| VR-based Learning Platform to Engender Student Conceptual Understanding of Newton’s Laws of Motion: Impact on Grade 6 Students | Leonard Annetta | National Science Foundation (NSF)/Florida Atlantic University | 5/01/18 – 4/30/22 | $144,218.13 | The purpose is to provide scientific (physics, NGSS 3D standards), technological expertise (3D-Virtual Reality and Simulation), and science learning and assessment expertise in working with middle school students and teachers in the School District of Palm Beach County, FL. |
| Investigating Natural Hazards with Big Data and Communicating Science Through Games in Underserved Rural Community Education Centers | Leonard Annetta | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 5/01/18 – 4/30/23 | $2,989,939.63 | INDUCE, an Innovations in Development project, is a unique partnership between ECU, Boys and Girls Club of Eastern NC, and SAS, Inc. INDUCE promises to advance a new approach to evidence-based understanding of the design and interdisciplinary sciences with disciplines in communication and arts. |
| NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: Bloom Initiation Dynamics in the Ross Sea (BID-RS). | Dan Dickerson | National Science Foundation (NSF) Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | 3/01/18 - 2/28/21 | $84,918.70 | The purpose is to use advanced pedagogical techniques and technologies to provide educational outreach for four distinct target populations: K-12 students, pre-service science teachers, in-service science teachers, and informal science educators. Web-based technologies will be used to provide Distance Education Modules (DEMs) regarding data collection and analysis from the Ross Sea to teach STEM concepts. |
| AIICS: Achieving Excellence, Increasing Diversity, and Improving retention in Computer Science | Qin Ding/Leonard Annetta | National Science Foundation (NSF) NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and mathematics (S-STEM) | 02/01/18 - 1/31/23 | $618,826.75 | The AIICS Scholarship program in Computer Science at East Carolina University (ECU) aims to attract, retain, and enable academically talented students with financial need to pursue computer science, especially women and minority students to increase diversity, improve retention, and help maximize student success. |
| Modeling Industrial Mathematics-Investigating Careers in STEM (MIMICS) | Daniel Dickerson | National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM+C | 9/01/18 - 8/31/21 | $1,192,991.35 | Modeling Industrial Mathematics-Investigating Careers in STEM (MIMICS) is a 3-year program linking eastern NC industry, teachers, students, and parents to higher education to create STEM career opportunities. MIMICS addresses the gap between real-world industry, secondary, and higher education by coordinating partnerships between local industry (focusing on energy and the environment) and STEM education. |
| Next Generation Scientists: Promoting STEM Interests and Careers Through Enclothed Cognition | Tammy Lee | NC State University/National Science Foundation (NSF)- I-TEST | 8/21/18 - 8/20/21 | $259,067.53 | This ITEST Strategies project will research and test a new model to promote the development of positive science identity to increase interest in STEM careers for rural youth. The project will research the ITEST foci related to learning environment conditions that enhance learner motivations, mindsets, identity, and interest in STEM learning and occupations. |