Board 153: A Rolling Stone: Evaluation of one NSF S-STEM Program through Successive Grant Periods

Abstract

where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her research interests include electrical machinery design, modeling and analysis of electric drives, and control of electric drives.

Board 40: Developing a Culturally Adaptive Pathway to Success

“…With a mission to increase the number of academically talented low-income students entering the STEM workforce, the NSF S-STEM program has granted awards to various type of institutions in order to advance our understanding of how "evidencebased curricular and co-curricular activities affect the success, retention, transfer, academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM of low-income students [1]." To date there are a number of publications that document students' experiences, as well as strategies to help talented low-income students succeed in different institutional and disciplinary contexts [2] [3]. Our project builds on this literature by providing a combination of an academic scholarship and culturally competent mentorship for students at a majority low-income Hispanic serving institution (HSI).…”