Pathways to Interdisciplinary Science, Engineering and Mathmetics

- 该项目正在制定一项计划，以吸引更多有前途的本科生攻读STEM专业，并为学生参与者未来的职业生涯奠定坚实的基础。纽约城市学院（CCNY）、纽约布朗克斯社区学院（BCCNY）和雷曼学院的学生群体各不相同，大部分学生是代表性不足的少数民族。这些合作伙伴正在创造一种机构文化和基础设施，确保学生在整个本科生活中与教师一起工作，作为一个学者社区。这种互动是通过一个科学社区中心，这是在CCNY正在建立提供充足的空间，强大的计算设施和最先进的多媒体设备，以促进学生的研究，演示和交流。生物信息学的新兴跨学科领域被用作一个统一的主题，以整合生物学，化学，生物物理学，生物医学工程，计算机科学和应用数学的学习和研究。学生以三种顺序模式参加Pathway学者计划：作为同行领导学者，作为生物信息学学者和作为研究学者。有前途的CCNY，BCCNY和雷曼大学本科生在新生水平被招募到Pathway计划作为同行领导团队学习研讨会的领导者在专业的入门科学课程。通过担任同行领导学者和参与科学社区中心的活动，他们开始欣赏学术学习氛围，并获得对这个科学社区的归属感。在大二的第二学期，Pathway Scholars将学习更多的计算机技能，并介绍生物信息学。大二的夏天，有一个为期三周的生物信息学研讨会。培训结束后，Pathway学者在研究实验室工作，为他们的大三和大四。

--The project is developing a program to attract more promising undergraduates to STEM majors and to establish a solid foundation for the student participants' future careers. The City College of New York (CCNY), the Bronx Community College of New York (BCCNY), and Lehman College have diverse student bodies and the majority of the students are under-represented minorities. These partners are creating an institutional culture and infrastructures that ensure students work with faculty as a community of scholars throughout their undergraduate experience. This interaction is facilitated through a Science Community Center, which is being established at CCNY to provide ample space, powerful computational facilities and state of the art multi-media devices to facilitate student research, presentations and communication. The emerging interdisciplinary field of bioinformatics is used as a unifying theme to integrate study and research in biology, chemistry, biophysics, biomedical engineering, computer science and applied mathematics. Students participate in the program as Pathway Scholars in three sequential modes: as a Peer Leader Scholar, as a Bioinformatics Scholar, and as a Research Scholar. Promising CCNY, BCCNY, and Lehman undergraduates at the freshman level are recruited to the Pathway program as leaders of Peer-Lead Team Learning workshops in the introductory science courses for majors. By serving as Peer Leader Scholars and participating in the activities of the Science Community Center, they begin to appreciate a scholarly learning atmosphere and get a sense of belonging to this science community. During the second semester of their sophomore year, the Pathway Scholars learn more computer skills and are introduced to bioinformatics. In the summer of the sophomore year, there is a three-week workshop on bioinformatics. After that training, the Pathway Scholars work in research laboratories for their junior and senior years.