A group of faculty researchers at Arkansas State University-Jonesboro has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for $899,988 to train future teachers. The grant will support the program "Creating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Teachers for Arkansas' Future (C-STAF)" for five years. C-STAF will establish the ASU C-STAF/Noyce Teaching Scholarship program at ASU-Jonesboro to fund the education of students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related fields. Students who receive this funding are required to become licensed teachers upon graduation and to teach for two years for every year of funding they have received. These students will teach in their respective STEM fields in high-needs public schools in Arkansas, with emphasis upon northeast Arkansas, the Delta region, and the Ozark foothills. ASU-Jonesboro's C-STAF program will be headed by Dr. Anne Grippo, associate professor of biology and interim director of the Environmental Science Graduate Program. Her C-STAF colleagues will include Dr. Tillman Kennon, Science Education, Dr. Mike Hall, Mathematics, Dr. Robert Engelken, Electrical Engineering, Dr. Karen Yanowitz, Psychology and Counseling, and Jannie Trautwein, director of the Northeast Arkansas Rural Institute for Mathematics/Science Education. The C-STAF program will offer a "Try Out the Classroom" workshop held during the summers and a spring semester "Try Out the Classroom" course for credit.