Scholarships to Enhance Recruitment and Retention of Underserved and Underrepresented Students in Biology

智力价值：该项目与圣路易斯市中心的一些高中建立了伙伴关系。 它为至少13名学术才华，经济困难的学生（学者）提供奖学金，使学者能够在MU注册并完成生物科学学士或学士学位。高中生在高中毕业前从得不到充分服务的群体（经济困难的学生和目前在科学领域代表性不足的群体）中招募。 他们鼓励并使他们能够在高中经历的最后一年取得最好的学业成绩，然后在大学期间提供直接的学术和经济支持。学者们正在准备进入生命科学主要研究机构的备受尊敬的研究生课程。在整个奖学金的本科课程中，强调以下内容：本科研究，定量技能的发展，以及对生命科学关键问题的综合方法。更广泛的影响：与精选的圣路易斯市中心高中的伙伴关系确保了对低收入学生的全额奖学金支持，特别是目前在科学领域代表性不足的群体的成员。 因此，这种合作显着增加了低收入学生和学生群体目前在进入本科课程的科学代表性不足，并最终获得科学高级学位课程的数量，从而补充了我们目前的高中，本科，学士后和研究生课程，并有助于增加这个国家在生物科学的学者人才库的多样性和规模。

Intellectual merit: This project initiates a partnership with select inner-city high schools in St. Louis. It provides scholarships for a minimum of 13 academically talented, financially needy students (Scholars), enabling the Scholars to enroll in and complete a BA or BS degree in Biological Sciences at MU. High school students are recruited from underserved groups (economically disadvantaged students and those from groups currently underrepresented in the sciences) before their senior year in high school. They are encouraged and enabled to achieve their best academic performance in the last year(s) of their high school experience, and then provided direct academic and financial support while they are in college. The Scholars are being prepared to enter highly respected graduate programs in major research institutions in the life sciences. Throughout the Scholar's undergraduate program the following are emphasized: undergraduate research, the development of quantitative skills, and integrative approaches to critical problems in the life sciences.Broader impacts: The partnership with select St. Louis inner city high schools assures full scholarship support for low-income students, especially members of groups currently underrepresented in the sciences. This collaboration is thus significantly increasing the number of low-income students and students from groups currently underrepresented in the sciences entering undergraduate programs and eventually earning advanced degree programs in science and will thus complement our current high school, undergraduate, post-baccalaureate and graduate programs, and is contributing to increasing the diversity and size of this nation's scholar talent pool in the biological sciences.