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

Tierney Brosius on Omaha Channel 7

Resident Scientist Speaks Out for Tiger Beetle

Our own Tierney Brosius was featured on this segment of the Channel 7 news regarding her research area: The endangered Salt Creek Tiger Beetle.

Teachers - Grant Opportunity

Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Science Teachers
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., and NSTA are pleased to announce the 19th annual Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Science Teachers program. This year Toyota will award $550,000 in grants to K-12 teachers of science. A total of 50 large grants of up to $10,000 each, along with 20-30 mini-grants of up to $2,500 each, will be awarded. Categories include environmental science, integrating literacy and science, and physical science. Toyota has awarded 986 grants totaling over $8 million in this premiere nationwide grant program.
For further information and to begin the application process online, please visit the Toyota TAPESTRY website. The online applications are now available! Remember that all 50 large grant winners receive an all-expenses paid trip to the NSTA National Conference on Science Education in New Orleans! The deadline for submission of online entries is Jan. 21, 2009.

 

More News

Scholarships and grant opportunities

News

Congrats 2008 graduates

  • Christina Eubanks-Turner (Ph.D. Mathematics)
  • Martha Gregg (Ph.D. Mathematics)

Congrats 2007 graduates

  • Diana White (Ph.D. Mathematics)
  • 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)
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