ACTIVITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNIVERSITY FACULTY

STEMINARS

Steminars are monthly information meetings for faculty and the community interested in STEM education to share ideas, research and interests related to STEM outreach, recruitments, retention, pedagogy, curriculum and best practices. Be watching the CRISTAL Home Page for Announcements.

Grant Information

Grant information is sent out to CRISTAL Membership as well as posted on this page. The grants listed below are normally given our yearly.  See information on the announcements page for upcoming training sessions.

Interested in researching grant opportunities?  Go to the the Research Support Services link to learn more about COS-Pivot, a search engine available to faculty through U of M at http://www.memphis.edu/researchsupport/cosdata.php 

NSF Cyberlearning: Transforming Education (January)

Seeks to integrate advances in technology with advances in how people learn to:

• Better understand how people learn with technology and how technology can be used to help people learn
• Better use technology for collecting, analyzing, sharing, and managing data to shed light on learning, promoting learning, and designing learning environments; and
• Design new technologies for these purposes, and advance understanding of how to use and integrate those technologies into learning environments
• Web site: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503581&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
• Awards range from 2-5 years and from $550,000 to $2,500,000

 NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning (January)

Invests in research and development of innovative and field-advancing out-of-school STEM learning and emerging STEM learning environments to:

• Expand access to the highest quality STEM resources
• Contribute new research that advances informal learning
• Engage the public in novel, real-time and simulated experiences with scientific phenomena, and
• Advance STEM engagement through exhibits, programs, and other experiences at science centers, museums, zoos, etc.
• Web site: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12560/nsf12560.pdf
• Awards range from 1-5 years up to 1.5 million

 Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM

(January and May, depending on type)

Seeks to improve the quality of STEM education for all undergraduate students by:

• Encouraging projects that have potential to transform; for example, by bringing about widespread adoption of classroom practices that embody understanding of how students learn most effectively
• Supporting efforts to create, adapt, and disseminate new learning materials and teaching strategies to reflect advances both in STEM disciplines and in what is known about teaching and learning, and
• Supporting projects that further the work of the program itself, for example, synthesis and dissemination of findings across the program
• Web site: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10544/nsf10544.pdf
• Awards range from $200,000 (2-3 years) to $5 million (5 years)

NSF Math Science Partnership (December)

• Designed to improve K-12 student achievement in mathematics and science
• Areas:K-12 STEM Teacher Preparation
• Web site: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12518/nsf12518.htm
  • Community Enterprise for STEM Learning
  • Current issues related to STEM content
  • Identifying and Cultivating Exceptional Talent

NSF Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (November)

ITEST seeks:

• To develop, implement and evaluate interventions that encourage K-12 students to develop interest in and to prepare for careers in the STEM and information and communications technology (ICT) workforce
• To produce research findings that build knowledge about approaches, models, and interventions, andTo equip teachers with the resources to ensure students consider choosing STEM and ICT careers
• Web site: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12597/nsf12597.htm
• Awards are for up to 3 years for up to $1.2 million

NSF Discovery Research K-12 (December)

• Seeks to enhance the learning and teaching STEM by preK-12 students, teachers, administrators, and parents
• Emphasis on research projects focused on innovative resources, models and tools
• Web site: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11588/nsf11588.pdf
• Awards range from 2-4 years and from $450,000 to $4,000,000

NSF Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (July)

• Seeks to advance research in STEM learning and education in current and emerging learning contexts (childhood through adult) by:Awards range from 2-5 years and $300,000-$1.5 million
  • Focusing on core scientific questions of STEM learning and education (ex. neural and cognitive bases
  • Incorporating multi- and inter-disciplinary collaborations among content experts

Other Grants

• U.S. Dept. of Education Institute of Education SciencesTBR Research Grants
  • Mathematics and Science Education
  • Education Technology
  • Effective Teachers and Effective Teaching
  • Early Learning Programs
  • Special Education
  • Postsecondary and Adult Education
• THEC Improving Teacher Quality Grants
• Faculty Research Grants