Science for a Sustainable Future: Developing the Next Generation of Diverse Scientists

科学促进可持续的未来：培养下一代多元化科学家

• 批准号: 0947992
• 负责人: Aaron Velasco
• 金额: $ 285.76万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-15 至 2016-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0947992&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Science; Sustainable; Future; Developing; Next

AbstractTechnical: This project will fund and engage 9 minority graduate students (GK-12 Fellows) per year to build their science and teaching portfolios and develop leadership and teaching skills, ultimately preparing top scholars in environmental, geological, and biological sciences. The Fellows will serve as role models and instructors in Early College High School (ECHS) classes in a predominantly Hispanic community. The ECHS is an innovative program that enables students to earn up to two years of college credit in addition to their high school diploma, and provides them with skills to increase their success in college. ECHS students will benefit from interacting with GK-12 Fellows in their classrooms, from teacher training to improve long-term capacities for interdisciplinary science , and from the development of lesson plans in ?Science for a Sustainable Future? focused on the arid southwest. The proposed ?Scientists in Residence? program may serve as a scalable model for recruiting students into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Non-Technical: This proposal will actively recruit minority graduate students and will train them to be scientists, instructors, and leaders of the future. With its growing Ph.D. programs, top faculty, and current demographic, UTEP is poised to lead the way for training minority Ph.D. future scientists and leaders, and will allow for the students to address specific challenges facing our border, desert populations, including limited water resources in a changing climate, the potential for alternative energy resources, environmental health issues in a multi-national community, and geological hazards facing the region.

摘要技术：该项目每年将资助并与9名少数族裔研究生（GK-12研究员）一起建立他们的科学和教学投资组合，并发展领导力和教学技能，最终为环境，地质和生物学科学领域的顶级学者做好准备。 这些研究员将在一个主要是西班牙裔社区的大学高中（ECHS）课程中担任榜样和讲师。 ECHS是一个创新的计划，除了高中文凭外，还可以使学生获得最多两年的大学学分，并为他们提供提高大学成功的技能。 ECHS的学生将受益于与他们的课堂上的GK-12研究员的互动，从教师培训到提高跨学科科学的长期能力，以及开发科学课程计划的可持续未来？专注于西南干旱。 提议的？居住的科学家？计划可以用作可扩展的模型，以招募学生进入科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科。非技术性：该建议将积极招募少数群体研究生，并将训练他们成为未来的科学家，讲师和领导者。 它的博士学位不断增长计划，顶级教职员工和当前人群，UTEP准备为培训少数民族博士学位带来领先。未来的科学家和领导者，将允许学生应对我们边界面临的特定挑战，沙漠人口，包括在不断变化的气候下的水资源，替代能源资源的潜力，跨国社区中的环境健康问题以及该地区面临的地质危害。