Sec. 508. Early undergraduate research opportunities
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Congress finds that— fewer than 40 percent of students who enter college intending to pursue a STEM degree complete a STEM degree; evaluations of the Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program, which engages undergraduate students in research activities, suggest that research experiences increase participant awareness, confidence, and interest in research fields; and providing research experiences, particularly during the first 2 years of undergraduate education, improves both persistence and performance in STEM fields.
The Director shall support innovation in early undergraduate education, with a focus on students in the first 2 years of undergraduate STEM education. Potential awards may include grants to institutions— to facilitate the expanded participation of first or second year undergraduate students at research sites designated by the Director to provide research experiences for undergraduate students under section 514 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (42 U.S.C. 1862p–6) if the requirements under paragraphs
(1)through
(6)of subsection
(a)of that section are met; and to implement innovative research and engineering design courses, including those focusing on mentorship or discovery-based learning, for first or second year undergraduate students.
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