<b>1) NSF Research in Disabilities Education (RDE):</b> The National Science Foundation has released a revised solicitation for its RDE program (<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5482">http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5482</a>). The solicitation describes two types of projects:<br>

<p style="margin-left:40px"><strong><em>RDE-Model Building (RDE-MB)</em></strong><em> - </em>These
 projects broaden the participation and achievement of postsecondary 
students with disabilities in STEM by creating, replicating, translating
 and implementing innovative educational and institutional capacity 
building models.  RDE-MB projects employ evidence-based educational 
exemplars that improve the learning, participation, persistence and 
graduation of postsecondary students with disabilities in STEM degree 
programs.  These projects must have a strong theoretical base and 
initiatives must be justified by the relevant educational, disability, 
and social science research.  </p>
          <p style="margin-left:40px"><strong><em>RDE-Broadening Participation Research in STEM Education</em></strong><strong> <em>(RDE-BPR)</em></strong>
 - These projects to investigate the underlying issues affecting the 
differential learning, participation, retention and graduation rates of 
postsecondary students with disabilities in STEM.  Proposed research may
 investigate learning and educational influences as well as 
organizational, institutional or systemic processes that broaden the 
participation of postsecondary students with disabilities in STEM.  
Disability should be the main focus of the research and analysis, with 
race, ethnicity, gender, economic status, and/or veteran status as 
potential secondary foci. Projects catalyze the acquisition of knowledge
 that may inform interventions impacting learning, persistence, and 
graduation in STEM for postsecondary students with disabilities under 
certain conditions and in specific educational contexts.  BPR can also 
be found in other solicitations in the Division of Research on Learning 
in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) and in the Division of Human 
Resource Development (HRD).  DRL's Research and Evaluation on Education 
in Science and Engineering (REESE) solicitation has a strand called BPR 
that converges with elements of the Research on Gender in Science and 
Engineering (GSE) and RDE solicitations; the new BPR strand is jointly 
managed by DRL and HRD with coordination by the RDE, GSE and REESE 
programs.</p>Funding varies by type of proposal and level:<br><div style="margin-left:40px"><b><i>RDE-MB Level 1</i></b> (Designing, developing and testing models): up to $800,000 over 48 months<br><i><b>RDE-MB Level 2</b></i> (Replicating, translating and implementing models): up to $1,000,000 over 48 months<br>

<i><b>RDE-BPR Level 1</b></i> (Fundamental learning and educational research, early-stage studies, and design and development research): up to $500,000 over 36 months<br><i><b>RDE-BPR Level 2</b></i> (Efficacy and replication research to inform learning and educational theory, and advance postsecondary STEM learning and education for students with disabilities): up to $600,000 over 48 months<br>

</div><br>All proposals are due June 1.<br><br>-- <br><p>Christopher <span><span>Andersen</span></span><br>Director, <span><span>STEM</span></span> Initiatives<br>

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