FUNDING-Limited Submission – NSF – Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into Geoscience (NSF 17-574); August 3, 2017

 

Purpose: NSF’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative supports a coherent set of investments to address immediate challenges and opportunities that face undergraduate STEM education, as well as those that anticipate new structures (e.g. organizational changes, new methods for certification or credentialing, course re-conception, cyberlearning, etc.) and new functions of the undergraduate learning and teaching enterprise. The Directorate for Geosciences’s Pathways into Geoscience (IUSE: GEOPATHS) aims to increase the number of undergraduate students interested in pursuing undergraduate degrees and/or post-graduate degrees in geoscience through the design and testing of novel approaches to engage students in authentic, career-relevant experiences in geoscience. The IUSE: GEOPATHS solicitation features two funding tracks:

(1) Engaging students in the geosciences through extra-curricular experiences and training activities (GEOPATHS-EXTRA)

(2) Improving pathways into the geosciences through institutional collaborations and transfer (GEOPATHS-IMPACT).

 

Funding Amount: $5,000,000 to fund up to 16 awards

 

Link to Funding Opportunity Announcement

 

Eligibility: UK is eligible to serve as the lead institution only on GEOPATHS-IMPACT proposals. UK may collaborate on GEOPATHS-EXTRA proposals but may not be the lead.

 

Institutional Limit:  1 as lead institution

 

Internal Competition: To participate in the university’s selection process,please submit the following, assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research at limitedsubmissions@uky.edu with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by August 3, 2017.

• Names and departments or affiliations of the Project Director and other key personnel or partners;
• Title of program and/or funding opportunity announcement number;
• Brief project description (2 pages maximum)

 

A committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation. For questions, email the limited submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu) or call 257-2861.

 

Agency Deadlines:  Letter of intent August 18, 2017; full proposal October 10, 2017