I3 Berkeley Science Connections Program

伯克利科学连接计划（I3BSC）将为传统上代表性不足（UR）的学生搭建从本科到研究生的桥梁。I3BSC专注于数学和物理科学（MPS），努力为来自不同背景的学生打开通往现代科学关键领域的大门，在这些领域，少数民族和所有种族的女性长期以来代表性不足，而且仍然很严重。研究生培训开始几年的新桥将建立在本科生和即将入学的研究生越来越密集的研究经验基础上。研究活动将通过系统地获得结构化的学术丰富和专业发展机会和资源，以及同行，近同行和在学术道路上进一步进步的科学家网络来加强，并将作为导师。I3BSC的目标是在大三和大四的本科生通过前两年的博士学习过渡到研究生院。它侧重于促进学生进入MPS职业，特别是学术职业，结合并超越了留在科学专业和完成学位的目标。S方法适合于研究和评价。我们将研究干预的种类和频率是否以及如何影响UR在科学上的进步和特定干预的影响。例如，项目的指导方面将提供一个独特的窗口来了解指导如何不仅影响被指导者，而且影响导师。虽然关于课堂教学信念和实践的文献越来越多，但关于学术生活中更非正式的方面的文献却很少。更广泛的影响3bsc的设计是采用四个独立的NSF项目的高效工作，这些项目现在在伯克利相互独立工作，每个项目都有不同的MPS学科重点，并针对教育途径的不同点。I3BSC扩展了这四种方法中的每一种，使它们更加统一和一致地适用于加州大学伯克利分校的所有UR学生，无论他们主修伯克利分校的任何MPS部门或进入我们的MPS博士课程。I3BSC将创造新的协同效应，扩展nsf支持的这四个关键项目的工作：NSF-California Alliance for Minority Participation Program (CAMP)，该项目支持STEM领域学生的本科研究经历、社区建设和专业发展；伯克利分校?NSF-AGEP项目“伯克利边缘”（The Berkeley Edge），该项目增加了马里兰大学的博士学位产量，并推动博士生和博士后进入教授职业；美国国家科学基金会资助的低年级学生物理指导项目，指南针和妇女协会物理科学联合指导项目；the nsf -探索统计研究计划，这是一个为期一周的密集计划，为本科生探索统计前沿研究。我们将包括所有在209提案后定义下增加多样性的群体的学生（urm，女性，残疾学生，第一代大学生），因为这些群体在数学和物理科学方面的代表性严重不足，主要关注和优先考虑那些有资格参加CAMP， Compass-SWPS-PURNA和AGEP的伯克利学生。

Intellectual MeritThe I3 Berkeley Science Connections Program (I3BSC) will build bridges from the undergraduateto graduate levels for traditionally underrepresented (UR) students.I3BSC focuses on the mathematical and physical sciences (MPS) in an effort to open the door forstudents from diverse backgrounds to key fields of modern science, in which underrepresentationof both ethnic minorities and women of all ethnicities is long-standing and remains severe. Newbridges to and into the beginning years of graduate training will be built on research experiencesof increasing intensity for undergraduates and incoming graduate students. The research activitieswill be fortified with systematic access to structured academic enrichment and professionaldevelopment opportunities and resources, as well as a network of peers, near peers and scientistswho are further advanced on the academic pathway and will serve as mentors.I3BSC targets the transition into graduate school for undergraduates in their junior and senioryears and through the first two years of doctoral study. It focuses on the advancement of studentsinto MPS careers, particularly academic careers, incorporating and also going beyond the goals ofretention in science majors and completion of degrees.I3BSC?s approaches lend themselves to study and evaluation. We will examine if and how thevariety and frequency of interventions effects UR advancement in science and the influence ofparticular interventions. For example, the mentoring aspect of the project will provide a uniquewindow into learning how mentoring affects not only the mentee, but also the mentor. Whilethere is a growing set of literature around instructional beliefs and practices within the classroomthere is little published about this more informal aspect of academic life.Broader ImpactsI3BSC is designed to take the highly effective work of four separate NSF programs that now workindependently from each other at Berkeley, each operating with different MPS disciplinary fociand targeting different points on the educational pathway. I3BSC extends each of the fourapproaches to make them more uniformly and consistently available for all UR students at UCBerkeley who are majoring in any of the MPS departments at Berkeley or are entering any of ourMPS doctoral programs.I3BSC will create new synergies that extend the work of these four key NSF-supported programs:Berkeley?s NSF-California Alliance for Minority Participation Program (CAMP), which supportsstudents across STEM fields in undergraduate research experiences, community building andprofessional development; Berkeley?s NSF-AGEP program, The Berkeley Edge, which increasesURM doctoral degree production, and advances PhD students and post-doctoral fellows toprofessorial careers; a NSF-supported program for mentoring lower-division students in Physics,the Compass and Society for Women in the Physical Sciences joint mentoring program; TheNSF-Explorations in Statistics Research Program, which is an intensive week-long program forundergraduates to explore cutting edge research in Statistics. We will include students from allgroups that add diversity under the post-Proposition 209 definition (URMs, women, students withdisabilities, first-generation to college), because these groups are severely underrepresented in themathematical and physical sciences, with a primary focus and priority given to those Berkeleystudents who are eligible for participation in CAMP, Compass-SWPS-PURNA, and AGEP.