CRESMET Funding Tops $31 Million
Most CRESMET funding comes through grants from the National Science Foundation. Of 22 active CRESMET research accounts, $22,449,983 represents grants and cooperative agreements won by CRESMET directors and associated faculty.
Another $8,894,950 represents CRESMET-supported grants run through an ASU academic department.
The $12.5 million Project Pathways, led by CRESMET Director Marilyn Carlson and colleagues Michael Oehrtman, assistant professor of mathematics education; Anton Lawson, professor, School of Life Sciences; Robert Culbertson, associate professor of physics; Stephen Krause, professor of chemical and materials engineering; and Veronica Burrows, associate professor of chemical engineering, is studying a new professional development and continued education model for inservice secondary math and science teachers.
The $4.5 million Teacher Professional Continuum grant, led by CRESMET Research Director Patrick Thompson, is investigating the nature of the knowledge and support that mathematics teachers need to become highly effective.
The $1.4 million Research on Learning and Education (ROLE) grant, led by Mary Lou Fulton College of Education’s Division Director of Curriculum and Instruction James Middleton, is investigating students’ learning of the concept of rational number, a pivotal foundation concept for both elementary and more advanced mathematics.
Other grants CRESMET is supporting include a Teacher Professional Continuum project funded by NSF and led by Julie Luft, professor of science education in COE, and private sector contributions of nearly $90,000 from the Boeing Co. CRESMET is also hosting NSF grant projects led by Gail Hackett, vice provost and dean of University College, and Bianca Bernstein, professor of counseling psychology.
Founded at Arizona State University in 1999, CRESMET is an interdisciplinary center where scholars in the sciences, mathematics, engineering and education work together to discover new knowledge and create new teaching tools for use in classrooms from K-12 through graduate programs.