WWU receives grant for science and math teachers

KIRA MILLAGE - THE BELLINGHAM HERALD

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BELLINGHAM - Western Washington University will use a newly acquired National Science Foundation grant to help students become science and math teachers by offering scholarships and stipends.

The five-year, $900,000 grant is from NSF's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, which encourages science, technology, engineering and math students and professionals to become middle and high school teachers.

WWU will use the grant to offer 61 $10,000 scholarships to WWU students and private-sector professionals who are interested in making a career change to teaching science and math.

The grant also will be used for stipends for about 60 WWU students who serve as summer interns for the Mount Baker and Meridian school district summer school programs.

Receiving one of these scholarships does have strings attached. The NSF program requires students to commit to teaching science or math in a high-need school district for two years for each year they receive a scholarship.

For more information about the grant and scholarships, contact Bruce Larson, WWU professor of Secondary Education, at 650-3702 or bruce.larson@wwu.edu.