From ceginfo@u.washington.edu Fri Jan 4 07:45:37 2002 Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.11]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with ESMTP id g04Fjan67822 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 07:45:36 -0800 Received: from homer39.u.washington.edu (homer39.u.washington.edu [140.142.16.5]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with ESMTP id g04Fja614800 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 07:45:36 -0800 Received: from localhost (ceginfo@localhost) by homer39.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with ESMTP id g04FjZv113642 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 07:45:35 -0800 Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 07:45:35 -0800 (PST) From: Civil and Environmental Engineering To: Subject: Fwd: Re: NSF PRIME Fellowship Opportunity (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: COE Grad Students From: Denice Denton, Dean Happy New Year! I am following up on the message I sent you earlier about the PRIME Fellowship. There will be an information session on this opportunity next week: Thursday, January 10 2:00-3:30 PM Loew Hall Room 355 If you can't come right at 2PM, it's fine to drop in. Current PRIME Fellows and faculty will be available to answer your questions about the opportunity and the application process. Please come if you are interested in this opportunity! Cheers! I am writing to inform you about an exciting opportunity, the NSF PRIME Fellowship. The Fellowship support will begin in Sept. 2002 and will continue thru the academic year. The NSF Fellowship award is $18,000 AND a tuition allowance. The PRIME program provides Fellowship support for graduate students in science, math and engineering on the UW campus. These graduate students work in partnerships with middle school teachers in the Seattle area. More details can be found at: http://www.engr.washington.edu/prime Graduate students do NOT need to plan to enter the teaching profession to participate in this exciting opportunity. Applications are due January 22nd, 2002. Additional details are provided below. Please let me know if you have questions or require additional information. Thanks!! ***************************************************************= ************* About PRIME Partnerships for Research in Inquiry-based math, science, and engineering (MSE) Education: PRIME. The PRIME program provides Fellowship support for graduate students in science, math and engineering on the UW campus. These graduate students work in partnerships with middle school teachers in the Seattle area. The PRIME Fellows spend fifteen hours per week throughout the academic year working in their partnership. Ten of the fifteen hours must be in the middle school setting. The focus of the NSF-funded proposal is =93active learning=94 in MSE education in middle school settings with diverse student and teacher populations. Students in the midst of their graduate careers are encouraged to apply. The NSF graduate fellowship will include an $18,000 stipend and a cost of education allowance for ten months starting September, 2002. (The cost of education allowance includes tuition and fees for three quarters, and health insurance-excluding dependents.) PRIME is a partnership between five Seattle-area school districts; three National Science Foundation (NSF) Local Systemic Initiatives; 15 University of Washington (UW) academic departments including math, physics, chemistry, psychology, and zoololgy; 10 departments in the College of Engineering, College of Education faculty; and four UW diversity programs. Each year for three consecutive years beginning in the year 2000, 10-12 UW graduate students will be selected as PRIME Fellows to work in a partnership with middle school teachers in the MSE disciplines. A summer learning sciences institute will prepare PRIME Fellows to engage meaningfully in partnerships with middle school teachers and students in MSE. This institute will focus on middle school learning and teaching, assessment practices, classroom instruction, and diversity. The institute will prepare PRIME Fellows in partnership with K-12 teachers to enhance the quality of MSE education in middle schools in the Puget Sound area. The summer institute will be held in September 2002. PRIME's major goals are to enhance learning among middle school students, teachers, and Fellows in MSE; enhance the diversity of the MSE workforce; and develop a cadre of scientists and engineers who will enter the workforce ready, willing, and able to improve continuously the quality of K-12 education in the next century. Of 22,585 middle school students potentially affected by PRIME, nearly one-fifth (19%) are African American, Native American, or Hispanic. ***************************************************************= **************** Denice Denton Phone: 206-543-0340 Professor and Dean Fax: 206-685-0666 College of Engineering 369 Loew e-mail: denton@engr.washington.edu Box 352180 Univ. of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 ***************************************************************= **************** *********************************************************************= ********** Denice Denton Phone: 206-543-0340 Professor and Dean Fax: 206-685-0666 College of Engineering 369 Loew e-mail: denton@engr.washington.edu Box 352180 Univ. of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 *********************************************************************= ********** ***************************************************************************= **** Denice Denton Phone: 206-543-0340 Professor and Dean Fax: 206-685-0666 College of Engineering 369 Loew e-mail: denton@engr.washington.edu Box 352180 Univ. of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 ***************************************************************************= **** .