NSF invests to improve undergraduate STEM education at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
As the nation celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, NSF's Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program has awarded 48 grants to Hispanic-serving institutions in Fiscal Year 2022, totaling approximately $27 million to support various projects.
The NSF HSI Program has three tracks. The program also supports proposals for conferences addressing critical challenges in undergraduate STEM education and broadening STEM participation.
Recipients from the EPSCoR jurisdictions are:
TRACK 1: Planning or Pilot Projects
- Enhancing Undergraduate Engineering Education Using an Integrated Additive Manufacturing Approach, Polytechnic University of PUERTO RICO
- Experiential Learning STEM Opportunity for Latinos, Doña Ana Community College, NEW MEXICO
TRACK 2: Implementation and Evaluation Projects
- Strengthening Teaching and Advancing Research Partnerships to Reinforce the STEM Workforce, University of PUERTO RICO Aguadilla
- Cultivating Access to Manifest INtentional Outcomes in STEM, NEW MEXICO
- Paradigm for Sustainability and Resilience Engineering: A Transdisciplinary, Learner-Centered, and Diversity-Focused Approach, University of PUERTO RICO, Mayagüez
- Improving STEM Student Fundamental Math Skills with Tailored Activity-Based Instruction, University of NEVADA, Las Vegas
Conference Grants
- HSI Intersectionality Community of Practice for Student Success, University of NEW MEXICO