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The new EPC Museum in El Paso, Texas brings high impact STEM and STEAM interactive experiences to stimulate imagination, creativity, innovation, and life-long learning. Project Unheard Voices conducts focus groups with parents living in five underresourced communities in the El Paso Region to identify the constraints that limit their participation and accesses to cultural events and spaces in the El Paso region.  

PI: GATES, ANN (ENGINEERING); co-PIs: AKBAR, MONIKA (ENGINEERING); SALAMAH, SALAMAH (ENGINEERING); CEBERIO, MARTINE (ENGINEERING); CONVERTINO, CHRISTINA (EDUCATION); Senior Personnel: VILLA, ELSA (EDUCATION)

Revolutionizing the Computer Science [CS] Department has created a new culture that produces and sustains flexible, robust, and innovative learning environments at all levels of the department and beyond--administration, faculty, students, community and industry.

PI: DOSER, DIANE I (SCIENCE); co-PIs: OLIVAREZ, ARTURO (EDUCATION); LANGFORD, RICHARD (SCIENCE); CEBERIO, MARTINE (ENGINEERING); VILLANUEVA ROSALES, NATALIA (ENGINEERING)

SLATES (Service Learning Activities Targeting the Earth Sciences) increases and diversifies the service learning activities in the geosciences for geoscience majors and for students of any major who are taking introductory geoscience courses at ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ and El Paso Community College (EPCC).  The activities include a range of community partners: Texas Parks and Wildlife, Keystone Heritage Park, and the El Paso Geological Society. 

PI: BACH, AMY J (EDUCATION)

In 2013, the Philadelphia School Closing Photo Collective responded to pending school closures by creating a visual archive of 2,000 photographs documenting schools prior to their closure. We return to these neighborhoods to document all 24 closed school buildings and their surrounding communities using visual and photo documentation.

PI: ROBERTSON, WILLIAM H (EDUCATION)

In collaboration with the Personalized Learning Consortium team from the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU), Robertson uses adaptive courseware technology through a course redesign process in Biology 1305 and Biology 1306.

PI: GATES, ANN (ENGINEERING); co-PI: VILLA, ELSA (EDUCATION)

The impact of COVID-19 on undergraduate students from underserved communities has been dramatic due to challenges related to technological and online access, community building, engagement and professional development, and well-being concerns related to financial needs, food insecurity, and family care needs. This project funds undergraduate students from the NSF-funded CAHSI INCLUDES national alliance institutions to support virtual research experiences.

PI: TANABE, CLIFTON S (EDUCATION); MEIN, ERIKA (EDUCATION)

The goal is for every teacher in their first three years of teaching to receive high quality support and coaching, focusing on Canutillo, Fabens, and Tornillo ISD, with highly skilled instructional coaches and instructional coaches who serve as mentors.

PI: TANABE, CLIFTON S (EDUCATION); MEIN, ERIKA (EDUCATION)

The grant supports a Raising Texas Teacher Program Leader who is responsible for all communication between Raise Your Hand and ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ.

PI: GATES, ANN (ENGINEERING); co-PI: VILLA, ELSA (EDUCATION)

The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report Minority Serving Institutions: America`s Underutilized Resource for Strengthening the STEM Workforce calls for increased federal investment in Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). The conference brought together researchers from Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), other Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), and Primarily White Institutions (PWIs) in intensive, facilitated meetings that focused on proposing research projects that seek solutions to challenging problems in NSF CISE core areas.

PI: PETER GOLDING (ENGINEERING); Co-PIs: GOLDING, DIANE (EDUCATION); LUGO NEVAREZ (ENGINEERING); PITCHER, MICHAEL (ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGIES)

STEMGROW Plus builds on work to provide world class services to STEM students in the El Paso region, seeing the current environment as an opportunity to further facilitate our strengths in online and virtual technology services to grow Hispanic student success in STEM education. 

PI: PETER GOLDING (ENGINEERING); Co-PIs: GOLDING, DIANE (EDUCATION); PITCHER, MICHAEL (ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGIES)

This project is raising STEM graduation rates through a systemic focus on instituting high-impact, innovative instructional practices, coupled with student metacognitive and professional development to increase student interest, performance, persistence, and STEM graduation.

PI:  KUMAR, VINOD; Co-PI: ARGUS-CALVO, BEVERLEY (EDUCATION)

The Internet of things (IoT) project brings together a series of Internet-connected objects to enhance the real-life experience through a curriculum focused on students with disabilities to inform them of how to use the IoT and learn about our world.

PI: SUN, WEI-LING (EDUCATION)

This research aims to understand the implementations of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES Act) in a k-12 public school district in the El Paso area using sensemaking theory and critical race theory.

PI: ARGUS-CALVO, BEVERLEY (EDUCATION)

The Shadows to Light Internship program provides doctoral-level students the opportunity to engage and assist in learning programs, particularly working on behalf of at-risk youth and those involved in the federal criminal justice system in collaboration with the Philosophic Systems Institute (PSI).

PI: MEIN, ERIKA (EDUCATION); co-PI: BUTVILOFSKY, SANDRA A; TANABE, CLIFTON (EDUCATION)

For this US PREP Innovation opportunity, ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ provides more robust preparation of teacher candidates in linguistically-responsive instruction, and especially in the use of formative and summative language assessments to inform instruction. 

PI: MEIN, ERIKA (EDUCATION); co-PI: TANABE, CLIFTON (EDUCATION)

The ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ teacher preparation program prepares the highest-quality teachers for the El Paso region and beyond. The focus is on a predominantly Latinx teaching force that is Day 1-ready to meet the needs of culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse learners and to provide rigorous, high-quality learning experiences for all students. 

