Opportunity
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into Geoscience (IUSE: GEOPATHS)
Award Info:
Average total award size expected to be in the $300,000 to $350,000 range. The duration of awards for both tracks will be up to 36 months.
Description:
The IUSE: GEOPATHS funding opportunity invites creative proposals to broaden and strengthen the pathways that will engage and retain diverse students in undergraduate and graduate geoscience degree programs and help them receive the necessary skills and competencies for a variety of careers pathways. IUSE: GEOPATHS projects are expected to utilize effective, evidence-based strategies for improving student engagement and retention, and to expose students to meaningful experiences in the geosciences through leveraging of academic and/or non-academic research and instrumentation infrastructure. The underlying hypothesis for this solicitation is that novel, authentic, career-relevant geoscience experiences for larger student populations not only augment existing curricula but will also increase the students’ desire to pursue degrees and geoscience-related careers.