Faculty Profiles

Featured grants

• Feng, Li (Principal), Close, Hunter Garth (Co-Principal). Collaborative Research: Retention, Persistence, Effectiveness of STEM Teachers in High-need School Districts--An Investigation of the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship, National Science Foundation, Federal, $1160761. (Submitted: August 28, 2019, Funded: September 1, 2020 - December 31, 2025). Grant.
• Close, Eleanor W (Principal), Close, Hunter Garth (Co-Principal), Huling, Leslie L (Co-Principal), Ortiz, Araceli Martinez (Co-Principal), Luxford, Cynthia J (Co-Principal). Responsive, Attentive, Dialogic, and InterActive Noyce Scholars Project, National Science Foundation, Federal, $1254627. (Funded: June 1, 2016 - May 31, 2023). Grant.
• Close, Eleanor W (Principal), Strickland, Sharon K (Co-Principal), Luxford, Cynthia J (Co-Principal), Van Overschelde, James P (Co-Principal), Collins, Kristina Henry (Co-Principal), Close, Hunter G (Supporting). Preparing Engaged STEM Teachers through Multi-level Peer Mentoring and Early Teaching Experiences, National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, Federal, $1200000. (Submitted: August 31, 2022, Funded: June 15, 2023 - June 14, 2028). Grant.
• Close, Hunter Garth (Principal). Programming for physics students using GlowScript Blocks, Instructional Technologies Support, Texas State University, $5000. (Funded: March 2017 - October 2017). Grant.
• Roundtree, Aimee (Principal), Zong, Ziliang (Co-Principal), Close, Hunter (Co-Principal), Collins, Kristina (Co-Principal), Guirguis, Mina (Supporting), Kim, MiHyun (Supporting). Coding Across the Disciplines: Computer Science Collaborative in Texas, WeTeach CS Program at UT Austin’s Center for STEM Education, State, $100000. (Funded: January 13, 2017 - August 15, 2017). Grant.