KENTUCKY: Bellarmine receives 5-year $1.45M NSF grant to prepare STEM teachers
Bellarmine University has received a five-year $1.45 million grant from NSF’s Robert Noyce program to “recruit and prepare highly qualified science and mathematics teachers” for Kentucky middle and high schools, according to a news release from the school.
The grant aims to help alleviate a teacher shortage in STEM subjects — science, technology, engineering and math. It will support at least 25 students in Bellarmine’s Annsley Frazier Thornton School of Education who intend to teach physics, chemistry, biology and math. Noyce Knight Scholars may be undergraduate and or graduate students.
Dr. Kristin Cook, associate dean of the School of Education, said, “The students who get selected for funding will become part of a national network of Noyce Scholars. They will be presenting alongside our team, and they will be hopefully publishing with us. … We will work with JCPS to ensure they’re in selective placements where they’ve got strong mentorship.”
Jefferson County Public Schools is one of several partners of Bellarmine’s Noyce program.