Scholarships to Enhance Recruitment and Retention of Underserved and Underrepresented Students in Biology

该奖学金项目延续了密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校与圣路易斯市内高需求高中之间的成功合作关系。重点是为至少18名有学术天赋、经济困难的学生提供奖学金，使他们能够进入并完成生物科学的学士或学士学位。这些学者来自经济上处于不利地位、在科学界代表性不足的人群。奖学金获得者在高中四年级之前被确定，鼓励并使他们能够在高中倒数第二年取得最好的学业成绩，然后在大学期间提供直接的学术和经济支持。长期目标是让学者们做好准备，进入生命科学领域的主要研究机构参加备受尊敬的研究生课程，或立即进入生命科学工作队伍。在整个学者的本科课程中，该项目强调合作工作、本科研究、量化技能的发展，以及生命科学中关键问题的综合方法。凭借这一项目的成功经验以及圣路易斯大学与圣路易斯高中之间的牢固合作关系，学者们也激励了以前高中的其他学生寻找机会到研究型大学攻读理科本科课程。奖学金计划的具体目标是：1.在高三之前发现有才华的经济困难的高中生，并与他们和他们的老师合作，帮助学生为密苏里大学生物学的成功做好准备；2.提供足够的奖学金支持，以满足他们的全部经济需要，使这些学者能够进入密苏里大学的生物科学专业，而如果没有这种支持，他们就不能这样做；3.为学者们提供具有学术挑战性的课程、与教员的个人互动、特殊的指导和本科生的研究机会；4.为学者们开发新的学生支持服务和职业发现活动；5.确保通过本科课程中的学术“危险点”留住学者，并完成生物学学士或学士学位；6.激励和准备大多数学者进入并成功完成主要研究机构的高质量博士课程；7.激励和准备那些对进修不感兴趣的人进入学术界或工业界的BA/BS级别的研究职位，或进入K-12科学教学职位；和8.从而增加服务不足和代表性不足的学生的数量，为创造性的研究和教学做好准备，并最终在生命科学领域担任领导职务。

This scholarship program continues a successful partnership between the University of Missouri-Columbia and high needs inner-city high schools in St. Louis. The focus is to provide scholarships for a minimum of 18 academically talented, financially needy students, enabling them to enroll in and complete a BA or BS degree in Biological Sciences. These Scholars are from populations that are economically disadvantaged and underrepresented in the sciences. The Scholars are identified before their senior year in high school, encouraged and enabled to achieve their best academic performance in their penultimate year of high school, and then provided direct academic and financial support while they are at the University. The long-term objective is to prepare the Scholars to enter highly respected graduate programs in major research institutions in the life sciences or to immediately enter the life science workforce. Throughout the Scholar's undergraduate program, the program emphasizes collaborative work, undergraduate research, the development of quantitative skills, and integrative approaches to critical problems in the life sciences. With a successful experience in this program and the strong partnership between the University and St. Louis high schools, the Scholars also inspire other students in their former high schools to seek opportunities to pursue undergraduate programs in science at research universities. Specific goals for the scholarship program are to:1. Identify talented financially needy high school students prior to their senior year and work with them and their teachers to help prepare the students to succeed in Biology at the University of Missouri;2. Provide sufficient scholarship support to meet their full financial need allowing these Scholars to enroll in the Biological Sciences at the University, whereas they would not have been able to do so without that support;3. Provide academically challenging coursework, personal interactions with faculty, special mentoring, and undergraduate research opportunities for the Scholars;4. Develop new student support services and career discovery activities for the Scholars;5. Assure that the Scholars are retained through the academic 'danger points' in the undergraduate curriculum and complete a BA or BS degree in Biology;6. Motivate and prepare most Scholars for acceptance into and successful completion of quality Ph.D. programs at major research institutions;7. Motivate and prepare those not interested in advanced study for entry into BA/BS-level research positions in academia or industry or for positions teaching science in K-12; and8. Thus increase the number of underserved and underrepresented students well prepared for creative research and teaching, and eventual leadership positions, in the life sciences.