Launching the Urban STEM Collaboratory

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the Southeast Transportation Workforce Center and the West TN STEM Hub. Her technical research includes focus on journey to school in urban areas, transportation planning (particularly related to freight impacts), livability assessment in urban communities, and strategies to engage citizens in the transportation planning process. She has a strong record of STEM workforce and education research, with special emphasis on transportation workforce development, partnerships between industry and academia, and increasing representation of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM.

STEM Identities: A Communication Theory of Identity Approach

“…These students participated in a variety of activities, including summer bridge programs and an academic social networking site across all three campuses, as well as mentoring, peer-led team teaching, community outreach, and other activities that varied by campus and individual student interest. Urban STEM scholars earned "badges" for participating in activities and must earn a minimum number of badges (i.e., micro-credentials awarded by the program) and maintain a minimum GPA to maintain their scholarship (see Goodman et al, 2020, for more details on the Urban STEM Collaboratory).…”

An Initial Exploration of Engineering Student Perceptions of COVID’s Impact on Connectedness, Learning, and STEM Identity

“…Participants in the program, Urban STEM Scholars, participate in a variety of activities, including summer bridge programs and an academic social networking site across all three campuses, called Course Networking (the CN), as well as mentoring, peer-led team teaching, community outreach, and other activities that vary by campus and individual student interest. Urban STEM scholars earn "badges" through the CN for participating in activities and must earn a minimum number of badges to maintain their scholarship (see [2] for more details on the Urban STEM Collaboratory).…”

Three Years of the Urban STEM Collaboratory

“…At IUPUI, the unique feature of their program is Peer-led Team Learning (PLTL), an internationally used method for guiding students who have recently, successfully completed a course to assist students. PLTL has been applied to various STEM disciplines; IUPUI has implemented it in its math courses as part of its cohort model, and then expanded PLTL into several sophomore-level engineering courses [1]- [3].…”