California LSAMP Bridge To The Doctorate Cohort V, UCSB

该申请是对美国国家科学基金会（NSF）当前高级LSAMP联盟项目征求的回应。加州大学LSAMP选择在uc8个合作校区中交替举办BD，并准备吸引来自该州和全国不同地区的学生。加州大学圣巴巴拉分校（UC Santa Barbara）通过竞争程序被选为第五届学生的东道主，其中包括其少数族裔学生的学士学位记录。学位完成率，强大的研究基础设施，教师和部门的承诺，以及对少数民族研究生在前两年之后发展的长期支持。本提案所要求的资金将为每名学生每年提供30,000美元的津贴，外加每名学生每年10,500美元的学费和费用津贴，为期两年。学生将获保证支援至？留在舰桥上？直到完成博士学位。该提案得到了所有STEM部门以及文理学院、工程学院和研究生部院长的热烈支持。我们的长期目标是招募和留住一群多样化的研究生，他们在两年的资助期内取得了成功，在UCSB获得了博士学位，并成为STEM学科博士后职位的有竞争力的候选人。我们将提供广泛而全面的学术和专业准备计划，为BD学者提供工具和支持性学术网络，以促进他们在研究生课程和随后的博士后职业生涯中取得成功。该项目将包括形成性评估和总结性评估，以评估其对研究生和未来教师群体多样性的影响。与CA LSAMP领导一起，BD学者计划的学术和专业发展活动将由加州纳米系统研究所（CNSI）协调，这是一个从事纳米科学和工程跨学科研究的研究机构。CNSI主办了一系列旨在扩大STEM学科参与的教育项目。与UCSB的其他机构合作，CNSI一直处于应用研究项目的前沿，这些项目使来自不同背景的代表性不足的学生在STEM领域取得最高水平的成就。拟议的BD项目结合了招聘和留住研究生研究人员的最佳实践和创新理念，并以加州大学其他校区以及姐妹lsamp项目的经验教训为基础。该提案利用UCSB几个研究生和本科生研究项目的独特优势，将BD学者培养成为成功的科学家和榜样，使研究机构的教师队伍多样化。学生将获得严格的学术和研究培训经验，以支持博士学位的完成，以及未来对我国科学和工程专业知识的贡献。发展研讨会、会议参与和接触STEM职业领域将有助于少数民族研究生的专业和个人成长，并提高现有活动的效率。BD将为那些想要在本地和全球发挥作用的有才华的学生创造更多的机会，同时增加智力多样性。迄今为止，ucl - lsamp已经支持了46名URM学生参加BD活动。潜力是巨大的：2007-08学年，加州大学全系统授予了1497个理学士学位。我们的LSAMP学生的人才库很强大，进入研究生院的需求很大。该提案将促进UCSB内部以及UC与特定非博士之间的更强有力的伙伴关系。授予有大量少数民族学生就读STEM本科专业的机构，包括与加州州立大学LSAMP的合作（加州州立大学与加州大学LSAMP和AGEP之间的参考谅解备忘录）。UCSB的教师和研究生将加强现有的研究合作，并与举办LSAMP项目的机构建立新的研究合作。该项目将创建并支持由学生、教师和工作人员组成的社区，他们将参与一个专注于强化指导、沟通技巧和专业发展的项目，为BD研究员在竞争激烈的博士环境中做好准备，并最终获得学术职位。通过增加代表性不足的研究生的成功，我们将创造一个更强大的校园研究环境，欢迎不同的科学发现方法。UCSB将在学校内部传播这一倡议的结果，并通过各种出版物和在国家场所的演讲，以促进对在STEM学术生涯中取得成功的必要组成部分的理解。BD活动的长期影响将在美国？在学术界和产业界的研究和开发方面，我们的stem劳动力。通过培养未来的教授和科学劳动力，增加的价值将体现在少数民族在科学和工程领域的知名度上，增加代表性，并为下一代提供榜样和动力。

This request for funding for the Bridge to the Doctorate responds to the NSF Program Solicitation for current senior LSAMP Alliances. The University of California LSAMP has chosen to alternate BD host sites among the 8 UCpartner campuses, and is prepared to attract students from different parts of the state and the nation. UC Santa Barbara has been selected to host Cohort V through a competitive process, including its record for minority studentB.S. degree completion rates, strong research infrastructure, faculty and departmental commitment, and long-term support for the development of minority graduate students beyond the first two years. Funding requested in thisproposal would provide a $30,000 stipend/student/year plus an allowance of $10,500 per student/year for educational fees and costs for up to two years. Students will be guaranteed support to ?stay on the bridge? throughto completion of the Ph.D.. This proposal has the enthusiastic support of all STEM departments and the Deans of the College of Letters and Science, the College of Engineering, and the Graduate Division. Our long term objective is to recruit and retain a diverse group of graduate students who are successful beyond the two-year funding period of the award by earning their doctorate degrees at UCSB, and becoming competitive candidates for postdoctoral positionsin STEM disciplines. We will provide an extensive and comprehensive academic and professional preparation program that offers BD Scholars access to tools and a supportive academic network that will foster success in theirgraduate programs and subsequent postdoctoral careers. The BD program will include both formative and summative evaluation to assess its impact on the diversity of the population of graduate students and future faculty.In conjunction with CA LSAMP leadership, the BD Scholars program of academic and