INDIANAPOLIS -- A new urban STEM collaborator project funded by the National Science Foundation is aligning IUPUI and two other urban universities with a collective $5 million award, including $3 million for scholarships.

The School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI is receiving $1.7 million for the Urban S-STEM Collaboratory project. Engineering and mathematics departments from the University of Memphis and the University of Colorado Denver are sharing the rest of the funding, which comes from the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics "Design and Development: Multi-Institutional Consortia" program.

SEIRI is performing progam evaluation for the three associated sites. SEIRI personnel include Dr. Justin L Hess, SEIRI assistant director, and Dr. Anthony Chase, SEIRI research & evaluation specialist.

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