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With new funding from the National Science Foundation (2010153), RIEL Biology seeks to use design-based research to support teachers and emergent bilingual students in high school biology classrooms with an innovative new model.
Richard Bex a Ph.D. candidate was awarded second prize in the 2018 Outstanding Research Poster Competition at the European Conference on Social Media in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Lorelie Imperial a Ph.D. candidate was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Poster Award at the 94th Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition (FAME), American Chemical Society-Florida Section.
Rose Pringle received the faculty award for the outstanding position paper at the 2019 Southeast Regional Association for Science Teacher Education conference, entitled: The promise and the Peril: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in the Middle grades.
With funding from the National Science Foundation, Project CRAFT: Culturally Responsive Affective-Focused Teaching of Science and Mathematics (2101277) aims to equip secondary science and math teachers with culturally responsive, affective-focused practices and leadership skills to support STEM learning, affect, identities, and career interest for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).
With three major awards in less than three months, UF COE associate professor Rose Pringle is solidifying her reputation as one of the top science teacher educators around.
We are proud of Gayle Nelson Evans for her UF 2016-2017 Teacher of the Year Award!
Kent Crippen, associate professor of STEM education in the College of Education, has been named an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow along with five other University of Florida professors.
