Improving Undergraduate STEM Education - Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (IUSE-AID)
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education - Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (IUSE-AID) supports faculty in adapting and spreading proven teaching approaches to improve undergraduate STEM learning.
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation
Due Dates: January 20, 2027 (ICT Capacity-Building and Level 1; ESL Level 1) | July 21, 2027 (ICT Level 2; ESL Levels 2–3) | Anytime after program officer consultation (Conferences)
Funding Amounts: Up to $2 million per award; maximum durations of two to five years, depending on track and level
Summary: Supports adaptation, implementation, and dissemination of proven undergraduate STEM teaching strategies and learning materials through NSF’s IUSE: EDU program.
Key Information: Individuals may serve as PI or co-PI on no more than three IUSE: EDU proposals per October 1–September 30 period.
Description
This Dear Colleague Letter invites proposals to NSF’s Directorate for STEM Education through the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE: EDU) program. It supports faculty expertise, implementation of educational innovations, and wider adoption of proven teaching strategies and learning materials. Adaptation and implementation projects should test evidence-based approaches in institutional, disciplinary, or student demographic settings that differ significantly from those where they were developed, building knowledge about transferability and student learning.
Dissemination projects expand adoption through faculty training and mentoring, open-access teaching resources, conferences, workshops, professional development, and communities of practice. Projects may propagate one instructional strategy or coordinate several. National-scale efforts involving disciplinary or education-focused scientific societies are particularly encouraged. Proposals may use either the Engaged Student Learning (ESL) or Institutional and Community Transformation (ICT) track.
