Lora Park, associate professor
Department of Psychology
UB faculty member Lora Park has received a $501,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and implement strategies to improve success for college students in STEM gateway courses, such as introductory calculus.
“This project focuses on the use of instructor feedback as a potentially transformative, relatively low-cost instructional tool to improve the undergraduate STEM experience, especially for underrepresented students,” says Park, associate professor of psychology and principal investigator and director of UB’s Self and Motivation Lab.
Park will work on the three-year project with co-principal investigators Joseph Hundley, UB associate professor of mathematics, and Deborah Moore-Russo, a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oklahoma. Findings from the project will provide insights into how feedback is currently given to students in STEM versus non-STEM courses, and wi
University at Buffalo
Lora Park, associate professor of psychology
University at Buffalo
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Lora Park, an associate professor of psychology in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $501,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and implement strategies to improve success for college students in STEM gateway courses, such as introductory calculus.
“This project focuses on the use of instructor feedback as a potentially transformative, relatively low-cost instructional tool to improve the undergraduate STEM experience, especially for underrepresented students,” says Park, principal investigator and director of UB’s Self and Motivation Lab.