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

智力优势：该项目启动了与圣路易斯市中心高中的合作关系。它为至少13名有学术天赋，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学位或学士学位。高中学生在高中最后一年之前从服务不足的群体（经济上处于不利地位的学生和目前在科学领域代表性不足的群体）中招募。学校鼓励学生在高中的最后一年达到最好的学习成绩，并在大学期间为他们提供直接的学术和经济支持。这些学者正准备进入生命科学领域的主要研究机构攻读备受尊敬的研究生课程。在整个学者的本科课程中，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：与圣路易斯内城高中的合作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，这种合作大大增加了低收入学生和目前在科学领域代表性不足的群体的学生进入本科课程并最终获得科学高级学位课程的人数，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生物科学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.