Consider Becoming a NSF Noyce Principal Investigator

• Are you looking for funding to support teacher candidates or research?
• Are you a teacher educator who prepares STEM teachers to support students in high-need schools and communities?
•  Are you a researcher whose focus is on teacher education?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, read on to learn more about the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. The NSF Noyce program provides:

• Funding to institutions of higher education to provide scholarships, stipends,
• Programmatic support to recruit and prepare STEM majors and professionals to become K-12 teachers
• Seeks to increase the number of K-12 teachers with strong STEM content knowledge who teach in high-need school districts.

These four funding tracks make up the program plus Capacity Building.

Meet Some Noyce Principal Investigators

Track 1: Scholarships/Stipends for Undergraduate Majors and/or STEM Professionals Kermin Martinez-Hernandez, Ph.D. Associate Professor St. John Fisher College kmartinez-hernandez@sjfc.edu Inspire and Prepare Noyce Scholars to Teach in Rural Environments  Read more… Wren Walker-Robbins, Ph.D. Director, Instructor, Secondary Science Education Program Salish Kootenai College Wren_walkerrobbins@skc.edu Noyce Scholarships to Prepare Teachers for Culturally Congruent Science and Mathematics Education of Native American Students  Read more… Track 2:  NSF Teaching Fellowships for STEM Professionals Wanda Lastrapes, Ph.D. Professor of Secondary Education University of North Florida w.lastrapes@unf.edu Jacksonville Teacher Residency Noyce Program to Prepare Math and Science Secondary Educators for High-Need Urban Schools  Read more… Track 3: NSF Master Teaching Fellowships Amanda Gunning, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Secondary Science Education Mercy College agunning@mercy.edu Preparing STEM Master Teacher Fellows in the Greater New York City Area   Read more… Track 4: Noyce Research Wendy Smith, Ph.D. Associate Director, Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education; Research Professor University of Nebraska wsmith5@unl.edu Collaborative Research: Teacher Leadership: Investigating the Persistence and Trajectories of Noyce Master Teaching Fellows  Read more… Capacity Building – May Lead to Development of Full Proposal Ksenija Simic-Muller, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Mathematics & Department Chair Pacific Lutheran University simicmka@plu.edu Building Capacity to Prepare STEM Majors to Become STEM Educators  Read more… Dr. Simic-Muller received a Noyce Track 1 award in 2020. If you have questions, contact noyce@aaas.org.