UMass Dartmouth professor awarded $778K National Science Foundation grant

SHAKHNOZA Kayumova, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and a researcher at its Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in STEM Education, has been awarded a $778,770 National Science Foundation grant to address the need for English language learners to study science.
SHAKHNOZA Kayumova, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and a researcher at its Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in STEM Education, has been awarded a $778,770 National Science Foundation grant to address the need for English language learners to study science.

DARTMOUTH – Shakhnoza Kayumova, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and a researcher at its Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in STEM Education, has been awarded a $778,770 National Science Foundation grant to address the need for English language learners to study science.
STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math.

Funded through the NSF Career award for Faculty Early Career Development, Kayumova’s project is called “Analyzing the Nexus between Advantaged Social Positioning and Science Identity Development Among English Language Learners.” The study will help create data to support English language learner students as they pursue science-related education.

The hope, according to the university, is that the findings will produce successful long-term results that enable educators, policymakers and researchers to create effective instructional programming, which will be suitable to a diverse student population representing different races, ethnicities, cultures and languages.
NSF Career program grants, like the one received by Kayumova, support early-career faculty who have the ability to serve as academic role models.

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