California LSAMP Bridge To The Doctorate Cohort V, UCSB

加州 LSAMP 通往博士班 V 的桥梁，UCSB

• 批准号: 0929836
• 负责人: Howard Gillman
• 金额: $ 98.7万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0929836&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: California; LSAMP; Bridge; Doctorate; Cohort

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.

这项为博士之桥提供资金的申请是对NSF针对当前LSAMP高级联盟的计划征集的回应。加州大学LSAMP已经在加州大学的8个合作校区中选择了BD的备用主办地点，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通过竞争程序被选中主办Cohort V，包括其在少数族裔学生理学士学位完成率方面的记录，强大的研究基础设施，教师和部门的承诺，以及对少数族裔研究生在头两年后发展的长期支持。这项提案所要求的资金将为每名学生/年提供30,000美元的津贴，外加每名学生/年10,500美元的教育费用津贴，最长可达两年。学生们会得到保证支持吗？留在桥上？直到完成博士学位。这项建议得到了STEM所有部门以及文学与科学学院、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不同的研究生群体，他们在两年资助期后成功地在UCSB获得博士学位，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，帮助他们在研究生项目和后续的博士后生涯中取得成功。BD计划将包括形成性和终结性评估，以评估其对研究生和未来教师群体多样性的影响。与CA LSAMP Leadance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，CNSI是一家从事纳米科学和工程领域跨学科研究的研究机构。CNSI主办了一系列旨在扩大STEM学科参与度的教育项目。与UCSB的其他人合作，CNSI一直处于应用研究的前沿，这些项目将来自不同背景的未被充分代表的学生带到STEM的最高水平。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想法，并借鉴了加州大学其他校区以及姊妹LSAMP项目的经验教训。这一建议充分利用了加州大学伯克利分校几个研究生和本科生研究项目的独特优势，使BD学者成为成功的科学家和榜样，可以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、参加会议和接触STEM职业领域将有助于少数族裔研究生的专业和个人成长，并提高现有活动的效力。BD将为那些希望在当地和全球范围内有所作为的有才华的学生创造更多的机会，同时增加知识的多样性。到目前为止，UC-LSAMP已经支持了46名市建局学生的屋宇拓展活动。潜力是巨大的：2007-08年度，加州大学系统向URM学生授予了1,497个学士学位。我们LSAMP学生的人才库很强大，进入研究生院的需求也很大。这项提议将促进UCSB内部以及加州大学与拥有大量少数族裔学生的特定非博士授予机构之间更紧密的合作关系，包括与加州州立大学LSAMP的合作(CSU与UC LSAMP和AGEP之间的参考谅解备忘录)。UCSB的教职员工和研究生将加强现有的研究合作，并与主办LSAMP项目的机构建立新的研究合作。该计划将创建和支持学生、教职员工社区，他们将参与一个集中指导、沟通技能和专业发展的重点计划，这是为竞争激烈的博士环境和最终学术职位培养BD研究员所必需的。通过增加未被充分代表的毕业生的成功，我们将创造一个更强大的校园研究环境，欢迎多样化的科学发现方法。UCSB将在大学内部并通过各种出版物和在国家场所的演讲来传播这一倡议的成果，以促进对在STEM学术生涯中取得成功所需组成部分的了解。BD活动的长期影响将对美国-S科技人才队伍产生影响，无论是在学术界还是在行业研发领域。通过培养未来的教授和科学劳动力，所增加的价值将体现在科学和工程领域的少数群体中，增加代表性，并为下一代提供榜样和动力。