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Research & Grants

CCRS is an NSF grant-funded research team since 2012.

Research Anchor

  Current Grant  

HBCU-UP (NSF Grant No. 2306671) - "Broadening Participation Research: Understanding faculty attitudes, competency, and perceptions of providing career advising to African American STEM students at HBCUs"

  • Co-PI's - Drs. Elaine Martin, Thomas Broyles, Ranganathan Parthasarathy

  • Citation: Hammond, M.S., Broyles, T.W., Martin, E., & Parthasarathy, R. (2023-2026). Broadening Participation Research: Understanding faculty attitudes, competency, and perceptions of providing career advising to African American STEM students at HBCUs. Three-year, $ 349,991 National Science Foundation’s HBCU-UP Broadening Participation Research grant proposal.

 

Goal: To understand the career development skills and knowledge of STEM faculty.​

Previous Grants and Awards

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HBCU-UP (NSF Grant No. 2011931) - "Broadening Participation Research Project: Understanding the role of culture in an intervention to increase the persistence of African American STEM students"

  • Co-PI's - Drs. Elaine Martin and Thomas Broyles

  • Citation: Hammond, M.S., Broyles, T.W., & Martin, E.  (2020-2023). Broadening Participation Research Project: Understanding the role of culture in an intervention to increase the persistence of African American STEM students.  Three-year, $350,000 National Science Foundation’s HBCU-UP Broadening Participation Research grant proposal.

 

Goal: To understand the role of institutional support, campus programs, and external supports/preparation on engagement with college major and the program activities.​

NSF ECR Core Grant (NSF Grant No. 1561584)- "Career Commitment and Retention in STEM: The Intersection of Professional Identity and Career Management Skills in Minority and Women STEM Students"

 

  • Co- PI's - Drs. Artenzia Young-Seigler (Biology), Korsi Dumenyo (Agriculture), and Carlos D. Beane (Engineering)

  • Citation: Hammond, M.S., Hall, J., Hargrove, S., & Young-Seigler, A. (2016). Career Commitment and Retention in STEM: the Intersection of Professional Identity and Career Management Skills among Minority and Women STEM students. Three year, $1,500,000 National Science Foundation's EHR Core Research Grant.

 

Goal: To understand the career development strengths and needs of African American and Women STEM students.

HBCU-Up (NSF Grant No. 1623145) - "Career Commitment and Retention in STEM: Examining the Impact of a Career Management Intervention"

 

  • Co-PIs: Drs. Elaine Martin (Biology), Tom Broyles (Agriculture), and Bethany King-Wilkes (Engineering)

  • Citation: Hammond, M.S., Hargrove, S., Hall, J., & Martin, E. (2016). Broadening Participation Research: Career Commitment and Retention in STEM: Building the STEM Workforce. Three year, $350,000 National Science Foundation's HBCU-UP Broadening Participation Research grant.

 

Goal: Refine the culturally-appropriate career intervention for African American STEM students which was developed and tested during previous award.

NSF HBCU-UP BPR (2012-2016; NSF Grant No. 1238778): " Career Commitment and Retention in STEM: Building the STEM Workforce"

 

  • Co-PIs: Dr. S. Keith Hargrove and William Hayslett

  • Citation:  Hammond, M.S., Hall, J., & Hargrove, S.K.  (2012). Supplemental Grant to the Broadening Participation Research:  Career Commitment and Retention in STEM:  Building the STEM Workforce.  Four year, $420,000 National Science Foundation’s HBCU-UP Broadening Participation Research grant program.

 

Goal:  To develop and test a culturally-appropriate career management intervention for African American STEM students.

Collaborator (NSF Grant No. 0748934):

 

  • Citation: Favor, K. (2007).  HBCU Evaluators Consortium Planning Proposal.  (Site PI).  Two-year, $200,000, six institution collaboration in planning grant from the National Science Foundation of which Tennessee State University received $23,000.

 

Goal:  The goal is to diversify and build leadership in the field of program evaluation; as well as to strengthen evaluator skills in assessing STEM programmatic initiatives directed towards multiethnic and underrepresented populations.

Subcontract under Research on Gender in Science & Engineering (2006-2009; NSF Grant No. 0624720).

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  • Citation:  Hammond, M.S. (2006).  Project site under B. Kerr and K.D. Multon’s GSE/RES - Milestones and Danger Zones for Talented Women in STEM.  Three year, $500,000 National Science Foundation grant of which Tennessee State University received $57,514.  Institutional Collaborators:  University of Kansas & Arizona State University.

 

Goal:  To test a model of women's persistence in science that incorporates the constructs of ability, privilege, and gender relations.

Tennessee Board of Regents' Faculty Research Grant:

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  • Citation:  Hammond, M.S., Luke, C.  Michael, T. & Hartwig, M.  (2015).  At-risk and under-represented students’ decisions to withdraw:  Effects of personality, career, and developmental factors on intent to return.  One year, $40,000 grant funded by the TBR Faculty Research Grant program.  (funded).

 

Goal:  To examine the role of personality, developmental, and career developmental factors in both under-represented minorities' and at-risk students' decisions to withdraw from college.

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