The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) received funding in the fall of 2008 for numerous collaborative projects.

* A $224,132 award from the NSF’s Division of Education for a CCLI Phase 2 two-year project, “Collaborative Research: Improving the Geoscience Major,” will enhance the design and implementation of geoscience curricula and programs through a series of topical workshops, on-line resources, and outreach efforts.

* An NSF DUE subaward from North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University for the three-year project “Developing an Economics Pedagogic Portal” provides $177,992 to SERC.

* Two subawards from University of South Florida: a supplement to their NSF DUE “Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum” project which provides $36,428 to SERC for a National Numeracy Network (NNN) workshop promoting quantitative literacy instructional spreadsheet modules; and an NSF CCLI Phase 1 “Geology of National Parks: Spreadsheets, Quantitative Literacy, and Natural Resources” project that awards SERC $16,579.

* A University of Vermont NSF DUE subaward for “The Textbook Reconsidered – Creating the Shortbook of Geomorphology” project, provides $41,379 to SERC.

*An NSF DUE National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) subaward from the University of Michigan’s “Quantitative Social Science Digital Library Pathway (QSSDL)” project, which will provide a portal to materials that integrate quantitative analysis in the teaching of the social sciences, with SERC’s portion being $231,722 over three years.

* A small NSF SBE subaward from Temple University provides $4,998 to SERC for hosting of a web site for a Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC) workshop in Germany.

Recent grants.