NSF Science & Innovation

REGIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

Autonomous Undersea Systems Network (AUSNET)
Technology Systems, Inc.'s research and development led to the creation of an advanced capability for operating ad-hoc networks...
State: Maine
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Workforce & Economic Development

The Regional Alliances for Persons with Disabilities: 15,000 Students Across 14 States Engaged in STEM Education
With support from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) program, four regional alliances...
State: Maine, New Mexico, Washington
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Cultural and Technological Curriculum Engages Native American Students in Computing
Researchers from Boston University (BU) and the University of New Mexico (UNM) are jointly developing a novel introductory-level...
State: Massachusetts, New Mexico
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

High Efficiency Plastic Solar Cell
The Konarka solar cell is a lightweight, flexible, cost-effective photovoltaic (PV) cell that efficiently generates electricity from...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development

Bringing Science to a Neighborhood Near You
Community Science Workshops (CSW): Beginning a National Movement is an innovative project that brings science to socioeconomically disadvantaged...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

PEEP Continues to Captivate Preschoolers
PEEP AND THE BIG WIDE WORLD, a daily, half-hour television series with accompanying Web and outreach activities for 2-to-5 year olds,...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education

Teachers Discover Unexpected Disks Around Interacting Stars
New Spitzer Space Telescope observations of an unusual class of interacting binary stars detected excess amounts of infrared radiation,...
State: Montana, New Jersey, Rhode Island
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

Extreme 2003
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Ocean Science provided funding for outreach programs, called EXTREME 2000 and...
State: Delaware
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Independent Laboratory Access for the Blind (ILAB): Creating Effective Tools and Techniques for Visually Impaired Students in Chemistry
The “Techniques and Tools to Enhance Blind and Visually Impaired Students Participation in High School Level and General Chemistry Laboratory...
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development

Materials Mini-Camp for Teachers
The National Science Foundation-funded Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM) is helping to pave the way for materials...
State: New Jersey
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

The ACTiVATE Program for Technical Entrepreneurs
The National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation Program enabled the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to develop...
State: Maryland
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

EDGE: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education
The Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) program, jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the Andrew...
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Enhancing Robot Vision
Most present and future vision applications including automotive, biometric, security and mobile computing applications operate in unconstrained...
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Workforce & Economic Development

The best science class ever!
Professor John Tully at Yale University has developed an undergraduate chemistry course designed for non-science majors, Chemistry,...
State: Connecticut
Topics: Science & Engineering Education

ATE Center Responds to the Changing ICT Industry
The dot-com bust of the late 1990’s resulted in a convergence of the Telecommunications Industries and the Information Technologies...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Learning to Teach Mathematics to All Students
The National Science Foundation-funded Mathematics for All project, conducted by Bank Street College of Education and the Education...
State: New York
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Linking Data to Classroom Instruction to Improve Student Learning of Mathematics
During 2006, the Vermont Mathematics Partnership (VMP), a Cohort I Math and Science Partnership project, built significantly upon its...
State: Vermont
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Sponsorship for Success: Women in Science and Engineering
The Gender Equity Project's (GEP's) Sponsorship Program has as its goal, the professional development of women engaged in basic science...
State: New York
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

Supporting Students and Teachers in Challenging Science Courses
An essential feature in National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Math and Science Partnership Program is that projects develop strategies...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Foundation Science: Challenging Students to Learn
What caused the airship Hindenburg to burst into flames and crash in 1937? How could analysis of sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner’s...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education Take Science On the Road
Three projects funded by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) program have established innovative...
State: Florida, New Jersey, Puerto Rico
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) Program: Supporting Projects that Make STEM Education Accessible to Visually Impaired and Blind Individuals
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) program is currently supporting successful projects...
State: Arizona, Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Undergraduate Student Designs Atomic Force Microscope
Kirsten Bonson, an undergraduate student at the University of Vermont (UVM), has designed an atomic force microscope under the...
State: Vermont
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Technological Advances

University Scientists, Mathematicians and Engineers Bring the Vitality of Research into the K-12 Classroom
The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program engages and challenges mathematics, science and engineering faculty to create new and...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Water, Water, Everywhere: Training for Management of a Crucial Resource
From watershed hydrology to saltwater intrusion monitoring and modeling to numerical modeling of the hydrodynamics in the lower Mississippi...
State: Louisiana, Rhode Island
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

2.5 Million American Children on an Engineering Career Path
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Workforce/Education subcommittee (PCAST) recently released a report that...
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Product Platform and Product Family Design
In today’s highly competitive global marketplace, companies need cost-effective solutions that satisfy diverse customer demands in order...
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

A Machine Learning Approach to Approximate Record Matching
ChoiceMaker Technologies, Inc. has brought to healthcare and service communities, innovative and effective record-matching software...
State: New York
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Workforce & Economic Development

Artificial Intelligence Software for Student Assessment in Chemistry Education
Quantum Simulations, Inc. develops artificial intelligence tutoring, assessment and professional development software that empowers...
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development

Creating New Economic Opportunities in Downeast Coastal Maine by Enhancing Marine Education and Research Capacity: Developing the Infrastructure for Innovation
The Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education (DEI) in Beals, Maine, is making important strides in applied marine...
State: Maine
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

Determining Protein Structure for Drug Design
X-ray Optical systems, Inc. (XOS) has designed and built a protein crystal structure analyzer based on a convergent-beam X-ray diffraction...
State: New York
Topics: Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development

College Professors and K-12 Teachers Learn from One Another
Among the partnerships of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program, there is a growing practice...
State: New York, Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Novel Optoelectronic Sensor Technology Platform Leads to New Technologies for Advanced Materials Recycling
National Recovery Technologies, Inc. (NRT) and wTe Corporation have developed a platform of technologies aimed at applying...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Workforce & Economic Development

RET Provides Budding Experience to Build Research-Based Curriculum
Keeping abreast of knowledge can be a tremendous task for science teachers, but Brian Dempsey of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

GLOBE Program Heads in New Directions
In the past decade, the NASA-NSF-sponsored Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program has engaged...
State: Alaska, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Breaking the Sign-Language Barrier in S&E Classrooms in IHEs
Deaf students often rely on sign language interpreting in order to participate in academic programs at institutions of higher education...
State: New York
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

Alliances for Graduate Education Show Improved Baseline
The investments of the National Science Foundation’s Human Resource Development Division’s Alliances for Graduate Education in the Professoriate...
State: Colorado, Louisiana, Maryland
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

Novel Antibody Microarray for Profiling of Signaling Proteins
Epitome Biosystems has developed a novel method for producing multiplexed immunoassays for quantitative measurement of intracellular...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development

Disseminating Tools to Measure the Content Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics and Science
Three research and development projects funded by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program...
State: Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

LessonLab Platform Introduces Teaching Analysis to Pre-Service Teacher Preparation
To increase high-quality teaching in mathematics classrooms, teacher preparation programs must ensure that graduates possess the...
State: Delaware, Maryland
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program Disaster Research Center
The National Science Foundation funded the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center (DRC) to establish a Research Experiences...
State: Delaware
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Strengthening Geoscience Teacher Training
The Geoscience Teacher Training (GEO-Teach) program was initiated in 2006 to address the need for highly qualified teachers in...
State: New Hampshire, Virginia
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

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