Welcome to Project Fulcrum

About PF

Project Fulcrum is a teacher-scientist collaboration that teams science and engineering graduate students from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln with elementary, middle and secondary school teachers to improve K-12 math and science education.

GK12 Website

The NSF GK-12 Website is: http://www.nsfgk12.org

GK12 Info

A Rand report on the GK-12 program

GK-12 International Activities

March Feature: ANDRILL

Anica Brown, a PF teacher alum, has a wonderful blog on her class's activities with ANDRILL, a polar project headquartered at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Anica has done some great things with her class after graduating from PF and we are all proud of her accomplishments!

Conferences

We've been busy going to conferences! Michelle Strand presented a poster at the National meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers meeting in Baltimore, MD in January. Natalie Umphlett and Tierney Brosius attended the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston and gave a nice presentation in a panel discussion on the future of GK-12 participants, and then followed it up with a poster presentation in the following session. Finally, Jared Goertzen, Michelle Strand, Steve Wignall and Pam Rasmussen represented Project Fulcrum at the annual GK-12 conference in Washington DC at the end of February/beginning of March and got a great response for their YouTube activity presentation and poster.

More News

Scholarships and grant opportunities

Teachers: If you're interested in having Project Fulcrum scientists visit your classroom, please e-mail us at fulcrum2(at)unl.edu.

News

Congrats 2007 graduates

  • David Schmitter (Ph.D. Physics)
  • Kendra Schmid (Ph.D. Statistics)
  • Christine DeVries (Ph.D. Chemistry)

2006 graduates

  • Dorina Mihut (Ph.D. Materials Science)
  • Mike Bessert (Ph.D. Biological Sciences)
  • Tim Perrin (M.S. Computer Science)
  • Laura DuClos (Ph.D. Biology)
  • Melissa Halvorson (M. Eng. Biological Systems Engineering)
  • Andrea Bair (Ph.D. Geoscience)
  • Justin James (Ph.D. Mathematics)
PF Logo About Us | Contact Us | ©2007 University of Nebraska - Lincoln.

Funded in part by the National Science Foundation DGE-0338202. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website are those of the project management and participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.