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

支持经济困难的物理学本科生（加速）项目为陶森大学物理学专业的至少24名学生提供奖学金。奖学金既提供给新生，也提供给学习成绩优异且有经济需要的转学生。为了确保学者的成功，他们将与有效的学生支持结构联系起来，包括以下内容：科学学者专题住房，建立学者之间凝聚力的特殊物理介绍部分，与教师的社交接待和非正式会议，美国宇航局戈达德太空飞行中心的实地考察，马里兰州写作项目，一个活跃的物理学生组织协会，以及教师的学术指导。加速项目是基于陶森大学现有的S-STEM项目的最佳实践，该项目专为数学、计算机科学和生物专业的学生设计。物理系有成功培养女学生、少数民族学生和未来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.