Project Grant P042A201013

This $399,481 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve the success and persistence of undergraduate students taking pre-calculus courses at a Hispanic Serving Institution. The project will implement an intervention program that includes exposure to campus resources, attribution retraining, and use of a pedagogical tool called an "exam wrapper" to promote self-reflection. The goal is to increase student...

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 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to establish a comprehensive support ecosystem for talented low-income undergraduate students pursuing degrees in biology, chemistry, and psychology at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (UPRM), a Hispanic-serving institution. Over its 5-year, $2,499,413 duration, the project will provide scholarships to 36 full-time students and implement an integrated system of...

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 NSF STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $2,230,149 to Mississippi State University will support a collaborative research hub focused on increasing the retention, graduation, and STEM career participation of rural, low-income college students. The award will fund the development of a strategic alliance among five rural-serving institutions (RSIs) to conduct research on factors influencing the belonging, persistence, and academic/career outcomes of this student population. Key...

This Project Grant award of $355,293, provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Research in Special Education program (CFDA 84.324), supports the development and evaluation of a narrative language and reading comprehension intervention called "Guided, Explicit Teaching of Oral Narratives to Improve Narrative Text Comprehension (GET ON IT!)" for emergent bilingual students with or at risk of reading disabilities in grades 2-4. The...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program Project Grant award of $151,547 to Florida International University (FIU) aims to develop culturally relevant materials and resources to enhance the career preparation of Hispanic or Latin@/x/a/o undergraduate students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in the Southeastern U.S. The key objectives of this 2-year project are to: 1) Construct culturally relevant materials that can be...

This federal Project Grant award of $795,731 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a six-year initiative by the University of the Pacific, a minority-serving institution, to increase STEM degree completion among academically talented, low-income undergraduate students. The key products and services delivered through this funding include: Scholarships for 10 full-time students pursuing bachelor's degrees in civil engineering and engineering...

This $1,000,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund scholarships and support services for 11 high-achieving, low-income undergraduate students pursuing STEM degrees at Hawai'i Pacific University (HPU), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI). Over 5 years, the project will provide up to 4 years of scholarship support, as well as interventions to foster STEM identity,...

This Project Grant award of $559,632.00, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to develop and test a theoretical coaching framework that addresses challenges faced by Black disabled high school students in mathematics learning. The project will establish a partnership with a cohort of these students to incorporate their voices, knowledge, and experiences into informing the coaching framework. The research team will support the...