Scholarship Support for the FVSC-OU Petroleum Industry Consortium in Geology and Geophysics

小行星9417882 该提案解决了地球科学中的一个关键问题，即少数民族在地球科学中代表性不足的问题，特别是作为学生。 吸引有才华的，以科学为导向的少数民族学生到地球科学的一个主要困难是，虽然历史上黑人学院和大学（HBCU）在教育黑人科学家方面有最好的记录，但很少有HBCU有地球科学系。 该提案利用了HBCU的成功和网络，并创造性地解决了如何在地质学和地球物理学方面培养这些年轻科学家的问题，方法是在HBCU为他们提供化学或数学方面的坚实背景（这两种背景都将使学生在地球科学职业中非常有利），并在主要大学进行强化地球科学培训。 这种方法也有可能创造一个临界质量的黑人学生在一个机构学习地质学，这是个别机构发现几乎不可能完成的。

9417882 Crumbly This proposal addresses a critical problem in the geosciences, the problem of under-represented minorities in the goesciences and especially as students. A major difficulty in attracting talented, science-oriented minority students to the geosciences is that, while the historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have had the best track record in educating Black scientists, few HBCUs have geoscience departments. This proposal capitalizes on the successes and the networks of HBCUs and creatively addresses the problem of how to train these young scientists in geology and geophysics by giving them solid backgrounds at an HBCU in chemistry or mathematics (either of which will stand students in very good stead in careers in geoscience) and intensive geoscience training at a major university. The approach also has the potential for creating a critical mass of Black students studying geology at one institution, something that individual institutions find virtually impossible to accomplish.