The National Science Foundation (NSF) plays a leadership role in developing and implementing efforts to enhance and improve STEM education in the United States. The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU) is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning. In pursuit of this goal, IUSE: EDU supports projects that (1) seek to bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education; (2) adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices into STEM teaching and learning; and (3) lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education.
IUSE: EDU also seeks to support projects that have high potential for broader societal impacts, including improved diversity of students and instructors participating in STEM education, professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques that meet the changing needs of students, and projects that promote institutional partnerships for collaborative research and development. The IUSE: EDU program features two tracks: (1) Engaged Student Learning and (2) Institutional and Community Transformation.
For more information about the ISUE: EDU solicitation, please visit this NSF IUSE: EDU webpage.
Deadline: 07/15/2026 | Amount: Varies