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Tag Archive: Broadening Participation

Upcoming Webinar: Including Individuals with Disabilities in STEM Courses, Research, and Careers

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The March Expert Panel for the STEM for All Multiplex Theme of the Month is being held this month with the theme of Including Individuals with Disabilities in STEM Courses, Research, and Careers. The webinar is bringing together four leaders in the efforts to make STEM fields more accessible to students with disabilities. 

Panelists include: 

  • Richard E. Ladner, PI of AccessComputing and Professor Emeritus in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.
  • Sheryl Burgstahler, Director of Accessible Technology Services and the DO-IT Center, and Co-PI of AccessComputing. 
  • Jeanne Reis, M.Ed., Co-Director of the ASL Ed Center, and developer of ASL Clear, a STEM learning app centered in American Sign Language linguistic principles. 
  • Dr. Emily Moore, Director of Research and Accessibility for PhET Interactive Simulations in the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

The webinar panel will be held on March 24, 2021 at 3 PM ET. For more information, or to register, please click the link below.

 

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Computer and Information Science and Engineering Minority-Serving Institutions Research Expansion Program (CISE-MSI Program)

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The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is launching a new program to support research expansion for Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). The goal of the program is to increase the number of CISE-funded research projects from MSIs. MSIs are vital to the broadening participation community and are encouraged to submit a proposal. NSF hosted a webinar on the program in December 2020. You can find the slides, audio and transcript from that webinar on the NSF website here.

The deadline for proposal submissions is April 15th, 2021. 

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ADVANCE Seminars Panels: 20 years of ADVANCE and 30 years of NSF Broadening Participation in STEM

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In conjunction with Women’s History month, the National Science Foundation is hosting a series of webinars celebrating 20 years of the NSF ADVANCE program and 30 years of NSF Division of Human Resource Development & Broadening Participation in STEM.  The series includes talks by faculty members and administrators who have spent thousands of hours pursuing the work necessary to support gender equity and systemic change in their institutions and in the wider STEM research community. The webinar series will be begin on March 3rd, 2021 and will continue throughout the month of March. For more information, please visit the NSF Events page using the link provided below.

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