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Alison Slinskey Legg was awarded an NSF grant to help steer underrepresented groups toward STEM education

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, a senior lecturer in 51精品视频鈥檚 Department of Biological Sciences, and 10 collaborating investigators have been approved for $300,000聽in funding through the National Science Foundation's INCLUDES Program聽to encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to pursue STEM education and careers.

Legg and partners from five 51精品视频 schools will launch a pilot that recruits high school students for STEM precollegiate programs, develops a metric to evaluate those programs, credentials precollege STEM programs based on the metric聽and introduces a badging system to credit student participants.

Legg鈥檚 collaborators on the project are聽Alaine Allen, David Boone, Jennifer Iriti, Lori Ann Delale-O鈥機onnor, Rebecca Gonda, Mackenzie Ball, Anne Sekula, Kellie Kane, Kashif Henderson聽and聽Lina Dostilio.

at NSF's site.

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