{"id":116563,"date":"2016-09-06T13:22:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T17:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=116563"},"modified":"2016-09-06T13:22:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T17:22:57","slug":"nsf-awards-3m-grant-neag-schools-moss-campbell-uconn-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/09\/nsf-awards-3m-grant-neag-schools-moss-campbell-uconn-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"NSF Awards $3M Grant to Neag School\u2019s Moss, Campbell, and UConn Colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NSF;<\/a>A group of UConn faculty that includes Neag School associate professors\u00a0David Moss<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Todd Campbell<\/a>\u00a0has received nearly $3 million in funding from the\u00a0National Science Foundation<\/a>\u2019s Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL), a program that seeks to enhance learning in informal environments as well as to broaden access to and engagement in STEM learning opportunities.<\/p>\n

The NSF funding, to be awarded annually over the course of approximately five years, will support an interdisciplinary project titled \u201cPromoting Lifelong STEM Learning Through a Focus on Conservation, Geospatial Technology, and Community Engagement<\/a>.\u201d Moss and Campbell will serve as co-principal investigators on the project.<\/p>\n

The project\u2019s principal investigator is Professor John Volin of UConn\u2019s College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources (CAHNR). In addition to Moss and Campbell, fellow co-principal investigators include Chester Arnold, extension professor, and Cary Chadwick, associate extension professor, both of\u00a0UConn Extension<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very excited to work on this collaborative project with colleagues in the NEAG School of Education,\u201d says Volin. \u201cIt builds off of our highly successful\u00a0Natural Resources Conservation Academy<\/a>. For the last five years, the Academy has connected high school students with adult community partners to work on projects in their local communities focused on conservation science and land use planning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRepresenting the very best of collaborative, interdisciplinary research here at the University of Connecticut, this effort holds tremendous potential to impact individuals and society in an enduring way.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0David Moss, associate\u00a0professor and co-principal investigator<\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Using this focus on community education surrounding land use, the project seeks to develop STEM knowledge and skills among two populations in urban and rural areas of Connecticut \u2014 adult volunteers involved with community land conservation issues, as well as underrepresented minority high school-aged adolescents. The project is thus designed in part to investigate the processes and impacts of intergenerational learning, an area in need of broader study, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think the most promising aspects of this project are how both adolescent and adult learners can support one another to take up and use disciplinary STEM resources, like geospatial technologies and effective principles of land use, in ways that benefit the learners as competent, capable contributors in STEM \u2014 and as valued community members who can help solve localized community problems of consequence,\u201d says Campbell of the Neag School.<\/p>\n

Together, the researchers will be developing an educational program that focuses on conservation science and recent advances in web-enabled geospatial technologies \u2014\u00a0including geographic information systems, remote sensing, and global positioning systems \u2014 that, for the first time, are accessible and attainable for the public. The two target populations of adult and high-school aged adolescents will work together to gather data across various areas of Connecticut and make land-use assessments based on the data.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepresenting the very best of collaborative, interdisciplinary research here at the University of Connecticut, this effort holds tremendous potential to impact individuals and society in an enduring way,\u201d adds Moss. \u201cThe citizens of the state of Connecticut are well served through this project, which will impact our urban and rural communities alike \u2014 and bring together individuals who may have been traditionally underserved in formal STEM learning environments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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