NSF Awards RISE Lab $500,000
National Science Foundation: $500,000 (2025-2030) Award: Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program RESS Project: Empowering STEM Educators through Robotics & Automation The project aims to serve the national need of equipping STEM educators with innovative teaching strategies and hands-on research experiences. This project focuses on empowering pre-service and in-service teachers from high-need school districts in the […]
Health Policy Research Scholars (HPRS)
Health Policy Research Scholars (HPRS) is a four-year national leadership development program for full-time doctoral students from nonclinical, research-focused disciplines in which policy is a key lever for change (e.g., urban planning; political science; economics; anthropology; education; social work; sociology). HPRS is designed for students who are committed to ensuring their research is aligned with […]
Dr. Picho selected as NSF QRM Scholar
Dr. Picho selected as National Science Foundation Quantitative Research Methods for STEM Education Scholar. The NSF QRM Scholars Program pairs early-career education researchers with quantitative mentors to help researchers develop their skills in design, measurement, and analysis. The program offers a year-long training that includes an initial intensive virtual Training Institute on fundamental quantitative methodology, on-going live-stream […]
Dr. Picho joins the Advisory board at Karat
Dr. Picho joins the Advisory board at Karat as an Interview Equity Advisor How Social Identity Threat Impacts Interviewing Karat sits down with Howard University’s Dr. Katherine Picho-Kiroga to discuss social identity threat and interviewing Last week, Karat sat down with Howard University’s Dr. Katherine Picho-Kiroga to talk about life-changing interviews and the impact that social identity […]
Post-Doc position at Utah State University
Utah State University’s Department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences invites applications for a Researcher/Post-Doctoral Researcher to join a multi-institutional team, conducting research in science and computer science education at the middle school level. Utah State University’s Department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences invites applications for a Researcher/Post-Doctoral Researcher to join a multi-institutional team, conducting research in science […]
RISE lab Alum, Dr. Plaisime, is Harvard Bound!
Congratulations to Dr. Marie Plaisime, firstly, for successfully defending her dissertation, and officially graduating from Howard as a Medical Sociologist. Dr. Plaisime’s research on racial bias and inter-racial anxiety in patient interactions among residents and medical students has garnered tremendous interest from top tier research institutions like Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Mayo […]
Lyndsie receives Fullbright Nehru Research Award
Congratulations to Lyndsie Whitehead for being awarded the Fulbright–Nehru Research Award to India. Her research focuses on the push-pull factors that influence international student mobility. India has the world’s second largest higher education system, with more than 800 universities, 39,000 colleges and a capacity of enrolling more than 20 million students. Through her research, Lyndsie aims to explore approaches […]
Postdoctoral research opportunity at Morehouse College
https://morehouse.edu/about/work-at-morehouse/jobs/postdoctoral-researcher/ The position is a part of the newly funded NSF Undergraduate STEM Success Center at Morehouse College. This position would be great for someone interested in STEM Education, Psychometrics, and or Data Science. As such, the individual hired for this position will be employed by Morehouse College but will work in part virtually on a […]
Deyonna accepts grant researcher position at NLET.
RISE lab is excited to announce that Deyonna Grant has accepted a consultancy position as a Grant Researcher for the National Laboratory for Education Transformation (NLET). In her position, Deyonna Grant will be responsible for building a base of upcoming grants (federal, foundation, state, etc.), and identifying organizations and people that NLET might want to open dialogue […]
RISE lab welcomes Darryl Diptee
RISE lab welcomes Darryl Diptee Hailing from University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education, Darryl Diptee became a RISE lab member in late 2020. As a doctoral student, Darryl’s research investigates how underrepresented minority students might better negotiate STEM identities within oppressive social systems. He is leveraging the theory of embodied cognition to design […]
