Dear COEHD Faculty, Please review the funding announcement below. This NSF solicitation looks like it would be a good match with the research interests of many in our college. The due date is January 10, 2014. Please contact me if you are interested in this. Thanks, Juliet Link to full text: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13604/nsf13604.htm Synopsis: The Research on Education and Learning (REAL) program represents the substantive foci of three previous EHR programs: Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE), Research in Disabilities Education (RDE), and Research on Gender in Science and Engineering (GSE). What is distinctive about the new REAL program is the emphasis placed on the accumulation of robust evidence to inform efforts to (a) understand, (b) build theory to explain, and (c) suggest interventions (and innovations) to address persistent challenges in STEM interest, education, learning, and participation. The program supports advances in research on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning and education by fostering efforts to explore all aspects of education research from foundational knowledge to improvements in STEM learning and learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from the earliest developmental stages of life through participation in the workforce, resulting in increased public understanding of science and engineering. The REAL program will fund research on, human learning in STEM; learning in STEM learning environments, and broadening participation research. Dr. Juliet M. Ray Director, Research Service Center The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Education and Human Development One UTSA Circle MB 2.442 San Antonio, TX 78249 p. 210-458-6695 or 210-458-8205 [cid:image003.png@01CE3AB6.6E60A750]