The National Science Foundation has awarded Rochester Institute of Technology $1.2 million for a cohort of four postdoctoral fellows to conduct STEM discipline-based education research (DBER). Professor Dina Newman from the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences led a team of College of Science faculty that secured the three-year grant from the NSF Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (BCSER) Program.
The postdoctoral researchers will work in RIT’s Science and Mathematics Education Research Collaborative (SMERC), the research lab of the Center for Advancing Scholarship to Transform Learning that includes physics, biology, mathematics, chemistry, science communication, and engineering faculty. Each fellow will work with two mentors, encouraging cutting-edge research at the interface of traditional disciplines.
“This program is designed to help the…
