SEIRI NEWS

SEIRI has posted an opening for Associate Director.This position is open to current IUPUI tenured/tenure track STEM faculty.

https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/9094

NEW PROGRAM AVAILABLE ECR:BCSER

Here is a new program that may be of interest.

ECR's Building Capacity for STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER) solicitation supports projects that build individuals’ capacity to carry out high quality STEM education research that will enhance the nation’s STEM education enterprise and broaden the pool of researchers that can conduct fundamental research in STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM fields, and STEM workforce development.

Specifically, ECR: BCSER supports activities that enable early and mid-career researchers to acquire the requisite expertise and skills to conduct rigorous fundamental research in STEM education. ECR: BCSER seeks to fund research career development activities on topics that are relevant to qualitative and quantitative research methods and design, including the collection and analysis of new qualitative or quantitative data, secondary analyses using extant datasets, or meta-analyses.

This career development may be accomplished through investigator-initiated projects or through professional development institutes that enable researchers to integrate methodological strategies with theoretical and practical substantive issues in STEM education. Early and mid-career faculty new to STEM education research, particularly underrepresented minority faculty and faculty at minority-serving and two-year institutions, are encouraged to submit proposals.

ECR: BCSER especially welcomes proposals that pair well with the efforts of NSF INCLUDES ( https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsfincludes/index.jsp) to develop STEM talent from all sectors and groups in our society. Proposers are encouraged to identify topics that support the thrust of NSF INCLUDES projects.

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SAVE THE DATE

Joseph Herkert - North Carolina State University, Associate Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology and Society
Title: Professions of an engineering ethics "trail paver"
Date: Friday, February 7, 2020
Time and Place: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, UL 1126
(Meet and Greet 11:30 - 12:00)

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Michael Loui - Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Structured Pairing in an Electronics Laboratory, and A Model of Research Mentoring
Date: Monday, February 10, 2020
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (Seminar)
            12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (Meet and Greet)
Place: Lilly Auditorium, UL

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IUPUI recipient of National Science Foundation ADVANCE Grant

IUPUI is the recent recipient of a National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant that will fund “Project EPIC: Evidence-Informed Promotion of Inclusive Climate at IUPUI”. Project EPIC is a three-year project designed to improve the institutional climate and promote inclusive leadership practices to address inequities in the representation, retention, and advancement of women, particularly women of color, in the tenured ranks of our science, technology, engineering, and mathematical science (STEM) departments.

This project is led by a group of individuals representing various backgrounds and disciplines. The principal investigator is Kathy Johnson, IUPUI executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer. The co-investigators are Gina Sanchez Gibau, associate vice chancellor for faculty diversity and inclusion; Evava Pietri, assistant professor of psychology; Margaret Stockdale, professor of psychology and department chair; and Pratibha Varma-Nelson, professor of chemistry and chemical biology and founding executive director of SEIRI.

"We anticipate that Project EPIC, with its focus on enhancing departmental climates to ensure the success of faculty underrepresented in STEM (namely women and racially minorized faculty), will yield changes in current policies and practices that will increase our chances of attracting, retaining and advancing a more diverse faculty in these disciplines," Gibau said. "Moreover, we expect that the changes implemented in these academic units will serve as a model for all other units in their efforts to diversify the faculty."

Through this project, IUPUI will provide intensive training for formal and informal school leaders using quarterly leadership workshops, mentoring-for-leadership lunches for tenure-track women across all STEM departments, and targeted support for department-specific needs through enhancement grants. Our first round of leadership workshops and our first mentoring-for-leadership lunch speaker will be held at the beginning of next year.

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FIE 2020 -- Frontiers in Education Conference - Abstract Submission is Open

The 2020 program features co-located workshops on Computational Thinking Skills for the 21st Century, the Launch Event for the IEEE/ACM Joint Curriculum project Computing Curricula 2020, a once in a lifetime conference banquet experience in the Uppsala Castle, and much more. The deadline for abstracts is February 10, 2020

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UPCOMING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

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LSAMP: Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation
Full Proposal Due: January 31, 2020
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IUSE EHR: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education
Full Proposal Due: February 4, 2020
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NRT: National Research Traineeship Program
Full Proposal Due: February 6, 2020
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ECR:BCSER: Building Capacity for STEM Education Research
Full Proposal Due: February 28, 202
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S-STEM: Scholarships in STEM Full Proposal Due: March 25, 2020 For more information, click here.

RECOMMENDED READING

Stewart, Abigail J. and Valian, Virginia. An Inclusive Academy. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 2018.

This reading corresponds greatly with the ADVANCE grant, Project EPIC.

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