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.

该项目在四年内每年提供12项全面的奖学金，用于学术才华，低收入生物学和生物技术专业，并支持教师指导的研究经验，辅导，实习和实地考察奖学金获得者的行业环境。项目目标是通过为当前兼职学生提供全日制学习的手段来提高保留率和毕业率，包括加速学位完成。该项目的智力优点是准备越来越多的合格的生物学家和生物技术学家，并帮助学生有成功的愿望克服学术障碍。该项目由项目主管和一位主导者领导，在教学，促进和监督学生研究方面拥有超过50年的综合经验。它的更广泛的影响是增加了训练有素的生物学和生物技术技术人员的供应，以满足新泽西州对它们不断增长的需求（这是世界上最大的药品，化学和其他基于生物技术的工业之一），该地区和国家；并增加了当前在这些领域中赢得学士学位的人数不足的团体成员的数量学位。近年来，我们65％的生物学和生物技术专业是女性，有19％是西班牙裔，有17％是非裔美国人。该项目的成功是通过其对这些学生的保留率和毕业率的影响的影响，而与过去五年来我们的生物学和生物技术专业的总体率相比。项目结果通过在国家和地区会议上的演讲和报告传播，并通过大学出版物进行了个人的成功，并向区域媒体发行了新闻稿。