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The American Indian Higher Education Consortium’s NSF grand-funded project will facilitate the use of cyberinfrastructure resources in support of STEM research and education activities.
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TCUs and NSF Seek to Increase Representation in Engineering
Two NSF-funded programs, the Pre-engineering Education Collaboratives and Partnerships for Geoscience Education, are working to increase the number of Native students pursuing degrees in engineering and geosciences, respectively.
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NTU Wins $1 million NSF Engines Development Award
Navajo Technical University’s Indigenous Innovation Network – Advancing Distributed Manufacturing Innovations in Tribal Communities program received the NSF Engines Development award, which aims to create economic, societal, and technological opportunities for their regions.
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NTU Receives Funds for Environmental Lab
The EPA-certified lab will help train students and encourage research needed to meet the environmental challenges of residents in and around the Navajo Nation.
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APU Partners with Indigenous Arctic Communities for Climate Resilience
The collaborative effort, backed by $2.98 million grant from the NSF, will address water and sanitation challenges in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
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Iḷisaġvik College Students Study Microbes in the Tundra
The tribal college students are looking for pathogenic bacteria that may have consequences for human health as they are released by melting permafrost.
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AIHEC Awarded Grant to Address Cybersecurity at Tribal Colleges
AIHEC will develop a networked TCU cyberinfrastructure community of practice that will guide TCUs in making informed decisions when selecting providers and partners to support and strengthen their cybersecurity and to reduce their risk profile.
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Leadership in Food, Energy and Water Systems
The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) is focusing efforts on supporting tribal climate resilience through a number of projects that involve engagement of this broad set of resilience stakeholders.
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NSF Program Supports Native Student Research
United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) is the first tribal college to be awarded funding for the Tribal College Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (REU), a project of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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AIHEC and NSF offer STEM opportunities to TCUs
The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) has teamed up with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch the AIHEC STEM (Science,
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Power of Place: Emerging science programs help tribal college students lead the way – at home
At tribal colleges and universities, emerging programs give Native students opportunities to study science at home— and to share knowledge among elders and communities too.
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Innovation through Institutional Integration = ANC student success
The science students of Aaniiih Nakoda College (ANC, Harlem, MT) are empowering themselves through place-based projects with “Life Way” knowledge gained from a Council of Elders.
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NTC obtains scanning electron microscope
In attempt to enhance its programs of study in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, Navajo Technical College (NTC, Crownpoint, NM) obtained a scanning electron microscope (SEM) through a National Science Foundation grant to be used for various forms of instruction and research.
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AIHEC partners with feds on climate change
With funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE), and the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) have partnered to bring tribal colleges and universities into the climate-change-education community established by the Climate,
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Tribal Empowerment: Working together in new ways, federal agencies and tribal colleges build capacity
An unlikely promoter of tribal development, the National Science Foundation has set the bar for collaboration and capacity building.
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SKC Students Conduct Biomedical Research
Using a Department of Defense instrumentation award, Salish Kootenai College (SKC, Pablo, MT) has equipped a modern molecular biology laboratory to support faculty and student research projects.
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NSF Enhances Science Teaching at Leech Lake
The National Science Foundation has awarded Leech Lake Tribal College (LLTC, Cass Lake, MN) a 5-year grant for Science, Technology, Engineering,
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AIHEC Launches New Portal for Science
The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) is moving its science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) support services into the digital age. The consortium has launched a new,
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What’s a Prairie Girl Like You Doing in a Rainforest Like This?
A Fort Berthold instructor shares her scientific and personal journey during a two-month research experience in Costa Rica.
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Montana Tribal Colleges Reform College Algebra
College algebra has been a focus of reform efforts at colleges nationwide. Four Montana colleges have initiated their own reform thanks to a National Science Foundation grant and the guidance of a mathematics professor at the U.S.
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NSF/AIHEC Partnership Provides Tech Services
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is partnering with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) to help assure that American Indian students get the best education possible in science,
