Michigan State University and Humanities Commons have received a $1,249,282 grant from the National Science Foundation in order to design, build, and develop the STEMEd+ Commons project. The project is among the inaugural projects selected in the FAIROS RCN grant program, which seeks to invest in Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) by supporting the formation and development of Research Coordination Networks (RCN) dedicated to those principles. Humanities Commons was one of 10 projects to receive an award in this first cohort, with each project seeking to advance open-science efforts by focusing on building and enhancing coordination among researchers and other stakeholders.
STEMEd+ will be a digital commons for STEM discipline-based education research. Its development began in January 2023 and involves extensive consultation and activation of communities of STEM education researchers across many fields.
The STEMEd+ Commons Team
Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, PI. Dr. Fitzpatrick is Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at MSU, where she also directs MESH Research, an agile, open-source lab focused on the future of digital scholarly communication. She is also Founding Director of HCommons. Prior to joining the faculty at MSU, she was Associate Executive Director and Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association.
Dr. Julie Libarkin, co-PI. Dr. Libarkin is Associate Dean for STEM Education Research & Innovation in the Office of the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Earth & Environmental Science. She has served as Chair of the Geoscience Education Division of Geological Society of America and Editor of Journal of Geoscience Education.
Dr. Marcos (Danny) Caballero, co-PI. Dr. Caballero is Lappan-Philips Associate Professor in Physics and Computational Science. He co-leads three complimentary DBER+ research groups in physics education, computational education, and quantitative STEM education research.
Dr. Shiv Smith Karunakaran, co-PI. Dr. Karunakaran is Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department and Program in Mathematics Education (PRIME). He has previously served as Organizational Director for the Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America on RUME, the primary research community for undergraduate mathematics education research.
Dr. Tammy Long, co-PI. Dr. Long is Associate Professor in Plant Biology. She is co-Director and co-PI of the interdisciplinary graduate training program NSF NRT- IMPACTS (Integrated Training Model in Plant and Computational Science) and serves on the editorial board of CBE-Life Sciences Education.
Dr. Aaron McKim, Senior Personnel. Dr. McKim is Assistant Professor in Agricultural Education. He currently serves as a co-chair of the S1071 multistate research project bringing together agricultural STEM Education researchers.
Linnea Beckett, postdoc
Collaboration Board
Dr. Emiko Blalock, Assistant Professor in Office of Medical Education Research and Development, OMERAD.
Dr. Chang Chi, Assistant Professor in OMERAD and Epidemiology & Biostatistics.
Dr. Elizabeth Lyons, Admissions Counselor.
Dr. Buddy McKendree, Assistant Professor in Community Sustainability.
Dr. Ryan Sweeder, Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Lyman-Briggs College.
Dr. Tasia Kendrick, Assistant Professor in Animal Science.
Dr. Jackie Jacobs, Assistant Professor in Animal Science.
Dr. Cholani Weebadde, Assistant Professor in Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences.