NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources proposals due July 21

The National Science Foundation (NSF) plays a leadership role in developing and implementing efforts to enhance and improve STEM education in the United States. Through the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative, NSF can continue to make a substantial commitment to the highest caliber undergraduate STEM education through a foundation-wide framework of investments.

The IUSE: EHR is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. The program is open to application from all institutions of higher education and associated organizations. NSF places high value on educating students to be leaders and innovators in emerging and rapidly changing STEM fields as well as educating a scientifically literate public. In pursuit of this goal, IUSE: EHR supports projects that seek to bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education that adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices into STEM teaching and learning and that lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education.

In addition to innovative work at the frontier of STEM education, this program also encourages replication of research studies at different types of institutions and with different student bodies to produce deeper knowledge about the effectiveness and transferability of findings.

Please contact the Office of Research and Graduate Education pre-award team if you are interested in pursuing this funding.