S-STEM: SuPporting Economically Disadvantaged Undergraduates in Physics (SPEeD-UP)

支持经济困难的物理本科生（SPED-UP）项目为至少24名陶森大学物理专业的学生提供奖学金。奖学金提供给新生和转学生谁是学术上的上级，并已证明经济需要。 为了确保学者的成功，他们正在联系到有效的学生支持结构，其中包括以下内容：科学学者专题住房，特别介绍物理部分，以建立学者之间的凝聚力，社会招待会和与教师的非正式会议，实地考察美国宇航局戈达德太空飞行中心，马里兰州写作项目，物理学生组织的积极社会，并由教师的学术指导。SPED-UP项目是建立在陶森大学为数学、计算机科学和生物学学生设计的现有S-STEM项目的最佳实践基础上的。 物理系有成功教育女学生，少数民族学生和未来的中学物理教师的历史;所有这些都是物理界非常需要的领域。

The SuPporting Economically Disadvantaged Undergraduates in Physics (SPEeD-UP) project is offering scholarships to a minimum of 24 students majoring in physics at Towson University. Scholarships are available to both incoming freshman and to transfer students who are academically superior and have demonstrated financial need. To ensure success of the scholars, they are being linked to effective student support structures that include the following: Science Scholars thematic housing, special introductory physics sections to build cohesiveness among the scholars, social receptions and informal meetings with faculty, field trips to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Maryland Writing Project, an active Society of Physics Students Organization, and academic mentoring by faculty. The SPEeD-UP project is building upon best practices from an existing S-STEM program at Towson University designed for mathematics, computer science and biology students. The physics department has a history of successfully educating female students, minority students, and future secondary school physics teachers; all of these are areas of great need for the physics community.