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Fostering Interdisciplinary Research on Education (FIRE)

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This document has been archived. See NSF 21-588 for the latest version.

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Synopsis

FIRE is a strand of the Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program (NSF 10-586) and it is anticipated that FIRE will eventually be incorporated into the REESE solicitation. The FIRE program seeks to facilitate the process by which scholars can cross disciplinary boundaries to acquire the skills and knowledge that would improve their abilities to conduct rigorous research on STEM learning and education. The primary goal of the strand is to facilitate the development of innovative theoretical, methodological, and analytic approaches to understanding complex STEM education issues of national importance and, by so doing, make progress toward solving them. A secondary goal of the strand is to broaden and deepen the pool of investigators engaged in STEM educational research. In order to address this goal, investigators must pair with a mentoring scholar in a to-be-learned field of interest. Proposals therefore have both a research and a professional development component. Investigators may receive a FIRE award at any point in their post-graduate careers.

Program contacts

Name Email Phone Organization
Jinfa Cai
 jcai@nsf.gov (703) 292-8620
James Dietz
 jdietz@nsf.gov (703) 292-5156
Janice M. Earle
 jearle@nsf.gov (703) 292-5097
Gavin W. Fulmer
 gfulmer@nsf.gov (703) 292-7998
Elmima C. Johnson
 ejohnson@nsf.gov (703) 292-5137
Janet Kolodner
 jkolodne@nsf.gov (703) 292-8930
Celestine H. Pea
 cpea@nsf.gov (703) 292-5186 EDU/DRL
Kusum Singh
 Kusingh@nsf.gov (703) 292-5110
Gregg Solomon
 gesolomo@nsf.gov (703) 292-8333 EDU/DRL
Larry E. Suter
 lsuter@nsf.gov (703) 292-5144

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