Cailin Huyck Orr ’96, John McDaris of Carleton’s Science Education Resource Center awarded National Science Foundation grants
Huyck Orr is associate director of Carleton’s Science Education Resource Center and John McDaris is science education associate.
Cailin Huyck Orr ’96, associate director of Carleton’s Science Education Resource Center (SERC), and John McDaris, science education associate for SERC, have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) grants.
Along with collaborators Jabari Jones ’15 of Bowdoin College and Dyanna Czeck of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Huyck Orr and McDaris were awarded an NSF Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity (GOLD-EN) grant for the Cultural Change in Geoscience (C-ChanGe) project. The project will empower faculty members to work toward an academic geoscience environment that welcomes and recognizes the contributions of all and will also raise the visibility of other projects working on geoscience cultural change.
Along with collaborators Jennifer Wenner ’92 of University of Wisconsin–Oskosh and Cheryl Manning of Orbweaver Consulting, Huyck Orr was also awarded an NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) grant titled, “Belonging in Geoscience Education Workshop: Planning to Enact Cultural Change” to begin mapping new directions for professional development based on the lived experiences of geoscientists from historically excluded groups, and those with experience in institutional change in geoscience education.