MPWG: Stony Brook's Women in Science Excel Project

9353771 内克瓦西尔 这个为期一年的项目被称为“科学中的女性”（Project WISE），旨在鼓励女性在大学继续接受科学和数学教育。 该项目将针对进入斯托尼布鲁克的妇女，她们表现出学术前途和数学、科学或工程方面的天赋，该项目将包括五个部分：1）一个指导，将教育妇女了解斯托尼布鲁克，特别是它在科学方面的研究环境; 2）一个创新的两学期序列成为一名科学家，这将使他们接触到一系列的科学学科，帮助他们发展关键技能，给他们实践研究经验，3）使用哈佛联盟课程的增强版的基础微积分课程，将以互动方式教授，并强调小组学习方法; 4）一个多方面的辅导系统，包括在一个科学专业的先进的女本科生，女研究生，女教师和5）非正式的方案和社会活动，将促进合议和社会化的女科学家。 虽然项目WISE的总体目标是让参与的妇女在大学生涯的早期就参与数学和科学的兴奋和挑战，在她们做出将影响其随后教育的学术决定之前，该项目有几个具体目标：1）激励处于高中和大学之间关键时刻的妇女继续接受数学和科学教育; 2）帮助他们建立对自己学习能力的信心，并在数学和其他定量课程中表现出色; 3）提高对具有定量和经验技能的个人所能获得的教育和职业机会的认识; 4）创造一个鼓励继续学习的支持性社会环境; 5）创建一个可以在斯托尼布鲁克很容易“主流化”的示范项目，并在其他高等教育中心复制或改编。 WISE项目是根据国家和Stoney Brook的需要制定的，目的是增加妇女对MSE教育和职业的参与。 目前很少有专门针对女学生的方案，并侧重于她们的招聘和保留。 该项目侧重于高中和大学之间的过渡时期，即大学一年级，因为这一时期被确定为中等教育管道中的“最高风险”时期，在这一时期，很大一部分即将上大学的学生，特别是女生，决定中断这些科目的学习。 ***

9353771 Nekvasil The year-long project, known as Women in Science Excel (Project WISE), is designed to encourage women to continue their science and math education in college. The project will be directed at women entering Stony Brook who show academic promise and a demonstrated aptitude for math, science, or engineering (MSE), and will consist of five components: 1) an orientation that will educate the women about Stony Brook, and particularly its research milieu in the sciences; 2) an innovative two-semester sequence on Becoming a Scientist that will expose them to a range of scientific disciplines, help them develop critical skills, give them hands-on research experience, and address gender-focused considerations that might influence their educational and professional plans; 3) a basic calculus course using an enhanced version of the Harvard Consortium curriculum that will be taught interactively and emphasize a group approach to learning; 4) a multiple-tired mentoring system involving advanced women undergraduates majoring in a science, women graduate students, and women faculty; and 5) informal programs and social activities that will foster collegiality and socialization with women scientists. While the broad goal of Project WISE is to engage participating women in the excitement and challenge of mathematics and science early in their college careers, before they make academic decisions that will shape their subsequent education, the Project has several specific objectives: 1) to motivate the women at the critical juncture between high school and college to continue their mathematics and science education; 2) to help them develop confidence in their ability to learn and perform well in mathematics and other quantitative courses; 3) to promote awareness of the range of educational and career opportunities open to individuals with quantitative and empirical skills; 4) to create a supportive social environment that will encourage continuation; and 5) to create a model program that can be readily "main streamed" at Stony Brook, and replicated or adapted at other centers of higher education. Project WISE is being developed in response to both national and Stoney Brook needs to increase participation by women in MSE education and careers. Few programs exist that target female students specifically and focus on their recruitment and retention. The project concentrates on the period that bridges high school and college, through the first year of college, because this has been identified as the period of "highest risk" in the MSE pipeline, when a high proportion of college-bound students, but especially women, make the decision to discontinue their study of these subjects. ***