Louisiana State University Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research Scholars Program (LA-STEM) -- Phase II

该奖项重申了NSF对路易斯安那州立大学科学、技术、工程和数学研究学者计划（LA-STEM）的支持。LA-STEM是一个多学科试点项目，旨在增加获得STEM学科学士和博士学位的代表性不足的学生人数，并为这一目标展示一个成功的模式，可以全部或部分地移植到其他机构环境中。这是一项以研究为基础的活动，旨在培养高素质的劳动力。LA-STEM结合了六个主要组件。招募、选拔、夏季桥梁、指导、教育和研究，以实现其保持80名LA-STEM学者的稳定人口的目标，每年招募约15-20名新生；在五年内，保持至少75%的LA-STEM学者的保留率；并促进至少50%的这些学生在从路易斯安那州立大学毕业后的三年内进入STEM领域的博士课程。该项目的智力价值在于，它通过研究LA-STEM研究学者计划的有效性，为STEM学科的学生成功建立了一个模型。该项目更广泛的影响在于，它有可能通过以下途径影响STEM学科的教育：(1)创造一批准备充分的研究生；(2)扩大女性和代表性不足的少数民族在STEM学科的参与；(3)鼓励历史上以种族隔离为标志的教育格局的多样性；(4)鼓励开发整合本科教育、研究、教育和教育的项目。并通过展示LA-STEM和Meyerhoff等模型可以成功地适应个别机构的背景来提供指导。

This award renews NSF support of the Louisiana State University Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research Scholars Program (LA-STEM). LA-STEM is a multidisciplinary pilot program designed to increase the number of underrepresented students who receive baccalaureate and doctoral degrees in STEM disciplines, and to demonstrate a successful model for this goal that can be ported, in whole or in part, to other institutional settings. It is a research-based activity targeting the holistic development of a highly achieving workforce. LA-STEM combines six primary components ? recruitment, selection, a summer bridge, mentoring, education, and research to achieve its objectives of maintaining a steady-state population of 80 LA-STEM Scholars, recruiting approximately 15-20 new students each year; sustaining a minimum 75% retention rate of LA-STEM Scholars through graduation within five years; and facilitating the enrollment of at least 50% of these students in Ph.D. programs in STEM areas within three years of their graduation from LSU. The intellectual merit of this project is that it builds a model for student success in the STEM disciplines through a study of the effectiveness of the LA-STEM Research Scholars Program. The broader impacts of the project lie in its potential to impact education in the STEM disciplines through (1) creating a pool of well-prepared graduate students, (2) broadening participation of women and underrepresented minorities in the STEM disciplines, (3) encouraging diversity in an educational landscape historically marked by segregation, and (4) encouraging development of programs that integrate undergraduate education, research, and mentoring by showing that models such as LA-STEM and Meyerhoff can be successfully adapted to fit the contexts of individual institutions.