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

9417882 Crumbly 该提案解决了地球科学中的一个关键问题，即地球科学中少数族裔代表性不足的问题，尤其是学生的问题。 吸引有才华、以科学为导向的少数族裔学生学习地球科学的一个主要困难是，虽然历史上的黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 在教育黑人科学家方面拥有最好的记录，但很少有 HBCU 设有地球科学系。 该提案利用了 HBCU 的成功和网络，并创造性地解决了如何培养这些年轻科学家在地质学和地球物理学方面的问题，方法是为他们提供 HBCU 扎实的化学或数学背景（这两者都将使学生在地球科学职业生涯中处于有利地位）并在主要大学接受强化地球科学培训。 这种方法还有可能在一个机构中培养出足够数量的黑人学生来学习地质学，而个别机构发现这实际上是不可能实现的。

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.