Science and Engineering Scholarships and Fellowships Blog

The National Science Foundation has awarded scientists at Colorado State University a $2.7 million grant. This grant is meant to assist graduate students in their research to “test new theories about how cells behave using advanced engineering methods in microelectronics and electrochemistry.” The project will be lead by Tom Chen and Stuart Tobet.

As part of the grant, graduate students at Colorado State University will share their knowledge with K-12 teachers in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields (STEM). Michael A. De Miranda, professor in the College of Applied Human Sciences and co-principal investigator for the grant, has been assigned the task of training these STEM K-12 teachers.

“The grant is intended to take that impact beyond higher education classrooms into the community to be shared with K-12 teachers and industry leaders,” explains De Miranda. “We are using this money to train graduate students to not only conduct the research but obtain transferable skills such as leadership, ethics and communication.”

By encouraging the graduate students at Colorado State to work with K-12 teachers on this grant, it will improve the communication between different people within the science community and increase the number of students entering into STEM related fields in the future.