NSF Org:	DUE Division Of Undergraduate Education
Recipient:	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION
Initial Amendment Date:	August 20, 2009
Latest Amendment Date:	August 20, 2009
Award Number:	0919800
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Terry S. Woodin DUE  Division Of Undergraduate Education EDU  Directorate for STEM Education
Start Date:	January 1, 2010
End Date:	June 30, 2015 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$472,457.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$472,457.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2009 = $472,457.00
History of Investigator:	Michelle Withers (Principal Investigator) mwithers@binghamton.edu Michelle Richards-Babb (Co-Principal Investigator) Jennifer Jackson (Co-Principal Investigator) David Miller (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	West Virginia University Research Corporation 886 CHESTNUT RIDGE ROAD MORGANTOWN WV  US  26505-2742 (304)293-3998
Sponsor Congressional District:	02
Primary Place of Performance:	West Virginia University 1500 UNIVERSITY AVE MORGANTOWN WV  US  26506
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	02
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	M7PNRH24BBM8
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	S-STEM-Schlr Sci Tech Eng&Math, CCLI-Type 2 (Expansion)
Primary Program Source:	1300XXXXDB H-1B FUND, EDU, NSF 04000910DB NSF Education & Human Resource
Program Reference Code(s):	SMET, 9150, 9178
Program Element Code(s):	153600, 749200
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.076

ABSTRACT

The West Virginia Summer Institute on Undergraduate Science Education (WVUSI) is a 4-day professional development workshop on scientific teaching for science and math faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students in 4-year institutions in the state of West Virginia. Just like the successful National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Biology Education (NASI), this institute holds morning workshops that model active learning, assessment and diversity, with afternoon group work sessions where participants create teaching materials using the strategies that they practiced in the morning workshop. As a summative assessment at the end of the week, the groups present their teaching materials to the entire institute. The groups receive valuable peer evaluation on their teaching materials which they incorporate before implementing the materials into one of their classes when they return to their institutions. However unlike NASI, which only selects biology faculty teams, this project targets science and math teams and also post-doctoral fellows and graduate student. Piloting this institute in May 2008 at West Virginia University has already increased the number of faculty and graduate students across the sciences and in math that are changing the way they teach, and also volunteering to help with this institute.

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