SCATE Strategies Help Increase the Number of Well-Prepared Students in the Pipeline for Technician Careers
The South Carolina Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence (SCATE) enhances the nation’s high tech workforce by improving...
State: South Carolina
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

Teachers Set Sail for the School of Rock
Thirteen middle school, high school, and museum educators from around the United States recently set sail from Victoria, Canada, for...
State: District Of Columbia
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Where Biology Meets Business
Large science and technology centers provide a unique opportunity for scientists to conduct research and outreach on sizeable, long-term...
State: Georgia
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Florida’s First Coast Manufacturing Innovation Partnership
Joint industry-academia projects with regional industry comprise Florida’s First Coast Manufacturing Innovation Partnership.  The...
State: Florida
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Workforce & Economic Development

Parents + Career Planning Tools + Math + Science = Student Success
What do parents need to know to educate and encourage their children to consider careers in mathematics, the sciences or engineering,...
State: Georgia, Kentucky
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Undergraduate Research Experiences Are Key To Retaining Minority Students in STEM Fields
The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) doubled its investment in focused...
State: North Carolina
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, 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

Innovative Protein Microarrays
Biotraces has developed a new blood test that can detect breast cancer at its earliest stage, before the appearance of any physical...
State: Virginia
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development

Web-Based Manufacturing Performance Management with Multi-Objective, Multi-model Optimization Using Meta-Modeling
Invistics’s supply chain software represents an innovation in manufacturing software that: 1) extends existing Enterprise Resource Planning...
State: Georgia
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Workforce & Economic Development

Bethune Cookman College Graduates its First Engineers
Bethune-Cookman College, one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and founded in 1904 by Mary McLeod Bethune,...
State: Florida
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

Early Lung Cancer Detection
An interdisciplinary university/industry team at West Virginia University (WVU) is merging nanoscience and microdevices to meet the...
State: West Virginia
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Workforce & Economic Development

Fostering International Collaboration in Mathematics Education Research in Africa and the United States
What issues prevent students in poor countries in Africa and in underserved communities in the United States from receiving high-quality...
State: Virgin Islands
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

State-Wide Initiative Improves Middle School Math Performance
The 5-year teacher enhancement project MERIT: Mathematics Education Reform Initiative for Teachers, has completed its work on developing...
State: West Virginia
Topics: Workforce & Economic Development

Partnership Catalyzes SOP-based Industry
The Georgia Tech Packaging Research Center (PRC), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC), completed its 10-year...
State: Georgia
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Science & Engineering Education, Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development

Breath-based Medical Diagnostics
Convergent Engineering, Inc. is developing signal processing algorithms and techniques for breath-based medical diagnostic applications....
State: Florida
Topics: Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development

Interagency Program Supports Research Teams from the University of the Virgin Islands to Develop More Efficient Separation Techniques
The Faculty and Student Team (FaST) program is part of a memorandum of understanding between the National Science Foundation and...
State: Virgin Islands
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

National Partnerships for Managing Upstream Innovation: The Case of Nanoscience and Technology
The topic dominating discussions in boardrooms around the world is growth. CEOs agree that growth through new products and services...
State: North Carolina
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Workforce & Economic Development

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: North Carolina
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Real-Time Information for Traffic and Logistics Management
IntelliOne’s mobile positioning system can locate every active mobile device in a wireless carrier’s network with 30 to 100 meter accuracy. ...
State: Georgia
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, 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

HBCUs lead the way in STEM degrees conferred
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Undergraduate Program provides awards to...
State: Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Increasing Teacher Content Knowledge Enhances Student Learning in Mathematics
The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program’s Institute Partnerships: Teacher Institutes for the 21st century prepare school- and...
State: Texas, Virginia
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