Project Grant P031S230158

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education (47.076) federal grant program, provides $444,348 to Virginia Commonwealth University to develop a digital platform and classroom strategies for improving undergraduate STEM students' professional skills. The three-year award beginning in March 2023 will support creating a digital platform pre-loaded with customizable rubrics from the prior NSF-funded Enhancing Learning by...

This $300,000 two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund research at Carnegie Mellon University to develop a "Professional Informatics" (Pro-I) system using classroom sensing technologies. The goal is to provide instructors personalized feedback on their teaching practices to help create more equitable learning experiences, especially to increase underrepresented student participation in STEM fields. The project will...

Federal Grant Award Summary: PROJECT CARE The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services awarded $237,256 to California State University Long Beach Research Foundation on October 1, 2025, under the Special Education - Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program (CFDA 84.325). The PROJECT CARE (Collaboration and Responsive Research in Education) initiative is scheduled for completion by September 30, 2026, and will be conducted in Long...

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...

PIVOT: Paraprofessional Intensive Vocational Onramp to Teaching Doane University received a $2,027,724 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE, CFDA 84.116) effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2029. The PIVOT initiative is designed to create an innovative pathway for paraprofessionals to transition into full teaching positions through intensive vocational training...

The National Science Foundation awarded $299,984 under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of California, Los Angeles to develop the Change Leadership Development Program. The two-year project will equip graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with change leadership skills to advance inclusive, evidence-based teaching in STEM fields. Through online courses and institutes, participants will learn to influence colleagues,...

This Project Grant, awarded on October 1, 2025, by the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), provides $704,477 to Miracosta Community College District to develop and expand workplace navigation (WN) skills training for two-year college students in technical programs. The project focuses on creating accessible, scalable training modules and resources that equip students with essential competencies to identify workplace...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education has awarded a $1,956,655 Project Grant to Edventure Group Inc., a non-profit organization, for the "WEST VIRGINIA CAREER AWARENESS, READINESS, EDUCATION, AND EXPERIENCES FOR RURAL STUDENTS (WV CAREERS) INITIATIVE" under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) program. The project aims to enhance the quality, accessibility, and effectiveness of postsecondary education in West Virginia,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, titled "Promoting the Self-Regulated Use of Effective Learning Strategies in Gateway Undergraduate STEM Courses", provides $138,000 to support research investigating the effectiveness of a multi-component strategy training intervention on student learning and achievement in undergraduate chemistry and biology courses. The grant sponsors two large-scale experiments at Texas...

This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to advance understanding of the career choice processes for STEM scholars from underrepresented groups. The $291,780 award to the University of Wisconsin - Madison will fund a longitudinal qualitative study to explore the factors that inform the decision-making of STEM scholars, particularly around perceptions of value alignment between their personal values and academia. The project...