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New Program Director Spotlight
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Name: Karen E. Crosby, kcrosby@nsf.gov
Role: DUE Program Director
Expertise: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, STEM Education
Programs: IUSE, S-STEM, ExLENT, Future Manufacturing, and ECR PEER
What is your educational moment of impact?
It is great when you have good students who excel as expected. But when you can work with students who may be struggling and you get to see them turn around to become high achievers, that for me is the ultimate joy of being an educator. A particular freshman Engineering student comes to mind. I urged my class to attend one of Dr. Saundra McGuire's powerful metacognition seminars. Afterwards, he walked up to me and said, "I believe I can be somebody." Today he is a thriving engineer who recently shared his plans to mentor and support new engineering students.
What is your view for the future of education?
I recount the day my sophomore year in college when my Dynamics professor asked me to join his research project. Undergraduate research was rather novel at the time, especially at an HBCU. What started out as just a way to earn extra money became a love for discovery. My professor urged me to continue my education and I pursued a doctorate at the State’s flagship institution across town. About a year before finishing, I was teaching his Materials laboratory when a student told me to hurry up and graduate because I was needed there. That was a turning point.
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New Funding Opportunities
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Innovation in Two-Year College STEM Education (ITYC)
Innovation in Two-Year College STEM Education (ITYC) is a new DUE program that accelerates the impact of inclusive and evidence-based practices in undergraduate STEM education at two-year colleges across the country. The next ITYC deadline is December 13, 2023.
Find out more on the ITYC program website.
ITYC is hosting office hours on the following dates and times:
- August 24, 2:00 PM ET
- September 7, 2:00 PM ET
- September 19, 3:00 PM ET
Please use the Zoom Registration Link to register in advance for these webinars. Please utilize the drop-down menu to select which date you wish to attend.
Dear Colleague Letter (DCL): Workshops to Identify Educational Requirements of the Future Ocean Technical Workforce
This new DCL encourages proposals for workshops and conferences that will create partnerships between industry and academic institutions to identify needed curriculum changes and skill development to prepare the the current and future ocean technical workforce.
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DUE's Advanced Technology Education (ATE) program, which supports the education of the skilled technical workforce, is one of five programs accepting proposals for this DCL.
Dear Colleague Letter: Equitable and Transformative Approaches to Educating the Semiconductor Workforce (ETA-ESW)
This new DCL encourages proposals that build on or leverage strong industry-academic partnerships to strengthen the semiconductor manufacturing workforce by advancing education and training.
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This DCL encourages submission of proposals through the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) and Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT) programs.
Dear Colleague Letter: Advancing Microelectronics Education
This new DCL encourages educations proposals that will excite, motivate, and prepare students for participation in the microelectronics industry.
Research, EAGER, and supplement proposals can be submitted to most DUE programs.
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For more DCLs check out this link.
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DUE Highlights
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 Alan T. Waterman Award Winner Dr. Natalie S. King Lecture
As part of the three-part lecture series featuring the 2023 Alan T. Waterman awardees, the nation's highest honor for early-career scientists and engineers, Dr. Natalie S. King of Georgia State University will give a virtual lecture on September 28 from 1-2 PM ET entitled “Show them who you are – uninterrupted: Radical possibilities for fostering identity and community in STEM Education.”
Pre-register for the webinar.
Click here for more information about Dr. King and her lecture.
Congratulations for a successful 2023 Noyce Summit!
The 2023 Noyce Summit had over 650 Noyce scholars, fellows, and PIs in attendance to focus on Transforming Teacher Preparation and Retention: A Focus on Equity, Research, and Innovative Strategies. Check out the AAAS Noyce Summit website for videos of the plenary presentations, abstracts of workshop and poster presentations, and more.
Check out the 2023 Noyce Program Brochure and webpage.
AwesomeCon 2023 Science Demonstrations with DUE
NSF returned to AwesomeCon, Washington DC’s Comic Con in June. For the first time NSF presented at the Science Fair Demo Stage and hosted tables of fun interactive science and panels. DUE Program Officer Mike Davis and Science Assistant Cassie Block, CISE AAAS Fellow Heather Masson-Forsythe, and DUE performed hourly chemistry demonstrations for audiences of 200+ during the 3-day event. Experiments included Elephant's Toothpaste, liquid nitrogen demonstrations, and a vortex canon seen above.
Here Heather Forsythe-Masson uses a vortex cannon to demonstrate how gasses move. The rings seen are caused by the friction of the molecule collision with the edges of the cannon. Mike Davis and Cassie Block are seen describing these properties.
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Contact Us
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Catherine Prunella and Cassia Block are Science Assistants in the Division of Undergraduate Education.
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