{"id":127,"date":"2026-02-27T04:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/altgameslab\/?p=127"},"modified":"2026-02-27T04:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:05:13","slug":"edit-stem-initiative-secures-3-3m-to-advance-equity-diversity-inclusion-in-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/altgameslab\/2026\/edit-stem-initiative-secures-3-3m-to-advance-equity-diversity-inclusion-in-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"EDIT-STEM Initiative Secures $3.3M to Advance Equity, Diversity, &#038; Inclusion in STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        EDIT-STEM Initiative Secures $3.3M to Advance Equity, Diversity, &#038; Inclusion in STEM\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re excited to highlight the success of the EDIT-STEM initiative, a multi-institutional research effort addressing persistent challenges in equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The project has secured over\u00a0<strong>$3.3 million in research support<\/strong>, including an NSERC Alliance Society Grant and Mitacs Accelerate funding, with contributions from partners such as Engineers Canada, the National Research Council of Canada, and IVADO. EDIT-STEM brings together interdisciplinary researchers \u2014 including ALT Games faculty \u2014 to design and evaluate interactive technologies that promote meaningful, community-engaged approaches to EDI in STEM environments. Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/research.carleton.ca\/2026\/carleton-university-edit-stem-initiative-earns-over-3-3-million-in-research-support\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re excited to highlight the success of the EDIT-STEM initiative, a multi-institutional research effort addressing persistent challenges in equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The project has secured over\u00a0$3.3 million in research support, including an NSERC Alliance Society Grant and Mitacs Accelerate funding, with contributions from partners such as Engineers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/altgameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/altgameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/altgameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/altgameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/altgameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/altgameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/altgameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/altgameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/altgameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/altgameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}