UMEB: DREAMS - Diversity in Research in Environmental And Marine Science

UMEB：梦想 - 环境和海洋科学研究的多样性

• 批准号: 0304992
• 负责人: Kam Tang
• 金额: $ 18.87万
• 依托单位: College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0304992&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UMEB; DREAMS; Diversity; Research; Environmental

This NSF award from the Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology (UMEB) program will support a unique partnership between Hampton University (HU) and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) of the College of William and Mary. This partnership will take form in the DREAMS (Diversity in Research in Environmental And Marine Sciences) program. Hampton University is one of the top ranked minority serving institutions in the nation. It has a history of producing successful graduates in the sciences, including a growing number in environmental biology through its Department of Marine and Environmental Science. VIMS is a major research entity that has a strong reputation for educating graduate students in coastal and environmental biology. The goals of this program are: to enhance the performance of HU undergraduate students studying environmental science, to increase enrollment and retention in HU environmental science programs, to increase the diversity of students in the VIMS graduate program, and to increase the diversity in the environmental workforce in general. DREAMS is a comprehensive program that stresses early involvement in research and strong mentoring as a way to enhance undergraduate performance and the likelihood for success in subsequent graduate training. This is of critical importance, since production of minority graduate students in the environmental sciences is well below that which would be predicted from the pool of students earning undergraduate degrees. The DREAMS program will leverage the UMEB commitment by taking advantage of three other ongoing efforts at Hampton (two sponsored by NOAA, and one by NSF), as well as a new NSF sponsored joint effort between Hampton, VIMS, and Old Dominion University to produce minority PhD's in the ocean sciences.

来自环境生物学本科生导师（UMEB）计划的NSF奖项将支持汉普顿大学（HU）与威廉和玛丽学院的弗吉尼亚海洋科学研究所（VIMS）之间的独特合作关系。 这种伙伴关系将在DREAMS（环境和海洋科学研究的多样性）计划中形成。 汉普顿大学是全国排名最高的少数民族服务机构之一。 它有在科学方面培养成功毕业生的历史，包括通过其海洋和环境科学系培养越来越多的环境生物学毕业生。 VIMS是一个主要的研究实体，在教育沿海和环境生物学研究生方面享有盛誉。 该计划的目标是：提高学习环境科学的HU本科生的表现，增加HU环境科学课程的入学率和保留率，增加VIMS研究生课程学生的多样性，并增加一般环境劳动力的多样性。梦想是一个全面的计划，强调早期参与研究和强有力的指导，以提高本科生的表现和成功的可能性，在随后的研究生培训。 这一点至关重要，因为少数民族环境科学研究生的人数远远低于获得本科学位的学生人数。 DREAMS计划将利用汉普顿的其他三项正在进行的努力（两项由NOAA赞助，一项由NSF赞助），以及汉普顿，VIMS和Old自治领大学之间新的NSF赞助的联合努力，以产生海洋科学的少数民族博士学位，从而利用UMEB的承诺。