The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been named a project site for the Association of American Universities’ (AAU) five-year initiative to improve the quality of undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields at its member institutions.
UNC-Chapel Hill is one of eight campuses to each be awarded $500,000 over the next three years as part of a $4.7 million grant to AAU from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. The University will commit $1.293 million over the same period from its state-funded instructional support to transform its gateway science courses in biology, chemistry and physics in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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