STEM Ed

Jul 24, 2024

A Few Things We Did in Summer 2024

Students, faculty and staff in the NC State College of Education spent summer 2024 gearing up for a new academic year, leading and engaging in professional development, encouraging new students to join the teaching profession and traveling to other educational institutions around the world. 

Jul 22, 2024

College of Education Awarded $3.1 Million in Grant Funding From April through June 2024

Faculty and researchers at the NC State College of Education, including the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research and the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, were awarded $3,126,324 to support 12 projects from April 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024. 

Jul 18, 2024

College of Education’s Faculty and Staff Honors and Awards in 2023-2024

During the 2023-24 academic year, faculty and staff in the NC State College of Education were recognized by the college, university and national organizations for their teaching, scholarship, outreach and contributions. 

Jul 12, 2024

‘It Made Me Grow in Ways I Didn’t Think I Would Be Able To:’ Teachers Become Leaders in Mathematics Education Through Five-year North Carolina High School Master Mathematics Teacher Fellows Program

As the five-year North Carolina High School Master Mathematics Teacher Fellows program comes to an end, several participating teachers are reflecting on the way the opportunity changed their approach to teaching. 

Jul 3, 2024

U.S. News’ 2024-2025 Best Global Universities: NC State #60 in the World, #1 in NC in Education and Educational Research Category 

NC State University has been ranked No. 60 in the world in the education and educational research category in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-2025 Best Global Universities Subject Rankings, making it the top globally ranked university for this field of study in North Carolina. Among universities just in the U.S., NC State ranked #21. 

Jun 14, 2024

Doctoral Students Roslyn Bethea and Mariam Elias ’17, ’20MED, ’24PHD Receive Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grants from NC State Graduate School 

Two students in the NC State College of Education have been selected to receive a Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant from the NC State Graduate School. 

May 30, 2024

#WhyIChoseEducation: ‘Education Is a Career Trajectory That Allows You to Learn a Whole Lot in Order to Understand It Yourself, But Also to Share It With Other People,’ Says Jennifer Buelin ’12PHD

Jennifer Buelin '12PHD, senior program manager for Workforce Development and Career and Technical Education with the ASHLIN Management Group, has spent her career seeking out new learning opportunities that allow her to give back to others. 

May 21, 2024

Why Is It Important for Students to Understand How Scientific Decisions are Made? ‘If You Don’t Understand How Scientists Decide What Makes One Claim More Believable, Then It’s Actually Very Hard to Understand Science,’ Says STEM Education Department Head William Sandoval

For William Sandoval, head of the Department of STEM Education in the NC State College of Education, when preparing K-12 students to engage with real-world science, developing the skills to become career scientists is not nearly as important as helping them to engage with the science that will occur all around them in their everyday lives. 

May 14, 2024

Assistant Professor of STEM Education Tamecia Jones Aims to Create Equitable Assessments, Improve Assessment of Engineering Skills through NSF CAREER Grant

Assistant Professor of STEM Education Tamecia Jones is hoping to remove biases from assessments and create a framework to better capture the multidimensional nature of engineering through her work on a five-year, $650,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant project. 

May 13, 2024

WalletHub: Best and Worst Places to Start a Career

NC State College of Education Professor Aaron Clark discusses what corporations can do to attract and retain employees, tips for turning entry-level jobs into successful careers and choosing which city to start a career.