Our University is home to several distinctive centers that are transforming science and technology education nationally and providing learning opportunities for our students. Those Centers include the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE), and the Center for Advanced Entertainment and Learning Technologies (CAELT).
The NCSCE, which develops, implements, and evaluates activities and projects that encourage and strengthen the efforts of colleges and universities to reform undergraduate education, especially in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Its signature programs are SENCER and GLISTEN.
Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER), a project funded by the National Science Foundation, promotes greater engagement of undergraduates with the sciences in institutions of higher education in the US and selected other countries.
Thanks to a multi-year grant from the Learn and Serve America Higher Education program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Great Lakes Innovative Stewardship through Education Network (GLISTEN) project will harness the expertise and innovation of college faculty and undergraduate students in eight states and two Canadian provinces. Through the project, GLISTEN seeks to improve undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning and instruction focused on the Great Lakes, encourage interest in “green jobs” by engaging students in community-based research and action targeted at restoring and sustaining a healthy Great Lakes ecosystem.
Thanks to a collaborative partnership with Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, students and faculty from both CMU and HU work side-by-side on Synthetic Interviews Software Technology projects in CAELT.