professional development activities will be coordinated by the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), a research institute that pursuesinterdisciplinary research in nanoscience and engineering. CNSI hosts a portfolio of education programs aimed at broadening participation in STEM disciplines. In cooperation with others at UCSB, CNSI has been at the frontier of applied research on programs that bring underrepresented students from diverse backgrounds to the highest levels of achievement in STEM. The proposed BD program incorporates best practices and innovative ideas for recruitmentand retention of graduate researchers and builds upon lessons learned from programs at other University of California campuses as well as sister LSAMPs. This proposal leverages the distinctive strengths of several graduateand undergraduate research programs at UCSB to prepare BD scholars to be successful scientists and role models who can diversify the faculty ranks in research institutions. Students will receive rigorous academic and researchtraining experiences that support completion of the Ph.D. as well as future contributions to our nation's scientific and engineering expertise. The developmental workshops, conference participation, and exposure to STEM career fields will contribute to the professional and personal growth of minority graduate students and increase the efficacy of existing activities. The BD will create increased opportunity for talented students who want to make a difference, locally and globally, while increasing intellectual diversity. To date, UC-LSAMP has supported 46 URM students in BD activities. The potential is great: UC Systemwide granted 1,497 B.S. degrees to URM students in 2007-08.Our talent pool of LSAMP students is strong, and the demand to enter graduate school is significant.This proposal will foster stronger partnerships within UCSB and between UC andspecific non-Ph.D. granting institutions having large populations of minority students enrolled in STEM undergraduate majors, including collaboration with the California State University LSAMP (reference MOU between CSU and UC LSAMP and AGEP). UCSB faculty and graduate students will strengthen existing, and create new, research collaborations with institutions that host LSAMP programs. The program will create and support the community of students, faculty and staff who will engaged in a focused program of intensive mentoring,communication skills and professional development necessary to prepare BD fellows for the highly competitive doctoral environment and ultimately for academic positions. By increasing the success of underrepresented graduatestudents we will create a stronger campuswide research environment that welcomes diverse approaches to scientific discovery. UCSB will disseminate the results of this initiative within the University and through a diverse array ofpublications and presentations at national venues in order to advance the understanding of the necessary components to achieve success in STEM academic careers. The long-term impact of the BD activity will be on America?s STEMworkforce, both in academia and in industry research and development. By nurturing the future professoriate as well as the scientific workforce, the value added will be seen in the visibility of minorities in science andengineering, increasing representation and providing role models and motivation for the next generation.