Increasing Student Success in Biology & Biotechnology

提高学生在生物学方面的成功

• 批准号: 0630969
• 负责人: E. Eileen Gardner
• 金额: $ 49.59万
• 依托单位: William Paterson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0630969&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Increasing; Student; Success; Biology; &amp

This project provides 12 full scholarships each year over four years to academically talented, low-income Biology and Biotechnology majors, and supports faculty-guided research experiences, tutoring, internships and field trips to industry settings for the scholarship recipients. The project goal is to increase retention and graduation rates, including accelerating degree completion by providing the means for current part-time students to pursue full-time study. The intellectual merit of the project is the preparation of an increased number of well-qualified biologists and biotechnologists, and helping students with the desire to succeed overcome academic disadvantages. The project is led by a Project Director and a Head Mentor with over 50 years of combined experience in teaching, promoting and supervising student research. Its broader impacts are increasing the supply of trained Biology and Biotechnology technicians to meet the growing demand for them in New Jersey (which is home to one of the largest concentrations of pharmaceutical, chemical and other biotechnology-based industries in the world), the region and the nation; and increasing the number of individuals who are members of groups currently underrepresented in these fields earning B.S. degrees. In recent years, 65% of our Biology and Biotechnology majors have been women, 19% have been Hispanic and 17% have been African-American. The success of the project is measured by its impact on closing gaps in the retention and graduation rates for these students compared to the overall rates for our Biology and Biotechnology majors over the past five years. Project results are disseminated through presentations and reports at national and regional meetings, with individual student successes publicized through University publications and press releases to regional media outlets.

该项目每年提供12个全额奖学金超过四年学术人才，低收入的生物学和生物技术专业，并支持教师指导的研究经验，辅导，实习和实地考察的奖学金获得者的行业设置。该项目的目标是提高保留率和毕业率，包括通过为目前的非全日制学生提供全日制学习的手段来加快完成学位。该项目的智力价值是培养更多合格的生物学家和生物技术专家，并帮助希望成功克服学术劣势的学生。该项目由一名项目总监和一名在教学、促进和监督学生研究方面拥有50多年经验的首席导师领导。其更广泛的影响是增加训练有素的生物学和生物技术技术人员的供应，以满足新泽西（世界上制药、化学和其他生物技术产业最集中的地区之一）、该地区和国家对他们不断增长的需求;并增加目前在这些领域获得学士学位的群体成员数量度近年来，我们的生物学和生物技术专业的65%是女性，19%是西班牙裔，17%是非洲裔美国人。该项目的成功是通过其对缩小这些学生的保留率和毕业率的差距的影响来衡量的，与过去五年来我们生物学和生物技术专业的整体比率相比。通过在国家和区域会议上的介绍和报告传播项目成果，并通过大学出版物和向区域媒体发布的新闻稿宣传个别学生的成功经验。