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UM Chemistry/$2 Million from NSF for STEM |
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UofM team receives $2,000,000 from NSF to increase students graduating with STEM undergraduate degrees The University of Memphis has received a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the NSF’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP). The goal of NSF-STEP is to increase the number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents with undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The MemphiSTEP Project focuses on recruitment, retention, and persistence to graduation in order to increase the number of majors and graduates throughout the STEM programs at the University of Memphis. The project concentrates on all stages of a STEM student’s undergraduate experience, beginning with recruitment to the institution. It combines the strengths of the University’s support infrastructure with efforts and expertise of faculty, staff, students, administrators, and the professional community, and builds on research, best practices, and the local knowledge base. Major strengths of the project are its comprehensive nature, with its numerous coordinated components, and its all-encompassing approach to focus on all STEM students. Dr. Don Franceschetti, Dunavant University Professor of Physics and Chemistry, is the principal investigator. Dr. Stephanie Ivey (Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering) Dr. David Russomanno (R. Eugene Smith Professorship at the UofM and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering), Dr. John Haddock (Professor of Mathematical Sciences) and Ms. Regina Hairston are co-principal investigators for the project. This most recent grant complements the previous NSF grants "Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship Program: Building Upon a Legacy of Success," ($499,627; David Russomanno as PI and K. Smith, R. Hairston, Y. Wang, and A Phillips-Lambert as coPIs) and "A Scholarship Program for Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Students: Building Upon An Industry-Academia Partnership Approach," ($343,750; David Russomanno as PI and P. Palazolo, K. Smith, R. Hairston, and A. Phillips-Lambert as coPIs). Please contact Professors Franceschetti, Ivey, Russomanno or Haddock for additional information about the MemphiSTEP Project. |
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Department of Chemistry, The University of Memphis
| 213 Smith Chemistry Bldg, Memphis, Tennessee 38152-3550
phone 901.678.2621 | fax 901.678.3447