New Funding Highlights Student Experience and Well-Being, Sense of Belonging at UVA

UVA Today | June 23, 2022

The President and Provost’s Fund for Institutionally Related Research announced its third round of awards to support faculty research that shows potential to benefit the University of Virginia community. Assistant Professor of Data Science Brian Wright is one of this year's six award recipients. Wright, who also serves as Director of Collaboratory for Education and Data Science, is working on a project to develop a “Data Science Active Learning Lab,” which will allow faculty and graduate students to collaborate on developing and testing data science coursework and active learning approaches. The project will identify best practices in the budding data science field and cultural norms for teaching underrepresented and/or first-generation students in data science that can be shared as standards for the field within and outside of the University.

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