Project Grant P031S220121

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program grant, with a total award of $1,730,730, aims to develop and evaluate a culturally responsive STEM education program for 4th grade Hispanic students. The project will revise the existing "Science is Fun" program using a co-design process to incorporate cultural themes and near-peer Hispanic mentors. The revised after-school program will engage students and their families in hands-on science...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track 2 award provides $999,985 to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to conduct a multi-stage intervention investigating how academic programs can better leverage the cultural strengths and ways of knowing of marginalized doctoral students in STEM fields. The project aims to redesign and implement enhancements to three existing UCSC programs - the Cota Robles Fellows Program, New Gen Learning Consortium,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,999,529 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). This three-year grant will fund the VOLARE Institute, a program that aims to build research capacity at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). The VOLARE Institute will organize a series of research capacity-building institutes for HSIs, encompassing three cohorts over three years. The program will train...

This Project Grant award for $787,042 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaborative effort to engage Latinx families as design partners in creating equitable informal engineering learning opportunities for young children. The project involves researchers from Loyola University Chicago, educators from the Chicago Children's Museum, and community leaders from Palenque LSNA. Together, they will work with 90 Latinx caregivers and their 5- to...

This $733,043 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports the co-design of early engineering learning activities that incorporate Latinx families' cultural practices around oral storytelling. The project is a collaboration between Loyola University Chicago, the Chicago Children's Museum, and community organization Palenque LSNA. Over 90 Latinx caregivers and their 5-8 year old children will participate as design...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $723,005 to the University of California, Irvine to enhance student engagement in office hours within STEM courses, particularly biology, at multiple Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and emerging HSIs in Southern California. The key objectives are to: 1) characterize student and faculty perceptions of office hours, 2) investigate the impact of different office hours...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, aims to support the preparation of Hispanic or Latin?/X/A/O undergraduate students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in the southeastern U.S. for technical interviews in computing positions. The $151,547 project, awarded to Florida International University (FIU), will focus on three key objectives: 1) Constructing culturally relevant...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education aims to develop and evaluate an empirically-defensible model for increasing STEM persistence and graduation rates among underrepresented students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Funded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the $500,000 award made to Our Lady of the Lake University on January 1, 2023 will support redesigning the institution's College Algebra course into three...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $299,659 to Florida State University (FSU), an emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution (EHSI), to develop strategies and tools to improve how Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) serve Latino students in STEM and computing fields. The project aims to: 1) document effective HSI policies, processes, and practices to enhance EHSI servingness to Latino...