Broadening Opportunities for Biologists

扩大生物学家的机会

• 批准号: 0849924
• 负责人: Kristen Baum
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: Oklahoma State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0849924&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Opportunities; Biologists

Intellectual Merit: The project provides each of 3 cohorts of 11 academically talented, community college transfer students with two-year scholarships to pursue bachelor's degrees in the life sciences. Academic support includes a transfer orientation class, advising, peer mentoring, and tutoring. Professional development includes a job search strategies class, career awareness seminars, activities with professional biologists, and optional internships, research projects, and trips to scientific meetings. Students are maintaining portfolios to document progress to potential employers or admissions boards and facilitate program evaluation. Program components are being integrated into existing requirements in individual plans of study to prevent overburdening students and to increase student investment in and commitment to these activities. Broader Impacts: The program provides participants, especially first generation and underrepresented minorities, with the financial, academic, and professional development support needed to complete a life sciences degree and enter the workforce or pursue postgraduate education. The program is leveling a barrier facing STEM students from two-year institutions by 1) transforming advising practices and 2) encouraging students at the two-year schools to take foundational STEM courses in synchrony with the 4-year programs, facilitating a seamless transfer and decreasing attrition rate and time to completion of the B.S. degree. It also is increasing links between undergraduate education and industry through career seminars and internship opportunities.

智力奖励：该项目为每组11名有学术天赋的社区学院转学生提供为期两年的奖学金，以攻读生命科学学士学位。学术支持包括转学指导课程、咨询、同伴指导和辅导。专业发展包括求职策略课程、职业意识研讨会、与专业生物学家的活动、可选的实习、研究项目和科学会议之旅。学生们正在保存作品集，以向潜在雇主或招生委员会证明自己的进步，并促进项目评估。计划的组成部分被整合到个人学习计划的现有要求中，以防止学生负担过重，并增加学生对这些活动的投入和承诺。更广泛的影响：该计划为参与者，特别是第一代和代表性不足的少数民族，提供完成生命科学学位、进入劳动力市场或继续研究生教育所需的财务、学术和专业发展支持。该项目通过1)改变咨询实践，2)鼓励两年制学校的学生与四年制课程同步学习基础STEM课程，促进无缝转学，减少流失率和完成学士学位的时间，消除了两年制学校STEM学生面临的障碍。它还通过职业研讨会和实习机会加强了本科教育与工业之间的联系。