach that combines research experiences, exposure to diverse STEM research...

This $798,619 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to increase opportunities for success for STEM students at two Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in central Florida. The key products and services to be delivered under this four-year project include: Developing assessments using generative AI technology to provide flexible testing options, such as increased accessibility, multiple attempts, and sharing across instructors and...

This federal Project Grant award for $189,037, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), supports research to examine how racism and colorism impact the classroom experiences and STEM engagement of Afro-Puerto Rican middle school students in Puerto Rico. The University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, a Hispanic-serving institution, will lead this 8-month applied study in partnership with middle schools in the majority Black Loiza municipality....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant, awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha, aims to develop survey tools to measure faculty use of evidence-based teaching practices and identify perceived barriers to their adoption. The $294,957 award will fund the creation and validation of two new instruments: the Student-Observed Instructional Practices (S-IMPACT) survey for students, and the Observed Barriers to Successful Teaching Questionnaire for...

The American Institutes For Research In The Behavioral Sciences (AIR) was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The three-year grant will fund AIR's project "IMPROVING UNDERGRADUATES? MOTIVATION AND RETENTION IN STEM THROUGH CLASSROOM INTERVENTIONS: A META-ANALYSIS" from July 2021 through June 2024. Through meta-analysis of existing research, AIR will identify effective...

This $103,868 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve the implementation of an authentic inquiry-based laboratory curriculum, called AIM-BIO, at the University of Arizona, a Hispanic-Serving Institution. The key goals are to: 1) Develop a professional development program to train teaching assistants (TAs) on how to effectively mentor students in the AIM-BIO curriculum's open-ended scientific inquiry process, and 2)...

This $1,117,913 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Associated Universities Inc. (AUI) to design, produce, and study the impact of 34 Spanish and English language podcast episodes for Latinx families with children ages 5-9 that focus on engaging them in STEM activities and supporting the development of children's STEM identities. The project, titled "Culturally Situated STEM Podcasts for Kids", aims to create a...

This $198,956 National Science Foundation project grant supports San Diego Mesa College in developing and testing collaborative learning opportunities to strengthen STEM identity and increase degree and career pathway selection among students. Through the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions program, the college will revise curricula and compare three models for providing classroom- and field-based research experiences across biology, physical geology, and...