In May, the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) received support for various projects.
*Carol Ormand, SERC Geoscience Assistant, was awarded $174,800 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (TUES) program for her project “Developing and Testing Materials to Improve Spatial Skills in Upper Division Geoscience Courses.”
*SERC was awarded a subcontract with Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) for creating a website supporting faculty development of under-represented groups in the STEM discipline as part of GIT’s NSF project “Advance Leadership Award: Cross-Disciplinary Initiative for Minority Women Faculty.”
*Additionally, a contract with Evergreen State College supports “Sound Learning Communities” with SERC adding to and enhancing the web presence of the Curriculum for the Bioregion Project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education FIPSE program.