The National Science Foundation is a $6.6 billion federal agency that finances some 20 percent of federally-backed basic research by U.S. colleges and universities, including computer science and mathematics.
Amoussou is a new program director with NSF’s Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service Program, within the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), which fosters excellence in undergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education for all students. The DUE is part of NSF’s Directorate of Education for Human Resources.
Amoussou’s division supports curriculum development, workforce and teacher preparation and undergraduate research, fostering links with DUE’s existing programs. They are intended to strengthen STEM education at two- and four-year colleges and universities with better curricula, instruction, laboratories, infrastructure, assessment, student and faculty diversity and collaborations.
Amoussou is assigned to three programs, Advanced Technological Education (ATE), Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) and Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS).
ATE’s emphasis is on two-year colleges and educates technicians for high technology fields that underpin the national economy. CCLI centers on new learning materials and teaching strategies related to STEM disciplines, including computer science, engineering, mathematics and physics/astronomy. SFS is geared to boosting the number of qualified students entering the professions of computer security and information assurance.
The former director of HSU’s Office of International Programs, Amoussou can be reached at gamousso@nsf.gov.