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Anonymous at Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:21:40 UTC No. 16419275

Interesting article on the future of science and the direction the STEM disciplines are headed
https://www.thefp.com/p/dei-national-science-foundation-grants-report

DEI Is Transforming the National Science Foundation
Government-funded grants favor research exploring ‘white supremacy’ and ‘non-normative forms of gender and sexuality' according to new analysis.

>Shirin Vossoughi, an associate professor of learning sciences at Northwestern University, is co-principal investigator for a $1,034,751 2023 NSF grant for a project entitled “Reimagining Educator Learning Pathways Through Storywork for Racial Equity in STEM.” The project’s abstract says that current teaching practices reproduce “inequitable” structures in the teaching of STEM subjects and “perpetuate racial inequalities” within STEM contexts.
https://informalscience.org/project/collaborative-research-reimagining-educator-learning-pathways-through-storywork-racial-equity-stem/

>the University of Georgia received $644,642 to “identify systemic racism in mathematics teacher education.”
https://research.uga.edu/research-insights/collaborative-research-identifying-systemic-racism-in-mathematics-teacher-education-building-a-cross-site-community-with-preservice-teachers-of-color-from-an-hbcu-hsi-and-pwi-dorothy-white/

>The NSF provided a total of $569,851 split among Florida International University, Colorado State University, and University of Minnesota for a project to examine “sex/gender narratives in undergraduate biology and their impacts on transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming students.”