The National Science Foundation awarded doctoral student Joseph Wong an NSF GRFP Non-Academic Research Internship for Graduate Students (INTERN) Supplemental Funding Opportunity. Wong will intern at Immerse Inc., a virtual reality (VR) software company that specializes in language education. The company has developed a VR language teaching and learning platform, allowing language lessons to be delivered using immersive…Continue Reading Doctoral student awarded NSF GRFP Non-Academic Research Internship
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U.S. Department of Education awards CFEP a $5.2M GEAR UP grant
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $5.2 million Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs partnership grant to the University of California, Irvine. This supplements a GEAR UP grant of $5.4 million awarded to the UCI Center for Educational Partnerships in the fall of 2018. The goal of GEAR UP grants is…Continue Reading U.S. Department of Education awards CFEP a $5.2M GEAR UP grant
UCI Science Project Director Kelley Le, UCI CalTeach Director Doron Zinger both quoted on how to best teach about the pandemic in K-12 science classes
The next pandemic could happen next year. Or in 2033. Or 2052. It might come from one of hundreds of known coronaviruses now circulating in bats. It could be a nasty paramyxovirus, from goats. Or it might be a newly-mutated strain of flu that ravages the lungs of millions. There’s no dearth of evolving microbes, capable of producing a new…Continue Reading UCI Science Project Director Kelley Le, UCI CalTeach Director Doron Zinger both quoted on how to best teach about the pandemic in K-12 science classes