UW Receives $1.2 Million Award For Math and Science

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Over the next five years, the University of Wyoming will work to bolster and diversify Wyoming’s pool of secondary school mathematics and science teachers with “swarms” of collaborative training.

UW received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Robert Noyce Award worth nearly $1.2 million to certify 70 new mathematics and science teachers in Wyoming during the next five years. The award is titled Sustaining Wyoming’s Advancing Reach in Mathematics and Science (SWARMS).

The collaborative project is a partnership among four distinct groups -- UW, Northwest College, military partners and high-need partner school districts -- that will work together during the 2014-19 effort. At UW, collaborators are the College of Education, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Science and Mathematics Teaching Center (SMTC). Military partners include the UW Office of Veteran Services, F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming National Guard and Wyoming Air National Guard. High-need partner school districts include those in Big Horn, Fremont, Goshen, Hot Springs, Laramie, Natrona, Uinta and Washakie counties.

“The official start date is Jan. 15, 2014,” says Andrea Burrows, a UW assistant professor of secondary education and the principal investigator for the grant award. “SWARMS will allow us to find students who have, or are working toward STEM degrees, who wish to gain a teaching certification.”