Project Grant P031S230204

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) was awarded a $1.8 million project grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education to establish the Center for Inclusive Excellence. The grant program, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), aims to support innovative strategies to improve postsecondary instruction and expand opportunities. Through this three-year project grant with a completion date of December 2025, UMES will foster teacher...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to host a conference on "Inclusive Collaboration Resources: Enhancing Research Support Infrastructure at Minority Serving Institutions." The goal is to develop best practices and resources to improve equitable research collaboration and retention of diverse STEM researchers. The conference will convene research enterprise...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $308,978 to the University of Texas at Arlington to design and validate a diversity intervention training program focused on teaching employees specific skills to be allies for one another and for marginalized groups. The project aims to (a) assess the long-term effectiveness of this type of training longitudinally and (b) develop an online version of the...

The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $399,584 Project Grant to the University of Washington to enhance the diversity and retention of underrepresented groups in the academic geoscience field and the broader geoscience workforce. The three-year grant, which began on October 1, 2023, will pilot and test the effectiveness of an active learning program where graduate students in the geosciences receive training in evidence-based mentoring practices and are...

This Project Grant award of $366,778 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), a Hispanic-Serving Institution, to examine how faculty communication influences the development of engineering identity among Latinx undergraduate students. The 3-year project will use a mixed-methods approach, including surveys and a diary study, to investigate the impact of confirming and disconfirming...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to advance inclusive teaching strategies in undergraduate STEM education. The project will: Translate research to practice by conducting additional analyses on data from the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project, creating a new integrated framework of inclusive teaching development, and conducting interviews to examine its applicability. Develop a Faculty Inclusive Teaching Survey...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) IUSE: Engaged Student Learning Level 2 project grant, awarded under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to improve access and inclusion in undergraduate physics education. With a total funding of $490,152, the award will support the development of professional development experiences for both physics faculty and disabled STEM students. The key products and services to be delivered include: Professional development for physics faculty to promote...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $252,218 to Chico State Enterprises, a Hispanic Serving Institution, to develop marketing materials that can attract more diverse student populations to the geosciences field. The key products and services to be delivered include: Conducting surveys and focus groups with students in introductory STEM courses at California State University, Chico, as well as high school and community...