EWU awarded $975,000 National Science Foundation grant

CHENEY — Eastern Washington University has received a $975,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to help attract and keep more diverse faculty members in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.

The three-year grant will fund a new project called “Utilizing Practices to Leverage Institutional & Intersectional Formative Transformation,” or UPLIIFT. The project is led by Edwin Elias, an associate professor of Chicana/o/x studies at EWU

Elias said the grant will allow his team to find better ways to recruit and support faculty members who are often underrepresented in ST...