PGE/SEP: Retaining Undergraduate Women in the Sciences: A Laboratory Research Program

印第安纳州布卢明顿大学（IUB）的妇女科学计划（WISP）正在创建一个研究奖学金计划，以鼓励妇女攻读科学学位和科学职业。 大学生研究奖学金（URF）计划的妇女在科学将提供研究经验，高年级的本科妇女谁表现出潜力和兴趣的科学。 从2001年夏季开始，理科专业的三年级女生将参加由哥伦比亚大学国际学院教员主持的研究，并将持续到2001-2002学年。 参与者还将担任有兴趣攻读理科专业的低年级女大学生的导师。 该项目将持续到2001-2002学年的夏季、秋季和春季学期。 通过专注于高年级学生，该计划希望帮助学生获得他们需要追求在实验室研究的职业生涯或有竞争力的研究生院的经验。 学生还将被要求写一篇论文，并在他们的研究提出海报，以提高他们的沟通，写作和演讲技巧，使他们在自己的领域与他人更具竞争力。 URF方案提供的实验室经验将提高参与者的研究能力，并将增加对工作和科学研究生院专业的兴趣和准备，参与者、教师导师、研究生研究员和大二学员之间的互动将增加对科学领域妇女的支持系统。 统一资源框架方案的首要目标是增加获得理科学士学位的女性毕业生人数，并使她们毕业后留在理科领域。

The Women in Science Program (WISP) at Indiana University-Bloomington (IUB), is creating a research fellowship program to encourage women to pursue science degrees and science careers. The Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) Program for Women in the Science will provide research experience to upper-division undergraduate women who have shown potential and interest in the sciences. Third-year women science majors will participate in researh under the auspices of IUB faculty starting the summer of 2001 and continuing for the 2001-2002 academic year. The participate will also serve as mentors to lower-division undergraduate women interested in pursuing science majorsThe URF Program will identify qualified students during the 2000-2001 school year to begin laboratory work in the summer of 2001. The Program will run through the summer and through both fall and spring semesters of the 2001-2002 academic year. By focusing on upper-division students, the Program hopes to assist students to gain the experience they need to pursue careers in laboratory research or to be competitive for graduate school. Students will also be required to write a paper and present posters on their research to increase their communication, writing and presentation skills, to make them more competitive with others in their field. The laboratory experience provided by the URF Program will enhance the participants' research capabilities and will increase interest in and preparation for jobs and graduate school majors in the sciences.The interactions among the participants, faculty mentors, fellow lad researchers, and the sophomore mentees will increase the support system for women in the sciences. The overarching goal of the URF Program is to increase the number of females that graduate with Bachelor's degrees in the sciences and to retain them in science fields after graduation.