A nearly $1 million grant to support scholarships for transfer students in their quest for STEM degrees was recently awarded to UCF by the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n
The $999,994 grant \u2013 STEM TRansfer Students Opportunity for Nurtured Growth, or STRONG for short \u2013 was awarded to the Office of Research & Commercialization to run from next month to February 2023.<\/p>\n
More than half 色花堂\u2019s new undergraduates are transfer students. The recipients of the new scholarships must demonstrate academic potential or ability, and demonstrate a financial need. Project STRONG will support about 30 scholarships per year in the disciplines of engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, chemistry and biology.<\/p>\n
\u201cStudents entering the university in STEM programs will receive the support needed to feel at home in their fields of study, at a time when they are 90 percent more likely to leave STEM than at any other time,\u201d according to the program overview. \u201cTalented, low-income students, of whom one out of three would otherwise leave STEM within six years, will develop interest and proficiency in STEM disciplines through opportunities provided by the program.\u201d<\/p>\n
UCF will provide one-on-one faculty-student mentoring, regular discipline-specific seminars, research lab internship opportunities, financial-literacy counseling and other services. The overview also says the project for STEM transfers will be conducted as \u201ca model to be tested, improved, and ready for dissemination nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n
The interdisciplinary project will be under the direction of Mubarak Shah, Trustee Chair Professor of computer science; Brian Moore, associate professor of mathematics; Malcolm B. Butler, professor of secondary education; Nazanin Rahnavar, associate professor of electric and computer engineering; and Gordon Chavis, associate vice president for enrollment services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nearly $1 million grant to support scholarships for transfer students in their quest for STEM degrees was recently awarded to UCF by the National Science Foundation. The $999,994 grant \u2013 STEM TRansfer Students Opportunity for Nurtured Growth, or STRONG for short \u2013 was awarded to the Office of Research & Commercialization to run from next month to February 2023.…","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":80696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,23,24],"tags":[1045,10666,3024,3244,4430],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-80695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-research","category-science-technology","tag-computer-science","tag-gordon-chavis","tag-mathematics","tag-mubarak-shah","tag-stem"],"yoast_head":"\n