PI: GOLDING, DIANE (EDUCATION); co-PIs: HACHEY, ALYSSE (EDUCATION); SANTIAGO, IVONNE (ENGINEERING); AND GALARZA, MAYRA ORTIZ (SCIENCE)

This program is a university effort to change the paradigm in advancing women largely underrepresented in STEM careers.

PI: JOHNSON, SARAH (EDUCATION); co-PIs: DE LA PIEDRA, MARIA (EDUCATION); ROBINSON, NATHANIEL (ORSP)

This research is situated in four community arts programs with different disciplinary foci (folklórico dance, visual arts, STEAM, and theater) that are located in El Paso, a border city with a majority Mexican- American population, which is underserved in out-of-school programs nationally. Participation in the arts is associated with positive cognitive, behavioral, and social outcomes.

PI: SALAMAH, SALAMAH (ENGINEERING); co-PIs: VILLA, ELSA (EDUCATION); CONVERTINO, CHRISTINA (EDUCATION); CEBERIO, MARTINE (ENGINEERING)

The ubiquity of technology has continually advanced over the last decade and now demands software engineers have the technical and professional knowledge and skills to effectively work in a teaming environment. This program advances computer science undergraduate students’ leadership skills.

PI: WALKER, JUSTICE T (EDUCATION)

This project provides evidence-based insights on computer science (CS) teaching and learning among pre-college student populations that are traditionally underrepresented in computing. The project develops cutting-edge data mining techniques using culturally relevant design to examine ways to support computational and data literacy development among critically underrepresented and at-risk groups in the El Paso region.

PI: WAGLER, AMY (SCIENCE); Co-PIs: Olimpo, Jeffrey (SCIENCE); MEIN, ERIKA (EDUCATION); NORA PAUGH (EDUCATION); JOYCE ASING CASHMAN (EDUCATION)

The Noyce@³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ program effectively prepares highly qualified secondary STEM teachers who will serve in a high-need school district, focusing on project-based learning [PBL] into selected schools, particularly those in low-income areas of the district. 

PI: HACHEY, ALYSSE (EDUCATION)

Hachey is coordinating project activities with co-researchers; developing and refining qualitative coding schemes; coding and analyzing qualitative survey data; connecting findings to the relevant literature, and coordinating and refining the conceptual model.

PI: PETER GOLDING (ENGINEERING); Co-PIs: GOLDING, DIANE (EDUCATION); SANTIAGO, IVONNE (ENGINEERING); JOSLYN, COLE (ENGINEERING)

The STEMSHINE project increases minority student enrollment and academic success in STEM; 2) To increase participating minority students' interest and academic success in STEM through providing personalized and job-embedded development.

PI: GATES, ANN (ENGINEERING); co-PI: VILLA, ELSA (EDUCATION)

The BPC-AE project advances a research-based framework for attracting, preparing, and supporting students from underrepresented groups, in particular Hispanics, at CAHSI institutions in their trajectory toward completion of graduate degrees in computing areas.

PI: MORERA, OSVALDO (LIBERAL ARTS); co-PIs: BOLAND, THOMAS (ENGINEERING); TINAJERO, JOSEFINA (EDUCATION)

This project engages students and teachers from underrepresented and underprivileged high schools using a multi-tiered mentoring environment and a research-focused biomedical and behavioral sciences curriculum.

PI: JOSLYN, COLE H (ENGINEERING); co-PIs: GOLDING, PETER (ENGINEERING); GOLDING, DIANE (EDUCATION)

This project implements a holistic, socio-culturally responsive peer-mentoring program by adapting the Promotores de Educación Program (PED) and its evidence-based practices developed at California State University at Long Beach that includes an academic, institutional, and social support system (i.e., formal peer-mentoring program) for first-year engineering students.

PI: TANABE, CLIFTON (EDUCATION); Co-PIs: MEIN, ERIKA (EDUCATION); ASING CASHMAN, JOYCE (EDUCATION)

The ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ teacher preparation program prepares the highest-quality teachers for the US-Mexico border region and beyond. Our focus is on continually improving our program in order to prepare a predominantly Latinx teaching force to be Day 1-ready to meet the needs of culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse learners, and to provide rigorous, high-quality learning experiences for all students. 

PI: MORTIMER, KATHERINE (EDUCATION); co-PI: AKBAR, MONIKA (ENGINEERING)

This is a research-practice partnership (RPP) pilots a linguistically and culturally relevant computer science curriculum in middle school with the goal of broadening the participation of emergent bilingual (or English learner) students and Latino/a students in computer science (CS) education.

PI: WIEBE, JOHN (OFFICE OF THE PROVOST); Co-PIs: GATES, ANN (OFFICE OF THE PROVOST); VILLALOBOS, SIRIN (LIBERAL ARTS); CONVERTINO, CHRISTINA (EDUCATION); MATHEW, ROY (CIERP)

An HSI with a majority Mexican-American student population, ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ is using a diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI] lens to develop a systemic transformational-change model focused on increasing the number of students at ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ who are competitive in STEM careers.

PI: YEAGER, KRISTOPHER H (EDUCATION); Co-PIs: ARGUS-CALVO (EDUCATION); BROWN, CARLETON (EDUCATION); TODD, ANJANETTE (EDUCATION)

This project prepares scholars in special education and school counseling to support students with disabilities who have high intensity social-emotional learning (SEL) and/or mental health needs.

PI: GOLDING, PETER (ENGINEERING); Co-PIs: GOLDING, DIANE (EDUCATION); SANTIAGO, IVONNE (ENGINEERING); JOSLYN, COLE (ENGINEERING)

STEMFUERTE is a strong (hence "FUERTE") multi-year STEM pathway program to facilitate a seamless articulated transfer of El Paso Community College graduates in STEM to ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ's STEM degree programs.