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Campus Reform<\/strong><\/a>
August 24, 2018<\/p>\n

The NSF has awarded three Iowa State University professors more than $248,000 to study \u201cgender microaggressions\u201d in engineering, claiming that the research will ultimately help students \u201cfeel safe<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

On August 13, the taxpayer-funded National Science Foundation (NSF) granted funding for the study \u201cCollaborative Research: An Intersectional Perspective to Studying Microaggressions in Engineering Programs<\/a>,\u201d which is slated to cost taxpayers at least $248,744 over the next four years.<\/p>\n

Engineering professor Cristina Poleacovschi\u2014who will lead the project over the next four years\u2014told Campus Reform<\/em>that microaggressions are important to study in academia because they cause harm to students, especially minorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find microaggressions particularly interesting because they are normalized in our everyday life but have significant consequences over time,\u201d said Poleacovschi, who explained that the idea for the research came from her personal experience in engineering.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe contribution of this grant is bringing an intersectionality perspective to the concept of microaggressions where we consider the interconnected nature of race and gender,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the $248,744 grant will culminate in a research project that \u201cwill collect stories from diverse identity groups in order to obtain a well-rounded understanding of microaggressions in engineering programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the grant abstract<\/a>, the professors\u2019 first task will be to create a list of individual microaggressions suffered by each individual identity group, including white men, Latina women, African American men, and Asian women.<\/p>\n