| Active Physics Curriculum |
Active Physics was developed by Dr. Arthur Eisenkraft and leading physicists, physics teachers and science educators under the auspices of the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics. Keeping the National Science Education Standards in mind, Active Physics includes thematic science units the students can relate to: Communication; Home; Medicine; Predictions; Sports; Transportation and Light Up My Life. |
| Boston Science Partnership |
The Boston Science Partnership (BSP) purpose is to improve science education in Boston from middle school through graduate school. Its vision of science education in Boston is to provide:
1) challenging science courses taught by highly qualified science teachers throughout the Boston Public Schools
2) advanced science courses that are accessible to all Boston Public School students
3) university faculty who work side-by-side with Boston Public School science teachers in science education reform
4) support structures to promote student achievement in science, from grade six through graduate school
5) strategies that have a broad impact on urban school systems nationwide.
The BSP brings together three core partners. The partners are Boston Public Schools, Northeastern University, and the University of Massachusetts Boston as the lead organization along with two supporting partners, Harvard Medical School and the College Board. The BSP project began in September 2004 and is funded by a five-year, $12.5 million Math Science Partnership grant from the National Science Foundation.
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| Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program |
The Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program is funded by the National Institutes of Health and managed by the Leadership, Excellence, & Acceleration Projects (LEAPs) at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in Partnership with Bunker Hill Community College and Roxbury Community College. The objective of the Bridges Program is to advance the careers of community college students interested in pursuing a biomedical research career. Participants in the Bridges program receive practical training in modern laboratory techniques and then are placed in supportive UMB and associated research laboratory working environments where they establish peer/mentor relationships. Bridges participants are paired with junior and senior-year undergraduate students, minority graduate students or supportive staff research associates. |
| Community Science Workshops |
Funded by the National Science Foundation, Community Science Workshops (CSWs) promote and support inquiry-based science for children, parents, and teachers in low-income, high-minority communities nationally. These workshops build on the model that has been developed and validated in California over the past ten years that has demonstrated that CSWs are capable of: serving a large number of children; providing long-term support for youth, many of whom are at-risk and who reap real benefits from their association with CSWs; creating multi-faceted science-focused programming that serves youth, parents, and teachers in creative and appropriate ways; and generating sufficient support to become self-sustaining. |
| COSMIC |
The Center of Science and Mathematics in Contex (COSMIC) serves as a bridge among the various Colleges of the University of Massachusetts Boston campus.
COSMIC sees, as one of its roles, insuring that students receive the best educational experience possible and provides support for science teachers beginning with their teacher training at UMass and continuing with professional development through their teaching career path. For pre-college students, COSMIC develops innovative science curriculum materials and conducts research studies on their effectiveness.
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| NBA Public Service Grant |
The Noonan Business Academy (NBA) Public Service Grant is an initiative to raise the level of mathematics education at Noonan Business Academy (NBA), one of the three schools in the Dorchester Education Complex. The $4,800 grant is part of a multi-faceted effort to raise the sophistication of the mathematics taught at NBA, provide additional teaching and tutorial support, and elevate college expectations for NBA students. This program is under the aegis of UMassBoston. |
| Professional Development of Universal Course Design |
The Professional Development of Universal Course Design is federally funded through the Equity and Excellence (E&E) in Higher Education Grant to the University of Massachusetts, Boston (E&E) Committee. The $8,000 grant funds the development of a video, website and workshops aimed at providing support to mathematics and mathematics education faculty on UMass campuses and others as they open their courses to all students, particularly including those with visual impairments. |
| UMB Noyce Scholars Program |
Building on two long-standing urban teacher preparation programs, Teach Next Year and the Urban Teacher Educator Corp., the University of Massachusetts Boston's Noyce Scholars Program is recruiting and preparing talented science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) undergraduates and professionals, particularly those from underrepresented groups, for urban teaching careers. The Noyce Scholars Program is a partnership made up of faculty from the College of Science and Mathematics, the Graduate College of Education and the Boston Public Schools. The partnership aims to increase the number of K-12 certified mathematics and science teachers by providing scholarships, teacher preparation courses, workshops, internships in urban schools and one-on-one professional coaching. |
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LOUIS STOKES ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY PARTICIPATION (UMLSAMP) |
The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Urban Massachusetts Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (UMLSAMP) is a program led by UMass Boston and is comprised of seven other institutions: UMass Dartmouth, UMass Lowell, Wentworth Institute of Technology; and Bristol, Bunker Hill, Roxbury, and Middlesex community colleges. Supportive of the graduation of all undergraduate and graduate students in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the UMLSAMP is designed to create an integrated 'Community of Science' culture and learning group for 800 to 1,000 underrepresented students at the Alliance institutions majoring in STEM fields. UMLSAMP collaborates with other supportive STEM departments and projects at each institution to provide quality academic and research based experiences. UMLSAMP also provides an opportunity for a 5-10 year integrated strategic plan among urban institutions for higher learning for the growth of STEM graduates from diverse backgrounds who will participate in the high technology institutions and enterprises of the eastern half of Massachusetts. |
| Watershed Integrated Sciences Partnership |
The University of Massachusetts Boston is partnering with three school districts to support and enrich existing science curricula and help implement more advanced science instructional systems through its participation in the Watershed Integrated Sciences Partnership. The Neponset watershed provides an integrating theme to demonstrate to students that communities of diverse socio-economic backgrounds have many commonalities and natural connections. |
Active Chemistry Curriculum Grant
| The NSF has funded a grant to develop a full-year of Active Chemistry. This comprehensive 12-chapter program will use the same project-based and inquiry-driven approaches that have made Active Physics a success.
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Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD)
| IMSD is aimed at increasing the number of underrepresented minority undergraduate students who are exceptionally well prepared and highly motivated to succeed in biomedical research at the PhD level and beyond.
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Math Science Upward Bound
| The Upward Bound program hosted at Noble and Greenough School for six weeks every summer enrolls 50 high school students specifically interested in math and science. The program is undertaken in conjunction with UMass-Boston and draws largely from the John D. O'Bryant High School in Boston and Lawrence High School in Lawrence. The program targets students who wish to pursue advanced study and careers in math-related and science-related fields.
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Summer Transportation Institute (STI)
| The purpose of STI is to create awareness and stimulate interest in upper middle and high school students to take full advantage of the opportunities that exist in the transportation industry.
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