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

摘要技术：该项目每年将资助和吸引9名少数民族研究生（GK-12研究员），以建立他们的科学和教学组合，培养领导力和教学技能，最终培养环境，地质和生物科学方面的顶尖学者。 研究员将在以西班牙裔为主的社区担任早期大学高中（ECHS）课程的榜样和讲师。ECHS是一个创新的计划，使学生能够获得长达两年的大学学分，除了他们的高中文凭，并为他们提供技能，以提高他们在大学的成功。ECHS学生将受益于与GK-12研究员在课堂上互动，从教师培训，以提高跨学科科学的长期能力，并从课程计划的发展？科学为可持续的未来？集中在干旱的西南部 求婚的人？科学家在住宅？该计划可以作为招募学生进入科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科的可扩展模型。非技术：该提案将积极招收少数民族研究生，并将培养他们成为未来的科学家、教师和领导者。 随着博士学位的不断增长，项目，顶尖的教师，和当前的人口统计，UTEP准备引领少数民族博士培养的方式。未来的科学家和领导者，并将允许学生解决我们的边境，沙漠人口面临的具体挑战，包括在不断变化的气候，替代能源的潜力，在一个多民族社区的环境健康问题，以及该地区面临的地质灾害有限的水资源。

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.