UTA educator awarded NSF CAREER grant to focus on community college transfer students in STEM fields

Finding STEM successYi “Leaf” Zhang, an assistant professor in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Arlington, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER grant to help community college transfer students more easily and quickly attain degrees in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics or STEM fields. The NSF’s Faculty Early CAREER Development Program is committed to promoting the role of teacher-scholars. Zhang’s award for the project, titled “CAREER: Understanding Community College Transfer Students' STEM Choice, Performance, Persistence, and