Project Grant S282B200012

This $199,998 National Science Foundation award through the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) funds a pilot project at San Diego State University-Imperial Valley to build math capacity and enhance undergraduate STEM education. The project develops and analyzes a summer bridge math experience for newly admitted students requiring math/statistics courses. The four-day program includes math workshops and campus life/career orientation field trips to assist students' math preparation and...

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 $375,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the "Circle of Champions" initiative at Gavilan Joint Community College District, a Hispanic Serving Institution in California. The project aims to close the academic completion gap for Latina/o STEM students by leveraging their social capital and community cultural wealth. Key activities include implementing the Circle of Champions framework to organize...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $1,894,664 to Texas State University to create the Expressive STEM Centers (ESC) Project in San Marcos, Texas. The ESC Project aims to transform informal STEM learning by positioning libraries and community centers as hubs for intergenerational innovation, using a material inquiry approach where families explore robotics, coding, circuits, and environmental science. Over three...

This $441,059 award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to enhance student success and persistence in STEM fields at Oakton Community College, a designated Hispanic Serving Institution. Over 3 years, the project will create a leadership development program for STEM Learning Assistants (LAs) and an expanded emerging leaders training program. The LA program will provide mentorship and pedagogical training to up to 60 LAs who will support active learning...

The National Science Foundation's STEM Education program awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, located in Bloomsburg, PA, to improve student success in first-year STEM courses. The project aims to implement two proven approaches - the co-requisite model and the Learning Assistant (LA) model - to increase college completion and retention, particularly for disadvantaged students, in STEM degree programs. Through the co-requisite model, students with...

This $274,244 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) will establish a research-practice partnership between public and charter school districts in South Louisiana, Louisiana State University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the University of Chicago. The project aims to integrate computer science (CS) into core elementary (grades 3-5) curriculum and investigate ways to increase students' STEM and CS identity through participatory...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $649,606 to California State University San Marcos Corp to develop a collaborative educational pathway in electrical/electronics technology. The project aims to create a three-course series that bridges secondary and higher education institutions, including Canyon Crest Academy, MiraCosta College, Palomar College, and California State University, San Marcos. By aligning...

This three-year, $516,058 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the development of artificial intelligence (AI) curriculum modules integrated across high school core subjects and a professional development program for teachers. Led by the Concord Consortium, the project team which includes Carnegie Mellon University and North Carolina State University, will create a two-hour introductory AI module and three five-hour...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to support faculty and student learning of equity-minded and student-centered pedagogy through iterative curricular co-design. The $399,896 award to the CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, a non-profit Hispanic-Serving Institution, will implement a professional development model that provides STEM faculty the knowledge, time, and support to design instructional innovations...