HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Green Chemistry: Advancing Equity, Relevance, and Environmental Justice

HSI 实施和评估项目：绿色化学：促进公平、相关性和环境正义

• 批准号: 2345355
• 负责人: Nasrin Mirsaleh Kohan
• 金额: $ 79.77万
• 依托单位: Texas Woman's University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-04-01 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2345355&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Implementation; Evaluation; Project; Green

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 2: IEP at Texas Woman’s University focuses on building 1) green chemistry content knowledge and 2) chemistry interest. This project seeks to increase the relevance of STEM education to underserved students by incorporating green chemistry practices across the introductory chemistry curriculum including Introductory Chemistry, General Chemistry and Principles of Chemistry. The project will ensure students have the knowledge and skills needed to market themselves in job fields, advocate for green chemistry and sustainability, and positively impact their communities while responding to and addressing issues of environmental justice. The project team is a transdisciplinary team of academics, nonprofits, and an advisory board of experts, with a track record of educational transformation and community engagement, to co-construct our curriculum in the context of a minority-serving institution.The Advancing Equity, Relevance, and Environmental Justice (G-CHEM) project will 1) Develop introductory general chemistry undergraduate curricula that incorporates green chemistry and environmental justice principles; 2) Contribute to a library of green chemistry experiments for use in the introductory chemistry curriculum; 3) Assess student chemistry-related content knowledge and chemistry interest; 4) Train other HSI faculty to implement green-chemistry curricula. There are two primary measures that will be used to determine impact, Chemistry knowledge and Chemistry Interest. It is anticipated that the scaffolded program will ensure that students have substantial and sustained learning opportunities through modified labs and real-world experiential learning activities. The project will ensure students have the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions based on their knowledge of green chemistry while impacting their communities by identifying and addressing issues of environmental justice. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，德克萨斯女子大学的这条途径2：IEP侧重于建立1）绿色化学内容知识和2）化学兴趣。该项目旨在通过将绿色化学实践纳入入门化学课程，包括入门化学，普通化学和化学原理，提高STEM教育对服务不足学生的相关性。该项目将确保学生拥有在工作领域推销自己所需的知识和技能，倡导绿色化学和可持续性，并在应对和解决环境正义问题的同时对社区产生积极影响。该项目团队是一个跨学科的学术团队，非营利组织和专家咨询委员会，具有教育转型和社区参与的跟踪记录，在少数民族服务机构的背景下共同构建我们的课程。和环境正义（G-CHEM）项目将1）制定综合绿色化学和环境正义原则的普通化学本科入门课程; 2）建立一个绿色化学实验库，用于化学入门课程; 3）评估学生化学相关内容的知识和化学兴趣; 4）培训其他HSI教师实施绿色化学课程。有两个主要的措施，将用于确定影响，化学知识和化学兴趣。预计脚手架计划将确保学生通过修改实验室和真实世界的体验式学习活动获得大量和持续的学习机会。该项目将确保学生拥有所需的知识和技能，根据他们对绿色化学的了解做出明智的决定，同时通过确定和解决环境正义问题来影响他们的社区。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，并建立HSI的能力。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。