RCMS: University of Michigan Research Careers for Minority Scholars

密歇根大学马赫拉克姆研究生院、工程学院和文学、科学和艺术学院特此申请少数民族学者研究职业计划下的1,149,642美元。这些资金将用于实施密歇根大学少数民族学者研究职业(UM-RCMS)计划，该计划包括本科生研究、教师指导和相关支持活动，旨在发现在科学、工程和数学领域未被充分代表的少数族裔中有才华的学生，并鼓励他们在这些领域攻读博士学位。UM-RCMS项目每年将任命20名学生为UM-RCMS奖学金获得者。这些学生中有10人将来自安娜堡校园本科生项目；其余的将是从历史上服务于黑人、西班牙裔或美洲原住民服务的大学邀请的访客，或者来自服务于这些人数不足的人群的大部分学生的学院和大学。建议的UM-RCMS计划的一个独特方面是科学执行委员会，由一群具有杰出科学研究资历的少数族裔教职员工和来自三个赞助单位的副院长组成。科学执行委员会将监督RCMS学者计划并参与有关其执行的所有决策，包括挑选每年将被指定为UM-RCMS学者的学生，以及选择最适合这些学生的研究导师。主要的直接好处将是增加有才华的学生的研究和指导机会。1.UM-RCMS将为我们暑期研究项目中的来访学生提供40%的可供选择的名额，其中大部分现在都是针对SEM领域的。2.UM-RCMS将允许密歇根大学科学、工程和数学本科生的全年实习增加一倍，并首次向地质学、天文学、生物学和经济学等扫描电子显微镜领域的大三和大四学生开放这些职位。3.UM-RCMS将使大学能够显著增加研究和指导经验的持续时间和质量，使扫描电子显微镜领域最有才华的学生能够获得这些经验。密歇根大学的教职员工和学生、整个密歇根大学及其服务的社区以及与密歇根大学结成伙伴关系的学院和大学将实现更大的利益，以增加美国学术和科学界的多样性。

The Horse H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the College of Engineering, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan hereby apply for $1,149,642 under the Research Careers for Minority Scholars Program. These funds will be used to conduct the University of michigan Research Careers for Minority Scholars (UM-RCMS) Programs, a program of undergraduate research, faculty mentoring, and related support activities to identify highly talented students who are from minority groups underrepresented in science, engineering, and mathematics and encourage them to pursue doctoral study in these fields. The UM-RCMS program will annually appoint twenty students as UM- RCMS Scholars. Ten of these students will be from the Ann Arbor Campus undergraduate program; the others will be visitors invited from Historically Black, Hispanic-serving, or Native American- serving Universities, or from colleges and universities serving large proportions of students from these underrepresented populations. A unique aspect of the proposed UM-RCMS program is the Scientific Executive Committee, composed of a distinguished group of minority faculty with exceptional science research credentials and Associate Deans from the three sponsoring units. The Scientific Executive Committee, will oversee the RCMS Scholars Program and engage in all decisions regarding its execution, including selection of the students who will be designated as UM-RCMS Scholars each year and selecting research mentors most appropriate for these students. The primary direct benefits will be an increase in research and mentoring opportunities for talented students. 1. Um-RCMS will provide a forty percent increase in the available placements for visiting students in our Summer Research program, most of which are now directed toward SEM field. 2. UM-RCMS will permit a doubling of the full year placements available for University of Michigan undergraduate students in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, and the opening of such positions for the first time to juniors and seniors in SEM fields such as Geology, Astronomy, Biology, and Economics. 3. UM-RCMS will enable the University to make a significant increase in the duration and quality of the research and mentoring experience available to the most talented students in the SEM fields. Extended benefits will be realized by faculty and students at the University of Michigan, by the University as a whole and the communities it serves, and by colleges and Universities which have joined in partnerships with the University in order to increase the diversity of this nation's academic and scientific community.